Representing the Unpresentable

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Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815631798
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (317 download)

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Book Synopsis Representing the Unpresentable by : Negar Mottahedah

Download or read book Representing the Unpresentable written by Negar Mottahedah and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2008-02-26 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this pioneering book, Negar Mottahedeh explores the central issues of vision and visibility in Iranian culture. She focuses on historical and literary texts to understand the use of visual culture and performance traditions in the production of the contemporary nation. Tracing the historical mediation and dissemination of ideas for national reform in the modern period of Iran, the book examines the various discourses that have constituted the image of the unpresentable “Babi” as the figure of Iran’s Other. In her exploration of gender and Iranian cinema, the author powerfully argues that this unpresentable image continues to haunt contemporary Iranian cinema’s representations of the nation. As cinema began to displace other forms of representation in Iran, Islamic culture attempted to keep the motion picture industry free from what it perceived to be the taint of foreign values and intervention. With insight and detail, Mottahedeh looks at the revealing ways in which contemporary Iranian cinema has dealt with representing an unpresentable national modernity articulated through traversals in time and space. These deeply national tropes of traversal shaped the image of the “Babi,” against which nineteenth-century Iran produced its own modernity. This highly original work, signaling a paradigmatic shift in Iranian studies and gender studies, will be an invaluable resource for scholars in cultural, Iranian, or film studies.

Representing the Unpresentable

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Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Representing the Unpresentable written by Negar Mottahedeh and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Spanish Fantastic

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786720787
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Book Synopsis The Spanish Fantastic by : Shelagh Rowan-Legg

Download or read book The Spanish Fantastic written by Shelagh Rowan-Legg and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades, the Spanish 'fantastic' has been at the forefront of genre filmmaking. Films such as The Day of the Beast, the Rec trilogy, The Orphanage and Timecrimes have received widespread attention and popularity, arguably rescuing Spanish cinema from its semi-invisibility during the creativity-crushing Franco years. By turns daring, evocative, outrageous, and intense, this new cinema has given voice to a generation, both beholden to and yet breaking away from their historical and cultural roots. Beginning in the 1990s, films from directors such as Alex de la Iglesia, Alejandro Amenabar, and Jaume Balaguero reinvigorated Spanish cinema in the horror, science fiction and fantasy veins as their work proliferated and took centre stage at international festivals such as Sitges, Fantasia International Film Festival and Fantastic Fest. Through an examination of key films and filmmakers, Shelagh Rowan-Legg here investigates the rise of this unique new wave of genre films from Spain, and how they have recycled, reshaped and renewed the stunning visual tropes, wild narratives and imaginative other worlds inherent to an increasingly influential cinematic field.Its emergence is part of a new trend of postnational cinema, led by the fantastic, which approaches the national boundaries of cinema with an exciting sense of fluidity.

Crossing Borders, Dissolving Boundaries

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Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9401209081
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)

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Book Synopsis Crossing Borders, Dissolving Boundaries by : Hein Viljoen

Download or read book Crossing Borders, Dissolving Boundaries written by Hein Viljoen and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2013 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Borders separate but also connect self and other, and literary texts not only enact these bordering processes, but form part of such processes. This book gestures towards a borderless world, stepping, as it were, with thousand-mile boots from south to north (even across the Atlantic), from South Africa to Scandinavia. It also shows how literary texts model and remodel borders and bordering processes in rich and meaningful local contexts. The essays assembled here analyse the crossing and negotiation of borders and boundaries in works by Nadine Gordimer, Ingrid Winterbach, Deneys Reitz, Janet Suzman, Marlene van Niekerk, A.S. Byatt, Thomas Harris, Frank A. Jenssen, Eben Venter, Antjie Krog, and others under different signs or conceptual points of attraction. These signs include a spiritual turn, eventfulness, self-understanding, ethnic and linguistic mobilization, performative chronotopes, the grotesque, the carceral, the rhetorical, and the interstitial. Contributors: Ileana Dimitriu, Heilna du Plooy, John Gouws, Anne Heith, Lida Krüger, Susan Meyer, Adéle Nel, Ellen Rees, Johan Schimanski, Tony Ullyatt, Phil van Schalkwyk, Hein Viljoen.

Liberating Dylan Thomas

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Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 178316185X
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (831 download)

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Download or read book Liberating Dylan Thomas written by Rhian Barfoot and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2015-03-15 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book attempts, for the first time, to demonstrate a vital connection between Thomas’s poetry and post-Freudian psychoanalysis. This will benefit readers by helping shed new and illuminating light on the writing and will help close the gap that sadly still exists between Thomas’s critical and popular receptions. Close textual analysis of poems that have to date received only scant critical attention e.g. ‘Today this insect’ The Notebooks have received only scant critical attention, and have been subordinated to a purely minor role. Here, however the Notebooks are re-visited and re-evaluated, because the text of these four manuscript exercise books, provides us with a highly significant and revealing document.

Art and Advertising

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857710559
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Book Synopsis Art and Advertising by : Joan Gibbons

Download or read book Art and Advertising written by Joan Gibbons and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-12 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art and advertising are often seen as potential enemies, with the one being free from commercial concerns and the other dependent upon them. In this clearly written and wide-ranging book, Joan Gibbons argues rather for a mutually enriching relationship between the two, showing how artists have reached a wider audience by embracing the tactics and mass media of advertising, and how advertising has employed issues and strategies of contemporary art. Charting key points of overlap and antagonism, she looks at the work of artists from Andy Warhol, Barbara Kruger and Victor Burgin to Sylvie Fleurie and Swetlana Heger and at landmark campaigns from Silk Cut to Benetton's Shock of Reality. Exploring cutting-edge advertising from the influential work of David Carson to Wieden and Kennedy's Nike campaigns and the art and advertising work of Tony Kaye, she also looks at the increasing endorsement of art by highly branded products such as Absolut vodka, to argue that art and advertising need not be mutually exclusive terms.

The Routledge Companion to Postmodernism

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Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415243076
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (152 download)

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Book Synopsis The Routledge Companion to Postmodernism by : Stuart Sim

Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Postmodernism written by Stuart Sim and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is 'deconstruction'? What authors are considered 'postmodern novelists'? The Routledge Companion to Postmodernismcombines a series of fourteen in-depth background chapters with a body of A-Z entries to create an authoritative, yet readable guide to the complex world of postmodernism. Following full-length articles on postmodernism and philosophy, politics, feminism, lifestyles, television, and other postmodern essentials, readers will find a wide range of alphabetically-organized entries on the people, terms and theories connected with postmodernism, including: Peter Ackroyd; Jean Baudrillard; Chaos Theory; Death of the Author; Desire; Fractals; Michel Foucault; Frankfurt School; Generation X; Minimalism; Poststructuralism; Retro; Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak; and Trans-avant-garde. Students interested in any aspect of postmodernist thought will find this an indispensable resource.

Devotional Poetics and the Indian Sublime

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Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791438718
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (387 download)

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Book Synopsis Devotional Poetics and the Indian Sublime by : Vijay Mishra

Download or read book Devotional Poetics and the Indian Sublime written by Vijay Mishra and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combines Western theories of the sublime (from Longinus to Lyotard) with indigenous Indian modes of reading in order to construct a comprehensive theory of both the Indian sublime and Indian devotional verse.

The Image in French Philosophy

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9401204055
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)

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Book Synopsis The Image in French Philosophy by : Temenuga Trifonova

Download or read book The Image in French Philosophy written by Temenuga Trifonova and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Image in French Philosophy challenges dominant interpretations of Bergson, Sartre, Lyotard, Baudrillard and Deleuze by arguing that their philosophy was not a critique but a revival of metaphysics as a thinking pertaining to impersonal forces and distinguished by an aversion to subjectivity and an aversion of the philosophical gaze away from the discourse of vision, and thus away from the image. Insofar as the image was part of the discourse of subjectivity/representation, getting rid of the subject involved smuggling the concept of the image out of the discourse of subjectivity/representation into a newly revived and ethically flavored metaphysical discourse—a metaphysics of immanence, which was more interested in consciousness rather than subjectivity, in the inhuman rather than the human, in the virtual rather than the real, in Time rather than temporalization, in Memory rather than memory-images, in Imagination rather than images, in sum, in impersonal forces, de-personalizing experiences, states of dis-embodiment characterized by the breaking down of sensory-motor schemata (Bergson’s pure memory, Sartre’s image-consciousness, Deleuze’s time-image) or, more generally, in that which remains beyond representation i.e. beyond subjectivity (Lyotard’s sublime, Baudrillard’s fatal object). The book would be of interest to scholars and students of philosophy, aesthetics, and film theory.

Representing Childhood and Atrocity

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Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438490763
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Representing Childhood and Atrocity written by Victoria Nesfield and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2022-12-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Atrocity presents a problem to the writer of children's literature. To represent events of such terrible magnitude and impersonal will as the Holocaust, the transatlantic slave trade, or the Rwandan genocide such that they fit into a three-act structure with a comprehensible moral and a happy ending is to do a disservice to the victims. Yet to confront children with the fact of widescale violence without resolution is to confront them with realities that may be emotionally disturbing and even damaging. Despite these challenges, however, there exists a considerable body of work for and about children that addresses atrocity. To examine the ways in which writers and artists have attempted to address children's experience of atrocity, this collection brings together original essays by an international group of scholars working in the fields of child studies, children's literature, comics studies, education, English literature, and Holocaust, genocide, and memory studies. It covers a broad geographical range and includes works by established authors and emerging voices.

Unworking Choreography

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199314640
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Unworking Choreography written by Frédéric Pouillaude and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no archive or museum of human movement, no place where choreographies can be collected and conserved in pristine form. The central consequence of this is the incapacity of philosophy and aesthetics to think of dance as a positive and empirical art. In the eyes of philosophers, dance refers to a space other than art, considered both more frivolous and more fundamental than the artwork without ever quite attaining the status of a work. Unworking Choreography develops this idea and postulates an unworking as evidenced by a conspicuous absence of references to actual choreographic works within philosophical accounts of dance; the late development and partial dominance of the notion of the work in dance in contrast to other art forms such as painting, music, and theatre; the difficulties in identifying dance works given a lack of scores and an apparent resistance within the art form to the possibility of notation; and the questioning of ends of dance in contemporary practice and the relativisation of the very idea that dance artistic or choreographic processes aim at work production.

Performing the Unstageable

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350055476
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Performing the Unstageable written by Karen Quigley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the gouging out of eyes in Shakespeare's King Lear or Sarah Kane's Cleansed, to the adaptation of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, theatre has long been intrigued by the staging of challenging plays and impossible texts, images or ideas. Performing the Unstageable: Success, Imagination, Failure examines this phenomenon of what the theatre cannot do or has not been able to do at various points in its history. The book explores four principal areas to which unstageability most frequently pertains: stage directions, adaptations, violence and ghosts. Karen Quigley incorporates a wide range of case studies of both historical and contemporary theatrical productions including the Wooster Group's exploration of Hamlet via the structural frame of John Gielgud's 1964 filmed production, Elevator Repair Service's eight-hour staging of Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and a selection of impossible stage directions drawn from works by such playwrights as Eugene O'Neill, Philip Glass, Caryl Churchill, Sarah Kane and Alistair McDowall. Placing theatre history and performance analysis in such a context, Performing the Unstageable values what is not possible, and investigates the tricky underside of theatre's most fundamental function to bring things to the place of showing: the stage.

Voicing Trauma and Truth: Narratives of Disruption and Transformation

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004399429
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Ideologies of History in the Spanish Golden Age

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Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271043547
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Book Synopsis Ideologies of History in the Spanish Golden Age by : Anthony J. Cascardi

Download or read book Ideologies of History in the Spanish Golden Age written by Anthony J. Cascardi and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Un-representing the Great War

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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527524086
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Un-representing the Great War written by Mariavita Cambria and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays investigates the multifarious meanings of the Great War considered from a multifaceted perspective as the event that opens up the cultural history of the 20th century. After an introduction delineating ‘unrepresentability’, the core methodological issue of the book, the volume brings together many different strands of analysis and is divided into two main sections: the first provides a cultural and philosophical framework while the second explores specific linguistic and literary issues. Given the variety of perspectives and methodological approaches adopted by the contributors, the volume offers original and useful insights into WWI. The underlying rationale of the book, remaining faithful to the catastrophe of the war, without transforming it into a mere object of scientific investigation or ideological interpretation, helps to shed light on contemporary scenarios.

Jean François Lyotard: Aesthetics

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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415338202
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (382 download)

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Book Synopsis Jean François Lyotard: Aesthetics by : Victor E. Taylor

Download or read book Jean François Lyotard: Aesthetics written by Victor E. Taylor and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2006 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: