Magic a companion / edited by Katharina Rein.
| Other author | Rein, Katharina, 1986- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, [2022] |
| Description | xiv, 325 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Series | Genre fiction and film companions ; vol. 9 |
| Contents | Magical thinking/thinking the magical / Roger Luckhurst -- Demon amulets and Christian crosses / Antje Bosselmann-Ruickbie -- Reginald Scot's The discoverie of witchcraft (1584) / Thibaut Rioult -- Lucky charms in the First World War / Leo Ruickbie -- Unseen forces (1920) / Murray Leeder -- Veneno para las hadas (Poison for fairies, 1984) / Enrique Ajuria Ibarra -- Thai cinema / Katarzyna Ancuta -- Guillermo del Toro's The shape of water (2017) / Álvaro Martín Sanz -- The colour purple as a signifier of shamanism in Black Panther (2018) / Josephine Diecke and Noemi Daugaard -- The magician autobiography / Beatrice Ashton-Lelliott -- The bullet catch / Christopher Pittard: -- Gentleman magicians and Indian magic, c. 1813- 1935 / Sugata Nandi -- Women in stage magic around 1900 / Katharina Rein -- The suspension ethéréenne' under the photographer's lens / Frédéric Tabet and Pierre Taillefer -- The féerie / Frank Kessler -- Georges Méliès' L'escamotage d'une dame chez Robert-Houdin (1896) / Matthew Solomon -- Conjuring on the small screen / Jamy Ian Swiss: -- My friend the witch doctor' (1958) / Roswitha Schuller -- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Pt. I (2010) / Michael Wedel -- The Dragon age series (2009-14) / Sarah Faber -- Salvator Rosa's La strega (1647-50) /Hannah Segrave -- Disability in magic performances / Anna Grebe -- Disney films / Jasmin Kathö fer and Jens Schröter -- Ray Bradbury's 'The illustrated man' (1950) / Stephanie Weber -- Charles Foster's Being a beast (2016) / Dunja Haufe -- J.W. Waterhouse's The Magic Circle (1886) / Marie Barras -- Arthur Machen's The hill of dreams (1907) / Jessica Gossling -- Coil's LP Scatology (1984) as a queer grimoire / Hayes Hampton -- Queer feminist witchcraft and embodied reason / Luce deLire -- #MagicResistance. Witchcraft on social media as political activism / Daniela Lazoroska. |
| Abstract | "Magic has been present throughout human cultures in history, proving equally constant and mutable. It persists until this day, when we encounter a new kind of magical thinking in highly technical, digitized environments. Moreover, since the beginning of the twenty-first century, magic has enjoyed a growing visibility in popular culture and scholarship. Contributing to this field of interest, this volume illuminates this 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 specialist example analyses. By tracing magic's strong interrelation with colonial discourses, politics, economy, and the arts, it further reveals magic's role as going beyond that of an explanatory belief system or a form of entertainment. Magic is also a political act, a means of empowerment and protest, an economic metaphor, 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 30 authors of this book"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2021016746 |
| ISBN | 9781800793255 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
| ISBN | (epub) |
| ISBN | (mobi) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |