Description
| Product ID: | 9780252076978 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | Disappearing Tricks |
| Subtitle: | Silent Film, Houdini, and the New Magic of the Twentieth Century |
| Authors: | Author: Matthew Solomon |
| Page Count: | 200 |
| Subjects: | Films, cinema, Films, cinema, Conjuring and magic, Conjuring & magic, France, USA, 20th century |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. |
| Imprint Name: | University of Illinois Press |
| Publisher Name: | University of Illinois Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2010-01-15 |
