Viola Shafik
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789774160653
- eISBN:
- 9781936190096
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- American University in Cairo Press
- DOI:
- 10.5743/cairo/9789774160653.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Middle Eastern Studies
This book combines economic, ideological, and aesthetic narrative history with thought-provoking analysis. It provides an overview of cinema in the Arab world, tracing the industry's development from ...
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This book combines economic, ideological, and aesthetic narrative history with thought-provoking analysis. It provides an overview of cinema in the Arab world, tracing the industry's development from colonial times to the present. It analyzes the ambiguous relationship with commercial western cinema, and the effect of Egypt's market dominance in the region. Tracing the influence on the medium of local and regional art forms and modes of thought, both classical and popular, the book shows how indigenous and external factors combine in a dynamic process of cultural repackaging. This text has been updated to reflect cultural shifts in the last ten years of cinema. The book has a strong focus on Iraq, Lebanon, and Palestine. While exploring problematic issues such as European co-production for Arab art films, including their relation to cultural identity and their reception in the region and abroad, this edition introduces readers to some of the most compelling cinematic works of the last decade.Less
This book combines economic, ideological, and aesthetic narrative history with thought-provoking analysis. It provides an overview of cinema in the Arab world, tracing the industry's development from colonial times to the present. It analyzes the ambiguous relationship with commercial western cinema, and the effect of Egypt's market dominance in the region. Tracing the influence on the medium of local and regional art forms and modes of thought, both classical and popular, the book shows how indigenous and external factors combine in a dynamic process of cultural repackaging. This text has been updated to reflect cultural shifts in the last ten years of cinema. The book has a strong focus on Iraq, Lebanon, and Palestine. While exploring problematic issues such as European co-production for Arab art films, including their relation to cultural identity and their reception in the region and abroad, this edition introduces readers to some of the most compelling cinematic works of the last decade.
Melanie Simms, Jane Holgate, and Edmund Heery
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780801451201
- eISBN:
- 9780801466021
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9780801451201.003.0005
- Subject:
- Political Science, UK Politics
This chapter introduces the work of organizers, who they are, and what they do. As specialist actors in the process of organizing, their training and work experiences inform a great deal about how ...
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This chapter introduces the work of organizers, who they are, and what they do. As specialist actors in the process of organizing, their training and work experiences inform a great deal about how organizing is managed and focused in British unions. Organizers are at the sharp end of the difficulties and tensions inherent in trying to manage a cultural shift in unions toward organizing activity. They have competing views about how these tensions can and should be addressed, and they are, generally, a highly reflective group of practitioners. The chapter considers the work they do and what it says about how British unions approach organizing. Their challenges, stresses, and dilemmas, as well as victories and failures tell a great deal about how tensions are managed.Less
This chapter introduces the work of organizers, who they are, and what they do. As specialist actors in the process of organizing, their training and work experiences inform a great deal about how organizing is managed and focused in British unions. Organizers are at the sharp end of the difficulties and tensions inherent in trying to manage a cultural shift in unions toward organizing activity. They have competing views about how these tensions can and should be addressed, and they are, generally, a highly reflective group of practitioners. The chapter considers the work they do and what it says about how British unions approach organizing. Their challenges, stresses, and dilemmas, as well as victories and failures tell a great deal about how tensions are managed.
Catherine Parsons Smith
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520251397
- eISBN:
- 9780520933835
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520251397.003.0014
- Subject:
- Music, History, American
This chapter identifies the event that led music aficionados and audiences to rethink the ultramodern performances which were introduced in Los Angeles, arguing that the negative reaction to the ...
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This chapter identifies the event that led music aficionados and audiences to rethink the ultramodern performances which were introduced in Los Angeles, arguing that the negative reaction to the ultramodern is actually a symptom of a wider cultural shift. It states that the changes in music making were the technological, the gender related, the entrepreneurial, and the now redefined popular, emphasizing that, after 1926, the Progressive-era culture of music making went through significant changes.Less
This chapter identifies the event that led music aficionados and audiences to rethink the ultramodern performances which were introduced in Los Angeles, arguing that the negative reaction to the ultramodern is actually a symptom of a wider cultural shift. It states that the changes in music making were the technological, the gender related, the entrepreneurial, and the now redefined popular, emphasizing that, after 1926, the Progressive-era culture of music making went through significant changes.
Nancy Mandeville Caciola
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781501702617
- eISBN:
- 9781501703478
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501702617.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, European Medieval History
This chapter analyzes several spiritist cults in Southern France that formed around individuals who claimed to be in regular contact with the dead. These spirit mediums, though at first taken aback ...
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This chapter analyzes several spiritist cults in Southern France that formed around individuals who claimed to be in regular contact with the dead. These spirit mediums, though at first taken aback when the dead began to appear to them, ultimately learned to control their interactions with the latter. They became voluntary oracles who opened up the world of the afterlife to crowds of other people, and they acted as psychopomps for the dead, helping them to find rest in the afterlife. Clerics also evaluated local popular beliefs according to their own religious values, sometimes condemning mediums as heretics, at other times arrogating oracular roles to themselves. Such accusations from the medieval Christian church often inverted the true character of ongoing cultural shifts: the “crime” of many dissenters was in fact to fail to keep pace with novelties that were pioneered by church institutions, rather than the reverse.Less
This chapter analyzes several spiritist cults in Southern France that formed around individuals who claimed to be in regular contact with the dead. These spirit mediums, though at first taken aback when the dead began to appear to them, ultimately learned to control their interactions with the latter. They became voluntary oracles who opened up the world of the afterlife to crowds of other people, and they acted as psychopomps for the dead, helping them to find rest in the afterlife. Clerics also evaluated local popular beliefs according to their own religious values, sometimes condemning mediums as heretics, at other times arrogating oracular roles to themselves. Such accusations from the medieval Christian church often inverted the true character of ongoing cultural shifts: the “crime” of many dissenters was in fact to fail to keep pace with novelties that were pioneered by church institutions, rather than the reverse.
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781846318214
- eISBN:
- 9781846317736
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/UPO9781846317736.004
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter examines how the travelogues of Daphne Marlatt and W. G. Sebald thematically explore and stylistically convey the liminality and in-betweenness of spectral presences. It focuses on ...
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This chapter examines how the travelogues of Daphne Marlatt and W. G. Sebald thematically explore and stylistically convey the liminality and in-betweenness of spectral presences. It focuses on Marlatt's Ghost Works and Sebald's Vertigo and The Rings of Saturn. It discusses the plot of these works and suggests that innovative travel narratives of Marlatt and Sebald are emblematic of a cultural shift in modes and media of textual production that illustrates the concern to push the boundaries of generic and textual responses to travel.Less
This chapter examines how the travelogues of Daphne Marlatt and W. G. Sebald thematically explore and stylistically convey the liminality and in-betweenness of spectral presences. It focuses on Marlatt's Ghost Works and Sebald's Vertigo and The Rings of Saturn. It discusses the plot of these works and suggests that innovative travel narratives of Marlatt and Sebald are emblematic of a cultural shift in modes and media of textual production that illustrates the concern to push the boundaries of generic and textual responses to travel.
Alex Lubin
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781469612881
- eISBN:
- 9781469615318
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469612881.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
This transnational history reveals the vital connections between African American political thought and the people and nations of the Middle East. Spanning the 1850s through the present, and set ...
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This transnational history reveals the vital connections between African American political thought and the people and nations of the Middle East. Spanning the 1850s through the present, and set against a backdrop of major political and cultural shifts around the world, the book demonstrates how international geopolitics, including the ascendance of liberal internationalism, established the conditions within which blacks imagined their freedom and, conversely, the ways in which various Middle Eastern groups have understood and used the African American freedom struggle to shape their own political movements. It extends the framework of the black freedom struggle beyond the familiar geographies of the Atlantic world and sheds new light on the linked political, social, and intellectual imaginings of African Americans, Palestinians, Arabs, and Israeli Jews. This history of intellectual exchange, the author argues, has forged political connections that extend beyond national and racial boundaries.Less
This transnational history reveals the vital connections between African American political thought and the people and nations of the Middle East. Spanning the 1850s through the present, and set against a backdrop of major political and cultural shifts around the world, the book demonstrates how international geopolitics, including the ascendance of liberal internationalism, established the conditions within which blacks imagined their freedom and, conversely, the ways in which various Middle Eastern groups have understood and used the African American freedom struggle to shape their own political movements. It extends the framework of the black freedom struggle beyond the familiar geographies of the Atlantic world and sheds new light on the linked political, social, and intellectual imaginings of African Americans, Palestinians, Arabs, and Israeli Jews. This history of intellectual exchange, the author argues, has forged political connections that extend beyond national and racial boundaries.
Christopher Innes
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300108040
- eISBN:
- 9780300129557
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300108040.003.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
This chapter discusses the “style” of twentieth-century America, which was deliberately designed and created by specific individuals. The particular cultural shift followed by this style, copied ...
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This chapter discusses the “style” of twentieth-century America, which was deliberately designed and created by specific individuals. The particular cultural shift followed by this style, copied around the world, marks the start of industrial design in a modern sense. Perhaps surprisingly, this type of design came out of theater. In fact, the magic of the stage turns out to be crucial to its development, since the people who led the way in consciously designing a new lifestyle for America made their reputations on Broadway and carried its theatricality over into everything they did. The objects and styles created by these individuals, or by their descendants in the industrial process, surround us still and continue to condition the way we live.Less
This chapter discusses the “style” of twentieth-century America, which was deliberately designed and created by specific individuals. The particular cultural shift followed by this style, copied around the world, marks the start of industrial design in a modern sense. Perhaps surprisingly, this type of design came out of theater. In fact, the magic of the stage turns out to be crucial to its development, since the people who led the way in consciously designing a new lifestyle for America made their reputations on Broadway and carried its theatricality over into everything they did. The objects and styles created by these individuals, or by their descendants in the industrial process, surround us still and continue to condition the way we live.
Trey McIntyre
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807837238
- eISBN:
- 9781469601427
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807837559_rotskoff.34
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
This chapter illustrates how important the broadcast premiere of Free to Be … You and Me was to the author's family—so much so, that they had to invent the VCR. They arranged a borrowed reel-to-reel ...
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This chapter illustrates how important the broadcast premiere of Free to Be … You and Me was to the author's family—so much so, that they had to invent the VCR. They arranged a borrowed reel-to-reel video camera from his dad's school and set it up on a tripod across from the TV set in his mom's new third-floor apartment. They had to watch silently so that the family's voices wouldn't be recorded in the background, the first of many times the author would watch that tape. From that first viewing, he watched it with a strange reverence. The author didn't really know why it was important, but there was no mistaking that it was. Free to Be, he has come to understand, represented a cultural shift that extended ideas of progressive feminism and equality to child rearing, a lightning bolt shift away from the repressive images of the 1960s recreated on Mad Men today.Less
This chapter illustrates how important the broadcast premiere of Free to Be … You and Me was to the author's family—so much so, that they had to invent the VCR. They arranged a borrowed reel-to-reel video camera from his dad's school and set it up on a tripod across from the TV set in his mom's new third-floor apartment. They had to watch silently so that the family's voices wouldn't be recorded in the background, the first of many times the author would watch that tape. From that first viewing, he watched it with a strange reverence. The author didn't really know why it was important, but there was no mistaking that it was. Free to Be, he has come to understand, represented a cultural shift that extended ideas of progressive feminism and equality to child rearing, a lightning bolt shift away from the repressive images of the 1960s recreated on Mad Men today.
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781846312328
- eISBN:
- 9781846316111
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781846312328.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, Film, Media, and Cultural Studies
This chapter sums up the key findings of this study on the history of the term sophistication. It traces how sophistication developed from a derogatory term referring to falsification or adulteration ...
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This chapter sums up the key findings of this study on the history of the term sophistication. It traces how sophistication developed from a derogatory term referring to falsification or adulteration to a term of praise suggesting distinction and discriminating taste, and discusses some of the cultural shifts underlying this change. It also argues that it was English playwright and actor Noël Coward who ‘took sophistication out of the refrigerator and set it bubbling on the hob’. This chapter also considers the meaning of sophistication in late twentieth– and twentieth–first–century culture.Less
This chapter sums up the key findings of this study on the history of the term sophistication. It traces how sophistication developed from a derogatory term referring to falsification or adulteration to a term of praise suggesting distinction and discriminating taste, and discusses some of the cultural shifts underlying this change. It also argues that it was English playwright and actor Noël Coward who ‘took sophistication out of the refrigerator and set it bubbling on the hob’. This chapter also considers the meaning of sophistication in late twentieth– and twentieth–first–century culture.
