Cultural Representations of Albinism in Africa: Narratives of Change, Charlotte Baker, Elvis Imafidon
Автор: Bjorn Nordfjord Название: Dagur Kari`s Noi the Albino ISBN: 0295997281 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780295997285 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 12415.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
Dagur Kari’s Noi the Albino (Noi albinoi, 2003) succeeded on the international festival circuit as a film that was both distinctively Icelandic and appealingly universal. Noi the Albino taps into perennial themes of escapism and existential angst, while its setting in the Westfjords of Iceland provided an almost surreal backdrop whose particularities of place are uniquely Icelandic. Bjorn Nordfjord’s examination of the film integrates the broad context and history of Icelandic cinema into a close reading of Noi the Albino’s themes, visual style, and key scenes. The book also includes an interview with director Dagur Kari.
Noi the Albino’s successful negotiation of the tensions between the local and the global contribute to the film’s status as a contemporary classic. Its place within the history of Icelandic cinema highlights the specific problems this small nation faces as it pursues its filmmaking ambitions, allowing us to appreciate the remarkable success of Kari’s film in relation to the challenges of transnational filmmaking.
Описание: These essays honour leading historian of early modern England, Paul Slack, by engaging with his work on social policy and the history of political economy. They explore how languages of happiness and suffering developed, and how historians might explore the public employment and subjective experiences of happiness and suffering in this period.
Автор: Davies, Ben (senior Lecturer In English Literature, Senior Lecturer In English Literature, University Of Portsmouth) Lupton, Christina (professor Of L Название: Suffering and happiness in england 1550-1850: narratives and representations ISBN: 0192871722 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780192871725 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 9504.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In this fascinating book, Cody Marrs retraces Melville`s engagement with beauty and provides a revisionary account of Melville`s philosophy, aesthetics, and literary career.
Автор: Morgan, Philip J. (harry C. Black Professor Of History, Harry C. Black Professor Of History, The Johns Hopkins University) Mcneill, John R. (universit Название: Suffering and happiness in england 1550-1850: narratives and representations ISBN: 019757646X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780197576465 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 4671.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: My experience as a State Correction Officer inside New Yorks Prisons. As you read Paul Harringtons day-to-day and month-to-month experiences within the states prison system, you will see a broken system one that is full of loopholes, lies, cover-ups and corruption. This system is full of daily violence and numerous officers are injured by violent inmates. Each officer has their unique view of the prison system. Here, Harrington wishes to share his perspective of how different administrations created changes in the daily operations at Fishkill Correctional Facility, where he was stationed after a 15-month stint at Sing Sing. Not every day was
Описание: This book considers the social dichotomies--for example, normal vs. abnormal--in which people with albinism are often placed. The author focuses on uncovering the rhetoric surrounding albinism and analyzing how the genetic condition is framed within popular culture to the general public while disregarding criticism from the albinism community.
Автор: Imafidon, Elvis (ambrose Alli University, Nigeria) Название: African philosophy and the otherness of albinism ISBN: 0367664712 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367664718 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 6123.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book explores from a philosophical perspective one of the most problematic, paradoxical and disturbing disability issue in African contexts and societies, albinism
Описание: Media constitute a privileged field of analysis as it interferes dynamically with the current popular ideas and myths (myths which narrate, explain and often justify social realities – such as games of power, economic and financial inequalities, drug dealing, disasters, diseases or pandemic threats). In this frame, the archetypal dimensions of the imaginary, of gossiping and of storytelling also seem to play an important role even in the frame of the (so called) “rational discourse”. Media Narratives is an effort to analyze ongoing narratives (either political or fictional) in Argentina, Brazil, Greece, Mexico or United States, expressing interpretations of contemporary events (such as crimes, scandals, diseases or political activism), but also presenting common beliefs and desires revealed by the popular artistic creations. These narratives compose the mythical background of the contemporary globalized world, the “spirit of the time” as Edgar Morin had named it, a spirit which is expressed in current ideas and mentalities. This effort can be characterized as a representative survey of popular beliefs of the 21st Century represented in storytelling. The articles collected in this book will reveal some important facets of the contemporary mythologies.
Contributors are: Lucia Acuna-Pedro, Graziela Ares, Eduardo Barbabela, Mercedes Calzado, Omar Cerrillo Garnica, Christiana Constantopoulou, Mariana Fernandez, Humberto Fernandes, Jaqueline Garcia Cordero, Enrique Garcia Romero, Leda Maria Caira Gitahy, Yamila Gomez, Vanesa Lio, Melina Meimaridis, Jose A. Ruiz San Roman, Pedro Paulo Martins Serra, Hara Stratoudaki, Leandro R. Tessler, and Gabriela Villen.
Museums of history and contemporary culture face many challenges in the modern age. One is how to react to processes of Europeanization and globalization, which require more cross-border cooperation and different ways of telling stories for visitors. This book investigates how museums exhibit Europe. Based on research in nearly 100 museums across the Continent and interviews with cultural policy makers and museum curators, it studies the growing transnational activities of state institutions, societal organizations, and people in the museum field such as attempts to Europeanize collection policy and collections as well as different strategies for making narratives more transnational like telling stories of European integration as shared history and discussing both inward and outward migration as a common experience and challenge. The book thus provides fascinating insights into a fast-changing museum landscape in Europe with wider implications for cultural policy and museums in other world regions.
Описание: Reading Cultural Representations of the Double Diaspora: Britain, East Africa, Gujarat is the first detailed study of the cultural life and representations of the prolific twice-displaced Gujarati East African diaspora in contemporary Britain.
Описание: This book interrogates and historicises eighteenth-century British women writers` responses to India through the novel and travel writing, to bring out the polyvalent space arising out of their complex negotiation with the colonial discourse.
Описание: An important sociological intervention into the role played by media narratives-usually reflecting the ruling ideas-in shaping social and political responses to Europe`s refugee `crisis.`
Описание: This book constitutes a sociological research on the current “narrations” of the economic and refugee crisis which has mobilized all the aspects of social storytelling during the last decade, most particularly in the European South. Because the different (mass and social) media reflect the dominant ideas and representations, the research on the meaning of different media narratives becomes a necessary report for the understanding of the relation (or “inexistent dialogue”?) between official political discourses and popular myths (based on everyday life values of prosperity, mostly promoted by the mass culture and the cultural industries’ products). Despite the ongoing inequalities and difficulties, the contemporary audiences seem to counterbalance misery by the dreams of happiness, provided by this kind of products.
Contributors include: Christiana Constantopoulou, Amalia Frangiskou, Evangelia Kalerante, Laurence Larochelle, Debora Marcucci, Valentina Marinescu, Albertina Pretto, Maria Thanopoulou, Joanna Tsiganou, Vasilis Vamvakas, and Eleni Zyga.
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