John Adams’s The Death of Klinghoffer

2020 ◽  
pp. 339-366
Author(s):  
Yayoi Uno Everett
Keyword(s):  
Visual Field ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Visual Images ◽  
Performance Texts ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Death Of Klinghoffer ◽  
Performance Text

The viewing of opera begs the question of how operatic text (music and libretto) becomes constrained and absorbed by the performance medium. Especially in contexts where the filmic projection of images creates additional layers to the actions taking place on stage, the visual field becomes semantically overloaded and requires negotiation on its own terms. This chapter argues that Tom Morris’s production of John Adams’s The Death of Klinghoffer preserves the integrity of the operatic text by interjecting visual images that set the broader allegorical themes into relief. Themes implicit in the operatic text, while being absorbed into the performance text, become integrated into the overall narrative that balances the mythic dimension with realism. More specifically, this chapter examines the intersection between the operatic and performance texts in Morris’s productions in three analytical stages and introduces a theoretical framework for categorizing intermedial relationship based on Nicholas Cook’s models of conformance, contest, and complementation.

Virtual Embodiment as/and the Threshold of Love

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Harris
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
State Building ◽  
Modern Life ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Empire State Building ◽  
Arcades Project ◽  
Performance Texts ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Stranger

This essay draws upon the author’s performance script Fall and Walter Benjamin’s The Arcades Project as a provocation for considering the ways performance texts provide a threshold for somatic inquiry, and for recognizing the limits of scholarly analysis that does not take up performance-as-inquiry. Set at the Empire State Building, this essay embodies the connections and missed possibilities between strangers and intimates in the context of urban modern life. Fall’s protagonist is positioned within a landscape of capitalist exchange, but defies this matrix to offer instead a gift at the threshold of life/death, virtual/real, and love/loss. Through somatic inquiry and witnessing as threshold experiences, the protagonist (as Benjamin’s flaneur) moves through urban space and time, proving that both scholarship and performance remain irrevocably embodied, and as such invariably tethered to the visceral, the stranger, risk, and death.

Poetics

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Dowling
Keyword(s):  
Common Sense ◽  
Art Forms ◽  
Performance Texts ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Senses ◽  
And Performance

Abstract This review examines three books published in the field of poetics in 2020: Candice Amich’s Precarious Forms: Performing Utopia in the Neoliberal Americas; Ren Ellis Neyra’s The Cry of the Senses: Listening to Latinx and Caribbean Poetics; and Anthony Reed’s Soundworks: Race, Sound, and Poetry in Production. I show that these three books, which discuss poetry in connection with other art forms, each call for a reordering of the senses through which we perceive and analyze poetry (and other texts). While Ellis Neyra advocates multisensorial listening and Reed calls for a mode of listening attentive to what remains unnamed within current perceptual and political schema, Amich shows the importance of paying attention to the embodied rhythms and tactility of poetry and performance texts. For all three authors, these alternatives to individualized, detached, and indeed deadened linguistic contemplation proffer strategies for remaking not only common sense, but the common itself. The chapter is structured under the following headings: 1. Introduction; 2. Poetics; 3. Sensoria; 4. Politics.

A Model for Success in Agribusiness in the Portuguese Context

2021 ◽  
pp. 355-371
Author(s):  
Carla Sofia Vicente Negrão
Keyword(s):  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Technological Advance ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Business Success ◽  
Explanatory Variables ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Impact

In an increasingly digital environment that results in the technological advance of the fourth Industrial Revolution, it becomes interesting to understand the agribusiness success in a digital economy. The purpose of this chapter is to develop a theoretical framework for agribusiness success in Industry 4.0, so that future empirical research could be carried out. The research uses a literature review based on business success. First, it is essential to explore business success and then its determinants. Based on a holistic approach, a new conceptual model for agribusiness success is developed in three dimensions: growth, productivity, and performance, whether enterprises use e-business or not. The researcher suggests the impact of e-commerce, internationalization, strategic alignment, and managers characteristics as explanatory variables of the agribusiness success. The theoretical framework provides a different way forward for both managers and business advisors about what are the agribusiness success and those factors that may explain it.

scholarly journals Lethal Images: Analyzing Extremist Visual Propaganda from ISIS and Beyond

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 634-657
Author(s):  
Stephane J Baele ◽  
Katharine A Boyd ◽  
Travis G Coan
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Measurement Method ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Visual Images ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Visual Style ◽  
Diachronic Study ◽  
Visual Propaganda ◽  
Extremist Groups ◽  
And Shifts

Abstract Violent extremist groups regularly use pictures in their propaganda. This practice, however, remains insufficiently understood. Conceptualizing visual images as amplifiers of narratives and emotions, the present article offers an original theoretical framework and measurement method for examining the synchronic and diachronic study of the manipulative use of images by violent extremist groups. We illustrate this framework and method with a systematic analysis of the 2,058 pictures contained in the Islamic State's propaganda magazines targeting Western audiences, exposing the “visual style” of the group, and highlighting the trends and shifts in the evolution of this style following developments on the ground.

scholarly journals A Conceptual Model of the Sense of Presence in Virtual Environments

1999 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 241-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karl-Erik Bystrom ◽  
Woodrow Barfield ◽  
Claudia Hendrix
Keyword(s):  
Resource Allocation ◽  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Virtual Environments ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Task Demands ◽  
Attentional Resource ◽  
Sense Of Presence ◽  
Display Technology ◽  
And Performance

This paper proposes a model of interaction in virtual environments which we term the immersion, presence, performance (IPP) model. This model is based on previous models of immersion and presence proposed by Barfield and colleagues and Slater and colleagues. The IPP model describes the authors' current conceptualization of the effects of display technology, task demands, and attentional resource allocation on immersion, presence, and performance in virtual environments. The IPP model may be useful for developing a theoretical framework for research on presence and for interpreting the results of empirical studies on the sense of presence in virtual environments. The model may also be of interest to designers of virtual environments.

Women, Modernism, & Performance

2006 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 142-144
Author(s):  
Margaret F. Savilonis
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Dramatic Literature ◽  
Theatre History ◽  
Performance Texts ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Performance Of Gender ◽  
Theatrical Practice ◽  
And Performance

Penny Farfan's Women, Modernism, & Performance, six intricately woven essays about a handful of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century female artists, is an absorbing study centered on the premise that “the feminist-modernist aesthetics of key figures in the fields of dance and literature developed in part out of their engagement with dramatic literature and theatrical practice, making their lives and work a part of theatre history” (2). Employing broad definitions of both performance and modernism, Farfan casts a wide net, adopting what she describes as a “‘maximalist’ approach” (117) to construct her arguments about these artists' contributions to “the transformation of the representation of gender in both art and life” (119). Her consideration of public performances such as courtroom trials, lectures, and “the performance of gender in the practice of everyday life” (3) informs her analysis of literary, critical, and performance texts to intriguing effect. In the process, Farfan delineates the cultural landscape out of which these women and their work emerged.

A Theoretical Framework for a Simulation-Based Analysis of Supply Chain Risk Management

2010 ◽  
pp. 162-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruslan Klimov ◽  
Yuri Merkuryev ◽  
Juri Tolujew
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Supply Chain Risk Management ◽  
Supply Chain Risk ◽  
Reliability Parameters ◽  
Future Research Agenda ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Ultimate Objective ◽  
Supply Chain Risks

Supply chain management under uncertainty and risk has become the target of extensive research. A review of the corresponding literature indicates mainly theoretical approaches, which attempt to provide solutions to certain problems. In this chapter, a theoretical framework of supply chain risks analysis is proposed. Within this framework, studied risks are determined by possible disruptions that affect supply chain ability to function normally. Thus, supply chain performance parameters are taken as a basis for a risk measurement system. Correspondingly, supply chain reliability parameters and performance fluctuations are studied in order to manage risks. A possible implementation of the proposed framework is discussed through the presentation of a simulation example. Still, the evaluation of the proposed framework’s practical application remains an item of the future research agenda. The ultimate objective of the research presented in this chapter is the elaboration of a software solution for supply chain modelling and risk evaluation.

Public Outcry and Police Behavior

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 619-645 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory DeAngelo ◽  
Bryan C. McCannon
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Neighborhood Context ◽  
Prior Beliefs ◽  
Law Enforcement Officials ◽  
The Law ◽  
And Performance

Abstract Numerous empirical studies have documented policing behavior and response to public opinion, social norms, changing laws, neighborhood context and a litany of other subject areas. What is missing from this literature is a general theoretical framework that explains the conflicting goals of properly applying the law and responding to social norms and the consequences of the law. We build a theoretical framework where law enforcement officials care about both reputation and performance. Outside evaluations assess the quality of the decision making of the officers, but can be influenced by strategic challenging of the sanctioning by the suspected violators. We first establish that reputational concerns can distort law enforcement, encouraging either over-enforcement or under-enforcement of the law, depending on the prior beliefs of violations and the observed signal. Introducing strategic challenging by the violator eliminates over-enforcement and allows for an even larger reduction in application of the law by less-skilled officers. Connections to empirical findings of distortions in law enforcement, along with an extension to deterrence are highlighted.

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