August – 2016 – Frank Kessler

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Machines Magic Media

August 22, 2016

The beautiful castle of Cerisy-la-Salle is an ideal place to discuss the complex interrelationships between media, magic and technology. I am one of the organisers of this conference which is part of an international research project (for more details look here). Academics and magicians explore together various aspects of this subject. Besides lectures and […]

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RECENT PUBLICATIONS

- “The Gentleman in the Stalls: Georges Méliès and Spectatorship in Early Cinema” in: Ian Christie (ed.), Audiences. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2012, pp. 35-44.

- “Die Imagination des Zuschauers – der imaginierte Zuschauer” in: Julian Hanich, Hans-Jürgen Wulff (ed.), Auslassen, andeuten, auffüllen. Der Film und die Imagination des Zuschauers. München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2012, pp. 181-189.

- “The Féerie Between Stage and Screen” in: André Gaudreault, Nicolas Dulac, Santiago Hidalgo (ed.), A Companion to Early Cinema. Malden, MA, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012, pp. 64-79.

- (with Sabine Lenk) “Les images en mouvement au théâtre de variétés: le cas de l’Apollo de Düsseldorf” in: Marta Braun et al. (ed.) Beyond the Screen: Institutions, Networks and Publics of Early Cinema. New Barnet: John Libbey, 2012, pp. 247-254.