Author: Bruce ArmstrongPublisher: Calgary : M. Hades International
ISBN: 9780919230491
Category : Conjuring Dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Encyclopedia of Suspensions and Levitations
Author: Bruce ArmstrongPublisher: Calgary : M. Hades International
ISBN: 9780919230491
Category : Conjuring Dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Pastplay
Author: Kevin KeePublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472120484
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
In the field of history, the Web and other technologies have become important tools in research and teaching of the past. Yet the use of these tools is limited—many historians and history educators have resisted adopting them because they fail to see how digital tools supplement and even improve upon conventional tools (such as books). In Pastplay, a collection of essays by leading history and humanities researchers and teachers, editor Kevin Kee works to address these concerns head-on. How should we use technology? Playfully, Kee contends. Why? Because doing so helps us think about the past in new ways; through the act of creating technologies, our understanding of the past is re-imagined and developed. From the insights of numerous scholars and teachers, Pastplay argues that we should play with technology in history because doing so enables us to see the past in new ways by helping us understand how history is created; honoring the roots of research, teaching, and technology development; requiring us to model our thoughts; and then allowing us to build our own understanding.
National Union Catalog
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1036
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Canadiana
Author: Techniques of Illusion
Author: Katharina ReinPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000891488
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
This book explores stage conjuring during its “golden age,” from about 1860 to 1910. This study provides close readings highlighting four paradigmatic illusions of the time that stand in for different kinds of illusions typical of stage magic in the “golden age” and analyses them within their cultural and media-historical context: “Pepper’s Ghost,” the archetypical mirror illusion; “The Vanishing Lady,” staging a teleportation in a time of a dizzying acceleration of transport; “the levitation,” simulating weightlessness with the help of an extended steel machinery; and “The Second Sight,” a mind-reading illusion using up-to-date communication technologies. These close readings are completed by writings focusing on visual media and expanding the scope backwards and forwards in time, roughly to 1800 and to 2000. This exploration will be of great interest to students and scholars in theatre and performance studies.
The Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research
Author: Subject Catalog
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
Alberta, 1954-1979
Author: International Books in Print
Author: Library of Congress Catalogs
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1036
Book Description