Performing Against Annihilation
Identity and Consciousness in J.R.R. Tolkien, Richard Wagner and George R.R. Martin
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“Schepp's fascinating study (...) (provides) an innovative framework for assessing the the protagonists' performance.”
– Thomas Honegger, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany
“Without a doubt, the new gold standard in Film Studies.”
– Christoph Bode, Department of English and American Studies, LMU Munich, Germany
This book outlines how the protagonists in The Nibelung's Ring, The Lord of the Rings, and Game of Thrones attempt to construct identities and expand their consciousness manifestations. As the characters in the three works face the ends of their respective worlds, they must find answers to their mortality, and to the threat it implies: the loss of identity and consciousness. Moreover, it details how this process is depicted performatively. In a hands-on and interdisciplinary approach, this book seeks to unveil the underlying philosophical concepts of identity and consciousness in the three works as they are represented audio-visually on stage and screen. Through the use of many practical examples, this book offers both academic scholars and any interested readers a completely new perspective on three enduringly popular and interrelated works.
Lukas Schepp completed his PhD in English Literature at LMU Munich: "Performing Against Annihilation: Identity and Consciousness in J.R.R. Tolkien, Richard Wagner and George R.R. Martin." Lukas Schepp specializes in film and media studies, interdisciplinary studies, and philosophical approaches to literature and film. Among others, he has published the essays "Kubrick's Ambiguous Intermedial Translation of Thackeray's The Luck of Barry Lyndon" and "Identity and Consciousness in Black Mirror - Be Right Back" in "East-West Dialogues on the Humanities," which he also co-edited. Moreover, he published the chapter "Toward Sphere Theory: Redefining the Narrative Genres of theNovel and the TV Drama Series" in "Television Series as Literature" (Palgrave Macmillan). Lukas Schepp is a working filmmaker and has written for several German series. Furthermore, Lukas Schepp composes both film scores and symphonic poems.
This book outlines how the protagonists in The Nibelung's Ring, The Lord of the Rings, and Game of Thrones attempt to construct identities and expand their consciousness manifestations. As the characters in the three works face the ends of their respective worlds, they must find answers to their mortality, and to the threat it implies: the loss of identity and consciousness. Moreover, it details how this process is depicted performatively. In a hands-on and interdisciplinary approach, this book seeks to unveil the underlying philosophical concepts of identity and consciousness in the three works as they are represented audio-visually on stage and screen. Through the use of many practical examples, this book offers both academic scholars and any interested readers a completely new perspective on three enduringly popular and interrelated works.
Provides philosophical analysis on "The Lord of the Rings", "Game of Thrones" and "The Nibelung's Ring" Employs interdisciplinary approaches from film studies musicology and philosophy Writes with a clear style and many practical examples
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“Schepp’s fascinating study analyses the existential quest for identity in performative versions of three ‘apocalyptic narratives’ (Wagner’s Nibelung’s Ring, Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, and Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire). The author succeeds in combining approaches from such diverse fields as psychoanalysis, philosophy, musicology, and film studies into an innovative framework for assessing the protagonists’ performance and provides a blueprint for doing the same with other works.” (Thomas Honegger, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany)
“A stunning benchmark publication not only in Film Studies, but also in the wider field of performance-oriented Cultural Studies: as Musicologist, Film Studies expert, and Eng.Lit. major, Lukas Schepp (a screenwriter and composer in his own right) is supremely qualified to read the movie adaptations of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire as well as two paradigmatic productions of Wagner's Ring. Displaying a gripping combination of analytic skills with an eye and ear for telling detail, Schepp walks the reader through these multi-dimensional semiotic universes with an ease that betrays the new Wunderkind of Performance Studies. Also drawing on expert knowledge in Philosophy, Religious Studies and Psychology, Performing Against Annihilation shows the different ways in which these three mega-oeuvres stage performative fights against the threat of annihilation – both of personal identity and of the (story) world we know. Without a doubt, the new gold standard in Film Studies.” (Christoph Bode, Department of English and American Studies, LMU Munich, Germany)
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