L'outre-humain

Automates, performances mécaniques et cultures spectaculaires
First Edition

Edited by Mireille Berton, Stéphane Tralongo

Discover how automata transformed the performing arts and redefined modernity at the turn of the 20th century. Understand the fascination and the uncanny of automata in the media and performing arts. Read More

Enter a world both fascinating and disturbing, that of the automata, androids, mechanical dolls and other living mannequins that populated the imagination at the beginning of the 20th century. Edited by Mireille Berton and Stéphane Tralongo, this book explores how spectacular cultures absorbed and reinvented the automaton, an emblematic figure of techno-scientific modernity. From opera to magic theater and early cinema, discover how these mechanical beings inhabited the stages and captivated the audiences of their time, already testing the hypothesis of a beyond of the human. At the crossroads of literary, theatrical, film and media studies, this book offers a historical, multidisciplinary and intermedial perspective on the relationship between humans and machines, as well as on the tensions it has generated.

Paperback - In French 25.00 €

Buy

PDF (PDF) - In French 18.00 € DRM - None

Buy

Multi-item Pack (Paperback+PDF) - In French 28.00 €

Buy

Specifications

Publisher: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion
Edited by: Mireille Berton, Stéphane Tralongo,
Collection: Arts du spectacle - Images et sons
ISSN: 19554893
Language: French
Tags: android, automaton, cinema, cultural history, early cinema, intermediality, machine, magic, media archaeology, modernity, opéra, performativity, performing arts, puppet, robot, show, spectacular culture, technology, theatre, XIXth century, XXth century
Publisher Category: Bibliothèques > Bibliothèque Arts, Patrimoines et Cultures matérielles
BISAC Subject Heading: PER000000 PERFORMING ARTS > PER004000 PERFORMING ARTS / Film
Dewey (abridged): 790 Recreational & performing arts
Onix Audience Codes: 06 Professional and scholarly
CLIL (Version 2013-2019): 3667 ARTS ET BEAUX LIVRES > 3686 Arts du spectacle
Title First Published: 24 April 2025

Paperback

Publication Date: 24 April 2025
ISBN-13: 978-2-7574-4367-5
Extent: Main content page count : 308
Code: 2340
Dimensions: 16 x 24 x 1.6 cm
Weight: 558 grams
List Price: 25.00 €
ONIX XML: Version 2.1, Version 3

PDF

Publication Date: 24 April 2025
ISBN-13: 978-2-7574-4377-4
Illustrations: 67 illustrations, color/ 20 illustrations, black & white
Extent: Main content page count : 308
Code: 2340P
Technical Protection ebook: None
List Price: 18.00 €
ONIX XML: Version 2.1, Version 3

Multi-item Pack


Product Content: Outre-humain (Paperback) 9782757443675
Outre-humain (PDF) 9782757443774
Product Detail: 2
Publication Date: 24 April 2025
ISBN-13: 978-2-7574-4387-3
Extent: Main content page count : 308
Code: 2340L
Dimensions: 16 x 24 x 1.6 cm
Weight: 558 grams
ONIX XML: Version 2.1, Version 3

Google Book Preview

Contents

Introduction
Dispositifs et performativités de l'automate
Mirelle Berton et Stéphane Tralongo

Imaginaires scientifiques et cultrels de l'automate

Automate et automatisme à la croisée du théâtre naturolo-symboliste et des sciences du psychisme fin-de-siècle
Mireille Losco-Lena

Du spectacle de magnétisme au cinématographe : hypnose appareillée et fabriques de corps automatiques
Mireille Berton

Performativité des théâtres mécaniques
Enchantements et maléfices du théâtre mécanique
Patrick Désile

Le théâtre mécanique : un chapitre manquant de l'histoire des médias
Erkki Huhtamo

L’apothéose des attractions mécaniques et le Théâtre des Bonshommes Guillaume
Giusy Pisano

Agentivité magique des automates
Invocation de la vie : les automates de magie
Katharina Rein

À propos d’emblématiques reliques de l’art magique : la disparition des automates de Robert-Houdin
Marie-Sophie Corcy et Jacques Malthête

Sur le seuil du cinéma. Automates, machines à sous et dispositifs de vision ..............177
Stéphane Tralongo

Devenirs optiques de l’automate
Escamoteurs mécaniques : les automates et le mythe du cinéma total .................... 199
Matthew Solomon

Du cinématographe comme automate (1896-1915) ..................................................... 219
Jean-Pierre Sirois-Trahan

Le modèle de l’automate entre danse et premier cinéma ........................................... 239
Laurent Guido

Épilogue
Présentation ......................................................................................................................... 263
Mireille Berton et Stéphane Tralongo

Mécanomates d’un amateur .............................................................................................265
Daniel Bilous

Bibliographie générale
Biographies des autrices et des auteurs

Remerciements
Mireille Berton et Stéphane Tralongo

You don't want to miss our latest titles?

Subscribe to our newsletter!