Illusion In Cultural Practice Productive Deceptions | Media & Cultural Studies

This volume explores illusionism as a much larger phenomenon than optical illusion magic shows or special effects as a vital part of how we perceive process and shape the world in which we live. Considering different cultural practices characterized by illusionism this book suggests a new approach to illusion via media theory. Each of the chapters analyses a specific kind of illusionistic practice and the concept of illusionism it entails in a given context including philosophy perception and cognitive theory performance magic occultism optics physiology early cinema cartomancy spiritualism architecture shamanic rituals and theoretical physics to show the diversity of shapes that illusionism and illusions can take. The book provides detailed analyses of illusions within performance and ritual magic philosophy art history and psychology as well as a first approach to the study of illusions outside of these established fields. It aims to find ways of identifying and analysing a wider range of illusions in the humanities. This multidisciplinary and comprehensive volume will appeal to scholars and students with an interest in media and culture theatre and performance philosophy sociology politics and religion. This publication was supported by the Internationales Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar with funds from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. IKKM Books Volume 47An overview of the whole series can be found atwww.ikkm-weimar.de/schriften Chapter 5 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike 4.0 license https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003188278-8/vanishing-lady-railway-illusions-movement-1-katharina-rein?context=ubx&ref Id=fe124e6e-8290-43e9-9d48-753bad162c50 Chapter 9 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003188278-13/talking-rocks-illusory-sounds-projections-otherworld-julia-shpinitskaya-riitta-rainio?context=ubx&ref Id=3aa829a8-8c0b-4103-870a-6fe5a4393e71 |Illusion in Cultural Practice Productive Deceptions | Media & Cultural Studies