"A study of films set in four iconic American landscapes ... Indian Country, the South, the inner city, and the suburbs ... reveals the way that popular film participates in a nationwide discussion about the role of multiculturalism in the post civil rights era. Cinematic sensat…
"Explores a variety of theological and methodological approaches to film spectatorship through a dialogue of international contributions"--
Recent shifts in the theatrical landscape have had corresponding implications for dramaturgy. The way we think about theatre and performance today has changed our approaches to theatre making and composition. Emerging new aesthetics and new areas of dramaturgical work such as li…
Recent shifts in the theatrical landscape have had corresponding implications for dramaturgy. The way we think about theatre and performance today has changed our approaches to theatre making and composition. Emerging new aesthetics and new areas of dramaturgical work such as li…
Recent shifts in the theatrical landscape have had corresponding implications for dramaturgy. The way we think about theatre and performance today has changed our approaches to theatre making and composition. Emerging new aesthetics and new areas of dramaturgical work such as li…
"Media screens--film, video, and computer screens--have increasingly pervaded both artistic production and everyday life since the 1960s. Yet the nature of viewing artworks made from these media, along with their subjective effects, remains largely unexplored. Screens addresses …
Investigates how viewers experience screen-based art in museums.
"We tend to associate the act of witnessing with bystanders who have not played an active role in the events that they are watching. The present monograph considers characters from Homer's Iliad and Greek tragedy that are looking on and reacting (in word, deed, or both) to their…
"A study of how film has continually intervened in our sense of perception, with far-ranging insights into the current state of lived experience. How has cinema transformed our senses, and how does it continue to do so? Positing film as a stage in the long coevolution of human c…
"Spectatorship cuts a path through the dense undergrowth of the debate on spectatorship. Film, like all visual culture, offers the possibility, and the pleasure, of seeing things we would not normally be able to see: cinema makes a spectacle of the everyday and turns the spectac…