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Die Regeln des Spiels: Programm und Spielplan-Gestaltung im Theater
by Thomas SchmidtDas Buch führt in die Grundlagen und Abläufe der Erstellung eines Theaterspielplans ein und beleuchtet dessen Bedeutung für die Programmierung und das Management von Theatern. Es füllt damit eine wichtige Lücke in der Theater- und Theatermanagement-Literatur. Schmidt untersucht die Spielplan-Gestaltung öffentlicher Theater auf der Grundlage von ausführlichen Spielplan-Analysen, zahlreichen Umfragen unter Dramaturgen und einer mehrjährigen Feldstudie. Aus den Ergebnissen entwickelt der Autor ein Modell der Spielplan-Gestaltung als zentrales künstlerisches und ökonomisches Managementinstrument des Theaters.Der Inhalt· Der Traum vom idealen Spielplan· Das deutsche öffentliche Theatersystem und das Stadttheater· Das Feld als kulturtheoretischer Rahmen des Theaters · Spielplan-Gestaltung in der Theaterpraxis – Eine empirische Untersuchung· Die Phasen der Spielplan-Gestaltung· Die Regeln des Spiels Die Zielgruppen · Studierende, Lehrende und Wissenschaftler in den Gebieten Kulturmanagement, Kultur- und Theaterwissenschaften, Dramaturgie, Regie, Schauspiel, Oper und Tanz· Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter der Künstlerischen Leitungen und des Managements am Theater· Theaterinteressierte Menschen Der AutorThomas Schmidt ist Professor für Theatermanagement und Direktor des Studiengangs Theater und Orchestermanagement in Frankfurt am Main. Er war Gastprofessor an der Harvard-University, Gastdozent an verschiedenen anderen Universitäten und Geschäftsführender Direktor des Nationaltheaters Weimar.
Los diez pasos hacia Nanette: Memorias incómodas
by Hannah GadsbyHannah Gadsby desvela los momentos que definieron su vida y la llevaron a subir al escenario con toda la verdad por delante. «No hay nada más fuerte que una mujer rota que logra recomponerse».Hannah Gadsby, Nanette Nanette no fue solo un espectáculo de stand-up insuperable, fue también un arrollador éxito viral que cautivó al público por su sinceridad desgarrada y por su habilidad para generar a un mismo tiempo tensión y risa. El éxito mundial de Gadsby podría hacernos creer que la fama le llegó de la noche a la mañana, pero el camino que la llevó a lo más alto de la escena internacional fue en realidad bastante tortuoso. En Los diez pasos hacia Nanette, Gadbsy nos brinda su retrato más íntimo: su adolescencia como persona queer en Tasmania (donde la homosexualidad fue ilegal hasta 1997), los trabajos itinerantes en Australia tras la universidad, sus duros encontronazos con la homofobia y la violencia sexual, su constante evolución como cómica, los diagnósticos tardíos de autismo y TDAH... y finalmente el hallazgo de lo que había de ser la esencia de Nanette, es decir, la renuncia a mofarse de sí misma en sus chistes, el rechazo de la misoginia y el compromiso moral con decir la verdad a toda costa. Tan dura como divertida, Los diez pasos hacia Nanette es una «autobiografía incómoda» que, siguiendo la costumbre de su autora de jugar con las expectativas y las reglas de la comedia, nos acerca a una de las voces más explosivas e influyentes de nuestro tiempo. La crítica ha dicho:«Hannah es una fuerza prometeica, un talento revolucionario. Con este libro gracioso, conmovedor y a veces trágico lo que ha hecho es señalarnos dónde se originaron sus hogueras».Emma Thompson «Hannah Gadsby es la perfecta representación de la verdad que se esconde detrás de toda broma».La Vanguardia «Una clara muestra de todo lo bueno que puede pasar cuando una voz diferente se hace oír».Victoria Segal, The Times «Gadsby se muestra aquí como una escritora clara, inteligente y sustanciosa, capaz de hablarnos de sus años de formativos y de la evolución de su carrera y a la vez tocar temas relativos a la cultura popular, la política, la salud mental o el autismo».Steph Harmon, The Guardian «Un libro aparentemente de memorias que, sin embargo, escapa a toda convención y con el que Gadbsy logra, desde el núcleo irradiador que es su espectáculo más famoso, reconstruir con detalle su trayectoria vital».Thomas Floyd, The Washington Post «Sus fans comprobarán con sumo placer que Gadbsy, sobre el papel, es tan buena como sobre el escenario.»Trish Bendix, Time La crítica ha dicho sobre Nanette:«Nanette es un fenómeno internacional, el monólogo más comentado, reseñado y compartido en años, exquisitamente sincronizado con la era MeToo».The New York Times «Tan divertido como profundamente furioso».The New Yorker «Nanette es sencillamente extraordinaria. Me ha conmovido y me ha hecho reflexionar sobre el humor, el yo, el autodesprecio y los usos de la ira. Muchas gracias. Es simplemente brillante».Roxane Gay «Una hora y tres minutos. Ese es el tiempo que tarda Gadsby en destrozarte con sus palabras, ojos vidriosos y realidad sin filtros».El País «Jamás he llorado tan desconsoladamente en un espectáculo de comedia stand up».Monica Lewinsky
Difference and Orientation: An Alexander Kluge Reader (signale|TRANSFER: German Thought in Translation)
by Alexander KlugeAlexander Kluge is one of contemporary Germany's leading intellectuals and artists. A key architect of the New German Cinema and a pioneer of auteur television programming, he has also cowritten three acclaimed volumes of critical theory, published countless essays and numerous works of fiction, and continues to make films even as he expands his video production to the internet. Despite Kluge's five decades of work in philosophy, literature, television, and media politics, his reputation outside of the German-speaking world still largely rests on his films of the 1960s, 70s, and 80s. With the aim of introducing Kluge's heterogeneous mind to an Anglophone readership, Difference and Orientation assembles thirty of his essays, speeches, glossaries, and interviews, revolving around the capacity for differentiation and the need for orientation toward ways out of catastrophic modernity. This landmark volume brings together some of Kluge's most fundamental statements on literature, film, pre- and post-cinematic media, and social theory, nearly all for the first time in English translation. Together, these works highlight Kluge's career-spanning commitment to unorthodox, essayistic thinking.
Different Engines: Media Technologies From Latin America (Routledge Research in Design, Technology and Society)
by Andrés BurbanoDifferent Engines investigates the emergence of technologies in Latin America to create images, sounds, video games, and physical interactions. The book contributes to the construction of a historiographical and theoretical framework for understanding the work of creators who have been geographically and historically marginalized through the study of five exemplary and yet relatively unknown artifacts built by engineers, scientists, artists, and innovators. It offers a broad and detailed view of the complex and sometimes unlikely conditions under which technological innovation is possible and of the problematic logics under which these innovations may come to be devalued as historically irrelevant. Through its focus on media technologies, the book presents the interactions between technological and artistic creativity, working towards a wider understanding of the shifts in both fields that have shaped current perceptions, practices, and design principles while bringing into view the personal, social, and geopolitical singularities embodied by particular devices. It will be an engaging and insightful read for scholars, researchers, and students across a wide range of disciplines, such as media studies, art and design, architecture, cultural history, and the digital humanities.
Different Every Time: The Authorized Biography of Robert Wyatt
by Marcus O'DairRobert Wyatt started out as the drummer and singer for Soft Machine, who shared a residency at Middle Earth with Pink Floyd and toured America with the Jimi Hendrix Experience. He brought a jazz mindset to the 1960's rock scene, having honed his drumming skills in a shed at the end of Robert Graves' garden in Mallorica, Spain.Wyatt's life took an abrupt turn in 1973, when he fell from a fourth-floor window at a party and was paralyzed from the waist down. He reinvented himself as a singer and composer with the extraordinary album Rock Bottom, which he followed with an idiosyncratic string of records that uniquely combine the personal and political.Along the way, Robert has worked with the likes of Brian Eno, Bjork, Jerry Dammers, Charlie Haden, David Gilmour, Paul Weller and Hot Chip. Marcus O'Dair has talked to all of them--indeed anyone who has shaped, or been shaped by Wyatt over five decades. Different Every Time is the first biography of Robert Wyatt, and it was written with his full participation. It includes illustrations by Alfreda Benge and photographs from Robert's personal archive.
The Different Faces of Politics in the Visual and Performative Arts
by Mario Thomas Vassallo André P. DeBattistaThis book highlights the linkages between politics and governance and the arts. The essays in the volume show how visual and performative arts have challenged those in power — or conversely patronised by them — been used for propaganda, stir up national fervour and found themselves at the receiving end of political censure. They focus on the tension and symbiosis between the politician and the artist foregrounding how they have always tried to influence, challenge, and, in some cases, undermine one another. This volume will serve as an indispensable source for researchers and academics in political science, the humanities and performing arts.
A Different Road Taken: Profiles In Critical Communication
by John A LentDallas Smythe, George Gerbner, Herbert Schiller, James Halloran, Kaarle Nordenstreng- these five seminal figures form the backbone of current scholarship in critical communication. From policy research to television demographics and from economic globalization to cultural imperialism, their insights and discoveries have given both scholars and the
A Different Stage: The remarkable and intimate life story of Gary Barlow told through music
by Gary BarlowTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERJoin national treasure Gary Barlow as he opens the curtains on his remarkable life in this stunning autobiography, from his fascinating early life to his star-studded music career'Warm, wise . . . A never-before-seen insight into one of Britain's greatest songwriters' Woman's Own'I just wanted to share my personal journey through the last five decades - the highs and lows, the ups and downs. So in A Different Stage, this is me opening the curtains and sharing moments nobody has heard or seen before . . .'__________In this warm, intimate and humorous book, rich with nostalgia and unexpected intimate detail, Gary Barlow unpacks the people, music, places, things and cultural phenomena that have made him the man that he is.From the working men's club where it all began through to the sold out stadium tours, this is the story of Gary's life told through music.Filled with a mixture of brand new photography from Gary's current one-man show and incredibly personal unseen photos and notebooks, A Different Stage is a beautiful book about the man we've spent our lives listening to.__________'Refreshingly honest . . . Think you know everything there is to know about the Take That megastar? Think again' Woman & Home
Difficult Death, Dying and the Dead in Media and Culture
by Sharon Coleclough Bethan Michael-Fox Renske VisserThis book responds to a growing interest in death, dying and the dead within and beyond the field of death studies. The collection defines an understanding of ‘difficult death’ and examines the differences between death, dying and the dead, as well as exploring the ethical challenges of researching death in mediated form. The collection is attendant to the ways in which difficult deaths are imbricated in power structures both before and after they become mediatised in culture. As such, the work navigates the many political and social complexities and inequalities – what might be deemed the difficulties – of death, dying and the dead. The book seeks to expand understandings of the difficulty of death in media and culture through a wide range of chapters from different contexts focused on literature, film, television, and in online environments, as well as several chapters examining news reportage of difficult deaths.
The Difficulty of Difference: Psychoanalysis, Sexual Difference and Film Theory (Routledge Library Editions: Cinema)
by D. N. RodowickThis book argues that serious misreadings of Freud and Lacan on sexual difference have characterized prevailing models of psychoanalytic film criticism. In critiquing theories of identification and female spectatorship, the author maintains that early film theorists and feminist critics are equally guilty of imposing a binary conception of sexual difference on Freud’s thought. By embracing such a rigid definition of male/female difference, they fail to understand the fundamentally complex and fluid process of sexual identification as it is articulated in Freud’s writing, constructed in film texts, and negotiated by spectators. The book turns to Freud’s work on fantasy to develop an alternative model for interpreting sexuality in the visual and narrative arts, one that emphasizes a ‘politics of critical reading’ over accepted theories of ideological identification. Originally published in 1991, its strategic focus on psychoanalysis itself as an object of historical and critical inquiry, and not simply as a reading method is the unique quality of this book.
Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music
by Amiri BarakaIn this book on music, the author blends autobiography, history, musical analysis, and political commentary to recall the sounds, people, times, and places he has encountered. He brings home how musicians carry and extend that knowledge with a sense of meaning and belonging.
Digging Up Mother: A Love Story
by Johnny Depp Doug StanhopeAfter enjoying early success as co-host of The Man Show with Joe Rogan, the past twenty years of Doug Stanhope's career can be seen as a subversive insider attack against the "bro-code" he helped to launch. Following a very singular career arc, Stanhope turned his back on Hollywood and toured relentlessly for years, performing up to 200 shows a year. He's a giant cult comedian with a fiercely loyal audience. His material is abrasive and often offensive, but it also relies on a bullshit-free, hardcore, outraged, truth-telling perspective in the tradition of the late Bill Hicks. Stanhope's memoir is sure to rub many the wrong way, but not without causing fits of uncontrollable laughter in the process.
The Digital Banal: New Media and American Literature and Culture (Literature Now)
by Zara DinnenContemporary culture is haunted by its media. Yet in their ubiquity, digital media have become increasingly banal, making it harder for us to register their novelty or the scope of the social changes they have wrought. What do we learn about our media environment when we look closely at the ways novelists and filmmakers narrate and depict banal use of everyday technologies? How do we encounter our own media use in scenes of waiting for e-mail, watching eBay bids, programming as work, and worrying about numbers of social media likes, friends, and followers?Zara Dinnen analyzes a range of prominent contemporary novels, films, and artworks to contend that we live in the condition of the “digital banal,” not noticing the affective and political novelty of our relationship to digital media. Authors like Jennifer Egan, Dave Eggers, Sheila Heti, Jonathan Lethem, Gary Shteyngart, Colson Whitehead, Mark Amerika, Ellen Ullman, and Danica Novgorodoff and films such as The Social Network and Catfish critique and reveal the ways in which digital labor isolates the individual; how the work of programming has become an operation of power; and the continuation of the “Californian ideology,” which has folded the radical into the rote and the imaginary into the mundane. The works of these writers and artists, Dinnen argues, also offer ways of resisting the more troubling aspects of the effects of new technologies, as well as timely methods for seeing the digital banal as a politics of suppression. Bridging the gap between literary studies and media studies, The Digital Banal recovers the shrouded disturbances that can help us recognize and antagonize our media environment.
Digital Cinema: The Seduction Of Reality (Quick Takes: Movies and Popular Culture)
by Stephen PrinceDigital Cinema considers how new technologies have revolutionized the medium, while investigating the continuities that might remain from filmmaking’s analog era. In the process, it raises provocative questions about the status of realism in a pixel-generated digital medium whose scenes often defy the laws of physics. It also considers what these changes might bode for the future of cinema. How will digital works be preserved and shared? And will the emergence of virtual reality finally consign cinema to obsolescence? Stephen Prince offers a clear, concise account of how digital cinema both extends longstanding traditions of filmmaking and challenges some fundamental assumptions about film. It is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding how movies are shot, produced, distributed, and consumed in the twenty-first century.
Digital Cinematography: Fundamentals, Tools, Techniques, and Workflows
by David StumpFirst published in 2014. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Digital Cinematography
by Paul WheelerHigh end digital cinematography can truly challenge the film camera in many of the technical, artistic and emotional aspects of what we think of as 'cinematography'. This book is a guide for practising and aspiring cinematographers and DOPs to digital cinematography essentials - from how to use the cameras to the rapidly emerging world of High Definition cinematography and 24p technology. This book covers the `on-the-set' knowledge you need to know - its emphasis lies in practical application, rather than descriptions of technologies, so that in this book you will find usable `tools' and information to help you get the job done. From `getting the look' to lighting styles and ratios, what is needed for different types of shoots and the technical preparation required, this is a complete reference to the knowledge and skills required to shoot high end digital films. The book also features a guide to the Sony DVW in-camera menus - showing how to set them up and how they work - adevice to save you time and frustration on set. Paul Wheeler is a renowned cinematographer/director of photography and trainer, he runs courses on Digital Cinematography at the National Film & Television School and has lectured on the Royal College of Art's MA course and at The London International Film School. He has been twice nominated by BAFTA for a Best Cinematography award and also twice been the winner of the INDIE award for Best Digital Cinematography.
Digital Compositing for Film and Video: Production Workflows and Techniques (4th Edition) (Focal Visual Effects and Animation )
by Steve Wright<p>Written by senior compositor, technical director and master trainer Steve Wright, this book condenses years of production experience into an easy-to-read and highly-informative guide suitable for both working and aspiring visual effects artists. <p>This expanded and updated edition of Digital Compositing for Film and Video addresses the problems and difficult choices that professional compositors face on a daily basis with an elegant blend of theory, practical production techniques and workflows. It is written to be software-agnostic, so it is applicable to any brand of software. This edition features many step-by-step workflows, powerful new keying techniques and updates on the latest tech in the visual effects industry. <p><b>Workflow examples for:</b> <p> <li>Grain Management <li>Lens Distortion Management <li>Merging CGI Render Passes <li>Blending Multiple Keys <li>Photorealistic Color Correction <li>Rotoscoping</li> <p> <p><b>Production Techniques for:</b> <li>Keying Difficult Greenscreens <li>Replicating Optical Lens Effects <li>Advanced Spill Suppression <li>Fixing Discoloured Edges <li>Adding Interactive Lighting <li>Managing Motion Blur</li> <p> <p><b>With brand new information on:</b> <li>Working in linear <li>ACES Color Management <li>Light Field Cinematography <li>Planar Tracking <li>Creating Color Difference Keys <li>Premultiply vs. Unpremultiply <li>Deep Compositing <li>VR Stitching <li>3D Compositing from 2D Images <li>How Color Correction ops Effect Images <li>Color Spaces <li>Retiming Clips <li>Working with Digital Cinema Images <li>OpenColorIO</li> <p> <p>A companion website offers images from the examples discussed in the book allowing readers to experiment with the material first-hand.</p>
Digital Compositing for Film and Video: Production Workflows and Techniques
by Steve WrightWritten by senior compositor, technical director, and master trainer Steve Wright, this book condenses years of production experience into an easy-to-read and highly informative guide suitable for both working and aspiring visual effects artists. This updated edition of Digital Compositing for Film and Video addresses the problems and difficult choices that professional compositors face daily with an elegant blend of theory, practical production techniques, and workflows. It is written to be software-agnostic, so it applies to any brand of software. It features many step-by-step workflows, powerful new keying techniques, and updates on the latest tech in the visual effects industry with all-new content on artificial intelligence (AI) for visual effects (VFX), Universal Scene Description (USD), Virtual Production, and Cryptomattes. A companion website offers images from the examples discussed in the book allowing readers to experiment with the material first-hand. This edition also adds Nuke workflows to the companion website for the first time.
Digital Compositing with Blackmagic Fusion: Essential Techniques
by Lee LanierCreate complex composites with Blackmagic Fusion. Learn the basics of node-based compositing and get up to speed quickly so you can undertake your own compositing projects. In Digital Compositing with Blackmagic Fusion: Essential Techniques, industry veteran Lee Lanier covers the most important components, tools, and workflows any serious compositor needs to know. Practice your knowledge and skill as you read the book with the included mini-tutorials and longer chapter tutorials. An accompanying eResource features video image sequences, 3D renders, and other tutorial materials, allowing you to immediately practice the discussed techniques. Critical topics in this book include: Tool / Node networks Color space and color channels Transformations Masking and rotoscoping Keyframing and animation splines Green screen keying The Fusion 3D environment Color grading and color manipulation Filter tools Motion tracking Particle simulation Stereoscopic workflow
Digital Compositing with Nuke
by Lee LanierWhether you're a novice compositor or a well-versed one moving over from After Effects or Shake, this is THE book for you to learn the ins and outs of the powerful compositing software, Nuke. In addition to covering all of the menus, buttons, and other software-specific topics, it also offers critical lessons in compositing theory, including working in 2.5D and stereoscopic 3D. Through a tutorial-based approach, augmented by video footage and image files provided on the companion DVD, this book will have you up and running in Nuke in just hours. The book features over 300 4-color images, industry insider sidebars, as well as an entire chapter dedicated to real-world Nuke case studies.
Digital Culture Unplugged: Probing the Native Cyborg’s Multiple Locations
by Nalini RajanFirst published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Digital Design: A History
by Stephen EskilsonA groundbreaking history of digital design from the nineteenth century to todayDigital design has emerged as perhaps the most dynamic force in society, occupying a fluid, experimental space where product design intersects with art, film, business, engineering, theater, music, and artificial intelligence. Stephen Eskilson traces the history of digital design from its precursors in the nineteenth century to its technological and cultural ascendency today, providing a multifaceted account of a digital revolution that touches all aspects of our lives.We live in a time when silicon processors, miniaturization, and CAD-enhanced 3D design have transformed the tangible world of cars and coffee makers as well as the screen world on our phones, computers, and game systems. Eskilson provides invaluable historical perspective to help readers better understand how digital design has become such a vibrant feature of the contemporary landscape. He covers topics ranging from graphic and product design to type, web design, architecture, data visualization, and virtual reality. Along the way, he paints compelling portraits of key innovators behind this transformation, from foundational figures such as Marshall McLuhan, Nam June Paik, and April Greiman to those mapping new frontiers, such as Jeanne Gang, Jony Ive, Yugo Nakamura, Neri Oxman, and Jewel Burks Solomon.Bringing together an unprecedented array of sources on digital design, this comprehensive and richly illustrated book reveals how many of the digital practices we think of as cutting-edge actually originated in the analog age and how the history of digital design is as much about our changing relationship to forms as the forms themselves.
Digital Echoes: Spaces For Intangible And Performance-based Cultural Heritage
by Amalia Sabiescu Rosamaria K. Cisneros Sarah WhatleyThis book explores the interplay between performing arts, intangible cultural heritage and digital environments through a compendium of essays on emerging practices and case studies, as well as critical, historical and theoretical perspectives. It features essays that engage with varied forms of intangible cultural heritage, from music and storytelling to dance, theatre and martial arts. Cases of digital technology interventions are provided from different geographical and cultural settings, from Europe to Asia and the Americas. Together, the collection reflects on the implications that digital interventions have on intangible cultural heritage engagements, its curation and transmission in diverse localities. The volume is a valuable resource for discovering the multiple ways in which cultural heritage is mediated through digital technologies, and engages with audiences, artists, users and researchers.
Digital Encounters
by Aylish WoodDigital Encounters is a cross media study of digital moving images in animation, cinema, games, and installation art.In a world increasingly marked by proliferating technologies, the way we encounter and understand these story-worlds, game spaces and art works reveals aspects of the ways in which we organize and decode the vast amount of visual mat
The Digital Film Event
by Trinh T. Minh-haEndless travel in cyberspace, virtual reality, and the dream of limitless speed: technology changes our sense of self. In her new book, Trinh Minh-ha explores the way technology transforms our perception of reality. "We are all engaged in social rituals in our daily activities, she writes, "and by remaining unaware of their artistic ritual propensity, we remain 'in conformity'." Her goal, as a thinker and an artist, is to transform our understanding of technology and speed so that we are able to "turn an instrument into a creative tool and to step out of the one-dimensional, technologically servile mind." The paradox that "stillness contains speed within it" is central to Trinh's concept of the digital apparatus. With her signature amalgam of feminism, Eastern philosophy, and practical understanding of filmmaking, Trinh Minh-ha presents a much-needed advance in our concept of the real in a technological age.