Creation of iGiselle

Nora Foster Stovel is a Professor Emerita in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta. She has published on Jane Austen, D.H. Lawrence, Margaret Drabble, Carol Shields, Margaret Atwood, and Margaret Laurence. University of Alberta Press published her critical editions of Margaret Laurence’s Heart of a Stranger and Long Drums and Cannons: Nigerian Dramatists and Novelists and three edited collections: Jane Austen Sings the Blues, Jane Austen & Company, and The Creation of iGiselle: Classical Ballet Meets Contemporary Video Games. She lives in Edmonton.

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• Preface Revisioning Giselle as the Video Game iGiselle // Nora Foster StovelAcknowledgements Introduction Recreating Giselle for the Twenty-First Century // Nora Foster StovelI An Interdisciplinary Approach to Giselle1 | The Creation of the Romantic Ballet Giselle The Ballerina’s Hamlet // Nora Foster Stovel2 | “No Feminine Endings” Adolphe Adam’s Musical Score for Giselle // Christina Gier3 | The Other Giselles Moncrieff’s Giselle; or, The Phantom Night Dancers, Loder’s The NightDancers, and Puccini’s Le Villi // Mark Morris4 | (Re)creating Giselle Narrative and the Ballerina // Laura SydoraII Creating iGiselle5 | Artificial Intelligence for Managing the Interactive Ballet Video Game,iGiselle // Sergio Poo Hernandez & Vadim Bulitko6 | Re-playing iGiselle Dance, Technology, and Interdisciplinary Creation // Emilie St. Hilaire7 | Renewing Adolphe Adam’s Score Creating the Music for iGiselle // Wayne DeFehr8 | The Ballet Body and Video Games A Feminist Perspective // Pirkko MarkulaContributors 189Index 193