In this essay, I use the song ‘Let It Go’ from Frozen as a steppingstone for addressing song and animated musical film as combined media, or rather integrations, and, based on the models put forward by Lars Elleström, propose a framework for discussing different kinds of synchronic intermediality. I propose that when analysing synchronic intermedia...
This collectively authored position paper discusses “hybrid” Shakespeares in Central and Eastern Europe, focusing on productions that offer formal experimentation and transnational perspectives. While their contexts remain regional, they provide an insight into how Shakspeare has been mobilised regionally. The paper consists of four distinct parts,...
Before mainly focussing on Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise’s musical to examine relevant correspondences with Shakespeare’s play (such as the sustained rhythm of physical confrontations, or the poetic stasis of pure love, or the hectic reactions induced by loss and despair, or other emotional archetypes), this chapter will examine former screen adap...
Este artículo analiza la película Sueños de Tay Pi (1951), dirigida por Franz Winterstein para la productora Balet y Blay, a raíz de la reciente proyección de una copia conservada en Filmoteca Española. Comparando esta versión con dos documentos inéditos como el tratamiento original y el guion técnico de Winterstein podemos valorar las diferencias ...
Throughout the History of Art, we find a clear difference between the two female stereotypes represented: the femme fatale, heir to Lilith, and the virginal madonna, who finds her biblical namesake in Eva. Audiovisual culture has appropriated this iconography, perpetuating the archetypes throughout the centuries. At the end of the seventies, twenty...
Behind the Star-Spangled Banners curtain – an ethnological analysis of the musical Hamilton The purpose of this study is to analyze how imagined communities are constructed in the musical Hamilton (2015) and how this affects a Swedish versus an American audience’s view of the American Revolution. Through five-semi structured interviews and one part...
This article addresses the issue of walking. It delves into the elements of inhabiting the city and the rhythm in it, the latter is directed in two ways: the rhythm of the music and the pace that the subjects have when walking. For the development of the proposal, in situ observation of what happens on Avenida Central de San José was used and what ...
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T. S. Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats(1939) gained popularity due to its adaptation as an acclaimed musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber (1981). For Eliot, the popular entertainment was a great source of inspiration, which makes examining the opposite process especially interesting—to see how his poetry inspired other arts and how its adaptat...
The consequences of the partially coerced opening of Japan to the Western world in the second half of the 19th century went far beyond economic and political goals and considerations. The previously secluded land almost instantly became a source of artistic inspiration and endless fascination. Japonisme, the term by which the latest craze become kn...
