Theatre, Performance and Technology
The Development and Transformation of Scenography
2nd Edition
Published on 7. January 2014
308 pages
978-1-350-31615-7 (ISBN)
Description
Chris Baugh explores how developments and changes in technology have been reflected in scenography throughout history. Taking into account the latest research, his new edition examines moving light technologies, the internet as a platform of performance, urban scenography and how scenography has developed as a collaborative practice.
Chris Baugh explores how developments and changes in technology have been reflected in scenography throughout history. Taking into account the latest research, his new edition examines moving light technologies, the internet as a platform of performance, urban scenography and how scenography has developed as a collaborative practice.
Chris Baugh explores how developments and changes in technology have been reflected in scenography throughout history. Taking into account the latest research, his new edition examines moving light technologies, the internet as a platform of performance, urban scenography and how scenography has developed as a collaborative practice.
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2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
ISBN-13
978-1-350-31615-7 (9781350316157)
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Christopher Baugh
Theatre, Performance and Technology
The Development and Transformation of Scenography
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Christpoher Baugh is Emeritus Professor of Performance and Technology at the University of Leeds and Professor of Theatre at the University of Hull, UK. He is a practising scenographer and has published numerous texts on the history and theory of scenography.
Content
List of Illustrations
General Editors' Preface
Preface: On Writing Theatre History and My Mother's Button Box
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Performing Great Exhibitions: A Nineteenth-Century Speciality
2. Rejection of the Past: A Modern Mode of Thought
3. The Scene as Machine: Part 1: Scenography as a Machine for Performance
4. The Scene as Machine: Part 2: Constructing and Building the Scene as Machine
5. The Scene as Machine: Part 3: The Kinetic Stage Machines of Josef Svoboda
6. The Century of Light: Part 1: Diffused and Living Light
7. The Century of Light: Part 2: Light Beams and Images
8. The Scene as the Architecture of Performance
9. Some Rejections of Technology in Theatre and Performance
10. New Technologies and Shifting Paradigms
11. Scenography as Dramaturgy and Technology of Performance
Notes
Further Reading
Bibliography
Index.
General Editors' Preface
Preface: On Writing Theatre History and My Mother's Button Box
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Performing Great Exhibitions: A Nineteenth-Century Speciality
2. Rejection of the Past: A Modern Mode of Thought
3. The Scene as Machine: Part 1: Scenography as a Machine for Performance
4. The Scene as Machine: Part 2: Constructing and Building the Scene as Machine
5. The Scene as Machine: Part 3: The Kinetic Stage Machines of Josef Svoboda
6. The Century of Light: Part 1: Diffused and Living Light
7. The Century of Light: Part 2: Light Beams and Images
8. The Scene as the Architecture of Performance
9. Some Rejections of Technology in Theatre and Performance
10. New Technologies and Shifting Paradigms
11. Scenography as Dramaturgy and Technology of Performance
Notes
Further Reading
Bibliography
Index.
