Disappearing Tricks by Matthew Solomon

Disappearing Tricks by Matthew Solomon

Reveals how professional magicians shaped the early history of cinema. This book focuses on the work of the professional illusionists who actually made magic with moving pictures between 1895 and 1929. It combines film and theatre history to uncover the evidence of the exchanges between magic and filmmaking in the United States and France.

Received the Best Moving Image Book Award from the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation, 2011A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2011.

"Along with intriguing insights into the early development of film, Disappearing Tricks is a reminder that magic and movies involve playing with perceptions and making the appearance of reality seem malleable."--ExpressMilwaukee.com
"Students of magic history, film history, the intersection of both, and of Houdini's film career in particular, will all find much to enlarge their insight and understanding of these subjects."--GENII

 "A sharp, sophisticated, and fascinating read."--Magicol

 "Conjuring up an amazing trick of his own with this engaged scholarship, Solomon provides a fresh, fascinating display of theory applied to film history.  This is one of the most succinct, scintillating books of the year.  Essential."--Choice
"A truly important and impressive book, the most thoroughly researched and broadly conceived history of the interaction between magicians and cinema that anyone has offered or is likely to offer.”--Tom Gunning, author of The Films of Fritz Lang: Allegories of Vision and Modernity

Matthew Solomon is an associate professor of cinema studies in the Department of Media Culture at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York.

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ISBN 13	9780252076978
ISBN 10	0252076974
Title	Disappearing Tricks
Author	Matthew Solomon
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	University of Illinois Press
Year published	2010-01-15
Number of pages	200
Prizes	Winner of Received the Best Moving Image Book Award from the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation, 2011. A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2011. 2011
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