Vanishing women : magic, film, and feminism
With the help of mirrors, trap doors, elevators, photographs, and film, women vanish and return in increasingly spectacular ways throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. Karen Beckman tracks the proliferation of this elusive figure, the vanishing woman
Print Book, English, 2003
Duke University Press, Durham [North Carolina], 2003
xiii, 239 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780822331254, 9780822330745, 082233125X, 0822330741
50519305
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