Theater design. History of theatrical lighting / Alexander Street, a ProQuest company.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Smith, Jaymi Lee, speaker.

Alexander Street (Firm), production company.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stage lighting--History.

Stage lighting.

Genre:

Lectures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (54 minutes)

Other Title:

History of theatrical lighting

Place of Publication:

Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street, 2017.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

Professor of Lighting Design at the University of California Irvine, Jamyi Lee Smith, explores the history of theatrical lighting, tracing the development of lighting technology from the Greek and Roman eras through the era of electricity. Smith discusses the use of natural light, candles, chandeliers, and gas lighting to explicate not only the advances that lighting technology has seen, but to showcase how lighting design has been instrumental to the actor's performances, the scripting of plays, and the development of theatre.

Contents:

Greek and Roman eras

Medieval and liturgical era

Renaissance and Elizabethan eras

Restoration era

Era of gas

Era of electricity

Designers of the era

History of electrical control.

Participant:

Jaymi Lee Smith, speaker.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed October 20, 2017).

OCLC:

1009118716