Possessed Voices

Author : Ruthie Abeliovich
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781438474458

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Possessed Voices by Ruthie Abeliovich Pdf

Analyzes audio recordings of interwar Hebrew plays, providing a new model for the use of sound in theater studies. Possessed Voices tells the intriguing story of a largely unknown collection of audio recordings, which preserve performances of modernist interwar Hebrew plays. Ruthie Abeliovich focuses on four recordings: a 1931 recording of The Eternal Jew (1919/1923), a 1965 recording of The Dybbuk (1922), a 1961 radio play of The Golem (1925), and a 1952 radio play of Yaakov and Rachel (1928). Abeliovich traces the spoken language of modernist Hebrew theater as grounded in multiple modalities of expressive practices, including spoken Hebrew, Jewish liturgical sensibilities supplemented by Yiddish intonation and other vernacular accents, and in relation to prevalent theatrical forms. The book shows how these recorded performances provided Jewish immigrants from Europe with a venue for lamenting the decline of their home communities and for connecting their memories to the present. Analyzing sonic material against the backdrop of its artistic, cultural, and ideological contexts, Abeliovich develops a critical framework for the study of sound as a discipline in its own right in theater scholarship. Ruthie Abeliovich is Lecturer in the Theatre Department at Haifa University, Israel.

Author : Christopher J. Olson,CarrieLynn D. Reinhard
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781498519090

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Possessed Women, Haunted States by Christopher J. Olson,CarrieLynn D. Reinhard Pdf

Since the release of The Exorcist in 1973, there has been a surge of movies depicting young women becoming possessed by a demonic force that only male religious figures can exorcise, thereby saving the women from eventual damnation. This book considers this history of exorcism cinema by analyzing how the traditional exorcism narrative, established in The Exorcist, recurs across the exorcism subgenre to represent the effects of demonic possession and ritual exorcism. This traditional exorcism narrative often functions as the central plot of the exorcism film, with only the rare film deviating from this structure. The analysis presented in this book considers how exorcism films reflect, reinforce or challenge this traditional exorcism narrative. Using various cultural and critical theories, this book examines how representations of possession and exorcism reflect, reinforce or challenge prevailing social, cultural, and historical views of women, minorities, and homosexuals. In particular, exorcism films appear to explore tensions or fears regarding empowered and sexually active women, and frequently reinforce the belief that such individuals need to be subjugated and disempowered so that they no longer pose a threat to those around them. Even more recent films, produced after the emergence of third wave feminism, typically reflect this concern about women. Very rarely do exorcism films present empowered women and feminine sexuality as non-threatening. In examining this subgenre of horror films, this book looks at films that have not received much critical scrutiny regarding the messages they contain and how they relate to and comment upon the historical periods in which they were produced and initially received. Given the results of this analysis, this book concludes on the necessity to examine how possession and exorcism are portrayed in popular culture.

Author : Emma Cohen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007-08-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780190295820

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The Mind Possessed by Emma Cohen Pdf

The cognitive science of religion has made a persuasive case for the view that a number of different psychological systems are involved in the construction and transmission of notions of extranatural agency such as deities and spirits. Until now this work has been based largely on findings in experimental psychology, illustrated mainly with hypothetical or anecdotal examples. In The Mind Possessed, Emma Cohen considers how the psychological systems undergirding spirit concepts are activated in real-world settings. Spirit possession practices have long had a magnetizing effect on academic researchers but there have been few, if any, satisfactory theoretical treatments of spirit possession that attempt to account for its emergence and spread globally. Drawing on ethnographic data collected during eighteen months of fieldwork in Belém, northern Brazil, Cohen combines fine-grained descriptions and analyses of mediumistic activities in an Afro-Brazilian cult house with a scientifically-grounded explanation for the emergence and spread of ideas about spirits, possession and healing. Cohen shows why spirit possession and its associated activities are inherently attention-grabbing. Making a radical departure from traditional anthropological, medicalist and sociological analyses, she argues that a cognitive approach offers more precise and testable hypotheses concerning the spread and appeal of spirit concepts and possession activities. This timely book presents new lines of enquiry for the cognitive science of religion (a rapidly growing field of interdisciplinary scholarship) and challenges the theoretical frameworks within which spirit possession practices have traditionally been understood.

Author : Kristin C. Bloomer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190615093

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Possessed by the Virgin by Kristin C. Bloomer Pdf

'Possessed By The Virgin' is an ethnographic account of three Roman Catholic women in Tamil Nadu, South India who claim to be possessed by Mary, the mother of Jesus. The author follows the lives of these women over many years, investigating questions about gender, social power, agency, and authenticity.

Author : Philip J. Crowley,Kenneth C. Wylie
Publisher : Sunstone Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781611392173

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Possessed by Philip J. Crowley,Kenneth C. Wylie Pdf

What had she done? Alone, scared, sitting in the holding cell of the Kalkaska County Sheriff’s Department, Iris Harris never imagined she would be trapped in a battering relationship. Her life was not without struggles but by her forties she was content and fulfilled, teaching inner city children in the City of Detroit. A chance encounter, in a small mid-Michigan town, with an older outwardly pleasant and charming real estate agent, plunged her into a nightmare of emotional, physical and sexual abuse. She became his possession. It was the seventies. The legal system was impotent to render assistance. Society was incapable of understanding the dynamics of domestic violence and unwilling to intervene. To her friends and neighbors she was the one at fault. Iris was ensnared in a vicious cycle of abuse. Her only wish—to be free. Her only hope—to be found not guilty.

Author : Alton Gansky
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0310219442

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A Ship Possessed by Alton Gansky Pdf

J. D. Stanton investigates the mysterious appearance of a sunken submarine that has returned fifty years after it was presumed lost in the Atlantic.

Author : Frederick M. Smith
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 732 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2006-12-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780231510653

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The Self Possessed by Frederick M. Smith Pdf

The Self Possessed is a multifaceted, diachronic study reconsidering the very nature of religion in South Asia, the culmination of years of intensive research. Frederick M. Smith proposes that positive oracular or ecstatic possession is the most common form of spiritual expression in India, and that it has been linguistically distinguished from negative, disease-producing possession for thousands of years. In South Asia possession has always been broader and more diverse than in the West, where it has been almost entirely characterized as "demonic." At best, spirit possession has been regarded as a medically treatable psychological ailment and at worst, as a condition that requires exorcism or punishment. In South (and East) Asia, ecstatic or oracular possession has been widely practiced throughout history, occupying a position of respect in early and recent Hinduism and in certain forms of Buddhism. Smith analyzes Indic literature from all ages-the earliest Vedic texts; the Mahabharata; Buddhist, Jain, Yogic, Ayurvedic, and Tantric texts; Hindu devotional literature; Sanskrit drama and narrative literature; and more than a hundred ethnographies. He identifies several forms of possession, including festival, initiatory, oracular, and devotional, and demonstrates their multivocality within a wide range of sects and religious identities. Possession is common among both men and women and is practiced by members of all social and caste strata. Smith theorizes on notions of embodiment, disembodiment, selfhood, personal identity, and other key issues through the prism of possession, redefining the relationship between Sanskritic and vernacular culture and between elite and popular religion. Smith's study is also comparative, introducing considerable material from Tibet, classical China, modern America, and elsewhere. Brilliant and persuasive, The Self Possessed provides careful new translations of rare material and is the most comprehensive study in any language on this subject.

Author : Karen Fjelstad,Nguyen Thi Hien
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781501719141

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Possessed by the Spirits by Karen Fjelstad,Nguyen Thi Hien Pdf

The essays in this volume examine the resurgence of the Mother Goddess religion among contemporary Vietnamese following the economic "Renovation" period in Vietnam. Anthropologists explore the forces that compel individuals to become mediums and the social repercussions of their decisions and interactions.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006678739

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Dwight's Journal of Music by Anonim Pdf

Author : George Grove
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Music
ISBN : UCI:31970007660589

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A Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove Pdf

Author : Sir George Grove,John Alexander Fuller-Maitland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 786 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Music
ISBN : UCSD:31822025917741

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Dictionary of Music and Musicians by Sir George Grove,John Alexander Fuller-Maitland Pdf

Author : Thomas B. Allen
Publisher : BookCountry
Page : 1 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781463003678

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Possessed by Thomas B. Allen Pdf

"The Exorcist", a 1973 movie about a twelve-year-old girl possessed by the Devil, frightened people more than any horror film ever did. Many moviegoers sought therapy to rid themselves of fears they could not explain. Psychiatrists coined the term "cinematic neurosis" for patients who left the movie feeling a terrifying presence of demons. At the Washington premiere, a young woman stood outside the theater, trembling. "I come out here in the sunlight," she said, "and I see people's eyes, and they frighten me." Among the few moviegoers unmoved by the horror were two priests, Father William S. Bowdern and Father Walter Halloran, members of the Jesuit community at St. Louis University. "Billy came out shaking his head about the little girl bouncing on the bed and urinating on the crucifix," Halloran remembers. "He was kind of angry. 'There is a good message that can be given by this thing,' he said. The message was the fact that evil spirits operate in our world." Bowdern and Halloran knew that the movie was fictional veneer masking a terrible reality. Night after night in March and April 1949, Bowdern had been an exorcist, with Halloran assisting. Bowdern fervently believed that he had driven a demon from a tormented soul. The victim had been a thirteen-year-old boy strangely lured to St. Louis from a Maryland suburb of Washington. Bowdern's exorcism had been the inspiration for the movie. The true story of this possession, told in Possessed, is based on a diary kept by a Jesuit priest assisting Father Bowdern. The diary, the most complete account of an exorcism since the Middle Ages, is published for the first time in this revised edition of Possessed.

Author : Tony McCaffrey
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000863543

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Giving and Taking Voice in Learning Disabled Theatre by Tony McCaffrey Pdf

Giving and Taking Voice in Learning Disabled Theatre offers unique insight into the question of ‘voice’ in learning disabled theatre and what is gained and lost in making performance. It is grounded in the author's 18 years of making theatre with Different Light Theatre company in Christchurch, New Zealand, and includes contributions from the artists themselves. This book draws on an extensive archive of performer interviews, recordings of rehearsal processes, and informal logs of travelling together and sharing experience. These accounts engage with the practical aesthetics of theatre-making as well as their much wider ethical and political implications, relevant to any collaborative process seeking to represent the under- or un-represented. Giving and Taking Voice in Learning Disabled Theatre asks how care and support can be tempered with artistic challenge and rigour and presents a case for how listening learning disabled artists to speech encourages attunement to indigenous knowledge and the cries of the planet in the current socio-ecological crisis. This is a vital and valuable book for anyone interested in learning disabled theatre, either as a performer, director, dramaturg, critic, or spectator.

Author : Cleveland Moffett
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788027246168

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POSSESSED by Cleveland Moffett Pdf

This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Penelope Wells is a beautiful 29 years old woman who is married to a drunken brute. There is a prophecy that the country will be plunged in a great war (WW1) and curiously enough Penelope's fate is horribly tied to what is about to happen. The only time she finds love in a man is not propitious but evil because there is a deadly strain of plague that has something to do with either of the two. According to the author, the novel is largely based on truth and developed from Penelope's diary and other eye-witnesses' accounts. The episode that is explained by waves of terror passing from one apartment to another and separately affecting three unsuspecting persons is not imaginary, but drawn from an almost identical happening that he, himself, witnessed in Paris, France. Read on!

Author : Great Britain. Committee on Education
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 886 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Education
ISBN : MINN:31951D00030119C

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Report of the Committee of Council on Education by Great Britain. Committee on Education Pdf