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Now available in paperback, Michael R. Lynn's book analyses the popularisation of science in Enlightenment France. He examines the content of popular science, the methods of dissemination, the status of the popularisers and the audience, and the settings for dissemination and appropriation. Lynn introduces individuals like Jean-Antoine Nollet, who made a career out of applying electric shocks to people, and Perrin, who used his talented dog to lure customers to his physics show. He also examines scientifically oriented clubs like Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier's Musée de Monsieur which provided locations for people interested in science. Phenomena such as divining rods, used to find water and ores as well as to solve crimes; and balloons, the most spectacular of all types of popular science, demonstrate how people made use of their new knowledge. Lynn's study provides a clearer understanding of the role played by science in the Republic of Letters and the participation of the general population in the formation of public opinion on scientific matters.
In this book, Michael R. Lynn analyses the popularisation of science in Enlightenment France. He examines the content of popular science, the methods of dissemination, the status of the popularisers and the audience, and the settings for dissemination and appropriation. Lynn introduces individuals like Jean-Antoine Nollet, who made a career out of applying electric shocks to people, and Perrin, who used his talented dog to lure customers to his physics show. He also examines scientifically oriented clubs like Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier's Musée de Monsieur which provided locations for people interested in science. Phenomena such as divining rods, used to find water and ores as well as to solve crimes; and balloons, the most spectacular of all types of popular science, demonstrate how people made use of their new knowledge. Lynn's study provides a clearer understanding of the role played by science in the Republic of Letters and the participation of the general population in the formation of public opinion on scientific matters.
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Bertrand Tavernier is widely recognized as the leading French filmmaker of his generation. Both a consummate artist and a controversial public figure, he is a passionate advocate for social causes and also a tireless defender of world cinema in general and the French cinematic heritage in particular. Lynn Higgins' book offers a guided tour through Tavernier's oeuvre, taking into account both its prodigious diversity and its unifying themes. It explores his use of genre and adaptation, his work with actors and his affection for characters, his treatment of France's colonial history, his explorations of the powers of art and the complexities of intergenerational relations, both among fictional characters and within French cinema history. This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date scholarly book about Tavernier. Original and lively, sophisticated and engaging, the book will appeal to anyone interested in film studies, gender studies, and French cultural studies including academics, students, cinema enthusiasts, and Tavernier fans.
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Bertrand Tavernier is widely recognized as the leading French filmmaker of his generation. Both a consummate artist and a controversial public figure, he is a passionate advocate for social causes and also a tireless defender of world cinema in general and the French cinematic heritage in particular. Lynn Higgins' book offers a guided tour through Tavernier's oeuvre, taking into account both its prodigious diversity and its unifying themes. It explores his use of genre and adaptation, his work with actors and his affection for characters, his treatment of France's colonial history, his explorations of the powers of art and the complexities of intergenerational relations, both among fictional characters and within French cinema history. This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date scholarly book about Tavernier. Original and lively, sophisticated and engaging, the book will appeal to anyone interested in film studies, gender studies, and French cultural studies including academics, students, cinema enthusiasts, and Tavernier fans. ;
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Aus dem Englischen von Wolf Harranth
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Performing presence: Between the live and the simulated proposes that the advent of new media forms, and the increasing integration of contemporary performance and media, has generated new engagements, practices and understandings of presence. Addressing new media art and performance, multi-media theatre, video installation, mixed reality environments and locative arts, the book presents case studies of work by Lynn Hershman Leeson, Paul Sermon, Gary Hill, Tony Oursler, The Builders Association and Blast Theory, as well as analyses of a series of related experiments created for CAVE, an immersive virtual reality environment. Performing presence combines extensive analysis, and extracts from interviews with the artists, as well as the documentation of elements of work and working processes, in order to provide specific insight into these engagements with contemporary practices and concepts presence.
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Performing presence: Between the live and the simulated proposes that the advent of new media forms, and the increasing integration of contemporary performance and media, has generated new engagements, practices and understandings of presence. Addressing new media art and performance, multi-media theatre, video installation, mixed reality environments and locative arts, the book presents case studies of work by Lynn Hershman Leeson, Paul Sermon, Gary Hill, Tony Oursler, The Builders Association and Blast Theory, as well as analyses of a series of related experiments created for CAVE, an immersive virtual reality environment. Performing presence combines extensive analysis, and extracts from interviews with the artists, as well as the documentation of elements of work and working processes, in order to provide specific insight into these engagements with contemporary practices and concepts presence. This book will be of interest to students, researchers and practitioners of theatre and performance, contemporary art, media, new media and technology. ;
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Anzukündigen ist die Erstveröffentlichung zweier Texte von Max Frisch: 1981, das Jahr seines siebzigsten Geburtstags, war für Max Frisch biographisch wie literarisch ein ereignisreiches Jahr: Nach der Scheidung von seiner zweiten Frau Marianne lebt er nun in New York – gemeinsam mit Alice Locke-Carey, Frisch-Lesern bekannt als »Lynn« aus der 1975 erschienenen Erzählung Montauk. In Zürich wird an der ETH das Max Frisch-Archiv eingerichtet, und im Sommer und Herbst dieses Jahres entsteht die Erzählung Blaubart. Zur gleichen Zeit schreibt Frisch zwei Vorlesungen, die er Anfang November 1981 in englischer Sprache am City College of New York hält. Beide Vorträge sind eine Reise durchs Werk und zugleich Instrument der Selbstbefragung und -erforschung: Welchen Impulsen folgt der Drang zu schreiben? Was vermag Literatur? Und zu welchem Zweck? Max Frischs Vorlesungen sind ein Manifest: ein Bekenntnis zur Poesie, die sich nicht abfindet mit dem Machbaren, die nicht lassen kann »von der Trauer, daß das Menschsein auf dieser Erde nicht anders ist«. Unter dem Titel Schwarzes Quadrat erscheinen sie jetzt erstmals in deutscher Sprache.
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Im August 2009 meldeten die Feuilletons eine Sensation: In einem der Öffentlichkeit nicht zugänglichen Teil des Max-Frisch-Archivs in Zürich war das Typoskript eines bisher unbekannten Werks des Schweizer Autors gefunden worden: 184 Seiten, von Frisch auf Tonband diktiert, von seiner Sekretärin in die Maschine getippt. Der Autor selbst hatte auf der Titelseite notiert: »Tagebuch 3. Ab Frühjahr 1982«. Max Frisch lebte zu dieser Zeit in New York, zusammen mit seiner damaligen Lebensgefährtin Alice Locke-Carey, bekannt als »Lynn« aus der Erzählung Montauk. Ihr ist das Tagebuch 3 gewidmet, und vermutlich fällt das abrupte Ende der Aufzeichnungen Mitte der achtziger Jahre mit der Trennung von der Amerikanerin zusammen. Die USA und die Schweiz, die Reagan-Administration und das belastete Verhältnis zu der um vieles jüngeren Frau, der Kalte Krieg und der Krebstod eines engen Freundes: Wie die beiden legendären, 1950 und 1972 erschienenen Tagebücher verzeichnet auch das Tagebuch 3 Augenblicksnotizen neben längeren reflexiven Passagen – und hebt das scheinbar flüchtig hingeworfene Notat in den Rang des Literarischen: »Es gibt in Amerika alles – nur eins nicht: ein Verhältnis zum Tragischen.«
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Im August 2009 meldeten die Feuilletons eine Sensation: In einem der Öffentlichkeit nicht zugänglichen Teil des Max-Frisch-Archivs in Zürich war das Typoskript eines bisher unbekannten Werks des Schweizer Autors gefunden worden: 184 Seiten, von Frisch auf Tonband diktiert, von seiner Sekretärin in die Maschine getippt. Der Autor selbst hatte auf der Titelseite notiert: 'Tagebuch 3. Ab Frühjahr 1982'. Max Frisch lebte zu dieser Zeit in New York, zusammen mit seiner damaligen Lebensgefährtin Alice Locke-Carey, bekannt als 'Lynn' aus der Erzählung Montauk. Ihr ist das Tagebuch 3 gewidmet, und vermutlich fällt das abrupte Ende der Aufzeichnungen Mitte der achtziger Jahre mit der Trennung von der Amerikanerin zusammen. Die USA und die Schweiz, die Reagan-Administration und das belastete Verhältnis zu der um vieles jüngeren Frau, der Kalte Krieg und der Krebstod eines engen Freundes: Wie die beiden legendären, 1950 und 1972 erschienenen Tagebücher verzeichnet auch das Tagebuch 3 Augenblicksnotizen neben längeren reflexiven Passagen – und hebt das scheinbar flüchtig hingeworfene Notat in den Rang des Literarischen: 'Es gibt in Amerika alles – nur eins nicht: ein Verhältnis zum Tragischen.'
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