Theatre, Performance and Technology
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Theatre, Performance and Technology

The Development and Transformation of Scenography

  1. 308 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Theatre, Performance and Technology

The Development and Transformation of Scenography

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. List of Figures and Tables
  9. General Editors’ Preface
  10. Preface: On Writing Theatre History and My Mother’s Button Box
  11. Acknowledgements
  12. Introduction
  13. 1 Performing Great Exhibitions: A Nineteenth-Century Speciality
  14. 2 Rejection of the Past: A Modern Mode of Thought
  15. 3 The Scene as Machine, 1: Scenography as a Machine for Performance
  16. 4 The Scene as Machine, 2: Constructing and Building the Scene as Machine
  17. 5 The Scene as Machine, 3: The Kinetic Stage Machines of Josef Svoboda
  18. 6 The Century of Light, 1: Diffused and Living Light
  19. 7 The Century of Light, 2: Light Beams and Images
  20. 8 The Scene as the Architecture of Performance
  21. 9 Some Rejections of Technology in Theatre and Performance
  22. 10 New Technologies and Shifting Paradigms
  23. 11 Scenography as Dramaturgy of Performance
  24. Notes
  25. Further Reading
  26. A Selective Bibliography
  27. Index