1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451101503321

Autore

Morinaga Maki Isaka

Titolo

Secrecy in Japanese arts [[electronic resource] ] : "secret transmission" as a mode of knowledge / / Maki Isaka Morinaga

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005

ISBN

1-281-36531-9

9786611365318

1-4039-8178-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 p.)

Disciplina

700/.952

Soggetti

Arts, Japanese

Teacher-student relationships - Japan

Performing arts - Japan

Martial arts - Japan

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-192) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction: Quest for Esotericism; 2 Operation of Esotericism; 3 Transmission, the Creation of Knowledge; 4 Secrecy, Concealing the Revealing; 5 Esotericism and Modernity; 6 Epilogue: Esotericism for Us; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Exploring the Japanese tradition of hidden (or the secret transmission of) knowledge within a closed and often hereditary group, the author investigates how esoteric practices function, how people make meaning of their practices, and how this form of esotericism survived into the modern age. These questions are examined through the use of esoteric texts from the 15th to 18th centuries and theatrical treatises from the late 19th century onwards.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910465593503321

Autore

Newman Michael Z.

Titolo

Video revolutions : on the history of a medium / / Michael Z. Newman ; cover design by Jason Alejandro ; cover art by Hollis Brown Thornton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Chichester, England : , : Columbia University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-231-53775-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (159 p.)

Disciplina

302.23/4

Soggetti

Video recordings - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Three Phases -- 2. Video as Television -- 3. Video as Alternative -- 4. Video as the Moving Image -- 5. Medium and Cultural Status -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Since the days of early television, video has been an indispensable part of culture, society, and moving-image media industries. Over the decades, it has been an avant-garde artistic medium, a high-tech consumer gadget, a format for watching movies at home, a force for democracy, and the ultimate, ubiquitous means of documenting reality. In the twenty-first century, video is the name we give all kinds of moving images. We know it as an adaptable medium that bridges analog and digital, amateur and professional, broadcasting and recording, television and cinema, art and commercial culture, and old media and new digital networks. In this history, Michael Z. Newman casts video as a medium of shifting value and legitimacy in relation to other media and technologies, particularly film and television. Video has been imagined as more or less authentic or artistic than movies or television, as more or less democratic and participatory, as more or less capable of capturing the real. Techno-utopian rhetoric has repeatedly represented video as a revolutionary medium, promising to solve the problems of the past and the present-often the very problems



associated with television and the society shaped by it-and to deliver a better future. Video has also been seen more negatively, particularly as a threat to movies and their culture. This study considers video as an object of these hopes and fears and builds an approach to thinking about the concept of the medium in terms of cultural status.

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910130545203321

Titolo

Incontri culturali da oltre oceano / / a cura di Antonio Vitti

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Pesaro, : Metauro, 2008

ISBN

88-6156-042-3

Descrizione fisica

279 p. ; ; 21 cm

Altri autori (Persone)

VittiAntonio

Disciplina

850

791

Soggetti

Italy Intellectual life 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Collected essays and interviews.

Texts in English or Italian.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.