Learning How to Fall - Couverture souple

Cesare Schotzko, T Nikki

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1138796891 ISBN 13 : 9781138796898

Editeur : Routledge, 2014

Synopsis

Beginning with Richard Drew's controversial photograph of a man falling from the North Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11,　Learning How to Fall　investigates the changing relationship between world events and their subsequent documentation, asking:

　

• Does the mediatization of the event overwhelm the fact of the event itself?
• How does the mode by which information is disseminated alter the way in which we perceive such information?
• How does this impact upon our memory of an event?

　

T. Nikki Cesare Schotzko posits contemporary art and performance as not only a stylized re-envisioning of daily life but, inversely, as a viable means by which one might experience and process real-world political and social events. This approach combines two concurrent and contradictory trends in aesthetics, narrative, and dramaturgy: the dramatization of real-world events so as to broaden the commercial appeal of those events in both mainstream and alternative media, and the establishment of a more holistic relationship between politically and aesthetically motivated modes of disseminating and processing information.

　

By presenting engaging and diverse case studies from both the art world and popular culture - including Aliza Shvarts's censored senior thesis at Yale University, Kerry Skarbakka's provocative photographs of falling, Didier Morelli's crawl through Toronto, and Aaron Sorkin's The Newsroom -　Learning How to Fall creates a new understanding of the relationship between the event and its documentation, where even the truth of an event might be called into question.

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À propos de l'auteur

T. Nikki Cesare Schotzko is an Assistant Professor in the Centre for Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies at the University of Toronto.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1138796891
• ISBN 13: 9781138796898
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 228
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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