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This book explores poetry and pedagogy in practice across the
lifespan. Poetry is directly linked to improved literacy,
creativity, personal development, emotional intelligence, complex
analytical thinking and social interaction: all skills that are
crucial in contemporary educational systems. However, a narrow
focus on STEM subjects at the expense of the humanities has led
educators to deprioritize poetry and to overlook its
interdisciplinary, multi-modal potential. The editors and
contributors argue that poetry is not a luxury, but a way to
stimulate linguistic experiences that are formally rich and
cognitively challenging. To learn through poetry is not just to
access information differently, but also to forge new and different
connections that can serve as reflective tools for lifelong
learning. This interdisciplinary book will be of value to teachers
and students of poetry, as well as scholars interested in literacy
across the disciplines.
This open access book offers a rich and nuanced analysis of
digitally networked socialities as culturally meaningful
relationships of Touch. Focusing on the ways Touch is practised in
everyday social interactions serves as a basis for how Touch is
understood as multiply significant - physically, emotionally,
intellectually and politically. Andreallo initiates a map of the
fundamentals of Touch and how they can be considered for future
research in considering digitally networked cultures. This map also
serves as a basis for closely examining selfies and memes.
Examining social networks of Touch, Andreallo focuses on a specific
example of the PrettyGirlsUglyFaces meme and ugly selfies(uglies).
Through this example, memes and selfies are mapped as Touch
involving textures of both intimacy and violence. Andreallo also
discusses technological seamlessness and cultural semefulness as
conversations of social relationships of Touch, and proposes the
term semeful sociabilities to describe how the everyday
technological self engages in practices of Touch. This book is a
compact, approachable insight into selfies and memes as everyday
culturally networked Touch relationships that also offers a way
forward in recognising technological relationships as culturally
meaningful.
Essential Knowledge for the Aspiring Media Professional provides
readers with the skillset needed to produce professional,
high-quality video content in today's competitive media landscape.
The author draws on over two decades of industry experience to
offer strategies for how to develop a sense of design, adopt a
holistic approach to the media production process, and craft a
distinct idea for a project's intent and form. In five in-depth
chapters, the book delves into topics ranging from pre-production
and planning processes to technical considerations and
post-production methods. It concludes with an overview of career
opportunities for aspiring media-makers. This book is an invaluable
resource for students and professionals alike looking to hone
creative production techniques within a broad range of formats and
environments, particularly those requiring effective marketing and
advertising-oriented content.
Satire & The State focuses on performance-based satire, most
often seen in sketch comedy, from 1960 to the present, and explores
how sketch comedy has shaped the way Americans view the president
and themselves. Numerous sketch comedy portrayals of presidents
that have seeped into the American consciousness - Chevy Chase's
Gerald Ford, Dana Carvey's George H.W. Bush, and Will Ferrell's
George W. Bush all worked to shape the actual politician's public
persona. The book analyzes these sketches and many others,
illustrating how comedy is at the heart of the health and function
of American democracy. At its best, satire aimed at the presidency
can work as a populist check on executive power, becoming one of
the most important weapons for everyday Americans against tyranny
and political corruption. At its worst, satire can reflect and
promote racism, misogyny, and homophobia in America. Written for
students of Theatre, Performance, Political Science, and Media
Studies courses, as well as readers with an interest in political
comedy, Satire & The State offers a deeper understanding of the
relationship between comedy and the presidency, and the ways in
which satire becomes a window into the culture, principles, and
beliefs of a country.
Satire & The State focuses on performance-based satire, most
often seen in sketch comedy, from 1960 to the present, and explores
how sketch comedy has shaped the way Americans view the president
and themselves. Numerous sketch comedy portrayals of presidents
that have seeped into the American consciousness - Chevy Chase's
Gerald Ford, Dana Carvey's George H.W. Bush, and Will Ferrell's
George W. Bush all worked to shape the actual politician's public
persona. The book analyzes these sketches and many others,
illustrating how comedy is at the heart of the health and function
of American democracy. At its best, satire aimed at the presidency
can work as a populist check on executive power, becoming one of
the most important weapons for everyday Americans against tyranny
and political corruption. At its worst, satire can reflect and
promote racism, misogyny, and homophobia in America. Written for
students of Theatre, Performance, Political Science, and Media
Studies courses, as well as readers with an interest in political
comedy, Satire & The State offers a deeper understanding of the
relationship between comedy and the presidency, and the ways in
which satire becomes a window into the culture, principles, and
beliefs of a country.
"The Judson Dance Theatre "explores the work and legacy of one of
the most influential of all dance companies, which first performed
at the Judson Memorial Church in downtown Manhattan in the early
1960s. There, a group of choreographers and dancers--including
future well-known artists Twyla Tharp, Carolee Schneemann, Robert
Morris, Trisha Brown, Yvonne Rainier, and others--created what came
to be known as " postmodern dance." Taking their cues from the
experiments of Merce Cunningham, they took movements from everyday
life--walking, running, gymnastics--to create dances that
influenced not only future dance work but also minimalism in music
and art, as well as the wedding of dance and speech in solo
performance pieces.
Judson's legacy has been explored primarily in the work of dance
critic Sally Banes, in a book published in the 1980s. Although the
dancers from the so-called "Judson School" continue to perform and
create new works--and their influence continues to grow from the US
to Europe and beyond--there has not been a book-length study in the
last two decades that discusses this work in a broader context of
cultural trends. Burt is a highly respected dance critic and
historian who brings a unique new vision to his study of the Judson
dancers and their work which will undoubtedly influence the
discussion of these seminal figures for decades to come
"Performative Traces: Judson" "Dance Theatre and Its Legacy
"combines history, performance analysis, theory, and criticism to
give a fresh view of the work of this seminal group of dancers. It
will appeal to students of dance history, theory, and practice, as
well as all interested in the avant-grade arts and performance
practice in the 20th century.
Reimagining Communication: Mediation explores information and media
technologies across a variety of contemporary platforms, uses,
content variations, audiences, and professional roles. A diverse
body of contributions in this unique interdisciplinary resource
offers perspectives on digital games, social media, photography,
and more. The volume is organized to reflect a pedagogical approach
of carefully laddered and sequenced topics, which supports
experiential, project-based learning in addition to a course's
traditional writing requirements. As the field of Communication
Studies has been continuously growing and reaching new horizons,
this volume synthesizes the complex relationship of communication
to media technologies and its forms in a uniquely accessible and
engaging way. This is an essential introductory text for advanced
undergraduate and graduate students and scholars of communication,
broadcast media, and interactive technologies, with an
interdisciplinary focus and an emphasis on the integration of new
technologies.
Reimagining Communication: Mediation explores information and media
technologies across a variety of contemporary platforms, uses,
content variations, audiences, and professional roles. A diverse
body of contributions in this unique interdisciplinary resource
offers perspectives on digital games, social media, photography,
and more. The volume is organized to reflect a pedagogical approach
of carefully laddered and sequenced topics, which supports
experiential, project-based learning in addition to a course's
traditional writing requirements. As the field of Communication
Studies has been continuously growing and reaching new horizons,
this volume synthesizes the complex relationship of communication
to media technologies and its forms in a uniquely accessible and
engaging way. This is an essential introductory text for advanced
undergraduate and graduate students and scholars of communication,
broadcast media, and interactive technologies, with an
interdisciplinary focus and an emphasis on the integration of new
technologies.
This book provides a comprehensive understanding of the technology
architecture, physical facility changes and - most importantly -
the new media management workflows and business processes to
support the entire lifecycle of the IP broadcast facility from an
engineering and workflow perspective. Fully updated, this second
edition covers the technological evolutions and changes in the
media broadcast industry, including the new standards and
specifications for live IP production, the SMPTE ST2110 suite of
standards, the necessity of protecting against cyber threats and
the expansion of cloud services in opening new possibilities. It
provides users with the necessary information for planning,
organizing, producing and distributing media for the modern
broadcast facility. Key features of this text include: Strategies
to implement a cost-effective live and file-based production and
distribution system. A cohesive, big-picture viewpoint that helps
you identify how to overcome the challenges of upgrading your
plant. The impact live production is having on the evolution to IP.
Case studies serve as recommendations and examples of use. New
considerations in engineering and maintenance of IP and file-based
systems. Those in the fields of TV, cable, IT engineering and
broadcast engineering will find this book an invaluable resource,
as will students learning how to set up modern broadcast facilities
and the workflows of contemporary broadcasting.
Humorality in Early Modern Art, Material Culture, and Performance
seeks to address the representation of the humors from
non-traditional, abstract, and materialist perspectives,
considering the humorality of everyday objects, activities, and
performance within the early modern period. To uncover how
humoralism shapes textual, material, and aesthetic encounters for
contemporary subjects in a broader sense than previous studies have
pursued, the project brings together three principal areas of
investigation: how the humoral body was evoked and embodied within
the space of the early modern stage; how the materiality of an
object can be understood as constructed within humoral discourse;
and how individuals' activities and pursuits can connote specific
practices informed by humoralism. Across the book, contributors
explore how diverse media and cultural practices are informed by
humoralism. As a whole, the collection investigates alternative
humoralities in order to illuminate both early modern works of art
as well as the cultural moments of their production.
A varied collection of 30 contemporary duologues from Mark
Wheeller's plays. Compiled at a time when social distancing is a
consideration, these duologues all lend themselves to Zoom/Social
Distance friendly performances. It includes duologues from: Too
Much Punch For Judy Hard To Swallow Missing Dan Nolan I Love You,
Mum - I Promise I Won't Die Game Over ... and many more of Mark's
plays... and musicals. It also includes a previously unpublished
self-contained short Sibling Saviours. All these duologues are
suitable for young people to use for classroom or audition use.
Despite many being ostensibly for adult performers they are all
tried and tested for young people to use with amazing results.
There has never before been a collection of exclusively Mark
Wheeller duologues.
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A Times, Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph,
Daily Mail, Radio Times, Daily Herald and FT Book of the Year 'I
was born with a warped sense of humour and when I was carried home
from being born it was Coronation Day and so I was called Victoria
but you are not supposed to know who wrote this anyway it is about
time I unleashed my pent-up emotions in a bitter comment on the
state of our society but it's not quite me so I think I shall write
a heart-warming story with laughter behind the tears and tears
behind the laughter which means hysterics to you Philistines...'
From 'Pardon?' by Vicky Wood, Aged 14. Bury Grammar School (Girls)
Magazine, 1967 In her passport Victoria Wood listed her occupation
as 'entertainer' - and in stand-up and sketches, songs and sitcom,
musicals and dramas, she became the greatest entertainer of the
age. Those things that might have held her back - her lonely
childhood, her crippling shyness and above all the disadvantage of
being a woman in a male-run industry - she turned to her advantage
to make extraordinary comedy about ordinary people living ordinary
lives in ordinary bodies. She wasn't fond of the term, but Victoria
Wood truly was a national treasure - and her loss is still keenly
felt. Victoria had plenty of stories still to tell when she died in
2016, and one of those was her own autobiography. 'I will do it one
day,' she told the author and journalist Jasper Rees. 'It would be
about my childhood, about my first few years in showbusiness, which
were really interesting and would make a really nice story.' That
sadly never came to pass, so Victoria's estate has asked Jasper
Rees, who interviewed her more than anyone else, to tell her
extraordinary story in full. He has been granted complete and
exclusive access to Victoria's rich archive of personal and
professional material, and has conducted over 200 interviews with
her family, friends and colleagues - among them Victoria's
children, her sisters, her ex-husband Geoffrey Durham, Julie
Walters, Celia Imrie, Dawn French, Anne Reid, Imelda Staunton and
many more. What emerges is a portrait of a true pioneer who spoke
to her audience like no one before or since.
In his third book on the semiotics of title sequences, Title
Sequences as Paratexts, theorist Michael Betancourt offers an
analysis of the relationship between the title sequence and its
primary text-the narrative whose production the titles credit.
Using a wealth of examples drawn from across film history-ranging
from White Zombie (1931), Citizen Kane (1940) and Bullitt (1968) to
Prince of Darkness (1987), Mission: Impossible (1996), Sucker Punch
(2011) and Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2 (2017)-Betancourt
develops an understanding of how the audience interprets title
sequences as instances of paranarrative, simultaneously engaging
them as both narrative exposition and as credits for the
production. This theory of cinematic paratexts, while focused on
the title sequence, has application to trailers, commercials, and
other media as well.
This volume, a collection with contributions from some of the major
scholars of the Gothic in literature and culture, reflects on how
recent Gothic studies have foregrounded a plethora of technologies
associated with Gothic literary and cultural production. The
engaging essays look into the links between technologies and the
proliferation of the Gothic seen in an excess of Gothic texts and
tropes: Frankensteinesque experiments, the manufacture of synthetic
(true?) blood, Moreauesque hybrids, the power of the Borg, Dr
Jekyll's chemical experimentations, the machinery of Steampunk, or
the corporeal modifications of Edward Scissorhands. Further, they
explore how techno-science has contributed to the proliferation of
the Gothic: Gothic in social media, digital technologies, the
on-line gaming and virtual Goth/ic communities, the special effects
of Gothic-horror cinema. Contributors address how Gothic
technologies have, in a general sense, produced and perpetuated
ideologies and influenced the politics of cultural practice, asking
significant questions: How has the technology of the Gothic
contributed to the writing of self and other? How have Gothic
technologies been gendered, sexualized, encrypted, coded or
de-coded? How has the Gothic manifested itself in new technologies
across diverse geographical locations? This volume explores how
Gothic technologies textualize identities and construct communities
within a complex network of power relations in local, national,
transnational, and global contexts. It will be of interest to
scholars of the literary Gothic, extending beyond to include
fascinating interventions into the areas of cultural studies,
popular culture, science fiction, film, and TV.
As individuals incorporate new forms of media into their daily
routines, these media transform individuals' engagement with
networks of heterogeneous actors. Using the concept of media
practices, this volume looks at processes of social and political
transformation in diverse regions of the world to argue that media
change and social change converge on a redefinition of the
relations of individuals to larger collective bodies. To this end,
contributors examine new collective actors emerging in the public
arena through digital media or established actors adjusting to a
diversified communication environment. The book offers an important
contribution to a vibrant, transdisciplinary, and international
field of research emerging at the intersections of communication,
performance and social movement studies.
These updated editions of classic plays feature new cover art along
with the complete text of each work, full explanatory notes,
scene-by-scene plot summaries, a key to famous lines and phrases,
and illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library's vast
holdings of rare books. Reissue. (Plays/Drama)
The shift from traditional documentary to "factual entertainment"
television has been the subject of much debate and criticism,
particularly with regard to the representation of science. New
types of factual programming that combine documentary techniques
with those of entertainment formats (such as drama, game-shows and
reality TV) have come in for strident criticism. Often featuring
spectacular visual effects produced by Computer Generated Imagery
these programmes blur the boundaries between mainstream science and
popular beliefs. Through close analysis of programmes across a
range of sciences, this book explores these issues to see if
criticisms of such hybrid programmes as representing the "rotting
carcass of science TV" really are valid. Campbell considers if in
fact; when considered in relation to the principles, practices and
communication strategies of different sciences; these shows can be
seen to offer more complex and rich representations that construct
sciences as objects of wonder, awe and the sublime.
Stunts of Late Nineteenth- Century New York: Aestheticised
Precarity, Endangered Liveness examines the emergence of stunts in
the media, politics, sport and art of New York at the turn of the
twentieth century. This book investigates stunts in sport, media
and politics, demonstrating how these risky performances tapped
into anxieties and fantasies concerning work, freedom, gendered/
raced/ classed bodies and the commodifi cation of human life. Its
case studies examine bridge jumping, extreme walking contests,
stunt journalists such as Nellie Bly, and cycling feats including
Annie Londonderry's round- the- world venture. Supported by
extensive archival research and Performance Studies theorisations
of precarity, liveness and surrogation, Smith theorises an under-
examined form which is still prevalent in art, politics and
commerce, to show what stunts reveal about value, risk and human
life. Suitable for scholars and practitioners across a range of
subjects, from Performance Studies to gender studies, to media
studies, Stunts of Late Nineteenth- Century New York explores how
stunts turned everyday precarity into a spectacle.
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