The Resource Seeing things : from Shakespeare to Pixar, Alan Ackerman
Seeing things : from Shakespeare to Pixar, Alan Ackerman
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The item Seeing things : from Shakespeare to Pixar, Alan Ackerman represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of San Diego Libraries.
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- Summary
- "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 Night's Dream, the Ghost in Hamlet, and soulless bodies in Beckett's media experiments, alongside Toy Story's 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."--Pub. desc
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (x, 169 pages)
- Contents
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- 1 A Spirit of Giving in A Midsummer Night '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
- Isbn
- 9781442696525
- Label
- Seeing things : from Shakespeare to Pixar
- Title
- Seeing things
- Title remainder
- from Shakespeare to Pixar
- Statement of responsibility
- Alan Ackerman
- Subject
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- ART -- Reference
- Aufführungspraxis
- Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989
- Communication visuelle
- Electronic books
- Konst och teknik
- Kunst
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- General
- Perception visuelle
- Pixar Animation Studios
- Technologie
- Technologie et arts
- ART -- Performance
- Technology and the arts
- Visual communication
- Visual communication
- Visual perception
- Visual perception
- Visuell kommunikation
- Visuell perception
- Visuelle Kommunikation
- Visuelle Kommunikation
- Visuelle Wahrnehmung
- Visuelle Wahrnehmung
- Technology and the arts
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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 Night's Dream, the Ghost in Hamlet, and soulless bodies in Beckett's media experiments, alongside Toy Story's 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."--Pub. desc
- Cataloging source
- CELBN
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Ackerman, Alan L.
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Language note
- English
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Beckett, Samuel
- Pixar Animation Studios
- Technology and the arts
- Visual communication
- Visual perception
- Technologie et arts
- Communication visuelle
- Perception visuelle
- ART
- ART
- LITERARY CRITICISM
- Technology and the arts
- Visual communication
- Visual perception
- Kunst
- Technologie
- Visuelle Kommunikation
- Visuelle Wahrnehmung
- Visuelle Kommunikation
- Visuelle Wahrnehmung
- Aufführungspraxis
- Konst och teknik
- Visuell kommunikation
- Visuell perception
- Label
- Seeing things : from Shakespeare to Pixar, Alan Ackerman
- Antecedent source
- file reproduced from original
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 1 A Spirit of Giving in A Midsummer Night '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
- Control code
- ocn776812432
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (x, 169 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781442696525
- Lccn
- 2011501839
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt56t6j
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)776812432
- Label
- Seeing things : from Shakespeare to Pixar, Alan Ackerman
- Antecedent source
- file reproduced from original
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 1 A Spirit of Giving in A Midsummer Night '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
- Control code
- ocn776812432
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (x, 169 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781442696525
- Lccn
- 2011501839
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt56t6j
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)776812432
Subject
- ART -- Reference
- Aufführungspraxis
- Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989
- Communication visuelle
- Electronic books
- Konst och teknik
- Kunst
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- General
- Perception visuelle
- Pixar Animation Studios
- Technologie
- Technologie et arts
- ART -- Performance
- Technology and the arts
- Visual communication
- Visual communication
- Visual perception
- Visual perception
- Visuell kommunikation
- Visuell perception
- Visuelle Kommunikation
- Visuelle Kommunikation
- Visuelle Wahrnehmung
- Visuelle Wahrnehmung
- Technology and the arts
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