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The theater of electricity : technology and spectacle in the late 19th century / / Ulf Otto
| The theater of electricity : technology and spectacle in the late 19th century / / Ulf Otto |
| Autore | Otto Ulf <1931-> |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin, Germany : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2023] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (337 pages) |
| Disciplina | 605 |
| Soggetto topico |
Stage management
Theater - History - 19th century |
| ISBN | 3-476-05961-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- Appearance of Electricity -- Theatricality and Electricity -- Electrification of the Theater -- 1: Incandescence -- 1.1 Installations: Technical Apparatus and Aesthetic Continuities (Frankfurt 1891) -- 1.2 Legitimations: Interests of Directors, Industry and Monarchy (Munich 1883) -- 1.3 Sensualities: The Meaning of Light Colors and Chandeliers (Paris 1881) -- 1.4 Purifications: Oxygen Consumption and Nervous Disorders (London 1881) -- 1.5 Combustions: Catastrophe Simulations and Safety Measures (Vienna 1881) -- 2: Oxidation -- 2.1 Gas Burners: Lamps and Street Lighting (1817/1818) -- 2.2 Reflectors: Chemical Reactions and Enlightened Light (1781-1784) -- 2.3 Foot Ramps: Natural Figures and Unnatural Light Sources (1757) -- 2.4 Showcases: Optical Techniques and Artistic Light Changes (1760-1822) -- 2.5 Pyrotechnics: Color Plays and Fatigue Phenomena -- 3: Regulators -- 3.1 Expectations of Salvation: Festivals of Incandescence (Wagner) -- 3.2 Power Transmission: Vertical Integration and Avant-Garde (Appia) -- 3.3 Parallel Circuits: Dividing the Light and Controlling the Current -- 3.4 Switching Operations: Button Pressing and Weather Lighting (Benjamin) -- 4: Fabrication -- 4.1 Engineering Knowledge: Stage Engineering and Industrial Operations -- 4.2 Transport Systems: Patent Stages and Image Changes -- 4.3 Projection Surfaces: Cloud Apparatuses and Broadening Horizons (Fortuny) -- 4.4 Soul Vibrations: Stage Walls and Cloud Apparatuses -- 4.5 Atmospheric Arts: Rotation and Elfin Forest (Reinhardt) -- 5: Attractions -- 5.1 Rollercoasters: Power Transmission and Amusement Parks (Frankfurt 1891) -- 5.2 Water Forces: Fountains and Rays of Light (Frankfurt 1891) -- 5.3 Arts and Crafts: Upholstery and Total Works of Art (Munich 1882 and Frankfurt 1891).
5.4 Festivals of Light: Enlightenment and Orientalism (London 1851-Paris 1900) -- 5.5 Dynamos: Epiphany and Energy (Paris 1900) -- 6: Industrial Ballets -- 6.1 Newspaper Reports: Poetry and Technology -- 6.2 Twilight of the Gods: Electrical Engineering and the Process of Civilization -- 6.3 Dances of Progress: Culture Industry and Colonialism -- 6.4 Luminous Jewels: Féerie and Industry -- 6.5 Luminoclasts: Machismo and Avant-Garde -- 7: Luminous Bodies -- 7.1 Allegories: Trademarks and Women's Bodies -- 7.2 Dispositives: Bodies on Display and Unidirectional Glances -- 7.3 Specialties: Attraction and Scandal -- 7.4 Salomania: Exoticism and Projection -- 7.5 Maenads: Classical Philology and Psychoanalysis -- 8: Projection Arts -- 8.1 Serpentines: Belly Dances and Light Shows -- 8.2 Textiles: Fabric Webs and Whitewashing -- 8.3 Motors: Patented Art and Extensions of the Body -- 8.4 Effects: Spotlights and Ghostly Apparitions -- 8.5 Cinema: Serpentines and Images of Movement -- 9: Conclusion: Aesthetics of Electricity -- 9.1 Industrial Culture -- 9.2 Alienation Effects (Brecht). |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910734831903321 |
Otto Ulf <1931->
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| Berlin, Germany : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2023] | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Transmissions in Dance [[electronic resource] ] : Contemporary Staging Practices / / edited by Lesley Main
| Transmissions in Dance [[electronic resource] ] : Contemporary Staging Practices / / edited by Lesley Main |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2017.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XVII, 231 p. 28 illus.) |
| Disciplina | 792.8 |
| Soggetto topico |
Dance
Performing arts Stage management Performing Arts Technology and Stagecraft |
| ISBN | 3-319-64873-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1. Introductions; Lesley Main -- 2. Transmission: from archive to production. Re-imagining Laban - contemporizing the past, envisioning the future; Alison Curtis-Jones -- 3. Impure transmissions; traditions of modern dance across historical and geographical boundaries; Fabián Barba -- 4. Performing history: Wind Tossed (1936), Natural Movement and the hyper-historian; Maria Salgado Llopis -- 5. The Transmission—Translation--Transformation of Doris Humphrey’s Two Ecstatic Themes (1931); Lesley Main -- 6. Transmission as Process and Power in Graham’s Chronicle (1936); Kim Jones -- 7. Transmitting Trio A (1966): The Relations and Sociality of an Unspectacular Dance; Sara Wookey -- 8. Silent Transformations in Choreography-Making over Time: Rosemary Butcher’s Practice of ‘Looking Back and Ahead’; Stefanie Sachsenmaier -- 9. The Living Cultural Heritage of Robert Cohan; Paul R W Jackson. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910255092103321 |
| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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