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Vanishing women : magic, film, and feminism / Karen Beckman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Redrobe, Karen.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women in motion pictures.
- Human body in motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (255 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham [North Carolina] : Duke University Press, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Disappearing women as a persistent trope from nineteenth-century magic through contemporary theory, film, and psychoanalysis.
- Contents:
- Surplus Bodies, Vanishing Women: Conjuring, Imperialism, and the Rhetoric of Disappearance, 1851-1901
- Insubstantial Media: Ectoplasm, Exposure, and the Stillbirth of Film
- Mother Knows Best: Magic and Matricide
- Violent Vanishings: Hitchcock, Harlan, and the Politics of Prestidigitation
- Shooting Stars, Vanishing Comets: Bette Davis and Cinematic Fading.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Filmography: p. [233]-234.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-232) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786613064325
- 9781283064323
- 1283064324
- 9780822384373
- 082238437X
- OCLC:
- 213455221
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