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Cover: 9783476059604 | The Theater of Electricity | Ulf Otto | Buch | xxvii | Englisch | 2023
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The Theater of Electricity
Technology and Spectacle in the Late 19th Century
Buch von Ulf Otto
Sprache: Englisch

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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.
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.
Über den Autor
Ulf Otto is Professor of Theater Studies with a focus on intermediality research at the LMU Munich.
Zusammenfassung

Electricity and performance

A New Perspective on the Effects of Electricity on Aesthetics and Communication

With many sources and illustrations

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.- 1. Incandescence: electrical installations and their hygienic legitimation.- 2. Oxidation: material culture and industrialized theater.- 3. Regulators: control techniques and electroaesthetic expectations of salvation.- 4. Fabrication: atmospheres and their technical foundations.- 5. Attractions: Electricity exhibitions and their staging.- 6. Communication: electric media and telegraphic world theater.- 7. Industrial poetry: danced progress and civilization as kaleidoscope.- 8. Luminaries: figurations of technology and desirable projections.- 10. Force fields: Science theater and the spaces of electrical engineering.- 11. Conclusion: aesthetics of electricity.- Bibliography.- List of figures.

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Thema: Theater & Film
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: xxvii
314 S.
87 s/w Illustr.
314 p. 87 illus.
ISBN-13: 9783476059604
ISBN-10: 347605960X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Otto, Ulf
Hersteller: Palgrave Macmillan
J.B. Metzler, Part of Springer Nature
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: J.B. Metzler Verlag GmbH in Springer Science + Business Medi, Werastr. 21-23, D-70182 Stuttgart, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße: 241 x 160 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Ulf Otto
Erscheinungsdatum: 30.06.2023
Gewicht: 0,68 kg
Artikel-ID: 126494802
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