While Wilfrid Sellars’ philosophy is often depicted in an ahistorical fashion, this book explores the consequences of placing his work in its historical context. In order to show how Sellars’ early publications depend on contextual factors, Peter Olen reconstructs the conceptions of language, psychological, and social explanation that dominated American philosophy in the early 20th century. Because of Sellars’ differing explanations of language and behaviour, Olen argues that many of Sellars’ early commitments are incompatible with his later works. In the course of doing so, Olen highlights problematic tensions between Sellars’ early and later conceptions of language, meta-philosophy, and normativity. Supplementing the main text is a collection of previously unpublished archival material from Wilfrid Sellars, Gustav Bergmann, Everett Hall, and other early 20th century philosophers. This text will be a useful resource to those with an interest in the history of American philosophy, the history of analytic philosophy, Wilfrid Sellars’ philosophy, and the myriad issues surrounding normativity and language.
Clandestine Shadow decides to settle in Detroit. The retired police officer, who had led a team of assassins in San Francisco [Bay City Death Squad] during that city's "clean up," does not like what he sees in his new neighborhood. He carefully assembles a new team. Gang members, drug addicts, thieves, corrupt politicians, and homeless filth on the streets and in the abandoned warehouses of Detroit cannot hide from The Motor City Death Squad.
Originally published in 1990, this book brought a new rigor and subtlety to the interpretation of film adaptations of Shakespeare. Drawing on traditional literary analysis, psychoanalysis, and current film theory about gender and subjectivity, the author combines close readings of seven films with historical and biographical studies of the directors who made them. Offering substantial readings of Jean-Luc Godard’s controversial deconstructed King Lear and of Liz White’s independent African-American Othello, Donaldson also applies his provocative and contemporary point of view to more familiar films. He reads Olivier’s Henry V in relation to its treatment of sexual difference; Olivier’s Hamlet in part as an expression of the director’s childhood sexual trauma; Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood as an allegory of the relationship between Western and Japanese cinema; and Zeffirelli’s immensely popular Romeo and Juliet in the light of its powerful homoerotic subtext. With striking perspectives on Shakespeare, on the movies as an expressive medium, and on the complex processes of cultural change, this is timeless useful reading for teachers and students of film and literature.
A vibrant introduction to theatre that engages with stories, conditions and experiences of migration. Arguing that migration is crucially about encounters with foreignness, Emma Cox traces international histories of migration and considers key issues in contemporary performance - from Cape Town and Melbourne, to London and Toronto.
A detailed accounting of the Odd Fellows Home in California. It is a retrospect of one organization's challenge to establish a place for its aging members. Many of these aging members had been the first pioneers to come to California.
During the worse part of the pandemic, March and April of 2020, I was sitting around in my country house with not much to do so I decided to write my life's story. Adrianne Lobel -- Moving Scenery: a memoir is the result. It follows my life from childhood, through my checkered education, my working years in Hollywood, my studies at Yale, and my ensuing international career as a stage designer. I write about my collaborations with Peter Sellars, Mark Morris, James Lapine, and Francesca Zambello, among others. I have included development sketches of a number of productions which will illuminate my process. I also touch upon my sometimes heartbreaking personal life. I hope it is a fast paced, amusing, and exciting read. It was fun to write and I am thrilled that the Scenographer has published it." -- back cover
This comprehensive book explores technology's influence on artistic performance practices in the 20th and 21st centuries. Salter shows that technologies have been entangled with performance across a wide range of disciplines.
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