Cartomancy and Tarot in Film: 1940–2010 by Emily E. Auger

By Emily E. Auger

within the first book-length examine of Tarot playing cards at the silver reveal, Emily E. Auger contextualizes cartomancy – the perform of fortune telling through cards – and dives deep into its invention and promulgation in movie. After offering an advent to divination and cartomancy, Auger bargains specific descriptions and analyses of the jobs that cartomancy and Tarot playing cards play in motion pictures. The e-book incorporates a filmography together with approximately 2 hundred movies, detailing their relationships to cartomancy. As Tarot groups keep growing worldwide, Cartomancy and Tarot in Film will be of accelerating curiosity to students of esoteric reports, movie, folklore, cards, pop culture, and faith, in addition to diviners the realm over.

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