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The art of light on stage : lighting in contemporary theatre / Yaron Abulafia.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2016Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 255 pages) : color illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781317429715
  • 1317429710
  • 9781315691305
  • 1315691302
  • 9781317429692
  • 1317429699
  • 9781317429708
  • 1317429702
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 792.02/5 23
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction -- The context -- The questions -- Main themes and objectives -- Motivation and goal -- Towering figures in the history of theatre lighting design -- Sir Henry Irving (1838-1905) -- David Belasco (1853-1931) -- Adolphe Appia (1862-1928) -- Edward Gordon Craig (1872-1966) -- Light and the Theatre of the Symbolists -- Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) -- Josef Svoboda (1920-2002) -- Conclusion -- Light art: the rising autonomy of artificial light -- Light in the visual arts -- Conclusion -- Theoretical framework -- Semiotics -- On the adaptation of semiotics to the framework of theatre studies -- A critique of structuralist semiotics for theatre analysis -- Phenomenology -- On the phenomenology of embodiment -- On the adaptation of phenomenology to the framework of theatre studies -- Mediology -- On art and the neuro-cognitive sciences -- Light, colour response and neuroscience -- Conclusion -- A new conceptual framework for the analysis of light -- A few notes on practicality -- What should we seek out through the aesthetic analysis? -- What should we seek out through the semiotic and poetic analysis? -- Six grounds of representation -- Dramaturgy of light -- Introduction to the performance analyses -- Madama Butterfly -- Introduction -- The light-image of Butterfly's first entrance -- The dramaturgy of light in Madama Butterfly -- On the Concept of the Face, Regarding the Son of God -- Introduction -- Scenography and costumes -- The course of action -- the opening scene -- "Let the Little Children Come to Me" (Matthew 19:14): first light-image -- "Let the Little Children Come to Me" (Matthew 19:14): second light-image -- Resurrection of the Face: the closure scene -- The dramaturgy of light in On the Concept of the Face, Regarding the Son of God -- Stifters Dinge (Stifter's Things) -- Introduction -- Light-image: Waves of Light -- The dramaturgy of light in Stifters Dinge -- Rechnitz (Der Würgeengel) -- Introduction -- On the structure and characteristics of Rechnitz -- The Shooting Scene: first light-image -- The Town Residents: second light-image -- The dramaturgy of light in Rechnitz -- Peer Gynt -- Introduction -- About the adaptation of the play -- Young Solveig and Aase Seek Peer: first light-image -- Peer Nurses Aase on her Deathbed: second light-image -- The dramaturgy of light in Peer Gynt -- Epilogue.
Summary: "The Art of Light on Stage is the first history of theatre lighting design to bring the story right up to date. In this extraordinary volume, award-winning designer Yaron Abulafia explores the poetics of light, charting the evolution of lighting design against the background of contemporary performance. The book looks at the material and the conceptual; the technological and the transcendental. Never before has theatre design been so vividly and excitingly illuminated."-- Provided by publisher
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Introduction -- The context -- The questions -- Main themes and objectives -- Motivation and goal -- Towering figures in the history of theatre lighting design -- Sir Henry Irving (1838-1905) -- David Belasco (1853-1931) -- Adolphe Appia (1862-1928) -- Edward Gordon Craig (1872-1966) -- Light and the Theatre of the Symbolists -- Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) -- Josef Svoboda (1920-2002) -- Conclusion -- Light art: the rising autonomy of artificial light -- Light in the visual arts -- Conclusion -- Theoretical framework -- Semiotics -- On the adaptation of semiotics to the framework of theatre studies -- A critique of structuralist semiotics for theatre analysis -- Phenomenology -- On the phenomenology of embodiment -- On the adaptation of phenomenology to the framework of theatre studies -- Mediology -- On art and the neuro-cognitive sciences -- Light, colour response and neuroscience -- Conclusion -- A new conceptual framework for the analysis of light -- A few notes on practicality -- What should we seek out through the aesthetic analysis? -- What should we seek out through the semiotic and poetic analysis? -- Six grounds of representation -- Dramaturgy of light -- Introduction to the performance analyses -- Madama Butterfly -- Introduction -- The light-image of Butterfly's first entrance -- The dramaturgy of light in Madama Butterfly -- On the Concept of the Face, Regarding the Son of God -- Introduction -- Scenography and costumes -- The course of action -- the opening scene -- "Let the Little Children Come to Me" (Matthew 19:14): first light-image -- "Let the Little Children Come to Me" (Matthew 19:14): second light-image -- Resurrection of the Face: the closure scene -- The dramaturgy of light in On the Concept of the Face, Regarding the Son of God -- Stifters Dinge (Stifter's Things) -- Introduction -- Light-image: Waves of Light -- The dramaturgy of light in Stifters Dinge -- Rechnitz (Der Würgeengel) -- Introduction -- On the structure and characteristics of Rechnitz -- The Shooting Scene: first light-image -- The Town Residents: second light-image -- The dramaturgy of light in Rechnitz -- Peer Gynt -- Introduction -- About the adaptation of the play -- Young Solveig and Aase Seek Peer: first light-image -- Peer Nurses Aase on her Deathbed: second light-image -- The dramaturgy of light in Peer Gynt -- Epilogue.

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"The Art of Light on Stage is the first history of theatre lighting design to bring the story right up to date. In this extraordinary volume, award-winning designer Yaron Abulafia explores the poetics of light, charting the evolution of lighting design against the background of contemporary performance. The book looks at the material and the conceptual; the technological and the transcendental. Never before has theatre design been so vividly and excitingly illuminated."-- Provided by publisher

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