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Commodifying Violence in Literature and on Screen

Author : Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000450813
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Commodifying Violence in Literature and on Screen written by Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-10-18 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traverses the cultural landscape of Colombia through in-depth analyses of displacement, local and global cultures, human rights abuses, and literary and media production. Through an exploration of the cultural processes that perpetuate the "darker side" of Latin America for global consumption, it investigates the "condition" that has led writers, filmmakers, and artists to embrace (purposefully or not) the incessant violence in Colombian society as the object of their own creative endeavors. In this examination of mass-marketed cultural products such as narco-stories, captivity memoirs, gritty travel narratives, and films, Herrero-Olaizola seeks to offer a hemispheric approach to the role played by Colombia in cultural production across the continent where the illicit drug trade has made significant inroads. To this end, he identifies the "Colombian condition" within the parameters of the global economy while concentrating on the commodification of Latin America’s violence for cultural consumption. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Connecting Literature and Science

Author : Jay A. Labinger
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000472922
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Connecting Literature and Science written by Jay A. Labinger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-18 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a case for engagement between the sciences and the humanities. The author, a professional chemist, seeks to demonstrate that the connections between those fields of intellectual activity are far more significant than anything that separates them. The book combines a historical survey of the relationships between science and literature with a number of case studies that examine specific scientific episodes—several drawn from the author’s own research—juxtaposed with a variety of literary works spanning a wide range of period and genre—Dante to detective fiction, War and Peace to White Teeth—to elicit their common themes. The work argues for an empirical, non-theory-based approach, one that is closely analogous to connectionist models of brain development and function, and that can appeal to general readers, as well as to literary scholars and practicing scientists, who are open to the idea that literature and science should not be compartmentalized.

Figures of the Migrant

Author : Siobhan Brownlie
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000434109
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Figures of the Migrant written by Siobhan Brownlie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-12 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume seeks to investigate the representation of the migrant and migration in literary texts and the arts. Through studies that examine works in a range of art forms ‒ novels, theatre, poetry, creative non-fiction, documentary films and performance and video installations ‒ that evoke a variety of historical and (trans)national contexts, the volume focuses on the question of the roles of literature and the arts in representing migration. An important issue considered is the extent to which artistic figuration can act as a counterpoint to social discourse on migrants that often involves stereotypes and reductive views. The different contributions to the volume illustrate that literature and the arts can provide readers and viewers with a space for fluid knowledge production and affective expansion and that within that overarching function, artistic works play three main roles with regard to representing migration: undertaking a socio-political and cultural critique, presenting alternative views to stereotypes that highlight the singularity and complexity of the migrant and providing proposals for different futures.

Migrating Minds

Author : Didier Coste
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000488039
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Migrating Minds written by Didier Coste and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Awarded the 2023 "René Wellek Prize for the Best Edited Essay Collection" by the American Comparative Literature Association, Migrating Minds contributes to the prominent interdisciplinary domain of Cosmopolitan Studies with 20 innovative essays by humanities scholars from all over the world that re-examine theories and practices of cosmopolitanism from a variety of perspectives. The volume satisfies the need for a stronger involvement of Comparative and World Literatures and Cultures, Translation, and Education Theories in this crucial debate, and also proposes an experimental way to explore in depth the necessity of a cosmopolitan method as well as the riches of cosmopolitan representations. The essays follow a logical progression from the situated philosophical and political foundations of the debate to interdisciplinary propositions for a pedagogy of cosmopolitanism through studies of modern and contemporary cosmopolitan cultural practices in literature and the arts and the concurrent analysis of prototypes of cosmopolitan identities. This trajectory allows readers to appreciate new historical, theoretical, aesthetic, and practical implications of cosmopolitanism that pertain to multiple genres and media, under different modes of production and reception. In the deterritorialized landscape of Migrating Minds, mental and sentimental mobility, rather than the legacy of place, is the key to an efficient, humanist response to deadening globalization.

Contemporary Narratives of Ageing, Illness, Care

Author : Katsura Sako
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000536521
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Narratives of Ageing, Illness, Care written by Katsura Sako and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-24 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays explores cultural narratives of care in the contexts of ageing and illness. It includes both text-based and practice-based contributions by leading and emerging scholars in humanistic studies of ageing. The authors consider care not only in film (feature and documentary) and literature (novel, short story, children’s picturebook) but also in the fields of theatre performance, photography and music. The collection has a broad geographical scope, with case studies and primary texts from Europe and North America but also from Hong Kong, Japan, Australia, Argentina and Mexico. The volume asks what care, autonomy and dependence may mean and how these may be inflected by social and cultural specificities. Ultimately, it invites us to reflect on our relations to others as we face the global and local challenges of care in ageing societies.

Cultures of Currencies

Author : Joan Ramon Resina
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100054320X
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Cultures of Currencies written by Joan Ramon Resina and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-10 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book’s premise is not only the commonly accepted cultural relativity of economic concepts, but also the observation that the current shift in the meaning of concepts like “market,” “currency,” “exchange,” and “money” suggests that culture is undergoing a change with unpredictable economic and political consequences. The essays in the book raise basic questions concerning exchange – what is exchanged, who exchanges and how, which kind of currency is used, and indeed what is money and how does it convey and retain value over time. These issues are all classical objects of economic theory, but less often have they been approached from a cultural perspective. Works treating economic and monetary issues from a cultural perspective are few and far apart, and this book aims to contribute to such a perspective with a variety of approaches.

The Theological Dickens

Author : Brenda Ayres
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000469387
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Theological Dickens written by Brenda Ayres and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-18 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first collection to investigate Charles Dickens on his vast and various opinions about the uses and abuses of the tenets of Christian faith that imbue English Victorian culture. Although previous studies have looked at his well-known antipathies toward Dissenters, Evangelicals, Catholics, and Jews, they have also disagreed about Dickens’ thoughts on Unitarianism and speculated on doctrines of Protestantism that he endorsed or rejected. Besides addressing his depiction of these religious groups, the volume’s contributors locate gaps in scholarship and unresolved illations about poverty and charity, representations of children, graveyards, labor, scientific controversy, and other social issues through an investigation of Dickens’ theological concerns. In addition, given that Dickens’ texts continue to influence every generation around the globe, a timely inclusion in the collection is a consideration of the neo-Victorian multi-media representations of Dickens’ work and his ideas on theological questions pitched to a postmodern society.

Narratives of Scale in the Anthropocene

Author : Gabriele Dürbeck
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000432483
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Narratives of Scale in the Anthropocene written by Gabriele Dürbeck and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-26 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Anthropocene concept draws attention to the various forms of entanglement of social, political, ecological, biological and geological processes at multiple spatial and temporal scales. The ensuing complexity and ambiguity create manifold challenges to widely established theories, methodologies, epistemologies and ontologies. The contributions to this volume engage with conceptual issues of scale in the Anthropocene with a focus on mediated representation and narrative. They are centered around the themes of scale and time, scale and the nonhuman and scale and space. The volume presents an interdisciplinary dialogue between sociology, geography, political sciences, history and literary, cultural and media studies. Together, they contribute to current debates on the (re-)imagining of forms of human responsibility that meet the challenges created by humanity entering an age of scalar complexity. Chapter 3 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003136989

The Theory and Practice of Reception Study

Author : Philip Goldstein
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000567559
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Theory and Practice of Reception Study written by Philip Goldstein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-04-21 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines novels of Faulkner and Morrison as well as Mark Twain and Ralph Ellison in order to show that their works forcefully undermine the racial and sexual divisions characterizing both the South and contemporary culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Moreover, the book discusses theories of reader-response and reception study and elaborates a theory of reception study based on the historical or "archeological" methods of Michel Foucault. As a consequence, unlike most studies of American literature, which discuss its historical contexts or prescribe its readers’ responses, this book explains the reception of these works, including the academic criticism and reviews and, because the internet exerts immense influence in the twenty-first century, the on-line responses of ordinary readers. Unlike most reception studies, this book examines the institutional contexts of the readers’ responses.

Victimhood, Memory, and Consumerism

Author : Katja Franko
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019287411X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book Victimhood, Memory, and Consumerism written by Katja Franko and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-05 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inhabitants of Medellín, Colombia, suffered from the war-like violence perpetrated by drug cartels and other actors in the 1980s and 1990s; thousands died, including innocent civilians, judges, and journalists, many more were injured and left with psychological trauma. Three decades later, however, transnational audio-visual corporations such as Netflix have transformed the traumatic memories into entertainment and the main perpetrator, Pablo Escobar, was converted into a brand. While global audiences learn about Escobar's life and myth, his victims's stories fade into oblivion. Victimhood, Memory, and Consumerism: Profiting from Pablo documents the story of violence that took place in Medellín and critically examines the position of its victims. Drawing on unique empirical material, the book addresses the consequences of commercial exploitation of the city's violent past for victims of mass drug violence, and for the present nature of the city. To demonstrate the magnitude of the profits made from the legacy of Pablo Escobar, the authors cover a range of topics. Firstly, they describe how the immense popularity of narco-series has caused the city's suffering to be appropriated by commercial forces to entertain global audiences; secondly, they detail the Escobar tours, souvenirs, and artefacts offered by Medellín's tourist industry; and, finally, they expose the less visible profits made by political and social actors who engage in the global mythmaking surrounding Escobar. Through interviews with those directly affected by drug violence, the authors show that these cultural forces have immediate symbolic and material consequences. Victimhood, Memory, and Consumerism offers a telling critique of how the global market economy allots uneven narrative power to those engaged in processes of collective memory construction, with the broader aim of addressing an issue that has so far been neglected within criminology, international criminal justice, and victimology: the position of victims of large-scale drug violence. A thoroughly compelling read, this volume will appeal internationally to academics in criminology and victimology, as well as those interested in critical perspectives on Netflix, commercialism, and Colombian history.

Violence in Film and Television

Author : James D. Torr
Publisher : Greenhaven Press, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780737708653
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Violence in Film and Television written by James D. Torr and published by Greenhaven Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays discussing violence in movies and on television.

Screen Violence

Author : Karl French
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780747530930
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Screen Violence written by Karl French and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This film anthology contains authors and critics as diverse as John Waters, Camille Paglia, Martin Amis and Poppy Z. Brite. Topics covered include an investigation and celebration of screen violence, putting readers and viewers at the heart of the on-going wide-ranging debate on its nature and effects. Readers can find out why John Waters loves violence and why Camille Paglia loves corpses. Martin Amis writes about the new breed of natural-bred killers, and the latest instalment of the dispute between John Grisham and Oliver Stone is presented.

Class on Screen

Author : Sarah Attfield
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030459012
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Class on Screen written by Sarah Attfield and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-09-07 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an analysis of the global working class on film and considers the ways in which working-class experience is represented in film around the world. The book argues that representation is important because it shapes the way people understand working-class experience and can either reinforce or challenge stereotypical depictions. Film can shape and shift discussions of class, and this book provides an interdisciplinary study of the ways in which working-class experience is portrayed through this medium. It analyses the impact of contemporary films such as Sorry To Bother You, This is England and Le Harve that focus on working class life. Attfield demonstrates that the global working class are characterised by diversity of race, ethnicity, gender, religion and sexuality but that there are commonalities of experience despite geographical distance and cultural difference. The book is structured around themes such as work, culture, diasporas, gender and sexuality, and race.

The Body Onscreen in the Digital Age

Author : Susan Flynn
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476641870
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The Body Onscreen in the Digital Age written by Susan Flynn and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-01-28 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection examines the peculiarly modern phenomenon of voyeurism as it is experienced through the digital screen. Violence, voyeurism, and power populate film more than ever, and the centrality of the terrified body to many digital narratives suggests new forms of terror and angst, where bodies are subjected to an endless knowing look. The particular perils of the digital age can be seen on, by, and through screen bodies as they are made, remade, represented, and used. The essays in this book examine the machinations of voyeurism in the digital age and the realization of power through digital visual forms. They look at the uses of power over the female body, at the domination and repression of women through symbolic violence, at discourses of power as they are played out onscreen, and at how the digital realm might engage the active/passive dichotomy in new ways.

Everybody's Jane

Author : Juliette Wells
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441118993
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Everybody's Jane written by Juliette Wells and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-19 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to investigate Jane Austen's popular significance today, Everybody's Jane considers why Austen matters to amateur readers, how they make use of her novels, what they gain from visiting places associated with her, and why they create works of fiction and nonfiction inspired by her novels and life.The voices of everyday readers emerge from both published and unpublished sources, including interviews conducted with literary tourists and archival research into the founding of the Jane Austen Society of North America and the exceptional Austen collection of Alberta Hirshheimer Burke of Baltimore.Additional topics include new Austen portraits; portrayals of Austen, and of Austen fans, in film and fiction; and hybrid works that infuse Austen's writings with horror, erotica, or explicit Christianity.Everybody's Jane will appeal to all those who care about Austen and will change how we think about the importance of literature and reading today.

Darkness Subverted

Author : Katrin Althans
Publisher : V&R Unipress
ISBN 13 : 3862340929
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Darkness Subverted written by Katrin Althans and published by V&R Unipress. This book was released on 2010-02-18 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Der dem klassischen Schauerroman zugrunde liegende Diskurs von »Selbst« und »Anderem« wurde schnell auf die Gegebenheiten der kolonialen Situation angewandt und auf das Verhältnis zwischen Kolonialherr und kolonialem Subjekt projiziert. Zeitgenössische schwarzaustralische Künstler nehmen sich dieses kolonialen Schauerdiskurses an, reißen ihn durch ihre scharfe Perspektive in Stücke und transformieren ihn schließlich zu einem Diskurs des »Aboriginal Gothic«.Die vorliegende Studie erarbeitet die theoretischen Grundlagen des »Aboriginal Gothic« und benutzt den so konkretisierten Begriff, um Romane von Vivienne Cleven, Mudrooroo, Kim Scott, Sam Watson und Alexis Wright sowie Filme von Beck Cole und Tracey Moffatt zu analysieren. Im Zentrum der Untersuchung steht dabei die Frage, inwieweit der traditionell europäische Schauerdiskurs mit Elementen indigener australischer Kultur durch- bzw. zersetzt ist, um die aktuelle Situation australischer Aborigines darzustellen und eine wiedererlangte kulturelle Identität zu beschreiben.

The Political Economy of Conflict and Violence against Women

Author : Kumudini Samuel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178699612X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (869 download)

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Download or read book The Political Economy of Conflict and Violence against Women written by Kumudini Samuel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Political Economy of Conflict and Violence against Women shows how political, economic, social and ideological processes intersect to shape conflict related gender-based violence against women. Through feminist interrogations of the politics of economies, struggles for political power and the gender order, this collection reveals how sexual orders and regimes are linked to spaces of production. Crucially it argues that these spaces are themselves firmly anchored in overlapping patriarchies which are sustained and reproduced during and after war through violence that is physical as well as structural. Through an analysis of legal regimes and structures of social arrangements, this book frames militarization as a political economic dynamic, developing a radical critique of liberal peace building and peace making that does not challenge patriarchy, or modes of production and accumulation.