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"Shadowplay" is a song by the English rock band Joy Division. The song appeared on their debut studio album, Unknown Pleasures, released on 15 June 1979. Previously, Joy Division played "Shadowplay" live on their first television appearance on Granada TV in September 1978. It was later featured on the compilation album Silhouettes and Statues. Wikipedia →
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- Read the overview: Shadowplay (song)A 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Shadowplay: Journeys to Our Abandoned SelvesInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Shadowplay (Shadowmarch, Vol. 2)The most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Shadowplay in Hubble's variable nebulaCited 27 times
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📖 Definitions
Noun Alternative form of shadow play.
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🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Shadowplay in Hubble's variable nebula
From Wenmingxi (Civilized Play) to Yingxi (Shadowplay): The Foundation of Shanghai Film Industry in the 1920s
The Southern Thai Shadowplay Tradition in Historical Context
Book Reviews: On Farting. Language and Laughter in the Middle Ages, a Companion to Shakespeare's Sonnets, Shakespeare's Wife, Lilian Baylis, a Biography, Drama and the Sacraments in Sixteenth-Century England: Indelible Characters, Shadowplay: The Hidden Beliefs and Coded Politics of William Shakespeare, the Worlds of Renaissance Melancholy: Robert Burton in Context
Shadowplay: The Hidden Beliefs and Coded Politics of William Shakespeare, by Clare Asquith
JOSEPH CORNELL: SHADOWPLAY... ETERNIDAY. Lynda Roscoe Hartigan , Walter Hopps , Richard Vine , Robert Lehrman
Die Wayangwelt. Namen und Gestalten im javanischen Schattenspiel. Ein lexikalisches und genealogisches Nachschlagewerk [The World of "Wayang". Names and Figures in the Javanese Shadowplay]
Shadowplay: Interactions of Artificial Illumination and Darkness
🆕 Influential since 2022
📚 Books worth reading
Shadowplay (Shadowmarch, Vol. 2)Tad Williams · 2007
ShadowplayJoseph O'Connor, Anna Chancellor · 2019
ShadowplayNigel Findley · 1993
ShadowplayClare Asquith · 2005
ShadowplayDonna Perlmutter · 1991
ShadowplayNorman Hartley · 1982
ShadowplayPortia Da Costa · 1999
ShadowplayKaren Campbell · 2010
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