Thomas Austin
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719076893
- eISBN:
- 9781781701775
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719076893.003.0014
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter uses research among audiences for Touching the Void, the highest grossing British documentary in history, adapted from a best-selling climbing memoir. It examines the film's form, and ...
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This chapter uses research among audiences for Touching the Void, the highest grossing British documentary in history, adapted from a best-selling climbing memoir. It examines the film's form, and interrogates a mode of engagement that treated the film as an inspirational story of suffering and survival. Revelations are made on how viewers responded to aesthetic aspects such as Touching the Void's use of dramatic reconstructions alongside ‘talking heads’-style interviews with the climbers involved in the original event. Elements of melodrama exist in Touching the Void, and its story of disaster and survival against the odds carried huge emotional clout for some commentators and audiences. A central plank of the documentary's appeal is its presentation of opportunities to find out about, and somehow connect with, other people ‘out there’ in the world. One way in which this connection can occur is via empathetic engagement with another's situation.Less
This chapter uses research among audiences for Touching the Void, the highest grossing British documentary in history, adapted from a best-selling climbing memoir. It examines the film's form, and interrogates a mode of engagement that treated the film as an inspirational story of suffering and survival. Revelations are made on how viewers responded to aesthetic aspects such as Touching the Void's use of dramatic reconstructions alongside ‘talking heads’-style interviews with the climbers involved in the original event. Elements of melodrama exist in Touching the Void, and its story of disaster and survival against the odds carried huge emotional clout for some commentators and audiences. A central plank of the documentary's appeal is its presentation of opportunities to find out about, and somehow connect with, other people ‘out there’ in the world. One way in which this connection can occur is via empathetic engagement with another's situation.
Laurie Cohen
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- November 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199697199
- eISBN:
- 9780191779534
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199697199.003.0004
- Subject:
- Business and Management, HRM / IR
This chapter is based on interviews conducted in 1993/4 and examines women’s moves from employment to self-employment. It starts by introducing and critiquing three related dichotomies that persist ...
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This chapter is based on interviews conducted in 1993/4 and examines women’s moves from employment to self-employment. It starts by introducing and critiquing three related dichotomies that persist in the literature on this career transition: subordination versus a bid for freedom; the logic of necessity versus the logic of autonomy; and push versus pull. It proposes a model for explaining women’s decisions to make this move that transcends some of the limitations of existing understandings. This iterative, temporal model includes three key dimensions: self-employment awareness; transition triggers, organizational and domestic; and finally modes of engagement with self-employment, conceptualized as proactive, reactive, and adaptive. Central to the analysis is a persistent, gendered ideology of the family and its implications for their positions within established organizations. An interesting question is the extent to which these accounts now feel dated, and what has changed in the interim period.Less
This chapter is based on interviews conducted in 1993/4 and examines women’s moves from employment to self-employment. It starts by introducing and critiquing three related dichotomies that persist in the literature on this career transition: subordination versus a bid for freedom; the logic of necessity versus the logic of autonomy; and push versus pull. It proposes a model for explaining women’s decisions to make this move that transcends some of the limitations of existing understandings. This iterative, temporal model includes three key dimensions: self-employment awareness; transition triggers, organizational and domestic; and finally modes of engagement with self-employment, conceptualized as proactive, reactive, and adaptive. Central to the analysis is a persistent, gendered ideology of the family and its implications for their positions within established organizations. An interesting question is the extent to which these accounts now feel dated, and what has changed in the interim period.
