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- Electricity and performance
- A New Perspective on the Effects of Electricity on Aesthetics and Communication
- With many sources and illustrations
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Since the 1880s, electrical energies started circulating in European theaters, generated from fossil fuels in urban power plants. A mysterious force, which was still traded as romantic life force by some and for others had already come to stand in for progress, entered performance venues. Engineering knowledge, control techniques and supply chains changed fundamentally how theater was made and thought of. The mechanical image machine from Renaissance and Baroque times was transformed into a thermodynamic engine. Modern theater turned out to be electrified theater. – Retracing what happened backstage before the Avantgarde took to the front stage, this book proposes to write the genealogy of theaters modernity as a cultural history of theater technology.
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Book Title: The Theater of Electricity
Book Subtitle: Technology and Spectacle in the Late 19th Century
Authors: Ulf Otto
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-05961-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Stuttgart
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-476-05960-4Published: 30 June 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-476-05963-5Due: 31 July 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-476-05961-1Published: 29 June 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVII, 314
Number of Illustrations: 87 b/w illustrations
Topics: Performing Arts, Technology and Stagecraft, Theatre Direction and Production, Culture and Technology, History of Technology