Theatre, Performance and Analogue Technology

Historical Interfaces and Intermedialities

Kara Reilly (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

269 Seiten

2013
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-31966-1 (ISBN)

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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.

Odai Johnson, University of Washington, USA Richard Beacham, King's College, UK Victor Holtcamp, Tulane University, USA Brandin Barón-Nusbaum, University of California, USA Katherine Newey, University of Exeter, UK Kara Reilly, University of Exeter, UK Johannes Birringer, Brunel University, UK Ciara Murphy, University of Pennsylvania, USA Beth A. Kattelman, Ohio State University, USA Naomi J. Stubbs, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY, USA Adrian Curtin, University of Exeter, UK Michael M. Chemers, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	22.10.2013
Reihe/Serie	Palgrave Studies in Performance and Technology
Zusatzinfo	XVII, 269 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Tanzen / Tanzsport
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften
	Technik
ISBN-10	1-137-31966-6 / 1137319666
ISBN-13	978-1-137-31966-1 / 9781137319661
Zustand	Neuware