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Immersion in the Visual Arts and Media
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 401

Immersion in the Visual Arts and Media

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-10-27
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this volume brings together contributions by distinguished experts from different disciplinary fields for a multidimensional view on immersion in the visual arts and media. In the current media debate, immersion has frequently been linked to the advent of digital technology and its capacity to provide vivid sensations of being placed in or surrounded by an artificial space. The idea of ‘liquidity’ contained in this promise to plunge into another world informs wide areas of contemporary cultural imagination, referring to a myriad of phenomena that relate to experiences of uncertainty and instability, of complexity and change. Considering the fact, how...

Screening the Operatic Stage
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 269

Screening the Operatic Stage

An ambitious study of the ways opera has sought to ensure its popularity by keeping pace with changes in media technology. From the early days of television broadcasts to today’s live streams, opera houses have embraced technology as a way to reach new audiences. But how do these new forms of remediated opera extend, amplify, or undermine production values, and what does the audience gain or lose in the process? In Screening the Operatic Stage, Christopher Morris critically examines the cultural implications of opera’s engagement with screen media. Foregrounding the potential for a playful exchange and self-awareness between stage and screen, Morris uses the conceptual tools of media the...

Kant’s Theory of Value
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 326

Kant’s Theory of Value

In explicit form, Kant does not speak that much about values or goods. The reason for this is obvious: the concepts of ‘values’ and ‘goods’ are part of the eudaimonistic tradition, and he famously criticizes eudaimonism for its flawed ‘material’ approach to ethics. But he uses, on several occasions, the traditional teleological language of goods and values. Especially in the Groundwork and the Critique of Practical Reason, Kant develops crucial points on this conceptual basis. Furthermore, he implicitly discusses issues of conditional and unconditional values, subjective and objective values, aesthetic or economic values etc. In recent Kant scholarship, there has been a controversy on the question how moral and nonmoral values are related in Kant’s account of human dignity. This leads to the more fundamental problem if Kant should be seen as a prescriptvist (antirealist) or as subscribing to a more objective rational agency account of goods. This issue and several further questions are addressed in this volume.

The Play within the Play
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 476

The Play within the Play

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007-01-01
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  • Publisher: BRILL

The thirty chapters of this innovative international study are all devoted to the topic of the play within the play. The authors explore the wide range of aesthetic, literary-theoretical and philosophical issues associated with this rhetorical device, not only in terms of its original meta-theatrical setting – from the baroque idea of a theatrum mundi onward to contemporary examples of postmodern self-referential dramaturgy – but also with regard to a variety of different generic applications, e.g. in narrative fiction, musical theatre and film. The authors, internationally recognized specialists in their respective fields, draw on recent debates in such areas as postcolonial studies, ga...

Science--dramatic
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 400

Science--dramatic

Science Plays form a flourishing dramatic sub-genre. The present study provides an informative overview shedding light on the diversity of ways in which the natural sciences and/or scientists are put on stage. Detailed text-based analyses of eighteen plays, many of them previously unexamined elsewhere, exemplify the genre's remarkable variety. "Classics" such as 'Copenhagen' and 'Arcadia' are discussed, as well as e.g. 'Proof', 'QED', 'Taboos', 'Remembering Miss Meitner', 'An Experiment With an Air Pump', 'Blinded by the Sun' and 'Einstein's Gift'. All plays look critically at scientific progress or promise, pointing at socio-political and ethical challenges for today as well as the future. The plays' analyses are embedded into discussions of two vital discourses, the Two Cultures and the Science Wars, as well as the drama vs. performance studies paradigm. Together with background material on various themes, events and personae, 'Science: Dramatic' broadens into a comprehensive work on the science-drama-society interface.

Exotica
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 342

Exotica

Die Beiträge des vorliegenden Bandes beruhen auf Vorträgen, die im November 2001 anläßlich der Konferenz zum Thema "Konsum und Inszenierung des Fremden" gehalten wurden

当代剧场访谈录. Juchang Performance in Contemporary Chinese Society (1980–2020)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 340

当代剧场访谈录. Juchang Performance in Contemporary Chinese Society (1980–2020)

剧场这一术语,被中国戏剧教授李亦男在特定语境下加以介绍和定义。这本独特的选集收录了其与九位1980年代后期在不同方面贡献卓著的中国戏剧人的访谈。这些与拥有不同的成长背景、年龄、艺术观点的剧场人的对话彰显了剧场这一概念开放和包容的特质。受访者们都曾在不同时期,不同时代精神下活跃在中国戏剧界,彼此之间拥有深刻的联结并相互影响。该选集是一部剧场人立足于创作实践,从崭新的视角看待当代中国戏剧不断变化形态的开创之作。 The term juchang is introduced, contextualized and defined by leading professor of theatre i...

Wassermaler und Hungerkünstler
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 381

Wassermaler und Hungerkünstler

  • Categories: Art

"Fur die meisten Menschen bedeutet die Kunst einen Kontakt mit ihrer Kopie. Es handelt sich grundsatzlich um eine elektronische Reproduktion des Originals, das nicht selten unglaublich gross oder klein -- im Vergleich zu dem Vorbild -- zu sein scheint. Das Hauptmerkmal dieser Massenkultur ist eine absolute Storung der raumlichen Ordnung der Dinge: Man reisst die Bilder von den Wanden und die Skulpturen von dem Boden ab. Montierte Filme werden wieder in Fragmente eingeteilt, und die Musik lasst sich dekomponieren, um nur ihren Platz in digitalisierten Musikbestanden zu finden. Wahrscheinlicher wird in solcher Realitat sowohl die Verdinglichung (Verwandlung in einfache Dinge) als auch die Inko...

Unter Uns!
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 247

Unter Uns!

Dieses Buch zeigt anhand der Performance-Serie »Unter Uns! Das Generationenprojekt« von Silke Z. und ihrer künstlerischen Praxis, wie künstlerische Forschung funktioniert und welche verschiedenen Prozesse dabei ablaufen. Die forschenden Künstler und Wissenschaftler erörtern die Spannungsfelder von Biografie und Performance, von Authentizität in der Performance-Praxis in Bezug auf die Frage des Alterns, des Aging Body und die Reflexion der eigenen Geschichtlichkeit sowie auf eine unverstellte, unmittelbare Relation zum Zuschauer. »Unter Uns!« dokumentiert nicht nur den Forschungsprozess selbst, sondern ist gleichzeitig seine Fortsetzung.

Einführung in die Gender Studies
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 310

Einführung in die Gender Studies

Typisch Frau, typisch Mann – was heißt das eigentlich? Weiblichkeit und Männlichkeit werden nicht allein durch den anatomisch-biologischen Diskurs (‚Sex‘) definiert, sondern auch durch Rollenangebote wie z.B. Kleidercodes und Verhaltensnormen. Die Gender Studies legen den Fokus auf diese soziale Konstruktion von Geschlecht (‚Gender‘). Dieses dynamische und mittlerweile institutionalisierte Forschungsfeld stellen Franziska Schößler und Lisa Wille aus literatur- und kulturwissenschaftlicher Perspektive vor. Der Band bietet eine systematische Einführung in die Gender Studies aus kultur- und literaturwissenschaftlicher Perspektive. Themen sind u.a. die Geschlechtergeschichte seit 1800, einschlägige Theorieansätze (Écriture féminine, Foucault, Butler), feministische Debatten bis zur Gegenwart (#MeToo) sowie angrenzende Felder (Queer, Men’s Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Film Studies). Zudem geht es um literatur- und kulturwissenschaftliche Lektüreverfahren sowie um Erinnerungskulturen, Kanondebatten, Schule und Didaktik, Arbeit und Ökonomie.