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Description: Seeing Things by Alan Ackerman Alan 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. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description A technological revolution has changed the way we see things. The storytelling media employed by Pixar Animation Studios, Samuel Beckett, and William Shakespeare differ greatly, yet these creators share a collective fascination with the nebulous boundary between material objects and our imaginative selves. How do the acts of seeing and believing remain linked? Alan 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.Seeing Things demonstrates that the airy nothings of A Midsummer Nights Dream, the Ghost in Hamlet, and soulless bodies in Becketts media experiments, alongside Toy Storys digitally animated toys, all serve to illustrate the modern problem of visualizing, as Hamlet put it, that within which passes show. Ackerman carefully analyses such ghostly appearances and disappearances across cultural forms and contexts from the early modern period to the present, investigating the tension between our distrust of shadows and our abiding desire to believe in invisible realities. Seeing Things provides a fresh and surprising cultural history through theatrical, verbal, pictorial, and cinematic representations. Notes 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 Ackermans outstanding book, Seeing Things. What is most exciting about this study is Ackermans 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, youre asked to rehearse perception -- philosophically, aesthetically, even metaphysically -- in the minds eye. -- Herbert Blau, Byron W. and Alice L. Lockwood Professor of the Humanities, University of Washington Author Biography Alan Ackerman is a professor in the Department of English at the University of Toronto. Table of Contents AcknowledgementsIntroduction1 A Spirit of Giving in A Midsummer Night s Dream2 Visualizing Hamlets Ghost: The Theatrical Spirit of Modern Subjectivity3 Samuel Becketts spectres du noir: The Being of Painting and The Flatness of Film4 The Spirit of Toys: Resurrection, Redemption, and Consumption in Toy Story, Toy Story 2, and BeyondWorks CitedIndex Review 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 PhilosophyI was consistently engaged and fascinated by Alan Ackermans outstanding book, Seeing Things. What is most exciting about this study is Ackermans 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, youre asked to rehearse perception – philosophically, aesthetically, even metaphysically – in the minds eye. -- Herbert Blau, Byron W. and Alice L. Lockwood Professor of the Humanities, University of Washington Promotional 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 Ackermans outstanding book, Seeing Things. What is most exciting about this study is Ackermans 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, youre asked to rehearse perception -- philosophically, aesthetically, even metaphysically -- in the minds eye. -- Herbert Blau, Byron W. and Alice L. Lockwood Professor of the Humanities, University of Washington Long Description A technological revolution has changed the way we see things. The storytelling media employed by Pixar Animation Studios, Samuel Beckett, and William Shakespeare differ greatly, yet these creators share a collective fascination with the nebulous boundary between material objects and our imaginative selves. How do the acts of seeing and believing remain linked? Alan 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. Seeing Things demonstrates that the airy nothings of A Midsummer Nights Dream, the Ghost in Hamlet, and soulless bodies in Becketts media experiments, alongside Toy Storys digitally animated toys, all serve to illustrate the modern problem of visualizing, as Hamlet put it, that within which passes show. Ackerman carefully analyses such ghostly appearances and disappearances across cultural forms and contexts from the early modern period to the present, investigating the tension between our distrust of shadows and our abiding desire to believe in invisible realities. Seeing Things provides a fresh and surprising cultural history through theatrical, verbal, pictorial, and cinematic representations. Review Quote I was consistently engaged and fascinated by Alan Ackermans outstanding book, Seeing Things. What is most exciting about this study is Ackermans perceptions: through compelling intellectual inquiry, he takes the reader on a wonderful journey through his complex and inquisitive mind. Details ISBN144261210X Author Alan Ackerman Year 2011 ISBN-10 144261210X ISBN-13 9781442612105 Media Book Format Paperback Pages 192 Publisher University of Toronto Press Imprint University of Toronto Press Subtitle From Shakespeare to Pixar Place of Publication Toronto Country of Publication Canada DEWEY 809 Short Title SEEING THINGS Language English UK Release Date 2011-08-20 Publication Date 2011-08-20 Alternative 9781442643642 Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly AU Release Date 2011-08-22 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:161702058;

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