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

by Matthew Solomon

Book Overview

Disappearing Tricks revisits the golden age of theatrical magic and silent film to reveal how professional magicians shaped the early history of cinema. Where others have called upon magic as merely an evocative metaphor for the wonders of cinema, Matthew Solomon focuses on the work of the professional illusionists who actually made magic with moving pictures between 1895 and 1929.

The first to reveal fully how powerfully magic impacted...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252076974
• ISBN13: 9780252076978
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"