| Description |
1 online resource (239 pages) : illustrations. |
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History Reference Center |
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History Reference Center.
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| Contents |
Surplus Bodies, Vanishing Women: Conjuring, Imperialism, and the Rhetoric of Disappearance, 1851-1901 -- Insubstantial Media: Ectoplasm, Exposure, and the Stillbirth of Film -- Mother Knows Best: Magic and Matricide -- Violent Vanishings: Hitchcock, Harlan, and the Politics of Prestidigitation -- Shooting Stars, Vanishing Comets: Bette Davis and Cinematic Fading. |
| Bibliography |
Filmography: pages 233-234. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-232) and index. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL |
| Summary |
Disappearing women as a persistent trope from nineteenth-century magic through contemporary theory, film, and psychoanalysis. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
EBSCOhost History Reference Center |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Women in motion pictures.
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Human body in motion pictures.
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ART -- Film & Video.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
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Human body in motion pictures. (OCoLC)fst01899764
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Women in motion pictures. (OCoLC)fst01177931
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Films.
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Variété.
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Vrouwen.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Beckman, Karen Redrobe, 1971- Vanishing women. Durham [North Carolina] : Duke University Press, 2003 9780822331254 9780822330745 (DLC) 2002014074 (OCoLC)50519305 |
| ISBN |
9780822384373 (electronic book) |
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082238437X (electronic book) |
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082233125X (alkaline paper) |
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9780822331254 (alkaline paper) |
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0822330741 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780822330745 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9786613064325 |
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6613064327 |
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1283064324 |
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9781283064323 |
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