Download PDF by Colin Williamson: Hidden in Plain Sight: An Archaeology of Magic and the

By Colin Williamson

What does it suggest to explain cinematic results as “movie magic,” to match filmmakers to magicians, or to assert that the cinema is all a “trick”? The heyday of degree illusionism was once over a century in the past, so why do such performances nonetheless function a key reference aspect for knowing filmmaking, in particular now that a lot of the cinema rests at the use of computers?

to respond to those questions, Colin Williamson situates movie inside an extended culture of magical practices that mix paintings and technological know-how, contain deception and discovery, and evoke different types of wonder—both awe on the phantasm displayed and interest approximately the way it was once played. He hence considers how, while they mystify audiences, cinematic illusions additionally encourage them to benefit extra in regards to the applied sciences and methods at the back of relocating photos. Tracing the overlaps among the worlds of magic and filmmaking, Hidden in simple Sight examines how expert illusionists and their methods were represented onscreen, whereas additionally contemplating level magicians who've stepped at the back of the digicam, from Georges Méliès to Ricky Jay.

Williamson deals an insightful, wide-ranging research of the way the cinema has functioned as a “device of ask yourself” for greater than a century, whereas additionally exploring how a number of key filmmakers, from Orson Welles to Christopher Nolan and Martin Scorsese, hire the rhetoric of magic. analyzing pre-cinematic visible tradition, animation, nonfiction movie, and the electronic trickery of today’s CGI spectacles, Hidden in simple Sight provides an eye-opening examine the strong ways in which magic has formed our modes of belief and our stories of the cinema.

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