The Contest Of Meaning

Author : Richard Bolton
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1992-02-25
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0262521695

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The Contest of Meaning by Richard Bolton Pdf

Photography's great success gives the impression that the major questions that have haunted the medium are now resolved. On the contrary, the most important questions about photography are just beginning to be asked. These fourteen essays, with over 200 illustrations, critically examine prevailing beliefs about the medium and suggest new ways to explain the history of photography. They are organized around the questions: What are the social consequences of aesthetic practice? How does photography construct sexual difference? How is photography used to promote class and national interests? What are the politics of photographic truth? The Contest of Meaning summarizes the challenges to traditional photographic history that have developed in the last decade out of a consciously political critique of photographic production. Contributions by a wide range of important Americans critics reexamine the complex—and often contradictory—roles of photography within society. Douglas Crimp, Christopher Phillips, Benjamin Buchloh, and Abigail Solomon Godeau examine the gradually developed exclusivity of art photography and describe the politics of canon formation throughout modernism. Catherine Lord, Deborah Bright, Sally Stein, and Jan Zita Grover examine the ways in which the female is configured as a subject, and explain how sexual difference is constructed across various registers of photographic representation. Carol Squiers, Esther Parada, and Richard Bolton clarify the ways in which photography serves as a form of mass communication, demonstrating in particular how photographic production is affected by the interests of the powerful patrons of communications. The three concluding essays, by Rosalind Krauss, Martha Rosler, and Allan Sekula, critically examine the concept of photographic truth by exploring the intentions informing various uses of "objective" images within society.

Author : Richard Bolton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1114518671

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The Contest of Meaning : Critical Histories of Photography by Richard Bolton Pdf

Author : Ning Liu,Derek Irwin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789811036866

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Genre Changes and Privileged Pedagogic Identity in Teaching Contest Discourse by Ning Liu,Derek Irwin Pdf

This book analyzes how the English as a Second Language (ESL) pedagogic genre has been re-contextualized in the Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press National College English Teaching Contest (SFLEP) for presentation to the contest judges and audience. Departing from prior research on contest discourse, it focuses on the role of teaching contests in re-contextualizing educational practices. Moreover, it addresses the processes of genre blurring and solidification at work in new discourse events. The results presented here serve to frame teaching contest discourse in a fuller contextual configuration and will help contest sponsors, participants, and audience members better understand this popular social event and its relations to real-world teaching practices, while simultaneously helping teachers to understand the relevance of such contest practice. Moreover, the research methods will benefit those linguists who are interested in researching other types of event discourses.

Author : Adam Dubin,Dean Vuletic,Antonio Obregón
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000614978

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The Eurovision Song Contest as a Cultural Phenomenon by Adam Dubin,Dean Vuletic,Antonio Obregón Pdf

Drawing from the wealth of academic literature about the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) written over the last two decades, this book consolidates and recognizes the ESC's relevance in academia by analysing its contribution to different fields of study. The book brings together leading ESC scholars from across disciplines and from across the globe to reflect on the intersection between their academic fields of study and the ESC by answering the question: what has the ESC contributed to academia? The book also draws from fields rarely associated with the ESC, such as Law, Business and Research Methodologies, to demonstrate the contest's broad utility in research, pedagogy and in practice. Given its interdisciplinary approach, this volume will be of interest to scholars and students working in cultural, media, and music studies, as well as those interested in the intersections between these areas and politics, law, education, pedagogy, and history.

Author : Richard Wilson,Richard Dutton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781315504438

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New Historicism and Renaissance Drama by Richard Wilson,Richard Dutton Pdf

New Historicism has been one of the major developments in literary theory over the last decade, both in the USA and Europe. In this book, Wilson and Dutton examine the theories behind New Historicism and its celebrated impact in practice on Renaissance Drama, providing an important collection both for students of the genre and of literary theory.

Author : Warren P. Fraleigh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Sports
ISBN : UCAL:$B718977

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Right Actions in Sport by Warren P. Fraleigh Pdf

Author : Peter Roady
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Business and politics
ISBN : 9780674291256

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The Contest Over National Security by Peter Roady Pdf

"In The Contest over National Security Peter Roady shows how Franklin Roosevelt made the Democrats into the party of national security-and how the coalition between business leaders and social conservatives that made modern conservatism possible was cemented during the national security debates in the 1930s and 1940s, reshaping American politics for decades to come."--

Author : Homer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCSC:32106008448836

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Homer's Odyssey by Homer Pdf

Author : Li Yuming,Li Wei
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781614513650

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The Language Situation in China by Li Yuming,Li Wei Pdf

China, with the world's largest population, numerous ethnic groups and vast geographical space, is also rich in languages. Since 2006, China's State Language Commission has been publishing annual reports on what is called "language life" in China. These reports cover language policy and planning invitatives at the national, provincial and local levels, new trends in language use in a variety of social domains, and major events concerning languages in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. Now for the first time, these reports are available in English for anyone interested in Chinese language and linguistics, China's language, education and social policies, as well as everyday language use among the ordinary people in China. The invaluable data contained in these reports provide an essential reference to researchers, professionals, policy makers, and China watchers.

Author : Marta B. Calás,Linda Smircich
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780429776687

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Postmodern Management Theory by Marta B. Calás,Linda Smircich Pdf

First published in 1997, this volume asks: when was ‘The Postmodern’ in the History of Management Thought? Marta B. Calás and Linda Smircich have chosen this subtitle as entry point to the collection for several reasons. The first, and most evident, is that it prompts us to reflect on the inclusion of a volume on postmodern organization studies within a series of books on the history of management thought. What does such inclusion signal? Are we saying that we are past the postmodern in organization studies? That we have transcended modernity and, beyond, postmodernity? Similar to other social sciences, organization and management studies in the Anglo-American and European academy became impressed by the styles of ‘postmodernism’ and their epistemological companions, ‘poststructuralisms’, during the 1980s. For this collection we have selected twenty two journal articles, published between 1985 and 1996, that we consider emblematic of postmodern endeavours in management thought, as they further our understanding of how ‘truth’ (of any paradigmatic persuasion), is fashioned through particular discourses and other signifying practices. Taken together, these articles address the following questions: What has the field accomplished through attempts at being postmodern? With what consequences? And, where does the field stand now, if it is still/already (going) after ‘the postmodern’? In our view ‘the postmodern’ cannot transcend modern management thought; it is, rather, part of it. Nevertheless, the mere appearance of efforts towards making the field ‘postmodern’ makes it important to account for them in the history of the field. Such is the narrative that we are trying to portray in this volume.

Author : Kendall A. Taylor
Publisher : Springer
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319989501

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Neoliberal Education and the Redefinition of Democratic Practice in Chicago by Kendall A. Taylor Pdf

The book uses Chicago as a case study to examine the cultural politics surrounding neoliberal education policy in general and the concomitant alterations to democratic practice in particular. After juxtaposing the numerous failures of neoliberal education policy and the language of democratic norms used by those who continually double-down on these same policies, it examines four distinct but related policy arenas. Each chapter begins with a vignette of a particular example of the neoliberal education policy in action. Taken together, Taylor illuminates the anti-democratic nature of neoliberal education policy and the toll it takes on democratic practice in urban space. The book concludes with a discussion of what resistance might look like in spaces which co-opt democratic concepts for anti-democratic ends.

Author : Edgar Liao,Cheng Tju Lim,Guo Quan Seng
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9789089644091

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The University Socialist Club and the Contest for Malaya by Edgar Liao,Cheng Tju Lim,Guo Quan Seng Pdf

"The book, using a small group of left-wing student activists as a prism, explores the complex politics that underpinned the making of nation-states in Singapore and Malaysia after World War Two. While most works have viewed the period in terms of political contestation groups, the book demonstrates how it is better understood as involving a shared modernist project framed by British-planned decolonization. This pursuit of nationalist modernity was characterized by an optimism to replace the colonial system with a new state and mobilize the people into a new relationship with the state, according them new responsibilities as well as new rights. This book, based on student writings, official documents and oral history interviews, brings to life various modernist strands - liberal-democratic, ethnic-communal, and Fabian and Marxist socialist - seeking to determine the form of post-colonial Malaya. It uncovers a hitherto little-seen world where the meanings of loud slogans were fluid, vague and deeply contested. This world also comprised as much convergence between the groups as conflict, including collaboration between the Socialist Club and other political and student groups which were once its rivals, while its main ally eventually became its nemesis"--Publisher's description.

Author : Geoffrey Batchen
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1999-03-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0262522594

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Burning with Desire by Geoffrey Batchen Pdf

In an 1828 letter to his partner, Nicéphore Niépce, Louis Daguerre wrote, "I am burning with desire to see your experiments from nature." In this book, Geoffrey Batchen analyzes the desire to photograph as it emerged within the philosophical and scientific milieus that preceded the actual invention of photography. Recent accounts of photography's identity tend to divide between the postmodern view that all identity is determined by context and a formalist effort to define the fundamental characteristics of photography as a medium. Batchen critiques both approaches by way of a detailed discussion of photography's conception in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He examines the output of the various nominees for "first photographer," then incorporates this information into a mode of historical criticism informed by the work of Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida. The result is a way of thinking about photography that persuasively accords with the medium's undeniable conceptual, political, and historical complexity.

Author : Andrew Moskowitz,Martin J. Dorahy,Ingo Schäfer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-13
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781118586020

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Psychosis, Trauma and Dissociation by Andrew Moskowitz,Martin J. Dorahy,Ingo Schäfer Pdf

An invaluable sourcebook on the complex relationship between psychosis, trauma, and dissociation, thoroughly revised and updated This revised and updated second edition of Psychosis, Trauma and Dissociation offers an important resource that takes a wide-ranging and in-depth look at the multifaceted relationship between trauma, dissociation and psychosis. The editors – leaders in their field – have drawn together more than fifty noted experts from around the world, to canvas the relevant literature from historical, conceptual, empirical and clinical perspectives. The result documents the impressive gains made over the past ten years in understanding multiple aspects of the interface between trauma, dissociation and psychosis. The historical/conceptual section clarifies the meaning of the terms dissociation, trauma and psychosis, proposes dissociation as central to the historical concepts of schizophrenia and borderline personality disorder, and considers unique development perspectives on delusions and the onset of schizophrenia. The empirical section of the text compares and contrasts psychotic and dissociative disorders from a wide range of perspectives, including phenomenology, childhood trauma, and memory and cognitive disturbances, whilst the clinical section focuses on the assessment, differential diagnosis and treatment of these disorders, along with proposals for new and novel hybrid disorders. This important resource: • Offers extensive updated coverage of the field, from all relevant perspectives • Brings together in one text contributions from scholars and clinicians working in diverse geographical and theoretical areas • Helps define and bring cohesion to this new and important field • Features nine new chapters on: conceptions of trauma, dissociation and psychosis, PTSD with psychotic features, delusions and memory, trauma treatment of psychotic symptoms, and differences between the diagnostic groups on hypnotizability, memory disturbances, brain imaging, auditory verbal hallucinations and psychological testing Written for clinicians, researchers and academics in the areas of trauma, child abuse, dissociation and psychosis, but relevant for psychiatrists, psychologists and psychotherapists working in any area, the revised second edition of Psychosis, Trauma and Dissociation makes an invaluable contribution to this important evolving field.

Author : Simon Barclay
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781326687212

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The Complete & Independent Guide to the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 by Simon Barclay Pdf

Jamala won the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest for Ukraine with her emotional performance of "1944", in a thrilling final in Stockholm. Australia were runners-up in only their second Contest and would have won if the traditional points system had still been used. The 2016 Edition of the Complete & Independent Guide is the 9th edition of this book and as usual it's packed with details of every Contest since 1956 along with plenty of new analysis, over 313 pages, 30 more than last year. The new points system was a big change this year and its effects are covered in detail in the book, with plenty of analysis of how the statistics under the new system compare to the previous one. The book looks at the national qualification competitions for 2016 and also has an in-depth section on the entire voting history of each country, along with new sections on geographical voting and how to predict winners.