This trans-historical collection explores analogue performance technologies from Ancient Greece to pre-Second World War. From ancient mechanical elephants to early modern automata, Enlightenment electrical experiments to Victorian spectral illusions, this volume offers an original examination of the precursors of contemporary digital performance.
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Kara Reillys edited collection on theatre and analogue technology is timely. Reillys collection claims to be, and is, the first study that historicizes discourses of digital performance. This book will be of interest to all theatre and performance students and scholars, as well as science and cultural historians and all those interested in examining how theatre, performance, and technology have come together not only in current practice but also in a diverse range of historical contexts. (Maria Chatzichristodoulou, New Theatre Quarterly, Vol. 31 (3), August, 2015)
'These explorations of intriguing oddities of performance history, interspersed by 46 illustrations, covers projects ranging from Richard Beacham's minutely re-created Roman-era toy theatre with mechanized movable parts to Michael Chemers's ongoing work with robots whose artificial intelligences lack (to date) what is understood as empathy Recommended [ for] graduate students, researchers, faculty, technical students, professionals, general readers.' CHOICE
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| Series Editors' Preface |
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| Acknowledgements |
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| Introduction |
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Part I Interrogating Historiography |
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1 Heron of Alexandria's Toy Theatre' Automaton: Reality, Allusion and Illusion |
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2 Manufacturing Elephants: Technologies of Knowledge in Theatre History |
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3 Performing Technology, Performing Reality: Buffalo Bill and Steele MacKaye's The Drama of Civilization |
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4 Forgotten Wizard: The Scenographic Innovations of Mariano Fortuny |
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Part II Industrial Bodies and Dance |
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5 Fairies and Sylphs: Femininity, Technology and Technique |
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6 The Tiller Girls: Mass Ornament and Modern Girl |
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7 Retro-Engineering: Wearable Sound |
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Part III Performing Science and Technology |
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8 Shocks and Sparks: Participatory Electrical Performances in the Enlightenment Period |
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9 Modern Nation and Rural Idyll: Reconciling Progress and Purity through Performance |
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10 Spectres and Spectators: The Poly-Technologies of the Pepper's Ghost Illusion |
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11 Recalling the Theatre Phone |
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12 `Lyke Unto A Lively Thing': Theatre History and Social Robotics |
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Odai Johnson, University of Washington, USA Richard Beacham, King's College, UK Victor Holtcamp, Tulane University, USA Brandin Barón-Nusbaum, University of California, USA Katherine Newey, University of Exeter, UK Kara Reilly, University of Exeter, UK Johannes Birringer, Brunel University, UK Ciara Murphy, University of Pennsylvania, USA Beth A. Kattelman, Ohio State University, USA Naomi J. Stubbs, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY, USA Adrian Curtin, University of Exeter, UK Michael M. Chemers, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
