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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791954603321

Autore

Austin Thomas <1966->

Titolo

Watching the world [[electronic resource] ] : screen documentary and audiences / / Thomas Austin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press

Distributed in the USA by Palgrave, 2007

ISBN

1-78170-177-6

1-84779-448-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Disciplina

070.1/8

Soggetti

Documentary films - Great Britain - History and criticism

Documentary films - United States - History and criticism

Documentary television programs - Great Britain - History and criticism

Documentary television programs - United States - History and criticism

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. [205]-213) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Continuity and change : the documentary 'boom' -- Seeing, feeling, knowing : Entre et avoir -- 'Suspense, fright, emotion, happy ending' : documentary form and audience response to Touching the void -- 'The most confusing tears' : home video, sex crime and indeterminacy in Capturing the Friedmans -- Approaching the invisible centre : middle-class identity and documentary film -- 'Our planet reveals its secrets' : wildlife documentaries on television -- Conclusion : documentary world views.

Sommario/riassunto

Screen documentary has experienced a marked rise in visibility and popularity in recent years. What are the reasons for the so-called 'boom' in documentaries at the cinema? How has television documentary met the challenge of new formats? And how do audiences engage with documentaries on screen? Watching the world extends the reach of documentary studies by investigating recent instances of screen documentary and the uses made of them by audiences. The book focuses on the interfaces between textual mechanisms, promotional tactics, and audiences' viewing strategies. Key topics of



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910863160403321

Titolo

Performing Disability in Early Modern English Drama / / edited by Leslie C. Dunn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020

ISBN

9783030572082

3030572080

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVII, 327 p. 5 illus., 2 illus. in color.)

Collana

Literary Disability Studies, , 2947-7417

Disciplina

809.935610903

Soggetti

European literature - Renaissance, 1450-1600

Fiction

Drama

Performing arts

Theater

Early Modern and Renaissance Literature

Fiction Literature

Theatre and Performance Arts

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Disability and the Work of Performance in Early Modern England, Lindsey Row-Heyveld -- Chapter 2: "By the Knife and Fire": Conceptions of Surgery and Disability in Early Modern Medical Treatises, Jodie Austin -- Chapter 3: "'Turn it to a Crutch': Disability and Swordsmanship in The Little French Lawyer, Matthew Carter -- Chapter 4: Mutism and Feminine Silence: Gender, Performance, and Disability in Epicoene, Melissa Geil -- Chapter 5: Contented Cuckolds: Infertility and Queer Reproductive Practice in Middleton's A Chaste Maid in Cheapside and Macchiavelli's Mandragola, Simone Chess -- Chapter 6: Reading Shakespeare After Neurodiversity, Wes Folkerth -- Chapter 7: Enabling Rabies in King Lear, Avi Mendelson -- Chapter 8: Limping



and Lameness on the Early Modern Stage, Susan Anderson -- Chapter 9: "Lame Humor" in Beaumont and Fletcher's Love's Pilgrimage, Joyce Boro -- Chapter 10: Syphilis Patches: Form and Disability History in The Knight of the Burning Pestle, Nancy Simpson-Younger -- Chapter 11: Sign Gain to Deaf Gain: Early Modern Manual Rhetoric and Modern Shakespeare Performances, Jennifer Nelson -- Chapter 12: "'This is miching mallecho. It means mischief': Problematizing Representations of Actors with Down Syndrome in Growing Up Downs, Sarah Olive.

Sommario/riassunto

Performing Disability in Early Modern English Drama investigates the cultural work done by early modern theatrical performances of disability. Proffering an expansive view of early modern disability in performance, the contributors suggest methodologies for finding and interpreting it in unexpected contexts. The volume also includes essays on disabled actors whose performances are changing the meanings of disability in Shakespeare for present-day audiences. By combining these two areas of scholarship, this text makes a unique intervention in early modern studies and disability studies alike. Ultimately, the volume generates a conversation that locates and theorizes the staging of particular disabilities within their historical and literary contexts while considering continuity and change in the performance of disability between the early modern period and our own. .