This compelling book brings together physicians, artists, and scholars of film, literature, philosophy, art, and politics to discuss the representation of the corpse in Western culture. Spanning a timeline from the Renaissance to the present, these essays introduce readers to a modern autopsy, a public execution and dissection in seventeenth-century England, the genre of postmortem photography, the corpse as artist's model, images of dead women in such popular films as Copycat and The Silence of the Lambs, and post-mortem scenes in the works of Flaubert, Balzac, Andres...
This compelling book brings together physicians, artists, and scholars of film, literature, philosophy, art, and politics to discuss the representa...
Is it possible today to understand current genres such as drama and theater without considering the influence of television? Elizabeth Klaver argues that television s dominance of the entertainment industry demands a continual negotiation of subject position from all other cultural forms and institutions. By examining plays that incorporate televisual discourse from cameras and monitors to televisual style and structure "Performing Television" probes the turbulent relation contemporary drama has had to television and its negotiations for identity in a postmodern media culture. Klaver...
Is it possible today to understand current genres such as drama and theater without considering the influence of television? Elizabeth Klaver argues t...
Is it possible today to understand current genres such as drama and theater without considering the influence of television? Elizabeth Klaver argues that television s dominance of the entertainment industry demands a continual negotiation of subject position from all other cultural forms and institutions. By examining plays that incorporate televisual discourse from cameras and monitors to televisual style and structure Performing Television probes the turbulent relation contemporary drama has had to television and its negotiations for identity in a postmodern media culture. Klaver...
Is it possible today to understand current genres such as drama and theater without considering the influence of television? Elizabeth Klaver argues t...
