The Content of the Form

Author: Hayden White
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801896142
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 261

Book Description
Hayden White probes the notion of authority in art and literature and examines the problems of meaning—its production, distribution, and consumption—in different historical epochs. In the end, he suggests, the only meaning that history can have is the kind that a narrative imagination gives to it. The secret of the process by which consciousness invests history with meaning resides in "the content of the form," in the way our narrative capacities transform the present into a fulfillment of a past from which we would wish to have descended.

The Unity of Content and Form in Philosophical Writing

Author: Jon Stewart
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1472513924
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 233

Book Description
In The Unity of Content and Form in Philosophical Writing, Jon Stewart argues that there is a close relation between content and form in philosophical writing. While this might seem obvious at first glance, it is overlooked in the current climate of Anglophone academic philosophy, which, Stewart contends, accepts only a single genre as proper for philosophical expression. Stewart demonstrates the uniformity of today's philosophical writing by contrasting it with that of the past. Taking specific texts from the history of philosophy and literature as case studies, Stewart shows how the use of genres like dialogues, plays and short stories were an entirely suitable and effective means of presenting and arguing for philosophical positions given the concrete historical and cultural contexts in which they appeared. Now, Stewart argues, the prevailing intolerance means that the same texts are dismissed as unphilosophical merely due to their form, although their content is, in fact, profoundly philosophical. The book's challenge to current conventions of philosophical is provocative and timely, and will be of great interest to students and scholars of philosophy, literature and history.

Conventional Wisdom

Author: Susan McClary
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520232089
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 225

Book Description
McClary, "offers an analysis of our own cultural moment in terms of two dominant traditions: tonality and blues."--Jacket.

The Art of Short Form Content

Author: Bryan Cook
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1317329961
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 200

Book Description
The Art of Short Form Content: From Concept to Color Correction is an in-depth examination of the craft of creating short form filmic content – a category which includes television commercials, music videos, television promos, movie trailers, digital billboards, corporate videos, and pretty much anything else with a running time under five minutes. Though short form is an important part of the film industry, it is typically overlooked in books on the art of filmmaking. The Art of Short Form Content fills this industry void by answering the type of questions that working short form content creators deal with every day. As Cook explains, though short form content is limited in duration, it is not limited in quality and message. In this step-by-step, full-color guide you will find: • Interviews with leading short form content creators • Details on how to create everything from a corporate piece to a Super Bowl spot • Strategies for how to quickly attract viewer attention to your content • Extensive information on how to best utilize the craft of film-making in an advertising context • A comprehensive companion website that can be found at www.focalpress.com/cw/cook

Understanding Photobooks

Author: Jorg Colberg
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1317484711
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 281

Book Description
Understanding Photobooks is a user-friendly guide to engaging with the photographic book— or, as it is widely known, the photobook. Despite its importance as a central medium in which many photographers showcase their work today, there is surprisingly little information on the mechanics of the photobook: what exactly it does and how it does it. Written for makers and artists, this book will help you develop a better understanding of the images, concept, sequence, design, and production of the photobook. With an awareness of the connections between these elements, you’ll be able to evaluate photobooks more clearly and easily, ultimately allowing for a deeper and more rewarding experience of the work.

Responding to Art

Author: Robert Bersson
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 716

Book Description
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The Shape of Content

Author: Ben Shahn
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674805705
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 148

Book Description
"A modern painter discusses meaning and form in contemporary painting and offers advice to aspiring artists."--

Digital Storytelling

Author: Mark Dunford
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137591528
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 244

Book Description
This edited collection brings together academics and practitioners to explore the uses of Digital Storytelling, which places the greatest possible emphasis on the voice of the storyteller. Case studies are used as a platform to investigate questions of concept, theory and practice, and to shine an interrogative light on this emergent form of participatory media. The collection examines the creative and academic roots of Digital Storytelling before drawing on a range of international examples to consider the way in which the practice has established itself and evolved in different settings across the world.

The Sword

Author: Lisa Deutscher
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1783274271
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 296

Book Description
A multidisciplinary overview of current research into the enduringly fascinating martial artefact which is the sword.

The Adventures of Form and Content

Author: Albert Goldbarth
Publisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 9781555977610
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
An astounding work of doubles by Albert Goldbarth, “a dazzling virtuoso who can break your heart” (Joyce Carol Oates) Albert Goldbarth’s first book of essays in a decade, The Adventures of Form and Content is about the mysteries of dualities, the selves we all carry inside, the multiverses that we are. This collection takes its shape from the ACE Doubles format of the 1950s: turn this book one way, and read about the checkered history of those sci-fi and pulp fictions, or about the erotic poetry of Catullus and the gravelly songs of Springsteen, or about the high gods and the low-down blues, a city of the holy and of the sinful; turn this book the other way, and read about prehistoric cave artists and NASA astronauts, or about illness and health, or about the discovery of planets and the discovery of oneself inside an essay, or about soul ships and space ships, the dead and the living; or turn the book any way you want, and this book becomes an adventure of author and reader, form and content. Goldbarth’s essays have pioneered and inspired new forms of nonfiction writing for thirty years. Robert Atwan, the series editor for The Best American Essays, praises his work by stating, “These essays are a whole new breed . . . Goldbarth has spliced strands of the old genre with a powerful new genre—and the results are miraculous.” The Adventures of Form and Content is a new, ingenious work of hilarity and humanity that reminds us of the capabilities and impossibilities of art.