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Theatre, Performance and Analogue Technology

Historical Interfaces and Intermedialities

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-1-137-31966-1
Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore
Erscheinungstermin: 22.10.2013
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This trans-historical collection explores analogue performance technologies from Ancient Greece to pre-Second World War. From ancient mechanical elephants to early modern automata, Enlightenment electrical experiments to Victorian spectral illusions, this volume offers an original examination of the precursors of contemporary digital performance.

Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9781137319661
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-1-137-31966-1
  • Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore
  • Erscheinungstermin: 22.10.2013
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: 2013. Auflage 2013
  • Serie: Palgrave Studies in Performance and Technology
  • Produktform: Gebunden
  • Gewicht: 493 g
  • Seiten: 269
  • Format (B x H x T): 146 x 223 x 25 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt

Autoren/Hrsg.

Autoren

Reilly, Kara

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors INTRODUCTION; Kara Reilly PART I: INTERROGATING HISTORIOGRAPHY 1. Heron of Alexandria's 'Toy Theatre' Automaton: Reality and Illusion; Richard Beacham 2. Manufacturing Elephants: the Mythic, the Mechanical and the Credible in Theatre History; Odai Johnson 3. Performing Technology, Performing Reality: Steele MacKaye's Actors and Machines; Victor Holtcamp 4. Forgotten Wizard: The Scenographic Innovations of Mariano Fortuny; Brandin Barón-Nusbaum PART II: INDUSTRIAL BODIES AND DANCE 5. Pantomime and Modernity: The Fairy and The Navvy; Kate Newey 6. The Tiller Girls: Mass Ornament and Modern Girl; Kara Reilly 7. Retro-Engineering; Jo hannes Birringer PART III: PERFORMING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 8. Shocks and Sparks: Participatory Electrical Performances in the Enlightenment Period'; Ciara Murphy 9. Modern Nation and Rural Idyll: Reconciling Progress and Purity through Performance; Naomi J. Stub bs 10. Spectres and Spectators: The Poly-Technologies of the Pepper's Ghost Illusion; Beth Kattelman 11. Recalling the Theatre Phone; Adrian Curtin 12. 'Like Unto A Lively Thing': Early Modern Performance of Artificial Intelligence; Michael Chemers