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Renaissance Fun
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Author : Philip Steadman
language : en
Publisher: UCL Press
Release Date : 2021-04-13
Renaissance Fun written by Philip Steadman and has been published by UCL Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-13 with Art categories.
Renaissance Fun is about the technology of Renaissance entertainments in stage machinery and theatrical special effects; in gardens and fountains; and in the automata and self-playing musical instruments that were installed in garden grottoes. How did the machines behind these shows work? How exactly were chariots filled with singers let down onto the stage? How were flaming dragons made to fly across the sky? How were seas created on stage? How did mechanical birds imitate real birdsong? What was ‘artificial music’, three centuries before Edison and the phonograph? How could pipe organs be driven and made to play themselves by waterpower alone? And who were the architects, engineers, and craftsmen who created these wonders? All these questions are answered. At the end of the book we visit the lost ‘garden of marvels’ at Pratolino with its many grottoes, automata and water jokes; and we attend the performance of Mercury and Mars in Parma in 1628, with its spectacular stage effects and its music by Claudio Monteverdi – one of the places where opera was born. Renaissance Fun is offered as an entertainment in itself. But behind the show is a more serious scholarly argument, centred on the enormous influence of two ancient writers on these subjects, Vitruvius and Hero. Vitruvius’s Ten Books on Architecture were widely studied by Renaissance theatre designers. Hero of Alexandria wrote the Pneumatics, a collection of designs for surprising and entertaining devices that were the models for sixteenth and seventeenth century automata. A second book by Hero On Automata-Making – much less well known, then and now – describes two miniature theatres that presented plays without human intervention. One of these, it is argued, provided the model for the type of proscenium theatre introduced from the mid-sixteenth century, the generic design which is still built today. As the influence of Vitruvius waned, the influence of Hero grew.
American Fun
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Author : John Beckman
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2014-02-04
American Fun written by John Beckman and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-04 with History categories.
Here is an animated and wonderfully engaging work of cultural history that lays out America’s unruly past by describing the ways in which cutting loose has always been, and still is, an essential part of what it means to be an American. From the time the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, Americans have defied their stodgy rules and hierarchies with pranks, dances, stunts, and wild parties, shaping the national character in profound and lasting ways. In the nation’s earlier eras, revelers flouted Puritans, Patriots pranked Redcoats, slaves lampooned masters, and forty-niners bucked the saddles of an increasingly uptight middle class. In the twentieth century, fun-loving Americans celebrated this heritage and pushed it even further: flappers “barney-mugged” in “petting pantries,” Yippies showered the New York Stock Exchange with dollar bills, and B-boys invented hip-hop in a war zone in the Bronx. This is the surprising and revelatory history that John Beckman recounts in American Fun. Tying together captivating stories of Americans’ “pursuit of happiness”—and distinguishing between real, risky fun and the bland amusements that paved the way for Hollywood, Disneyland, and Xbox—Beckman redefines American culture with a delightful and provocative thesis. (With black-and-white illustrations throughout.)
Renaissance Fun
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Author : Philip Steadman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
Renaissance Fun written by Philip Steadman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with ART categories.
Renaissance Fun explores the technology of Renaissance entertainments in stage machinery and theatrical special effects; in gardens and fountains; and in the automata and self-playing musical instruments that were installed in garden grottoes.
Shakespeare And Fun
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Author : Donald Hedrick
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2025-02-27
Shakespeare And Fun written by Donald Hedrick and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-02-27 with Drama categories.
In this bold, original study Hedrick proposes an early modern 'entertainment value' revolution, to which Shakespeare contributed and in which he played a competitive role. As London's nascent capitalist industry developed and the variety of entertainments proliferated, theatre contributes to the birth of entertainment value and a commercial trajectory toward what Marxist critic Adorno theorizes as 'fun,' seen contemporaneously in LasVegasization and the election of Donald Trump to U.S. Presidency. In this innovative approach to Shakespeare's plays through their compulsory, competitive relation to other choices from London's entertainment industry, such as sex work and gaming, Hedrick recovers a coherent internal dynamic of theatre's 'pleasure enclosure' accompanying the revolutionary logic of capital's new cultural and economic extremes. Applying these relations to original, insightful readings of A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Winter's Tale, and The Taming of the Shrew, Hedrick draws from cultural studies, contemporary and personal parallels, wide-ranging historical materials, and political theory. These include: the semantic shifts in keywords of pleasure, the practice of betting on actors, the psychology of paying admission before an entertainment, and various 'reality shows' such as contests of prose and verse. Continual insights emerge, both broad and specific: from ten 'entertainment value axioms' to Shakespeare's awareness of entertainment value's birth at moments in his late plays, marking a logic of value crisis, bubbles, and the danger of 'too much fun.'
A Modern Mosaic
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Author : Townsend Ludington
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2000
A Modern Mosaic written by Townsend Ludington and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Literary Criticism categories.
Examines the impact of the modernist art movement on American popular culture in a collection of critical essays.
An English Medieval And Renaissance Song Book
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Author : Noah Greenberg
language : en
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Release Date : 2000-01-01
An English Medieval And Renaissance Song Book written by Noah Greenberg and has been published by Courier Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-01-01 with Music categories.
"An elegant anthology. The specialist will not miss the quiet sophistication with which the music has been selected and prepared. Some of it is printed here for the first time, and much of it has been edited anew." "Notes" This treasury of 47 vocal works edited by Noah Greenberg, founder and former director of the New York Pro Musica Antiqua will delight all lovers of medieval and Renaissance music. Containing a wealth of both religious and secular music from the 12th to the 17th centuries, the collection covers a broad range of moods, from the hearty "Blow Thy Horne Thou Jolly Hunter" by William Cornysh to the reflective and elegiac "Cease Mine Eyes" by Thomas Morley. Of the religious works, nine were written for church services, including "Sanctus" by Henry IV and "Angus Dei" from a beautiful four-part mass by Thomas Tallis. Other religious songs in the collection come from England's rich tradition of popular religious lyric poetry, and include William Byrd's "Susanna Farye," the anonymously written "Deo Gracias Anglia" (The Agincort Carol), and Thomas Ravenscroft's "O Lord, Turne Now Away Thy Face" and "Remember O Thou Man." Approximately half of the songs are secular, some from the popular tradition and others from the courtly poets and musicians surrounding such musically inclined monarchs as Henry VIII who himself is represented in this collection with two charming songs, "With Owt Dyscorde" and "O My Hart." Among the notable composers of Tudor and Elizabethan England represented here are Orlando Gibbons, John Dowland, and Thomas Weelkes. "
Advanced Intelligent Paradigms In Computer Games
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Author : Norio Baba
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2007-06-26
Advanced Intelligent Paradigms In Computer Games written by Norio Baba and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-06-26 with Technology & Engineering categories.
The evolution of technologies has greatly changed the basic structure of our industry and nature of our daily lives. Industries which did not exist several decades ago have made remarkable progress in recent years and ?ourished. One of the most typical examples is the computer game industry. This book presents a sample of the most recent research concerning the application of computational intelligence techniques and internet technology in computer games. This book contains eight chapters. The ?rst chapter, by N. Baba and H. Handa, is on utilization of evolutionary algorithms to increase excitement of the COMMONS GAME. It is shown that the original COMMONS GAME which is one of the most popular environmental games has been made much more exciting by the intelligent utilization of the two evolutionary algorithms. The second chapter, by H. Barber and D. Kudenko, is on adaptive g- eration of dilemma-based interactive narratives. In this chapter, they present an interactive narrative generator that can create story lines that incorporate dilemmas to add dramatic tension. They also brie?y touch upon the pos- bility that their work could provide a useful tool for making dramatically interesting game playing possible. The third chapter, by J. Tongelius, S.M. Lucas, and R.D. Nardi, is on computational intelligence (CI) in racing games. The authors suggest that CI techniques can be used for various purposes such as controller evolution for the racing and track evolution for a pro?cient player.
I Never Did Much But I Had Fun Doing It
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Author : Billy Gray
language : en
Publisher: WestBow Press
Release Date : 2019-07-17
I Never Did Much But I Had Fun Doing It written by Billy Gray and has been published by WestBow Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-17 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
He never did much, but he • had two first cars, • went on three first dates with the same girl, • played in Yankee Stadium every summer, • made All-American without playing a single down, • grew three feet in one day, and • played in the game of the century. It’s just part of being an ordinary guy having the time of his life growing up in a small town. Join the fun! Read the book! Enjoy life!
Classical Antiquity And The Cinematic Imagination
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Author : Martin M. Winkler
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2024-02-22
Classical Antiquity And The Cinematic Imagination written by Martin M. Winkler and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-22 with History categories.
The first systematic study of classical literature and arts to explain their close affinities with modern visual technologies and media.
How To Become Innovative
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Author : Tony Davila
language : en
Publisher: FT Press
Release Date : 2013-08-08
How To Become Innovative written by Tony Davila and has been published by FT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-08 with Business & Economics categories.
Making Innovation Work presents a formal innovation process proven to work at HP, Microsoft, and Toyota to help ordinary managers drive top and bottom line growth from innovation. The authors have drawn on their unsurpassed innovation consulting experience -- as well as the most thorough review of innovation research ever performed. They'll show what works, what doesn't, and how to use management tools to dramatically increase the payoff from innovation investments. Learn how to define the right strategy for effective innovation, how to structure an organization to innovate best, how to implement management systems to assess ongoing innovation, how to incentivize teams to deliver, and much more. This book offers the first authoritative guide to using metrics at every step of the innovation process -- from idea creation and selection through prototyping and commercialization. This updated edition refreshes the examples used throughout the book and features a new introduction that gives currency to the principles covered throughout. ¿ For years, Creating Breakthrough Products has offered an indispensable roadmap for uncovering new opportunities, identifying what customers really value, and building products and services that redefine markets -- or create entirely new markets. Now, the authors have thoroughly updated their classic book, adding brand-new chapters on service design and global innovation, plus new insights, best practices, and case studies from both U.S. and global companies. Their new second edition presents: Revolutionary (Apple-style) and evolutionary (Disney-style) approaches to innovation: choosing between them, and making either one work More coverage of Value Opportunity Analysis and ethnography New case studies ranging from Navistar's latest long-haul truck to P+G's reinvention of Herbal Essences, plus updates to existing cases New coverage of the emerging environment of product-service ecosystems Additional visual maps and illustrations that make the book more intuitive and accessible Readers will find new insights into identifying Product Opportunity Gaps that can lead to enormous success, navigating the "Fuzzy Front End" of product development, and leveraging contributions from diverse product teams -- while staying relentlessly focused on their customers' values and lifestyles, from strategy through execution.