... included films, radio and television series, live entertainments, electro-mechanical amusements, and books, magazines, and comic books. Exploring how such media forms deploy and ... supernatural stories. More typically – as in Seabord's comic Weird Suspense (1975), the Canadian All Suspense (1998), and Marvel's Tales of Suspense (1995–the present), the ...
Tópico(s): Theatre and Performance Studies
2012 - Routledge | New Review of Film and Television Studies
... listened to his ready wit, shown in his comic style of narrating the manner of his escape, ... a “slight-of-hand, legerdemain, animal magnetism, and electro biology, etc. entertainment at the Town Hall last ... 28 Brown performs magic and mesmerism but also “electro biology.” Electrobiology—which purported to produce a form ...
Tópico(s): American History and Culture
2023 - University of Illinois Press | American Literary Realism