{"product_id":"seeing-things-alan-ackerman-9781442612105","title":"Seeing Things: From Shakespeare to Pixar","description":"\u003cp\u003eA technological revolution has changed the way we see things. The storytelling media employed by Pixar Animation Studios, Samuel Beckett, and William Shakespeare differ greatly, yet these creators share a collective fascination with the nebulous boundary between material objects and our imaginative selves. How do the acts of seeing and believing remain linked? Alan Ackerman charts the dynamic history of interactions between showing and knowing in \u003cem\u003eSeeing Things\u003c\/em\u003e, a richly interdisciplinary study which illuminates changing modes of perception and modern representational media.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSeeing Things\u003c\/em\u003e demonstrates that the airy nothings of \u003cem\u003eA Midsummer Night's Dream\u003c\/em\u003e, the Ghost in \u003cem\u003eHamlet\u003c\/em\u003e, and soulless bodies in Beckett's media experiments, alongside \u003cem\u003eToy Story\u003c\/em\u003e's digitally animated toys, all serve to illustrate the modern problem of visualizing, as Hamlet put it, 'that within which passes show.' Ackerman carefully analyses such ghostly appearances and disappearances across cultural forms and contexts from the early modern period to the present, investigating the tension between our distrust of shadows and our abiding desire to believe in invisible realities. \u003cem\u003eSeeing Things\u003c\/em\u003e provides a fresh and surprising cultural history through theatrical, verbal, pictorial, and cinematic representations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alan Ackerman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 144261210X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781442612105\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/20\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.50d","brand":"Alan Ackerman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44123660058879,"sku":"9781442612105","price":35.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ccf3daf0-08b6-4042-b1c6-2c4b5fa57536.jpg?v=1687432123","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/seeing-things-alan-ackerman-9781442612105","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}