Intermingled Fascinations

Author : Jane Ramey Correia,Flannery Wilson
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781443831277

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Intermingled Fascinations by Jane Ramey Correia,Flannery Wilson Pdf

This collection of essays seeks to expand and refine the study of Sinophone and Franco-Japanese transnational cinema. Chapter by chapter, each author writes about two or three transnational films (and the characters within those films) that highlight issues related to migration, exile, and imprisonment. The essays are connected by themes of displacement, liminality, and (mis)communication. Overall, this anthology seeks to demonstrate that in-depth cinematic analysis is key to understanding filmic representations of diasporic and displaced communities in modern Mainland China and Japan.

Author : Temenuga Trifonova
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781501362507

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The Figure of the Migrant in Contemporary European Cinema by Temenuga Trifonova Pdf

The Figure of the Migrant in Contemporary European Cinema explores contemporary debates around the concepts of 'Europe' and 'European identity' through an examination of recent European films dealing with various aspects of globalization (the refugee crisis, labour migration, the resurgence of nationalism and ethnic violence, neoliberalism, post-colonialism) with a particular attention to the figure of the migrant and the ways in which this figure challenges us to rethink Europe and its core Enlightenment values (citizenship, justice, ethics, liberty, tolerance, and hospitality) in a post-national context of ephemerality, volatility, and contingency that finds people desperately looking for firmer markers of identity. The book argues that a compelling case can be made for re-orienting the study of contemporary European cinema around the figure of the migrant viewed both as a symbolic figure (representing post-national citizenship, urbanization, the 'gap' between ethics and justice) and as a figure occupying an increasingly central place in European cinema in general rather than only in what is usually called 'migrant and diasporic cinema'. By drawing attention to the structural and affective affinities between the experience of migrants and non-migrants, Europeans and non-Europeans, Trifonova shows that it is becoming increasingly difficult to separate stories about migration from stories about life under neoliberalism in general

Author : C. Rêgo,M. Brasileiro
Publisher : Springer
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137408921

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Migration in Lusophone Cinema by C. Rêgo,M. Brasileiro Pdf

With more than 250 million speakers globally, the Lusophone world has a rich history of filmmaking. This edited volume explores the representation of the migratory experience in contemporary cinema from Portuguese-speaking countries, exploring how Lusophone films, filmmakers, producers, studios, and governments relay narratives of migration.

Author : Flannery Wilson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474408141

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New Taiwanese Cinema in Focus by Flannery Wilson Pdf

In the Taiwanese film industry, the dichotomy between 'art-house' and commercially viable films is heavily emphasized. However, since the democratization of the political landscape in Taiwan, Taiwanese cinema has become internationally fluid. As the case studies in this book demonstrate, filmmakers such as Hou Hsiao-hsien, Edward Yang, Tsai Ming-liang, and Ang Lee each engage with international audience expectations. New Taiwanese Cinema in Focus therefore presents the Taiwanese New Wave and Second Wave movements with an emphasis on intertextuality, citation and trans-cultural dialogue. Wilson argues that the cinema of Taiwan since the 1980s should be read emblematically; that is, as a representation of the greater paradox that exists in national and transnational cinema studies. She argues that these unlikely relationships create the need for a new way of thinking about 'transnationalism' altogether, making this an essential read for advanced students and scholars in both Film Studies and Asian Studies.

Author : Haina Jin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000505795

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Chinese Cinemas in Translation and Dissemination by Haina Jin Pdf

Ever since film was brought into China at the end of the nineteenth century, translation has conquered language, ideological and cultural barriers and facilitated the dissemination of films in China. Offering fresh visions and innovative studies on various important issues, including mistranslation, the dubbing of Hong Kong kung fu films, the dubbing of foreign films in China, the subtitling of Chinese dialect films, the subtitling of independent Chinese documentaries, and a vivid personal account of the translation and distribution of Chinese cinemas in France, this book aims to generate international dialogue by presenting diverse approaches to the translation and dissemination of Chinese cinemas. This book builds on previous research and further expands the horizons of the subfield, with the hope that this intervention will suggest new possibilities and territories for the study of the translation of Chinese cinemas. Translated foreign films have become an integral part of Chinese cinemas and translated Chinese films have in turn enriched the concept of world cinema. In many ways, it is a timely publication in the context of the globalization of the film industry - as Chinese films increasingly go global. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Chinese Cinemas.

Author : Sibylle Baumbach
Publisher : Springer
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781137538017

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Literature and Fascination by Sibylle Baumbach Pdf

Exploring literary fascination as a key concept of aesthetic attraction, this book illuminates the ways in which literary texts are designed, presented, and received. Detailed case studies include texts by William Shakespeare, S.T. Coleridge, Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde, Joseph Conrad, Don DeLillo, and Ian McEwan.

Author : Richard J. Brook
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-13
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781000103182

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The Fascination of Statistics by Richard J. Brook Pdf

This book demonstrates how numbers open up new ways of thinking about problems and addresses current issues for which statistics has practical applications. The articles are classified according to probability, condensing data, testing, estimation, experimental design, prediction, and modelling.

Author : Alejandro Miranda Nieto,Aurora Massa,Sara Bonfanti
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000185461

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Ethnographies of Home and Mobility by Alejandro Miranda Nieto,Aurora Massa,Sara Bonfanti Pdf

This book lays out a framework for understanding connections between home and mobility, and situates this within a multidisciplinary field of social research. The authors show how the idea of home offers a privileged entry point into forced migration, diversity and inequality. Using original fieldwork, they adopt an encompassing lens on labour, family and refugee flows, with cases of migrants from Latin America, Africa and the Indian subcontinent. With the book structured around these key topics, the authors look at how practices of home and mobility emerge along with emotions and manifold social processes. In doing so, their scope shifts from the household to streets, neighbourhoods, cities and even nations. Yet, the meaning of 'home' as a lived experience goes beyond place; the authors analyse literature on migration and mobility to reveal how the past and future are equally projected into imaginings of home.

Author : Chris Finocchiaro
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008-05-22
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781467834216

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Fascination Alleyway by Chris Finocchiaro Pdf

Fascination Alleyway is a work that was written in the 20th century for 21st century thinkers. This book of poetry revolves around music. Thoughts from the radical 60's, the unsettled 70's, and the apathetic 80's and 90's populate this collection of words. This book of my own thoughts, some call poetry, is an attempt to reach eyes and minds with a new age understanding of our world at large. Tune in and turn on to KROCK in Syracuse, NY. Listen to The Sound And The Fury, with Jrrbll on Sunday morning from 12:00 AM to 6:00 AM. The Sound And The Fury is the longest running hard rock program to date. Jrrbll reads a passage from Fascination Alleyway every Sunday Morning. KROCK is streaming online for your listening pleasure.

Author : Ramzy Alwakeel
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781910924235

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Smile If You Dare by Ramzy Alwakeel Pdf

A creative analysis of the The Pet Shop Boys’ fifth album “Very,” Smile If You Dare examines topics as diverse as technological paradise, sexual paranoia and representations of class in British pop music. As well as a keen critical edge, itis equipped with an undisguised mad love for the source material, a sense of passionate abandon induced by the tragic/ecstatic synth-pop that pours out of the speakers.

Author : Sibylle Baumbach,Lena Henningsen,Klaus Oschema
Publisher : Springer
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319664385

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The Fascination with Unknown Time by Sibylle Baumbach,Lena Henningsen,Klaus Oschema Pdf

This volume explores 'unknown time' as a cultural phenomenon, approaching past futures, unknown presents, and future pasts through a broad range of different disciplines, media, and contexts. As a phenomenon that is both elusive and fundamentally inaccessible, time is a key object of fascination. Throughout the ages, different cultures have been deeply engaged in various attempts to fill or make time by developing strategies to familiarize unknown time and to materialize and control past, present, or future time. Arguing for the perennial interest in time, especially in the unknown and unattainable dimension of the future, the contributions explore premodern ideas about eschatology and secular future, historical configurations of the perception of time and acceleration in fin-de-siècle Germany and contemporary Lagos, the formation of ‘deep time’ and ‘timelessness’ in paleontology and ethnographic museums, and the representation of time—past, present, and future alike—in music, film, and science fiction.

Author : Wolf-Dietrich Sahr
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317166122

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Cities and Fascination by Wolf-Dietrich Sahr Pdf

Bringing together leading urban scholars, this book discusses the linkages between the economic, social and psychological factors of the urban environment. It focuses on the growth of private urbanity that has led to a 'spectactularization' of the city, the most extreme component of attention being the fascination which is aroused by attractions and state-managed events. The complex characteristics of this fascination are examined under the dimensions of aesthetics, emotions, lived experiences and power structures and governance. The interdisciplinary nature of this collection has wide international appeal and will be of interest to academics of social and cultural geography and cultural and media studies.

Author : Michael David-Fox,Peter Holquist,Alexander M. Martin
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822978107

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Fascination and Enmity by Michael David-Fox,Peter Holquist,Alexander M. Martin Pdf

"Russia and Germany have had a long history of significant cultural, political, and economic exchange. Despite these beneficial interactions, stereotypes of the alien Other persisted. Germans perceived Russia as a vast frontier with unlimited potential, yet infused with an "Asianness" that explained its backwardness and despotic leadership. Russians admired German advances in science, government, and philosophy, but saw their people as lifeless and obsessed with order. Fascination and Enmity presents an original transnational history of the two nations during the critical era of the world wars. By examining the mutual perceptions and misperceptions within each country, the contributors reveal the psyche of the Russian-German dynamic and its use as a powerful political and cultural tool. Through accounts of fellow travelers, POWs, war correspondents, soldiers on the front, propagandists, revolutionaries, the Comintern, and wartime and postwar occupations, the contributors analyze the kinetics of the Russian-German exchange and the perceptions drawn from these encounters. The result is a highly engaging chronicle of the complex entanglements of two world powers through the great wars of the twentieth century."--Project Muse.

Author : Henry Bacon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137476449

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The Fascination of Film Violence by Henry Bacon Pdf

The Fascination of Film Violence is a study of why fictional violence is such an integral part of fiction film. How can something dreadful be a source of art and entertainment? Explanations are sought from the way social and cultural norms and practices have shaped biologically conditioned violence related traits in human behavior.

Author : Harris, Oliver
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Beats (Persons) in literature
ISBN : 0809388227

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William Burroughs and the Secret of Fascination by Harris, Oliver Pdf