Encyclopedia of Stage Lighting

by Jody Briggs

Overview

This encyclopedia contains more than 1500 detailed entries covering such topics as equipment, methods, concepts, design process, electricity, characteristics of light, and lightboard operations.

Where applicable, entries present both the historical and current significance of the apparatus or concept being described. Entries are extensively cross-referenced, and many include line drawings and samples of lighting paperwork.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780786440436
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date:	11/06/2008
Pages:	340
Product dimensions:	6.90(w) x 9.90(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Jody Briggs is a freelance lighting designer living in Seattle, Washington. He has been the lighting designer for the Taproot Theatre Company for many years and has also written several lighting-related computer programs.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Foreword     

Preface     

The Encyclopedia     

Bibliography     

Editorial Reviews

valuable...this book often goes beyond most encyclopedias...recommended”—Choice; “ideal for students, teachers, lighting technicians and designers as well as other workers in the theater who wish to know about stage lighting”—ARBA.

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"ideal for students, teachers, lighting technicians and designers as well as other workers in the theater who wish to know about stage lighting"

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valuable...this book often goes beyond most encyclopedias...recommended

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