{"product_id":"seeing-things-9781442643642","title":"Seeing Things","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlan Ackerman charts the dynamic history of interactions between showing and knowing in Seeing Things, a richly interdisciplinary study which illuminates changing modes of perception and modern representational media.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'In these elegant essays, at once theatrical and philosophical, Alan Ackerman offers a probing meditation on sight and on the lingering mysteries of the invisible.' -- Martin Puchner, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Harvard University and author of The Drama of Ideas: Platonic Provocations in Theater and Philosophy 'I was consistently engaged and fascinated by Alan Ackerman's outstanding book, Seeing Things. What is most exciting about this study is Ackerman's perceptions: through compelling intellectual inquiry, he takes the reader on a wonderful journey through his complex and inquisitive mind.' -- David Krasner, Department of Performing Arts, Emerson College '... Alan Ackerman confronts us with the spectral question: to see or not to see? From Plato to Ibsen and Beckett to Disney Toy Story movies, you're asked to rehearse perception - philosophically, aesthetically, even metaphysically - in the mind's eye.' -- Herbert Blau, Byron W. and Alice L. Lockwood Professor of the Humanities, University of Washington\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements  Introduction  1 A Spirit of Giving in A Midsummer Night \t's Dream  2 Visualizing Hamlet's Ghost: The Theatrical Spirit of  Modern Subjectivity  3 Samuel  Beckett's spectres du noir: The Being  of Painting and The Flatness of Film  4 The  Spirit of Toys: Resurrection, Redemption, and Consumption in Toy Story, Toy Story 2, and Beyond  Works Cited  Index","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040021905751,"sku":"9781442643642","price":39.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781442643642.jpg?v=1750945542","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/seeing-things-9781442643642","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}