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Title: The Speed of Light : Dialogues on Lighting Design and Technological Change by Linda Essig ISBN: 0-325-00508-7 Publisher: Heinemann Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A must for theatre professionals and students
Comment: The Speed of Light by Linda Essig is an important and interesting book covering the history of lighting design and techological changes in the industry. Lighting professionals and students will enjoy the dialogues from industry experts and others. If you are truely interested in the history of theatrical stage lighting buy this book!
Rating: 2
Summary: The Speed of this book's pace is sluggish
Comment: While the subtitle promises "Dialogues on Lighting Desgin and Technological Change", you are instead presented with a bunch of old farts of the industry that remenince about "the old days of lighting". There are four sections. The first boringly details how the first computerized light consoles became popular. This might be an intresting to read if it were a page or so, but it IS 30 PAGES long with 5 different people talking about how various boards came about and why they failed. The next section is about the creation of vari-lites and "intelligent lighting". Once agian, nothing intresting or new. We are then presented with the birth of (gasp) DMX512! I learned so much about the history of dmx512 that I could ever care about. You learn such exciting things such as how at the USITT convention they bickered over which protocol to use. There is also another section, but by this time I had given up on the book and know that it just talks about lighting designers complaining about there students wanting to use intelligent lights in every show and how gobo's today are not what they used to be. To sum up, you could scroll through usenet discussions from rec.arts.theatre.stagecraft for 5 hours and get the same effect achieved from the speed of light. This book is one of the most boring books on theatrical lighting I have ever read...
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Title: The Business of Theatrical Design by James L. Moody ISBN: 1581152485 Publisher: Allworth Press Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Photometrics Handbook by Robert C. Mumm ISBN: 0911747370 Publisher: Broadway Press Pub. Date: 15 October, 1997 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Lighting and the Design Idea by Linda Essig ISBN: 0155020692 Publisher: International Thomson Publishing Pub. Date: August, 1996 List Price(USD): $36.99 |
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Title: From Page to Stage : How Theatre Designers Make Connections Between Scripts and Images by Rosemary Ingham ISBN: 0435070428 Publisher: Heinemann Publishing Pub. Date: 19 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Stage Lighting Design: The Art, the Craft, the Life by Richard Pilbrow, Harold Prince ISBN: 0896762351 Publisher: By Design Pr Pub. Date: 30 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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