TY  - BOOK
AB  - "Disappearing Tricks revisits the golden age of theatrical magic and silent film to reveal how professional magicians shaped the early history of cinema. While 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."--BOOK JACKET.
AU  - Solomon, Matthew.
CN  - TR858
CN  - TR858
CY  - Urbana :
DA  - c2010.
ID  - 347649
KW  - Trick cinematography
KW  - Magic tricks in motion pictures.
KW  - Magic tricks
N2  - "Disappearing Tricks revisits the golden age of theatrical magic and silent film to reveal how professional magicians shaped the early history of cinema. While 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."--BOOK JACKET.
PB  - University of Illinois Press,
PP  - Urbana :
PY  - c2010.
SN  - 9780252076978 (pbk. : alk. paper)
SN  - 0252076974 (pbk. : alk. paper)
SN  - 9780252035104 (alk. paper)
SN  - 0252035100 (alk. paper)
T1  - Disappearing tricks :silent film, Houdini, and the new magic of the twentieth century /
TI  - Disappearing tricks :silent film, Houdini, and the new magic of the twentieth century /
ER  -