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Public Spectacles In Roman And Late Antique Palestine
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Author : Zeev Weiss
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2014-03-24
Public Spectacles In Roman And Late Antique Palestine written by Zeev Weiss and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-24 with Architecture categories.
Wishing to ingratiate himself with Rome, Herod the Great built theaters, amphitheaters, and hippodromes to bring pagan entertainments of all sorts to Palestine. Zeev Weiss explores how the indigenous Jewish and Christian populations responded, as both spectators and performers, to these cultural imports, which left a lasting imprint on the region.
Public Spectacles Of Violence
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Author : Rielle Navitski
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2017-05-18
Public Spectacles Of Violence written by Rielle Navitski and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-18 with Performing Arts categories.
In Public Spectacles of Violence Rielle Navitski examines the proliferation of cinematic and photographic images of criminality, bodily injury, and technological catastrophe in early twentieth-century Mexico and Brazil, which were among Latin America’s most industrialized nations and later developed two of the region’s largest film industries. Navitski analyzes a wide range of sensational cultural forms, from nonfiction films and serial cinema to illustrated police reportage, serial literature, and fan magazines, demonstrating how media spectacles of violence helped audiences make sense of the political instability, high crime rates, and social inequality that came with modernization. In both nations, sensational cinema and journalism—influenced by imported films—forged a common public sphere that reached across the racial, class, and geographic divides accentuated by economic growth and urbanization. Highlighting the human costs of modernization, these media constructed everyday experience as decidedly modern, in that it was marked by the same social ills facing industrialized countries. The legacy of sensational early twentieth-century visual culture remains felt in Mexico and Brazil today, where public displays of violence by the military, police, and organized crime are hypervisible.
Public Spectacles
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Author : Outlet
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983-06-01
Public Spectacles written by Outlet and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983-06-01 with categories.
The Logic Of Representation In The Public Spectacles Of Early Modern Florence
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Author : Louis Gerdelan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
The Logic Of Representation In The Public Spectacles Of Early Modern Florence written by Louis Gerdelan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Florence (Italy) categories.
Florentine public spectacles offer a unique entry-point into early modern culture. However, dealing with their bewildering array of symbols requires a careful methodological approach. Rather than attempting to 'decode' these signs in an effort to unravel meanings, I argue that historians should attempt to better understand the logic of representation which underlay their creation. An examination of the intellectual and cultural contexts surrounding allegory, and an awareness of its spiritual associations, gives us an idea of the ethical dimensions faced by spectacle designers and writers, and allows us to make some conclusions about the moral function of festival texts. Such an investigation also gives us an insight into the importance of enigma and opacity to spectacle representations, and the role played by aesthetic pleasure in moral guidance. Contemporary attitudes to rhetoric and love, particularly through the influence of Renaissance Neoplatonism, placed a series of fundamental antagonisms at the heart of representational culture. Spectacle writers and organisers adopted creative strategies in response to these conflicts. We can trace their decisions through a range of primary texts - including printed festival books, diaries, the state ceremonial handbook and Vasari's biographies and letters. Ultimately, making use of the spatial, physical and metaphorical transformations within festive events, Florentines were able to orient the symbolic power of the spectacle towards the care and salvation of the soul.
Public Spectacles Personal Pleasures
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Author : Allen Hockley
language : en
Publisher: Mitchell Beazley
Release Date : 2006
Public Spectacles Personal Pleasures written by Allen Hockley and has been published by Mitchell Beazley this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Color prints, Japanese categories.
A Companion To Augustine
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Author : Mark Vessey
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2012-05-08
A Companion To Augustine written by Mark Vessey and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-08 with History categories.
A Companion to Augustine presents a fresh collection of scholarship by leading academics with a new approach to contextualizing Augustine and his works within the multi-disciplinary field of Late Antiquity, showing Augustine as both a product of the cultural forces of his times and a cultural force in his own right. Discusses the life and works of Augustine within their full historical context, rather than privileging the theological context Presents Augustine’s life, works and leading ideas in the cultural context of the late Roman world, providing a vibrant and engaging sense of Augustine in action in his own time and place Opens up a new phase of study on Augustine, sensitive to the many and varied perspectives of scholarship on late Roman culture State-of-the-art essays by leading academics in this field
The Spectacle Of Intimacy
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Author : Karen Chase
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2009-08-15
The Spectacle Of Intimacy written by Karen Chase and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-08-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Love of home life, the intimate moments a family peacefully enjoyed in seclusion, had long been considered a hallmark of English character even before the Victorian era. But the Victorians attached unprecedented importance to domesticity, romanticizing the family in every medium from novels to government reports, to the point where actual families felt anxious and the public developed a fierce appetite for scandal. Here Karen Chase and Michael Levenson explore how intimacy became a spectacle and how this paradox energized Victorian culture between 1835 and 1865. They tell a story of a society continually perfecting the forms of private pleasure and yet forever finding its secrets exposed to view. The friction between the two conditions sparks insightful discussions of authority and sentiment, empire and middle-class politics. The book recovers neglected episodes of this mid-century drama: the adultery trial of Caroline Norton and the Prime Minister, Lord Melbourne; the Bedchamber Crisis of the young Queen Victoria; the Bloomer craze of the 1850s; and Robert Kerr's influential treatise, celebrating the ideal of the English Gentleman's House. The literary representation of household life--in Dickens, Tennyson, Ellis, and Oliphant, among others--is placed in relation to such public spectacles as the Deceased Wife's Sister Bill of 1848, the controversy over divorce in the years 1854-1857, and the triumphant return of Florence Nightingale from the Crimea. These colorful incidents create a telling new portrait of Victorian family life, one that demands a fundamental rethinking of the relation between public and private spheres.
A Companion To Late Antiquity
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Author : Philip Rousseau
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2012-01-25
A Companion To Late Antiquity written by Philip Rousseau and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-25 with History categories.
An accessible and authoritative overview capturing the vitality and diversity of scholarship that exists on the transformative time period known as late antiquity. Provides an essential overview of current scholarship on late antiquity – from between the accession of Diocletian in AD 284 and the end of Roman rule in the Mediterranean Comprises 39 essays from some of the world's foremost scholars of the era Presents this once-neglected period as an age of powerful transformation that shaped the modern world Emphasizes the central importance of religion and its connection with economic, social, and political life Winner of the 2009 Single Volume Reference/Humanities & Social Sciences PROSE award granted by the Association of American Publishers
Rhetorical Audience Studies And Reception Of Rhetoric
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Author : Jens E. Kjeldsen
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-11-10
Rhetorical Audience Studies And Reception Of Rhetoric written by Jens E. Kjeldsen and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-10 with Political Science categories.
This book examines the reception of rhetoric and the rhetoric of reception. By considering salient rhetorical traits of rhetorical utterances and texts seen in context, and relating this to different kinds of reception and/or audience use and negotiation, the authors explore the connections between rhetoric and reception. In our time, new media and new forms of communication make it harder to distinguish between speaker and audience. The active involvement of users and audiences is more important than ever before. This project is based on the premise that rhetorical research should reconsider the understanding, conceptualization and examination of the rhetorical audience. From mostly understanding audiences as theoretical constructions that are examined textually and speculatively, the contributors give more attention to empirical explorations of actual audiences and users. The book will provide readers with new knowledge on the workings of rhetoric as well as illustrative and guiding examples of new methods of rhetorical studies.
The Public S Open To Us All
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Author : Laura Engel
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2020-10-27
The Public S Open To Us All written by Laura Engel and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-27 with Performing Arts categories.
“The Public’s Open to Us All”: Essays on Women and Performance in Eighteenth-Century England considers the relationship between British women and various modes of performance in the long eighteenth century. From the moment Charles II was restored to the English throne in 1660, the question of women’s status in the public world became the focus of cultural attention both on and off the stage. In addition to the appearance of the first actresses during this period female playwrights, novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, theatrical managers and entrepreneurs emerged as skillful and often demanding professionals. In this variety of new roles, eighteenth-century women redefined shifting notions of femininity by challenging traditional representations of female subjectivity and contributing to the shaping of eighteenth-century society’s attitudes, tastes, and cultural imagination. Recent scholarship in eighteenth-century studies reflects a heightened interest in fame, the rise of celebrity culture, and new ways of understanding women’s participation as both private individuals and public professionals. What is unique to the body of essays presented here is the authors’ focus on performance as a means of thinking about the ways in which women occupied, negotiated, re-imagined, and challenged the world outside of the traditional domestic realm. The authors employ a range of historical, literary, and theoretical approaches to the connections among women and performance, and in doing so make significant contributions to the fields of eighteenth-century literary and cultural studies, theatre history, gender studies, and performance studies.