Railway Travel In Modern Theatre

Author : Kyle Gillette
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476616063

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Railway Travel in Modern Theatre by Kyle Gillette Pdf

Railway travel has had a significant influence on modern theatre's sense of space and time. Early in the 20th century, breakthroughs--ranging from F.T. Marinetti's futurist manifestos to epic theatre's use of the treadmill--explored the mechanical rhythms and perceptual effects of railway travel to investigate history, technology, and motion. After World War II, some playwrights and auteur directors, from Armand Gatti to Robert Wilson to Amiri Baraka, looked to locomotion not as a radically new space and time but as a reminder of obsolescence, complicity in the Holocaust, and its role in uprooting people from their communities. By analyzing theatrical representations of railway travel, this book argues that modern theatre's perceptual, historical and social productions of space and time were stretched by theatre's attempts to stage the locomotive.

Author : Daniel Sack
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-07
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781351965606

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Imagined Theatres by Daniel Sack Pdf

Imagined Theatres collects theoretical dramas written by some of the leading scholars and artists of the contemporary stage. These dialogues, prose poems, and microfictions describe imaginary performance events that explore what might be possible and impossible in the theatre. Each scenario is mirrored by a brief accompanying reflection, asking what they might mean for our thinking about the theatre. These many possible worlds circle around questions that include: In what way is writing itself a performance? How do we understand the relationship between real performances that engender imaginary reflections and imaginary conceptions that form the basis for real theatrical productions? Are we not always imagining theatres when we read or even when we sit in the theatre, watching whatever event we imagine we are seeing?

Author : Kevin Riordan
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030962418

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Modernist Circumnavigations by Kevin Riordan Pdf

This book shows how Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days changed the global imagination. Through his novel, the world was converted into a personal itinerary, scaled to the individual traveller and, by extension, to the individual reader. Exploring Verne’s modern legacy, this study shows how subsequent generations of artists and writers took on Around the World in Eighty Days as an adaptable guidebook to the modern world. It investigates how Verne’s work leads its reader beyond the book itself. It considers Verne’s place in world literature, traces some of the many real reenactments of Verne’s itinerary, and recalls the theatrical adaptations of Verne’s story. Published to coincide with the 500th anniversary of the first circumnavigation and the 150th anniversary of Verne’s novel, this book offers new insights into the largely overlooked influence of Verne on twentieth-century literature and culture and on the field of global modernism.

Author : Kim Solga
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350135499

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A Cultural History of Theatre in the Modern Age by Kim Solga Pdf

To call something modern is to assert something fundamental about the social, cultural, economic and technical sophistication of that thing, over and against what has come before. A Cultural History of Theatre in the Modern Age provides an interdisciplinary overview of theatre and performance in their social and material contexts from the late 19th century through the early 2000s, emphasizing key developments and trends that both exemplify and trouble the various meanings of the term 'modern', and the identity of modernist theatre and performance. Highly illustrated with 40 images, the ten chapters each take a different theme as their focus: institutional frameworks; social functions; sexuality and gender; the environment of theatre; circulation; interpretations; communities of production; repertoire and genres; technologies of performance; and knowledge transmission.

Author : Francesca Vella
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226815701

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Networking Operatic Italy by Francesca Vella Pdf

Stagecrafting the City -- Florence, Opera, and Technological Modernity -- Funeral Entrainments -- Errico Petrella's Jone and the Band -- Global Voices -- Adelina Patti, Multilingualism, and Bel Canto (as) Listening -- "Ito per Ferrovia" -- Opera Productions on the Tracks -- Aida, Media, and Temporal Politics circa 1871-72.

Author : Matilde Marcolli
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-26
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780262358323

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Lumen Naturae by Matilde Marcolli Pdf

Exploring common themes in modern art, mathematics, and science, including the concept of space, the notion of randomness, and the shape of the cosmos. This is a book about art—and a book about mathematics and physics. In Lumen Naturae (the title refers to a purely immanent, non-supernatural form of enlightenment), mathematical physicist Matilde Marcolli explores common themes in modern art and modern science—the concept of space, the notion of randomness, the shape of the cosmos, and other puzzles of the universe—while mapping convergences with the work of such artists as Paul Cezanne, Mark Rothko, Sol LeWitt, and Lee Krasner. Her account, focusing on questions she has investigated in her own scientific work, is illustrated by more than two hundred color images of artworks by modern and contemporary artists. Thus Marcolli finds in still life paintings broad and deep philosophical reflections on space and time, and connects notions of space in mathematics to works by Paul Klee, Salvador Dalí, and others. She considers the relation of entropy and art and how notions of entropy have been expressed by such artists as Hans Arp and Fernand Léger; and traces the evolution of randomness as a mode of artistic expression. She analyzes the relation between graphical illustration and scientific text, and offers her own watercolor-decorated mathematical notebooks. Throughout, she balances discussions of science with explorations of art, using one to inform the other. (She employs some formal notation, which can easily be skipped by general readers.) Marcolli is not simply explaining art to scientists and science to artists; she charts unexpected interdependencies that illuminate the universe.

Author : Matthew Wilson Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780190644086

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The Nervous Stage by Matthew Wilson Smith Pdf

The Nervous Stage examines the relations between theatrical practices and the scientific study of the nervous system.

Author : Julia A. Walker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108833066

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Performance and Modernity by Julia A. Walker Pdf

This book argues that ideas first take shape in the human body, appearing on stage in new styles of performance.

Author : Lisa Jackson-Schebetta
Publisher : University Alabama Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780817371142

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Theatre History Studies 2020, Vol. 39 by Lisa Jackson-Schebetta Pdf

Author : Benjamin Steege
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781139510646

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Helmholtz and the Modern Listener by Benjamin Steege Pdf

The musical writings of scientist Hermann von Helmholtz (1821–94) have long been considered epoch-making in the histories of both science and aesthetics. Widely regarded as having promised an authoritative scientific foundation for harmonic practice, Helmholtz can also be read as posing a series of persistent challenges to our understanding of the musical listener. Helmholtz was at the forefront of sweeping changes in discourse about human perception. His interrogation of the physiology of hearing threw notions of the self-possessed listener into doubt and conjured a sense of vulnerability to mechanistic forces and fragmentary experience. Yet this new image of the listener was simultaneously caught up in wider projects of discipline, education and liberal reform. Reading Helmholtz in conjunction with a range of his intellectual sources and heirs, from Goethe to Max Weber to George Bernard Shaw, Steege explores the significance of Helmholtz's listener as an emblem of a broader cultural modernity.

Author : Nicholas Ridout
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780230364547

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Theatre and Ethics by Nicholas Ridout Pdf

What is ethics and what has it got to do with theatre? Drawing on both theoretical material and practical examples, Ridout makes a clear and compelling critical intervention, raising fundamental questions about what theatre is for and how audiences interact with it.

Author : Kyle Gillette
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105128074957

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Stages of Locomotion by Kyle Gillette Pdf

Author : DK Travel
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-21
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781465471871

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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Berlin by DK Travel Pdf

Experience the greatest of all Berlin has to offer, from its remarkable Pergamon Museum and historic Berlin Wall to its energetic contemporary arts scene and legendary nonstop nightlife. Discover DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Berlin. + Hotel and restaurant listings and recommendations. + Detailed itineraries and "don't-miss" destination highlights at a glance. + Illustrated cutaway 3-D drawings of important sights. + Floor plans and guided visitor information for major museums. + Guided walking tours, local drink and dining specialties to try, things to do, and places to eat, drink, and shop by area. + Area maps marked with sights and restaurants. + Detailed city maps include street finder index for easy navigation. + Insights into history and culture to help you understand the stories behind the sights. + Suggested day-trips and itineraries to explore beyond the city. With hundreds of full-color photographs, hand-drawn illustrations, and custom maps that illuminate every page, DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Berlin truly shows you what others only tell you.

Author : DK
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781465449436

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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Berlin by DK Pdf

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Berlin is your in-depth guide to the very best of Berlin. Experience the greatest of all this city has to offer, from its remarkable Pergamon Museum and historic Berlin Wall to its energetic contemporary arts scene and legendary nonstop nightlife. Discover DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Berlin: + Detailed itineraries and "don't-miss" destination highlights at a glance. + Illustrated cutaway 3-D drawings of important sights. + Floor plans and guided visitor information for major museums. + Guided walking tours, local drink and dining specialties to try, things to do, and places to eat, drink, and shop by area. + Area maps marked with sights and restaurants. + Detailed city maps include street finder index for easy navigation. + Insights into history and culture to help you understand the stories behind the sights. + Suggested day-trips and itineraries to explore beyond the city. + Hotel and restaurant listings highlight DK Choice special recommendations. With hundreds of full-color photographs, hand-drawn illustrations, and custom maps that illuminate every page, DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Berlin truly shows you this city as no one else can.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781465433299

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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Berlin by Anonim Pdf

The DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Berlin is your indispensable guide to this beautiful part of the world. This fully updated guide will lead you straight to the best attractions Berlin has to offer, from unearthing archaeological treasures in the Pergamon museum to absorbing the history of the Berlin wall to discovering the city's hottest neighborhoods on walking tours. This guide includes unique cutaways, floor plans, and reconstructions of the must-see sites, plus street-by-street maps of all the fascinating cities and towns. This new-look guide is also packed with photographs and illustrations that lead you straight to the best attractions. This uniquely visual DK Eyewitness Travel Guide will help you discover everything region-by-region, from local festivals and markets to day trips around the countryside. Detailed listings will guide you to the best hotels, restaurants, bars, and shops for all budgets, while detailed practical information will help you to get around, whether by train, bus, or car. Plus, DK's excellent insider tips and essential local information will help you explore every corner of Berlin effortlessly.