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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"magicians"”.
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Sage Illusionists: A Historical Study Using Illusionists as a Reflection of Mass Entertainment, Popular Culture, anf Change During the Late Nineteenth Century
… At the same time, stage illusionists or magicians were one of the most recognizable stars of mass entertainment. In fact, they were in the midst of what has been termed the “Golden Age” of magic. By recognizing the popularity of their performances in the United States and Europe, this …
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Deception Analysis in Interpersonal Communication
… same strategic gimmicks and manipulations that magicians employ. This study considered the theatrical elements used by magicians during the performance of magic but in an interpersonal civilian context. In order to examine civilian use of the premeditated theatrical elements, and to determine …
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Dirt Road Magic
… run-ins with ditch wizards, rich exploitative magicians, and other supernatural phenomena. This book is based on and includes my short story, "Dirt Road Magic," which won the Writers of the Future award in 2019. That story was about a boy from the trailer park who finds out that the magic his …
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Thou Shall Not Suffer a Witch to Live: A History of Witchcraft in Scotland During the Reigns of James VI and Charles I, 1563-1649
… witches and warlocks, sorcerers and sorceresses, magicians or mathematicians, while the art they practiced was called witchcraft, sorcery, magic or science. | Page 88 missing in original.
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Slowing Down Time: studies on spatial time
… it be delightful to believe that we may be magicians of time through manipulation of architecture?
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The wonder of magic : eliciting wonder and amazing its expression
… media producers, entertainers, scientists and magicians could all benefit from a more robust understanding of wonder. This exploration proposes a theoretical model for this understanding. Additionally, an experiment was conducted to investigate how several variables affect how magic tricks are …
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Solomon on Stage, Representations of Magic and the Occult in Early Modern English Drama
… drama. I explore the extent to which would-be magicians could use Solomon as a role model for their own endeavours, drawing upon sources which attributed magical powers to the biblical king. My concept of ‘Solomonic exceptionalism’ provides scholars with a framework for understanding this …
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The Magician in Medieval German Literature
… strategies either alienated and marginalized magicians, so that they appear only on the geographic or socio-cultural periphery of medieval narratives, or they furthered the medieval Church's tenet that all magic is demonic and inherently dangerous. Conversely, the omnipresent association of …
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A normative model of advertising communication strategy for an entertainment service industry
… for designing an advertising communication for magicians. Limitations and implications for future research were also discussed.
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Picturing Wonderland: Filming Fantasy in Adaptations of Carroll's Alice Stories
… second chapter, I utilize the writings of stage magicians Nevil Maskelyne and David Devant alongside the twin principles of simulation and dissimulation, as outlined by Wally Smith, in order to explain how the fantastic can be encoded into cinematic special effects. I then examine how Jan …
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The Comparative Science of Magic: Using sleight of hand as a tool to investigate cognition in diverse taxa.
… to be misled by these effects, as expert magicians do not display the same biases when observing sleight of hand effects than typical observers. Chapter 3 shows how the order in which magic effects are presented within a routine moderate how the human audience will perceive the skill of …
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Magic is might?: Uncovering abjection in Shakespeare's The Tempest and J.K Rowling's Harry Potter series
… of Dumbledore and Voldemort as both these magicians are examples of powerful and privileged individuals who, like Prospero, attempt to use their power to have the others “recognize themselves as subjects of [their] discourse” (Brown 281). The final chapter of my thesis brings together the …
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Comedy and the supernatural on the English stage between 1589 and 1621 : a study of the relevance for early modern audiences of comic representations of magic, fairies and witchcraft
… of devils beyond their stage association with magicians and witchcraft, and the comic stage representation of magic and witchcraft after 1621. Where possible, attention is given to these issues, in particular where it helps to elucidate the central concerns of the study.
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Wise the Wizard: A Feature Documentary about the Late Harry Wise of Sanford, Florida
<p>Wise the Wizard is a feature-length documentary by Daisy Sara Blakelock, made as part of the requirements for earning a Master of Fine Arts in Entrepreneurial Digital Cinema from the University of Central Florida. The film focuses on the late Harry Wise, a magician from Sanford, Florida, as …