| Summary: | 碩士 === 元智大學 === 資訊傳播學系 === 99 === Magic has always been a fascination to the people around the world. This thesis will analyze the magic performance by professional and novice magicians. It will further give some examples of Taiwanese magicians to illustrate the influence of magic in Taiwan. Since the 2009 magic performing in Spring Festival Evening Show on CCTV in China, Lu-Chen has led the wave of all the Chinese passion of magic. In 2010, Lu-Chen was invited to the Spring Festival Evening Show again; furthermore, they held the "World Magic Tour of Lu-Chen in 2010" touring which caused great influence across China.
On account of this upsurge, this study will undertake a further research on the differences between professional magicians and novices. Firstly, we collected, integrated, and analyzed relevant literatures, employing western, Chinese, and Taiwanese magic revolutions and developments as background to understand the situation of contemporary magic, which can be summarized into three themes of this study: magician’s characters, magic shows and magic effects. By using qualitative research methods, we visited some expert magicians and novices in Taiwan for thorough interviews to examine the character differences between them and the way they perform and present the magic effects.
The next part of this thesis will further discuss the data analysis of the interviews to generalize the following eight characteristics of magicians: learning motivation, learning strategies, sensory cognition, expert knowledge, pondering logic, degrees of practicing, problem solving, and self-monitoring in order to find out the variation of them, such as the performing modes of stage magic and close up magic, the magic effect and audience reception between an expert and an novice.
The results of this thesis indicate the audience’s reactions when watching magic shows depend neither on the professional standard of the magicians nor on the contents of the performance, but on the amount of how much of their identification of magic. Last but not least, this study also addresses related issues and limits for follow-up researches in connection with magic development, expert magicians and novices in Taiwan.
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