LEADER 04272nam 2200817 450 001 9910457459003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4426-9652-4 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442696525 035 $a(CKB)2550000000085304 035 $a(OCoLC)776812432 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10512815 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000647566 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11370607 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000647566 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10593468 035 $a(PQKB)10473098 035 $a(CEL)438870 035 $a(CaBNVSL)slc00228141 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3277489 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4672886 035 $a(DE-B1597)479405 035 $a(OCoLC)979579640 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442696525 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4672886 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11258537 035 $a(OCoLC)958581584 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000085304 100 $a20160916h20112011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||a|| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSeeing things $efrom Shakespeare to Pixar /$fAlan Ackerman 210 1$aToronto, [Canada] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2011. 210 4$dİ2011 215 $a1 online resource (180 p.) 311 $a1-4426-1210-X 311 $a1-4426-4364-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction: Seeing Things -- $t1. A Spirit of Giving in A Midsummer Night's Dream -- $t2. Visualizing Hamlet's Ghost: The Theatrical Spirit of Modern Subjectivity -- $t3. Samuel Beckett's spectres du noir: The Being of Painting and the Flatness of Film -- $t4. The Spirit of Toys: Resurrection, Redemption, and Consumption in Toy Story, Toy Story 2, and Beyond -- $tNotes -- $tWorks Cited -- $tIndex 330 $aA 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. 606 $aVisual perception 606 $aVisualization in literature 606 $aImagination in literature 606 $aImagery (Psychology) in literature 606 $aImagery (Psychology) in motion pictures 606 $aPhilosophy in literature 606 $aPhilosophy in motion pictures 606 $aVisual perception in literature 606 $aVisual communication 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aVisual perception. 615 0$aVisualization in literature. 615 0$aImagination in literature. 615 0$aImagery (Psychology) in literature. 615 0$aImagery (Psychology) in motion pictures. 615 0$aPhilosophy in literature. 615 0$aPhilosophy in motion pictures. 615 0$aVisual perception in literature. 615 0$aVisual communication. 676 $a700.105 700 $aAckerman$b Alan L$g(Alan Louis),$0910594 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457459003321 996 $aSeeing things$92037948 997 $aUNINA