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"A 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."--Pub. desc.

Technology and the arts. --- Visual communication. --- Visual perception. --- Optics, Psychological --- Vision --- Perception --- Visual discrimination --- Graphic communication --- Imaginal communication --- Pictorial communication --- Communication --- Arts and technology --- Arts --- Psychological aspects --- 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. --- Motion pictures --- Beckett, Samuel, --- Pixar Animation Studios. --- Bekket, Samjuel' --- Bekkeṟ_r, Sāmuvēl --- Bekket, Sėmjuėl' --- Bīkīt, Ṣāmū'īl --- Beckett, Samuel Barclay --- Barclay Beckett, Samuel --- Becket, Samuel --- Bekeṭ, Samuel --- Beḳeṭ, Samuʾel --- Bekket, Samjuel’ --- Bekket, Sėmjuėl’ --- Schriftsteller --- Dramatiker --- Übersetzer --- Dublin --- Paris --- Pinget, Robert --- 13.04.1906-22.12.1989 --- 1906-1989 --- Disney Pixar --- Pixar --- Pixar Animation Studios --- Filmstudio --- Emeryville, Calif. --- USA --- Del Carmen, Ronnie --- 1985 --- -Visual perception.

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American literature --- 19th century --- History and criticism --- Theater --- United States --- History --- Whitman, Walt --- Criticism and interpretation --- Melville, Herman --- Howells, William Dean --- Alcott, Louisa May --- James, Henry

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In an appearance on The Dick Cavett Show in 1980, the critic Mary McCarthy glibly remarked that every word author Lillian Hellman wrote was a lie, "including 'and' and 'the.'" Hellman immediately filed a libel suit, charging that McCarthy's comment was not a legitimate conversation on public issues but an attack on her reputation. This intriguing book offers a many-faceted examination of Hellman's infamous suit and explores what it tells us about tensions between privacy and self-expression, freedom and restraint in public language, and what can and cannot be said in public in America.

Trials (Libel) --- Television talk shows --- Libel and slander --- Freedom of speech --- Politics and literature --- Free speech --- Liberty of speech --- Speech, Freedom of --- Civil rights --- Freedom of expression --- Assembly, Right of --- Freedom of information --- Intellectual freedom --- Calumny --- Defamation --- Slander --- Torts --- Talk television programs --- Talk shows --- Talk television shows --- Nonfiction television programs --- Interviewing on television --- History --- Political aspects --- Law and legislation --- Hellman, Lillian, --- McCarthy, Mary, --- Mc Carthyová, Mary, --- McCarthyová, Mary, --- Wilson, Mary Therese, --- West, Mary Therese, --- McCarthy, Mary Therese, --- Hellmann, Lillian, --- Helman, Lilyan, --- Heruman, Ririan, --- הלמן, ליליאן --- Dick Cavett show (Television program)

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