July 2016

Asunción López-Varela AzcáratePages 7-12DOI: 10.3726/b10729_7 ABSTRACT This volume explores the impact of medial changes upon cultural production in general, and artistic objects in particular, contemplating the process from a socio-historical perspective. The collection looks at the relationship between the aesthetics of representation and the role of mediatization upon cultural practices. Thus, papers are interdisciplinary, combining …

Introduction: Performance, Medial Innovation and Culture Read More »

Ananta Charan SuklaPages 13-18DOI: 10.3726/b10729_13 ABSTRACT Rasa, Dhvani and Rasa-Dhvani are the major critical terms in Sanskrit poetics that developed during the post-Vedic classical period. Rasa (lit. juice) is used by a sage named Bharata (c. 4th C. B.C. – 1st C. A.D.) to denote the aesthetic experience of a theatrical audience. But Anandavardhana (9th …

Indian Intercultural Poetics: The Sanskrit Rasa-Dhvani Theory Read More »

Krishna Praveen, V. Anitha DeviPages 19-26DOI: 10.3726/b10729_19 ABSTRACT The term Kathakali has by far become a word that is known widely among theatre lovers all over the world. It is no longer an art intended to perform within the four walls of a temple in Kerala, with only a limited educated upper class to appreciate. …

Kathakali: The Quintessential Classical Theatre of Kerala Read More »

Jinghua GuoPages 27-42DOI: 10.3726/b10729_27 ABSTRACT In the 20th century, the adaptation of William Shakespeare’s classic dramas onto the Chinese stage have attracted great interest. The study of such cross-cultural adaptations has positive significance not only for development of literary theory, literary criticism and literary history, but also in that it promotes unusual forms of innovation …

Adaptations of Shakespeare to Chinese Theatre Read More »

Cyril-Mary Pius Olatunji, Mojalefa L.J. KoenanePages 43-51DOI: 10.3726/b10729_43 ABSTRACT Gelede is a typical Yoruba concept which has evolved into a traditional form of musical performance with its influence has transcend its traditional abode in the Yoruba communities of Nigeria and West Africa to Latin Americas, parts of Europe, Australia and the Black world at large. …

Philosophical Rumination on Gelede: An Ultra-Spectacle Performance Read More »

María Vives AgurruzaPages 53-66DOI: 10.3726/b10729_53 ABSTRACT The Flowers of War (2012), based on the homonymous novel by Geling Yan, and City of Life and Death (2009) are recent Chinese films that deal with the so-called ‘Nanking Massacre‘ or ‘the Rape of Nanking‘. The events which inspired these stories in the context of the second Sino-Japanese …

The Cultural Impact of the Nanking Massacre in Cinematography: On City of Life and Death (2009) and The Flowers of War (2011) Read More »

Qingben LiPages 67-75DOI: 10.3726/b10729_67 ABSTRACT During the past ten years, China’s micro film industry has made a rapid development aided by technological changes. Focusing on three types of micro films, this paper reveals some characteristics of China’s micro films within socialist cultural production with Chinese characteristics. This model departs from a past when the government …

China’s Micro Film: Socialist Cultural Production in the Micro Era Read More »

Annette Thorsen VilslevPages 77-82DOI: 10.3726/b10729_77 ABSTRACT Discussing the intercultural reception of Pier Paolo Pasolini, this article looks into the intercultural and medial crossovers of his person and his work. It shows the historical particularities of Pasolini’s work, and it traces layers of intermedial references in his movie production, describing the many-layered intercultural interplay. Lastly, it …

Following Pasolini in Words, Photos, and Film, and his Perception of Cinema as Language Read More »

Adile Aslan AlmondPages 83-102DOI: 10.3726/b10729_83 ABSTRACT Fontane Effi Briest by the German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder is arguably one of the greatest adaptations from literature to screen, and the best Effi Briest adaptation. Although the first reception of the movie, when it appeared in 1974, was not without unmixed reviews, most scholars nowadays share the …

Reading Rainer Fassbinder’s adaptation Fontane Effi Briest Read More »

Yang Geng, Lingling PengPages 103-124DOI: 10.3726/b10729_103 ABSTRACT As a response to the problems of language in Chinese modern and avant-garde art from 1988 to 1998, early video art reclaimed the independence of language from social reality and political influence and established it on the basis of the time phenomenon. By comparing the category of time …

The Time Phenomenon of Chinese Zen and Video Art in China: 1988-1998 Read More »