The power of the moving image to conjure marvelous worlds has usually been to understand it in terms of 'move magic'. On film, a fascination for enchantment and

The convergence of film and television and the tension between the unmediated ‘reality’ of the moving image and the enchantment and illusion offered by magi

This book examines how the interplay between nineteenth-century literary and visual media paralleled the emergence of a modern psychological understanding of th

This book maps the presence of moving images within the field of public art through encounters with passersby. It argues that far from mere distraction or spect

“A history of “secular,” or non-supernatural, or entertainment magic as an important but neglected constituent of modern culture” (Nicholas Daly). Magic