1992
Nations and Nationalism Since 1780
Preface Introduction The nation as novelty: from revolution to liberalism Popular proto-nationalism The government perspective The transformation of nationalism 1870-1018 The apogee of nationalism 1918-1950 Nationalism in the late twentieth century
Film Directing Cinematic Motion
Introduction Staging: The Process Staging: The Director Interview: John Sayles Staging: The Production Manager Interview: Ralph Singleton Staging: The Workshop Basic Choreography Interview: Allen Daviau Blocking in Confined Spaces Interview: Dustin Smith Advanced Choreography in Confined Spaces Interview: Harold Michelson Staging in Large Spaces Interview: Van Ling Staging for Multiple Subjects Conclusion
New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics
The Origins of Semiotics Semiotics and the philosophy of language The founders of semiotics Russian Formalism The Bakhtin School Prague structuralism Jakobson’s communications paradigm The advent of structuralism Post-structuralism: the critique of the sign Cine-semiology The cinematic sign Minimal units and their cinematic articulation Cinema: langue or langage? The Grand Syntagmatique The eight syntagmatic types …
Dusa, Fish, Stas and Vi
Foreword to the Revised edition Pam Gems, 1992
De Filippo: Four Plays
Chronology Introduction Carlo Ardito The Plays Note on adaptation
Jung and Shakespeare
Introduction Hamlet Othello The Tempest
Shylock
originally published in UK as Shylock: Four Hundred Years in the Life of a Legend Part One: Shakespeare’s Shylock Where Does He Come From? Jews Three Thousand Ducats “Shylock Is My Name” Wife and Daughter “I Stand for Judgement” Christians Part Two: Interpretations (1600-1939) From Comical to Tragical Romantics and Revisionists Henry Irving Stage and …
King Henry V
List of illustrations Preface Introduction The play and its date The coercive Chorus Context and sources Structure and language Staging and stage history Note on the text List of characters The play Textual analysis Appendices Theatre sources: The Famous Victories Historical sources: Holinshed’s Chronicles Background sources: Richard Crompton, The Mansion of Magnanimitie Reading list