The Transatlantic Gaze

Author : Mary Ann McDonald Carolan
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781438450254

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The Transatlantic Gaze by Mary Ann McDonald Carolan Pdf

Tracks the influence of Italian cinema on American film from the postwar period to the present. In The Transatlantic Gaze, Mary Ann McDonald Carolan documents the sustained and profound artistic impact of Italian directors, actors, and screenwriters on American film. Working across a variety of genres, including neorealism, comedy, the Western, and the art film, Carolan explores how and why American directors from Woody Allen to Quentin Tarantino have adapted certain Italian trademark techniques and motifs. Allen’s To Rome with Love (2012), for example, is an homage to the genius of Italian filmmakers, and to Federico Fellini in particular, whose Lo sceicco bianco/The White Sheik (1952) also resonates with Allen’s The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) as well as with Neil LaBute’s Nurse Betty (2000). Tarantino’s Kill Bill saga (2003, 2004) plays off elements of Sergio Leone’s spaghetti Western C’era una volta il West/Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), a transatlantic conversation about the Western that continues in Tarantino’s Oscar-winning Django Unchained (2012). Lee Daniels’s Precious (2009) and Spike Lee’s Miracle at St. Anna (2008), meanwhile, demonstrate that the neorealism of Roberto Rossellini and Vittorio De Sica, which arose from the political and economic exigencies of postwar Italy, is an effective vehicle for critiquing social issues such as poverty and racism in a contemporary American context. The book concludes with an examination of American remakes of popular Italian films, a comparison that offers insight into the similarities and differences between the two cultures and the transformations in genre, both subtle and obvious, that underlie this form of cross-cultural exchange.

Author : Heidi Slettedahl Macpherson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11-03
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9780748630486

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Transatlantic Women's Literature by Heidi Slettedahl Macpherson Pdf

A sustained analysis of Transatlantic womens literature of the twentieth century focusing on narratives of travel and adventure with an expansion of the Transatlantic concept beyond the familiar US-UK axis to encompass Canada South America the Caribbean and Eastern Europe.

Author : Heather Graham,Lauren G. Kilroy-Ewbank
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004464681

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Emotions, Art, and Christianity in the Transatlantic World, 1450–1800 by Heather Graham,Lauren G. Kilroy-Ewbank Pdf

A study into the role of visual and material culture in shaping early modern emotional experiences, c. 1450–1800

Author : Steve Craig
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1992-02-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781452246116

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Men, Masculinity and the Media by Steve Craig Pdf

Although studies of men and masculinity have gained momentum, little has been published that focuses on the media and their relationship to men as men. Men, Masculinity and the Media addresses this shortcoming. Scholars from across the social sciences investigate past media research on men and masculinity. They also examine how the media serve to construct masculinities, how men and their relationships have been depicted and how men respond to media images. From comic books and rock music to film and television, this groundbreaking volume scrutinizes the interrelationship among men, the media and masculinity.

Author : Juan Francisco de Dios,Fernando Arrabal
Publisher : Carnegie Mellon University Pre
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0887486630

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Leonardo Balada by Juan Francisco de Dios,Fernando Arrabal Pdf

Leonardo Balada: A Transatlantic Gaze tells the story of how composer Leonardo Balada journeyed from a childhood and youth overshadowed by the violence of the Spanish Civil War and its aftermath of "the years of hunger" to a new life as a budding composer in New York. Through meticulous historical research and hours of interviews conducted with Balada over six years, biographer Juan Francisco de Dios has produced a unique portrait of the making of an artist. His imaginative eye for detail recreates a sequence of fascinating episodes in social history. We meet adolescent Balada at school, the only boy in a class of girls, view his suffering as a military conscript in the mountains, witness behind-the-scenes conflicts and rivalries in the production of his opera in Barcelona, and get a glimpse of a more settled life when he became an educator of musicians-to-be at Carnegie Mellon University. Throughout, Francisco de Dios delivers riveting description of Balada's music and development as a composer. This biography is an essential contribution to the understanding of a musician who spans continents and the contemporary history and culture of Spain and the United States.

Author : Carol J. Oja
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2000-11-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 019536323X

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Making Music Modern by Carol J. Oja Pdf

New York City witnessed a dazzling burst of creativity in the 1920s. In this pathbreaking study, Carol J. Oja explores this artistic renaissance from the perspective of composers of classical and modern music, who along with writers, painters, and jazz musicians, were at the heart of early modernism in America. She also illustrates how the aesthetic attitudes and institutional structures from the 1920s left a deep imprint on the arts over the 20th century. Aaron Copland, George Gershwin, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Virgil Thomson, William Grant Still, Edgar Var?se, Henry Cowell, Leo Ornstein, Marion Bauer, George Antheil-these were the leaders of a talented new generation of American composers whose efforts made New York City the center of new music in the country. They founded composer societies--such as the International Composers' Guild, the League of Composers, the Pan American Association, and the Copland-Sessions Concerts--to promote the performance of their music, and they nimbly negotiated cultural boundaries, aiming for recognition in Western Europe as much as at home. They showed exceptional skill at marketing their work. Drawing on extensive archival material--including interviews, correspondence, popular periodicals, and little-known music manuscripts--Oja provides a new perspective on the period and a compelling collective portrait of the figures, puncturing many longstanding myths. American composers active in New York during the 1920s are explored in relation to the "Machine Age" and American Dada; the impact of spirituality on American dissonance; the crucial, behind-the-scenes role of women as patrons and promoters of modernist music; cross-currents between jazz and concert music; the critical reception of modernist music (especially in the writings of Carl Van Vechten and Paul Rosenfeld); and the international impulse behind neoclassicism. The book also examines the persistent biases of the time, particularly anti-Semitisim, gender stereotyping, and longstanding racial attitudes.

Author : Faculty Awards
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 1209 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000819489

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2015 U.S. Higher Education Faculty Awards, Vol. 1 by Faculty Awards Pdf

Created by professors for professors, the Faculty Awards compendium is the first and only university awards program in the United States based on faculty peer evaluations. The Faculty Awards series recognizes and rewards outstanding faculty members at colleges and universities across the United States. Voting was not open to students or the public at large.

Author : Ryan Calabretta-Sajder,Alan J. Gravano
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781793611550

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Italian Americans on Screen by Ryan Calabretta-Sajder,Alan J. Gravano Pdf

Italian Americans on Screen: Challenging the Past, Re-Theorizing the Future reconsiders Robert Casillo’s definition of Italian-American cinema as “appl[ying] to works by Italian-American directors who treat Italian-American subjects” to expand this classification. Contributors situate Italian-American cinema and media within the contemporary and intersectional debates about ethnic identity, including race, class, gender, and sexuality studies. This book links past scholarship to theoretical underpinnings with new hermeneutical approaches in television and film to establish new interpretations concerning Italian Americans on screen. Scholars of film studies, media studies, cultural studies, and sociology will find this book particularly useful.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1238 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433000470702

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Gaze's Tourists Gazette by Anonim Pdf

Author : Todd McGowan
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780791480366

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The Real Gaze by Todd McGowan Pdf

Winner of the 2008 Gradiva Award, Theoretical Category, presented by the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis The Real Gaze develops a new theory of the cinema by rethinking the concept of the gaze, which has long been central in film theory. Historically film scholars have located the gaze on the side of the spectator; however, Todd McGowan positions it within the filmic image, where it has the radical potential to disrupt the spectator's sense of identity and challenge the foundations of ideology. This book demonstrates several distinct cinematic forms that vary in terms of how the gaze functions within the films. Through a detailed investigation of directors such as Orson Welles, Claire Denis, Stanley Kubrick, Spike Lee, Federico Fellini, Ron Howard, Steven Spielberg, Andrei Tarkovsky, Wim Wenders, and David Lynch, McGowan explores the political, cultural, and existential ramifications of these differing roles of the gaze.

Author : Klaus Kamps
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783658339654

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Commander-in-Tweet by Klaus Kamps Pdf

Donald Trump is one of the most controversial politicians of our time. On the one hand, this refers to his policies, but on the other hand, it also refers to his political style: Trump himself explicitly sees himself as a Twitter president. But what exactly is that supposed to be? What role does Twitter play in "official" communication, for example, in relation to classic media? Communications expert Klaus Kamps addresses these questions in this popular science essay.

Author : Laura E Ruberto,Joseph Sciorra
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252099991

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New Italian Migrations to the United States by Laura E Ruberto,Joseph Sciorra Pdf

This second volume of New Italian Migrations to the United States explores the evolution of art and cultural expressions created by and about Italian immigrants and their descendants since 1945. The essays range from an Italian-language radio program that broadcast intimate messages from family members in Italy to the role of immigrant cookbook writers in crafting a fashionable Italian food culture. Other works look at how exoticized actresses like Sophia Loren and Pier Angeli helped shape a glamorous Italian style out of images of desperate postwar poverty; overlooked forms of brain drain; the connections between countries old and new in the works of Michigan self-taught artist Silvio Barile; and folk revival performer Alessandra Belloni's reinterpretation of tarantella dance and music for Italian American women. In the Afterword, Anthony Julian Tamburri discusses the nomenclature ascribed to Italian American creative writers living in Italy and the United States.

Author : Linda K Hughes
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748694471

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Teaching Transatlanticism by Linda K Hughes Pdf

The 18 chapters in this book outline conceptual approaches to the field and provide practical resources for teaching, ranging from ideas for individual class sessions to full syllabi and curricular frameworks.

Author : Derek B. Scott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781108484589

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German Operetta on Broadway and in the West End, 1900–1940 by Derek B. Scott Pdf

Uncovers a world of forgotten triumphs of musical theatre that shine a light on major social topics. This book is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004258068

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Theorising the Ibero-American Atlantic by Anonim Pdf

Theorising the Ibero-American Atlantic offers a fresh look at the Atlantic turn in Ibero-American Studies. Taking the criticisms launched at Atlantic Studies as a starting point, contributors query and explore the viability of the Ibero-American Atlantic as a framework of research. Their essays take stock of theories, methodologies, debates and trends in recent scholarship, and set down pathways for future research. As a result, the contributions in this volume establish the historical reality of the Ibero-American Atlantic as well as its tremendous value for scholarship. Contributors are Vanda Anastácio, Francisco Bethencourt, Harald E. Braun, David Brookshaw, Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Daniela Flesler, Andrew Ginger, Eliga Gould, David Graizbord, Thomas Harrington, Luis Martín-Cabrera, José C. Moya, Mauricio Nieto Olarte, Joan Ramon Resina, N. Michelle Shepherd, Lisa Vollendorf and Grady C. Wray.