Manson Solomon
Biographic Data
| ID | 198755 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Manson Solomon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Manson |
| FAMILY NAME | Solomon |
| SIGNATURE | SOLOMON M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3285-5842 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1934 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Trick automatons as media archaeology
This essay considers the conceptual and historical implications of trick automatons, three-dimensional material simulations of lifelike movement that were both mechanical and performed, for an expanded vision of film and media history. Although they have mostly been excluded from accounts of the origins of cinema, trick automatons, like cinema, appear to be automated and autonomous, but in fact completely rely on human ingenuity, manipulation, an…
Toward a historiography of stage conjuring
Negotiating the bounds of transnational cinema with Georges Méliès, 1896–1908
This article examines the respective possibilities and limitations of silent cinema’s transnationalism – its ability to cross national borders – through a case study of some of the ways the films of French filmmaker Georges Méliès circulated internationally between 1896 and 1908. Working toward a historical materialist account of the circulation of early cinema, the article considers a number of obstacles to cinematic transnationalism that were n…
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Performing Dark Arts
Reviewed by: Performing Dark Arts: A Cultural History of Conjuring Matthew Solomon Performing Dark Arts: A Cultural History of Conjuring. By Michael Mangan. Theatre and Consciousness Series. Bristol: Intellect Books, distributed by University of Chicago Press, 2007; pp. xxvi + 252. $35.00 paper. Michael Mangan’s Performing Dark Arts is an ambitious attempt to synthesize approximately 4,000 years of magic history, from the decapitation and restora…
Up-to-Date Magic
During the first decade of the twentieth century, "up-to-date magic" was a theatrical and cinematic phenomenon that entertained audiences around the world. This article traces an integrated history of stage and screen that connects the styles of magic performed in turn-of-the-century vaudeville and music-hall theatres to the modes of cinematic illusion seen in contemporaneous trick films. Attention is paid to the work of Georges Méliès and Gaston…
Marx and Bloch
Lenin described the three sources and chief component parts of Marxism as German idealist philosophy, British political economy and French Utopian Socialist thought. Curiously, and no doubt inevitably, however, this piety took the form of negation, and not in the Hegelian sense of cancellation-transcendence-preservation. During the Kautskyist and Stalinist periods the component study of Marxism, and the representatives and symbols of those source…
Beethoven, Sonata, and Utopia
Utopias are often only premature truths," wrote Lamartine; Victor Hugo, in the same vein, called Utopia "the truth of tomorrow." In its simplest form, these are statements of the revolutionary nature of Utopian thought, and it is this aspect of Utopia which is most often stressed. Thus Buber: "The vision of 'what should be' — independent though it may sometimes appear of personal will — is yet inseparable from a critical and fundamental relations…
The struggle for equilibrium
Up-to-Date Magic
During the first decade of the twentieth century, "up-to-date magic" was a theatrical and cinematic phenomenon that entertained audiences around the world. This article traces an integrated history of stage and screen that connects the styles of magic performed in turn-of-the-century vaudeville and music-hall theatres to the modes of cinematic illusion seen in contemporaneous trick films. Attention is paid to the work of Georges Méliès and Gaston…
Toward a historiography of stage conjuring
Marx and Bloch
Lenin described the three sources and chief component parts of Marxism as German idealist philosophy, British political economy and French Utopian Socialist thought. Curiously, and no doubt inevitably, however, this piety took the form of negation, and not in the Hegelian sense of cancellation-transcendence-preservation. During the Kautskyist and Stalinist periods the component study of Marxism, and the representatives and symbols of those source…
Beethoven, Sonata, and Utopia
Utopias are often only premature truths," wrote Lamartine; Victor Hugo, in the same vein, called Utopia "the truth of tomorrow." In its simplest form, these are statements of the revolutionary nature of Utopian thought, and it is this aspect of Utopia which is most often stressed. Thus Buber: "The vision of 'what should be' — independent though it may sometimes appear of personal will — is yet inseparable from a critical and fundamental relations…
The struggle for equilibrium
Beethoven, Sonata, and Utopia
Utopias are often only premature truths," wrote Lamartine; Victor Hugo, in the same vein, called Utopia "the truth of tomorrow." In its simplest form, these are statements of the revolutionary nature of Utopian thought, and it is this aspect of Utopia which is most often stressed. Thus Buber: "The vision of 'what should be' — independent though it may sometimes appear of personal will — is yet inseparable from a critical and fundamental relations…
Marx and Bloch
Lenin described the three sources and chief component parts of Marxism as German idealist philosophy, British political economy and French Utopian Socialist thought. Curiously, and no doubt inevitably, however, this piety took the form of negation, and not in the Hegelian sense of cancellation-transcendence-preservation. During the Kautskyist and Stalinist periods the component study of Marxism, and the representatives and symbols of those source…
Up-to-Date Magic
During the first decade of the twentieth century, "up-to-date magic" was a theatrical and cinematic phenomenon that entertained audiences around the world. This article traces an integrated history of stage and screen that connects the styles of magic performed in turn-of-the-century vaudeville and music-hall theatres to the modes of cinematic illusion seen in contemporaneous trick films. Attention is paid to the work of Georges Méliès and Gaston…
Performing Dark Arts
Reviewed by: Performing Dark Arts: A Cultural History of Conjuring Matthew Solomon Performing Dark Arts: A Cultural History of Conjuring. By Michael Mangan. Theatre and Consciousness Series. Bristol: Intellect Books, distributed by University of Chicago Press, 2007; pp. xxvi + 252. $35.00 paper. Michael Mangan’s Performing Dark Arts is an ambitious attempt to synthesize approximately 4,000 years of magic history, from the decapitation and restora…
Fished Out
Negotiating the bounds of transnational cinema with Georges Méliès, 1896–1908
This article examines the respective possibilities and limitations of silent cinema’s transnationalism – its ability to cross national borders – through a case study of some of the ways the films of French filmmaker Georges Méliès circulated internationally between 1896 and 1908. Working toward a historical materialist account of the circulation of early cinema, the article considers a number of obstacles to cinematic transnationalism that were n…
Toward a historiography of stage conjuring
Trick automatons as media archaeology
This essay considers the conceptual and historical implications of trick automatons, three-dimensional material simulations of lifelike movement that were both mechanical and performed, for an expanded vision of film and media history. Although they have mostly been excluded from accounts of the origins of cinema, trick automatons, like cinema, appear to be automated and autonomous, but in fact completely rely on human ingenuity, manipulation, an…
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