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Exploring Character Through Structural Metaphor

Author : John Gribas
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003859682
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Exploring Character Through Structural Metaphor written by John Gribas and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-01-29 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring Character Through Structural Metaphor will help performers discover new and valuable insights into the characters they play. Grounded in a contemporary approach to understanding and applying the power of metaphor, it offers a practical guide for both actors and directors. This book introduces the idea of metaphor as a way of thinking rather than simply as clever comparison or figurative language. It demonstrates limitations of ways metaphor has traditionally been used in character development and presents a method for applying structural metaphor to discover rich, in-depth character insights. For directors, the model can serve as an option for guiding character analysis that is less individualistic and actor-specific and more wholistic and cast-inclusive, promoting stronger overall performance unity and production cohesion. In addition to offering a clear, followable guide for character analysis, the authors draw on personal experience to vividly demonstrate how applying this method for character analysis could impact performance and production. This book will be a useful addition to an actor’s or director’s set of character development resources.

Dictionary of the Old Testament: Prophets

Author : Mark J. Boda
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830895833
Total Pages : 998 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Dictionary of the Old Testament: Prophets written by Mark J. Boda and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 998 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ECPA Book Award finalist With the Dictionary of the Old Testament: Prophets, IVP's Black Dictionary series completes its coverage of the Old Testament canonical books. A true compendium of recent scholarship, the volume includes 115 articles covering all aspects of Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, the twelve "minor prophets" and Daniel. Each book's historical, cultural, religious and literary background is thoroughly covered, alongside articles on interpretation history and critical method. Pastors, scholars and students will find this a deep resource for their Old Testament studies. Reference volumes in the IVP Bible Dictionary Series provide in-depth treatment of biblical and theological topics in an accessible, encyclopedia format, including cross-sectional themes, methods of interpretation, significant historical or cultural background, and each Old and New Testament book as a whole.

Metamorphosis - Structures of Cultural Transformations

Author : Jürgen Schlaeger
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783823341741
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (417 download)

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Download or read book Metamorphosis - Structures of Cultural Transformations written by Jürgen Schlaeger and published by Gunter Narr Verlag. This book was released on 2005 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Exploring the Collective Unconscious in the Age of Digital Media

Author : Schafer, Stephen Brock
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1466698926
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (666 download)

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Book Synopsis Exploring the Collective Unconscious in the Age of Digital Media by : Schafer, Stephen Brock

Download or read book Exploring the Collective Unconscious in the Age of Digital Media written by Schafer, Stephen Brock and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2016-01-28 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades we have witnessed the emergence of a media age of illusion that is based on the principles of physics—the multidimensionality, immateriality, and non-locality of the unified field of energy and information—as a virtual reality. As a result, a new paradigm shift has reframed the cognitive unconscious of individuals and collectives and generated a worldview in which mediated illusion prevails. Exploring the Collective Unconscious in a Digital Age investigates the cognitive significance of an altered mediated reality that appears to have all the dimensions of a dreamscape. This book presents the idea that if the digital media-sphere proves to be structurally and functionally analogous to a dreamscape, the Collective Unconscious researched by Carl Jung and the Cognitive Unconscious researched by George Lakoff are susceptible to research according to the parameters of hard science. This pivotal research-based publication is ideally designed for use by psychologists, theorists, researchers, and graduate-level students studying human cognition and the influence of the digital media revolution.

Fundamentals of Play Directing

Author : Alexander Dean
Publisher : Waveland Press
ISBN 13 : 1478608498
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (786 download)

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Download or read book Fundamentals of Play Directing written by Alexander Dean and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2009-08-21 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark work has influenced generations of stage directors and is considered the most influential treatment of the art of directing. Both theoretical and practical, Fundamentals of Play Directing offers content and information on the major technical and visual issues of stage directing that beginning directors will find invaluable. Following introductory chapters, readers are introduced to the basicsplay analysis, basic technique for the actor, and the directors media. These chapters form an essential preparation for an in-depth examination of the five fundamentals of play directing that make up the core of the text: composition, picturization, movement, rhythm, and pantomimic dramatization.

Picturing Tolkien

Author : Janice M. Bogstad
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 078648473X
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Picturing Tolkien written by Janice M. Bogstad and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-09-07 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This group of new critical essays offers multidisciplinary analysis of director Peter Jackson's spectacularly successful adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Two Towers (2002) and The Return of the King (2003). Part One of the collection, "Techniques of Structure and Story," compares and contrasts the organizational principles of the books and films. Part Two, "Techniques of Character and Culture," focuses on the methods used to transform the characters and settings of Tolkien's narrative into the personalities and places visualized on screen. Each of the sixteen essays includes extensive notes and a separate bibliography. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Family Communication as... Exploring Metaphors for Family Communication

Author : Jimmie Manning
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119668492
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book Family Communication as... Exploring Metaphors for Family Communication written by Jimmie Manning and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-11-02 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative textbook that presents a novel and compelling examination of family communication studies Family Communication as... Exploring Metaphors for Family Communication presents a series of metaphors through which students explore the nuances and complexities of family interaction. With a unique approach to the foundational theories and real-world practices of family communication, this easily accessible textbook helps students develop a clear understanding of what family communication is and what it can be. Contributions by both prominent and newer scholars theorize about family communication, offer new perspectives, challenge long-held assumptions, and describe original research to provide students with an up-to-date representation of the leading thinking in the field. Each concise chapter focuses on a specific element of family life, engaging key metaphors to stimulate classroom discussion about family in contexts ranging from ritual and embodiment to estrangement and heteronormativity. Throughout the text, students examine family metaphorically—as memory, as social identity, as estrangement, as loss, as resilience, as raced, and more. Presents a metaphorical examination of creating, materializing, contextualizing, politicizing, and complicating family communication Offers an innovative alternative to standard textbooks on the subject Features a thorough introduction advocating for the use of metaphors in teaching Discusses the key topics and theoretical approaches that have defined the field Includes detailed references, additional readings, and an instructor’s companion website Family Communication as... Exploring Metaphors for Family Communication is an excellent textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in courses including family communication, family studies, interpersonal communication, relational communication, and communication theory. It is also a highly useful resource for scholars in fields such as media studies, psychology, sociology, social work, counseling, and public health.

Playing with Color

Author : Richard Mehl
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1592538088
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Playing with Color written by Richard Mehl and published by . This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Playing with Color is a highly accessible, fun approach to learning color application and principles. This hands-on book begins with an introduction to the philosophy of learning through the process of play. It then leads to a series of experimental design projects with an emphasis on color, providing the reader with a “toolkit” of ideas and skills. The awareness and sensitivity to form, color, material and craft gained through these visual experiments will increase the designer’s confidence in their personal and professional design work. This book can be used in the classroom or independently, and readers can go directly to exercises that appeal to them.

Beautiful Chaos

Author : Gordon E. Slethaug
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791491730
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book Beautiful Chaos written by Gordon E. Slethaug and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautiful Chaos is the first book to examine contemporary American fiction through the lens of chaos theory. The book focuses on recent works of fiction by John Barth, Michael Crichton, Don DeLillo, Michael Dorris, Cormac McCarthy, Toni Morrison, Thomas Pynchon, Carol Shields, and Robert Stone, all of whom incorporate aspects of chaos theory in one or more of their novels. They accomplish this through their disruption of conventional linear narrative forms and their use of strategic tropes of chaos and order, but also—and more significantly for an understanding of the interaction of science and fiction—through their self-conscious embrace of the current rhetoric of chaos theory. Since the publication of James Gleick's Chaos: Making a New Science in 1987, chaos theory has been taken up by a wide variety of literary critics and other scholars of the arts. While considering the relationship between chaos theory and recent American fiction, Beautiful Chaos details basic assumptions about orderly and dynamic systems and the various manifestations of chaos theory in literature, including mimesis, metaphor, model, and metachaotics. It also explains particular features of orderly and dynamic systems, including entropy, bifurcation and turbulence, noise and information, scaling and fractals, iteration, and strange attractors.

Exploring Contemporary Migration

Author : Paul Boyle
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317890876
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Exploring Contemporary Migration written by Paul Boyle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring Contemporary Migration provides the first comprehensive introduction to the various aspects of population migration in both the developed and the developing worlds. Some of the most important quantitative and qualitative methods used for the description and analysis of migration are presented in a clearly structured and accessible way. The various theoretical approaches used to explain the complex patterns of migration are also summarised. These patterns are then explored through the use of specific migration-related themes: employment, stage in the life course, quality of life, societal engineering, violence and persecution, and the role of culture. Exploring Contemporary Migration is written in a user-friendly, accessible style, appealing to undergraduate students of population geography and social science students taking a population module. This text will also be valuable reading to those researchers and academics concerned with gaining a broad understanding of the dynamics and patterns of contemporary population.

Discovering Creative Writing

Author : Graeme Harper
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 1788928482
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (889 download)

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Download or read book Discovering Creative Writing written by Graeme Harper and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2020-06-12 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about discovering how you do creative writing. How you begin, how you structure, how your writing process works, how a work embodies movement and change, what influences you, and, ultimately, how you end. Discovering Creative Writing points you toward clues that can assist you in understanding your own creative writing as well as the creative writing of others. This book is both a practical guide and a critical examination that empowers the reader to find things out and use that information to develop and support their own creative writing. This book will enable students of creative writing at both undergraduate and postgraduate level to deepen their understanding of their practice, and will be a valuable guide and inspiration for anyone wishing to begin, continue, or improve their writing.

Embodied Metaphors in Film, Television, and Video Games

Author : Kathrin Fahlenbrach
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317531205
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Embodied Metaphors in Film, Television, and Video Games written by Kathrin Fahlenbrach and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In cognitive research, metaphors have been shown to help us imagine complex, abstract, or invisible ideas, concepts, or emotions. Contributors to this book argue that metaphors occur not only in language, but in audio visual media well. This is all the more evident in entertainment media, which strategically "sell" their products by addressing their viewers’ immediate, reflexive understanding through pictures, sounds, and language. This volume applies cognitive metaphor theory (CMT) to film, television, and video games in order to analyze the embodied aesthetics and meanings of those moving images.

Discovering Modernism

Author : Louis Menand
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199774714
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Discovering Modernism written by Louis Menand and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-02-19 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Discovering Modernism was first published, it shed new and welcome light on the birth of Modernism. This reissue of Menand's classic intellectual history of T.S. Eliot and the singular role he played in the rise of literary modernism features an updated Afterword by the author, as well as a detailed critical appraisal of the progression of Eliot's career as a poet and critic. The new Afterword was adapted from Menand's critically lauded essay on Eliot in The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, Volume Seven: Modernism and the New Criticism. Menand shows how Eliot's early views on literary value and authenticity, and his later repudiation of those views, reflect the profound changes regarding the understanding of literature and its significance that occurred in the early part of the twentieth century. It will prove an eye-opening study for readers with an interest in the writings of T.S. Eliot and other luminaries of the Modernist era.

Beyond Cognitive Metaphor Theory

Author : Monika Fludernik
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136717641
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Cognitive Metaphor Theory written by Monika Fludernik and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this innovative collection, an international group of scholars come together to discuss literary metaphors and cognitive metaphor theory. The volume's goals are three-fold. The first aim of the book is to present some recent approaches to metaphor which have no immediate connection with cognitive metaphor theory and have developed independently of it. While the cognitive approach has become the leading paradigm in the English speaking world, elsewhere (in Europe) rhetorical, semantic, and logical models have remained in use and continue to be elaborated. These models have so far had little international exposure. Their inclusion in this study is meant to provide a balance to the cognitive paradigm and to open up a possible discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of cognitive metaphor theory for the analysis of literary texts. The second aim of the collection is to illustrate a range of successful applications of the new cognitive models to literary texts. And, the third aim of the study is to provide an assessment of cognitive metaphor theory from a literary point of view.

Crafting Characters

Author : Koen De Temmerman
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191509671
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Crafting Characters written by Koen De Temmerman and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-02-27 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The oldest European novels were written in ancient Greek during the first few centuries of the Common Era. Despite the gold rush towards these novels in the last two decades and the resurgence of interest in representations of character in literary studies, and Classical studies in particular, no volume has yet been devoted to exploring character and characterization in the ancient Greek novels. This study analyses the characterization of the protagonists in the five extant, so-called 'ideal' Greek novels (those of Chariton, Xenophon of Ephesus, Achilles Tatius, Longus, and Heliodorus). De Temmerman offers close readings of techniques of characterization used in each novel and combines modern—mainly, but not exclusively, structuralist—narratology and ancient rhetoric. He argues that three conceptual couples central to ancient theory of character, typification/individuation, idealistic/realistic characterization, and static/dynamic character, construct character in these narratives more ambiguously, more elusively, and in more complex ways than has so far been realized. Throughout the different chapters, it also becomes clear how intimately presentations of character are intertwined with self-portrayal and performance of the self.

Phantasmal Media

Author : D. Fox Harrell
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262019337
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Phantasmal Media written by D. Fox Harrell and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2013-11-08 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An argument that great expressive power of computational media arises from the construction of phantasms—blends of cultural ideas and sensory imagination. In Phantasmal Media, D. Fox Harrell considers the expressive power of computational media. He argues, forcefully and persuasively, that the great expressive potential of computational media comes from the ability to construct and reveal phantasms—blends of cultural ideas and sensory imagination. These ubiquitous and often-unseen phantasms—cognitive phenomena that include sense of self, metaphors, social categories, narrative, and poetic thinking—influence almost all our everyday experiences. Harrell offers an approach for understanding and designing computational systems that have the power to evoke these phantasms, paying special attention to the exposure of oppressive phantasms and the creation of empowering ones. He argues for the importance of cultural content, diverse worldviews, and social values in computing. The expressive power of phantasms is not purely aesthetic, he contends; phantasmal media can express and construct the types of meaning central to the human condition. Harrell discusses, among other topics, the phantasm as an orienting perspective for developers; expressive epistemologies, or data structures based on subjective human worldviews; morphic semiotics (building on the computer scientist Joseph Goguen's theory of algebraic semiotics); cultural phantasms that influence consensus and reveal other perspectives; computing systems based on cultural models; interaction and expression; and the ways that real-world information is mapped onto, and instantiated by, computational data structures. The concept of phantasmal media, Harrell argues, offers new possibilities for using the computer to understand and improve the human condition through the human capacity to imagine.

Exploring Existential Meaning

Author : Gary T. Reker
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1452263663
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (522 download)

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Download or read book Exploring Existential Meaning written by Gary T. Reker and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 1999-09-03 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both implicit and existential meaning are important constructs in fully understanding human experience. The editors of this volume present a forum for an array of viewpoints and recent research that address the notion of optimal human growth.