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Magic
A Companion
Taschenbuch von Katharina Rein
Sprache: Englisch

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What is Magic?

Magic has been present throughout human cultures in history, proving equally constant and mutable. Defined as supernatural powers, an explanatory belief system or a form of entertainment, magic persists to this day in new kinds of magical thinking in our highly technical, digitized environment.

Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, magic has enjoyed a growing visibility in popular culture and scholarship. Contributing to this field, this volume illuminates the multi-faceted topic from a variety of perspectives. The chapters collected here investigate diverse aspects and shapes of magic to uncover its manifold material and immaterial appearances in past and present cultures. While offering a broad overview, this book also provides close readings and in-depth analyses of specialist examples, including magical talismans and amulets, magic of the stage and screen (e.g. Black Panther, Shape of Water), historical magicians and their representations (e.g. Harry Houdini) and contemporary queer and feminist witchcraft (e.g. #MagicResistance).

By tracing magic¿s strong interrelation with colonial discourses, politics, the economy and the arts, magic¿s role is shown to go well beyond its traditional definition. Magic can be a political act, a means of empowerment and protest, an economic metaphor, and an instrument of oppression and liberation alike. This broad spectrum of magic discourses and their permeation into different aspects of cultures in history, present day and fiction is analysed by the more than thirty contributors to this volume in short, accessible essays.
What is Magic?

Magic has been present throughout human cultures in history, proving equally constant and mutable. Defined as supernatural powers, an explanatory belief system or a form of entertainment, magic persists to this day in new kinds of magical thinking in our highly technical, digitized environment.

Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, magic has enjoyed a growing visibility in popular culture and scholarship. Contributing to this field, this volume illuminates the multi-faceted topic from a variety of perspectives. The chapters collected here investigate diverse aspects and shapes of magic to uncover its manifold material and immaterial appearances in past and present cultures. While offering a broad overview, this book also provides close readings and in-depth analyses of specialist examples, including magical talismans and amulets, magic of the stage and screen (e.g. Black Panther, Shape of Water), historical magicians and their representations (e.g. Harry Houdini) and contemporary queer and feminist witchcraft (e.g. #MagicResistance).

By tracing magic¿s strong interrelation with colonial discourses, politics, the economy and the arts, magic¿s role is shown to go well beyond its traditional definition. Magic can be a political act, a means of empowerment and protest, an economic metaphor, and an instrument of oppression and liberation alike. This broad spectrum of magic discourses and their permeation into different aspects of cultures in history, present day and fiction is analysed by the more than thirty contributors to this volume in short, accessible essays.
Über den Autor
Katharina Rein holds a PhD in the History and Theory of Culture from Humboldt University of Berlin. Her PhD thesis, on the media and cultural history of stage magic in the late nineteenth century, won the Anniversary Prize for Young Researchers at the Buechner Publishing House and was published in 2020. Currently a lecturer in the Arts and Media Department of the University of Potsdam, she previously worked at the International Research Institute for Cultural Techniques and Media Philosophy (IKKM) and in the Department of Media Studies at Bauhaus University Weimar. She was also a member of the international, interdisciplinary research project Les Arts Trompeurs. Machines, Magie, Médias (Paris, 2015¿18). She is the author of three monographs and of numerous academic essays that have appeared in four languages.
Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents: Magic Beliefs in History and Today - Antje Bosselmann-Ruickbie: Demon Amulets and Christian Crosses - Magic in Byzantium - Thibaut Rioult: Reginald Scot's
The Discoverie of Witchcraft
(1584) - Renaissance Magic - Leo Ruickbie: Lucky Charms in the First World War - Industrialized Magic - Murray Leeder:
Unseen Forces
(1920) - Spiritualism in American Cinema - Magic across Cultures - Enrique Ajuria Ibarra:
Veneno para las hadas
(
Poison for Fairies
, 1984) - Magic in Mexican Cinema - Katarzyna Ancuta: Representations of Magic in Thai Cinema - Khmer Magic - Álvaro Martín Sanz: The Beauty and the Beast in
The Shape of Water
(2017) - Magical Realism - Josephine Diecke and Noemi Daugaard: The Colour Purple as a Signifier of Shamanism in
Black Panther
(2018) - Magic in Afrofuturism - Stage Magic in Its Golden Age - Beatrice Ashton-Lelliott: The Magician Autobiography - Magic Lives - Christopher Pittard: The Bullet Catch - Magic at War - Katharina Rein: Women in Stage Magic around 1900 - Female Conjuring - Frédéric Tabet and Pierre Taillefer: 'The Suspension Ethéréenne' under the Photographer's Lens - Magic Tricks Photographed - Magic Crossing Media Boundaries - Frank Kessler: The Féerie - Magic between Stage and Screen - Matthew Solomon: Georges Méliès'
Escamotage d'une dame chez Robert-Houdin
(1896) - The Materiality of Film Magic - Jamy Ian Swiss: Conjuring on the Small Screen - Broadcasting Magic - Roswitha Schuller: 'My Friend the Witch Doctor' (1958) - Magic as a Pop-Cultural Trope - Michael Wedel:
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Pt
.
I
(2010) - Magic and the Blockbuster - Sarah Faber: The
Dragon Age
Series (2009-2014) - Videogame Magic - Magic and the Body - Hannah Segrave: Salvator Rosa's
La Strega
(1647-1650) - The Witch's Body - Anna Grebe: Disability in Magic Performances - Magic and Disability - Jasmin Kathöfer and Jens Schröter: Disney Films - Magic and Labour - Stephanie Weber: Ray Bradbury's 'The Illustrated Man' (1950) - Magical Tattoos - Dunja Haufe: Charles Foster's
Being a Beast
(2016) - Shamanism and Shapeshifting - Magic and Resistance - Marie Barras: J. W. Waterhouse's
The Magic Circle
(1886) - The Sorceress and Victorian Gender Roles - Jessica Gossling: Arthur Machen's
The Hill of Dreams
(1907) - Magic and Decadence - Hayes Hampton: Coil's LP
Scatology
(1984) as a Queer Grimoire - Magic against Homophobia - Luce deLire: Queer Feminist Witchcraft and Embodied Reason - Magic and Queer Feminism - Daniela Lazoroska: #MagicResistance: Witchcraft on Social Media as Political Activism - Magic against Trump.

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Genre: Importe, Kunst
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Thema: Theater & Film
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: Genre Fiction and Film Companions
Inhalt: 342 S.
64 farbige Illustr.
ISBN-13: 9781800793255
ISBN-10: 1800793251
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Redaktion: Rein, Katharina
Herausgeber: Katharina Rein/Simon Bacon
Hersteller: Peter Lang
Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers
Genre Fiction and Film Companions
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Books on Demand GmbH, In de Tarpen 42, D-22848 Norderstedt, bod@bod.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 19 mm
Von/Mit: Katharina Rein
Erscheinungsdatum: 17.06.2022
Gewicht: 0,496 kg
Artikel-ID: 121284789
Über den Autor
Katharina Rein holds a PhD in the History and Theory of Culture from Humboldt University of Berlin. Her PhD thesis, on the media and cultural history of stage magic in the late nineteenth century, won the Anniversary Prize for Young Researchers at the Buechner Publishing House and was published in 2020. Currently a lecturer in the Arts and Media Department of the University of Potsdam, she previously worked at the International Research Institute for Cultural Techniques and Media Philosophy (IKKM) and in the Department of Media Studies at Bauhaus University Weimar. She was also a member of the international, interdisciplinary research project Les Arts Trompeurs. Machines, Magie, Médias (Paris, 2015¿18). She is the author of three monographs and of numerous academic essays that have appeared in four languages.
Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents: Magic Beliefs in History and Today - Antje Bosselmann-Ruickbie: Demon Amulets and Christian Crosses - Magic in Byzantium - Thibaut Rioult: Reginald Scot's
The Discoverie of Witchcraft
(1584) - Renaissance Magic - Leo Ruickbie: Lucky Charms in the First World War - Industrialized Magic - Murray Leeder:
Unseen Forces
(1920) - Spiritualism in American Cinema - Magic across Cultures - Enrique Ajuria Ibarra:
Veneno para las hadas
(
Poison for Fairies
, 1984) - Magic in Mexican Cinema - Katarzyna Ancuta: Representations of Magic in Thai Cinema - Khmer Magic - Álvaro Martín Sanz: The Beauty and the Beast in
The Shape of Water
(2017) - Magical Realism - Josephine Diecke and Noemi Daugaard: The Colour Purple as a Signifier of Shamanism in
Black Panther
(2018) - Magic in Afrofuturism - Stage Magic in Its Golden Age - Beatrice Ashton-Lelliott: The Magician Autobiography - Magic Lives - Christopher Pittard: The Bullet Catch - Magic at War - Katharina Rein: Women in Stage Magic around 1900 - Female Conjuring - Frédéric Tabet and Pierre Taillefer: 'The Suspension Ethéréenne' under the Photographer's Lens - Magic Tricks Photographed - Magic Crossing Media Boundaries - Frank Kessler: The Féerie - Magic between Stage and Screen - Matthew Solomon: Georges Méliès'
Escamotage d'une dame chez Robert-Houdin
(1896) - The Materiality of Film Magic - Jamy Ian Swiss: Conjuring on the Small Screen - Broadcasting Magic - Roswitha Schuller: 'My Friend the Witch Doctor' (1958) - Magic as a Pop-Cultural Trope - Michael Wedel:
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Pt
.
I
(2010) - Magic and the Blockbuster - Sarah Faber: The
Dragon Age
Series (2009-2014) - Videogame Magic - Magic and the Body - Hannah Segrave: Salvator Rosa's
La Strega
(1647-1650) - The Witch's Body - Anna Grebe: Disability in Magic Performances - Magic and Disability - Jasmin Kathöfer and Jens Schröter: Disney Films - Magic and Labour - Stephanie Weber: Ray Bradbury's 'The Illustrated Man' (1950) - Magical Tattoos - Dunja Haufe: Charles Foster's
Being a Beast
(2016) - Shamanism and Shapeshifting - Magic and Resistance - Marie Barras: J. W. Waterhouse's
The Magic Circle
(1886) - The Sorceress and Victorian Gender Roles - Jessica Gossling: Arthur Machen's
The Hill of Dreams
(1907) - Magic and Decadence - Hayes Hampton: Coil's LP
Scatology
(1984) as a Queer Grimoire - Magic against Homophobia - Luce deLire: Queer Feminist Witchcraft and Embodied Reason - Magic and Queer Feminism - Daniela Lazoroska: #MagicResistance: Witchcraft on Social Media as Political Activism - Magic against Trump.

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Genre: Importe, Kunst
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Thema: Theater & Film
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: Genre Fiction and Film Companions
Inhalt: 342 S.
64 farbige Illustr.
ISBN-13: 9781800793255
ISBN-10: 1800793251
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Redaktion: Rein, Katharina
Herausgeber: Katharina Rein/Simon Bacon
Hersteller: Peter Lang
Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers
Genre Fiction and Film Companions
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Books on Demand GmbH, In de Tarpen 42, D-22848 Norderstedt, bod@bod.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 19 mm
Von/Mit: Katharina Rein
Erscheinungsdatum: 17.06.2022
Gewicht: 0,496 kg
Artikel-ID: 121284789
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