Early Modern Media Ecology

This Element introduces thaumaturgy, the art of making wonder, encompasses everything from magic lanterns to puppets to fireworks, and deliberately mingling the spheres of commercial entertainment, art, and religion. It also suggests a new form of historiography-media ecology.

List of contents

1. Prologue: 'a most rare vision'; 2. From media history to media ecology; 3. Thaumaturgy: wonder-making; 4. Minds, hands, and heads; 5. Techniques and apparatuses: material traces; 6. Dramatic echoes: the drama of early modern media ecology; 7. Cartographing early modern media ecology and its study; 8. Postscriptum: a history of clouds; Bibliography.

Summary

This Element introduces thaumaturgy, the art of making wonder, encompasses everything from magic lanterns to puppets to fireworks, and deliberately mingling the spheres of commercial entertainment, art, and religion. It also suggests a new form of historiography-media ecology.

Product details

• Authors: Peter W. Marx, Peter W. (University of Cologne) Marx
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2024
• EAN: 9781009298100
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0929810-0
• No. of pages: 142
• Series: Elements in Shakespeare Performance
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, Films, cinema, Theatre Studies, Puppetry, miniature & toy theatre, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean, Puppetry, miniature and toy theatre