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Автор: Mannik Lynda, McGarry Karen
Название: Reclaiming Canadian Bodies: Visual Media and Representation
ISBN: 1554589835 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781554589838
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: The central focus of Reclaiming Canadian Bodies is the relationship between visual media, the construction of Canadian national identity, and notions of embodiment. It asks how particular representations of bodies are constructed and performed within the context of visual and discursive mediated content. The book emphasizes the ways individuals destabilize national mainstream visual tropes, which in turn have the potential to destabilize nationalist messages.Drawing upon rich empirical research and relevant theory, the contributors ask how and why particular bodies (of Estonian immigrants, sports stars, First Nations peoples, self-identified homosexuals, and women) are either promoted and upheld as ""Canadian"" bodies while others are marginalized in or excluded from media representations. Essays are grouped into three sections: Embodied Ideals, The Embodiment of ""Others,"" and Embodied Activism and Advocacy. Written in an accessible style for a broad audience of scholars and students, this volume is original within the field of visual media, affect theory, and embodiment due to its emphasis on detailed empirical and, in some cases, ethnographic research within a Canadian context.

Автор: Bronstein Carolyn, Strub Whitney
Название: Porno Chic and the Sex Wars: American Sexual Representation in the 1970s
ISBN: 1625342268 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781625342263
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: For many Americans, the emergence of a “porno chic” culture provided an opportunity to embrace the sexual revolution by attending a film like Deep Throat (1972) or leafing through an erotic magazine like Penthouse. By the 1980s, this pornographic moment was beaten back by the rise of Reagan-era political conservatism and feminist anti-pornography sentiment.This volume places pornography at the heart of the 1970s American experience, exploring lesser-known forms of pornography from the decade, such as a new, vibrant gay porn genre; transsexual/female impersonator magazines; and pornography for new users, including women and conservative Christians. The collection also explores the rise of a culture of porn film auteurs and stars as well as the transition from film to video. As the corpus of adult ephemera of the 1970s disintegrates, much of it never to be professionally restored and archived, these essays seek to document what pornography meant to its producers and consumers at a pivotal moment.In addition to the volume editors, contributors include Peter Alilunas, Gillian Frank, Elizabeth Fraterrigo, Lucas Hilderbrand, Nancy Semin Lingo, Laura Helen Marks, Nicholas Matte, Jennifer Christine Nash, Joe Rubin, Alex Warner, Leigh Ann Wheeler, and Greg Youmans.

Автор: Patterson Mark R.
Название: Authority, Autonomy, and Representation in American Literature, 1776-1865
ISBN: 0691601852 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691601854
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: From the Revolutionary War to the Civil War, a familiar scene appears and reappears in American literature: a speaker stands before a crowd of men and women, attempting to mitigate their natural suspicions in order to form a body of federated wills. In this important study of the relationship of literature and politics, Mark Patterson argues that t

Автор: Hunt Sarah Beth
Название: Hindi Dalit Literature and the Politics of Representation
ISBN: 1138660221 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138660229
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This study explores how Dalits in north India have used literature as a means of protest against caste oppression. It traces the trajectory of Dalit writing in Hindi from early 20th century through the contemporary period, viewing it as a movement that reinforces their complex identity.

Автор: Isabel Capeloa Gil, Christoph Wulf
Название: Hazardous Future: Disaster, Representation and the Assessment of Risk
ISBN: 3110406527 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783110406528
Издательство: Walter de Gruyter
Цена: 105310.00 T
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Описание: Since culture, the media and the arts deal with the perception and the processing of catastrophe, what kind of social knowledge does this process produce and how does it contribute to the sustainable development of societies?The book seeks to understand how societies and cultures deal with disaster and the rhetorical means they resort to in order to represent it. It is situated on the cusp between the response to natural catastrophe, the renewed awareness of human vulnerability in the face of environmental hazard and irresponsible policies and the social role of traditional knowledge and humanistic ideas for the preservation of human communities. It aims to be diverse, in disciplinary allegiance and cultural situation, and relevant, by bringing together articles by well-known scholars and policy makers to jointly discuss the possibilities of reframing hazard for the future, so that one may learn from restored behavior instead of repeating the mistakes of the past.

Автор: Dickinson Colby
Название: Words Fail: Theology, Poetry, and the Challenge of Representation
ISBN: 0823272842 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780823272846
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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There has been much philosophical speculation on the potential failure of language as well as the search for a presentation of the “thing itself” beyond representation. Words Fail pursues the writings of a trio of philosophers—Jacques Derrida, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, and Giorgio Agamben—as prime examples of how modern poetry presents us with a profitable vantage point from which to survey the ongoing struggle of living in a highly fragmented world.
Alongside these thinkers, this book looks specifically at the form of spirituality that is given shape by this intersection of poetics and theological-philosophical reflection—all of which offer rich suggestions about our spiritual nature.

Автор: R. Arya
Название: Abjection and Representation
ISBN: 1349351113 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349351114
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: Abjection and Representation is a theoretical investigation of the concept of abjection as expounded by Julia Kristeva in Powers of Horror (1982) and its application in various fields including the visual arts, film and literature. It examines the complexity of the concept and its significance as a cultural category.

Автор: K. Gandal
Название: Class Representation in Modern Fiction and Film
ISBN: 1349537926 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349537921
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: A fresh exploration of the representation of poverty and class in American literature and film, through the juxtaposition of films, writings and the unusual lives of Zora Neale Hurston, Stephen Crane, Henry Miller and Michel Foucault. The book argues for Hurston`s centrality, not merely to the African-American canon, but to the American tradition.

Автор: Mark Mossman
Название: Disability, Representation and the Body in Irish Writing
ISBN: 1349365432 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349365432
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: Covering a diverse range of figures and issues from Jonathan Swift`s pornographic poetry to Oscar Wilde`s famous cello-shaped coat this book collapses Irish studies into the critical perspective of disability studies: linking `Irishness` and `disability` together allows the emergence of a new critical perspective, an Irish disability studies.