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  1. 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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    Schlagworte: Literary studies: poetry & poets
    Weitere Schlagworte: poet; poetry; welsh; wales; Applied science; Autobiography; God; Mysticism; R. S. Thomas
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. Film Remakes as Ritual and Disguise : From Carmen to Ripley
    Autor*in: Zanger, Anat
    Erschienen: 2006
    Verlag:  Amsterdam University Press

    The first book-length account of the symbolic chains that link remakes and explain their disguises, Film Remakes as Rituals and Disguise is also the first book to explore how and why these stories are told. Anat Zanger focuses on contemporary... mehr

     

    The first book-length account of the symbolic chains that link remakes and explain their disguises, Film Remakes as Rituals and Disguise is also the first book to explore how and why these stories are told. Anat Zanger focuses on contemporary retellings of three particular tales-Joan of Arc, Carmen, and Psycho-to reveal what she calls the remake's "rituals of disguise." Joan of Arc, Zanger demonstrates, later appears as the tough, androgynous Ripley in the blockbuster Alien III film and the God-ridden Bess in Lars Von Trier's Breaking the Waves. Ultimately, these remake chains offer evidence of the archetypes of our own age, cultural "fingerprints" that are reflective of society's own preferences and politics. Underneath the redundancy of the remake, Zanger shows, lies our collective social memory. Indeed, at its core the lowly remake represents a primal attempt to gain immortality, to triumph over death-playing at movie theatres seven days a week, 365 days a year. Addressing the wider theoretical implications of her argument with sections on contemporary film issues such as trauma, jouissance, and censorship, Zanger offers an insightful addition to current debates in film theory and cinema history. Wat is de reden van filmproducenten voor het maken van een 'remake', waarin een succesvol verhaal opnieuw verteld wordt? En waarin schuilt de aantrekkingskracht voor het publiek om deze verhalen steeds opnieuw te beleven? Wat maakt Carmen, Jeanne d'Arc of Ripley zo bijzonder? Film Remakes as Ritual and Disguise is de eerste grondige studie die het fenomeen 'remakes' onderzoekt in de context van de filmgeschiedenis. Een zeer breed scala aan films, van Olympia tot Carmen Hip-Hopera, van Jeanne d'Arc tot Aliens en Breaking the Waves, en van Suzanne and the Elders tot de installatie van Hitchcocks Psycho in het Centre Pompidou in 2002 passeert daarbij de revue. Zanger laat zien op welke manier de 'remakes' een nieuwe betekenis krijgen door elkaar te versterken, net iets te veranderen of door naar elkaar te verwijzen. Dit nieuwe deel in de serie "http://www.aup.nl/filmculture">Film Culture in Transition is geschreven vanuit een multidisciplinair perspectief om zodoende de relatie te doorgronden tussen institutionele, intertekstuele en feministische benaderingen van film. Aan de hand van zeer uiteenlopende aspecten van de films toont Zanger hoe de lange schakel van 'remakes' gezien kan worden als een reeks vingerafdrukken die de heersende voorkeur en overtuiging van de filmindustrie blootlegt.

     
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    ISBN: 9789053567845
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    Schlagworte: Film, TV & radio; History; Society & culture: general
    Weitere Schlagworte: culture and history; motion pictures; vrouwenstudies; film; cultuur and geschiedenis; women and education, research, related topics
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (160 p.)
  6. 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
  7. City of Darkness, City of Light : Emigré Filmmakers in Paris 1929-1939
    Autor*in: Phillips, Alastair
    Erschienen: 2003
    Verlag:  Amsterdam University Press

    This title is the first ever book-length study of the cinematic representation of Paris in the films of German emigré filmmakers, who found there a first refuge from Hitler. In coming to Paris - the privileged site in terms of production, exhibition... mehr

     

    This title is the first ever book-length study of the cinematic representation of Paris in the films of German emigré filmmakers, who found there a first refuge from Hitler. In coming to Paris - the privileged site in terms of production, exhibition as well as the cinematic imaginary of French film culture - these experienced film professionals encountered also a darker side: hostility toward Germans, anti-Semitism, as well as boycotts from French industry personnel, afraid of losing their jobs to foreigners. The book juxtaposes the cinematic portrayal of Paris in the films of Robert Siodmak, Billy Wilder, Fritz Lang, Max Ophüls, Anatol Litvak and others with the wider social and cultural debates about the city in the cinema. City of Darkness, City of Light is de eerste monografie over de representatie van Parijs in de films van uitgeweken Duitse filmmakers die tijdens Hitlers bewind hun toevlucht zochten in de 'Lichtstad'. Met hun komst naar Parijs - de plaats bij uitstek voor de productie, vertoning en de verbeelding van de Franse filmcultuur - leerden deze ervaren filmprofessionals ook de keerzijde van de stad kennen: een vijandige houding jegens Duitsers, anti-semitisme en boycots van Fransen die werkzaam waren in de filmindustrie en bang waren hun baan te verliezen aan de buitenlanders. City of Darkness, City of Light vergelijkt de cinematografische verbeelding van Parijs in de films van Robert Siodmak, Billy Wilder, Fritz Lang, Max Ophüls, Anatol Litvak en vele anderen met de bredere sociale en culturele debatten over de stad in de cinema.

     
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    Schlagworte: Film, TV & radio
    Weitere Schlagworte: motion pictures; film
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (256 p.)
  8. Art in Progress : A Philosophical Response to the End of the Avant-Garde
    Autor*in: Doorman, Maarten
    Erschienen: 2003
    Verlag:  Amsterdam University Press

    In this challenging and erudite philosophical essay, the author argues that in art, belief in progress is still relevant, if not essential. The radical freedoms of postmodernism have had a crippling effect on art - more than ever before, art is in... mehr

     

    In this challenging and erudite philosophical essay, the author argues that in art, belief in progress is still relevant, if not essential. The radical freedoms of postmodernism have had a crippling effect on art - more than ever before, art is in danger of becoming meaningless. Art can only acquire meaning through context, and the concept of progress is ideal as the primary criterion for establishing that context. History of art can be seen as a process of constant accumulation. Works of art comment on each other, enriching each other's meanings. These complex interrelationships lead to progress in both the sensibility of the observer and the significance of the works of art. Alles in de kunst is in beweging. Tegelijkertijd lijkt met het eind van de avantgarde de grote stilstand te zijn ingetreden. Het veelbesproken einde van de kunst en het postmodernisme roepen veel twijfels op. In dit helder geschreven betoog onderzoekt de auteur een begrip dat door de tot cliche geworden afschaffing van de Grote Verhalen onzichtbaar is geworden: het vooruitgangsidee. Hij laat zien hoe dat idee in de achttiende eeuw opkomt, allesbepalend is tijdens de avantgarde en met het eind van de avantgarde ten onder gaat. Maarten Doorman pleit voor een kritische herwaardering van vooruitgangsbegrippen om de als zorgeloosheid vermomde vrijblijvendheid van het postmodernisme het hoofd te bieden. Arthur Danto: The end of art does not entail that there has not been genuine progress in the philosophy of art. Maarten Doorman's challenging and valuable study contributes to that progress, whether or not progress in art itself remains, as he argues, a tenable idea.

     
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    Schlagworte: History of art / art & design styles; Philosophy; Philosophy: aesthetics
    Weitere Schlagworte: philosophy; kunst en kunstgeschiedenis; filosofie; historical treatment of fine and decorative arts
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (181 p.)
  9. Divine Comedies for the New Millennium : Recent Dante Translations in America and the Netherlands
    Beteiligt: de Rooy, Ronald (Hrsg.)
    Erschienen: 2003
    Verlag:  Amsterdam University Press

    Dante's intranslatability paradoxically causes a steady flux of translations, overwhelming in America, much more modest in the Netherlands. However, the tiny Netherlands witnessed a remarkable boom of Dante translations around the year 2000: within a... mehr

     

    Dante's intranslatability paradoxically causes a steady flux of translations, overwhelming in America, much more modest in the Netherlands. However, the tiny Netherlands witnessed a remarkable boom of Dante translations around the year 2000: within a short period seven cantiche were translated by Dutchmen and seven by Americans. This historic moment gave rise to a seminar about these recent translations, and about the traditions of translating Dante in both nations. The American and Dutch Divine Comedies discussed in this volume are important landmarks in a long tradition of making Dante's work accessible to non-Italian readers in both countries. On this already crowded stage, however, every newcomer inevitably makes statements about how Dante's masterpiece should be read: as a poem, as a scholarly text or as a scholarly poem? The old polarization between the fearless (at times reckless) 'poetical' translators and the more cautious 'academic' translators is very much alive, and the choice seems one between compromise and confrontation, between caution and courage. Dantes onvertaalbaarheid leidt vreemd genoeg tot een doorlopende stroom van vertalingen - overweldigend veel in de Verenigde Staten en een bescheiden aantal in Nederland. Maar rond het jaar 2000 nam ook het aantal Dante-vertalingen in Nederland plotseling een hoge vlucht: binnen een korte tijd werden zeven cantiches vertaald door Nederlanders, en nog eens zeven door Amerikanen. Dit historische moment gaf aanleiding voor een seminar over deze recente vertalingen en over de traditie van Dante-vertalingen in beide landen. De Amerikaanse en Nederlandse Goddelijke Komedies die in dit boek worden besproken zijn belangrijke ijkpunten in de lange traditie van Dante-vertalingen voor een publiek dat geen Italiaans leest. Op dit toch al drukke' podium brengt elke nieuwkomer standpunten naar voren over de manier waarop Dantes meesterwerk in zijn of haar ogen gelezen dient te worden: als een gedicht, als een wetenschappelijke tekst of als een wetenschappelijk gedicht? De oude tegenstelling tussen dappere (soms roekeloze) 'poëtische' vertalers en de meer voorzichtere 'academische' vertalers is nog nadrukkelijk aanwezig, en een keuze lijkt er een van compromis en confrontatie, tussen voorzichtigheid en moed.

     
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    Beteiligt: de Rooy, Ronald (Hrsg.)
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    ISBN: 9789053566329
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    Schlagworte: Literature & literary studies; Literature: history & criticism
    Weitere Schlagworte: dutch and flemish literature; nederlandse letterkunde; nederlandse en vlaamse literatuur; dutch literature
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (152 p.)
  10. The West in Early Cinema : After the Beginning
    Autor*in: Verhoeff, Nanna
    Erschienen: 2006
    Verlag:  Amsterdam University Press

    Verhoeff investigates the emergence of the western genre, made in the first two decades of cinema (1895-1915). By analyzing many unknown and forgotten films from international archives she traces the relationships between films about the American... mehr

     

    Verhoeff investigates the emergence of the western genre, made in the first two decades of cinema (1895-1915). By analyzing many unknown and forgotten films from international archives she traces the relationships between films about the American West, their surrounding films, and other popular media such as photography, painting, (pulp) literature, Wild West Shows and popular ethnography. Through this exploration of archival material she raises new questions of historiography and provides a model for historical analysis. These first traces of the Western film reveal a preoccupation with presence and actuality that informs us about the way in which film, as new medium, took shape within the context of its contemporary visual culture. In The West in Early Cinema gaat Nanna Verhoeff op zoek naar de nog onbekende beginjaren van het westerngenre tijdens de eerste twee decennia van het medium film 1895-1915). Aan de hand van onbekende en vergeten films uit internationale filmarchieven traceert zij de relaties tussen films over het Westen, omringende filmgenres uit deze periode, en andere populaire media als fotografie, schilderkunst, (pulp)literatuur, Wild West Shows en populaire etnografie. Deze sporen van het genre tonen een grote actualiteit en variatie, die laat zien op welke manier de film als nieuw medium een vorm vond binnen de toenmalige visuele cultuur.

     
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    ISBN: 9789053568316
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    Schlagworte: Film, TV & radio; Films, cinema
    Weitere Schlagworte: motion pictures; film
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (464 p.)
  11. Camera Obscura, Camera Lucida : Essays in Honor of Annette Michelson
    Beteiligt: Turvey, Malcolm (Hrsg.); Allen, Richard (Hrsg.)
    Erschienen: 2003
    Verlag:  Amsterdam University Press

    Annette Michelson's contribution to art and film criticism over the last three decades is unparalleled. This volume honors Michelson's unique legacy with original essays by some of the many scolars that have been influenced by her work. Some continue... mehr

     

    Annette Michelson's contribution to art and film criticism over the last three decades is unparalleled. This volume honors Michelson's unique legacy with original essays by some of the many scolars that have been influenced by her work. Some continue her efforts to develop theoretical frameworks for understanding modernist art, while others practice her form of interdisciplinary crtiticism in relation to avant-garde and modernist art works and artists. Still others investigate and evaluate Michelson's work itself. All in some way pay homage to het extraordinary contribution and demonstrate its continued centrality to the field of art and film criticism. De bijdrage aan de kunst- en filmkritiekdie Annette Michelson afgelopen drie decennia heeft geleverd, is ongeëvenaard. In dit boek wordt door filmcritici die door haar werk zijn beïnvloed de erfenis van Michelson besproken . Duidelijk wordt dat sommigen haar inspanningen voortzetten om een theoretisch kader te vormen om modernistische kunst te begrijpen, terwijl anderen haar vorm van interdisciplinaire kritiek met betrekking tot de avant-gardistische en modernistische kunstwerken en kunstenaars verder ontwikkelen. Iedereen brengt, in losse essays, op de één of andere manier hulde aan de buitengewone bijdrage die Michelson heeft geleverd en toont aan dat de door haar ontwikkelde kennis nog steeds actueel is.

     
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    ISBN: 9789053564943
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    Schlagworte: Film, TV & radio
    Weitere Schlagworte: motion pictures; film
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (296 p.)
  12. Women's writing in contemporary France: New writers, new literatures in the 1990s
    Autor*in: Worton, Michael; Rye, Gill
    Erschienen: 2003
    Verlag:  Manchester University Press

    The 1990s witnessed a veritable explosion in women's writing in France, with a particularly exciting new generation of writers coming to the fore, names like Christine Angot, Marie Darrieussecq and Régine Detambel. Other authors such as Paule... mehr

     

    The 1990s witnessed a veritable explosion in women's writing in France, with a particularly exciting new generation of writers coming to the fore, names like Christine Angot, Marie Darrieussecq and Régine Detambel. Other authors such as Paule Constant, Sylvie Germain, Marie Redonnet and Leïla Sebbar, who had begun publishing in the 1980s, claimed their mainstream status in the 1990s with new texts. This book provides an up-to-date introduction to and analysis of new women's writing in contemporary France including both new writers of the 1990s and their more established counterparts. The editors' incisive introduction situates these authors and their texts at the centre of the current trends and issues concerning French literary production today, whilst fifteen original essays focus on individual writers. The volume includes specialist bibliographies on each writer, incorporating English translations, major interviews, and key critical studies. Quotations are given in both French and English throughout. An invaluable study resource, its clear and accessible style makes this book of interest to the general reader as well as to students of all levels, to teachers of a wide range of courses on French culture, and to specialist researchers of French and Francophone literature.

     
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    Schlagworte: Literary studies: from c 1900 -
    Weitere Schlagworte: french; feminism; detambel; angot; darrieussecq; Beur; France; Jacques Lacan; London; Paris
  13. Knowledge Goes Pop : From Conspiracy Theory to Gossip
    Autor*in: Birchall, Clare
    Erschienen: 2006
    Verlag:  Berg Publishers, Oxford

    A voice on late night radio tells you that a fast food joint injects its food with drugs that make men impotent. A colleague asks if you think the FBI was in on 9/11. An alien abductee on the Internet claims extra-terrestrials have planted a... mehr

     

    A voice on late night radio tells you that a fast food joint injects its food with drugs that make men impotent. A colleague asks if you think the FBI was in on 9/11. An alien abductee on the Internet claims extra-terrestrials have planted a microchip in her left buttock. 'Julia Roberts in Porn Scandal' shouts the front page of a gossip mag. A spiritual healer claims he can cure chronic fatigue syndrome with the energizing power of crystals . . . What do you believe? Knowledge Goes Pop examines the popular knowledges that saturate our everyday experience. We make this information and then it shapes the way we see the world. How valid is it when compared to official knowledge and why does such (mis)information cause so much institutional anxiety? Knowledge Goes Pop examines the range of knowledge, from conspiracy theory to plain gossip, and its role and impact in our culture.What do you believe? This title examines the popular knowledges that

    saturate our everyday experience. How valid is it when compared to

    official knowledge and why does such (mis)information cause so much

    institutional anxiety? It examines the range of knowledge, from

    conspiracy theory to plain gossip, and its role and impact in our

    culture.Clare Birchall is Senior Lecturer at Middlesex University.

     
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    Schlagworte: Popular culture; Social theory
    Weitere Schlagworte: cultural studies; sociology; culturele studies; sociologie; Conspiracy theory; Gossip; Jacques Derrida
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (208 p.)
  14. Jihad Beyond Islam
    Autor*in: Marranci, Gabriele
    Erschienen: 2006
    Verlag:  Berg Publishers, Oxford

    'Jihad' is a highly charged word. Often mistranslated as 'Holy War', it has become synonymous with terrorism. Current political events have entirely failed to take account of the subtlety and complexity of jihad. Like many concepts with a long... mehr

     

    'Jihad' is a highly charged word. Often mistranslated as 'Holy War', it has become synonymous with terrorism. Current political events have entirely failed to take account of the subtlety and complexity of jihad. Like many concepts with a long history, different cultural ideas have influenced the religious aspects of jihad. As a result its original meaning has been adapted, modified and destabilized - never more than at the present time. How does jihad manifest itself in Muslims' everyday lives? What impact has 9/11 and its backlash had on jihad? By observing the current crisis of identity among ordinary Muslims, this timely book explores why, and in what circumstances Muslims speak of jihad. In the end, jihad is what Muslims say it is. Marranci offers us a nuanced and sophisticated anthropological understanding of Muslims' lives far beyond the predictable cliches.

    Have a look at the author´s blog hereExplores the different cultural ideas that have influenced the religious

    aspects of jihad. 'jihad', a term often mistranslated as 'Holy War',

    has become synonymous with terrorism. This book, by observing the crisis

    of identity among ordinary Muslims, explores why, and in what

    circumstances Muslims speak of jihad.Gabriele Marranci is Lecturer in the Anthropology of Religion, School of Divinity and Religious Studies, University of Aberdeen. He is the founding editor of Contemporary Islam: Dynamics of Muslim Life.

     
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    Weitere Schlagworte: sociology; antropologie; sociologie; anthropology; Allah; Antisemitism; Islam; Jihad; Muslims; Quran
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  15. The Cinema of Attractions Reloaded
    Beteiligt: Strauven, Wanda (Hrsg.)
    Erschienen: 2006
    Verlag:  Amsterdam University Press

    What have Lumière in common with Wachowski? More than one hundred years separate these two pairs of brothers who astonished, quite similarly, the film spectator of their respective time with special effects of movement: a train rushing into the... mehr

     

    What have Lumière in common with Wachowski? More than one hundred years separate these two pairs of brothers who astonished, quite similarly, the film spectator of their respective time with special effects of movement: a train rushing into the audience and a bullet flying in slow motion. Do they belong to the same family of "cinema of attractions"? Twenty years ago Tom Gunning introduced the phrase "cinema of attractions" to define the essence of the earliest films made between 1895 and 1906. His term scored an immediate success, even outside the field of early cinema. The present anthology questions the attractiveness and usefulness of the term for both pre-classical and post-classical cinema. With contributions by the most prominent scholars of this discipline (such as Tom Gunning, André Gaudreault, Thomas Elsaesser, Charles Musser, Scott Bukatman and Vivian Sobchack) this volume offers a kaleidoscopic overview of an important historiographical debate. Wat hebben de broers Lumière gemeenschappelijk met de broers Wachowski? Meer dan honderd jaar scheidt deze twee duo's van elkaar, maar op even doordringende wijze hebben ze de filmkijker van hun tijd weten te verbazen met speciale effecten van beweging: een trein die recht op het publiek inrijdt en een vliegende kogel in slow motion. Behoren ze wellicht tot dezelfde familie van de cinema of attractions? Twintig jaar geleden lanceerde Tom Gunning de term 'cinema of attractions' om de essentie van de vroege film (1895-1906) te definiëren. Zijn term sloeg aan en werd snel ook buiten het domein van de vroege cinema gebruikt. Deze bundel buigt zich over de aantrekkelijkheid en de bruikbaarheid van de term voor zowel vroege als digitale cinema. Deze bundel biedt een caleidoscopisch overzicht van een belangrijk historiografisch debat. Met bijdragen van de belangrijkste onderzoekers in dit vakgebied, o.a. Tom Gunning, André Gaudreault, Thomas Elsaesser, Charles Musser, Scott Bukatman en Vivian Sobchack.

     
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    Schlagworte: Film, TV & radio
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  16. Jean Desmet and the Early Dutch Film Trade
    Autor*in: Blom, Ivo
    Erschienen: 2003
    Verlag:  Amsterdam University Press

    Since 1957 the Film Museum in Amsterdam has been in possession of the Desmet Collection which contains the estate of the Dutch cinema owner and film distributor Jean Desmet (1875-1956). The collection comprises almost nine hundred European and... mehr

     

    Since 1957 the Film Museum in Amsterdam has been in possession of the Desmet Collection which contains the estate of the Dutch cinema owner and film distributor Jean Desmet (1875-1956). The collection comprises almost nine hundred European and American films in all genres, a collection of publicity material and a dauntingly large business archive. These three sources form the basis of this first comprehensive reconstruction of Desmet's career: from his nomadic beginnings as a traveling showman, working the seasonal fairgrounds of the Netherlands and Belgium, to his successful switch to permanent cinema operation and film distribution. The history of Desmet's career offers not simply an abstract of an individual character and his personal ambitions and motivations, but also epitomizes transformations in the world of cinema as an industry. Between 1907 and 1916 the world of cinema experienced radical structural change which Desmet not only witnessed but also helped to bring about. Given the insufficiencies of Dutch film production, Desmet became a link between film production abroad and film exhibition in the Netherlands. Desmet is not merely representative of the rise of the permanent movie house and the coming of the film distributor. This book shows how his fortunes also encapsulate a series of structural changes within the new culture of permanent cinema and film distribution. In film distribution these changes embraced the introduction of film rental, the advent of the long feature film, the introduction of the monopoly distribution system and the periodic transformation of the products on offer. In the business of cinema operation change involved specialization, the creation of fixed theater venues, the development of a theater hierarchy, expansions of scale, the introduction of trade journals and the gradual legitimization of cinema as a popular cultural institution. These transformations were not confined to the Netherlands but were also taking place in the rest of Europe. Indeed, they were first set in motion by other European countries, and in order fully to understand Desmet it is necessary to situate him in his larger European context. In this original and wide-ranging study Ivo Blom uses the career of Jean Desmet as a means of exploring the history of cinema from the ground-level position of film distribution and exhibition. His copiously illustrated and scrupulously documented exposition swells into an epic narrative that offers a richer, more rounded -indeed 'truer' - account of early urban cinema culture than is possible from the confined perspective of production-based film histories. De levensloop van de Nederlandse bioscoopeigenaar en filmdistributeur Jean Desmet (1875-1956) biedt niet alleen inzicht in een excentrieke persoonlijkheid, maar staat ook model voor de veranderingen in de filmwereld als geheel. Door buitenlandse filmproducties voor vertoning naar Nederland te brengen leverde Desmet een substantiële bijdrage aan de radicale veranderingen die tussen 1907 en 1916 plaatsvonden in de filmindustrie. Het Filmmuseum in Amsterdam is sinds 1957 in het bezit van de Desmet-verzameling waarin de nalatenschap van deze excentrieke filmliefhebber bewaard is gebleven. Dit materiaal vormde het uitgangspunt van deze originele studie waarin Ivo Blom aan de hand van Desmet's levensverhaal de geschiedenis van de filmdistributie en -vertoning vertelt. Zijn rijk geïllustreerde en grondig gedocumenteerde uiteenzetting is uitgegroeid tot een episch verhaal dat - meer dan een productie-georienteerde geschiedenis - een rijk en afgerond beeld schetst van de vroege stadse filmcultuur.

     
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    Schlagworte: Film, TV & radio; Individual film directors, film-makers; History; Society & culture: general
    Weitere Schlagworte: culture and instituten; geschiedenis; motion pictures; film; culture and institutions; history, geography, and auxiliary disciplines
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  17. How safe is eating chicken?
    Autor*in: Romano, Donato; Stefani, Gianluca
    Erschienen: 2006
    Verlag:  Firenze University Press

    Consumers trust is a key factor in dealing with rising concerns about food safety and food quality, but only few studies have dealt with consumer attitudes and none of them has tried to model the process of consumer response. This book reports the... mehr

     

    Consumers trust is a key factor in dealing with rising concerns about food safety and food quality, but only few studies have dealt with consumer attitudes and none of them has tried to model the process of consumer response. This book reports the main findings of an european project aimed at analysing trust along the food chain and its relationship with food risk communication. The papers collected investigate the mechanisms that determine the social diffusion of trust, examining the interplay of the psychological, sociological and economic factors; and analyze the impact of the food risk communication policies on consumers and producers and on the society as a whole.

     
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  18. Technological innovation and change in the university
    Autor*in: Antonio, Calvani
    Erschienen: 2003
    Verlag:  Firenze University Press

    It is by now common knowledge that one of the aspects upon which the survival of the University depends is how it will make the best possible use of the new technologies (e-learning). Despite the acceptance of this principle, difficulties arise when... mehr

     

    It is by now common knowledge that one of the aspects upon which the survival of the University depends is how it will make the best possible use of the new technologies (e-learning). Despite the acceptance of this principle, difficulties arise when one attempts to proceed from the mere declaration to actually planning activities and putting them into effect. This research, the result of collaboration between teachers and researchers of the Educational Science and Engineering Faculties of the University of Florence, focuses on certain theoretical concepts and reference apparatus, bringing international literature to bear on the specific case of Italy. [english version]

     
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    Schlagworte: Media studies
    Weitere Schlagworte: comunicazione; technology; tecnologia; university; università; e-learning; communication; Distance education; Educational technology; Email; Higher education; Internet; Pedagogy; Virtual university
  19. Passages Westward
    Beteiligt: Lähteenmäki, Maria (Hrsg.); Snellman, Hanna (Hrsg.)
    Erschienen: 2006
    Verlag:  Finnish Literature Society / SKS, Helsinki

    "The West has always been a resource for the Finns. Scholars, artists and other professionals have sought contacts from Europe throughout the centuries. The Finnish experience in Western Europe and the New World is a story of migrant laborers,... mehr

     

    "The West has always been a resource for the Finns. Scholars, artists and other professionals have sought contacts from Europe throughout the centuries. The Finnish experience in Western Europe and the New World is a story of migrant laborers, expatriates and specialists working abroad. But you don’t have to be born in Finland to be a Finn. The experiences of second-generation Finnish immigrants and their descendants open up new possibilities for understanding the relationship between Finland and the West.

    The Finnish passage westward has not always crossed national borders. Karelian evacuees headed west, as did young people from the Finnish countryside when opportunities to make a living in agriculture and forestry diminished in the post-war era. The legacy of these migrants is still visible in the suburbs of Finnish cities today.

    This book is a joint effort of the Department of Ethnology and the Department of History at the University of Helsinki. It was written by Ph. D. students supervised by Academy Research Fellows Maria Lähteenmäki and Hanna Snellman, in collaboration with colleagues abroad interested in current research in ethnology and history.

     

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    Schlagworte: Regional & national history; Migration, immigration & emigration; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Weitere Schlagworte: immigration; migration; identity; Finland; Sweden; expatriates
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  20. Narrating, Doing, Experiencing : Nordic Folkloristic Perspectives
    Autor*in: Palmenelt, Ulf
    Erschienen: 2006
    Verlag:  Finnish Literature Society / SKS, Helsinki

    How do people tell of experiences, things and events that mean a lot to them and are unforgettable? Eight Nordic folklorists here examine personal experience stories and the way they are narrated in an attempt to gain an understanding of the people... mehr

     

    How do people tell of experiences, things and events that mean a lot to them and are unforgettable? Eight Nordic folklorists here examine personal experience stories and the way they are narrated in an attempt to gain an understanding of the people behind them and to reveal how these people handle their history, their lives and their cultural memory. All the articles are based on interviews and narrator-researcher collaboration. The stories tell about birth, sickness and miraculous cures, intergenerational relations, war, and matters not normally talked about. The analyses complement one another and the work may be used as a university course book.

     
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    Beteiligt: Kaivola-Bregenhøj, Annikki (Hrsg.); Klein, Barbro (Hrsg.)
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789517467261; 9789518580631
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    Schlagworte: True stories; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Weitere Schlagworte: experiences; memories: stories; intergenerational relations; conversation; miracle
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (187 p.)
  21. The Look of Things : Poetry and Vision around 1900
    Autor*in: Strathausen, Carsten
    Erschienen: 2003
    Verlag:  University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill

    Examining the relationship between German poetry, philosophy, and visual media around 1900, Carsten Strathausen argues that the poetic works of Rainer Maria Rilke, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, and Stefan George focused on the visible gestalt of language as... mehr

     

    Examining the relationship between German poetry, philosophy, and visual media around 1900, Carsten Strathausen argues that the poetic works of Rainer Maria Rilke, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, and Stefan George focused on the visible gestalt of language as a means of competing aesthetically with the increasing popularity and "reality effect" of photography and film. Poetry around 1900 self-reflectively celebrated its own words as both transparent signs and material objects, Strathausen says. In Aestheticism, this means that language harbors the potential to literally present the things it signifies. Rather than simply describing or picturing the physical experience of looking, as critics have commonly maintained, modernist poetry claims to enable a more profound kind of perception that grants intuitive insights into the very texture of the natural world.

     
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    Schlagworte: Literature: history & criticism
    Weitere Schlagworte: Poetry; German Studies; Literature
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (344 p.)
  22. Exile : The Writer's Experience
    Beteiligt: Spalek, John M. (Hrsg.); Bell, Robert F. (Hrsg.)
    Erschienen: 1982
    Verlag:  University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill

    This work is a collection of twenty-four fundamental essays on the many-sided topic of German exile literature during and after Hitler's Third Reich. Exile literature, which emerged in the 1980s as a special field of critical investigation within... mehr

     

    This work is a collection of twenty-four fundamental essays on the many-sided topic of German exile literature during and after Hitler's Third Reich. Exile literature, which emerged in the 1980s as a special field of critical investigation within German Studies, embraced the diverse works of writers who were scattered from Hollywood to Moscow but were related by the common bond of exile from Germany. Leading American and European specialists in the field are contributors to the volume, which discusses the work of Thomas Mann, Bertolt Brecht, Hermann Broch and Karl Wolfskehl among others.

     
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    Schlagworte: Literature: history & criticism
    Weitere Schlagworte: German Studies; Literature
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  23. Interpreting Chekhov
    Autor*in: Borny, Geoffrey
    Erschienen: 2006
    Verlag:  ANU Press, Canberra

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    Chekhov; Criticism; Interpretation

     
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    Schlagworte: Literary studies: plays & playwrights
    Weitere Schlagworte: chekhov; criticism; interpretation; Anton Chekhov; Ivanov (play); Konstantin Stanislavski; Playwright; The Cherry Orchard; The Seagull; Uncle Vanya
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  24. Your Diamond Dreams Cut Open My Arteries : Poems by Else Lasker-Schüler
    Autor*in: Lasker-Schüler, Else; Newton, Robert P.
    Erschienen: 1982
    Verlag:  University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill

    Critics have called Else Lasker-Schüler the greatest of all German women poets and one of the finest Jewish poets. This large and representative selection of translations by Robert P. Newton, supplemented by a biographical and critical introduction... mehr

     

    Critics have called Else Lasker-Schüler the greatest of all German women poets and one of the finest Jewish poets. This large and representative selection of translations by Robert P. Newton, supplemented by a biographical and critical introduction and a selected bibliography, was the first substantial presentation of her works in English at its original publication in 1982.

     
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    Schlagworte: Poetry
    Weitere Schlagworte: Poetry; German Studies; Literature
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  25. Brecht and the Bible : A Study of Religious Nihilism and Human Weakness in Brecht's Drama of Morality and the City
    Autor*in: Murphy, G. Ronald
    Erschienen: 1980
    Verlag:  University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill

    This study identifies the underlying patterns of persistent biblical allusion in the work of renowned playwright Bertolt Brecht. Rather than reducing Brecht's use of the Bible to the purely satirical, the author interprets the full dramatic function... mehr

     

    This study identifies the underlying patterns of persistent biblical allusion in the work of renowned playwright Bertolt Brecht. Rather than reducing Brecht's use of the Bible to the purely satirical, the author interprets the full dramatic function of Brecht's complex use of scripture. Using examples from plays written throughout the span of Brecht's career, Murphy shows how Brecht invokes the stories of Old Testament figures such as Job and Isaiah as well as the crucifixion accounts of the New Testament in order to build sympathetic characters and explore his more political themes.

     
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    Weitere Schlagworte: German studies; Literature; Theatre and Drama
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (122 p.)