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100 1 a| Ackerman, Alan L.q| (Alan Louis)=| ^A445611;

245 10 a| Seeing things :b| from Shakespeare to Pixar /c| Alan Ackerman.;

300 a| x, 169 pages ;c| 23 cm;

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504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

505 0 a| 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;

520 a| "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.;

520 a| 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.;

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650 0 a| Visual perception.=| ^A1931;

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Seeing things : from Shakespeare to Pixar / Alan Ackerman.

Author/creator	Ackerman, Alan L.
Format	Book
Publication Info	Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©2011.
Description	x, 169 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects	Technology and the arts. Visual communication. Visual perception.

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
Abstract	"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.
Abstract	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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN	9781442643642 (bound)
ISBN	1442643641 (bound)
ISBN	9781442612105 (pbk.)
ISBN	144261210X (pbk.)

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