Making the scene
Subtitle: a history of stage design and technology in Europe and the United States
By: Oscar Brockett, Margaret Mitchell, Linda Hardberger.
Contributors: Mitchell, Margaret, 1964-; Hardberger, Linda.
Publisher: Tobin Foundation for Theatre Arts
Published: 2010
Place of publication: San Antonio, Tex
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780292722736
Subjects: Theaters -- Stage-setting and scenery -- Europe -- History; Theaters -- Stage-setting and scenery -- United States -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Scenic design in ancient Greek and Roman theatres; title: Medieval scenic design; title: The Italian Renaissance; title: Design in France and the Holy Roman Empire from 1640 to the early eighteenth century; title: The influence of Scena per Angolo on eighteenth-century design; title: Neoclassicism and romanticism: a rivalry of opposites; title: Realism and naturalism; title: Modernism; title: American new stagecraft, Russian constructivism, epic theatre, and the Bauhaus; title: Post/World War II and the late twentieth century; title: Epilogue: looking toward the twenty-first century.