Theatre, Performance and Analogue Technology: Historical Interfaces and Intermedialities

By Kara Reilly

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349457426
• ISBN13: 9781349457427
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 269 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"