Magic, Simon During suggests, has helped shape modern culture. Devoted to this deceptively simple proposition, During's superlative work, written over the cours
The Re-Enchantment of the World is an interdisciplinary volume that challenges the long-prevailing view of modernity as "disenchanted." There is of course somet
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The convergence of film and television and the tension between the unmediated ‘reality’ of the moving image and the enchantment and illusion offered by magi