04272nam 2200817 450 991045745900332120200520144314.01-4426-9652-410.3138/9781442696525(CKB)2550000000085304(OCoLC)776812432(CaPaEBR)ebrary10512815(SSID)ssj0000647566(PQKBManifestationID)11370607(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000647566(PQKBWorkID)10593468(PQKB)10473098(CEL)438870(CaBNVSL)slc00228141(MiAaPQ)EBC3277489(MiAaPQ)EBC4672886(DE-B1597)479405(OCoLC)979579640(DE-B1597)9781442696525(Au-PeEL)EBL4672886(CaPaEBR)ebr11258537(OCoLC)958581584(EXLCZ)99255000000008530420160916h20112011 uy 0engurcn||||||a||txtccrSeeing things from Shakespeare to Pixar /Alan AckermanToronto, [Canada] ;Buffalo, [New York] ;London, [England] :University of Toronto Press,2011.©20111 online resource (180 p.) 1-4426-1210-X 1-4426-4364-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Seeing Things -- 1. A Spirit of Giving in A Midsummer Night's Dream -- 2. Visualizing Hamlet's Ghost: The Theatrical Spirit of Modern Subjectivity -- 3. Samuel Beckett's spectres du noir: The Being of Painting and the Flatness of Film -- 4. The Spirit of Toys: Resurrection, Redemption, and Consumption in Toy Story, Toy Story 2, and Beyond -- Notes -- Works Cited -- IndexA technological revolution has changed the way we see things. The storytelling media employed by Pixar Animation Studios, Samuel Beckett, and William Shakespeare differ greatly, yet these creators share a collective fascination with the nebulous boundary between material objects and our imaginative selves. How do the acts of seeing and believing remain linked? Alan Ackerman charts the dynamic history of interactions between showing and knowing in Seeing Things, a richly interdisciplinary study which illuminates changing modes of perception and modern representational media.Seeing Things demonstrates that the airy nothings of A Midsummer Night's Dream, the Ghost in Hamlet, and soulless bodies in Beckett's media experiments, alongside Toy Story's digitally animated toys, all serve to illustrate the modern problem of visualizing, as Hamlet put it, 'that within which passes show.' Ackerman carefully analyses such ghostly appearances and disappearances across cultural forms and contexts from the early modern period to the present, investigating the tension between our distrust of shadows and our abiding desire to believe in invisible realities. Seeing Things provides a fresh and surprising cultural history through theatrical, verbal, pictorial, and cinematic representations.Visual perceptionVisualization in literatureImagination in literatureImagery (Psychology) in literatureImagery (Psychology) in motion picturesPhilosophy in literaturePhilosophy in motion picturesVisual perception in literatureVisual communicationElectronic books.Visual perception.Visualization in literature.Imagination in literature.Imagery (Psychology) in literature.Imagery (Psychology) in motion pictures.Philosophy in literature.Philosophy in motion pictures.Visual perception in literature.Visual communication.700.105Ackerman Alan L(Alan Louis),910594MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910457459003321Seeing things2037948UNINA