Blurred Boundaries

Author : Bill Nichols
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0253209005

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Blurred Boundaries explores decisive moments when the traditional boundaries of fiction/nonfiction, truth and falsehood blur. Nichols argues that a history of social representation in film, television and video requires an understanding of the fate of both contemporary and older work. Traditionally, film history and cultural studies sought to place films in a historical context. Nichols proposes a new goal: to examine how specific works, old and new, promote or suppress a sense of historical consciousness. Examining work from Eisenstein's Strike to the Rodney King videotape, Nichols interrelates issues of formal structure, viewer response and historical consciousness. Simultaneously, Blurred Boundaries radically alters the interpretive frameworks offered by neo-formalism and psychoanalysis: Comprehension itself becomes a social act of transformative understanding rather than an abstract mental process while the use of psychoanalytic terms like desire, lack, or paranoia to make social points metaphorically yields to a vocabulary designed expressly for historical interpretation such as project, intentionality and the social imaginary. An important departure from prevailing trends in many fields, Blurred Boundaries offers new directions for the study of visual culture.

Author : Pamela Ardoin Funderburk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1637841337

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Blurred Boundaries is a fictional novel that delves into the life of Naomi Green, the fourth and youngest daughter of Sidney and Veronica Green, who lives her childhood safely hidden in the background of her older sisters. As she becomes a young woman, living on her own, her various qualities that she allowed to lay stagnate begin to surface. It's a coming-of-age story with some happy times as well as some heartbreak. Naomi represents many people who don't demand or receive the attention they crave until a "want" arises and she must continuously debate the difference between right and wrong. It is this debate that continues to haunt her because, although she is aware of boundaries, she struggles to find some sort of middle ground, if there is one. Her struggle to avoid crossing these boundaries begins to take over her life, and when a final decision is made, she realizes that she could possibly lose more than the one thing she truly wants. This novel will have you rooting for her, pulling at your heartstrings, and then questioning yourself as to whether or not crossing boundaries is, in some cases, acceptable. 2

Author : Rainer Bauböck,John Rundell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429861321

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Blurred Boundaries by Rainer Bauböck,John Rundell Pdf

First published in 1999, this volume examines new forms of cultural diversity which result from migration and globalization. Historically, most liberal democracies have developed on the basis of national cultures – either a single one, or a dominant one, or a federation of several ones. However, political and economic developments have upset traditional patterns and have blurred established boundaries. Ongoing immigration from diverse origins has inserted new ethnic minorities into formerly homogenous populations. Democratic liberties and rights provided opportunities for old and new marginalized minorities to resist assimilation and to assert identities. The resulting pattern of multiculturalism is different from earlier ones. Often cultural boundaries are neither clearly defined nor do they simply dissolve by assimilation into a dominant group – they have become fuzzy and a constant source of real or imagined hostility and anxiety. A proliferation of mixed identities goes together with stronger claims for cultural rights and escalating hostilities between ethnic minorities and national majorities. In many countries multiculturalism is today perceived as a challenge rather than as an enrichment. The book focuses on the question how institution and policies of liberal democracies can cope with these trends. The book addresses two tasks: 1) To compare different national contexts and types of ethnic groups (immigrant and indigenous, linguistic and religious minorities) and to discuss how policies of multicultural integration have to be adapted in order to cope with such differences. 2) To evaluate the impact of common rends of globalization which link societies and encourage convergence between national models of multicultural integration.

Author : Rodney Marshall
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781326862121

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Blurred Boundaries by Rodney Marshall Pdf

In the mid-1980s, in Edinburgh, Ian Rankin was hatching a plot for a 'crime thriller' from his student digs. Knots & Crosses - like its frayed protagonist John Rebus - was rough around the edges but marked a promising debut. More than a quarter of a century later, Rankin and Rebus have a global following. The series has been both critically acclaimed and commercially popular. Detective John Rebus is anything but conventional. The same can be said of Ian Rankin's innovative texts which take crime fiction far beyond formulaic genre, producing radical, disruptive, borderline texts. In the first ever full-length study of all twenty-one Rebus novels, Rodney Marshall argues that Rankin's fiction continues to break new ground, blurring the boundaries between traditional detective novel and modern literature. November 2016 fifth edition: now includes an exclusive eighteen page interview with Ian Rankin and a chapter on Rather Be The Devil, Rankin's new Rebus novel.

Author : Dafna Nissim,Vered Tohar
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9783111244105

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Blurred Boundaries and Deceptive Dichotomies in Pre-Modern Texts and Images by Dafna Nissim,Vered Tohar Pdf

This collection of essays focuses on the way blurred boundaries are represented in pre-modern texts and visual art and how they were received and perceived by their audiences: readers, listeners, and viewers. According to the current understanding that opposing cognitive categories that are so common in modern thinking do not apply to pre-modern mentalities, we argue that individuals in medieval and pre-modern societies did not necessarily consider sacred and secular, male and female, real and fictional, and opposing emotions as absolute dichotomies. The contributors to the present collection examine a wide range of cultural artifacts – literary texts, wall paintings, sculptures, jewelry, manuscript illustrations, and various objects as to what they reflect regarding the dominant perceptual system – the network of beliefs, worldviews, presumptions, values, and norms of viewing/reading/hearing different from modern epistemology strongly predicated on the binary nature of things and people. The essays suggest that analyzing pre-modern cultural works of art or literature in light of reception theory can lead to a better understanding of how those cultural products influenced individuals and impacted their thoughts and actions.

Author : María-Cruz Negreira-Rey
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031439261

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Blurring Boundaries of Journalism in Digital Media by María-Cruz Negreira-Rey Pdf

Author : Leon Anderson
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781071876640

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Deviance by Leon Anderson Pdf

Deviance: Social Constructions and Blurred Boundaries is designed for courses on social deviance that take a strong sociological perspective. The book draws on up-to-date scholarship across a wide spectrum of deviance categories, providing a symbolic interactionist analysis of the deviance process. The book addresses positivistic theories of deviant behavior within a description of the deviance process that encompasses the work of deviance claims-makers, rule-breakers, and social control agents. Students are introduced to the sociology of deviance and learn to analyze several kinds of criminal deviance that involve unwilling victims-such as murder, rape, street-level property crime, and white-collar crime. Students also learn to examine several categories of "lifestyle" and "status" deviance and develop skills for critical analysis of criminal justice and social policies. Overall, students gain an understanding of the sociology of deviance through cross-cultural comparisons, historical overview of deviance in the U.S., and up-close analysis of the lived experience of those who are labeled deviant as well as responses to them in the U.S. today

Author : Klaus H. Schmidt
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020317314

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Blurred Boundaries by Klaus H. Schmidt Pdf

Paradoxically, the only definite evaluation that can be made about the state of American Studies in the middle of the 1990s is that «blurred boundaries» prevail in academic discourse and the subjects of research in the field. According to the editors, this new interest in boundaries is a reflection of a) global, social and cultural developments, b) recent trends in general cultural and literary theory, and c) the current reexamination of research methods within the discipline of American Studies itself. In this volume, contributors from Canada, Germany and the United States creatively respond to the phenomenon of «blurred boundaries, » reassessing authors such as Thoreau, Cooper, Melville, Jacobs, Stoddard, Whitney, Eastman, Mackenzie, McCarthy, Redbird, Walker, Carver and Holzer.

Author : Kathleen Ferraro
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006-11-30
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1555536638

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Neither Angels Nor Demons by Kathleen Ferraro Pdf

A provocative study of the complex relationship between domestic violence and women's crime.

Author : Kathy Merlock Jackson,Kathy Shepherd Stolley,Lisa Lyon Payne
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781476671734

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Animals and Ourselves by Kathy Merlock Jackson,Kathy Shepherd Stolley,Lisa Lyon Payne Pdf

The relationship between humans and animals has always been strong, symbiotic and complicated. Animals, real and fictional, have been a mainstay in the arts and entertainment, figuring prominently in literature, film, television, social media, and live performances. Increasingly, though, people are anthropomorphizing animals, assigning them humanoid roles, tasks and identities. At the same time, humans, such as members of the furry culture or college mascots, find pleasure in adopting animal identities and characteristics. This book is the first of its kind to explore these growing phenomena across media. The contributors to this collection represent various disciplines, to include the arts, humanities, social sciences, and healthcare. Their essays demonstrate the various ways that human and animal lives are intertwined and constantly evolving.

Author : Jack Levin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135135126

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Blurring The Boundaries by Jack Levin Pdf

Over the decades, the lines separating young- middle-aged-, and older adults have blurred, as indicated by a broadening of the appropriate years for making life decisions. Not only are many people marrying later, but some are marrying earlier than ever. Overall, women giving birth later, but some are having children earlier in their lives. Older people are retiring later, but some are retiring at a younger age. The spread or variability (standard deviation) of age-based decisions has increased substantially, giving adults greater freedom from the traditional constraints of age. With these relaxed age norms has come a host of related social problems. The relaxation of age norms for adult decision-making has inadvertently blurred the boundaries between adults and teenagers, between teenagers and children. This generalization of the phenomenon throughout the life cycle is responsible for the adultification of childhood. Eight year old girls are, to an increasing extent, being treated as sexual objects; bullying peaks in the 6th grade; larger numbers of girls are having oral sex or sexual intercourse by the age of 15; the pregnancy rate for girls 13-15 is on the rise; we are in the process of dismantling the juvenile justice system in favor of adult forms of punishment; and more and more children are left without adult supervision in the afternoons, as though they were miniature adults who are capable of raising themselves. Jack Levin is the American Sociological Association’s 2009 Winner of the “Public Understanding of Sociology” Award. This short book communicates the power and importance of sociological thinking to major, worldwide social trends. Ideal for use in undergraduate courses such as introductory sociology, social problems, and social change as well as more advanced courses in population, or sociology of aging.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807834978

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Blurred Borders

Author : Anne Jerslev
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030739249

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David Lynch by Anne Jerslev Pdf

This book distinguishes itself from earlier books on David Lynch by taking in-depth consideration of his entire oeuvre. Besides his films and the Twin Peaks series, David Lynch: Blurred Boundaries includes discussions of Lynch’s paintings and drawings, music videos, commercials, short experimental works, digital projects on the YouTube channel David Lynch Theater and the Internet documentary The Interview Project, as well as the exhibition The Air is on Fire, which Jerslev regards as one of Lynch’s main works. David Lynch: Blurred Boundaries offers a view of Lynch’s total work, in which one medium or genre is no more important than the other. It discusses the ways in which Lynch has worked throughout his career with different art forms and has right from the start experimented with the blurring of boundaries between media and genres. And it discusses ways Lynch creates atmospheres by different audio-visual and visual means.

Author : Lee Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Man-woman relationships
ISBN : 1741107709

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Blurred Boundaries by Lee Smith Pdf

Lee Smith found her work as a parole officer rewarding. She'd finally broken free from her oppressive family and was dealing with the issues surrounding her abandonment as a child in the streets of Hong Kong. Then she fell in love with Russell - an inmate of the prison where she worked and a former member of the Bandidos Outlaw Motor Cycle Club. Blurred Boundaries is the honest and harrowing account of what happened when Lee and Russell crossed the line and tried to find a space for their love. In an atmosphere of murder and ultimate suicide, Lee wrestles with the underworld and her own heart as she struggles to survive.

Author : Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky
Publisher : Springer
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319437477

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The Boundaries of Belonging by Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky Pdf

This book addresses an issue currently making political headlines in the United States—immigration. Immigrants have long engendered debates about the boundaries of belonging, with some singing their praises and others warning of their dangers. In particular, the 11 million unauthorized immigrants in the country provoke heated disagreements with issues of legality and morality at the forefront. Increasingly, such debates take place online, by organizations in the immigrant rights and the immigration control movements, who engage in symbolic work that includes blurring, crossing, maintaining, solidifying, and shifting the boundaries of belonging. Based on data collected from 29 national-level groups, this book features a cultural sociological analysis of the online materials deployed by social movement organizations debating immigration in the United States.