Disappearing Tricks: Silent Film, Houdini, and the New Magic of the Twentieth Century by Matthew Solomon

Disappearing Tricks: Silent Film, Houdini, and the New Magic of the Twentieth Century

Matthew Solomon

196 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

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This work revisits the golden age of theatrical magic and silent film to reveal how professional magicians shaped the early history of cinema. The author treats cinema and stage magic as overlapping practices that together revise our understanding...

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