@Book{770314457,
editor="Reilly, Kara",
title="Theatre, performance and analogue technology: historical interfaces and intermedialities",
series="Palgrave studies in performance and technology",
year="2013",
publisher="Palgrave Macmillan",
address="Houndmills, Basingstoke [u.a.]",
keywords="Theater; History; Theaters; Special effects; Stage-setting and scenery",
contents="Machine generated contents note:List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- INTRODUCTION; Kara Reilly -- PART I: INTERROGATING HISTORIOGRAPHY -- 1. Heron of Alexandria's 'Toy Theatre' Automaton: Reality and Illusion; Richard Beacham -- 2. Manufacturing Elephants: the Mythic, the Mechanical and the Credible in Theatre History; Odai Johnson -- 3. Performing Technology, Performing Reality: Steele MacKaye's Actors and Machines; Victor Holtcamp -- 4. Forgotten Wizard: The Scenographic Innovations of Mariano Fortuny; Brandin Bar{\'o}n-Nusbaum -- PART II: INDUSTRIAL BODIES AND DANCE -- 5. Pantomime and Modernity: The Fairy and The Navvy; Kate Newey -- 6. The Tiller Girls: Mass Ornament and Modern Girl; Kara Reilly -- 7. Retro-Engineering; Johannes Birringer -- PART III: PERFORMING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY -- 8. Shocks and Sparks: Participatory Electrical Performances in the Enlightenment Period'; Ciara Murphy -- 9. Modern Nation and Rural Idyll: Reconciling Progress and Purity through Performance; Naomi J. Stubbs -- 10. Spectres and Spectators: The Poly-Technologies of the Pepper's Ghost Illusion; Beth Kattelman -- 11. Recalling the Theatre Phone; Adrian Curtin -- 12. 'Like Unto A Lively Thing': Early Modern Performance of Artificial Intelligence; Michael Chemers.",
note="ed.  by Kara Reilly",
note="Includes bibliographical references (pages [250]-259) and index",
isbn="9781137319661",
language="English"
}