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Rings of Desire
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 226

Rings of Desire

The circus has been both one of the most influential forms of international popular entertainment and yet at the same time remains almost entirely absent from academic studies of popular theatrical forms. This book offers readers an introduction to the cultural history of the circus and gives an account of the dominant characteristics of the circus's aesthetic practices and relates these to the sometimes precarious developments, changes and variations in its economic organization, architecture and social status. The book goes on to outline the particular challenges that this essentially live, dangerous and body-centred form presents to literary and film representation and does so through the particular examples of works by Charles Dickens, Federico Fellini and Wim Wenders. This wide-ranging and accessible book offers ways of thinking about the meaning and significance of the circus as a specifically modern form of art and entertainment.

History of Photography
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 458

History of Photography

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1989-01-01
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  • Publisher: A&C Black

The fourth volume in a history of photography, this is a bibliography of books on the subject.

Remembrance
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 528

Remembrance

Ray Bradbury, the iconic author of Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, and Something Wicked This Way Comes, believed that a collection of his letters could someday illuminate the story of his life in new ways. That story emerges across time and memory in the pages of Remembrance. Ray Bradbury was one of the best-known writers and creative dreamers of our time. The many honors he received, which included an Emmy and Academy Award nomination for adaptations of his work, culminated in the 2000 National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, a 2004 National Medal of Arts, and a 2007 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation. For many years NASA and the Disney Stu...

The Journey of G. Mastorna
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 226

The Journey of G. Mastorna

Federico Fellini’s script for perhaps the most famous unmade film in Italian cinema, The Journey of G. Mastorna (1965/6), is published here for the first time in full English translation. It offers the reader a remarkable insight into Fellini’s creative process and his fascination with human mortality and the great mystery of death. Written in collaboration with Dino Buzzati, Brunello Rondi, and Bernardino Zapponi, the project was ultimately abandoned for a number of reasons, including Fellini’s near death, although it continued to inhabit his creative imagination and the landscape of his films for the rest of his career. Marcus Perryman has written two supporting essays which discuss the reasons why the film was never made, compare it to the two other films in the trilogy La Dolce Vita and 81⁄2, and analyze the script in the light of It’s a Wonderful Life and Fredric Brown’s sci-fi novel What Mad Universe. In doing so he opens up an entire world of connections to Fellini’s other films, writers and collaborators. It should be essential reading for students and academics studying Fellini’s work.

Breaking the Fourth Wall
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 188

Breaking the Fourth Wall

An examination of the role of direct address within fiction cinema, focusing on its role in avant-garde or experimental cinema, and popular genre traditions.

David Lynch
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 749

David Lynch

For nearly 40 years, David Lynch's works have enthralled, mystified, and provoked viewers. Lynch's films delve into the subjective consciousness of his characters to reveal both the depraved darkness and luminous spirituality of human nature. From his experimental shorts of the 1960s to feature films like Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, and INLAND EMPIRE, Lynch has pushed the boundaries of cinematic storytelling. In David Lynch: Beautiful Dark, author Greg Olson explores the surreal intricacies of the director's unique visual and visceral style not only in his full-length films but also his early forays into painting and short films, as well as his television lan...

Art as Spectacle
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 374

Art as Spectacle

Why do images of entertainers abound in European literature and art since Romanticism? From Baudelaire to Picasso, from Daumier to Fellini, mimes, clowns, aerialists, and jesters recur in major works by continental artists. In Art as Spectacle, Naomi Ritter investigates this phenomenon and offers explanations that transcend the array of works discussed. Her analysis implies much about the triangle of creator, work, and audience that inevitably controls art. Although a broadly comparative study underlies Art as Spectacle, the book focuses mainly on examples from Germany and France. Three areas of argument-identification, primitivism, and transcendence-account for the performer's ubiquity in t...

Von 1730 bis 1990
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 1400

Von 1730 bis 1990

Eine »Bibliographie der deutschen Übersetzungen aus dem Italienischen« ist schon lange ein Desiderat für die Fächer Germanistik, Romanistik, Komparatistik, Kultur- und andere Fachwissenschaften. Die große Divergenz zwischen der Masse veröffentlichter und der geringen Zahl der in den Kanon aufgenommenen Literatur macht es sehr schwer, sich über die Fülle der im Druck erschienenen Übersetzungen einen Überblick zu verschaffen. Die Zeit bis 1730 hat der bereits im Jahre 1992 veröffentlichte Teilband 1 der »Bibliographie« erfaßt. Hier wird nun die Fortsetzung dieser Bibliographie bis in die 90er Jahre des 20. Jahrhunderts vorgelegt. Um eine sichere Information zu gewährleisten, wurden alle über den Leihverkehr zugänglichen Veröffentlichungen durch Autopsie überprüft. Dem Abschlußband dieser »Bibliographie« wird eine CD-ROM, die beide Teilbände umfaßt, beigegeben. (Nur Einzelplatzversion für Windows - ab '95.)

Federico Fellini
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 304

Federico Fellini

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Twentieth-century Italian Literature in English Translation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 648

Twentieth-century Italian Literature in English Translation

This bibliography lists English-language translations of twentieth-century Italian literature published chiefly in book form between 1929 and 1997, encompassing fiction, poetry, plays, screenplays, librettos, journals and diaries, and correspondence.