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The Making of... Adaptation and the Cultural Imaginary

Author : Jan Cronin
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030283490

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The Making of... Adaptation and the Cultural Imaginary by Jan Cronin Pdf

This book explores “Making of” sites as a genre of cultural artefact. Moving beyond “making-of” documentaries, the book analyses novels, drama, film, museum exhibitions and popular studies that re-present the making of culturally loaded film adaptations. It argues that the “Making of” genre operates on an adaptive spectrum, orienting towards and enacting the adaptation of films and their making. The book examines the behaviours that characterise “Making of” sites across visual media; it explores the cultural work done by these sites, why recognition of “Making of” sites as adaptations matters, and why our conception of adaptation matters. Part one focuses on the adaptive domain presented by the “Making of” John Ford’s The Quiet Man. Part two attends to “Making of” Gone with the Wind sites, and concludes with “Making of” The Lord of the Rings texts as the acme of the cultural risks and investments charted in earlier chapters.

Research Handbook on Law and Technology

Author : Bartosz Brożek,Olia Kanevskaia,Przemysław Pałka
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781803921327

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Research Handbook on Law and Technology by Bartosz Brożek,Olia Kanevskaia,Przemysław Pałka Pdf

This thorough and incisive Research Handbook reconstructs the scholarly discourses surrounding the field of law and technology, discussing the salient legal, governance and societal problems stemming from the use of different technologies, and how they should be treated under various legal frameworks. This title contains one or more Open Access chapters.

Automating Cities

Author : Brydon T. Wang,C. M. Wang
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-04
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789811586705

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Automating Cities by Brydon T. Wang,C. M. Wang Pdf

This book highlights the latest advancements in the use of automated systems in the design, construction, operation and future of the built environment and its occupants. It considers how the use of automated decision-making frameworks, artificial intelligence and other technologies of automation are presently impacting the practice of architects, engineers, project managers and contractors, and articulates the near future changes to workflows, legal frameworks and the wider AEC industry. This book surveys and compiles the use of city apps, robots that operate buildings and fabricate structural elements, 3D printing, drones, sensors, algorithms, and advanced prefabricated modules. The book also contributes to the growing literature on smart cities, and explores the impacts on data privacy and data sovereignty that arise through the use of sensors, digital twins and intelligent transport systems. It provides a useful reference for further research and development in the area of automation in design and construction to architects, engineers, project managers, superintendents and construction lawyers, contractors, policy makers, and students.

Andre Bazin on Adaptation

Author : André Bazin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520375802

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Andre Bazin on Adaptation by André Bazin Pdf

"Adaptation was central to André Bazin's lifelong query: What is cinema? Placing films alongside literature let him identify the aesthetic and sociological distinctiveness of each. More importantly, it helped him wage his campaign for a modern conception of cinema, one that owed a great deal to developments in the novel. His critical genius is on full display in this collection, where readers are introduced to the foundational concepts of the relationship between film and literary adaptation as put forth by one of the greatest film and cultural critics of the 20th century. Expertly curated and with an introduction by celebrated film scholar Dudley Andrew, the book begins with a selection of essays that show Bazin's film theory in action, followed by reviews of films adapted from renowned novelists of the day (Conrad, Hemingway, Steinbeck; Colette, Sagan, Duras; and more) as well as classic novels of the 19th century (Bronte, Melville, Tolstoy; Balzac, Hugo, Zola; Stendhal and more). Taken together, this volume will be an indispensable resource for anyone interested in literary adaptation, authorship, classical film theory, French film history, and André Bazin's criticism alike. As a bonus, 250 years of French fiction is put in play as Bazin assesses adaptation after adaptation to determine what is at stake for culture, for literature and especially for cinema"--

Religion in Cultural Imaginary

Author : Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati
Publisher : Nomos Verlag
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783845264066

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Religion in Cultural Imaginary by Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati Pdf

Das vielschichtige Konzept des Imaginären erweist sich als weiterführende Kategorie, um die Präsenz und Diffusion religiöser Symbole, Weltbilder und Narrative in verschiedenen Medien und gesellschaftlichen Bereichen wie Politik, Wirtschaft, Kunst und Populärkultur einzufangen. Eingesetzt, um die Rezeption und Transformation religiöser Referenzen durch Zeit und Kulturen zu fassen, kann das Imaginäre verstanden werden als geteilter Fundus von mentalen Bildern und materiellen Gegenständen, von Ideen, Symbolen, Werten und Praktiken, die zur Produktion von Bedeutung und dem gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt beitragen. Im Schnittbereich von soziologischen, politisch-philosophischen und kulturwissenschaftlichen Zugängen zu Religion bietet die interdisziplinäre Studie einen intensiven Austausch zwischen theoretischer Diskussion und reichhaltigen empirischen Analysen. Mit Beiträgen von Daria Pezzoli-Ogiati, Ann Jeffers, Anna-Katharina Höpflinger, Paola von Wyss-Giacosa, Natasha O'Hear, Davide Zordan, Natalie Fritz, Marie-Therese Mäder, Sean Ryan, Stefanie Knauss, Alexander D. Ornella

New Television, Globalisation, and the East Asian Cultural Imagination

Author : Michael Keane,Anthony Y.H. Fung,Albert Moran
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789622098206

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New Television, Globalisation, and the East Asian Cultural Imagination by Michael Keane,Anthony Y.H. Fung,Albert Moran Pdf

Challenging assumptions that have underpinned critiques of globalisation and combining cultural theory with media industry analysis, Keane, Fung and Moran give a groundbreaking account of the evolution of television in the post-broadcasting era, and how programming ideas are creatively redeveloped and franchised in East Asia. In this first comprehensive study of television program adaptation across cultures, the authors argue that adaptation, transfer, and recycling of content are multiplying to the point of marginalising other economic and cultural practices. They also show that significant re-modelling of local TV production practices occur when adaptation is genuinely responsive to local values. Examples of East Asian format adaptations include Survivor, Who Wants to be a Millionaire?, The Weakest Link, Coronation Street, and Idol.

Literary Narratives and the Cultural Imagination

Author : María Odette Canivell Arzú
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498536967

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Literary Narratives and the Cultural Imagination by María Odette Canivell Arzú Pdf

In Literary Narratives and the Cultural Imagination: King Arthur and Don Quixote as National Heroes the author examines traditional Arthurian and Cervantine literary narratives to discuss how the two literary figures became paladins of their respective nations. Whereas the former bestows upon the homeland a positive image of Britain, based on military might, a glorious past and a promise of return, the latter contributes to a negative image of Spain based on a narrative of defeat and faded glory. In the analysis of the political intentions behind the literature that gave wings to the rise as paragons of these very famous literary characters, a semblance of the national imaginaries of the countries of their birth appears. Indeed, the tradition of Waterloo and the tradition of La Mancha are polar opposites in their Weltanschauung, and they only have in common that both heroes, Arthur and Quijote, are depicted as paladins of justice, benefactors, and redeemers of their land of birth. It is this idealized view of what is possibly the figment of a writer’s (or many different writers) pen that astonishes the reader, for behind it lies an intention to market (for internal and external consumption) both literary creations, exceeding the boundaries of the creative fiction that invented them to transform them into myths and political symbols of their respective nations.

Political Adaptation in Canadian Theatre

Author : Kailin Wright
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780228003243

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Political Adaptation in Canadian Theatre by Kailin Wright Pdf

In Canada, adaptation is a national mode of survival, but it is also a way to create radical change. Throughout history, Canadians have been inheritors and adaptors: of political systems, stories, and customs from the old world and the new. More than updating popular narratives, adaptation informs understandings of culture, race, gender, and sexuality, as well as individual experiences. In Political Adaptation in Canadian Theatre Kailin Wright investigates adaptations that retell popular stories with a political purpose and examines how they acknowledge diverse realities and transform our past. Political Adaptation in Canadian Theatre explores adaptations of Canadian history, Shakespeare, Greek mythologies, and Indigenous history by playwrights who identify as English-Canadian, African-Canadian, French-Canadian, French, Kuna Rappahannock, and Delaware from the Six Nations. Along with new considerations of the activist potential of popular Canadian theatre, this book outlines eight strategies that adaptors employ to challenge conceptions of what it means to be Indigenous, Black, queer, or female. Recent cancellations of theatre productions whose creators borrowed elements from minority cultures demonstrate the need for a distinction between political adaptation and cultural appropriation. Wright builds on Linda Hutcheon's definition of adaptation as repetition with difference and applies identification theory to illustrate how political adaptation at once underlines and undermines its canonical source. An exciting intervention in adaptation studies, Political Adaptation in Canadian Theatre unsettles the dynamics of popular and political theatre and rethinks the ways performance can contribute to how one country defines itself.

Venice and the Cultural Imagination

Author : Michael O'Neill,Mark Sandy,Sarah Wootton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317322603

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Venice and the Cultural Imagination by Michael O'Neill,Mark Sandy,Sarah Wootton Pdf

In the era of the Grand Tour, Venice was the cultural jewel in the crown of Europe and the epitome of decadence. This edited collection of eleven essays draws on a range of disciplines and approaches to ask how Venice’s appeal has affected Western culture since 1800.

Rocket States: Atomic Weaponry and the Cultural Imagination

Author : Fabienne Collignon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781623569426

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Rocket States: Atomic Weaponry and the Cultural Imagination by Fabienne Collignon Pdf

Rocket States crosses the disciplines of Cold War Studies, American Literature, American Studies and Cultural Studies. The particular attraction of this study lies in the combination of its range-close textual and visual analysis of the correlations between land and weaponry, set firmly within its political and cultural contexts-with its unique analytical approach. The book offers a synthesis between history, theories of technology, theories of space, popular culture, literary study and military science. It illuminates a variety of literary texts from key writers and thinkers such as Pynchon, Stephen King, Norman Mailer, and Tom Wolfe, while also invoking figures like Nikola Tesla, James Webb, Batman and Ronald Reagan. Organised topographically, according to how missile technology manifests itself differently in particular locations, Rocket States's geographical targets are Colorado, Kansas, Cape Canaveral and New York, variously titled 'Excavation', 'Preservation', 'Evacuation' and 'Transmission'. It advances through these states roughly chronologically, beginning in the late 1940s and early 1950s and coming to an end in the first part of the 21st century. Collignon's argument is concerned with identifying the recurring figures and fantasies of the Cold War: the dome or parabola as sheltering techno-form; the fictions of total security adapting to constantly changing targeting strategies; gadget love; closed, freezing worlds. As such, Rocket States analyses by what processes the Cold War is frequently literalised in its weapons installations and how these facilities, in turn, shape dreams of containment, survival, escape and techno-supremacy.

Adaptation and Cultural Appropriation

Author : Pascal Nicklas,Oliver Lindner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110272239

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Adaptation and Cultural Appropriation by Pascal Nicklas,Oliver Lindner Pdf

“Hamlet” by Olivier, Kaurismäki or Shepard and “Pride and Prejudice” in its many adaptations show the virulence of these texts and the importance of aesthetic recycling for the formation of cultural identity and diversity. Adaptation has always been a standard literary and cultural strategy, and can be regarded as the dominant means of production in the cultural industries today. Focusing on a variety of aspects such as artistic strategies and genre, but also marketing and cultural politics, this volume takes a critical look at ways of adapting and appropriating cultural texts across epochs and cultures in literature, film and the arts.

Simming

Author : Scott Magelssen
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780472052141

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Simming by Scott Magelssen Pdf

How simulated experiences—from living history to emergency preparedness drills—create meaning in performance

Mega-Events as Economies of the Imagination

Author : Rodanthi Tzanelli
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351470445

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Mega-Events as Economies of the Imagination by Rodanthi Tzanelli Pdf

Atmosphere, the elusive ambiance of a place, enables or hinders its mobility in global consumption contexts. Atmosphere connects to social imaginaries, utopian representational frames producing the culture of a city or country. But who resolves atmospheric contradictions in a place’s social and cultural rhythms, when the eyes of the world are turned on it? Mega-Events as Economies of the Imagination examines ephemeral and solidified atmospheres in the Rio 2016 Olympic Games and the handover ceremony to Tokyo for the 2020 Games. Indeed, highlighting the various social and cultural implications upon these Olympic Games hosts, Tzanelli argues that the ‘Olympic City’ is produced by aesthetic "imagineers", mobile groups of architects, artists and entrepreneurs, who aesthetically ‘engineer’ native cultures as utopias. Thus, it is explored as to how Rio and Tokyo’s "imagineers" problematize notions of creativity, cosmopolitan togetherness and belonging. Mega-Events as Economies of the Imagination will appeal to postgraduate students, postdoctoral researchers and professionals interested in fields such as: Globalization Studies, Mobility Theory, Cultural Sociology, International Political Economy, Conference and Event Management, Tourism Studies and Migration Studies.

The Bride in the Cultural Imagination

Author : Jo Parnell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781793616142

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The Bride in the Cultural Imagination by Jo Parnell Pdf

This essay collection examines the cultural and personal world of girls and women at a time when their lives, their person, their realities, and their status are about to change forever. Together, the chapters cleverly create an in-depth study of the subject, and look at several cultural forms to offer a different approach to the popularly-held views of the bride. The critical essays in this edited collection are thematically driven and include global perspectives of the portrayals of the bride in the films, stage productions and pop-culture narratives from Nigeria; Kenya; Uganda; Tanzania; Spain; Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome; Tajikistan; India; Egypt; and the South-Eastern Indian Ocean Islands. This multinational approach provides insight into the intricacies, customs, practices, and life-styles surrounding the bride in various Eastern and Western cultures.

Handbook of Imagination and Culture

Author : Tania Zittoun,Vlad Gl&aveanu
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780190468736

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Handbook of Imagination and Culture by Tania Zittoun,Vlad Gl&aveanu Pdf

Imagination allows individuals and groups to think beyond the here-and-now, to envisage alternatives, to create parallel worlds, and to mentally travel through time. Imagination is both extremely personal (for example, people imagine unique futures for themselves) and deeply social, as our imagination is fed with media and other shared representations. As a result, imagination occupies a central position within the life of mind and society. Expanding the boundaries of disciplinary approaches, the Handbook of Imagination and Culture expertly illustrates this core role of imagination in the development of children, adolescents, adults, and older persons today. Bringing together leading scholars in sociocultural psychology and neighboring disciplines from around the world, this edited volume guides readers towards a much deeper understanding of the conditions of imagining, its resources, its constraints, and the consequences it has on different groups of people in different domains of society. Summarily, this Handbook places imagination at the center, and offers readers new ways to examine old questions regarding the possibility of change, development, and innovation in modern society.