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200 1. $a Modern enchantments $b Texte imprimé $e the cultural power of secular magic $f Simon During
214 .0 $a Cambridge (Mass.) $a London $c Harvard University Press $d 2002
215 .. $a 1 vol. (x-336 p.) $c illustrations $d 25 cm
300 .. $a Notes bibliogr. Index
330 .. $a "Magic, Simon During suggests, has helped shape modern culture. Devoted to this deceptively
simple proposition, During's superlative work, written over the course of a decade,
gets at the aesthetic questions at the very heart of the study of culture. How do
the arts of illusion and entertainment - and by "magic," During means not the supernatural,
but the special effects and conjurings of magic shows - affect people?" "Modern Enchantments
takes us deeply into the history and workings of modern secular magic, from the legerdemain
of Isaac Fawkes in 1720, to the return of "real" magic in nineteenth-century spiritualism,
to the role of magic in the emergence of the cinema. Through the course of this history,
During shows how magic performances have drawn together heterogeneous audiences, contributed
to the molding of cultural hierarchies, and extended cultural technologies and media
at key moments, sometimes introducing spectators into rationality and helping to disseminate
skepticism and publicize scientific innovation. In a more revealing argument still,
Modern Enchantments shows that magic entertainments have increased the sway of fictions
in our culture and helped define modern society's image of itself."--Jacket
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