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Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts
What is Dance? What is Theatre? What is the boundary between
enacting a character and narrating a story? When does movement
become tinted with meaning? And when does beauty shine alone as if
with no object? These universal aesthetic questions find a
theoretically vibrant and historically informed set of replies in
the oeuvre of the eleventh-century Kashmirian author Abhinavagupta.
The present book offers the first critical edition, translation,
and study of a crucial and lesser known passage of his commentary
on the Natyasastra, the seminal work of Sanskrit dramaturgy. The
nature of dramatic acting and the mimetic power of dance, emotions,
and beauty all play a role in Abhinavagupta's thorough
investigation of performance aesthetics, now presented to the
modern reader.
Coraline (Henry Selick, 2009) is stop-motion studio LAIKA's
feature-length debut based on the popular children's novel by
British author Neil Gaiman. Heralding a revival in global interest
in stop-motion animation, the film is both an international
cultural phenomenon and a breakthrough moment in the technological
evolution of the craft. This open access collection brings together
an international group of practitioners and scholars to examine
Coraline's place in animation history and culture, dissect its
politics, and unpack its role in the technological and aesthetic
development of its medium. More broadly, it celebrates stop motion
as a unique and enduring artform while embracing its capacity to
evolve in response to cultural, political, and technological
changes, as well as shifting critical and audience demands. Divided
into three sections, this volume's chapters situate Coraline within
an interconnected network of historical, industrial, discursive,
theoretical, and cultural contexts. They place the film in
conversation with the medium's aesthetic and technological history,
broader global intellectual and political traditions, and questions
of animation reception and spectatorship. In doing so, they invite
recognition - and appreciation - of the fact that Coraline occupies
many liminal spaces at once. It straddles the boundary between
children's entertainment and traditional 'adult' genres, such as
horror and thriller. It complicates a seemingly straight(forward)
depiction of normative family life with gestures of queer
resistance. Finally, it marks a pivotal point in stop-motion
animation's digital turn. Following the film's recent tenth
anniversary, the time is right to revisit its production history,
evaluate its cultural and industry impact, and celebrate its legacy
as contemporary stop-motion cinema's gifted child. As the first
book-length academic study of this contemporary animation classic,
this volume serves as an authoritative introduction and a primary
reference on the film for scholars, students, practitioners, and
animation fans. The ebook editions of this book are available open
access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on
bloomsburycollections.com.
Our Blessed Rebel Queen: Essays on Carrie Fisher and Princess Leia
is the first full-length exploration of Carrie Fisher's career as
actress, writer, and advocate. Fisher's entangled relationship with
the iconic Princess Leia is a focal point of this volume. Editors
Linda Mizejewski and Tanya D. Zuk have assembled a collection that
engages with the multiple interfaces between Fisher's most famous
character and her other life-giving work. The contributors offer
insights into Fisher as science-fiction idol, author, feminist
inspiration, and Lucasfilm commodity. Jennifer M. Fogel examines
the thorny ""ownership"" of Fisher's image as a conflation of fan
nostalgia, merchandise commodity, and eventually, feminist icon.
Philipp Dominik Keidl looks at how Carrie Fisher and her iconic
character are positioned within the male-centric history of Star
Wars. Andrew Kemp-Wilcox researches the 2016 controversy over a
virtual Princess Leia that emerged after Carrie Fisher's death.
Tanya D. Zuk investigates the use of Princess Leia and Carrie
images during the Women's March as memetic reconfigurations of
historical propaganda to leverage political and fannish ideological
positions. Linda Mizejewski explores Carrie Fisher's
autobiographical writing, while Ken Feil takes a look at Fisher's
playful blurring of truth and fiction in her screenplays. Kristen
Anderson Wagner identifies Fisher's use of humor and anger to
challenge public expectations for older actresses. Cynthia Hoffner
and Sejung Park highlight Fisher's mental health advocacy, and
Slade Kinnecott personalizes how Fisher's candidness and guidance
about mental health were especially cherished by those who lacked a
support system in their own lives. Our Blessed Rebel Queen is
distinct in its interdisciplinary approach, drawing from a variety
of methodologies and theoretical frameworks. Longtime fans of
Carrie Fisher and her body of work will welcome this smart and
thoughtful tribute to a multimedia legend.
In the 1970s, '80s and '90s Britain witnessed what many in the
business saw as the second great age of radio. It was a period when
FM radio blossomed and local stations opened and broadcast across
the land. It was a step away from the output of the national
broadcaster, the BBC, which had held a monopoly on the airways
since its inception. Broadcaster, station manager and regulator for
over forty years David Lloyd was very much a part of this
revolution and is, amongst his peers, well placed to tell that
story. Lloyd describes the period as one of innovation, his aim to
create a timeline of radio of this era through to the present day,
to capture those heady days, the characters, the fun and heartache,
life on the air, life off the air. And to revisit those station
launches, company consolidations, the successes and the failures.
Told with the insight of an insider, with his characteristic wit
and a huge dollop of nostalgia, David Lloyd brings to life a unique
age in broadcasting in this fascinating account.
Casuistry and Early Modern Spanish Literature examines a neglected
yet crucial field: the importance of casuistical thought and
discourse in the development of literary genres in early modern
Spain. Faced with the momentous changes wrought by discovery,
empire, religious schism, expanding print culture, consolidation of
legal codes and social transformation, writers sought innovation
within existing forms (the novella, the byzantine romance,
theatrical drama) and created novel genres (most notably, the
picaresque). These essays show how casuistry, with its questioning
of example and precept, and meticulous concern with conscience and
the particularities of circumstance, is instrumental in cultivating
the subjectivity, rhetorical virtuosity and spirit of inquiry that
we have come to associate with the modern novel.
Contributions by Zoe Bursztajn-Illingworth, Marc DiPaolo, Emine
Akkulah Do?fan, Caroline Eades, Noelle Hedgcock, Tina Olsin Lent,
Rashmila Maiti, Jack Ryan, Larry T. Shillock, Richard Vela, and
Geoffrey Wilson In Next Generation Adaptation: Spectatorship and
Process, editor Allen H. Redmon brings together eleven essays from
a range of voices in adaptation studies. This anthology explores
the political and ethical contexts of specific adaptations and, by
extension, the act of adaptation itself. Grounded in questions of
gender, genre, and race, these investigations focus on the ways
attention to these categories renegotiates the rules of power,
privilege, and principle that shape the contexts that seemingly
produce and reproduce them. Contributors to the volume examine such
adaptations as Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof, Jacques Tourneur's
Out of the Past, Taylor Sheridan's Sicario and Sicario: Day of the
Soldado, Jean-Jacques Annaud's Wolf Totem, Spike Lee's He's Got
Game, and Jim Jarmusch's Paterson. Each chapter considers the
expansive dialogue adaptations accelerate when they realize their
capacity to bring together two or more texts, two or more peoples,
two or more ideologies without allowing one expression to erase
another. Building on the growing trends in adaptation studies,
these essays explore the ways filmic texts experienced as
adaptations highlight ethical or political concerns and argue that
spectators are empowered to explore implications being raised by
the adaptations.
Blacks in the Arts: Music, Art, and Theater - Selective Readings is
designed to provide students with general knowledge and a greater
understanding of the contributions of African American artists and
the interrelationship of their achievements with the world of art
and culture. The anthology begins with readings that discuss
slavery as a contextual basis for the development of Black art
throughout time; the Negro spiritual as the first truly American
art form; Blacks and classical music; and the history of gospel
music. Additional selections examine colorism and Black racial
pride, the Harlem Renaissance, the Chicago Renaissance, and the
history and evolution of the blues. Closing units cover the origins
of jazz music and the evolution and development of Blacks in the
theater. Throughout, editor introductions for each reading provide
students with invaluable context and insight into key topics and
concepts. Blacks in the Arts is an enlightening and engaging
resource for courses in the fine arts, the history of the arts, and
Black studies.
During a remarkable lifetime, Andrew Sinclair has bridged the
worlds of university and literature, art and cinema. A child of the
Second World War, he has known many of the leading figures of the
past seventy years - ranging from William Golding to Ted Hughes,
Harold Pinter to Francis Bacon, Robert Lowell to Graham Greene, as
well as publishing such classic screenplays as 'The Blue Angel',
'The Third Man' and 'Stagecoach'. He also directed a number of
films including Dylan Thomas's 'Under Milk Wood' starring Richard
Burton, Elizabeth Taylor and Peter O'Toole. This unique
`anti-memoires' of episodes and encounters captures new insights
into many of the leading creative talents and stars of their times.
In his own adventures, Andrew became involved in the revolt against
the Suez invasion and overground nuclear tests, the Cuban
revolution led by Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, the 1968 global
student uprisings and finally in the worldwide digital revolution
in education and the arts. Now in his ninth decade, this author of
some 40 books, including the much-lauded The Breaking of Bumbo and
Gog, Andrew Sinclair in the tradition of John Aubrey's Brief Lives
looks back on a rich life and fond memories of the people he has
studied and known.
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