The Temporality Of Festivals

Author : Anke Walter
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3111366871
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Temporality of Festivals written by Anke Walter and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-04 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can time become festive? How do festivals manage to make time 'special', to mark out a certain day or days, to distinguish them from 'normal', everyday time, and to fill them with meaning? And how can we reconstruct what festive time looked like in the past and what people thought about it? While a lot of research has been done on festivals from the point of view of several scholarly disciplines, the specific temporality of festivals has not yet attracted sufficient attention. In this volume, scholars from different fields provide answers to the questions raised above, based on a fresh analysis of astronomical documents, calendars, and literary texts. Cultures as diverse as ancient Babylon, Greece and Rome, and medieval China all share a sense of calendrically recurring festive time as something special that needs to be carefully mapped out and preserved, often with great sophistication, and that gives us precious insights into the broader religious, political, and social dimensions of time within past cultures.

Author : Rebecca M. Brown
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295999950
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Displaying Time written by Rebecca M. Brown and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2017-05-11 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the fluttering fabric of a tent, to the blurred motion of the potter’s wheel, to the rhythm of a horse puppet’s wooden hooves—these scenes make up a set of mid-1980s art exhibitions as part of the U.S. Festival of India. The festival was conceived at a meeting between Indira Gandhi and Ronald Reagan to strengthen relations between the two countries at a time of late Cold War tensions and global economic change, when America’s image of India was as a place of desperate poverty and spectacular fantasy. Displaying Time unpacks the intimate, small-scale durations of time at work in the gallery from the transformation of clay into ceramic to the one-on-one, personal encounters between museum visitors and artists. Using extensive archival research and interviews with artists, curators, diplomats, and visitors, Rebecca Brown analyzes a selection of museum shows that were part of the Festival of India to unfurl new exhibitionary modes: the time of transformation, of interruption, of potential and the future, as well as the contemporary and the now.

Author : Philippe Eberhard
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 9783161481574
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Middle Voice in Gadamer's Hermeneutics written by Philippe Eberhard and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2004 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised thesis (Ph. D.) - University of Chicago Divinity School, Chicago, 2002.

Author : Elisa Salvador
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100056228X
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Managing Cultural Festivals written by Elisa Salvador and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-02-13 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims at renewing the attention on a niche field, Cultural Festivals, so important for valorizing cultural traditions and local heritage visibility as well as social well-being. Following the disruptive consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, this fragile sector deserves more attention from public authorities and stakeholders at national and European levels with a suitable and dedicated plan of recovery and valorization. This book provides a comparative analysis of Cultural Festivals in Europe, taking insights from an international range of high-level scholarly contributors. Individual chapters highlight and analyse challenges around the organisation, management and economics of Cultural Festivals. As a whole, the book provides a comprehensive overview of scholarly research in this area, setting the scene for the future research agenda. Matters related to educational programs and new audience development, as well as challenges related to digitalization, are also included. The book employs a tradition versus innovation lens to help readers account for the consequences of the digital revolution, new audience development and an educational agenda. The result is a book which will be valuable reading for researchers, academics and students in the fields of event and cultural management and beyond. Chapters 4 and 9 of this book are available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www.routledge.com. They have been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Author : Gary Shapiro
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253114471
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nietzschean Narratives written by Gary Shapiro and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1989-06-22 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "... Shapiro's book is bursting with thoughts, and if one is willing to mine them, one is sure to find items of interest or provocation." -- The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Taking issue with a widely held view that Nietzsche's writings are essentially fragmentary or aphoristic, Gary Shapiro focuses on the narrative mode that Nietzsche adopted in many of his works. Such themes as eternal recurrence, the question of origins, and the problematics of self-knowledge are reinterpreted in the context of the narratives in which Nietzsche develops or employs them.

Author : Marijke de Valck
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031141717
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Film Festivals in the Pandemic Era and After written by Marijke de Valck and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-02-05 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an open access book. This edited collection aims to document the effects of Covid-19 on film festivals and to theorize film festivals in the age of social distancing. To some extent, this crisis begs us to consider what happens when festivals can’t happen; while films have found new (temporary) channels of distribution (most often in the forms of digital releases), the festival format appears particularly vulnerable in pandemic times. Imperfect measures, such as the move to a digital format, cannot recapture the communal experience at the very core of festivals. Given the global nature of the pandemic and the diversity of the festival phenomenon, this book features a wide range of case studies and analytical frameworks. With contributors including established scholars and frontline festival workers, the book is conceived as both a theoretical endeavour and a practical exploration of festival organizing in pandemic times.

Author : Hans-Georg Gadamer
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1780936001
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Truth and Method written by Hans-Georg Gadamer and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Truth and Method is a landmark work of 20th century thought which established Hans Georg-Gadamer as one of the most important philosophical voices of the 20th Century. In this book, Gadamer established the field of 'philosophical hermeneutics': exploring the nature of knowledge, the book rejected traditional quasi-scientific approaches to establishing cultural meaning that were prevalent after the war. In arguing the 'truth' and 'method' acted in opposition to each other, Gadamer examined the ways in which historical and cultural circumstance fundamentally influenced human understanding. It was an approach that would become hugely influential in the humanities and social sciences and remains so to this day in the work of Jurgen Habermas and many others.

Author : Jemma Browne
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 042977804X
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Architecture, Festival and the City written by Jemma Browne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-26 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historically the urban festival served as an occasion for affirming shared convictions and identities in the life of the city. Whether religious or civic in nature, these events provided tangible expressions of social, cultural, political, and religious cohesion, often reaffirming a particular shared ethos within diverse urban landscapes. Architecture has long served as a key aspect of this process exhibiting continuity in the flux of these representations through the parading of elaborate ceremonial floats, the construction of temporary buildings, the ‘dressing’ of existing urban space, the alternative occupations of the everyday, and the construction of new buildings and spaces which then become a part of the background fabric of the city. This book examines how festivals can be used as a lens to examine the relationship between city and citizen and questions whether this is fixed through time, or has been transformed as a response to changes in the modern urban condition. Architecture, Festival and the City looks at the multilayered nature of a diverse selection of festivals and the way they incorporate both orderly (authoritative) and disorderly (subversive) components. The aim is to reveal how the civic nature of urban space is utilised through festival to represent ideas of belonging and identity. Recent political and social gatherings also raise questions about the relationship of these events to ‘ritual’ and whether traditional practices can serve as meaningful references in the twenty-first century.

Author : Tricia Jenkins
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786734699
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book International Film Festivals written by Tricia Jenkins and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 5,000 film festivals take place globally and many of these have only been established in the last two decades. International Film Festivals collects the leading scholarship on this increasingly prominent phenomenon from both historical and contemporary perspectives, using diverse methods including archival research, interviews and surveys and drawing widely from fields like sociology, urban studies and film criticism to patent technology and history. With contributors from across the world and covering the major festivals - Cannes, Venice, Toronto, Berlin - as well as niche, genre and online film festivals, this book is an authoritative and exemplary guide to the evolution of these key sites for film distribution, exhibition and reception. Chapters unravel topics such as the relationship between corporations and festivals, the soft power function they can perform for their host nations and the changing identities of audiences on arrival at, and during exploration of, a given festival venue. Tricia Jenkins' edited volume reconceives the film festival for the global, digital age whilst drawing out its historic importance and ultimately makes a major intervention in film festival studies as well as film and cultural studies more widely.

Author : Trish McTighe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108962130
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Carnivals of Ruin written by Trish McTighe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-26 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beckett's work is somewhat out of step with the logic of commemoration and celebration. Festival, with its association with celebration, spectacle, and publicity, would not seem the ideal vehicle for Beckett's work. Yet that work has become highly festivalised, and the incongruities between it and festival forms provide a useful basis from which to examine both Beckett as festivalised commodity and festivals themselves. Festivalising Beckett in Ireland might be characterised as a way of bringing him back home, as well as a way of returning him to the canonical fold - he showed little interest in either during his later years, it need hardly be added. This Element examines Beckett's dissidence in the face of these imperatives of nation, home and the canon, utilising Beckett's work in festival contexts to highlight in the negative the nature of the festival form and to critique the festivalisation of culture.