Metropolis, Gotham City, Mega-City One, Panem's Capitol, the Sprawl, Caprica City-American (and Americanized) urban environments have always been a part of the fantastic imagination. Fantastic Cities: American Urban Spaces in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror focuses on the American city as a fantastic geography constrained neither by media nor rigid genre boundaries. Fantastic Cities builds on a mix of theoretical and methodological tools that are drawn from criticism of the fantastic, media studies, cultural studies, American studies, and urban studies. Contributors explore cultural media across many platforms such as Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight Trilogy, the Arkham Asylum video games, the 1935 movie serial The Phantom Empire, Kim Stanley Robinson's fiction, Colson Whitehead's novel Zone One, the vampire films Only Lovers Left Alive and A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Paolo Bacigalupi's novel The Water Knife, some of Kenny Scharf's videos, and Samuel Delany's classic Dhalgren. Together, the contributions in Fantastic Cities demonstrate that the fantastic is able to "real-ize" that which is normally confined to the abstract, metaphorical, and/or subjective. Consequently, both utopian aspirations for and dystopian anxieties about the American city become literalized in the fantastic city. Contributions by Carl Abbott, Jacob Babb, Marleen S. Barr, Michael Fuchs, John Glover, Stephen Joyce, Sarah Lahm, James McAdams, Cynthia J. Miller, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Chris Pak, Maria Isabel Perez Ramos, Stefan Rabitsch, J. Jesse Ramirez, A. Bowdoin Van Riper, Andrew Wasserman, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, and Robert Yeates.

With the 21st century audience in mind, the scholarship in this book focuses on how Johann Sebastian Bach used his compositional creativity to interpret the message of the Johannine passion narrative from a Lutheran perspective. The book begins by introducing St. John Passion in terms of its ongoing importance and relevance by providing a brief historical context as well as exploring its enduring legacy. It provides an update on important points of biblical and theological scholarship for the libretto itself. The book then focuses on the performance history of the work, featuring fresh translations of the libretto along with musical and theological commentary for each of the forty movements and highlighting Bach’s compositional creativity. The book also deals with important questions regarding the Gospel of John, Martin Luther’s theology, and questions about anti-Judaism and antisemitism in the libretto.

Elvis Presley. Marilyn Monroe. LeBron James. They're all American, of course, but like many cultural figures who hail from the United States, they have names and faces known the world over. "ConFiguring America" brings together a series of incisive essays that analyze a wide range of such figures: those who embody America's tendency to produce celebrities and iconic personalities with global reach. Drawing on theoretical insights from a variety of fields--including cultural iconography, visual culture, star studies, and history--a diverse group of international contributors sheds light on how these figures and their media representations construct America's image beyond its borders. An important addition to an expanding field, "ConFiguring America" will deepen readers' understanding of celebrity, iconography, and their worldwide implications.

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com While all media are part of intermedial networks, video games are often at the nexus of that network. They not only employ cinematics, embedded books, and in-world television screens for various purposes, but, in our convergence culture, video games also play a vital role in allowing players to explore transmedia storyworlds. At the same time, video games are frequently thematized and remediated in film, television, and literature. Indeed, the central role video games assume in intermedial networks provides testament to their significance in the contemporary media environment. In this volume, an international group of contributors discuss not only intermedial phenomena in video games, but also the intermedial networks surrounding them. Intermedia Games-Games Inter Media will deepen readers' understanding of the convergence culture of the early twenty-first century and video games' role in it.

In "Call Me Ishmael," Charles Olson exclaimed "SPACE to be the central fact to man born in America." Indeed, from the start, history and identity in America have been intricately tied to issues of space: from the idea of the "city upon a hill" to the transnational (soft) power of the United States, space has always served as an important parameter of power gained or lost and of the struggles to maintain or resist it. With contributions that range from the construction of America in (European) academic discourses to children's fiction, this collection provides an extensive and insightful study of how space influences our understanding of America.

Fiction and the Sixth Mass Extinction is one of the first works to focus specifically on fiction's engagements with human driven extinction. Drawing together a diverse group of scholars and approaches, this volume pairs established voices in the field with emerging scholars and traditionally recognized cli-fi with texts and media typically not associated with Anthropocene fictions. The result is a volume that both engages with and furthers existing work on Anthropocene fiction as well as laying groundwork for the budding subfield of extinction fiction. This volume takes up the collective insistence on the centrality of story to extinction studies. In various and disparate ways, each chapter engages with the stories we tell about extinction, about the extinction of animal and plant life, and about the extinction of human life itself. Answering the call to action of extinction studies, these chapters explore what kinds of humanity caused this event and what kinds may live through it; what cultural assumptions and values led to this event and which ones could lead out of it; what relationships between human life and this planet allowed the sixth mass extinction and what alternative relationships could be possible.

Marktbedingungen und technologische Entwicklungen machen bei mehrstufiger Linienfertigung eine detaillierte Planung und Steuerung der Produktionsprozesse erforderlich, die eine rechtzeitige Erkennung und planerische Bewaltigung von Kapazitats- und Materialengpassen voraussetzt. Konventionelle Planungsverfahren erfullen diese Anforderungen nicht. Deshalb wurde ein Verfahren zur engpassorientierten Planung und Steuerung der Ressourcen bei mittelfristiger simultaner Mengen- und Terminplanung entwickelt. Der Verfahrensablauf enthalt dazu spezielle Aktionsparameter, die eine bestandsbezogene planerische Engpassbewaltigung ermoglichen. Dieses Planungsverfahren mit integrierter Engpasserkennung und -bewaltigung ist bereichsubergreifend sowohl in der Montage als auch in der Teilfertigung einsetzbar. Es hat seine Praxistauglichkeit in einem Produktionsbereich eines Unternehmens des Fahrzeugbaus bewiesen.

Metropolis, Gotham City, Mega-City One, Panem's Capitol, the Sprawl, Caprica City-American (and Americanized) urban environments have always been a part of the fantastic imagination. Fantastic Cities: American Urban Spaces in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror focuses on the American city as a fantastic geography constrained neither by media nor rigid genre boundaries. Fantastic Cities builds on a mix of theoretical and methodological tools that are drawn from criticism of the fantastic, media studies, cultural studies, American studies, and urban studies. Contributors explore cultural media across many platforms such as Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight Trilogy, the Arkham Asylum video games, the 1935 movie serial The Phantom Empire, Kim Stanley Robinson's fiction, Colson Whitehead's novel Zone One, the vampire films Only Lovers Left Alive and A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Paolo Bacigalupi's novel The Water Knife, some of Kenny Scharf's videos, and Samuel Delany's classic Dhalgren. Together, the contributions in Fantastic Cities demonstrate that the fantastic is able to "real-ize" that which is normally confined to the abstract, metaphorical, and/or subjective. Consequently, both utopian aspirations for and dystopian anxieties about the American city become literalized in the fantastic city. Contributions by Carl Abbott, Jacob Babb, Marleen S. Barr, Michael Fuchs, John Glover, Stephen Joyce, Sarah Lahm, James McAdams, Cynthia J. Miller, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Chris Pak, Maria Isabel Perez Ramos, Stefan Rabitsch, J. Jesse Ramirez, A. Bowdoin Van Riper, Andrew Wasserman, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, and Robert Yeates.

Keniff and Keiff are sent down from Heaven to give any help they can to a suffering little girl. The little girl shows the angels what friendship and sacrifice are all about.

In his poetry, Michael Fuchs, puts in rhythmic language his vision of the world and the cosmos forward. Often embedded in autobiographic observations, political, economical and sociological themes are treated with the passionate mind and heart of the artist. As in his paintings Michael Fuchs remains true to the classical forms of the medium, beauty for him is always the bearer of all tidings his poetry conveys.

The Simpson family has been a frequent visitor to millions of households around the globe for two decades and the TV show centering on the yellow family is arguably the most successful TV series of all time. But THE SIMPSONS is not only economically successful, it is also intelligent. Recent publications have investigated the show's philosophical and psychological implications and have thereby proven that the show is more than an 'ordinary' animated cartoon. The show has perfected the postmodernist aesthetic, an aesthetic that is characterized by meta-referentiality and intertextuality. The incessant references to TV shows and movies past and present may lead some academics to claim that THE SIMPSONS is the kind of fiction that only springs from and leads to fiction, but John Barth already noted some twenty years ago that "all fiction about fiction is in fact fiction about life." Following this line of thought, THE SIMPSONS has to say a lot about the society that makes the show successful. The book at hand discusses the TV show THE SIMPSONS from two related perspectives: its relation to postmodernism and its relation to the postmodern American society.

Fiction and the Sixth Mass Extinction is one of the first works to focus specifically on fiction's engagements with human driven extinction. Drawing together a diverse group of scholars and approaches, this volume pairs established voices in the field with emerging scholars and traditionally recognized climate fiction ('cli-fi') with texts and media typically not associated with Anthropocene fictions. The result is a volume that both engages with and furthers existing work on Anthropocene fiction as well as laying groundwork for the budding subfield of extinction fiction. This volume takes up the collective insistence on the centrality of story to extinction studies. In various and disparate ways, each chapter engages with the stories we tell about extinction, about the extinction of animal and plant life, and about the extinction of human life itself. Answering the call to action of extinction studies, these chapters explore what kinds of humanity caused this event and what kinds may live through it; what cultural assumptions and values led to this event and which ones could lead out of it; what relationships between human life and this planet allowed the sixth mass extinction and what alternative relationships could be possible.

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com While all media are part of intermedial networks, video games are often at the nexus of that network. They not only employ cinematics, embedded books, and in-world television screens for various purposes, but, in our convergence culture, video games also play a vital role in allowing players to explore transmedia storyworlds. At the same time, video games are frequently thematized and remediated in film, television, and literature. Indeed, the central role video games assume in intermedial networks provides testament to their significance in the contemporary media environment. In this volume, an international group of contributors discuss not only intermedial phenomena in video games, but also the intermedial networks surrounding them. Intermedia Games-Games Inter Media will deepen readers' understanding of the convergence culture of the early twenty-first century and video games' role in it.

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English summary: Anyone who works with children and adolescents knows some who are special. Yet who defines what is special, different or striking? Are there messages for the psychological parents hidden in behavioral problems? How can singing and vocal therapy with children and adolescents help integrate people or even include them in a community? What are the pedagogical differences between these two processes? This study doesn't only focus on children and adolescents with disabilities and individual peculiarities. It also highlights different socio-cultural and religious backgrounds as well as different musical styles and their relation to singing. Experts from the fields of medicine, music pedagogy, education studies and psychology wrote the easily accessible chapters. This volume also features a DVD with the main lecture by Maria Aarts Die Lust auf die Wahrnehmung des Anderen (the desire for the perception of others) as well as the summary of a panel discussion on talent shows with children and adolescents. German description: Jeder, der mit Kindern und Jugendlichen arbeitet, kennt auch solche, die besonders sind. Wer definiert eigentlich, was das Besondere, das Andere, das Auffallige ist? Stecken hinter auffalligem Verhalten Botschaften an die Bezugspersonen? Wie konnen Singen und therapeutische Arbeit an der Stimme mit Kindern und Jugendlichen helfen, Menschen zu integrieren oder sie sogar in einer Gemeinschaft zu inkludieren? Was sind die padagogischen Unterschiede zwischen diesen beiden Prozessen? Dabei geht es nicht nur um Kinder und Jugendliche mit Behinderungen und Besonderheiten. Auch unterschiedliche soziokulturelle und religiose Hintergrunde sowie unterschiedliche Musikstile und ihre Beziehungen zum Singen werden beleuchtet. Die allgemein verstandlich verfassten Kapitel stammen von ausgewiesenen Spezialisten aus den Bereichen Medizin, Musikpadagogik, Erziehungswissenschaft und Psychologie. Zudem finden sich in diesem Band eine DVD mit dem Hauptvortrag von Maria Aarts: "Die Lust auf die Wahrnehmung des Anderen" sowie die Zusammenfassung einer Podiumsdiskussion zu Casting-Shows mit Kindern und Jugendlichen.