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Simon & Schuster Miss Memory Lane: A Memoir
Book Synopsis“A brutally honest memoir that socks you in the gut with its candor” (Elton John and David Furnish) about lust, abuse, addiction, stardom, and redemption from Arrow and Teen Wolf actor Colton Haynes.In 2018, Colton Haynes woke up in a hospital. He’d had two seizures, lost vision in one eye, almost ruptured a kidney, and been put on an involuntary psychiatric hold. Not yet thirty, he knew he had to take stock of his life and make some serious changes if he wanted to see his next birthday. As he worked towards sobriety, Haynes allowed himself to become vulnerable for the first time and discovered profound self-awareness. He had millions of social media followers who constantly told him they loved him. But what would they think if they knew his true story? If they knew where he came from and the things he had done? Now, Colton bravely pulls back the curtain on his life and career, revealing the incredible highs and devastating lows. From his unorthodox childhood in a small Kansas town, to coming to terms with his sexuality, he keeps nothing back. By sixteen, he had been signed by the world’s top modeling agency and his face appeared on billboards. But he was still a broke, lonely, confused teenager, surrounded by people telling him he could be a star as long as he never let anyone see his true self. As Colton’s career in television took off, the stress of wearing so many masks and trying to please so many different people turned his use of drugs and alcohol into full-blown addiction. “In searing, honest prose, he tells a coming-of-age story that is utterly his own, yet surprisingly universal” (Bill Clegg, New York Times bestselling author)—of dreams deferred and dreams fulfilled; of a family torn apart and rebuilt; and of a man stepping into the light as no one but himself.Trade Review“Colton Haynes’s memoir is as provocative as it is moving. In searing, honest prose, he tells a coming-of-age story that is utterly his own, yet surprisingly universal.” —Bill Clegg, New York Times bestselling author of Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man“Miss Memory Lane is a brutally honest memoir that socks you in the gut with its candor. Colton Haynes is a true survivor and shows us how conquering our demons in life is a never-ending journey.” —Elton John and David Furnish“By confronting his own past, Colton Haynes challenges us to reflect upon the brutality seething just under the surface of the Hollywood Dream.” —Saeed Jones, author of How We Fight For Our Lives“Pairing vulnerability with unflinching prose, actor Haynes debuts with a deeply affecting look at his path to self-acceptance….Fans will be left breathless by the grit and courage on display.” —Publishers Weekly“Haynes’s moving, open-hearted, courageous memoir is a complex story of familial losses and the loss of innocence, but it is nevertheless written with great simplicity. Readers will find it hard to resist.” —Library Journal (starred review)“A vulnerable meditation on gender, desire, and fame, compelling and nuanced, a sensitive self-portrait, woven from fragments of his past.” —Buzzfeed“Impossible to put down…This is a gripping memoir, and what shines through is Haynes’ clear-eyed wish to be honest with himself and with his readers about his actions. “ —Amazon Book Review
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Penguin Publishing Group Will
Book SynopsisThe instant #1 New York Times bestseller! “It''s the best memoir I''ve ever read.” —Oprah Winfrey“Will Smith isn''t holding back in his bravely inspiring new memoir . . . An ultimately heartwarming read, Will provides a humane glimpse of the man behind the actor, producer and musician, as he bares all his insecurities and trauma.” —USA TodayWinner of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Achievement One of the most dynamic and globally recognized entertainment forces of our time opens up fully about his life, in a brave and inspiring book that traces his learning curve to a place where outer success, inner happiness, and human connection are aligned. Along the way, Will tells the story in full of one of the most amazing rides through the worlds of music and film that anyone has ever had.Will Smith’s transforma
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Vintage Espanol Si yo pude... ¡tú más! / If I Could...You Can
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The Sutherland House Inc. Miss World 1970: The basis for the film
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The Sutherland House Inc. Norman Jewison: A Director's Life
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Performing Ruins
Book SynopsisThis book engages with the relationship between ruins, dilapidation, and abandonment and cultural events performed within such spaces. Following the author’s fieldwork in the UK, Bosnia Herzegovina, Poland, Germany, Greece, and Sicily, chapters describe, investigate, and reflect upon live performance events which have taken place in sites of decay and abandonment. The book’s main focus is upon modern economic ruins and ruins of warfare. Each chapter provides several case studies based upon the author’s own site visits and interviews with actors, directors, producers, curators, writers, and other artists. The book contextualises these events within the wider framework of Ruin Studies and provides brief summaries of how we might understand the ruin in terms of time, politics, culture, and atmospheres. The book is particularly preoccupied with artists’ reasons and motivations for placing performance events in ruined spaces and how these work dramaturgically.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Ruining the Project, Subjectivities, Fields and Methods.- 2. Ruins in Context - Context in Ruins.- 3. Performing the Antiquary: Classical Ruins in the Greek Imaginary.- 4. Nature’s Ruins.- 5. Dissonance and Contestation: Ruining Heritage and its Alternatives.- 6. Legacies of War: Performing Balkan Ruins.- 7. Ruins of Capital.- 8. After Communism and the Cold War: a Ruined Inheritance.- 9. Conclusion: Ruining the Ruin or Pausing at a Partial View.-
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Analysing Gender in Performance
Book SynopsisAnalysing Gender in Performance brings together the fields of Gender Studies and Performance Analysis to explore how contemporary performance represents and interrogates gender. This edited collection includes a wide range of scholarly essays, as well as artists’ voices and their accounts of their works and practices. The Introduction outlines the book’s key approaches to concepts in English language gender discourses and gender’s intersectionalities, and sets out the approaches to performance analysis and methods of research employed by the various contributors. The book focuses on performances from the Global North, staged over the past fifty years. Case studies are diverse, ranging from site-specific, dance theatre, speculative drag, installation, and music video performances to Mabou Mines, Churchill, Shakespeare and Ibsen. Contributors explore how gender intersects with sexuality, social class, race, ethnicity, indigeneity, culture and history. Read individually or in tension with one another, the essays confront the contemporary complexities of analysing gender in performance. Table of Contents1 Introduction.Part I 1970s–1990s.2 Pina Bausch’s Kontakthof: Choreographies of Gender and Costume.3 Queer Becomings: The Ridiculous Theatrical Company’s Camille and Split Britches/Bloolips’ Belle Reprieve.4 Théâtre du Soleil and Ariane Mnouchkine: Living and Performing Gender Politics.5 Nora, Lucia, and Lear: Gender and Performance at Mabou Mines.6 Freaks and Not Freaks: Theatre and the Making of Crip Identity.7 Fires in the Mirror: Representations of Race, Gender and Class in Anna Deavere Smith’s Search for American Character.Part II Interruption: Artists Speak About Their Work.8 Black Women Performers: ‘I Don’t Want to Do Anything Else’.9 Trans-body-text: Exploring Performance Disruptions, a Discussion with Lazlo Pearlman.10 Embodied and En-sited Performance: Reflections on Gender in Cooking Miss Julie/Miss Julie Cooks and March of Women.11 A Manifesto of Living Self-portraiture (Identity, Transformation, and Performance).Part III 2000s–2020s.12 Love and Information by Caryl Churchill, or Sexuality and Gender in Non-binary Times.13 Gender and the Aesthetics of Occupation: Making Room for Women’s Labour at the Theatre.14 Performing Reproduction in an Age of Overproduction: Environmental Installations by Ai Hasegawa.15 Loose Wrists: Camp and Intersectional Politics in the Works of Cazwell, Todrick Hall, and Big Freedia.16 Riotous Assembly: Performing Gender and Social Justice in thisispopbaby’s RIOT.17 From Gimmick Casting to Standard Practice: Re-gendering Shakespeare in Performance.18 ‘Women’s Business’: Leah Purcell’s The Drover’s Wife and the Reclamation of Black Australian History.19 Gender-Assemblages: The Scenographics of Sin Wai Kin.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Uday Shankar and His Transcultural
Book SynopsisThis monograph presents a specific experience of modernity within the context of Indian dance by looking at the transcultural journey of Indian dancer / choreographer Uday Shankar (1900b – 1977d). His popularity in Europe and America as an Oriental male dancer in the first half of the 20th century, and his worldwide recognition as the Ambassador of Indian culture, are brought into a historiographical perspective within the cultural and social reforms of early twentieth century India. By exploring his artistic journey beyond India in the period between the two world wars, and his experience of dance making, presentational technique and representation of India through various phases of his life, a path is forged to understanding the emergence of modernity in Indian dance.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Uday Shankar and Indian Dance History.- Chapter 2 Modern Dance? Placing Shankar’s Transculturality in Colonial South Asia.- Chapter 3 Dancing ‘Oriental’ Masculinity: Uday Shankar and his Experiments in Modern Dance.- Chapter 4 An attempt at creating a modern institution.- Chapter 5 Beyond the Proscenium with Dance, Magic, and Film.- Chapter 6 The Illusive Legacy.
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Palgrave Macmillan Stanislavskys Use of Improvisation
Book SynopsisIntroduction.- First Phase The 1880s and Stanislavsky's Amateur Years.- Second Phase 1903-08, Placing Improvisation in the Production Process.- Third Phase 1912-16, The First Studio and Stanislavsky's Offshoots.- Fourth Phase 1924-28 and Stanislavsky's Final Legacies of the 1930s.- Conclusion.
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De Gruyter Kunst, Musik und Peter Brötzmann: Free Music Art
Book SynopsisSince the mid-1960s, Peter Brötzmann has made a decisive impact on the international free jazz and improvized music scene; parallel to his musical activity, he also practices as a visual artist. This volume takes a look at the outstanding “double talent” from various scholarly perspectives. It is dedicated to the artistic crossing of boundaries, asking how the art and music genres influence each other, and what parallels or differences can be identified in terms of artistic concepts and expressive forms. The focus is on the word “free” – as an element in the name of the music genre free jazz and the record label FMP, co-founded by Peter Brötzmann. This points to a social dimension, but also to a creative musical or artistic principle in relation to the “free arts”. The book contains one of the last interviews with the artist. Interdisciplinary contribution on reciprocal influences between musical and artistic genres New academic research on Peter Brötzmann
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Harrassowitz Zwischen Gewandhaus Und Gulag: Alexander Weprik
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Praxishandbuch Musiktheater für junges Publikum:
Book SynopsisZeitgenössisches Musiktheater für junges Publikum hat sich weit über den deutschsprachigen Raum hinaus zu einem wichtigen Genre im aktuellen Theaterbetrieb entwickelt. Dieses Handbuch gibt aus theaterpraktischer, künstlerischer und wissenschaftlicher Perspektive einen Überblick über die verschiedenen Arbeits- und Themenfelder. Ausgehend von der Vielfalt musikdramatischer Erscheinungsformen werden kompositorische und konzeptionelle Entstehungs- und Produktionsbedingungen untersucht, Wechselwirkungen zwischen strukturellen und ästhetischen Erscheinungsformen überprüft, Möglichkeiten interdisziplinärer und interkultureller Arbeitsweisen skizziert sowie Wege der Vermittlungsarbeit aufgezeigt. Das Handbuch vermittelt auf diese Weise nicht nur breite Einblicke in die aktuelle Diskussion der Zielsetzungen, Anforderungen und Wahrnehmungsweisen, sondern liefert auch vielfältige Anregungen.Trade Review“... gut lesbaren und dabei höchst fundierten Beiträgen das Genre abstecken: von den Produktionsstrukturen über Wahrnehmungsprozesse junger Zuschauer, Interkulturalität und, nicht zu vergessen, dem Bereich der Vermittlung. Für Theaterschaffende wie wissenschaftlich Forschende des Genres eine unverzichtbare Bestandsaufnahme” (Ulrike Kolter, in: Die Deutsche Bühne, die-deutsche-buehne.de, Oktober 2020)“... Das Handbuch ist reich bebildert, übersichtlich gegliedert und vor allem mit zahlreichen Internetquellen und Videolinks versehen. Diese machen es dem Leser einfach, tiefer zu recherchieren und Produktionsmittschnitte anzuschauen. Abschließende Personen- und Werkregister machen das Handbuch zu einer sehr wertvollen Recherche und Planungshilfe für alle, die im Musiktheater für junges Publikum Verantwortung tragen.” (Gerald Mertens, in: das Orchester, September 2020) “... Die Autoren geben Einblicke in ihre Arbeitsweisen und Produktionsstrukturen und werfen zugleich kulturpolitische und ästhetische Fragen auf. Sie wenden sich an Theaterschaffende und Wissenschaftler, aber auch an interessierte Leser. Zahlreiche Abbildungen und Notenbeispiele gestalten die Texte lebendig und lassen sich mittels Videolinks erweitern ...” (Wolfram Seidner, in: Vox Humana, Heft 2, 2020) Table of ContentsI Standortbestimmung.- II Produktionsstrukturen und -ästhetiken.- III. Komponieren für und mit Kindern undJugendlichen.- Theaterarbeit.- Partizipation.- Anhang.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Die Kunst des Interpretierens: Gespräche über
Book SynopsisAlfred Brendel und Peter Gülke pflegen die Kunst des Interpretierens auf einzigartige Weise: Brendel als weltberühmter Pianist, der auch Bücher über Musik publiziert, Peter Gülke als mehrfach für seine Sprach-Kunst des Interpretierens ausgezeichneter Autor, der auch Dirigent ist. In diesem Buch denken sie in einem intellektuell und emotional berührenden Ideen- und Erfahrungsaustausch gemeinsam über die Praxis des Interpretierens nach. Einerseits geschieht dies ganz konkret bezogen auf Schuberts und Beethovens Musik. Andererseits diskutieren sie über Grundsätzliches wie die Frage, welche Freiheit Musikerinnen und Musiker beim Aufführen von Musik haben, und über die Möglichkeiten, sinnvoll über Musik zu sprechen, das heißt: sie sprachlich zu interpretieren.Trade Review“... Belehrsam und vertieft philosophieren die beiden Herren über ihr Metier, widersprechen sich auch einmal und machen unterschiedliche Argumente geltend. ... Alfred Brendel und Peter Gülke nähern sich zwar mit den Erfahrungen ihres Interpretierens den Werken ...” (Neue musikalische Blätter, Mai 2021)“... Sprache interpretieren heisse Sprache «verstehen»; Musik interpretieren bedeute hingegen Musik «machen». Ganz so einfach, wie es Adornos berühmtes Diktum in lustvoller Übertreibung zuspitzt, ist es eben nicht: Es gibt verstehendes Musizieren und musikalisches Verstehen, die sich dort begegnen, wohin auch Sprache zielt. Hier kann man zwei Meistern ihres Fachs zuhören, die beides können.” (Hans-Joachim Hinrichsen, in: NZZ Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 4. Januar 2021)“Fortgeschrittene werden dagegen großen Gewinn aus den Dialogen der beiden Granden einer sehr reflektierten Annäherung an das Repertoire ziehen, aus einem offen gestalteten Gedankenaustausch voller überraschender Wendungen beim Mäandern durch das Beziehungsgeflecht zwischen den Komponisten und darüber hinaus – fazinierende Teilhabe an einem unfassbaren Erfahrungsschatz.” (Michael Wackerbauer, in: Neue Musikzeitung, Heft 2, 2021)“... Es ist für musikalische Praktiker wie Musik-Hörer, für Laien wie Professionelle aufschlußreich. Es bietet hohes Lesevergnügen ... Für bibliothekarische Musikbestände ist es vom allgemeinen „populären“ bis zum speziellen musikwissenschaftlichen Angebot ausgesprochen empfehlenswert.” (Albert Raffelt, in: Informationsmittel für Bibliotheken, informationsmittel-fuer-bibliotheken.de, Jg. 29, Heft 1, 2021)Table of ContentsVorwort.- Schuberts letzte Sonaten.- Gespräche.- Briefwechsel
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Hatje Cantz Lars Eidinger (bilingual): Autistic Disco
Book SynopsisYou can find him on the stage or in front of a film camera, in the director’s chair or at the mixing board—Lars Eidinger has many faces, and not just as an actor. His performances testify to a sheer, inexhaustible energy that makes every appearance a tour de force that infects and electrifies the audience in an almost magical way. No less can be expected from his photographic works, which are gathered together here for the first time in a publication. As diverse as the subjects of the pictures are, they still allow us to recognise Eidinger’s signature: elements of fi m and theatre unite to form a unique rhythm that transforms the everyday into a paradoxical world essence. Only one word can suitably describe the richness of these visual spheres and the way of seeing that they articulate: epic.
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Prestel Ed Watson: A Different Dance
Book SynopsisEd Watson, Principal Dancer with The Royal Ballet for over 20 years is a unique talent; a widely celebrated collaborator in dance, photography and fashion. Each illustrated essay of this gorgeous volume focuses on a distinct aspect of Watson’s career. Leading art critic Sarah Crompton discusses his trajectory from young student to principal dancer and coach with The Royal Ballet. Wayne McGregor reflects on their long and fruitful collaboration. Longtime friend Charlotte MacMillan engages in a lively conversation with the man himself, while Gareth Pugh muses on the concept of duende. Dozens of images by leading photographers—including Rick Guest, Nick Knight, Anthony Crickmay, Kosmas Pavlos, Nadav Kander, Paul Smith, Laurence Ellis, Teddy Iborra Wicksteed, Liz Seagrove, Paul Grover, and Johan Persson—depict Watson throughout his career, in rehearsal, on fashion shoots, in the dressing room, and in stills from his famed performances. Together these words and images tell the story of a performer of extraordinary versatility, exceptional physicality, and a profound artistic sensibility.
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Schirmer/Mosel Verlag GmbH R.W.Fassbinder Film Stills: 1966-1982
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Alan Ayckbourn in Chekhov's Footsteps. A Study of
Book SynopsisMustafa Kirca explores the dark sides of Alan Ayckbourn's comedy by comparing the playwright's characters with those of Chekhov's drama and drawing a parallelism in the character portrayal of both artists. The significance of Ayckbourn's plays, following Chekhov's footsteps, particularly lies in his vivid portrayal of characters from everyday life with psychological depth. Kirca shows that the fine mix of comedy and tragedy in Ayckbourn's drama is conveyed through his realistic characterization contrary to the farcical style of his plays. This kind of character portrayal in Ayckbourn's plays brings him very close to Chekhov and establishes the known equilibrium between comedy and tragedy in his theatre. The study covers Ayckbourn's Absent Friends, Just Between Ourselves, Joking Apart, Season's Greetings, Woman in Mind, A Small Family Business, and Henceforward. From Chekhov's drama, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, The Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard are included to define the general Chekhovian character traits. The book is especially interesting for teachers, students, and for general readers who are interested in modern 'human comedies'.
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Beckett, Lacan and the Voice
Book SynopsisThe voice traverses Beckett's work in its entirety, defining its space and its structure. Emanating from an indeterminate source situated outside the narrators and characters, while permeating the very words they utter, it proves to be incessant. It can alternatively be violently intrusive, or embody a calming presence. Literary creation will be charged with transforming the mortification it inflicts into a vivifying relationship to language. In the exploration undertaken here, Lacanian psychoanalysis offers the means to approach the voice's multiple and fundamentally paradoxical facets with regards to language that founds the subject's vital relation to existence. Far from seeking to impose a rigid and purely abstract framework, this study aims to highlight the singularity and complexity of Beckett's work, and to outline a potentially vast field of investigation.
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V&R unipress GmbH Klaus Michael Grüber - Homo Viator: Archivalien
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VFMK Art of Wagnis: Christoph Schlingensief's Crossing
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Prh Grupo Editorial El Taylorverso La vida de Taylor Swift a través
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Silvana Editoriale S.P.A. Arthur Cravan Maintenant
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£32.00
Amsterdam University Press Create or Die: Essays on the Artistry of Dennis
Book SynopsisDennis Hopper (1936-2010) was one of most charismatic and protean figures to emerge from the American independent film movement of the 1960s and '70s, an incredibly compelling screen presence who helped give cult classics like Easy Rider and Blue Velvet their off-kilter appeal. But his artistic interests went far beyond acting, and this collection of essays is the first major work to take in Hopper as a creative artist in all his fields of endeavour, from acting and directing to photography, sculpture, and expressionist painting. Stephen Naish doesn't skimp on covering Hopper's best-known work, but he breaks new ground in putting it in context with his other creative enterprises, showing how one medium informs another, and how they offer a portrait of an artist who was restless, even flawed at times, but always aiming to live up to his motto: create or die. Follow the podcasts by Steve Naish here Trade Review'Stephen Lee Naish offers a meticulous and passionate study of Dennis Hopper's astonishing output, which frequently broke with conventions. Naish shows Hopper as a man who considered himself a 'social critic', but one who could never escape his most indelible creation. Naish writes with great clarity and sense, bringing to life this towering figure of Hollywood legend.' - Matthew Alford, Author, Reel Power: Hollywood Cinema and American Supremacy 'The fact that Dennis Hopper was more than a movie star is no secret. This collection of essays brings a fresh set of perspectives to bear on the products of Hopper's creativity. By considering different aspects, across culture, across media, across decades, Naish illustrates that there is substantially more to Hopper's cultural significance than can be discerned from just the work for which he is best remembered.' - Dr. Matthew Winston, author of Gonzo Text: Disentangling Meaning in Hunter S. Thompson's Journalism 'Engaging and insightful, Create or Die examines the multifaceted genius of Dennis Hopper - political enthusiast, accomplished photographer, and groundbreaking director and actor. A must-read for anyone interested in this iconic American cultural figure.' - Paul Alexander, author of Being James Dean and Boulevard of Broken Dreams: The Life Times, and Legend of James Dean Growing up in the 1980s, I first encountered Dennis Hopper in the same role that transfixed Stephen Lee Naish: Hopper's astonishing portrayal of Frank Booth in Blue Velvet, which seems more like a possession than a performance. Naish's set of critical essays do Hopper a great service. They show how deeply embedded Hopper was in postwar American culture: as an actor and as a still-underrated director (and a pioneer of modern soundtracking), as a photographer, a writer, and even as the subversive star of a set of advertisements. Hopefully this book will bolster the reputation of someone who often was written off during his lifetime as something of a countercultural jester. In truth, Hopper was a gifted American artist who existed, as Naish writes, "often in a constant state of self-referral." Chris O'Leary, author of Rebel Rebel: All the Songs of David Bowie from '64 to '76 'This painstakingly researched monograph is a welcome addition to the growing body of critical work on Dennis Hopper. Sharp in detail and perceptive on the popular cultural context, Naish strikes a judicial balance between loving portrait and his keen awareness that, above all, it is personal weaknesses and failings that have driven the phenomenon that is Hopper - an actor unable to play anyone other than himself; an artist, obsessive, as all great artists are. Naish's study comes closer than any other to understanding this phenomenon.' - Dr Alexander Graf, Senior Lecturer School of Film, Photography & Digital Media, University of South Wales, author The Cinema of Wim Wenders: The Celluloid Highway. 'I love a good essay about a misinterpreted creator. Here we get eight! Like many actors of his breadth, Dennis Hopper's public identity was invented by the number of intense characters he played, but Hopper was much more than Frank Booth. In fact, as Steve Naish tells us through a series of academic essays, Hopper was influential in everything from photography to hip-hop. This is for those who want to see what was under the oxygen mask.' - Lindsay Gibb, author of National Treasure: Nicolas Cage 'Blending critical distance with personal account of Hopper’s influence on him, Naish’s book is a page-turner printed by a university press [...]' - Roy Christopher's Summer Reading List, 2016Table of ContentsIntroduction Scenes from a Revolutionary Life Hip-Hopp: Dennis Hopper and Music The Elephant in the Room: Dennis Hopper and American Politics Love and Hate: The Conflict of Emotions in The Blackout and Carried Away Commercial Breakdown: Dennis Hopper in the World of Advertisements White Light/White Heat: Actor and Character Collide in White Star Double Standards: The Art and Photography of Dennis Hopper Coda: Breaking the Fourth Wall Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Index
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Nordic Academic Press Making the invisible visible: Reclaiming women’s
Book SynopsisTo describe women in film history as "invisible" may seem strange as throughout film history, women on the silver screen have given audiences their version of what it is to be a woman. And as film stars they have always been associated with the glamour of the film industry - the living embodiment of female attraction and pleasure. In Making the invisible visible, however, a group of researchers dissect the underrepresentation of women in areas of film culture often overlooked. Despite some significant differences - between countries, between eras, between kinds of job - production teams and film crews have almost always been men. Still today, many film professions are dominated by men. The authors explore womens scope for action in a variety of professional roles, based for example on discussions of LGBTQ+ identities in the film industry. The texts also present fresh perspectives on women actors and the nature of celebrity. Contributors: Elisabet Björklund, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Linnaeus University, Sweden. Dagmar Brunow, Associate Professor in Film Studies at Linnaeus University, Sweden. Eirik Frisvold Hanssen, Head of the Film and Broadcasting Section at the National Library of Norway. Christopher Natzén, Research coordinator at the National Library of Sweden. Ingrid Ryberg, filmmaker and Senior Lecturer in Culture, Aesthetics and Media - University of Gothenburg. Tytti Soila, Professor Emeritus in Cinema Studies at Stockholm University.
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Amsterdam University Press The Structures of the Film Experience by
Book SynopsisFor the first time this volume makes Jean-Pierre Meunier’s insightful thoughts on the film experience available for an English-speaking readership. Introduced and commented by specialists in film studies and philosophy, Meunier’s intricate phenomenological descriptions of the spectator’s engagement with fiction films, documentaries and home movies can reach the wide audience they have deserved ever since their publication in French in 1969.Trade Review"This is a very likeable scholarly project about Jean-Pierre Meunier, a Belgian film theoretician who wrote an important theoretical work on spectatorship over fifty years ago. It exemplifies the very best in contemporary cinema scholarship dedicated to completing its own history, and may it keep doing so."- Christophe Wall-Romana, University of Minnesota, H-France Review Vol. 21 (May 2021), No. 78 "Supplemented by insightful critical essays and an especially useful and informed introduction, this English translation of a pioneering phenomenological film theorist’s work is without doubt a major event in Anglophone film studies and the philosophy of film. Meunier’s writings are highly significant both historically and conceptually — and as the volume’s essays and interview further demonstrate, his nuanced account of moving-image experience is strikingly current and widely applicable."- Daniel Yacavone, The University of Edinburgh "The Structures of the Film Experience, originally published in 1969, provides unique insight into and even prefigures many of the concerns of contemporary phenomenological and cognitive film theory. Thus it is a welcome development to see this book translated into English. This volume contains not only Meunier’s book-in-translation, but also an introduction, a recent interview, and more than a dozen chapters by leading scholars who contextualize, explicate, and wrestle with Meunier’s ideas. This unique and well-designed volume thus makes a vital contribution to film theory."- Carl Plantinga, Calvin CollegeTable of ContentsJulian Hanich/Daniel Fairfax: Introduction Julian Hanich/Daniel Fairfax: "Every Theory Needs a Reference to Lived Experience": An Interview with Jean-Pierre Meunier Part I Jean-Pierre Meunier: The Structures of the Film Experience: Filmic Identification Introduction Part One: Introduction to the General Structures of Experience Chapter I: Perception I. The point of view of traditional psychology II. The findings of phenomenology Chapter II: Identification I. The origins of the concept II. Identification as the behavior of private intersubjectivity III. The principal aspects of identification a) The motor aspect b) The affective aspect c) The dramatic aspect d) Identification as the basis for the valorization (or devalorization) of other people IV. Fleeting and structuring identifications V. Identification, projection, introjection VI. Identification, mimicry and imitation VII. Identification and personality VIII. Identification, communication and information Part Two: The Film Experience Chapter I: Filmic Consciousness Faced with its Object I. The film as an object of perception II. Film, real and unreal III. The imaginary consciousness IV. The attitudes of filmic consciousness faced with its object a) The home movie b) The documentary film c) The fiction film V. From the home movie to the fiction film VI. Movement 1. The experience of movement 2. Movement in the cinema a) Movement in the home movie b) Movement in the documentary film c) Movement in the fiction film VII. Conclusion Chapter II: Filmic Behavior, Identification I. The types of filmic identification a) Identification in the 'home-movie attitude' b) Identification in the 'documentary attitude' c) Identification in the 'fiction attitude' II. The Differentiation of Identification According to Different Characters Chapter III: Towards Post-Filmic Behavior General Conclusion Part II Critical Essays, Historical Assessments, Phenomenological Expansions I: PLACING MEUNIER IN THE HISTORY OF FILM THEORY Dudley Andrew: Stages of an Encounter with Filmic Identification Daniel Fairfax: Between Phenomenology and Psychoanalysis: Jean-Pierre Meunier's Theory of Identification in the Cinema Robert Sinnerbrink: The Missing Link: Meunier on Imagination and Emotional Engagement II: ON THE HOME-MOVIE ATTITUDE Vivian Sobchack: 'Me, Myself, and I': On the Uncanny in Home Movies Marie-Aude Baronian: Remembering Cinema: On the film-souvenir III: ON IDENTIFICATION Christian Ferencz-Flatz: You Talkin' to Me? On Filmic Identification in Video-Selfies Victor Fan: Illuminating Reality: Cinematic Identification Revisited in the Eyes of Buddhist Philosophies Kate Ince: Whose Identification? A Brief Meditation on the Relevance of Jean-Pierre Meunier's The Structures of the Film Experience to Contemporary Feminist Film Phenomenology IV: REFERENTIALITY AND MEDIATION Guido Kirsten: Jean-Pierre Meunier's Modalities of the "Filmic Attitude": Towards a Theory of Referentiality in Cinematic Discourse Florian Sprenger: Phenomenology, Immediacy, and Mediation: On Derrida, Meunier and Landgrebe V: PHENOMENOLOGICAL EXPANSIONS Jennifer M. Barker: Cinema and Child's Play Vinzenz Hediger: Engines of the Historical Imagination: Towards a Phenomenology of Cinema as Non-Art Julian Hanich: When Viewers Drift Off: A Brief Phenomenology of Cinematic Daydreaming List of Illustrations List of Contributors
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Hong Kong University Press Jin Yan – The Rudolph Valentino of Shanghai
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Augsburg Fortress Publishers Dearly Beloved
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