The Theater of Electricity: Technology and Spectacle in the Late 19th Century

Otto, Ulf

  • 出版商: Palgrave MacMillan
  • 出版日期: 2024-07-01
  • 售價: $5,480
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$5,206
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 314
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 3476059634
  • ISBN-13: 9783476059635
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商品描述

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.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

自1880年代以來,電能開始在歐洲劇院中流通,這些電能來自城市發電廠的化石燃料。一種神秘的力量進入了表演場地,對某些人來說,它仍然被視為浪漫的生命力,而對另一些人來說,它已經代表了進步。工程知識、控制技術和供應鏈徹底改變了劇院的製作和思考方式。文藝復興和巴洛克時期的機械影像機器被轉變為熱力學引擎。現代劇院最終成為了電氣化的劇院。本書旨在追溯在前衛走上舞台之前,幕後發生的事情,並提出將劇院現代性的系譜寫成劇院技術的文化歷史。

作者簡介

Ulf Otto is Professor of Theater Studies with a focus on intermediality research at the LMU Munich.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

烏爾夫·奧托是慕尼黑大學(LMU Munich)戲劇研究教授,專注於媒介間性研究。