Duana Fullwiley
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691123165
- eISBN:
- 9781400840410
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691123165.003.0004
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology
This chapter examines how Senegalese French-trained research-physicians in Dakar have adopted similar low-tech strategies and health interventions within the biomedical realm. It focuses on how ...
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This chapter examines how Senegalese French-trained research-physicians in Dakar have adopted similar low-tech strategies and health interventions within the biomedical realm. It focuses on how doctors rationalize economically triaged care, while chronicling their methods for doing so in Dakar's principal sickle cell clinics. These are the pediatric care site at Albert Royer Children's Hospital and the Centre nationale de transfusion sanguine (CNTS), or the National Blood Transfusion Center, where most adult patients are followed. Although physicians often take cues from the social realities that define their patients' lived experiences with this disease, their own clinical limits and technological constraints also inform the alternative assemblages of care they construct.Less
This chapter examines how Senegalese French-trained research-physicians in Dakar have adopted similar low-tech strategies and health interventions within the biomedical realm. It focuses on how doctors rationalize economically triaged care, while chronicling their methods for doing so in Dakar's principal sickle cell clinics. These are the pediatric care site at Albert Royer Children's Hospital and the Centre nationale de transfusion sanguine (CNTS), or the National Blood Transfusion Center, where most adult patients are followed. Although physicians often take cues from the social realities that define their patients' lived experiences with this disease, their own clinical limits and technological constraints also inform the alternative assemblages of care they construct.
Walter van de Leur
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- September 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780195124484
- eISBN:
- 9780199868711
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195124484.003.0010
- Subject:
- Music, History, Western
This chapter details how in the last years of Strayhorn’s life, his and Ellington’s activities drifted in various directions. While the orchestra embarked on some of its most commercial projects ...
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This chapter details how in the last years of Strayhorn’s life, his and Ellington’s activities drifted in various directions. While the orchestra embarked on some of its most commercial projects ever, Strayhorn wrote some of his most intimate compositions. Among the more artistically challenging projects Ellington and Strayhorn initiated is The Far East Suite, to which Strayhorn contributed Bluebird of Delhi, Isfahan, and Agra. The final segment explores his activities outside the Ellington realm: the recordings of The Peaceful Side, and the agonizing Suite for the Duo. In Blood Count, Strayhorn radically steered away from any compromise. A detailed analysis of this bitter and introspective work, that conjures the devastating consequences of Strayhorn’s progressing cancer, sums up Strayhorn’s virtues as a jazz composer.Less
This chapter details how in the last years of Strayhorn’s life, his and Ellington’s activities drifted in various directions. While the orchestra embarked on some of its most commercial projects ever, Strayhorn wrote some of his most intimate compositions. Among the more artistically challenging projects Ellington and Strayhorn initiated is The Far East Suite, to which Strayhorn contributed Bluebird of Delhi, Isfahan, and Agra. The final segment explores his activities outside the Ellington realm: the recordings of The Peaceful Side, and the agonizing Suite for the Duo. In Blood Count, Strayhorn radically steered away from any compromise. A detailed analysis of this bitter and introspective work, that conjures the devastating consequences of Strayhorn’s progressing cancer, sums up Strayhorn’s virtues as a jazz composer.
Marilyn McCord Adams
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- January 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199591053
- eISBN:
- 9780191595554
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199591053.003.0004
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology, Philosophy of Religion
Circumcision and new-law sacraments were held to be efficacious signs of spiritual benefits in suitable receivers and/or the real presence of the Body and Blood of Christ. Since the material stuffs ...
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Circumcision and new-law sacraments were held to be efficacious signs of spiritual benefits in suitable receivers and/or the real presence of the Body and Blood of Christ. Since the material stuffs are not naturally endowed with the relevant causal powers, explanations are required for how they can be efficacious in the production of such effects. This chapter examines Aquinas' appeal to instrumental causality to explain how material rites do have relevant powers by participating in the causal efficacy of the principal agent (equals God). Then it considers Scotus' efforts to promote new-law sacraments as powerless causes connected with the effect by ‘non-obvious’ essential dependence relations, as well as Ockham's related conceptualization of sacraments as causes sine quibus non.Less
Circumcision and new-law sacraments were held to be efficacious signs of spiritual benefits in suitable receivers and/or the real presence of the Body and Blood of Christ. Since the material stuffs are not naturally endowed with the relevant causal powers, explanations are required for how they can be efficacious in the production of such effects. This chapter examines Aquinas' appeal to instrumental causality to explain how material rites do have relevant powers by participating in the causal efficacy of the principal agent (equals God). Then it considers Scotus' efforts to promote new-law sacraments as powerless causes connected with the effect by ‘non-obvious’ essential dependence relations, as well as Ockham's related conceptualization of sacraments as causes sine quibus non.
Stephen Clingman
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- January 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780199278497
- eISBN:
- 9780191706981
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199278497.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature
The chapter begins by considering aspects of the biography of the black British writer Caryl Phillips, whose work sets out key features in contemporary transnational fiction. Brought to England from ...
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The chapter begins by considering aspects of the biography of the black British writer Caryl Phillips, whose work sets out key features in contemporary transnational fiction. Brought to England from the West Indies at a very young age, the question of identity has always been a profound one for him. Instead of retreating into the self, however, Phillips has found extraordinary points of conjunction and contiguity with others, not least with the Jewish experience in Europe. The chapter explores key ideas in relation to Phillips: questions of ‘roots’ and ‘routes’ (an illuminating etymology of the term), constellation and faultline, as well as his extraordinary narrative forms. In The Nature of Blood these patterns emerge in narratives involving a female Holocaust survivor and Othello, among others. A Distant Shore explores topics of exile, the national, and transnational in the fragmented spatio-temporal locus of Britain.Less
The chapter begins by considering aspects of the biography of the black British writer Caryl Phillips, whose work sets out key features in contemporary transnational fiction. Brought to England from the West Indies at a very young age, the question of identity has always been a profound one for him. Instead of retreating into the self, however, Phillips has found extraordinary points of conjunction and contiguity with others, not least with the Jewish experience in Europe. The chapter explores key ideas in relation to Phillips: questions of ‘roots’ and ‘routes’ (an illuminating etymology of the term), constellation and faultline, as well as his extraordinary narrative forms. In The Nature of Blood these patterns emerge in narratives involving a female Holocaust survivor and Othello, among others. A Distant Shore explores topics of exile, the national, and transnational in the fragmented spatio-temporal locus of Britain.
Brooke N. Newman
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780300225556
- eISBN:
- 9780300240979
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300225556.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, World Modern History
Focusing on Jamaica, Britain’s most valuable colony in the Americas by the mid-eighteenth century, A Dark Inheritance explores the relationship between racial classifications and the inherited rights ...
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Focusing on Jamaica, Britain’s most valuable colony in the Americas by the mid-eighteenth century, A Dark Inheritance explores the relationship between racial classifications and the inherited rights and privileges associated with British subject status. Brooke Newman reveals the centrality of notions of blood and blood mixture to evolving racial definitions and sexual practices in colonial Jamaica and to legal and political debates over slavery and the rights of imperial subjects on both sides of the Atlantic. Weaving together a diverse range of sources, Newman shows how colonial racial ideologies rooted in fictions of blood ancestry at once justified permanent, hereditary slavery for Africans and barred members of certain marginalized groups from laying claim to British liberties on the basis of hereditary status. This groundbreaking study demonstrates that challenges to an Atlantic slave system underpinned by distinctions of blood had far-reaching consequences for British understandings of race, gender, and national belonging.Less
Focusing on Jamaica, Britain’s most valuable colony in the Americas by the mid-eighteenth century, A Dark Inheritance explores the relationship between racial classifications and the inherited rights and privileges associated with British subject status. Brooke Newman reveals the centrality of notions of blood and blood mixture to evolving racial definitions and sexual practices in colonial Jamaica and to legal and political debates over slavery and the rights of imperial subjects on both sides of the Atlantic. Weaving together a diverse range of sources, Newman shows how colonial racial ideologies rooted in fictions of blood ancestry at once justified permanent, hereditary slavery for Africans and barred members of certain marginalized groups from laying claim to British liberties on the basis of hereditary status. This groundbreaking study demonstrates that challenges to an Atlantic slave system underpinned by distinctions of blood had far-reaching consequences for British understandings of race, gender, and national belonging.
Melissa Ames
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780813180069
- eISBN:
- 9780813180076
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813180069.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
While television has always played a role in recording and curating history, shaping cultural memory, and influencing public sentiment, the changing nature of the medium in the post-network era finds ...
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While television has always played a role in recording and curating history, shaping cultural memory, and influencing public sentiment, the changing nature of the medium in the post-network era finds viewers experiencing and participating in this process in new ways. They skim through commercials, live tweet press conferences and award shows, and tune into reality shows to escape reality. This new era, defined by the heightened anxiety and fear ushered in by 9/11, has been documented by our media consumption, production, and reaction. In Small Screen, Big Feels, Melissa Ames asserts that TV has been instrumental in cultivating a shared memory of emotionally charged events unfolding in the United States since September 11, 2001. She analyzes specific shows and genres to illustrate the ways in which cultural fears are embedded into our entertainment in series such as The Walking Dead and Lost or critiqued through programs like The Daily Show. In the final section of the book, Ames provides three audience studies that showcase how viewers consume and circulate emotions in the post-network era: analyses of live tweets from Shonda Rhimes's drama, How to Get Away with Murder (2010--2020), ABC's reality franchises, The Bachelor (2002--present) and The Bachelorette (2003--present), and political coverage of the 2016 Presidential Debates. Though film has been closely studied through the lens of affect theory, little research has been done to apply the same methods to television. Engaging an impressively wide range of texts, genres, media, and formats, Ames offers a trenchant analysis of how televisual programming in the United States responded to and reinforced a cultural climate grounded in fear and anxiety.Less
While television has always played a role in recording and curating history, shaping cultural memory, and influencing public sentiment, the changing nature of the medium in the post-network era finds viewers experiencing and participating in this process in new ways. They skim through commercials, live tweet press conferences and award shows, and tune into reality shows to escape reality. This new era, defined by the heightened anxiety and fear ushered in by 9/11, has been documented by our media consumption, production, and reaction. In Small Screen, Big Feels, Melissa Ames asserts that TV has been instrumental in cultivating a shared memory of emotionally charged events unfolding in the United States since September 11, 2001. She analyzes specific shows and genres to illustrate the ways in which cultural fears are embedded into our entertainment in series such as The Walking Dead and Lost or critiqued through programs like The Daily Show. In the final section of the book, Ames provides three audience studies that showcase how viewers consume and circulate emotions in the post-network era: analyses of live tweets from Shonda Rhimes's drama, How to Get Away with Murder (2010--2020), ABC's reality franchises, The Bachelor (2002--present) and The Bachelorette (2003--present), and political coverage of the 2016 Presidential Debates. Though film has been closely studied through the lens of affect theory, little research has been done to apply the same methods to television. Engaging an impressively wide range of texts, genres, media, and formats, Ames offers a trenchant analysis of how televisual programming in the United States responded to and reinforced a cultural climate grounded in fear and anxiety.
Jonathan Phillips
- Published in print:
- 1996
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198205401
- eISBN:
- 9780191676611
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198205401.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, European Medieval History
Leaving aside the exceptional circumstances that surrounded Prince Bohemond I's visit to France in 1106–7, the first occasion on which the settlers turned to the West for military assistance was ...
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Leaving aside the exceptional circumstances that surrounded Prince Bohemond I's visit to France in 1106–7, the first occasion on which the settlers turned to the West for military assistance was after the calamitous defeat at the Battle of the Field of Blood in June 1119. It seems that the reason why the Venetians were approached was a reflection of the military situation in the Latin East. In 1123, a fleet arrived in the eastern Mediterranean and defeated an Egyptian squadron off Ascalon. In the 12th century, the Latin East was in a constant state of war with its neighbours. There was great emphasis on military strength and leadership in battle and in such circumstances it was usually essential in the eyes of contemporaries for there to be male rulers.Less
Leaving aside the exceptional circumstances that surrounded Prince Bohemond I's visit to France in 1106–7, the first occasion on which the settlers turned to the West for military assistance was after the calamitous defeat at the Battle of the Field of Blood in June 1119. It seems that the reason why the Venetians were approached was a reflection of the military situation in the Latin East. In 1123, a fleet arrived in the eastern Mediterranean and defeated an Egyptian squadron off Ascalon. In the 12th century, the Latin East was in a constant state of war with its neighbours. There was great emphasis on military strength and leadership in battle and in such circumstances it was usually essential in the eyes of contemporaries for there to be male rulers.
Ruth Deech and Anna Smajdor
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- January 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780199219780
- eISBN:
- 9780191713002
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199219780.003.0006
- Subject:
- Law, Medical Law
The tension between individual reproductive desires and policy-making is explored in the context of Diane Blood's legal battle to use sperm obtained from her dying husband without his consent. The ...
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The tension between individual reproductive desires and policy-making is explored in the context of Diane Blood's legal battle to use sperm obtained from her dying husband without his consent. The importance of obtaining consent before extracting sperm is assessed, and the question of whether dead or dying people have an interest in what happens to their gametes is explored. The relationship between these questions and the concept of dignity is briefly discussed, as well as the question of who should decide what is in a comatose patient's best interests. The role of the media in focussing on Mrs Blood's personal anguish rather than the public interest at stake at is also discussed.Less
The tension between individual reproductive desires and policy-making is explored in the context of Diane Blood's legal battle to use sperm obtained from her dying husband without his consent. The importance of obtaining consent before extracting sperm is assessed, and the question of whether dead or dying people have an interest in what happens to their gametes is explored. The relationship between these questions and the concept of dignity is briefly discussed, as well as the question of who should decide what is in a comatose patient's best interests. The role of the media in focussing on Mrs Blood's personal anguish rather than the public interest at stake at is also discussed.
Robert D. Schulzinger
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195365924
- eISBN:
- 9780199851966
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195365924.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
The Vietnam War became the setting for more than 400 movies, documentaries, and TV series from the 1960s to the first years of the twenty-first century. Many of these Vietnam-era films explored ...
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The Vietnam War became the setting for more than 400 movies, documentaries, and TV series from the 1960s to the first years of the twenty-first century. Many of these Vietnam-era films explored class, race, and gender issues and reflected deep divisions at home over the war. Some reflected pro-war sentiments and vilified anti-war protesters. Others took exactly the opposite approach, criticizing official policies and government officials. They portrayed soldiers as victims of an inhumane war machine. Nevertheless, a common thread—withering contempt for civilian government officials—ran through Vietnam films whether they supported or opposed U.S. policies in Vietnam. Some of the most notable films were The Quiet American, The Green Berets, The Boys in Company C, Go Tell the Spartans, The Deer Hunter, Coming Home, Apocalypse Now, First Blood, Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, Born on the Fourth of July, and Forrest Gump.Less
The Vietnam War became the setting for more than 400 movies, documentaries, and TV series from the 1960s to the first years of the twenty-first century. Many of these Vietnam-era films explored class, race, and gender issues and reflected deep divisions at home over the war. Some reflected pro-war sentiments and vilified anti-war protesters. Others took exactly the opposite approach, criticizing official policies and government officials. They portrayed soldiers as victims of an inhumane war machine. Nevertheless, a common thread—withering contempt for civilian government officials—ran through Vietnam films whether they supported or opposed U.S. policies in Vietnam. Some of the most notable films were The Quiet American, The Green Berets, The Boys in Company C, Go Tell the Spartans, The Deer Hunter, Coming Home, Apocalypse Now, First Blood, Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, Born on the Fourth of July, and Forrest Gump.
Virginia Berridge
- Published in print:
- 1996
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198204725
- eISBN:
- 9780191676376
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198204725.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
AIDS became a policy issue of the highest priority, indeed it soon became a matter of national emergency. Key members of the AIDS policy community, Philip Mortirner from the PHLS, Harold Gunson from ...
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AIDS became a policy issue of the highest priority, indeed it soon became a matter of national emergency. Key members of the AIDS policy community, Philip Mortirner from the PHLS, Harold Gunson from the Blood Transfusion Service, Anthony Pinching and Dr Donald Acheson, travelled to Newcastle to speak. This was an impressive display of concern, as well as a display of the lack of scientific certainty which characterized the area. Local initiatives were important and the establishment of AIDS coordinators in particular was significant for later national policies. Britain had seemed to be firmly set in a mode of penal response at the time AIDS was beginning to spread among drug users. AIDS was subsequently credited with achieving the complete reversal of that policy.Less
AIDS became a policy issue of the highest priority, indeed it soon became a matter of national emergency. Key members of the AIDS policy community, Philip Mortirner from the PHLS, Harold Gunson from the Blood Transfusion Service, Anthony Pinching and Dr Donald Acheson, travelled to Newcastle to speak. This was an impressive display of concern, as well as a display of the lack of scientific certainty which characterized the area. Local initiatives were important and the establishment of AIDS coordinators in particular was significant for later national policies. Britain had seemed to be firmly set in a mode of penal response at the time AIDS was beginning to spread among drug users. AIDS was subsequently credited with achieving the complete reversal of that policy.
Ian Richard Netton
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780748699063
- eISBN:
- 9781474460248
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748699063.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Middle Eastern Studies
What is a miracle? Who believes in their possibility? What is the historical context within which they emerge?These and related questions have vexed, puzzled and, indeed, enthused scholars and ...
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What is a miracle? Who believes in their possibility? What is the historical context within which they emerge?These and related questions have vexed, puzzled and, indeed, enthused scholars and believers, atheists and non-believers alike down the ages.This book examines this perennially fascinating subject of miracles with a comparative focus on two of the world’s great monotheistic religions, Islam and Christianity. Other texts have often approached the subject from a strictly theological, faith or, alternatively, rationalistic, perspective and made it their concern to prove or disprove the possibility of an alleged miraculous event. The approach adopted in this volume is quite different. It is strictly anthropological and phenomenological and the miracles are viewed in a new and dynamic fashion through the lens of narratology. The book examines the stories behind these miracles, the contexts which gave rise to them and allowed them to garner belief and flourish. Perspectives covered include the views of believers and non-believers alike in these phenomena. Similarities and differences in context and approach are explored with a primary focus on the five main anthropological topoi of food, water, blood, wood and stone, and cosmology. A range of intertextual elements in both these Islamic and Christian traditions is discerned.Less
What is a miracle? Who believes in their possibility? What is the historical context within which they emerge?These and related questions have vexed, puzzled and, indeed, enthused scholars and believers, atheists and non-believers alike down the ages.This book examines this perennially fascinating subject of miracles with a comparative focus on two of the world’s great monotheistic religions, Islam and Christianity. Other texts have often approached the subject from a strictly theological, faith or, alternatively, rationalistic, perspective and made it their concern to prove or disprove the possibility of an alleged miraculous event. The approach adopted in this volume is quite different. It is strictly anthropological and phenomenological and the miracles are viewed in a new and dynamic fashion through the lens of narratology. The book examines the stories behind these miracles, the contexts which gave rise to them and allowed them to garner belief and flourish. Perspectives covered include the views of believers and non-believers alike in these phenomena. Similarities and differences in context and approach are explored with a primary focus on the five main anthropological topoi of food, water, blood, wood and stone, and cosmology. A range of intertextual elements in both these Islamic and Christian traditions is discerned.
Roberto Curti and Roberto Curti
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- January 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781911325932
- eISBN:
- 9781800342538
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781911325932.003.0001
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter provides an overview of Mario Bava's film Blood and Black Lace (6 donne per l'assassino) in 1964. It mentions critics and commentators of the Blood and Black Lace movie who were ...
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This chapter provides an overview of Mario Bava's film Blood and Black Lace (6 donne per l'assassino) in 1964. It mentions critics and commentators of the Blood and Black Lace movie who were spellbound by its fascinating visual analogy that links the opening and final images. It also looks into analyzations of the film that proposes the most disparate interpretations. The chapter discusses Bava's demystifying explanation of his movie in an interview published in 1979, just one year before his death. It talks about the significance of the opening scene of Blood and Black Lace and interprets the connection between the signboard swinging at the beginning, during a rainstorm, and the telephone falling on the ground.Less
This chapter provides an overview of Mario Bava's film Blood and Black Lace (6 donne per l'assassino) in 1964. It mentions critics and commentators of the Blood and Black Lace movie who were spellbound by its fascinating visual analogy that links the opening and final images. It also looks into analyzations of the film that proposes the most disparate interpretations. The chapter discusses Bava's demystifying explanation of his movie in an interview published in 1979, just one year before his death. It talks about the significance of the opening scene of Blood and Black Lace and interprets the connection between the signboard swinging at the beginning, during a rainstorm, and the telephone falling on the ground.
Roberto Curti and Roberto Curti
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- January 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781911325932
- eISBN:
- 9781800342538
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781911325932.003.0003
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter explores the significance of German participation in the film Blood and Black Lace. It discusses how Italy had signed a co-production agreement with West Germany in 1962 that started the ...
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This chapter explores the significance of German participation in the film Blood and Black Lace. It discusses how Italy had signed a co-production agreement with West Germany in 1962 that started the passage from period Gothic to a thriller set in the present day. It also explains the Italian film makers' intention of joining the successful thread of the German so-called “krimis,” the murder mysteries inspired by the works of Edgar Wallace and produced by Preben Philipsen's Rialto film company in 1959. The chapter focuses on the distinct and well-defined tradition of mystery in Italy. It describes the genre known as “giallo,” which had been very popular since 1929 when the Italian publishing house, Mondadori launched a new editorial series called the Yellow Books (I Libri Gialli).Less
This chapter explores the significance of German participation in the film Blood and Black Lace. It discusses how Italy had signed a co-production agreement with West Germany in 1962 that started the passage from period Gothic to a thriller set in the present day. It also explains the Italian film makers' intention of joining the successful thread of the German so-called “krimis,” the murder mysteries inspired by the works of Edgar Wallace and produced by Preben Philipsen's Rialto film company in 1959. The chapter focuses on the distinct and well-defined tradition of mystery in Italy. It describes the genre known as “giallo,” which had been very popular since 1929 when the Italian publishing house, Mondadori launched a new editorial series called the Yellow Books (I Libri Gialli).
Roberto Curti and Roberto Curti
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- January 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781911325932
- eISBN:
- 9781800342538
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781911325932.003.0007
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter describes how the murderer in the film Blood and Black Lace (6 donne per l'assassino) became an icon through its clothing, which included a raincoat, hat, and black gloves. It explains ...
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This chapter describes how the murderer in the film Blood and Black Lace (6 donne per l'assassino) became an icon through its clothing, which included a raincoat, hat, and black gloves. It explains how the outfit of the murderer in the film, like a haute couture model, will be copied over and over in forthcoming gialli. The chapter analyzes the multiple literary and filmic influences identified in Mario Bava's faceless murderer and Edgar Wallace's novel White Face to the German krimis. It mentions faceless figures that populate Man Ray's surrealist short film Les Mystères du château de Dé in 1929, which was considered the most outstanding and surprising predecessors on iconic images of murderers. It also analyzes how masked murderers in films are more than a gimmick to hide the identity but emphasizes an almost feral attribute due to its muteness.Less
This chapter describes how the murderer in the film Blood and Black Lace (6 donne per l'assassino) became an icon through its clothing, which included a raincoat, hat, and black gloves. It explains how the outfit of the murderer in the film, like a haute couture model, will be copied over and over in forthcoming gialli. The chapter analyzes the multiple literary and filmic influences identified in Mario Bava's faceless murderer and Edgar Wallace's novel White Face to the German krimis. It mentions faceless figures that populate Man Ray's surrealist short film Les Mystères du château de Dé in 1929, which was considered the most outstanding and surprising predecessors on iconic images of murderers. It also analyzes how masked murderers in films are more than a gimmick to hide the identity but emphasizes an almost feral attribute due to its muteness.
Brooke N. Newman
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780300225556
- eISBN:
- 9780300240979
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300225556.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, World Modern History
The conclusion reconsiders the constitutional framework of the British Atlantic empire. It explains why, in a revolutionary age characterized by the politicization of Enlightenment discourse ...
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The conclusion reconsiders the constitutional framework of the British Atlantic empire. It explains why, in a revolutionary age characterized by the politicization of Enlightenment discourse emphasizing universal human rights and equality before the law, the mixed descendants of slaves in Jamaica looked to the past to establish a claim to the common law birthright of their British fathers. Although slavery in the British Empire would come to an end in the 1830s, racial categories rooted in blood imaginaries remained pervasive in colonial Jamaica and throughout the British imperial world.Less
The conclusion reconsiders the constitutional framework of the British Atlantic empire. It explains why, in a revolutionary age characterized by the politicization of Enlightenment discourse emphasizing universal human rights and equality before the law, the mixed descendants of slaves in Jamaica looked to the past to establish a claim to the common law birthright of their British fathers. Although slavery in the British Empire would come to an end in the 1830s, racial categories rooted in blood imaginaries remained pervasive in colonial Jamaica and throughout the British imperial world.
George Toles
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252040368
- eISBN:
- 9780252098789
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252040368.001.0001
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
Since his explosive debut with the indie sensation Hard Eight, Paul Thomas Anderson has established himself as one of contemporary cinema's most exciting artists. His 2002 feature Punch-Drunk Love ...
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Since his explosive debut with the indie sensation Hard Eight, Paul Thomas Anderson has established himself as one of contemporary cinema's most exciting artists. His 2002 feature Punch-Drunk Love radically reimagined the romantic comedy. Critics hailed There Will Be Blood as a key film of the new millennium. In The Master, Anderson jarred audiences with dreamy amorphousness and a departure from conventional story mechanics. The book approaches these three films in particular, and Anderson's oeuvre in general, with a focus on the role of emergence and the production of the unaccountable. Anderson, the book shows, is an artist obsessed with history, workplaces, and environments but also intrigued by spaces as projections of the people who dwell within. The book follows Anderson from the open narratives of Boogie Nights and Magnolia through the pivot that led to his more recent films, Janus-faced masterpieces that orbit around isolated central characters—and advance Anderson's journey into allegory and myth. Blending penetrative analysis with a deep knowledge of filmic storytelling, the book tours an important filmmaker's ever-deepening landscape of disconnection.Less
Since his explosive debut with the indie sensation Hard Eight, Paul Thomas Anderson has established himself as one of contemporary cinema's most exciting artists. His 2002 feature Punch-Drunk Love radically reimagined the romantic comedy. Critics hailed There Will Be Blood as a key film of the new millennium. In The Master, Anderson jarred audiences with dreamy amorphousness and a departure from conventional story mechanics. The book approaches these three films in particular, and Anderson's oeuvre in general, with a focus on the role of emergence and the production of the unaccountable. Anderson, the book shows, is an artist obsessed with history, workplaces, and environments but also intrigued by spaces as projections of the people who dwell within. The book follows Anderson from the open narratives of Boogie Nights and Magnolia through the pivot that led to his more recent films, Janus-faced masterpieces that orbit around isolated central characters—and advance Anderson's journey into allegory and myth. Blending penetrative analysis with a deep knowledge of filmic storytelling, the book tours an important filmmaker's ever-deepening landscape of disconnection.
Carol Bonomo Albright and Joanna Clapps Herman
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780823229109
- eISBN:
- 9780823241057
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fso/9780823229109.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, American, 20th Century Literature
In 1974 Richard Gambino, together with Ernest Falbo and Bruno Arcudi, founded Italian Americana. This historical and cultural journal followed the wave of interest in Italian Americans that had been ...
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In 1974 Richard Gambino, together with Ernest Falbo and Bruno Arcudi, founded Italian Americana. This historical and cultural journal followed the wave of interest in Italian Americans that had been building in the previous decade and that became particularly strong that year owing to Gambino's book, Blood of My Blood: The Dilemma of the Italian-Americans. He elucidated the culture of the family and community in the lives of Italian Americans and wove personal experiences “typical and illustrative of the Italian-American saga” through his historical and sociological scholarship. Already in the late 1960s, a small group of Italian-American scholars had met at the initiative of Rudolph Vecoli to discuss forming an academic association devoted to Italian-American studies. This resulted in the founding of the American Italian Historical Association in 1969. This book acts as glosses on the classics of Italian-American literature.Less
In 1974 Richard Gambino, together with Ernest Falbo and Bruno Arcudi, founded Italian Americana. This historical and cultural journal followed the wave of interest in Italian Americans that had been building in the previous decade and that became particularly strong that year owing to Gambino's book, Blood of My Blood: The Dilemma of the Italian-Americans. He elucidated the culture of the family and community in the lives of Italian Americans and wove personal experiences “typical and illustrative of the Italian-American saga” through his historical and sociological scholarship. Already in the late 1960s, a small group of Italian-American scholars had met at the initiative of Rudolph Vecoli to discuss forming an academic association devoted to Italian-American studies. This resulted in the founding of the American Italian Historical Association in 1969. This book acts as glosses on the classics of Italian-American literature.
Elleke Boehmer
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719068782
- eISBN:
- 9781781701898
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719068782.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, World Literature
In Detained: A Writer's Prison Diary (1981), the Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong'o points to the strong position that women characters have held in his work over the years. Beginning with the writing ...
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In Detained: A Writer's Prison Diary (1981), the Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong'o points to the strong position that women characters have held in his work over the years. Beginning with the writing of the epic-length Petals of Blood (1977), Ngugi came unequivocally to identify with the plight of the neo-colonially betrayed Kenyan peasantry. His nationalism of the 1960s thus turned increasingly revolutionary and openly Marxist. With respect to his determination in the later novels to develop powerful women characters as counterparts to the strong hero figures he favours, in Ngugi's early work similar tendencies emerge in embryonic form. In particular, as the focus in the early novels is more on the remote past and the pristine origins of Gikuyu people, mother figures signify prominently. As if to make amends, Ngugi, in his more recent work, introduces heroines who have made a decisive break with a former life of mothering and/or whoring in their commitment to a revolutionary cause. To him, other interests give way before the ‘higher social system of democracy and socialism’ in a free Kenya.Less
In Detained: A Writer's Prison Diary (1981), the Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong'o points to the strong position that women characters have held in his work over the years. Beginning with the writing of the epic-length Petals of Blood (1977), Ngugi came unequivocally to identify with the plight of the neo-colonially betrayed Kenyan peasantry. His nationalism of the 1960s thus turned increasingly revolutionary and openly Marxist. With respect to his determination in the later novels to develop powerful women characters as counterparts to the strong hero figures he favours, in Ngugi's early work similar tendencies emerge in embryonic form. In particular, as the focus in the early novels is more on the remote past and the pristine origins of Gikuyu people, mother figures signify prominently. As if to make amends, Ngugi, in his more recent work, introduces heroines who have made a decisive break with a former life of mothering and/or whoring in their commitment to a revolutionary cause. To him, other interests give way before the ‘higher social system of democracy and socialism’ in a free Kenya.
Thomas A. McCabe
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780823233106
- eISBN:
- 9780823234950
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fso/9780823233106.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, Social History
This chapter discusses the value of sport in advancing the institution of St. Benedict's. It first cites the hardwood heroics of Jimmy Donahue in winning the school's first ...
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This chapter discusses the value of sport in advancing the institution of St. Benedict's. It first cites the hardwood heroics of Jimmy Donahue in winning the school's first state prep basketball championship. This triggered a sequence of events that changed athletics at St. Benedict's. It then mentions the contributions of Ernest “Prof” Blood, a legendary national basketball coach. A stern disciplinarian who demanded perfection, Blood fitted in perfectly with the way the Benedictines conducted their school in Newark. Then the discussion turns to the ancient rivalry between the Gray Bees of St. Benedict's and the Pirates of Seton Hall Prep School. Lastly, the discussion deals with Joseph Kasberger, the school's coach to numerous football and baseball teams to undefeated seasons, who coined the phrase “Benedict's hates a quitter” .Less
This chapter discusses the value of sport in advancing the institution of St. Benedict's. It first cites the hardwood heroics of Jimmy Donahue in winning the school's first state prep basketball championship. This triggered a sequence of events that changed athletics at St. Benedict's. It then mentions the contributions of Ernest “Prof” Blood, a legendary national basketball coach. A stern disciplinarian who demanded perfection, Blood fitted in perfectly with the way the Benedictines conducted their school in Newark. Then the discussion turns to the ancient rivalry between the Gray Bees of St. Benedict's and the Pirates of Seton Hall Prep School. Lastly, the discussion deals with Joseph Kasberger, the school's coach to numerous football and baseball teams to undefeated seasons, who coined the phrase “Benedict's hates a quitter” .
Nuno Barradas Jorge
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781474444538
- eISBN:
- 9781474481106
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474444538.003.0002
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter discusses Pedro Costa’s personal and professional development during the 1970s and 1980s. The discussion offered here concerns how formative experiences came to inform aesthetic ...
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This chapter discusses Pedro Costa’s personal and professional development during the 1970s and 1980s. The discussion offered here concerns how formative experiences came to inform aesthetic preoccupations displayed in his directorial debut, Blood (1989), as well as to reflect industrial, social and cultural contexts of the film’s production. Costa’s personal and professional development was shaped by Lisbon’s youth cultures enjoying political freedoms and cultural openness resulting from the Revolution of 25 April 1974. The making of Blood reflects such historical characteristics, while also exemplifying the constraints shaping Portuguese cinema at the time. This first chapter also examines the initial domestic reception of the film, providing further context to Costa’s role as an emerging filmmaker.Less
This chapter discusses Pedro Costa’s personal and professional development during the 1970s and 1980s. The discussion offered here concerns how formative experiences came to inform aesthetic preoccupations displayed in his directorial debut, Blood (1989), as well as to reflect industrial, social and cultural contexts of the film’s production. Costa’s personal and professional development was shaped by Lisbon’s youth cultures enjoying political freedoms and cultural openness resulting from the Revolution of 25 April 1974. The making of Blood reflects such historical characteristics, while also exemplifying the constraints shaping Portuguese cinema at the time. This first chapter also examines the initial domestic reception of the film, providing further context to Costa’s role as an emerging filmmaker.
