Jim Steinmeyer
Forfatter af Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear
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Jim Steinmeyer is one of today's most renowned historians of stage magic. He is the critically, acclaimed author of The Glorious Deception, Charles Fort, and Hiding the Elephant, a Los Angeles Times bestseller. He is also a leading designer of magic illusion who has done work for television, vis mere Broadway, and many of the best-known names in modern magic, such as Doug Henning, Siegfried Roy, and David Copperfield. He lives in Los Angeles. vis mindre
Image credit: Jim Steinmeyer and Jay Marshall working on British TV series The Secret Cabaret, produced by Open Media for Channel 4 By Open Media Ltd. - Open Media Ltd., CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=75645536
Serier
Værker af Jim Steinmeyer
Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear (2004) 470 eksemplarer
The Last Greatest Magician in the World: Howard Thurston versus Houdini & the Battles of the American Wizards (2011) 175 eksemplarer
The Glorious Deception: The Double Life of William Robinson, aka Chung Ling Soo, the "Marvelous Chinese Conjurer" (2005) 163 eksemplarer
Subsequent Impuzzibilities: Another Collection of Strangely Self-Working Conjuring (2013) 9 eksemplarer
The Science Behind the Ghost: A Brief History of Pepper's Ghost, The Victorian Theatrical Sensation (2013) 8 eksemplarer
Treacherous Impuzzibilities 7 eksemplarer
Devilish Impuzzibilities 6 eksemplarer
Virtual Impuzzibilities: useful & mysterious demonstrations of strangely self-working conjuring 6 eksemplarer
Unexpected Impuzzibilities 4 eksemplarer
A Tribute to Robert Harbin 3 eksemplarer
Allow Me to Give You Some Really Awful Advice: a lecture that every magician should ignore (lecture notes) 3 eksemplarer
Bewildering Impuzzibilities 3 eksemplarer
Still Nothing But Mystery: More Minimal Miracles & Disproportionate Marvels for the Stand-Up Conjurer 2 eksemplarer
Nothing But Mystery 2 eksemplarer
The Purse Trick 1 eksemplar
The Cut and Restored Instructions 1 eksemplar
The Short Change Repeat 1 eksemplar
Jim Steinmeyer / Glorious Deception The Double Life of William Signed 1st 2005 [Hardcover] Steinmeyer, Jim 1 eksemplar
Two Lectures on Theatrical Illusions 1 eksemplar
Impuzzlebilites - Impuzzibilities Series 1 1 eksemplar
With Nothing But Mystery 1 eksemplar
Nothing But Mystery: Minimal Miracles & Disproportionate Marvels for the Stand-Up Conjurer 1 eksemplar
Discovering Invisibility 1 eksemplar
Jarrett Magic 1 eksemplar
Strange Power & Other Problems for Magicians 1 eksemplar
The Molecules of Magic (lecture notes) 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
The Secret History of Magic: The True Story of the Deceptive Art (2018) — Forfatter — 65 eksemplarer
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The title is a little misleading as it is more of a biography with little details here and there that actually concerns Dracula. Not a bad read though.
Steinmeyer tries to unravel the influences behind Bram Stoker’s creation of the world’s most famous fictional vampire.
He uses his central thesis that the infamous Count was formed out of an amalgamation of Stoker’s friends and acquaintances to present a series of mini-biographies of his chief suspects. The handling of the various subjects is uneven and there’s a fair degree of supposition and conjecture on how each influenced the author of Dracula (in some cases I’m not sure they did at all.)
The book concludes with a look at the history of Dracula on stage and it’s rise in pop culture, but other than a few passing mentions totally overlooks the impact of the cinematic incarnations.
In the end I’m not sure who the book was aimed at, nor did it lay out a convincing case for it’s thesis.… (mere)
He uses his central thesis that the infamous Count was formed out of an amalgamation of Stoker’s friends and acquaintances to present a series of mini-biographies of his chief suspects. The handling of the various subjects is uneven and there’s a fair degree of supposition and conjecture on how each influenced the author of Dracula (in some cases I’m not sure they did at all.)
The book concludes with a look at the history of Dracula on stage and it’s rise in pop culture, but other than a few passing mentions totally overlooks the impact of the cinematic incarnations.
In the end I’m not sure who the book was aimed at, nor did it lay out a convincing case for it’s thesis.… (mere)
This is a well documented and interesting biography. It provides a very comprehensive picture of the times and the evolution of magic as entertainment.
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I feel the authopr used the better known Houdini to lure people to the book, only to then say a lot of negative things about him, but otherwise enjoyed the book.