Theatre, Performance and Analogue Technology [electronic resource] : Historical Interfaces and Intermedialities /
Reilly, Kara.author.
Reilly, Kara.editor.
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.
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""Cover""; ""Half-Title""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""Illustrations""; ""Series Editorsâ€? Preface""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Notes on Contributors""; ""Introduction                   ""; ""Part I Interrogating Historiography""; ""1 Heron of Alexandriaâ€?s â€?Toy Theatreâ€? Automaton: Reality, Allusion and Illusion                                                                                      ""; ""2 Manufacturing Elephants: Technologies of Knowledge in Theatre History                                                                              ""
""3 Performing Technology, Performing Reality: Buffalo Bill and Steele MacKayeâ€?s The Drama of Civilization                                                                                                               """"4 Forgotten Wizard: The Scenographic Innovations of Mariano Fortuny                                                                          ""; ""Part II Industrial Bodies and Dance""; ""5 Fairies and Sylphs: Femininity, Technology and Technique                                                                 ""
""6 The Tiller Girls: Mass Ornament and Modern Girl                                                        """"7 Retro-Engineering: Wearable Sound                                          ""; ""Part III Performing Science and Technology""; ""8 Shocks and Sparks: Participatory Electrical Performances in the Enlightenment Period                                                                                             ""
""9 Modern Nation and Rural Idyll: Reconciling Progress and Purity through Performance                                                                                           """"10 Spectres and Spectators: The Poly-Technologies of the Pepperâ€?s Ghost Illusion                                                                                       ""; ""11 Recalling the Theatre Phone                                     ""; ""12 â€?Lyke Unto A Lively Thingâ€?: Theatre History and Social Robotics                                                                         ""
""Bibliography                   """"Index            ""
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Performing arts.
Theater—History.
Arts.
History.
Theater.
Motion pictures—Production and direction.
Performing Arts.
Theatre History.
Arts.
History of Science.
Theatre and Performance Studies.
Directing.