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Television has, throughout its history, used a mode that was founded on liveness as an assertion of its ability to relay an untransformed event. The 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.
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Why is it important?
This tension between liveness and TV magic 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.
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This article was an earlier example of themes that I develop at much greater length in my book Secular Magic and the Moving Image from Bloomsbury.
Dr Max Sexton
University of Surrey
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This page is a summary of: Deception Reality: Street Magic from Blaine to Dynamo, Critical Studies in Television The International Journal of Television Studies, March 2015, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.7227/cst.10.1.3.
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