Deception Reality
Street Magic from Blaine to Dynamo
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5681965 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Melissa Sexton (0000-0003-0444-0989, corresponding author), Max Sexton |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 24-37 |
| Publication date | 2015-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Studies in Television The International Journal of Television Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1749-6020 • E-ISSN: 1749-6039 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.7227/cst.10.1.3 |
| OpenAlex | W2331970352 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
Television has, throughout its history, used a mode that was founded on liveness as an assertion of its ability to relay an untransformed event. This essay explores the tension between the unmediated 'reality' suggested by the television reality show, and the deception of 'street magic', popularised by the American David Blaine and the British magician, Dynamo. This tension can be understood as a sign of the intermediate space between fact and fiction, and, in turn, the parataxis of live and mediated forms within television
Art · Assertion · Astronomy · Deception · Liveness · Physics · Computer Science · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · History · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |