The Theater of Electricity
Technology and Spectacle in the Late 19th Century
(Sprache: Englisch)
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...
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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.Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „The Theater of Electricity “
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.Autoren-Porträt von Ulf Otto
Ulf Otto is Professor of Theater Studies with a focus on intermediality research at the LMU Munich.Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Ulf Otto
- 2023, 1st ed. 2023, XXVII, 314 Seiten, Maße: 17 x 22 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN-10: 347605960X
- ISBN-13: 9783476059604
- Erscheinungsdatum: 28.07.2023
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Englisch
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