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Sartre and the International Impact of Existentialism
This edited collection re-examines the global impact of Sartre’s philosophy from 1944-68. From his emergence as an eminent philosopher, dramatist, and novelist, to becoming the ‘world’s conscience’ through his political commitment, Jean-Paul Sartre shaped the mind-set of a generation, influencing writers and thinkers both in France and far beyond. Exploring the presence of existentialism in literature, theatre, philosophy, politics, psychology and film, the contributors seek to discover what made Sartre’s philosophy so successful outside of France. With twenty diverse chapters encompassing the US, Europe, the Middle East, East Asia and Latin America, the volume analyses the dissemination of existentialism through literary periodicals, plays, universities and libraries around the world, as well as the substantial challenges it faced. The global post-war surge of existentialism left permanent traces in history, exerting considerable influence on our way of life in its quest for authenticity and freedom. This timely and compelling volume revives the path taken by a philosophical movement that continues to contribute to the anti-discrimination politics of today.
Multimodal Epistemologies
This volume develops a new multimodal semiotic approach to the study of communication, examining how multimodal discourse is construed transmedially and interculturally and how new technologies and cultural stances inform communicative contexts across the world. It contributes to current theoretical debates in the disciplines of semiotics, linguistics, multimodality, and pragmatics, as well as those aspects of pedagogy and film studies that engage with the notions of text and narrative by addressing questions such as: How do we study multimedia communication? How do we incorporate the impact of new media technologies into the study of Linguistics and Semiotics? How do we construe culture in modern communication? How useful are the current multidisciplinary approaches to multimodal communication? Through the analysis of specific case studies that are developed within diverse academic disciplines and which draw on a range of theoretical frameworks, the goal of this book is to provide a basis for an overarching framework that can be applied by scholars and students with different academic and cultural backgrounds.
Postcolonial Europe
How has European identity been shaped through its colonial empires? Does this history of imperialism influence the conceptualisation of Europe in the contemporary globalised world? How has coloniality shaped geopolitical differences within Europe? What does this mean for the future of Europe? Postcolonial Europe: Comparative Reflections after the Empires brings together scholars from across disciplines to rethink European colonialism in the light of its vanishing empires and the rise of new global power structures. Taking an interdisciplinary approach to the postcolonial European legacy, the book argues that the commonly used nation-centric approach does not effectively capture the overlap between different colonial and postcolonial experiences across Europe.
Shakespeare in Performance
The fourteen essays included in this collection offer a range of contributions from both new and well-established scholars to the topic of Shakespeare and performance. From traditional studies of theatrical history and adaptation to explorations of Shakespeare’s plays in the circus, musical extravaganzas, the cinema, and drama at large, the collection embraces a number of performance spaces, times, and media. Shakespeare in Performance includes essays looking not only at sixteenth- and seventeenth-century stagings of the plays in England, but at productions of Shakespeare across time in the United States, France, Italy, Hungary, and Africa, underscoring the multiple embodiments and voices ...
Marco Ferreri
Marco Ferreri (1928-1997) was one of Italian cinema's boldest auteurs. A maverick personality, he worked with some of the most popular actors of the time (Marcello Mastroianni, Michel Piccoli, Catherine Deneuve, Gerard Depardieu, Ugo Tognazzi, Carroll Baker, Roberto Benigni, Isabelle Huppert, Christopher Lambert and others), and directed internationally acclaimed films. His filmography includes The Conjugal Bed (1963), The Ape Woman (1964), Dillinger Is Dead (1969), the scandalous La Grande Bouffe (1973), the absurdist western Don't Touch the White Woman! (1974), The Last Woman (1976), Bye Bye Monkey (1978) and the Charles Bukowski adaptation Tales of Ordinary Madness (1981). Ferreri's cinem...
Cinema
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Viva la Franca
Chi potrebbe dubitare di quale sia la Franca in questione, con l’articolo davanti al nome, alla milanese? Così lo pronuncerebbe la Signorina Snob, uno dei personaggi più noti e amati fra le tante caricature sociali abilmente dipinte da Franca Valeri, artista versatile e dalla carriera lunga quanto una lunga vita. Appassionato e competente, con una scrittura gradevole l’autore ne ripercorre a uso dei lettori la produzione teatrale, cinematografica, radiofonica e letteraria, ed evita rispettosamente di indugiare sulla vita privata, come «la Franca» stessa preferirebbe, con ogni probabilità. Per cultori desiderosi di riscoprire le chicche, ma anche per chi non c’era quando la tv è nata e desidera documentarsi su quegli anni di fervido lavoro culturale.
Il Morandini
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Cultura dell'acqua e progettazione paesistica
Parlare di Cultura dell'acqua e progettazione paesistica significa, anzitutto, confrontarsi con la complessità dell'elemento "acqua". Liquido incolore e insapore, origine dell'umanità, "oro blu" del pianeta, protagonista dinamico, camaleontico ed imprevedibile del territorio, componente del paesaggio in perenne trasformazione nei confini, nelle forme, mai eguale a se stesso, con valenze simboliche, rituali e metafisiche difficilmente eguagliabili. Parlare di Cultura dell'acqua e progettazione paesistica significa affrontare la questione della sostenibilità in termini ecologico-ambientali, economici, etici. Parlare di Cultura dell'acqua e progettazione paesistica significa porre l'accento ...
Reflections on Asia
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