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Méliès und die Materialität moderner Magie

Author(s): Solomon, Matthew

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The article deals with the specific materials that enabled the Magician and cinema pioneer Georges Méliès to produce his illusions. The materiality that accomplished the illusions created by him on stage and screen consists equally of the use of electricity, mechanics, pneumatics, optics, acoustics and chemistry. The use of these resources can not be divided into theater illusions and screen illusions; on the contrary, any reflection on Méliès’ effects of disappearance has to consider the co-presence of theatrical and cinematic techniques.

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Solomon, Matthew: Méliès und die Materialität moderner Magie. In: ZMK Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturforschung, Jg. 7 (2016), Nr. 1, S. 169-184. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/18633.
@ARTICLE{Solomon2016,
 author = {Solomon, Matthew},
 title = {Méliès und die Materialität moderner Magie},
 year = 2016,
 doi = "\url{http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/18633}",
 volume = 7,
 address = {Hamburg},
 journal = {ZMK Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturforschung},
 number = 1,
 pages = {169--184},
}
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