Theatre, performance and technology : the development of scenography in the twentieth century /

Theatre, performance and technology : the development of scenography in the twentieth century /

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Author / Creator:Baugh, Christopher.
Imprint:Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Description:xvii, 251 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language:English
Series:Theatre and performance practices
Subject:
Theaters -- Stage-setting and scenery.
Theater -- Technological innovations.
Theaters -- Stage-setting and scenery.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5813397
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ISBN:9781403916969 (hard.)
1403916969 (hard.)
9781403916976 (pbk.)
1403916977 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 236-241) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • List of Illustrations
  • General Editors' Preface
  • Preface: On Writing Theatre History and My Mother's Button Box
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: Theatres, Performances and Technologies
  • Performing Great Exhibitions: A Nineteenth-Century Speciality
  • Rejection of the Past: A Modern Mode of Thought
  • The Scene as Machine: Part 1 Scenography as a Machine for Performance
  • The Scene as Machine: Part 2 Constructing and Building the Scene as Machine
  • The Scene as Machine: Part 3 The Kinetic Stage Machines of Josef Svoboda
  • The Century of Light: Part 1 Diffused and Living Light
  • The Century of Light: Part 2 Light Beams and Images
  • The Scene as the Architecture of Performance
  • Some Rejections of Technology in Theatre and Performance
  • New Technologies and Shifting Paradigms
  • Notes
  • Further Reading
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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