Charlotte Greenspan
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195111101
- eISBN:
- 9780199865703
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195111101.003.0012
- Subject:
- Music, History, American
This chapter focuses on the changes in Dorothy Fields's career and personal life in the late 1930s and early 1940s. After her marriage, the first major change in Dorothy's personal life was the birth ...
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This chapter focuses on the changes in Dorothy Fields's career and personal life in the late 1930s and early 1940s. After her marriage, the first major change in Dorothy's personal life was the birth of her son, David Lahm on December 12, 1940. The next change in Dorothy's life, equal and opposite one might say, was the death of her father. On October 29, 1941, Let's Face It opened on Broadway; this was Dorothy's debut as a Broadway librettist. By 1943, Joseph, Herbert, and Dorothy Fields collectively had five shows running on Broadway—My Sister Eileen, Let's Face It, Junior Miss, The Doughgirls, and Herbert and Dorothy's new work with Cole Porter, Something for the Boys.Less
This chapter focuses on the changes in Dorothy Fields's career and personal life in the late 1930s and early 1940s. After her marriage, the first major change in Dorothy's personal life was the birth of her son, David Lahm on December 12, 1940. The next change in Dorothy's life, equal and opposite one might say, was the death of her father. On October 29, 1941, Let's Face It opened on Broadway; this was Dorothy's debut as a Broadway librettist. By 1943, Joseph, Herbert, and Dorothy Fields collectively had five shows running on Broadway—My Sister Eileen, Let's Face It, Junior Miss, The Doughgirls, and Herbert and Dorothy's new work with Cole Porter, Something for the Boys.
Barbara Goff and Michael Simpson
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- January 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780199217182
- eISBN:
- 9780191712388
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199217182.003.0004
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval
Rita Dove's The Darker Face of the Earth examines the process of building ‘America’ out of partly African materials. Incest becomes a sign for the forced amalgamation of cultures that characterized ...
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Rita Dove's The Darker Face of the Earth examines the process of building ‘America’ out of partly African materials. Incest becomes a sign for the forced amalgamation of cultures that characterized plantation slavery, and the oedipal tropes of knowledge, parentage, desire, and narrative are made newly relevant by the particular racialized history of the United States. The politics of the Greek drama, whereby the hero is pitted against the community, are also interrogated by the various choices made by figures such as Augustus, the chorus and the conspirators. The issue of oedipally competing traditions is scrutinised via African-American tropes such as Esu, the talking book, and the tragic mulatto/a. Also examined is the cultural position of the dramatist herself, as a black woman writer and a member of the generation immediately after the Black Arts Movement.Less
Rita Dove's The Darker Face of the Earth examines the process of building ‘America’ out of partly African materials. Incest becomes a sign for the forced amalgamation of cultures that characterized plantation slavery, and the oedipal tropes of knowledge, parentage, desire, and narrative are made newly relevant by the particular racialized history of the United States. The politics of the Greek drama, whereby the hero is pitted against the community, are also interrogated by the various choices made by figures such as Augustus, the chorus and the conspirators. The issue of oedipally competing traditions is scrutinised via African-American tropes such as Esu, the talking book, and the tragic mulatto/a. Also examined is the cultural position of the dramatist herself, as a black woman writer and a member of the generation immediately after the Black Arts Movement.
Matthew J. Smith and Julia Reinhard Lupton (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781474435680
- eISBN:
- 9781474465014
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474435680.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Shakespeare Studies
This book celebrates the theatrical excitement and philosophical meanings of human interaction in Shakespeare. On stage and in life, the face is always window and mirror, representation and presence. ...
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This book celebrates the theatrical excitement and philosophical meanings of human interaction in Shakespeare. On stage and in life, the face is always window and mirror, representation and presence. Essays examine the emotional and ethical surplus that appears between faces in the activity and performance of human encounter on stage. By transitioning from face as noun to verb – to face, outface, interface, efface, deface, sur-face – chapters reveal how Shakespeare's plays discover conflict, betrayal and deception as well as love, trust and forgiveness between faces and the bodies that bear them.Less
This book celebrates the theatrical excitement and philosophical meanings of human interaction in Shakespeare. On stage and in life, the face is always window and mirror, representation and presence. Essays examine the emotional and ethical surplus that appears between faces in the activity and performance of human encounter on stage. By transitioning from face as noun to verb – to face, outface, interface, efface, deface, sur-face – chapters reveal how Shakespeare's plays discover conflict, betrayal and deception as well as love, trust and forgiveness between faces and the bodies that bear them.
Jonathan Reades and Martin Crookston
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- September 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781529215991
- eISBN:
- 9781529216035
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781529215991.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Movements and Social Change
Face-to-Face: The Persistent Power of Cities In a Post-Pandemic Era, is about the way that people and firms are adapting to the world of always-on and everywhere digital access, and what that means ...
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Face-to-Face: The Persistent Power of Cities In a Post-Pandemic Era, is about the way that people and firms are adapting to the world of always-on and everywhere digital access, and what that means for cities and regions. Twenty years after The Death of Distance—and in the midst of a pandemic that has led some to question the future of cities—many people still think that we are on track for ‘business anywhere’. The book shows why that's not the case, and provides a structure for thinking about the next twenty years of social and economic upheaval. It shows how the changing fortunes of cities are tied to the ongoing importance of face-to-face contact to our most valuable industries, and thus why the ‘human touch’ will continue to be crucial in the cities of tomorrow. Drawing on interviews with artists and advertisers, bankers and bakers, software devs and property developers, across some forty interviews we home in on what people actually do and why. ‘Contact’, in all its forms, is shown to still matter hugely to companies and individuals, even in a world with high-quality video conferencing and free online calling. And when the pandemic hit, a further digital survey explored interviewees’ experiences of an ‘e-only’ world, gaining ‘front-line’ insights into the short- and long-terms. The book seeks to provide guidance for city leaders, businesses, policymakers and students of urban and regional planning on how to think about 21st Century urban change.Less
Face-to-Face: The Persistent Power of Cities In a Post-Pandemic Era, is about the way that people and firms are adapting to the world of always-on and everywhere digital access, and what that means for cities and regions. Twenty years after The Death of Distance—and in the midst of a pandemic that has led some to question the future of cities—many people still think that we are on track for ‘business anywhere’. The book shows why that's not the case, and provides a structure for thinking about the next twenty years of social and economic upheaval. It shows how the changing fortunes of cities are tied to the ongoing importance of face-to-face contact to our most valuable industries, and thus why the ‘human touch’ will continue to be crucial in the cities of tomorrow. Drawing on interviews with artists and advertisers, bankers and bakers, software devs and property developers, across some forty interviews we home in on what people actually do and why. ‘Contact’, in all its forms, is shown to still matter hugely to companies and individuals, even in a world with high-quality video conferencing and free online calling. And when the pandemic hit, a further digital survey explored interviewees’ experiences of an ‘e-only’ world, gaining ‘front-line’ insights into the short- and long-terms. The book seeks to provide guidance for city leaders, businesses, policymakers and students of urban and regional planning on how to think about 21st Century urban change.
George M. Wilson
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199594894
- eISBN:
- 9780191731440
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199594894.003.0003
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Aesthetics
This is the chapter that introduces the rather idiosyncratic positive views about our epistemic relations to fiction film that are defended in this book. First, in agreement with Kendall Walton and ...
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This is the chapter that introduces the rather idiosyncratic positive views about our epistemic relations to fiction film that are defended in this book. First, in agreement with Kendall Walton and others, it is maintained that, in watching a movie (a fiction film), viewers imagine seeing a relevant segment of the fictional world. Second, this position is defended against an important objection that was originally raised by Gregory Currie. Replying to the objection requires thinking through some basic issues about what “imagining seeing” does and does not involve, and the requisite reflections are significantly initiated in this chapter. Second, a positive account is outlined of what audio-visual narration in traditional movies amounts to. This is what the author calls “the Mediated Version of the Fictional Showing Thesis,” and it is discussed at greater length in Chapter 3 and especially Chapter 4.Less
This is the chapter that introduces the rather idiosyncratic positive views about our epistemic relations to fiction film that are defended in this book. First, in agreement with Kendall Walton and others, it is maintained that, in watching a movie (a fiction film), viewers imagine seeing a relevant segment of the fictional world. Second, this position is defended against an important objection that was originally raised by Gregory Currie. Replying to the objection requires thinking through some basic issues about what “imagining seeing” does and does not involve, and the requisite reflections are significantly initiated in this chapter. Second, a positive account is outlined of what audio-visual narration in traditional movies amounts to. This is what the author calls “the Mediated Version of the Fictional Showing Thesis,” and it is discussed at greater length in Chapter 3 and especially Chapter 4.
George M. Wilson
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199594894
- eISBN:
- 9780191731440
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199594894.003.0005
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Aesthetics
In responding to Currie’s objection in Chapter 2, the reply vacillated between two related but distinguishable versions of the Imagined Seeing Thesis. In this chapter, a distinction is explicitly ...
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In responding to Currie’s objection in Chapter 2, the reply vacillated between two related but distinguishable versions of the Imagined Seeing Thesis. In this chapter, a distinction is explicitly drawn between these versions: the first is called “the Modest Version of the Imagined Seeing Thesis,” the second is “the Mediated Version.” Both of them stand in opposition to the Face-to-Face Version, which holds that viewers imagine seeing segments of the fictional world directly (or before their very eyes). Very roughly, the Mediated Version says that viewers imagine seeing segments of the fictional world indirectly, i.e., through the mediation of “movie-like images” that visually record the segments that they depict. In Chapter 2, the author opted for the Mediated Version but failed to explain his reasons for doing so. In the present chapter, the omission is rectified, and it is argued at length that only the Mediated Version can make sense of two fundamental aspects (the diegetic vs. non-diegetic) of the way that we experience fictional worlds in movies.Less
In responding to Currie’s objection in Chapter 2, the reply vacillated between two related but distinguishable versions of the Imagined Seeing Thesis. In this chapter, a distinction is explicitly drawn between these versions: the first is called “the Modest Version of the Imagined Seeing Thesis,” the second is “the Mediated Version.” Both of them stand in opposition to the Face-to-Face Version, which holds that viewers imagine seeing segments of the fictional world directly (or before their very eyes). Very roughly, the Mediated Version says that viewers imagine seeing segments of the fictional world indirectly, i.e., through the mediation of “movie-like images” that visually record the segments that they depict. In Chapter 2, the author opted for the Mediated Version but failed to explain his reasons for doing so. In the present chapter, the omission is rectified, and it is argued at length that only the Mediated Version can make sense of two fundamental aspects (the diegetic vs. non-diegetic) of the way that we experience fictional worlds in movies.
Charlotte Bedford
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781529203363
- eISBN:
- 9781529203516
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781529203363.003.0009
- Subject:
- Sociology, Law, Crime and Deviance
This chapter details the context, content, and effects of the Face to Face programme in furthering the development of the Prison Radio Association (PRA), and argues that the case demonstrates the ...
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This chapter details the context, content, and effects of the Face to Face programme in furthering the development of the Prison Radio Association (PRA), and argues that the case demonstrates the potential of prison radio to promote, facilitate, and inform restorative justice practice. First, the chapter examines the restorative justice theme within the contemporary political context before turning to the programme itself, the wider reception, and its impact and significance for the PRA. Through discussion of the increasingly victim-centred reporting of crime within mainstream media, the chapter shows that prison radio not only provides a voice for prisoners, but is able to empower victims of crime.Less
This chapter details the context, content, and effects of the Face to Face programme in furthering the development of the Prison Radio Association (PRA), and argues that the case demonstrates the potential of prison radio to promote, facilitate, and inform restorative justice practice. First, the chapter examines the restorative justice theme within the contemporary political context before turning to the programme itself, the wider reception, and its impact and significance for the PRA. Through discussion of the increasingly victim-centred reporting of crime within mainstream media, the chapter shows that prison radio not only provides a voice for prisoners, but is able to empower victims of crime.
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.
Hongyan Zou
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- January 2022
- ISBN:
- 9781474477857
- eISBN:
- 9781399501682
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474477857.003.0006
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter explores cinematic Xi’an through the lens of flâneur’s street-level observation represented in Huang Jianxin’s two urban features, Back to Back, Face to Face [Beikaobei, Lianduilian] ...
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This chapter explores cinematic Xi’an through the lens of flâneur’s street-level observation represented in Huang Jianxin’s two urban features, Back to Back, Face to Face [Beikaobei, Lianduilian] (1994) and Signal Left, Turn Right [Hongdengting, lüdengxing] (1996), and argues that filmic Xi’an creates an enclosed and open space characterised by the coexistence of urban and rural values. Urban comedies set in Xi’an invariably employ local dialects and include landmarks of the city, fostering a strong sense of locale. In contrast, Huang Jianxin’s cinematic Xi’an restrains from the above features and portray Xi’an either as an anonymous modern space where intact socialist ideological/political order contains modernisation progress or as an enclosed and open space where ordinary citizens’ daily practices unfold. In Back to Back, the urban space is depicted within layers of walls and “guild halls”, creating an enclosed space overwhelmed by traditional power structures and rural values. In Signal Left, Turn Right, phantom of obsolete political and ideological discourse persists in characters’ daily practices, while the power of capital produces an open and sprawling urban space, overwhelming traditional values and ways of conduct.Less
This chapter explores cinematic Xi’an through the lens of flâneur’s street-level observation represented in Huang Jianxin’s two urban features, Back to Back, Face to Face [Beikaobei, Lianduilian] (1994) and Signal Left, Turn Right [Hongdengting, lüdengxing] (1996), and argues that filmic Xi’an creates an enclosed and open space characterised by the coexistence of urban and rural values. Urban comedies set in Xi’an invariably employ local dialects and include landmarks of the city, fostering a strong sense of locale. In contrast, Huang Jianxin’s cinematic Xi’an restrains from the above features and portray Xi’an either as an anonymous modern space where intact socialist ideological/political order contains modernisation progress or as an enclosed and open space where ordinary citizens’ daily practices unfold. In Back to Back, the urban space is depicted within layers of walls and “guild halls”, creating an enclosed space overwhelmed by traditional power structures and rural values. In Signal Left, Turn Right, phantom of obsolete political and ideological discourse persists in characters’ daily practices, while the power of capital produces an open and sprawling urban space, overwhelming traditional values and ways of conduct.
Ronald N. Jacobs
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199797929
- eISBN:
- 9780199944170
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199797929.003.0002
- Subject:
- Sociology, Culture
Chapter 2 traces the history of the space of opinion and analyzes the rise of the special class of media pundits who dominate it. It chronicles the rise to influence of the newspaper columnist in the ...
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Chapter 2 traces the history of the space of opinion and analyzes the rise of the special class of media pundits who dominate it. It chronicles the rise to influence of the newspaper columnist in the early 20th century, focusing on the career of Walter Lippmann. With the development of television in the 1950s and the subsequent rise of talk formats, televised political talk increasingly came to dominate public political discussions. In both print and television, different formats provided distinct strategies for dealing with two challenges: (1) the tensions between autonomy and influence, and (2) the need to present complex issues to mass publics. These different strategies have clear implications for how we think about media, opinion formation, and processes of democratic deliberation.Less
Chapter 2 traces the history of the space of opinion and analyzes the rise of the special class of media pundits who dominate it. It chronicles the rise to influence of the newspaper columnist in the early 20th century, focusing on the career of Walter Lippmann. With the development of television in the 1950s and the subsequent rise of talk formats, televised political talk increasingly came to dominate public political discussions. In both print and television, different formats provided distinct strategies for dealing with two challenges: (1) the tensions between autonomy and influence, and (2) the need to present complex issues to mass publics. These different strategies have clear implications for how we think about media, opinion formation, and processes of democratic deliberation.
Stephanie Downes
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781526129154
- eISBN:
- 9781526141996
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9781526129154.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, Early and Medieval Literature
The face is a vital site of embodied emotional display. By examining descriptions of facial pallor in a range of Chaucer’s works, Downes explores the poet’s representation of the face as an affective ...
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The face is a vital site of embodied emotional display. By examining descriptions of facial pallor in a range of Chaucer’s works, Downes explores the poet’s representation of the face as an affective text, which launches an interpretative challenge to both the medieval and the modern reader of fiction, as well as deepening our understanding of cultural expressions of feeling in the pre-modern era.Less
The face is a vital site of embodied emotional display. By examining descriptions of facial pallor in a range of Chaucer’s works, Downes explores the poet’s representation of the face as an affective text, which launches an interpretative challenge to both the medieval and the modern reader of fiction, as well as deepening our understanding of cultural expressions of feeling in the pre-modern era.
Kathleen Riley
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199738410
- eISBN:
- 9780199932955
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199738410.003.0006
- Subject:
- Music, Dance, Popular
Chapter 6 looks in depth at the Astaires’ two major collaborations with George and Ira Gershwin, Lady, Be Good! in 1924 and Funny Face in 1926. The New York and London productions of each show are ...
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Chapter 6 looks in depth at the Astaires’ two major collaborations with George and Ira Gershwin, Lady, Be Good! in 1924 and Funny Face in 1926. The New York and London productions of each show are examined in detail, with special focus on the modernity and inventiveness of Gershwin’s music and the dance numbers performed by Fred and Adele, and on the personal relationship between George Gershwin and the Astaires. Fred and Adele again took London by storm and continued their friendship with the younger royals and leading literary and cultural figures of the day. Lady, Be Good! was the last live stage show to be performed at the Empire Theatre in Leicester Square before the theatre was demolished and rebuilt as a cinema. During the London run of Lady, Be Good!, the Astaires performed before King George V and Queen Mary and their childhood idol Adeline Genée. A film version of Funny Face was proposed and the Astaires were invited to make a screen test for Paramount. The chapter also includes the Astaires’ only nightclub appearance – at New York’s Trocadero in 1925 as well as significant events in Adele’s off-stage life: her involvement in a speedboat explosion in 1928; her tempestuous engagement to Yorkshire millionaire William Gaunt; and her first meeting with her future husband, Lord Charles Cavendish.Less
Chapter 6 looks in depth at the Astaires’ two major collaborations with George and Ira Gershwin, Lady, Be Good! in 1924 and Funny Face in 1926. The New York and London productions of each show are examined in detail, with special focus on the modernity and inventiveness of Gershwin’s music and the dance numbers performed by Fred and Adele, and on the personal relationship between George Gershwin and the Astaires. Fred and Adele again took London by storm and continued their friendship with the younger royals and leading literary and cultural figures of the day. Lady, Be Good! was the last live stage show to be performed at the Empire Theatre in Leicester Square before the theatre was demolished and rebuilt as a cinema. During the London run of Lady, Be Good!, the Astaires performed before King George V and Queen Mary and their childhood idol Adeline Genée. A film version of Funny Face was proposed and the Astaires were invited to make a screen test for Paramount. The chapter also includes the Astaires’ only nightclub appearance – at New York’s Trocadero in 1925 as well as significant events in Adele’s off-stage life: her involvement in a speedboat explosion in 1928; her tempestuous engagement to Yorkshire millionaire William Gaunt; and her first meeting with her future husband, Lord Charles Cavendish.
Jez Conolly and Emma Westwood
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- January 2022
- ISBN:
- 9781800859289
- eISBN:
- 9781800852396
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781800859289.003.0004
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
Discussion of the importance of artistry, be it through artistic creativity, surgical prowess or filmmaking choices, with an examination of the identity crisis experienced by post-war American middle ...
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Discussion of the importance of artistry, be it through artistic creativity, surgical prowess or filmmaking choices, with an examination of the identity crisis experienced by post-war American middle class working men.Less
Discussion of the importance of artistry, be it through artistic creativity, surgical prowess or filmmaking choices, with an examination of the identity crisis experienced by post-war American middle class working men.
Michael Broyde and Ricetti Angela
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- February 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781874774693
- eISBN:
- 9781800340718
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781874774693.003.0030
- Subject:
- Religion, Judaism
This chapter takes a look at Edward Fram's Ideals Face Reality: Jewish Law and Life in Poland 1550–1665. It shows how the book is a rich portrait of the life of Polish Jewry in the sixteenth and ...
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This chapter takes a look at Edward Fram's Ideals Face Reality: Jewish Law and Life in Poland 1550–1665. It shows how the book is a rich portrait of the life of Polish Jewry in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and of the impact of halakhic legislation upon it. In the work, Fram approaches the era from the perspective of the posek (halakhic authority): finding ways to adapt the halakhah to contemporary situations while maintaining its integrity. The demands of the market-place especially stretched Jewish legal thought to its creative limits. Through the use of the responsa documents of some of Polish Jewry's greatest thinkers — Moses Isserles, Joel Sirkes, and Solomon Luria among them — Fram seeks to determine how the rabbis made Torah liveable in complicated times.Less
This chapter takes a look at Edward Fram's Ideals Face Reality: Jewish Law and Life in Poland 1550–1665. It shows how the book is a rich portrait of the life of Polish Jewry in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and of the impact of halakhic legislation upon it. In the work, Fram approaches the era from the perspective of the posek (halakhic authority): finding ways to adapt the halakhah to contemporary situations while maintaining its integrity. The demands of the market-place especially stretched Jewish legal thought to its creative limits. Through the use of the responsa documents of some of Polish Jewry's greatest thinkers — Moses Isserles, Joel Sirkes, and Solomon Luria among them — Fram seeks to determine how the rabbis made Torah liveable in complicated times.
Sid Catlett
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195157628
- eISBN:
- 9780199849468
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195157628.003.0006
- Subject:
- Music, History, American
Sid Catlett is one of the drummers who erased the line between the then and now. From the 1920s until his passing in 1951, he had the capacity to be consistently interesting and creative in small ...
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Sid Catlett is one of the drummers who erased the line between the then and now. From the 1920s until his passing in 1951, he had the capacity to be consistently interesting and creative in small groups or big bands. Almost forty years after his death, his work continues to speak well for him. Much of his continuing impact had to do with his talent. A good deal of his longevity, however, is related to his attitude. An artist who faced the future squarely and without fear, Catlett moved forward unintimidated, welcoming whatever challenges the music offered. He was open and adventurous. He put his mark on many styles of music, including some of the most advanced performances of his time. Even a partial review of his recordings and radio broadcasts reveals his unusual ability, liveliness, and sense of invention.Less
Sid Catlett is one of the drummers who erased the line between the then and now. From the 1920s until his passing in 1951, he had the capacity to be consistently interesting and creative in small groups or big bands. Almost forty years after his death, his work continues to speak well for him. Much of his continuing impact had to do with his talent. A good deal of his longevity, however, is related to his attitude. An artist who faced the future squarely and without fear, Catlett moved forward unintimidated, welcoming whatever challenges the music offered. He was open and adventurous. He put his mark on many styles of music, including some of the most advanced performances of his time. Even a partial review of his recordings and radio broadcasts reveals his unusual ability, liveliness, and sense of invention.
James Simpson
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781526129154
- eISBN:
- 9781526141996
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9781526129154.003.0015
- Subject:
- Literature, Early and Medieval Literature
James Simpson’s central hermeneutic perception for knowledge in the Humanities is that cognition is re-cognition. Before we can know, we must already have known. He examines this paradox with ...
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James Simpson’s central hermeneutic perception for knowledge in the Humanities is that cognition is re-cognition. Before we can know, we must already have known. He examines this paradox with reference to literary examples of facial recognition from, in particular, Chaucer and his reception in the early modern period. Linking literary face to textual face – the whole text as a kind of face – he applies the lessons learnt from facial recognition to textual recognition; and answers some possible objections to the paradox of knowing being dependent on having already known.Less
James Simpson’s central hermeneutic perception for knowledge in the Humanities is that cognition is re-cognition. Before we can know, we must already have known. He examines this paradox with reference to literary examples of facial recognition from, in particular, Chaucer and his reception in the early modern period. Linking literary face to textual face – the whole text as a kind of face – he applies the lessons learnt from facial recognition to textual recognition; and answers some possible objections to the paradox of knowing being dependent on having already known.
Paul Gilbert
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748623877
- eISBN:
- 9780748671991
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748623877.003.0004
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Theory
David Miller's distinguishes two quite different accounts of nationalism in Isaiah Berlin's work: one ascribing it to ‘the crooked timber of humanity’, the other to the ‘bent twig, which always ...
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David Miller's distinguishes two quite different accounts of nationalism in Isaiah Berlin's work: one ascribing it to ‘the crooked timber of humanity’, the other to the ‘bent twig, which always jumped back and hit its bender’. Having rejected the former account in the previous chapter, this one explores the potential of the second for explaining cultural identity more generally. It argues that cultural identities are very diverse, and should be classified in terms of the various different circumstances in which they arise, not in terms of their content in terms of values, language or history. Seven types of cultural identity are described: identity as standing, as centre, as face, as affiliation, as home, as mission and as mere label; and common errors in assimilating these are noted.Less
David Miller's distinguishes two quite different accounts of nationalism in Isaiah Berlin's work: one ascribing it to ‘the crooked timber of humanity’, the other to the ‘bent twig, which always jumped back and hit its bender’. Having rejected the former account in the previous chapter, this one explores the potential of the second for explaining cultural identity more generally. It argues that cultural identities are very diverse, and should be classified in terms of the various different circumstances in which they arise, not in terms of their content in terms of values, language or history. Seven types of cultural identity are described: identity as standing, as centre, as face, as affiliation, as home, as mission and as mere label; and common errors in assimilating these are noted.
Sara Haslam
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719060557
- eISBN:
- 9781781700099
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719060557.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
Ford Madox Ford admired Ivan Turgenev, so it is not surprising that one comes across ideas borrowed, perhaps, from him in the later writer's work. In this case, though, there is a development at ...
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Ford Madox Ford admired Ivan Turgenev, so it is not surprising that one comes across ideas borrowed, perhaps, from him in the later writer's work. In this case, though, there is a development at work; a development precipitated by World War I. Turgenev's self-confessed nihilist Bazarov expresses amazement at the tenacity of human belief in words – words that, in his example, can diminish and deaden a feeling of catastrophe. Were he to find himself instead in the volumes of Parade's End (or one of a number of other war novels), Bazarov's amazement would be tempered. Ford, post-war, has lost belief in words. He is often unsatisfied with the capacity of language to express the totality of thought or experience; speech constantly ‘gives out’, to be replaced by his most characteristic grammatical tool: ellipsis. Two quotations provide a framework for an exploration into how and why sight functions in the fragmentation of war. The first is from John Keegan's book, The Face of Battle; the second from Frederic Manning's novel, The Middle Parts of Fortune.Less
Ford Madox Ford admired Ivan Turgenev, so it is not surprising that one comes across ideas borrowed, perhaps, from him in the later writer's work. In this case, though, there is a development at work; a development precipitated by World War I. Turgenev's self-confessed nihilist Bazarov expresses amazement at the tenacity of human belief in words – words that, in his example, can diminish and deaden a feeling of catastrophe. Were he to find himself instead in the volumes of Parade's End (or one of a number of other war novels), Bazarov's amazement would be tempered. Ford, post-war, has lost belief in words. He is often unsatisfied with the capacity of language to express the totality of thought or experience; speech constantly ‘gives out’, to be replaced by his most characteristic grammatical tool: ellipsis. Two quotations provide a framework for an exploration into how and why sight functions in the fragmentation of war. The first is from John Keegan's book, The Face of Battle; the second from Frederic Manning's novel, The Middle Parts of Fortune.
Jonathan Reades and Martin Crookston
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- September 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781529215991
- eISBN:
- 9781529216035
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781529215991.003.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Movements and Social Change
This introductory chapter sketches the territory to be explored: how ICT is, and is not, changing everything; the continuing importance of face-to-face contact in many sectors; how businesses adapt ...
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This introductory chapter sketches the territory to be explored: how ICT is, and is not, changing everything; the continuing importance of face-to-face contact in many sectors; how businesses adapt to this changing and digitally-dominated landscape; and what this all means for cities and towns. It summarises the book’s ‘layered’ structure: starting with the underpinning that infrastructure provides for contact (Chapter 2); explaining how F2F has such an important role to play in making markets and doing deals (Chapters 3 & 4); homing in on the core issue of why firms and workers value face-to-face interaction so highly, and interviewing the people involved about what they actually do day-to-day (Chapters 5 & 6); and finally on to the ‘so what for cities’ conclusions (Chapters 7 & 8). It stresses, too, a view of the coronavirus pandemic as an accelerant to already-existing trends: it may be the petrol, but it is not the fire.Less
This introductory chapter sketches the territory to be explored: how ICT is, and is not, changing everything; the continuing importance of face-to-face contact in many sectors; how businesses adapt to this changing and digitally-dominated landscape; and what this all means for cities and towns. It summarises the book’s ‘layered’ structure: starting with the underpinning that infrastructure provides for contact (Chapter 2); explaining how F2F has such an important role to play in making markets and doing deals (Chapters 3 & 4); homing in on the core issue of why firms and workers value face-to-face interaction so highly, and interviewing the people involved about what they actually do day-to-day (Chapters 5 & 6); and finally on to the ‘so what for cities’ conclusions (Chapters 7 & 8). It stresses, too, a view of the coronavirus pandemic as an accelerant to already-existing trends: it may be the petrol, but it is not the fire.
Jonathan Reades and Martin Crookston
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- September 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781529215991
- eISBN:
- 9781529216035
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781529215991.003.0006
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Movements and Social Change
We look at how Chapter 5’s ‘people ideas’ play out in practice; it is about real people talking about real jobs. Respondents described their interactions, how much was internal or external, the ...
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We look at how Chapter 5’s ‘people ideas’ play out in practice; it is about real people talking about real jobs. Respondents described their interactions, how much was internal or external, the frequency and nature of contacts, and how much their social and work lives interpenetrated. Strongly evident in the responses is the role of different technologies in displacing face-to-face in specific contexts and settings. The trade-offs between on- and off-line encounters emerged, as did what that means for how firms conduct business and choose where to locate. A section titled Was This the Future? reports on a follow-up survey of our original interviewees in the midst of a global pandemic that tested our assumptions and arguments. With lockdowns, ‘social distancing’ and working from home as people’s ‘new normal’, was this the moment to discover that F2F wasn’t quite so important after all? The section reports both on immediate effects in their sectors, and their views on the likely longer-term impacts on how business would be done.Less
We look at how Chapter 5’s ‘people ideas’ play out in practice; it is about real people talking about real jobs. Respondents described their interactions, how much was internal or external, the frequency and nature of contacts, and how much their social and work lives interpenetrated. Strongly evident in the responses is the role of different technologies in displacing face-to-face in specific contexts and settings. The trade-offs between on- and off-line encounters emerged, as did what that means for how firms conduct business and choose where to locate. A section titled Was This the Future? reports on a follow-up survey of our original interviewees in the midst of a global pandemic that tested our assumptions and arguments. With lockdowns, ‘social distancing’ and working from home as people’s ‘new normal’, was this the moment to discover that F2F wasn’t quite so important after all? The section reports both on immediate effects in their sectors, and their views on the likely longer-term impacts on how business would be done.
