Performing Magic on the Western Stage: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present

Performing Magic on the Western Stage examines magic as a performing art and as a meaningful social practice, linking magic to cultural arenas such as religion, finance, gender, and nationality and profiling magicians from Robert-Houdin to Pen& Teller.

Author: L. Hass
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 12/01/2008
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.50w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780230607880

Review Citation(s):
Choice 06/01/2009

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