Author: Robert M. Isherwood
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Covers every aspect of popular entertainment: fairs, cafes, boulevard theatres, and freak shows.
Farce and Fantasy
Author: Robert M. Isherwood
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Covers every aspect of popular entertainment: fairs, cafes, boulevard theatres, and freak shows.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Covers every aspect of popular entertainment: fairs, cafes, boulevard theatres, and freak shows.
What Comes After Farce?
Author: Hal Foster
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1804295930
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Surveying the artistic and cultural scene in the era of Trump In a world where truth is cast in doubt and shame has gone missing, what are artists and critics on the left to do? How to demystify a political order that laughs away its own contradictions? How to mock leaders who thrive on the absurd? And why, in any event, offer more outrage to a media economy that feeds on the same? Such questions are grist to the mill of Hal Foster, who, in What Comes after Farce?, delves into recent developments in art, criticism, and fiction under the current regime of war, surveillance, extreme inequality, and media disruption. Concerned first with the cultural politics of emergency since 9/11, including the use and abuse of trauma, conspiracy, and kitsch, he moves on to consider the neoliberal makeover of aesthetic forms and art institutions during the same period. A final section surveys signal transformations in art, film, and writing. Among the phenomena explored are machine vision (images produced by machines for other machines without a human interface), operational images (images that do not represent the world so much as intervene in it), and the algorithmic scripting of information that pervades our everyday lives. If all this sounds dire, it is. In many respects we look out on a world that has moved, not only politically but also technologically, beyond our control. Yet Foster also sees possibility in the current debacle: the possibility to pressure the cracks in this order, to turn emergency into change.
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1804295930
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Surveying the artistic and cultural scene in the era of Trump In a world where truth is cast in doubt and shame has gone missing, what are artists and critics on the left to do? How to demystify a political order that laughs away its own contradictions? How to mock leaders who thrive on the absurd? And why, in any event, offer more outrage to a media economy that feeds on the same? Such questions are grist to the mill of Hal Foster, who, in What Comes after Farce?, delves into recent developments in art, criticism, and fiction under the current regime of war, surveillance, extreme inequality, and media disruption. Concerned first with the cultural politics of emergency since 9/11, including the use and abuse of trauma, conspiracy, and kitsch, he moves on to consider the neoliberal makeover of aesthetic forms and art institutions during the same period. A final section surveys signal transformations in art, film, and writing. Among the phenomena explored are machine vision (images produced by machines for other machines without a human interface), operational images (images that do not represent the world so much as intervene in it), and the algorithmic scripting of information that pervades our everyday lives. If all this sounds dire, it is. In many respects we look out on a world that has moved, not only politically but also technologically, beyond our control. Yet Foster also sees possibility in the current debacle: the possibility to pressure the cracks in this order, to turn emergency into change.
The Face That Demonstrates the Farce of Evolution
Author: Hank Hanegraaff
Publisher: HarperChristian + ORM
ISBN: 1418515094
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Looking into the face of our alleged ape ancestor, popular Christian apologist Hank Hanegraaff dissects and debunks the astonishingly weak arguments for the evolutionary theory, revealing it as nothing more than a "fairy tale for grown-ups." The author uses his own Memory Dynamics to make it easy for Christians to speak intelligently about evolution and speak persuasively about the Creator.
Publisher: HarperChristian + ORM
ISBN: 1418515094
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Looking into the face of our alleged ape ancestor, popular Christian apologist Hank Hanegraaff dissects and debunks the astonishingly weak arguments for the evolutionary theory, revealing it as nothing more than a "fairy tale for grown-ups." The author uses his own Memory Dynamics to make it easy for Christians to speak intelligently about evolution and speak persuasively about the Creator.
Scandalabra
Author: Zelda Fitzgerald
Publisher: Bruccoli-Clark Layman
ISBN: 9780897230223
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 63
Book Description
Publisher: Bruccoli-Clark Layman
ISBN: 9780897230223
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 63
Book Description
Etiquette & Espionage
Author: Gail Carriger
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 031621521X
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
This steampunk series debut set in the same world as the New York Times bestselling Parasol Protectorate is filled with all the saucy adventure and droll humor Gail Carriger's legions of fans have come to adore. Fourteen-year-old Sophronia is a great trial to her poor mother. Sophronia is more interested in dismantling clocks and climbing trees than in proper manners—and the family can only hope that company never sees her atrocious curtsy. Mrs. Temminnick is desperate for her daughter to become a proper lady. So she enrolls Sophronia in Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality. But Sophronia soon realizes the school is not quite what her mother might have hoped. At Mademoiselle Geraldine's, young ladies learn to finish...everything. Certainly, they learn the fine arts of dance, dress, and etiquette, but they also learn to deal out death, diversion, and espionage—in the politest possible ways, of course. Sophronia and her friends are in for a rousing first year's education.
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 031621521X
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
This steampunk series debut set in the same world as the New York Times bestselling Parasol Protectorate is filled with all the saucy adventure and droll humor Gail Carriger's legions of fans have come to adore. Fourteen-year-old Sophronia is a great trial to her poor mother. Sophronia is more interested in dismantling clocks and climbing trees than in proper manners—and the family can only hope that company never sees her atrocious curtsy. Mrs. Temminnick is desperate for her daughter to become a proper lady. So she enrolls Sophronia in Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality. But Sophronia soon realizes the school is not quite what her mother might have hoped. At Mademoiselle Geraldine's, young ladies learn to finish...everything. Certainly, they learn the fine arts of dance, dress, and etiquette, but they also learn to deal out death, diversion, and espionage—in the politest possible ways, of course. Sophronia and her friends are in for a rousing first year's education.
Unified English
Author:
Publisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
Publisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
A Farce to Be Reckoned With
Author: Roger Zelazny
Publisher: Spectra
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The demon Azzie Elbub commissions a play in which the seven deadly sins will be shown as the path to a fine life. But the angel Babriel gets wind of the scheme and sets in motion a counter-campaign. A comic fantasy.
Publisher: Spectra
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The demon Azzie Elbub commissions a play in which the seven deadly sins will be shown as the path to a fine life. But the angel Babriel gets wind of the scheme and sets in motion a counter-campaign. A comic fantasy.
First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
Author: Slavoj Žižek
Publisher: Verso
ISBN: 1844674282
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
From the tragedy of 9/11 to the farce of the financial meltdown.
Publisher: Verso
ISBN: 1844674282
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
From the tragedy of 9/11 to the farce of the financial meltdown.
The Nineteenth Century and After
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nineteenth century
Languages : en
Pages : 1100
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nineteenth century
Languages : en
Pages : 1100
Book Description
The Twentieth Century
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1126
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1126
Book Description