Transmitting The Past

Author : J. Emmett Winn,Susan Lorene Brinson
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2005-03-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780817351755

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Transmitting the Past by J. Emmett Winn,Susan Lorene Brinson Pdf

The essays included in this collection represent some of the best cultural and historical research on broadcasting in the U. S. today. Each one concentrates on a particular event in broadcast history--beginning with Marconi's introduction of wireless technology in 1899. Michael Brown examines newspaper reporting in America of Marconi's belief in Martians, stories that effectively rendered Marconi inconsequential to the further development of radio. The widespread installation of radios in automobiles in the 1950s, Matthew Killmeier argues, paralleled the development of television and ubiquitous middle-class suburbia in America. Heather Hundley analyzes depictions of male and female promiscuity as presented in the sitcom Cheers at a time concurrent with media coverage of the AIDS crisis. Fritz Messere examines the Federal Radio Act of 1927 and the clash of competing ideas about what role radio should play in American life. Chad Dell recounts the high-brow programming strategy NBC adopted in 1945 to distinguish itself from other networks. And George Plasketes studies the critical reactions to Cop Rock, an ill-fated combination of police drama and musical, as an example of society's resistance to genre-mixing or departures from formulaic programming. J. Emmett Winn is Associate Professor of Communication and Journalism at Auburn University. Susan L. Brinson is Professor of Communication and Journalism at Auburn University and author of The Red Scare, Politics, and the Federal Communications Commission.

Author : Gregory Smits
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824865498

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Visions of Ryukyu by Gregory Smits Pdf

Between 1609 and 1879, the geographical, political, and ideological status of the Kingdom of Ryukyu (modern Okinawa) was characterized by its ambiguity. It was subordinate to its larger neighbors, China and Japan, yet an integral part of neither. A Japanese invasion force from Satsuma had conquered the kingdom in 1609, resulting in its partial incorporation into Tokugawa Japan’s bakuhan state. Given Ryukyu’s long-standing ties with China and East Asian foreign relations following the rise of the Qing dynasty, however, the bakufu maintained only an indirect link with Ryukyu from the mid-seventeenth century onward. Thus Ryukyu was able to exist as a quasi-independent kingdom for more than two centuries—albeit amidst a complex web of trade and diplomatic agreements involving the bakufu, Satsuma, Fujian, and Beijing. During this time, Ryukyu’s ambiguous position relative to China and Japan prompted its elites to fashion their own visions of Ryukyuan identity. Created in a dialogic relationship to both a Chinese and Japanese Other, these visions informed political programs intended to remake Ryukyu. In this innovative and provocative study, Gregory Smits explores early modern perceptions of Ryukyu and their effect on its political culture and institutions. He describes the major historical circumstances that informed early modern discourses of Ryukyuan identity and examines the strategies used by leading intellectual and political figures to fashion, promote, and implement their visions of Ryukyu. Early modern visions of Ryukyu were based on Confucianism, Buddhism, and other ideologies of the time. Eventually one vision prevailed, becoming the theoretical basis of the early modern state by the middle of the eighteenth century. Employing elements of Confucianism, the scholar and government official Sai On (1682–1761) argued that the kingdom’s destiny lay primarily with Ryukyuans themselves and that moral parity with Japan and China was within its grasp. Despite Satsuma’s control over its diplomatic and economic affairs, Sai envisioned Ryukyu as an ideal Confucian state with government and state rituals based on the Chinese model. In examining Sai’s thought and political program, this volume sheds new light on Confucian praxis and, conversely, uncovers one variety of an East Asian “prenational” imagined political/cultural community.

Author : Francis Dojun Cook
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780861717552

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The Record of Transmitting the Light by Francis Dojun Cook Pdf

The Record of Transmitting the Light traces the inheritance of the Buddha's enlightenment through successive Buddhist masters. Written by a seminal figure in the Japanese Zen tradition, its significance as an historical and religious document is unquestionable. And ultimately, The Record of Transmitting the Light serves as a testament to our own capacity to awaken to a life of freedom, wisdom, and compassion. Readers of Zen will also find the introduction and translation by Francis Dojun Cook, the scholar whose insights brought Zen Master Dogen to life in How to Raise an Ox, of great value.

Author : United States. Department of the Treasury
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 968 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Finance, Public
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006306596

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Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, Transmitting His Annual Report on the State of the Finances by United States. Department of the Treasury Pdf

Author : New Zealand. Parliament. House of Representatives
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 762 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CHI:096187418

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Journals [and Appendices] by New Zealand. Parliament. House of Representatives Pdf

Author : Prophecy Coles
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429908408

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The Uninvited Guest from the Unremembered Past by Prophecy Coles Pdf

This book describes different instances of trauma that may have occurred several generations ago. It explores the work of several psychoanalysts who have written on the negative effect that unknown or unremembered grandparents can have upon the life of their grandchildren.

Author : United States
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1124 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Budget
ISBN : UIUC:30112045318562

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Message of the President of the United States Transmitting the Budget for the Service of the Fiscal Year Ending ... by United States Pdf

Author : David Berliner
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781978815377

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Losing Culture by David Berliner Pdf

We’re losing our culture... our heritage... our traditions... everything is being swept away. Such sentiments get echoed around the world, from aging Trump supporters in West Virginia to young villagers in West Africa. But what is triggering this sense of cultural loss, and to what ends does this rhetoric get deployed? To answer these questions, anthropologist David Berliner travels around the world, from Guinea-Conakry, where globalization affects the traditional patriarchal structure of cultural transmission, to Laos, where foreign UNESCO experts have become self-appointed saviors of the nation’s cultural heritage. He also embarks on a voyage of critical self-exploration, reflecting on how anthropologists handle their own sense of cultural alienation while becoming deeply embedded in other cultures. This leads into a larger examination of how and why we experience exonostalgia, a longing for vanished cultural heydays we never directly experienced. Losing Culture provides a nuanced analysis of these phenomena, addressing why intergenerational cultural transmission is vital to humans, yet also considering how efforts to preserve disappearing cultures are sometimes misguided or even reactionary. Blending anthropological theory with vivid case studies, this book teaches us how to appreciate the multitudes of different ways we might understand loss, memory, transmission, and heritage.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433076006752

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Annual Report Transmitted by Anonim Pdf

Author : Yvette Granier-Barkun,Canadian Public Health Association
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Medical
ISBN : PSU:000045673399

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A New Generation by Yvette Granier-Barkun,Canadian Public Health Association Pdf

Author : Louis Bell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electric machinery
ISBN : NYPL:33433066428164

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Electric Power Transmission by Louis Bell Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004283503

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Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion by Anonim Pdf

Sociology rarely dealt with monasticism, this book offers main questions and topics of what a sociology of monasticism in modern society can be.

Author : Pam Cook
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134670994

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Screening the Past by Pam Cook Pdf

From Mildred Pierce and Brief Encounter to Raging Bull and In the Mood for Love, this lively and accessible collection explores film culture's obsession with the past, offering searching and provocative analyses of a wide range of titles. Screening the Past engages with current debates about the role of cinema in mediating history through memory and nostalgia, suggesting that many films use strategies of memory to produce diverse forms of knowledge which challenge established ideas of history, and the traditional role of historians. Classic essays sit side by side with new research, contextualized by introductions which bring them up to date, and provide suggestions for further reading as the work of contemporary directors such as Martin Scorsese, Kathryn Bigelow, Todd Haynes and Wong Kar-wai is used to examine the different ways they deploy creative processes of memory. Pam Cook also investigates the recent history of film studies, reviewing the developments that have culminated in the exciting, if daunting, present moment. The result is a rich and stimulating volume that will appeal to anyone with an interest in cinema, memory and identity.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556035060797

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Okanogan National Forest (N.F.), Wenatchee National Forest (N.F.), Methow Transmission Project by Anonim Pdf

Author : G. B. Koelle,W. W. Douglas,A. Carlsson
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-31
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781483185392

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Pharmacology of Cholinergic and Adrenergic Transmission by G. B. Koelle,W. W. Douglas,A. Carlsson Pdf

Section on Pharmacology of the International Union of Physiological Sciences (SEPHAR), Proceedings of the Second International Pharmacological Meeting, August 20-23, 1963, Volume 3: Pharmacology of Cholinergic and Adrenergic Transmission focuses on the effects of drugs on muscles, nerve fibers, and the central nervous system. The selection first offers information on the role of sodium ions in the release of acetylcholine and the distribution and release of acetylcholine in muscles. Discussions focus on the effects of sodium deficiency on ACh release in perfused ganglia; effects of sodium pump inhibitors on ganglionic and myoneural transmission; distribution of ACh and choline acetylase in muscle; and ACh release after denervation. The text then ponders on the roles of acetylcholine and acetylcholinesterase in junctional transmission and correlated studies of monoamines and acetylcholinesterase in sympathetic ganglia, manifesting the distribution of adrenergic and cholinergic neurons. The publication examines the action of acetylcholine and related drugs on mammalian nonmyelinated nerve fibers; possible mechanisms of acetylcholine action in muscles; and electrophysiological analysis of cholinergic transmission in sympathetic ganglia. The text then reviews the interactions of cholinomimetic and cholinergic blocking drugs at sympathetic ganglia; evolution of cholinoreceptive sites of locomotor muscle; and pharmacological blocking of central cholinoreactive systems and the possibilities of its therapeutic application. The selection is a dependable source of data for readers interested in the pharmacology of cholinergic and adrenergic transmission.