Alan Ackerman

Seeing Things

From Shakespeare to Pixar

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. August 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 160mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9781442643642
• ISBN-10: 1442643641
• Artikelnr.: 33458039

Autorenporträt

Alan Ackerman is a professor in the Department of English at the University of Toronto.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
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
Works Cited
Index