Margit Tavits
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- January 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780199553327
- eISBN:
- 9780191721007
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199553327.003.0006
- Subject:
- Political Science, Comparative Politics
Chapter 6 addresses a third prevalent issue regarding presidential elections—the extent to which direct elections strengthen democratic practices. Empirical analyses using global and European samples ...
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Chapter 6 addresses a third prevalent issue regarding presidential elections—the extent to which direct elections strengthen democratic practices. Empirical analyses using global and European samples of parliamentary systems with elected heads of state demonstrate that citizens' satisfaction with government, political disillusionment, their commitment to democratic values and level of political involvement are not significantly affected by introducing direct presidential elections. In fact, the additional election increases voter fatigue and decreases turnout in parliamentary elections by about seven percentage points. Since direct presidential elections are no more likely to decrease citizen disillusionment with the government and strengthen democratic practices than indirect elections, this chapter concludes that these systems have indistinguishable effects on democratic attitudes. The noticeable effect of introducing additional elections on voter behavior, however, merits the attention of institutional designers.Less
Chapter 6 addresses a third prevalent issue regarding presidential elections—the extent to which direct elections strengthen democratic practices. Empirical analyses using global and European samples of parliamentary systems with elected heads of state demonstrate that citizens' satisfaction with government, political disillusionment, their commitment to democratic values and level of political involvement are not significantly affected by introducing direct presidential elections. In fact, the additional election increases voter fatigue and decreases turnout in parliamentary elections by about seven percentage points. Since direct presidential elections are no more likely to decrease citizen disillusionment with the government and strengthen democratic practices than indirect elections, this chapter concludes that these systems have indistinguishable effects on democratic attitudes. The noticeable effect of introducing additional elections on voter behavior, however, merits the attention of institutional designers.
Matthew Gill
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780199547142
- eISBN:
- 9780191720017
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199547142.003.0005
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Corporate Governance and Accountability, Finance, Accounting, and Banking
Accountants sometimes approach their work with a pragmatism which simply brackets the question of truthfulness out of everyday consideration. Yet even accountants disillusioned with technocratism are ...
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Accountants sometimes approach their work with a pragmatism which simply brackets the question of truthfulness out of everyday consideration. Yet even accountants disillusioned with technocratism are not always straightforward pragmatists. This chapter explores how they act according to various tacit motivational metaphors, which embody ethical imperatives that are not always reducible to mere expediency. For instance, accounting conceived as sport legitimates pushing legal boundaries, but also demands adherence to an ethos of fair play. The chapter concludes that making accountants' motivational metaphors explicit might help to enhance the ethical reasoning they use at work.Less
Accountants sometimes approach their work with a pragmatism which simply brackets the question of truthfulness out of everyday consideration. Yet even accountants disillusioned with technocratism are not always straightforward pragmatists. This chapter explores how they act according to various tacit motivational metaphors, which embody ethical imperatives that are not always reducible to mere expediency. For instance, accounting conceived as sport legitimates pushing legal boundaries, but also demands adherence to an ethos of fair play. The chapter concludes that making accountants' motivational metaphors explicit might help to enhance the ethical reasoning they use at work.
R.O.A.M. Lyne
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780199203963
- eISBN:
- 9780191708237
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199203963.003.0001
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval
This paper interprets 1.3 as a dramatization of disillusionment; the subversion of the character's vision of the sleeping beloved is here made into the author's presentation of a basic experience. ...
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This paper interprets 1.3 as a dramatization of disillusionment; the subversion of the character's vision of the sleeping beloved is here made into the author's presentation of a basic experience. But the character and author are identified, the basic experience is seen as the author's experience in love.Less
This paper interprets 1.3 as a dramatization of disillusionment; the subversion of the character's vision of the sleeping beloved is here made into the author's presentation of a basic experience. But the character and author are identified, the basic experience is seen as the author's experience in love.
Kristen Renwick Monroe
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691151373
- eISBN:
- 9781400840366
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691151373.003.0006
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Psychology and Interaction
This chapter showcases a Dutch collaborator named Fritz. Fritz shared many of Tony's prewar conservative opinions in favor of the monarchy and traditional Dutch values, although he was of ...
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This chapter showcases a Dutch collaborator named Fritz. Fritz shared many of Tony's prewar conservative opinions in favor of the monarchy and traditional Dutch values, although he was of working-class origins, unlike Tony and Beatrix, who were Dutch bourgeoisie. But unlike Beatrix or Tony, Fritz joined the Nazi Party, wrote propaganda for the Nazi cause, and married the daughter of a German Nazi. When he was interviewed in 1992, Fritz indicated he was appalled at what he later learned about Nazi treatment of Jews but that he still believed in many of the goals of the National Socialist movement and felt that Hitler had betrayed the movement. Fritz is thus classified as a disillusioned Nazi supporter who retains his faith in much of National Socialism, and this chapter is presented as illustrative of the psychology of those who once supported the Nazi regime but who were disillusioned after the war.Less
This chapter showcases a Dutch collaborator named Fritz. Fritz shared many of Tony's prewar conservative opinions in favor of the monarchy and traditional Dutch values, although he was of working-class origins, unlike Tony and Beatrix, who were Dutch bourgeoisie. But unlike Beatrix or Tony, Fritz joined the Nazi Party, wrote propaganda for the Nazi cause, and married the daughter of a German Nazi. When he was interviewed in 1992, Fritz indicated he was appalled at what he later learned about Nazi treatment of Jews but that he still believed in many of the goals of the National Socialist movement and felt that Hitler had betrayed the movement. Fritz is thus classified as a disillusioned Nazi supporter who retains his faith in much of National Socialism, and this chapter is presented as illustrative of the psychology of those who once supported the Nazi regime but who were disillusioned after the war.
CHERYL REGEHR and TED BOBER
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- January 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195165029
- eISBN:
- 9780199864089
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195165029.003.0004
- Subject:
- Social Work, Health and Mental Health
Disasters as traumatic events are individual, interpersonal, community, and political events. This chapter reviews disasters in terms of their types and characteristics, size, duration, and impact on ...
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Disasters as traumatic events are individual, interpersonal, community, and political events. This chapter reviews disasters in terms of their types and characteristics, size, duration, and impact on individuals and communities. The phases of a disaster include the pre-disaster warning or threat phase, the impact phase, the rescue stage, the disillusionment phase, and the recovery and reconstruction phase. Each phase of disaster brings unique challenges for first response professionals and in turn interventions require ongoing assessment, sensitivity, and appropriate application. Additionally, this chapter examines risk factors for adverse outcomes in relation to the psychosocial resources available to the disaster victims and emergency response professional. Effective peer support and mental health responses to first responders to disasters are far more than a collection of separate and individual interventions. Disaster mental health and peer support work requires knowledge of disasters and wide range of interventions with individuals, groups and organizations while having the tolerance if not “savvy” for the politics.Less
Disasters as traumatic events are individual, interpersonal, community, and political events. This chapter reviews disasters in terms of their types and characteristics, size, duration, and impact on individuals and communities. The phases of a disaster include the pre-disaster warning or threat phase, the impact phase, the rescue stage, the disillusionment phase, and the recovery and reconstruction phase. Each phase of disaster brings unique challenges for first response professionals and in turn interventions require ongoing assessment, sensitivity, and appropriate application. Additionally, this chapter examines risk factors for adverse outcomes in relation to the psychosocial resources available to the disaster victims and emergency response professional. Effective peer support and mental health responses to first responders to disasters are far more than a collection of separate and individual interventions. Disaster mental health and peer support work requires knowledge of disasters and wide range of interventions with individuals, groups and organizations while having the tolerance if not “savvy” for the politics.
Linda O. McMurry
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195139273
- eISBN:
- 9780199848911
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195139273.003.0017
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This chapter focuses on Ida B. Wells-Barnett's last years. From the close of the World War I until her death in 1931, she remained the most persistent black voice for justice and power. By that time, ...
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This chapter focuses on Ida B. Wells-Barnett's last years. From the close of the World War I until her death in 1931, she remained the most persistent black voice for justice and power. By that time, however, the Chicago radical was alienated from most African American leaders and organizations and her style of agitation seem dated. In the 1920s, her influence had declined. During her last years, she began an autobiography that reflected a disillusionment born from her sense of isolation.Less
This chapter focuses on Ida B. Wells-Barnett's last years. From the close of the World War I until her death in 1931, she remained the most persistent black voice for justice and power. By that time, however, the Chicago radical was alienated from most African American leaders and organizations and her style of agitation seem dated. In the 1920s, her influence had declined. During her last years, she began an autobiography that reflected a disillusionment born from her sense of isolation.
Graeme Gill and Roger D. Markwick
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780199240418
- eISBN:
- 9780191599347
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0199240418.003.0007
- Subject:
- Political Science, Russian Politics
In both Gorbachev's Soviet Union and Yeltsin's Russia, elites were able to act relatively unconstrained by the populace at large. The Soviet legacy was not a fruitful one for the development of a ...
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In both Gorbachev's Soviet Union and Yeltsin's Russia, elites were able to act relatively unconstrained by the populace at large. The Soviet legacy was not a fruitful one for the development of a powerful civil society. The economic difficulties of the post‐Soviet period and the resultant mass disillusionment posed a further barrier to such a development. In this context, politics has overwhelmingly been the preserve of the elites; an arena in which they fought out their interests. The result was that those elites had little incentive to build a system based upon real democratic principles, in which the populace has a decisive voice. In these circumstances, under Yeltsin, democracy in Russia proved to be stillborn.Less
In both Gorbachev's Soviet Union and Yeltsin's Russia, elites were able to act relatively unconstrained by the populace at large. The Soviet legacy was not a fruitful one for the development of a powerful civil society. The economic difficulties of the post‐Soviet period and the resultant mass disillusionment posed a further barrier to such a development. In this context, politics has overwhelmingly been the preserve of the elites; an arena in which they fought out their interests. The result was that those elites had little incentive to build a system based upon real democratic principles, in which the populace has a decisive voice. In these circumstances, under Yeltsin, democracy in Russia proved to be stillborn.
David Pugmire
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- July 2005
- ISBN:
- 9780199276899
- eISBN:
- 9780191602689
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0199276897.003.0007
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind
Cynicism, with its wariness of pleasant views, appeals as a prophylactic against sentimentality. It offers to forswear good feeling and live with bleak truth. Cynicism is one of five related ...
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Cynicism, with its wariness of pleasant views, appeals as a prophylactic against sentimentality. It offers to forswear good feeling and live with bleak truth. Cynicism is one of five related attitudes. Less truthful than it seems, it is insistent and motivated, for it is driven by disdain and pride. As such, it manages to be at once emotionally constrictive and sentimental, after all.Less
Cynicism, with its wariness of pleasant views, appeals as a prophylactic against sentimentality. It offers to forswear good feeling and live with bleak truth. Cynicism is one of five related attitudes. Less truthful than it seems, it is insistent and motivated, for it is driven by disdain and pride. As such, it manages to be at once emotionally constrictive and sentimental, after all.
Sean P. Cunningham
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813125763
- eISBN:
- 9780813135441
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813125763.003.0005
- Subject:
- Political Science, American Politics
The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal published an anonymous, full-page advertisement consisting only of text on April 15, 1971. At the top of the page, in big, bold letters, was a declaration: “I am a Sick ...
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The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal published an anonymous, full-page advertisement consisting only of text on April 15, 1971. At the top of the page, in big, bold letters, was a declaration: “I am a Sick American.” As the tumultuous 1960s came to a close, more Americans grew less patient with the pace, procedure, and style of social, economic, and cultural change. Disillusionment and, eventually, malaise resulted from a sense that America was “sick.” Yet not all citizens responded passively. During the late 1960s, race, integration, and associated white anxieties are the most commonly accepted diagnosis for the political backlash that gripped the South.Less
The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal published an anonymous, full-page advertisement consisting only of text on April 15, 1971. At the top of the page, in big, bold letters, was a declaration: “I am a Sick American.” As the tumultuous 1960s came to a close, more Americans grew less patient with the pace, procedure, and style of social, economic, and cultural change. Disillusionment and, eventually, malaise resulted from a sense that America was “sick.” Yet not all citizens responded passively. During the late 1960s, race, integration, and associated white anxieties are the most commonly accepted diagnosis for the political backlash that gripped the South.
Andrew Frayn
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- January 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780719089220
- eISBN:
- 9781781707333
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719089220.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature
This book argues that disenchantment is not only a response to wartime experience, but a condition of modernity with a language that finds extreme expression in First World War literature. The ...
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This book argues that disenchantment is not only a response to wartime experience, but a condition of modernity with a language that finds extreme expression in First World War literature. The objects of disenchantment are often the very same as the enchantments of scientific progress: bureaucracy, homogenisation and capitalism. Older beliefs such as religion, courage and honour are kept in view, and endure longer than often is realised. Social critics, theorists and commentators of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries provide a rich and previously unexplored context for wartime and post-war literature. The rise of the disenchanted narrative to its predominance in the War Books Boom of 1928 – 1930 is charted from the turn of the century in texts, archival material, sales and review data. Rarely-studied popular and middlebrow novels are analysed alongside well-known highbrow texts: D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, H. G. Wells and Rebecca West rub shoulders with forgotten figures such as Gilbert Frankau and Ernest Raymond. These sometimes jarring juxtapositions show the strained relationship between enchantment and disenchantment in the war and the post-war decade.Less
This book argues that disenchantment is not only a response to wartime experience, but a condition of modernity with a language that finds extreme expression in First World War literature. The objects of disenchantment are often the very same as the enchantments of scientific progress: bureaucracy, homogenisation and capitalism. Older beliefs such as religion, courage and honour are kept in view, and endure longer than often is realised. Social critics, theorists and commentators of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries provide a rich and previously unexplored context for wartime and post-war literature. The rise of the disenchanted narrative to its predominance in the War Books Boom of 1928 – 1930 is charted from the turn of the century in texts, archival material, sales and review data. Rarely-studied popular and middlebrow novels are analysed alongside well-known highbrow texts: D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, H. G. Wells and Rebecca West rub shoulders with forgotten figures such as Gilbert Frankau and Ernest Raymond. These sometimes jarring juxtapositions show the strained relationship between enchantment and disenchantment in the war and the post-war decade.
Rory Muir
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780300244311
- eISBN:
- 9780300249545
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300244311.003.0013
- Subject:
- History, European Early Modern History
This concluding chapter offers reflections on all the career options discussed in the previous chapters. It is rather surprising that the large number of well-educated young men, brought up in ...
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This concluding chapter offers reflections on all the career options discussed in the previous chapters. It is rather surprising that the large number of well-educated young men, brought up in comfort if not affluence, only to be faced with such limited and bleak prospects, did not develop a greater sense of collective identity and grievance, and turn to radical politics to remedy the flagrant injustices of a society that could treat them in this manner. Presumably they retained a sufficiently strong sense of belonging to the privileged classes and were not sufficiently alienated to want to upend the applecart, but revolutions have been fuelled by less reasonable complaints, and Britain in the years immediately after Waterloo was seething with discontent. At that time, however, most half-pay officers and other young gentlemen in a similar position probably imagined that some fresh war would soon break out, or some other opportunity would arise, that would rescue them from the doldrums and carry them forward in their career. Like the proverbial frog boiling in water, their disillusionment was gradual and they slowly adjusted to their altered circumstances and diminished prospects.Less
This concluding chapter offers reflections on all the career options discussed in the previous chapters. It is rather surprising that the large number of well-educated young men, brought up in comfort if not affluence, only to be faced with such limited and bleak prospects, did not develop a greater sense of collective identity and grievance, and turn to radical politics to remedy the flagrant injustices of a society that could treat them in this manner. Presumably they retained a sufficiently strong sense of belonging to the privileged classes and were not sufficiently alienated to want to upend the applecart, but revolutions have been fuelled by less reasonable complaints, and Britain in the years immediately after Waterloo was seething with discontent. At that time, however, most half-pay officers and other young gentlemen in a similar position probably imagined that some fresh war would soon break out, or some other opportunity would arise, that would rescue them from the doldrums and carry them forward in their career. Like the proverbial frog boiling in water, their disillusionment was gradual and they slowly adjusted to their altered circumstances and diminished prospects.
C. Collard, M. J. Cropp, and K. H. Lee
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- February 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780856686191
- eISBN:
- 9781800342699
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9780856686191.003.0005
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Plays and Playwrights: Classical, Early, and Medieval
This chapter focuses on Euripides' Bellerophon. The play's loss is particularly unfortunate, for the gnomic fragments suggest that it was one of Euripides' most sustained treatments of man's ...
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This chapter focuses on Euripides' Bellerophon. The play's loss is particularly unfortunate, for the gnomic fragments suggest that it was one of Euripides' most sustained treatments of man's disillusion with god. The high point, perhaps the climax of the action, was Bellerophon's attempt to scale Heaven on Pegasus the winged horse, in order to confront the gods with their apparent injustice. But Pegasus threw him off; he reappeared crippled by the fall and in rags, and may have died at the play's end. Bellerophon's defiant doubt of the gods' justice has been compared with the more violent hostility of Prometheus or of Pentheus. He can be considered as a self-portrait by Euripides, searching fruitlessly for life's meaning. It seems certain that Euripides once again enlarged what is a shadowy if melodramatic incident into a profound study of human disquiet.Less
This chapter focuses on Euripides' Bellerophon. The play's loss is particularly unfortunate, for the gnomic fragments suggest that it was one of Euripides' most sustained treatments of man's disillusion with god. The high point, perhaps the climax of the action, was Bellerophon's attempt to scale Heaven on Pegasus the winged horse, in order to confront the gods with their apparent injustice. But Pegasus threw him off; he reappeared crippled by the fall and in rags, and may have died at the play's end. Bellerophon's defiant doubt of the gods' justice has been compared with the more violent hostility of Prometheus or of Pentheus. He can be considered as a self-portrait by Euripides, searching fruitlessly for life's meaning. It seems certain that Euripides once again enlarged what is a shadowy if melodramatic incident into a profound study of human disquiet.
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804753708
- eISBN:
- 9780804768030
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804753708.003.0007
- Subject:
- Literature, World Literature
This chapter examines how the subordinate characters and multiple narrators of Mikhail Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time followed post-Romantic “scripts” that generate frustrated expectations and render ...
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This chapter examines how the subordinate characters and multiple narrators of Mikhail Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time followed post-Romantic “scripts” that generate frustrated expectations and render conclusions inconclusive for characters, narrators, and readers alike. It suggests that the six characters with whom the protagonist Pechorin had significant encounters exemplify some variations of the malaise of Pechorin's post-Romantic times. The chapter also explains that while these characters initially had genuine Romantic ideals, they all came to “post-Romantic ends” including disillusionment, frustration, dejection, or unromantic death.Less
This chapter examines how the subordinate characters and multiple narrators of Mikhail Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time followed post-Romantic “scripts” that generate frustrated expectations and render conclusions inconclusive for characters, narrators, and readers alike. It suggests that the six characters with whom the protagonist Pechorin had significant encounters exemplify some variations of the malaise of Pechorin's post-Romantic times. The chapter also explains that while these characters initially had genuine Romantic ideals, they all came to “post-Romantic ends” including disillusionment, frustration, dejection, or unromantic death.
Scott Timberg
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- May 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781496828118
- eISBN:
- 9781496828064
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496828118.003.0031
- Subject:
- Literature, Comics Studies
This chapter contains an in-depth exploration of the issues surrounding comics and museums written by cultural journalist Scott Timberg for the Los Angeles Times in 2005 during the opening of ...
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This chapter contains an in-depth exploration of the issues surrounding comics and museums written by cultural journalist Scott Timberg for the Los Angeles Times in 2005 during the opening of the Masters of American Comics exhibition at the Hammer Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. This chapter includes interviews with Ann Philbin, Art Spiegelman, John Carlin, and Brian Walker about the organization of the show. This chapter discusses the valuation of comic art versus fine art, the disillusionment some cartoonists feel about art school and contemporary fine art, and opinions on the future of comic art shows from curators at other museums.Less
This chapter contains an in-depth exploration of the issues surrounding comics and museums written by cultural journalist Scott Timberg for the Los Angeles Times in 2005 during the opening of the Masters of American Comics exhibition at the Hammer Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. This chapter includes interviews with Ann Philbin, Art Spiegelman, John Carlin, and Brian Walker about the organization of the show. This chapter discusses the valuation of comic art versus fine art, the disillusionment some cartoonists feel about art school and contemporary fine art, and opinions on the future of comic art shows from curators at other museums.
Douglas Keesey
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781628466973
- eISBN:
- 9781628467024
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781628466973.003.0010
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter delves into an analysis of a more classic Hitchcock suspense thriller in De Palma's Obsession (1976). It considers the movie's themes of the value of love and money, as well as the ...
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This chapter delves into an analysis of a more classic Hitchcock suspense thriller in De Palma's Obsession (1976). It considers the movie's themes of the value of love and money, as well as the idolatrous obsessions of a deceased loved one, and the tensions this creates within a family as a mirror to De Palma's own relationship with his parents. Like the character of Sandra (Genevieve Bujold), the young De Palma tended to idealize his mother and to demonize his father. De Palma's father had compounded his workaholic “desertion” by sleeping with a nurse at the office, which led to a suicide attempt on the part of De Palma's mother. The comparisons, however, extend beyond the trope of the avenging child, moving forward to a more mature understanding of a one-sided, childish perception De Palma and Sandra's fathers.Less
This chapter delves into an analysis of a more classic Hitchcock suspense thriller in De Palma's Obsession (1976). It considers the movie's themes of the value of love and money, as well as the idolatrous obsessions of a deceased loved one, and the tensions this creates within a family as a mirror to De Palma's own relationship with his parents. Like the character of Sandra (Genevieve Bujold), the young De Palma tended to idealize his mother and to demonize his father. De Palma's father had compounded his workaholic “desertion” by sleeping with a nurse at the office, which led to a suicide attempt on the part of De Palma's mother. The comparisons, however, extend beyond the trope of the avenging child, moving forward to a more mature understanding of a one-sided, childish perception De Palma and Sandra's fathers.
Omar Ahmed
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- February 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781906733681
- eISBN:
- 9781800342088
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781906733681.003.0009
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter addresses how, unlike Hollywood, which has seen the rise of high-concept cinema overshadow the power a film star once possessed at the box office, Indian cinema, especially mainstream ...
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This chapter addresses how, unlike Hollywood, which has seen the rise of high-concept cinema overshadow the power a film star once possessed at the box office, Indian cinema, especially mainstream Hindi films, continues to underline the significance of film stars and views them as paramount to the development and marketing of most feature films. The angry-young-man persona of Indian cinema's biggest film star, Amitabh Bachchan, forged in an era of widespread political disillusionment, found its greatest expression in the 1975 super-hit Deewaar (The Wall), directed by Yash Chopra. The chapter moves away from Indian art cinema to the attractions of the mainstream film Deewaar. It engages with a range of key areas, such as the wider political context of the 1975 Indian Emergency and the angry young man as a sociopolitical symbol. It also looks at representations encompassing matriarchy, religion and poverty; Amitabh Bachchan's star image; and the lasting legacy of Deewaar for today's cinema.Less
This chapter addresses how, unlike Hollywood, which has seen the rise of high-concept cinema overshadow the power a film star once possessed at the box office, Indian cinema, especially mainstream Hindi films, continues to underline the significance of film stars and views them as paramount to the development and marketing of most feature films. The angry-young-man persona of Indian cinema's biggest film star, Amitabh Bachchan, forged in an era of widespread political disillusionment, found its greatest expression in the 1975 super-hit Deewaar (The Wall), directed by Yash Chopra. The chapter moves away from Indian art cinema to the attractions of the mainstream film Deewaar. It engages with a range of key areas, such as the wider political context of the 1975 Indian Emergency and the angry young man as a sociopolitical symbol. It also looks at representations encompassing matriarchy, religion and poverty; Amitabh Bachchan's star image; and the lasting legacy of Deewaar for today's cinema.
Nadia Urbinati
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780300182774
- eISBN:
- 9780300189957
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300182774.003.0010
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Theory
This chapter argues that individualism does not disrupt social communication but facilitates it, precisely through its rootedness in equality and in the politics of rights, and that individualism, ...
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This chapter argues that individualism does not disrupt social communication but facilitates it, precisely through its rootedness in equality and in the politics of rights, and that individualism, rather than obliterating politics, introduces a new form of political culture. It addresses the dissent and sovereignty of judgment. It shows that the feeling of disillusionment and dissatisfaction lead to the individual to pay attention to public life and to combine a helpful habit of dissent and judgment.Less
This chapter argues that individualism does not disrupt social communication but facilitates it, precisely through its rootedness in equality and in the politics of rights, and that individualism, rather than obliterating politics, introduces a new form of political culture. It addresses the dissent and sovereignty of judgment. It shows that the feeling of disillusionment and dissatisfaction lead to the individual to pay attention to public life and to combine a helpful habit of dissent and judgment.
Timothy Oelman (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 1982
- Published Online:
- February 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780197100479
- eISBN:
- 9781800340534
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9780197100479.003.0004
- Subject:
- Religion, Judaism
This chapter highlights Miguel de Barrios, who is by far the most “baroque” of the three Marrano poets: writing in the latter half of the century, he seems to have absorbed all the influences of the ...
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This chapter highlights Miguel de Barrios, who is by far the most “baroque” of the three Marrano poets: writing in the latter half of the century, he seems to have absorbed all the influences of the culto and conceptista styles. Much of his poetry is of an ephemeral nature-panegyrics, occasional verse, burlesques, and the like, which are of some historical and social interest but which cannot be considered in general great poetry. At the same time, one can see his burlesque style, for instance, used to good effect in Alabanza jocosa a la Ley. Indeed, at his best, Barrios is able to turn all the various devices and motifs of the baroque to good advantage, whether in the expression of Jewish themes or in treating of the more conventional themes of personal tragedy or disillusionment with the world. It is in purely Jewish poems that Barrios comes into his own, in poems which combine a restrained but elegant style with an intense penitential fervor.Less
This chapter highlights Miguel de Barrios, who is by far the most “baroque” of the three Marrano poets: writing in the latter half of the century, he seems to have absorbed all the influences of the culto and conceptista styles. Much of his poetry is of an ephemeral nature-panegyrics, occasional verse, burlesques, and the like, which are of some historical and social interest but which cannot be considered in general great poetry. At the same time, one can see his burlesque style, for instance, used to good effect in Alabanza jocosa a la Ley. Indeed, at his best, Barrios is able to turn all the various devices and motifs of the baroque to good advantage, whether in the expression of Jewish themes or in treating of the more conventional themes of personal tragedy or disillusionment with the world. It is in purely Jewish poems that Barrios comes into his own, in poems which combine a restrained but elegant style with an intense penitential fervor.
Katy Hull
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- May 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780691208107
- eISBN:
- 9780691208121
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691208107.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This chapter examines how American sympathizers with fascism reacted against the prevailing culture of disillusionment in the wake of World War I. By 1922, they could tell Italy's story in a ...
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This chapter examines how American sympathizers with fascism reacted against the prevailing culture of disillusionment in the wake of World War I. By 1922, they could tell Italy's story in a satisfying narrative arc, starting with despair and ending with redemption. According to their perceptions, Italians in 1920 were extreme embodiments of the modern mood. These observers argued that fascist squads excited senses numbed by the apathetic atmosphere left in the wake of the war. Richard Washburn Child and Herbert Schneider both suggested that fascist violence was not necessary for the suppression of communism. Anne O'Hare McCormick, by contrast, insisted that the fascists prevented a Bolshevik-style revolution in Italy. But whatever their position on the relationship between the biennio rosso and fascism, all three of these observers admired squadrist violence qua violence.Less
This chapter examines how American sympathizers with fascism reacted against the prevailing culture of disillusionment in the wake of World War I. By 1922, they could tell Italy's story in a satisfying narrative arc, starting with despair and ending with redemption. According to their perceptions, Italians in 1920 were extreme embodiments of the modern mood. These observers argued that fascist squads excited senses numbed by the apathetic atmosphere left in the wake of the war. Richard Washburn Child and Herbert Schneider both suggested that fascist violence was not necessary for the suppression of communism. Anne O'Hare McCormick, by contrast, insisted that the fascists prevented a Bolshevik-style revolution in Italy. But whatever their position on the relationship between the biennio rosso and fascism, all three of these observers admired squadrist violence qua violence.
Mark Newman
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781496818867
- eISBN:
- 9781496818904
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496818867.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
Recollections from former students often present a positive appreciation of black Catholic schools primarily for their educational quality but also, in many cases, for their emphasis on self-worth ...
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Recollections from former students often present a positive appreciation of black Catholic schools primarily for their educational quality but also, in many cases, for their emphasis on self-worth and also, occasionally, on black culture and heritage. African American Catholics valued black schools and churches as religious and community institutions. Prelates generally sought to achieve desegregation by closing or downgrading black Catholic institutions. African American Catholics differed in their response. While some black Catholics reluctantly accepted such action as a necessary price for desegregation, others opposed these measures, upset by the one-sided nature of Catholic desegregation and inspired by the rise of black con consciousness in the second half of the 1960s. Some disillusioned African Americans, especially younger Catholics, left the church.Less
Recollections from former students often present a positive appreciation of black Catholic schools primarily for their educational quality but also, in many cases, for their emphasis on self-worth and also, occasionally, on black culture and heritage. African American Catholics valued black schools and churches as religious and community institutions. Prelates generally sought to achieve desegregation by closing or downgrading black Catholic institutions. African American Catholics differed in their response. While some black Catholics reluctantly accepted such action as a necessary price for desegregation, others opposed these measures, upset by the one-sided nature of Catholic desegregation and inspired by the rise of black con consciousness in the second half of the 1960s. Some disillusioned African Americans, especially younger Catholics, left the church.
