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Language/s: | English |
Publication statement: | Houndmills, Basingstoke [u.a.] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013 |
Extent: | XVII, 269 S. : Ill. ; 23 cm |
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Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [250]-259) and index |
ISBN: | 978-1-137-31966-1 hardback 978-1-349-45742-7 pbk |
Notes: | Machine generated contents note:List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- INTRODUCTION; Kara Reilly -- PART I: INTERROGATING HISTORIOGRAPHY -- 1. Heron of Alexandria's 'Toy Theatre' Automaton: Reality and Illusion; Richard Beacham -- 2. Manufacturing Elephants: the Mythic, the Mechanical and the Credible in Theatre History; Odai Johnson -- 3. Performing Technology, Performing Reality: Steele MacKaye's Actors and Machines; Victor Holtcamp -- 4. Forgotten Wizard: The Scenographic Innovations of Mariano Fortuny; Brandin Barón-Nusbaum -- PART II: INDUSTRIAL BODIES AND DANCE -- 5. Pantomime and Modernity: The Fairy and The Navvy; Kate Newey -- 6. The Tiller Girls: Mass Ornament and Modern Girl; Kara Reilly -- 7. Retro-Engineering; Johannes Birringer -- PART III: PERFORMING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY -- 8. Shocks and Sparks: Participatory Electrical Performances in the Enlightenment Period'; Ciara Murphy -- 9. Modern Nation and Rural Idyll: Reconciling Progress and Purity through Performance; Naomi J. Stubbs -- 10. Spectres and Spectators: The Poly-Technologies of the Pepper's Ghost Illusion; Beth Kattelman -- 11. Recalling the Theatre Phone; Adrian Curtin -- 12. 'Like Unto A Lively Thing': Early Modern Performance of Artificial Intelligence; Michael Chemers. |
Global Trade Item Number: | 9781137319661 |
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Further documents: | Library of Congress Classification: PN2101Dewey Decimal Classification: 792.09Regensburger Verbund-Klassifikation: AP 75500 |
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Shelf mark: | 1 A 899080 |
Location: | Potsdamer Straße |
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