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Passionate amateurs - theatre, communism and love
Beginning with Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, Passionate Amateurs tells a new story about modern theater: the story of a romantic attachment to theater’s potential to produce surprising experiences of human community. Ridout argues that theater in modern capitalism can help us think afresh about notions of work, time, and freedom. Passionate Amateurs tells a new story about modern theater: the stor…
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- 9780472029594
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- 216 p.; 22 cm
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- 792 RID p
Mapping the pāśupata landscape : narrative, place, and the saiva imaginary …
In Mapping the Pāśupata Landscape Elizabeth A. Cecil presents a spatial and material history of the Pāśupata tradition and examines the formation of a Śaiva religious landscape in Early Medieval India. Readership: All interested in the history of Hinduism, and particularly the worship of the god Śiva, in premodern India; scholars of early medieval history and society in South Asia, and th…
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- 9789004424425
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- XIII, 271 p.
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- Gonda Indological Studies, 21
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- 704.948945 CEC m
Preserving and exhibiting media art : challenges and perspectives
This important and first-of-its-kind collection addresses the emerging challenges in the field of media art preservation and exhibition, providing an outline for the training of professionals in this field. Since the emergence of time-based media such as film, video and digital technology, artists have used them to experiment with their potential. The resulting artworks, with their basis in rap…
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- 9789089642912
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- 428 p.
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- Framing Film
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- 776.075 PRE p
Frame by frame : a materialist aesthetics of animated cartoons
For most of the twentieth century, the making of animated cartoons was mechanized and standardized to allow for high-volume production: thousands of drawings were inked and painted onto individual transparent celluloid sheets (called "cels") and then photographed in succession, a labor-intensive process that was divided across scores of artists and technicians, most of them anonymous. In order …
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- 9780520972773
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- xlix, 222 p.
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- 791.433409 FRA f
Technology and film scholarship : experience, study, theory
This volume brings together a wide range of explorations of the ways in which technological innovations have established new and changing conditions for the experience and study of film. The book offers analyses by such leading figures in film studies as Tom Gunning and Charles Musser, who examine the ways in which technological changes have altered the ways how cinema is conceived and how it i…
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- 9789048525270
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- 264 p.
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- Film Theory in Media History
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- 791 TEC t
Watch and learn : rhetorical devices in classroom films after 1940
Since the late 1990s, there has been a marked increase in academic interest in what are sometimes called 'utility films', intended for purposes of information, training, teaching or advertising. Although such research was long overdue, the current academic output tends to be restricted in scope, paying little attention to the films' textual features: the means they deploy in defending their inf…
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- 9789089643124
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- 372 p.
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- 791.43071 MAS w
The illiterate listener : on music cognition, musicality and methodology
We have known for some time that babies possess a keen perceptual sensitivity for the melodic, rhythmic and dynamic aspects of speech and music: aspects that linguists are inclined to categorize under the term ‘prosody’, but which are in fact the building blocks of music. Only much later in a child’s development does he make use of this ‘musical prosody’, for instance in delineating a…
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- 9789048526987
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- 24 p.
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- 781.11 HON i
Music and levels of narration in film
This is the first book-length study of the narratology of film music, and an indispensable resource for anyone researching or studying film music or film narratology. It surveys the so far piecemeal discussion of narratological concepts in film music studies, and tries to (cautiously) systematize them, and to expand and refine them with reference to ideas from general narratology and film narra…
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- 9781783202096
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- X, 290 p.
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- 781.949 HEL m
Global animation theory : international perspectives at animafest zagreb
Global Animation Theory offers detailed and diverse insights into the methodologies of contemporary animation studies, as well as the topics relevant for today’s study of animation. The contact between practical and theoretical approaches to animation at Animafest Scanner, is closely connected to host of this event, the World Festival of Animated Film Animafest Zagreb. It has given way to aca…
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- 9781501337154
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- XV, 265 p.
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- 791.4334 GLO g
Anthropocosmic theatre : theatre, ritual, consciousness
This new edition of Núñez’s Anthropocosmic Theatre contains the text of the original English translation plus additional contributions from Núñez and others. In part one, Núñez traces his researches in Nahuatlan, Tibetan and western theatre, to arrive at his design for a theatre of the human in the cosmos. Part Two explores how this work has developed, during the last three decades, int…
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- 9781862181601
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- VI, 387 p.
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- 792.01 ANT a
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