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Author: Kenneth Gross Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 0226309606 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 222
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The puppet creates delight and fear. It may evoke the innocent play of childhood, or become a tool of ritual magic, able to negotiate with ghosts and gods. Puppets can be creepy things, secretive, inanimate while also full of spirit, alive with gesture and voice. In this eloquent book, Kenneth Gross contemplates the fascination of these unsettling objects—objects that are also actors and images of life. The poetry of the puppet is central here, whether in its blunt grotesquery or symbolic simplicity, and always in its talent for metamorphosis. On a meditative journey to seek the idiosyncratic shapes of puppets on stage, Gross looks at the anarchic Punch and Judy show, the sacred shadow theater of Bali, and experimental theaters in Europe and the United States, where puppets enact everything from Baroque opera and Shakespearean tragedy to Beckettian farce. Throughout, he interweaves accounts of the myriad faces of the puppet in literature—Collodi’s cruel, wooden Pinocchio, puppetlike characters in Kafka and Dickens, Rilke’s puppet-angels, the dark puppeteering of Philip Roth’s Micky Sabbath—as well as in the work of artists Joseph Cornell and Paul Klee. The puppet emerges here as a hungry creature, seducer and destroyer, demon and clown. It is a test of our experience of things, of the human and inhuman. A book about reseeing what we know, or what we think we know, Puppet evokes the startling power of puppets as mirrors of the uncanny in life and art.
Author: Andrew Noah Weintraub Publisher: Ohio University Press ISBN: 089680240X Category : Electronic books Languages : en Pages : 314
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Based on ethnographic fieldwork spanning twenty years, Power Plays is the first scholarly book in English on wayang golek, the Sundanese rod-puppet theater of West Java. It is a detailed and lively account of the ways in which performers of this major Asian theatrical form have engaged with political discourses in Indonesia. Wayang golek has shaped, as well, the technological and commercial conditions of art and performance in a modernizing society. Using interviews with performers, musical transcriptions, translations of narrative and song texts, and archival materials, author Andrew N. Weintraub analyzes the shifting and flexible nature of a set of performance practices called Padalangan, the art of the puppeteer. He focuses on "superstar" performers and the musical troupes that dominated wayang golek during the New Order political regime of former president Suharto (1966-98) and the ensuing three years of the post-Suharto period. Studies of actual performances illuminate stylistic and formal elements and situate wayang golek as a social process in Sundanese culture and society. Power Plays includes an interactive multimedia CD-ROM of wayang golek. Power Plays shows how meanings about identity, citizenship, and community are produced through theater, music, language, and discourse. While based in ethnographic theory and methods, this book is at the center of a new synthesis emerging among ethnomusicology, anthropology, and cultural studies. Its cross-disciplinary approach will inspire researchers studying similar struggles over cultural authority and popular representation in culture and the performing arts.
Author: Claudia Orenstein Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1000910717 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 290
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This anthology of essays aims to explore the many types of relationships that exist between puppets, broadly speaking, and the immaterial world. The allure of the puppet goes beyond its material presence as, historically and throughout the globe, many uses of puppets and related objects have expressed and capitalized on their posited connections to other realms or ability to serve as vessels or conduits for immaterial presence. The flip side of the puppet’s troubling uncanniness is precisely the possibilities it represents for connecting to discarnate realities. Where do we see such connections? How do we describe, analyze, and theorize these relationships? The first of two volumes, this book focuses on these questions in relation to long-established, traditional practices using puppets, devotional objects, and related items with sacred aspects to them or that perform ritual roles. Looking at performance traditions and artifacts from China, Indonesia, Korea, Mali, Brazil, Iran, Germany, and elsewhere, the essays from scholars and practitioners provide a range of useful models and critical vocabularies for addressing the ritual and spiritual aspects of puppet performance, further expanding the growing understanding and appreciation of puppetry generally. This book, along with its companion volume, offers, for the first time, robust coverage of this subject from a diversity of voices, examples, and perspectives.
Author: GERARD ASSEY Publisher: Gerard Assey ISBN: Category : Bibles Languages : en Pages :
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According to surveys carried out, ninety four percent (94%) of all fundamental Christians accepted Jesus as their Savior while they were very young; and sixty five percent (65%) of all Christians were led to the Lord by their parents or teachers. It is therefore most vital and valuable for those of us who are teachers especially those who are in Vocation Bible School, Sunday School Teachers, Children Ministry Pastors and Leaders to get our children starting from a very young age engrossed and rooted with simple Bible stories, and then progressing through the more age-appropriate children’s Bibles and studies as they get older. Now, while there are numerous Bible Story books available, this book however focuses on 37 miracles of JESUS, using the power of puppets and is on Jesus alone- Who is the centre of the whole Bible, enabling the child to see the power of Jesus’ and His divine authority, thus building a strong foundation.'PUPPET SCRIPTS will hopefully help anyone in Children’s Ministries make a start of building a legacy by passing on through these precious kids to help build a faith line of future generations. Puppets help… -Teach kids about Jesus- what He did and what He continues to do for them -Build a foundation on the Word of God, the Bible, its characters and its key Messages -Establish in the faith, the joy of serving Christ -Win children and teens to Christ and the Kingdom -Teach teens to be great puppeteers (Start a kid as a hearer, then as they move into teens they graduate as doers-puppeteers) -Build skills of teamwork and commitment to each other and the ministry This little book will be a blessing to the many VBS and Sunday School Teachers, Pastors and Leaders who have this tremendous opportunity to reach children, teach them and sow in them- God’s Word- the seed that will take root and germinate to bear fruit! This is the greatest Joy that anyone can aspire to see…And I pray that this book helps meet this purpose!
Author: Gerhard Wisnewski Publisher: CLAIRVIEW BOOKS ISBN: 190557066X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 288
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Since 1954, a discrete and select group of wealthy and powerful individuals have attended a private, yearly conference to discuss matters of their choosing. This group represents European and North American elites, as well as new talent and rising stars, from the worlds of politics, business, media, academia, the military and even royalty, and has included household names such as Margaret Thatcher, Henry Kissinger and even Prince Philip. In recent years their number have featured David Cameron, Tony Blair, Angela Merkel, Bill Clinton and David Rockefeller. These are ‘the Bilderbergers’, named after the hotel where their secret gatherings were first hosted. What is their purpose, why do they meet, and what do they want? Investigative writer Gerhard Wisnewski explores the numerous claims of conspiracy that swirl around the group, revealing names of participants, their agendas and their goals. The scene opens in the sun-kissed seaside resort of Vouliagmeni, Greece, where Wisnewski attempts to observe and report on a Bilderberg conference. He soon attracts aggressive attention from police and undercover security, and it is made abundantly clear he is not welcome. From this rude introduction, Wisnewski works backwards to the founding of the Bilderbergers in 1954 by a shadowy Jesuit with secret service allegiances. Examining records and hidden reports, Wisnewski uncovers the true history of the organization, the alliances among key individuals and their common interests. Are the Bilderbergers puppet-masters, pulling strings behind the scenes? Are plans afoot to create a global government and a new political system? To what extent do they represent a clandestine super-government? This book offers a unique view into the workings of power, and the secret methods of those who seek to govern and control behind the scenes.
Author: Tyrone Zuhaire Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 0595396542 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 144
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A New Genre of Self-Help(c) Welcome to the Puppet show, filled with characters that have lost emotional internal battles and external social wars, for which they were unarmed. The hip-hop group Mobb Deep couldn't have said it better, "There's a war going on outside and no man can escape from, you can run but you can't hide forever." It's time to stop running from yourself, and face the worst enemy (inner-me). Stories Include: The Police Officer Puppet. A man who suffered post-traumatic stress and anxiety as a result of his deceased father's unruly behaviors in the past. Obsessed with being better than his father in every way his behavior was misdirected and he becomes even worse off. Unable to let go of the abuse and damage that his father caused, he became a slave to his father's sin. The Puppet with the MBA. A story of how power and money were George's gods. Possessions accumulated over generations were kept within his family-and there weren't many families like his. The story is symbolic of the heads of gold (upper class) in America that abuse its feet of copper. The Inner City Puppet, an exclusive true tale of the author's inspirational experience. Also: The Gay Puppet The Video Vixen Puppet The 9-to-5 Puppet The Biracial Puppet The Asian Puppet And More.
Author: Lawrence Lindsey Publisher: American Enterprise Institute ISBN: 9780844740812 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 240
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Offers an insider's perspective on the bureaucratic structure of governmental institutions that shape economic policy, and the incentives and limitations of the individuals who head them.