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  1. The Light of Knowledge : Literacy Activism and the Politics of Writing in South India
    Autor*in: Cody, Francis
    Erschienen: 20130913
    Verlag:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY

    Cowinner of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology’s Edward Sapir Book Prize Since the early 1990s hundreds of thousands of Tamil villagers in southern India have participated in literacy lessons and other events designed to transform them into... mehr

     

    Cowinner of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology’s Edward Sapir Book Prize

     

    Since the early 1990s hundreds of thousands of Tamil villagers in southern India have participated in literacy lessons and other events designed to transform them into active citizens with access to state power. These efforts are part of a movement known as the Arivoli Iyakkam (the Enlightenment Movement), one of the most successful mass literacy movements in recent history. This rich ethnographic account of highlights the paradoxes inherent in such movements that seek to emancipate people through literacy.

     

    “A work of linguistic anthropology that makes crucial contributions to the study of literacy and language ideologies. It is also a broadly ranging work of social theory that will be of interest to students and scholars of the postcolonial state and neoliberal governmentality in South Asia and beyond, and of activism and social movements more generally.”—Anthropological Quarterly

     
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  2. Feeding the City: Work and Food Culture of the Mumbai Dabbawalas
    Autor*in: Roncaglia, Sara
    Erschienen: 2013
    Verlag:  Open Book Publishers

    Every day in Mumbai 5,000 dabbawalas (literally translated as "those who carry boxes") distribute a staggering 200,000 home-cooked lunchboxes to the city’s workers and students. Giving employment and status to thousands of largely illiterate... mehr

     

    Every day in Mumbai 5,000 dabbawalas (literally translated as "those who carry boxes") distribute a staggering 200,000 home-cooked lunchboxes to the city’s workers and students. Giving employment and status to thousands of largely illiterate villagers from Mumbai's hinterland, this co-operative has been in operation since the late nineteenth century. It provides one of the most efficient delivery networks in the world: only one lunch in six million goes astray. Feeding the City is an ethnographic study of the fascinating inner workings of Mumbai's dabbawalas. Cultural anthropologist Sara Roncaglia explains how they cater to the various dietary requirements of a diverse and increasingly global city, where the preparation and consumption of food is pervaded with religious and cultural significance. Developing the idea of "gastrosemantics" – a language with which to discuss the broader implications of cooking and eating – Roncaglia's study helps us to rethink our relationship to food at a local and global level. The publication of this book is financed by the generous support of interested readers and organisations, who made donations using the crowd-funding website unglue.it

     
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    Schlagworte: Food & society
    Weitere Schlagworte: india; food culture; dabbawalas; food industry; food distribution; mumbai; co-operative; gastrosemantics; Dabbawala; India; Mumbai
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (232 p.)
  3. The Nation Should Come First : Marxism and Historiography in East Central Europe
    Autor*in: Górny, Maciej
    Erschienen: 2013
    Verlag:  Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, Bern

    By the second half of the 1940s, newly conquered nations of Central and Eastern Europe were expected to adjust multiple professions, including those related to the historical sciences, to the Soviet model. However, Marxism, soon to become the only... mehr

     

    By the second half of the 1940s, newly conquered nations of Central and Eastern Europe were expected to adjust multiple professions, including those related to the historical sciences, to the Soviet model. However, Marxism, soon to become the only acceptable methodology, was no longer understood in the same way as in Bolshevik Russia. Its Soviet variation borrowed heavily from the tradition of Russian historiography and the Russian national tradition. The variations formulated in the satellite countries were also less likely to break away from existing traditions than to revise and re-evaluate them, along with the perspectives on Russia’s role in the history of Central and Eastern Europe.

     
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  4. Passionate Amateurs : Theatre, Communism and Love
    Autor*in: Ridout, Nicholas
    Erschienen: 2013
    Verlag:  University of Michigan Press

    Beginning with Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, Passionate Amateurs tells a new story about modern theater: the story of a romantic attachment to theater's potential to produce surprising experiences of human community. Ridout argues that theater in modern... mehr

     

    Beginning with Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, Passionate Amateurs tells a new story about modern theater: the story of a romantic attachment to theater's potential to produce surprising experiences of human community. Ridout argues that theater in modern capitalism can help us think afresh about notions of work, time, and freedom.Passionate Amateurs tells a new story about modern theater: the story of a romantic attachment to theater's potential to produce surprising experiences of human community. It begins with one of the first great plays of modern European theater— Chekhov's Uncle Vanya in Moscow— and then crosses the 20th and 21st centuries to look at how its story plays out in Weimar Republic Berlin, in the Paris of the 1960s, and in a spectrum of contemporary performance in Europe and the United States. This is a work of historical materialist theater scholarship, which combines a materialism grounded in a socialist tradition of cultural studies with some of the insights developed in recent years by theorists of affect, and addresses some fundamental questions about the social function and political potential of theater within modern capitalism. Passionate Amateurs argues that theater in modern capitalism can help us think afresh about notions of work, time, and freedom. Its title concept is a theoretical and historical figure, someone whose work in theater is undertaken within capitalism, but motivated by a love that desires something different. In addition to its theoretical originality, it offers a significant new reading of a major Chekhov play, the most sustained scholarly engagement to date with Benjamin's Program for a Proletarian Children's Theatre, the first major consideration of Godard's La chinoise as a "theatrical" work, and the first chapter-length discussion of the work of The Nature Theatre of Oklahoma, an American company rapidly gaining a profile in the European theater scene. Passionate Amateurs contributes to the development of theater and performance studies in a way that moves beyond debates over the differences between theater and performance in order to tell a powerful, historically grounded story about what theater and performance are for in the modern world.“Reading a suggestively diverse set of modern performances, and setting those performances within a clear and well-defined theoretical/critical project, Ridout attempts to use the "passionate amateur" at once the spectator, the scholar, and to some extent the characters in the plays, as a critical category disrupting the otherwise fully commodified communication of leisure products... Passionate Amateurs is wholly original, intellectually and critically stimulating, and certain to develop not only discussion but also to lead to a series of important questions in contemporary theatre and performance studies scholarship.

     
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    Schlagworte: Theatre studies
    Weitere Schlagworte: Performing Arts
  5. American Stravinsky : The Style and Aesthetics of Copland's New American Music, the Early Works, 1921-1938
    Autor*in: Murchison, Gayle
    Erschienen: 2012
    Verlag:  University of Michigan Press

    One of the country's most enduringly successful composers, Aaron Copland created a distinctively American style and aesthetic in works for a diversity of genres and mediums, including ballet, opera, and film. Also active as a critic, mentor,... mehr

     

    One of the country's most enduringly successful composers, Aaron Copland created a distinctively American style and aesthetic in works for a diversity of genres and mediums, including ballet, opera, and film. Also active as a critic, mentor, advocate, and concert organizer, he played a decisive role in the growth of serious music in the Americas in the twentieth century.

     

    In The American Stravinsky, Gayle Murchison closely analyzes selected works to discern the specific compositional techniques Copland used, and to understand the degree to which they derived from European models, particularly the influence of Igor Stravinsky. Murchison examines how Copland both Americanized these models and made them his own, thereby finding his own compositional voice. Murchison also discusses Copland's aesthetics of music and his ideas about its purpose and social function.

     
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    Schlagworte: Music
    Weitere Schlagworte: Music; History & Criticism
  6. Theatron : Rhetorische Kultur in Spätantike und Mittelalter / Rhetorical Culture in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
    Beteiligt: Grünbart, Michael (Hrsg.)
    Erschienen: 2012
    Verlag:  De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston

    This volume presents 22 studies on aspects of rhetorical culture from Late Antiquity to the last years of the Byzantine Empire. Many of them concentrate on the effects and social relevance of the art of public speaking, above all in the Greek... mehr

     

    This volume presents 22 studies on aspects of rhetorical culture from Late Antiquity to the last years of the Byzantine Empire. Many of them concentrate on the effects and social relevance of the art of public speaking, above all in the Greek speaking world, and particular attention is paid to the performative character of rhetoric. The contributions deal both with individual authors, as well as general phenomena of medieval literature.

     
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    Beteiligt: Grünbart, Michael (Hrsg.)
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783110923865; 9783110194760
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    Schlagworte: Literary theory; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Medieval history
    Weitere Schlagworte: Rhetorics
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (516 p.)
  7. Quintus Smyrnaeus: Transforming Homer in Second Sophistic Epic
    Beteiligt: Baumbach, Manuel (Hrsg.); Bär, Silvio (Hrsg.)
    Erschienen: 2012
    Verlag:  De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston

    The "Events after Homer", described by Quintus Smyrnaeus in the third century AD in his Greek epic Posthomerica, are an attempt to bridge the gap between the Iliad and the Odyssey , and to combine the various scattered reports of the battle for Troy... mehr

     

    The "Events after Homer", described by Quintus Smyrnaeus in the third century AD in his Greek epic Posthomerica, are an attempt to bridge the gap between the Iliad and the Odyssey , and to combine the various scattered reports of the battle for Troy into a single tale: the fate of Achilles, Ajax, Paris and the Amazon Penthesileia, the intervention of Neoptolemos and the story from the Trojan horse to the destruction of the city. The volume presented here summarizes the results of the first international conference on Quintus Smyrnaeus.

     
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    Beteiligt: Baumbach, Manuel (Hrsg.); Bär, Silvio (Hrsg.)
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783110942507; 9783110195774
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    Schlagworte: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval
    Weitere Schlagworte: Greek Antiquity (literature); Homer; sophistics
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (501 p.)
  8. The Harmonious Organ of Sedulius Scottus : Introduction to His Collectaneum in Apostolum and Translation of Its Prologue and Commentaries on Galatians and Ephesians
    Autor*in: Sloan, Michael C.
    Erschienen: 2012
    Verlag:  De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston

    This book introduces and translates Sedulius Scottus` Prologue to his Collectaneum in Apostolum and his commentaries on Galatians and Ephesians. The introduction outlines the historical context of composition, identifies Sedulius` literary model -... mehr

     

    This book introduces and translates Sedulius Scottus` Prologue to his Collectaneum in Apostolum and his commentaries on Galatians and Ephesians. The introduction outlines the historical context of composition, identifies Sedulius` literary model - Servius, explains pertinent philological and stylistic issues of Sedulius` Latin, explores his use of exegetical and theological sources - predominantly Jerome, Augustine, and Pelagius. In tracing the reception of Jerome, Augustine, and Pelagius, Sedulius reveals himself as an erudite theologian as he harmonizes these three men`s sometimes discordant voices.

     
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    ISBN: 9783110281880; 9783110281224
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    Schlagworte: Classical texts; Medieval history; The Early Church
    Weitere Schlagworte: Carolingian Biblical Exegesis; Collectaneum in Apostolum; Patristics; Sedulius Scottus
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (249 p.)
  9. Documenting Racism : African Americans in US Department of Agriculture Documentaries, 1921-42
    Autor*in: Winn, J. Emmett
    Erschienen: 20120419
    Verlag:  Bloomsbury Academic, New York

    From the silent era through the 1950s, the U.S. Department of Agriculture was the preeminent government filmmaking organization. In the United States, USDA films were shown in movie theaters, public and private schools at all educational levels,... mehr

     

    From the silent era through the 1950s, the U.S. Department of Agriculture was the preeminent government filmmaking organization. In the United States, USDA films were shown in movie theaters, public and private schools at all educational levels, churches, libraries and even in open fields. For many Americans in the early 1900s, the USDA films were the first motion pictures they watched. And yet USDA documentaries have received little serious scholarly attention. The lack of serious study is especially concerning since the films chronicle over half a century of American farm life and agricultural work and, in so doing, also chronicle the social, cultural, and political changes in the United States at a crucial time in its development into a global superpower. Focusing specifically on four key films, Winn explicates the representation of African Americans in these films within the socio-political context of their times.

     
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    ISBN: 9781628928679; 9781441172938
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    Schlagworte: Film theory & criticism
    Weitere Schlagworte: Media & Communications; Film History; Black History; USA; USDA Films; 1950s
  10. Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage : Passion's Slaves
    Autor*in: Escolme, Bridget
    Erschienen: 20130107
    Verlag:  Bloomsbury Academic, London

    Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage demonstrates the links made between excess of emotion and madness in the early modern period. It argues that the ways in which today's popular and theatrical cultures judge how much is too much can distort... mehr

     

    Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage demonstrates the links made between excess of emotion and madness in the early modern period. It argues that the ways in which today's popular and theatrical cultures judge how much is too much can distort our understanding of early modern drama and theatre. It argues that permitting the excesses of the early modern drama onto the contemporary stage might free actors and audiences alike from assumptions that in order to engage with the drama of the past, its characters must be just like us.

     

    The book deals with characters in the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries who are sad for too long, or angry to the point of irrationality; people who laugh when they shouldn't or make their audiences do so; people whose selfhood has broken down into an excess of fragmentary extremes and who are labelled mad.

     
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    ISBN: 9781408179666
    Schlagworte: Theatre studies
    Weitere Schlagworte: Literature; Drama; Theater; Stage Acting; Wiliam Shakespeare
  11. Film in contemporary Southeast Asia : Cultural Interpretation and Social Intervention
    Beteiligt: Lim, David C. L. (Hrsg.); Yamamoto, Hiroyuki (Hrsg.)
    Erschienen: 2012
    Verlag:  Taylor & Francis

    This book discusses contemporary film in all the main countries of Southeast Asia, and the social practices and ideologies which films either represent or oppose. It shows how film acquires signification through cultural interpretation, and how film... mehr

     

    This book discusses contemporary film in all the main countries of Southeast Asia, and the social practices and ideologies which films either represent or oppose. It shows how film acquires signification through cultural interpretation, and how film also serves as a site of contestations between social and political agents seeking to promote, challenge, or erase certain meanings, messages or ideas from public circulation. A unique feature of the book is that it focuses as much on films as it does on the societies from which these films emerge: it considers the reasons for film-makers taking the positions they take; the positions and counter-positions taken; the response of different communities; and the extent to which these interventions are connected to global flows of culture and capital.

     
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    Beteiligt: Lim, David C. L. (Hrsg.); Yamamoto, Hiroyuki (Hrsg.)
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Ebook
    Format: Online
    Schlagworte: Film, TV & radio
    Weitere Schlagworte: Film; Southeast Asia
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (226 p.)
  12. Chapter 7 'Our People’ : Telemovies, bangsa and nationalism 3.0 in Sabah, Malaysia: Hiroyuki Yamamoto
    Autor*in: Yamamoto, Hiroyuki
    Erschienen: 2012
    Verlag:  Taylor & Francis

    This book discusses contemporary film in all the main countries of Southeast Asia, and the social practices and ideologies which films either represent or oppose. It shows how film acquires signification through cultural interpretation, and how film... mehr

     

    This book discusses contemporary film in all the main countries of Southeast Asia, and the social practices and ideologies which films either represent or oppose. It shows how film acquires signification through cultural interpretation, and how film also serves as a site of contestations between social and political agents seeking to promote, challenge, or erase certain meanings, messages or ideas from public circulation. A unique feature of the book is that it focuses as much on films as it does on the societies from which these films emerge: it considers the reasons for film-makers taking the positions they take; the positions and counter-positions taken; the response of different communities; and the extent to which these interventions are connected to global flows of culture and capital.

     
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  13. The Cultural Set-up of Comedy : Affective Politics in the United States Post 9/11
    Autor*in: Webber, Julie
    Erschienen: 20131207
    Verlag:  Intellect, Bristol

    How do various forms of comedy – including stand up, satire and film and television – transform contemporary invocations of nationalism and citizenship in youth cultures? And how are attitudes about gender, race and sexuality transformed through... mehr

     

    How do various forms of comedy – including stand up, satire and film and television – transform contemporary invocations of nationalism and citizenship in youth cultures? And how are attitudes about gender, race and sexuality transformed through comedic performances on social media? The Cultural Set Up of Comedy seeks to answer these questions by examining comedic performances by Chris Rock and Louis C.K., news parodies like The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report, the role of satire in the Arab Spring and women’s groundbreaking comedic performances in television and the film Bridesmaids. Breaking with the usual cultural studies debates over how to conceptualize youth, the book instead focuses on the comedic cultural and political scripts that frame them through affective strategies post-9/11.

     
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    ISBN: 9781783200313; 9781783201457; 9781783201440
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    Schlagworte: Popular culture
    Weitere Schlagworte: Media & Communications
  14. R.S. Thomas: Identity, environment, deity
    Autor*in: Morgan, Christopher
    Erschienen: 2003
    Verlag:  Manchester University Press

    Christopher Morgan writes with keen critical insight on the controversial poet R. S. Thomas, considered to be one of the leading writers of the twentieth century. This is the first book to treat Thomas's entire oeuvre and will prove to be an... mehr

     

    Christopher Morgan writes with keen critical insight on the controversial poet R. S. Thomas, considered to be one of the leading writers of the twentieth century. This is the first book to treat Thomas's entire oeuvre and will prove to be an indispensible guide and companion to the complete poems. Morgan not only recontextualises and reinterprets the poet's major themes of self, nature, and the search for deity; he breaks new ground with a penetrating investigation of Thomas's long preoccupation with the philosophical and practical implications of science and technology. The book is divided into three parts, each of which interprets the development of a major theme over Thomas's twenty-seven volumes, probing these particular themes and particular poems, with a meticulous insight. The book also treats Thomas's work as a complex and interrelated whole, as a body of work that comprises a single artistic achievement, and assesses that achievement within the context of an array of major literary figures from Montaigne to Seamus Heaney and Wallace Stevens. 'R. S. Thomas: Identity, environment, deity' proves invaluable as a beginner's introduction to the Welsh poet, as a student's guide to critical thinking about the poet's work, and as a provocative new step in scholarly studies.

     
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    ISBN: 9781526137616
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    Schlagworte: Literary studies: poetry & poets
    Weitere Schlagworte: poet; poetry; welsh; wales; Applied science; Autobiography; God; Mysticism; R. S. Thomas
  15. All Culture is Local : Good Practice in Regional Cultural Mapping and Planning from Local Government
    Beteiligt: Andersen, Lisa (Hrsg.); Malone, Margaret (Hrsg.)
    Erschienen: 2013
    Verlag:  UTS ePRESS, Broadway

    This book is an outcome from a five year Australian Research Council funded research project, CAMRA cultural asset mapping in regional Australia project (LP0882238). Over this time four universities, four local governments, and peak regional, state... mehr

     

    This book is an outcome from a five year Australian Research Council funded research project, CAMRA cultural asset mapping in regional Australia project (LP0882238). Over this time four universities, four local governments, and peak regional, state and federal agencies sought to develop knowledge that would enable better informed planning for arts and cultural development in rural and regional communities. Over the course of the project, it became evident that rural-regional local government staff and cultural decision makers need better place-specific data and are keen to learn from the experiences of other local governments to inform their own planning. This book is CAMRA’s response to that need and includes 17 case studies on good practice in (1) Cultural Mapping and Data Collection and (2) Cultural Planning. The case studies have been written with the aim of making ideas and processes transferrable for any regional local authority - with the resource implications made clear – and are ordered using Australian Standard Geographical Classification-Remoteness Areas for local government area.

     
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    Beteiligt: Andersen, Lisa (Hrsg.); Malone, Margaret (Hrsg.)
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Ebook
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    ISBN: 978-1-86365-433-3
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    Schlagworte: The arts; The arts: general issues
    Weitere Schlagworte: Cultural mapping; Cultural planning; Arts and cultural development; Rural communities; Regional communities; New South Wales
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (120 p.)
  16. Live A/V in Australia
    Autor*in: Cooke, Grayson
    Erschienen: 2013
    Verlag:  UTS ePRESS, Broadway

    Live AV in Australia by Grayson Cooke documents the diverse emerging national community of practice involved in live audiovisual performance. In a series of video interviews with practitioners around the country a picture emerges of a vibrant... mehr

     

    Live AV in Australia by Grayson Cooke documents the diverse emerging national community of practice involved in live audiovisual performance. In a series of video interviews with practitioners around the country a picture emerges of a vibrant performance scene that draws on the aesthetic traditions of music, cinema and new media art.

     
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  17. The Post-traumatic Theatre of Grotowski and Kantor : History and Holocaust in ‘Akropolis’ and ‘Dead Class’
    Autor*in: Cioffi, Kathleen; Romanska, Magda
    Erschienen: 2012
    Verlag:  Anthem Press

    Despite its international influence, Polish theatre remains a mystery to many Westerners. This volume attempts to fill in current gaps in English-language scholarship by offering a historical and critical analysis of two of the most influential works... mehr

     

    Despite its international influence, Polish theatre remains a mystery to many Westerners. This volume attempts to fill in current gaps in English-language scholarship by offering a historical and critical analysis of two of the most influential works of Polish theatre: Jerzy Grotowski’s ‘Akropolis’ and Tadeusz Kantor’s ‘Dead Class’. By examining each director’s representation of Auschwitz, this study provides a new understanding of how translating national trauma through the prism of performance can alter and deflect the meaning and reception of theatrical works, both inside and outside of their cultural and historical contexts.

     
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    ISBN: 9780857285263
    Schlagworte: Theatre studies
    Weitere Schlagworte: Performing Arts; Theater; History & Criticism
  18. The new aestheticism
    Autor*in: Joughin, John J.; Malpas, Simon
    Erschienen: 2003
    Verlag:  Manchester University Press

    The rise of literary theory spawned the rise of anti-aestheticism, so that even for cultural theorists, discussions concerning aesthetics were often carried out in a critical shorthand that failed to engage with the particularity of the work of art,... mehr

     

    The rise of literary theory spawned the rise of anti-aestheticism, so that even for cultural theorists, discussions concerning aesthetics were often carried out in a critical shorthand that failed to engage with the particularity of the work of art, much less the specificities of aesthetic experience. This book introduces the notion of a new aestheticism - 'new' insofar as it identifies a turn taken by a number of important contemporary thinkers towards the idea that focussing on the specifically aesthetic impact of a work of art or literature has the potential to open radically different ways of thinking about identity, politics and culture. The appearance of a new aestheticism at a moment that is often termed 'post-theoretical' is a direct index of the extent to which, as 'theory' now enters a more reflective phase, there is an increased willingness among critics and philosophers to consider the ways in which literary and cultural theory often overlooked key aspects of its reliance on philosophical aesthetics. With its impressive array of contributors, The new aestheticism will be of particular interest to students and scholars of literature, philosophy and cultural studies.

     
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    Schlagworte: Philosophy: aesthetics
    Weitere Schlagworte: theory; literary; aestheticism; aesthetics; Immanuel Kant; Martin Heidegger; Modernity; Theodor W. Adorno; Work of art
  19. Memory and popular film
    Autor*in: Grainge, Paul
    Erschienen: 2003
    Verlag:  Manchester University Press

    'Memory and popular film' uses memory as a specific framework for the cultural study of film. Taking Hollywood as its focus, this timely book provides a sustained, interdisciplinary perspective on memory and film from early cinema to the present.... mehr

     

    'Memory and popular film' uses memory as a specific framework for the cultural study of film. Taking Hollywood as its focus, this timely book provides a sustained, interdisciplinary perspective on memory and film from early cinema to the present. Considering the relationship between official and popular memory, the politics of memory, and the technological and representational shifts that have come to effect memory's contemporary mediation, the book contributes to the growing debate on the status and function of the past in cultural life and discourse. By gathering key critics from film studies, American studies and cultural studies, 'Memory and popular film' establishes a framework for discussing issues of memory IN film and of film AS memory. Together with essays on the remembered past in early film marketing, within popular reminiscence, and at film festivals, the book considers memory films such as Forrest Gump, Lone Star, Pleasantville, Rosewood and Jackie Brown. 'Memory and popular film' provides a wide-ranging analysis that will benefit both students and critics of popular culture, film studies and the past.

     
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    Schlagworte: Film theory & criticism
    Weitere Schlagworte: cinema; memory; film; hollywood; Vietnam
  20. Francis Bacon's New Atlantis : New Interdisciplinary Essays
    Autor*in: Price, Bronwen
    Erschienen: 2003
    Verlag:  Manchester University Press

    The New Atlantis has fired the imaginations of its readers since its original appearance in 1627. Often regarded as the apotheosis of Bacon's ideas through its depiction of an advanced 'scientific' society, it is also read as a seminal work of... mehr

     

    The New Atlantis has fired the imaginations of its readers since its original appearance in 1627. Often regarded as the apotheosis of Bacon's ideas through its depiction of an advanced 'scientific' society, it is also read as a seminal work of science fiction. Standing at the threshold of early modern culture, this key text incorporates the practical and visionary, utility and utopia. This volume of eight new essays by leading scholars provides a stimulating dialogue between a range of critical perspectives. Encompassing the fields of cultural history, history of science, literature and politics, the collection explores The New Atlantis' complex location within Bacon's oeuvre and its negotiations with cultural debates of the past and present. Contributors consider the book's use of rhetoric, its narrative contexts, its political and ethical implications, its relation to the natural knowledge of the period, and the function of miracles in New Atlantan society. The politics of colonialism and Jewish toleration, its complex representation of gender, and the role and politics of censorship are also explored. This volume will be the ideal companion to Bacon's The New Atlantis and for all students of literature, politics, history, cultural history and history of science.

     
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    Schlagworte: Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
    Weitere Schlagworte: literature; bacon; atlantis; Bensalem Township; Pennsylvania; Francis Bacon; New Atlantis; Salomon's House; Utopia
  21. Europe : space for transcultural existence?
    Beteiligt: Tamcke, Martin (Hrsg.); Jong, Janny de (Hrsg.); Klein, Lars (Hrsg.); Waal, Margriet (Hrsg.)
    Erschienen: 2013
    Verlag:  Universitätsverlag Göttingen

    Europe - Space for Transcultural Existence? is the first volume of the new series, Studies in Euroculture, published by Göttingen University Press. The series derives its name from the Erasmus Mundus Master of Excellence Euroculture: Europe in the... mehr

     

    Europe - Space for Transcultural Existence? is the first volume of the new series, Studies in Euroculture, published by Göttingen University Press. The series derives its name from the Erasmus Mundus Master of Excellence Euroculture: Europe in the Wider World, a two year programme offered by a consortium of eight European universities in collaboration with four partner universities outside Europe. This master highlights regional, national and supranational dimensions of the European democratic development; mobility, migration and inter-, multi- and transculturality. The impact of culture is understood as an element of political and social development within Europe. The articles published here explore the field of Euroculture in its different elements: it includes topics such as cosmopolitanism, cultural memory and traumatic past(s), colonial heritage, democratization and Europeanization as well as the concept of (European) identity in various disciplinary contexts such as law and the social sciences. In which way have Europeanization and Globalization influenced life in Europe more specifically? To what extent have people in Europe turned ‘transcultural’? The ‘trans’ is understood as indicator of an overlapping mix of cultures that does not allow for the construction of sharp differentiations. It is explored in topics such as (im)migration and integration, as well as cultural products and lifestyle. The present economic crisis and debt crisis have led, as side-result, to a public attack on the open, cosmopolitan outlook of Europe. The values of the multicultural and civil society and the idea of a people’s Europe have become debatable. This volume offers food for thought and critical reflection.

     
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    Beteiligt: Tamcke, Martin (Hrsg.); Jong, Janny de (Hrsg.); Klein, Lars (Hrsg.); Waal, Margriet (Hrsg.)
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    Schlagworte: Society & social sciences; Society & culture: general; Cultural studies
    Weitere Schlagworte: Europe; Culture; Europeanization
  22. Jane Austen's Families
    Autor*in: Sturrock, Jane
    Erschienen: 2013
    Verlag:  Anthem Press

    “Jane Austen’s Families” focuses on family dynamics in Jane Austen’s six novels. After a general introduction, which places its approach in the context of ethical criticism, it divides into two sections. The first, “Family Dynamics,” consists of... mehr

     

    “Jane Austen’s Families” focuses on family dynamics in Jane Austen’s six novels. After a general introduction, which places its approach in the context of ethical criticism, it divides into two sections. The first, “Family Dynamics,” consists of three chapters – “The Function of the Dysfunctional Family,” “Spoilt Children” and “Usefulness and Exertion.” The three chapters of section two, “Fathers and Daughters,” look at father–daughter relationships in “Mansfield Park,” “Emma” and “Persuasion.”

     
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    ISBN: 9780857282972
    Schlagworte: Literature: history & criticism
    Weitere Schlagworte: Literary Criticism; European; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
  23. Battlefields of Negotiation : Control, Agency, and Ownership in World of Warcraft
    Autor*in: Glas, René
    Erschienen: 2013
    Verlag:  Amsterdam University Press

    The massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft has become one of the most popular computer games of the past decade, introducing millions around the world to community-based play. Within the boundaries set by its design, the... mehr

     

    The massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft has become one of the most popular computer games of the past decade, introducing millions around the world to community-based play. Within the boundaries set by its design, the game encourages players to appropriate and shape the game to their own wishes, resulting in highly diverse forms of play and participation. This illuminating study frames World of Warcraft as a complex socio-cultural phenomenon defined by and evolving as a result of the negotiations between groups of players as well as the game’s owners, throwing new light on complex consumer-producer relationships in the increasingly participatory but still tightly controlled media of online games. World of Warcraft is één van de meest populaire computergames van het afgelopen decennium. Het spel liet miljoenen spelers kennismaken met het gemeenschappelijk online spelen van computerspellen. Het spel is zo ontworpen dat het, binnen zekere grenzen, spelers uitnodigt en uitdaagt zich de virtuele wereld toe te eigenen. Het resultaat is dat spelers zeer divers spelgedrag vertonen en op heel verschillende manieren deelnemen. Deze studie naar World of Warcraft benadert het spel als een complex socio-cultureel fenomeen, dat wordt gedefinieerd door en zich evolueert als gevolg van onderhandelingen tussen spelersgroepen en makers. Het laat de complexe consument-producentrelatie zien bij dit type online games, die in toenemende mate participatie van de spelers toestaan, maar waarin de spelers tegelijkertijd sterk beteugeld worden.

     
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    Schlagworte: Film, TV & radio; Media studies; Education
    Weitere Schlagworte: educatie; motion pictures; film; education; Blizzard Entertainment; Fictional universe; Machinima; Massively multiplayer online role-playing game; Twink (gay slang); Twinking; Virtual world; Warcraft; World of Warcraft
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (220 p.)
  24. Transition and Transformation : Victor Sjöström in Hollywood 1923-1930
    Autor*in: Florin, Bo
    Erschienen: 2012
    Verlag:  Amsterdam University Press

    In 1923, Victor Sjöström (1879-1960) got an offer from Goldwyn Pictures to come to Hollywood. This was nothing unusual for a successful European director: - Metro's bring - ing them in by car load - , as Photoplay stated in 1926. At the time,... mehr

     

    In 1923, Victor Sjöström (1879-1960) got an offer from Goldwyn Pictures to come to Hollywood. This was nothing unusual for a successful European director: - Metro's bring - ing them in by car load - , as Photoplay stated in 1926. At the time, Sjöström was Sweden's most renowned director, who had become world famous for his austere and naturalistic film style. Sjöström stayed in Hollywood for seven years and made nine films. What happened during those years to the characteristic style that he had developed in Sweden? How was it transformed by Hollywood? Did he maintain any of his stylistic particularities from the Swedish period? How were his Hollywood films received by the American and Swedish critics? This portrayal of a European in Hollywood reveals how Sjöström, in adapting to the new production system, integrated and developed various stylistic elements from the Swedish years in a radically different context. Transition and Transformation is the first book-length study dedicated to the films of Victor Sjöström made in Hollywood, which also nuances the picture of the American production system. Victor Sjöström (1879-1960), in Hollywood bekend onder de naam Victor Seastrom, was ongetwijfeld een van de meest getalenteerde filmregisseurs van de stomme film. Door de focus op meesterwerken als The Scarlet Letter en The Wind, met tevens aandacht voor films die Sjöström in Zweden maakte voordat hij naar Hollywood vertrok (waaronder als verloren gegaan beschouwde filmfragmenten), analyseert de auteur Sjöströms sobere en naturalistische stijl en de veranderingen die diens manier van regisseren onderging tijdens zijn verblijf in Hollywood.

     
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    Schlagworte: Film, TV & radio; Film theory & criticism
    Weitere Schlagworte: motion pictures; film; Cinema of the United States; Hollywood; Sweden; United States; Victor Sjöström
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (164 p.)
  25. British cinema of the 1950s : A celebration
    Autor*in: Sinyard, Neil; MacKillop, Ian
    Erschienen: 2003
    Verlag:  Manchester University Press

    This book offers a startling re-evaluation of what has until now been seen as the most critically lacklustre period of the British cinema. Twenty writers contribute essays that rediscover and reassess the productions of the Festival of Britain... mehr

     

    This book offers a startling re-evaluation of what has until now been seen as the most critically lacklustre period of the British cinema. Twenty writers contribute essays that rediscover and reassess the productions of the Festival of Britain decade, during which the vitality of wartime film-making flowed into new forms. Topics covered include genres such as the B-film, the war film, the woman's picture, the theatrical adaptation and comedy; also social issues such as censorship and the screen representation of childhood. The book includes fresh assessments of maverick directors such as Pat Jackson, Robert Hamer and Joseph Losey, and even of a maverick critic, Raymond Durgnat. There are also three personal views from people individually implicated in 1950s cinema: Corin Redgrave on Michael Redgrave, Isabel Quigly on film reviewing, and Bryony Dixon of the British Film Institute on film archiving and preservation. In its evocation and coverage of a fascinating time when the national cinema enjoyed an unprecedented popularity amongst home audiences, this volume offers the most exhilarating survey yet of 1950s British film. In its provocative challenge to conventional wisdom about this decade's movies, the book will prove indispensable to students of the cinema at all levels and a stimulating companion for the critic and the historian.

     
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    Schlagworte: Films, cinema
    Weitere Schlagworte: cinema; film; british; Cinema of the United Kingdom