Vanishing Women: Magic, Film, and Feminism

by Karen Beckman and Karen Redrobe

Book Overview

With the help of mirrors, trap doors, elevators, photographs, and film, women vanish and return in increasingly spectacular ways throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Karen Beckman tracks the proliferation of this elusive figure, the vanishing woman, from her genesis in Victorian stage magic through her development in conjunction with photography and film. Beckman reveals how these new visual technologies projected their anxieties about...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822330741
• ISBN13: 9780822330745
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.1"