“The Merry Old Land of Oz”?

2018 ◽  
pp. 121-142
Author(s):  
Danielle Birkett
Keyword(s):  
American Culture ◽  
Reception History ◽  
Wizard Of Oz ◽  
Archival Documents

Few movie musicals have experienced the long-term success of The Wizard of Oz. This chapter investigates its complex reception history to assess why this film has stood the test of time, despite the lukewarm response to it in 1939. In particular, five themes are central to this discussion: the adaptation of Baum’s familiar text; the handling of the fantasy setting; the philosophy presented within the story; the innovative filmic devices; and the star casting. An array of archival documents from 1939 to the present day is used to address each of these points from both the writers’ perspective and a critical viewpoint. In addition, the legacy of this iconic movie is explored to reveal the significance of The Wizard of Oz in American culture today.

"If the wizard is a wizard who will serve" : the movical and shifting receptions of the St. Louis Municipal Opera and Royal Shakespeare Company's stage adaptations of MGM's "The Wizard of Oz"

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Ronald J. Zank
Keyword(s):  
Reception History ◽  
Audience Reception ◽  
Adaptation Theory ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
Wizard Of Oz ◽  
Royal Shakespeare Company ◽  
Critical Success ◽  
Musical Adaptations ◽  
The University

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] L. Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz has been seen in many forms throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. One ilmof the most recognizable forms is the 1939 MGM film. This notoriety has resulted in three different stage musicals having been written based on the film. These are examples of a trend known as the "movical"-- a stage musical based on a film. The movical has been an increasing trend in recent years, with the number presented on Broadway and in London increasing with each decade, but little scholarship has been devoted to this. Drawing from scholarship in Adaptation Theory and Reception History, this study uses a Cultural/Historical model to examine the development of two of these musicals, one staged by the Municipal Opera of St. Louis, one by the Royal Shakespeare Company. By examining how these works were adapted from the film, including the critical and audience reception, as well as the creators' interpretation over many years, this study serves as a model for a larger project, examining a broader range of film-to-stage musical adaptations, determining the key factors in their critical success or failure.

Searching for the East in the Shadow of the West

2021 ◽  
pp. 648-661
Author(s):  
Eşref Akmeşe
Keyword(s):  
American Culture ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
The West

Orientalism is defined as part of the discourse of power which includes the purpose of exploitation and domination that represents attribution of “Easterner” qualities that are opposite and inferior to the qualities that Euro-American cultures ascribe to themselves, and labeling them as irrational, uncivilized, inferior, not open to change, and so on. Orientalism, which is an expression of an extensive and long-term cultural and ideological process, states a discourse that marginalizes what it leaves out of Euro-American culture. This style of discourse is effective in different mediums and reproduced consistently. In this chapter, asserted Eurocentric arguments in the modern orientalist discourse are discussed with a critical approach through Dutch director Mijke de Jong's film Layla M. (2016).

Prokofiev and the Development of Soviet Composition in the 1920s and 1930s

2020 ◽  
pp. 19-38
Author(s):  
Patrick Zuk
Keyword(s):  
Reception History ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Periodical Literature ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
History Of ◽  
Musical Creativity ◽  
Source Materials

Chapter 2 examines the influence and reception history of Prokofiev’s music in his homeland from the 1920s until his death in 1953—a subject of absorbing interest for the light it sheds on the factors shaping Soviet musical creativity during the Stalinist period. His output became central to discussions of the ways in which Soviet composition could and should develop. However, Soviet responses to Prokofiev’s work were complex; it was regarded by some as evincing traits that were to be repudiated, and by others as displaying approaches worthy of emulation. The source materials consulted for this chapter include the contemporary musicological and periodical literature, as well as letters, diaries, and reminiscences of Prokofiev’s colleagues. The chapter also draws on unpublished archival documents from the late Soviet period, among them the reminiscences of Evgeny Golubev, Olga Lamm, and Iulian Krein.

scholarly journals The close consequences of the prolonged famine in children and adolescents

2018 ◽  
pp. 48-56
Author(s):  
L. P. Кhoroshinina ◽  
L. P. Churilov ◽  
A. V. Shabrov ◽  
N. О. Gonchar
Keyword(s):  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Physical Status ◽  
Emergency Situations ◽  
Financial Costs ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Great Patriotic War ◽  
Archival Documents

Relevance.The relevance of the topic is due to the increase in the number of starving children in the modern world and the increase in financial costs associated with the consequences of long-term starvation of children and adolescents.Intention.To systematize ideas about the consequences of starvation in children and adolescents via reintroducing the materials on the Leningrad siege into scientific circulation.Method.The available domestic and foreign sources of scientific literature and data of archival documents were studied.Result and their analysis. Information on the immediate consequences of prolonged famine in children and adolescents is presented. The results of scientific works of scientists, studying the consequences of prolonged starvation of Russian children in the early XX century, during the years of Leningrad siege and after the end of the Great Patriotic War.  Long-term starvation of children and adolescents causes profound changes in various organs and systems, having different effects on the physical status of children of different sex and age, largely predetermines the poor health in the subsequent years of life.Conclusion. The presented information is important for science and practice, since the occurrence of emergency situations in the modern world can be accompanied by prolonged famine or malnutrition of children.

Afterword

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Bendroth
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
American Culture ◽  
The Public ◽  
Billy Graham ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
American Society ◽  
Long Term Impact ◽  
American Evangelicalism ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

This chapter assesses Billy Graham’s long-term impact on American evangelicalism and American culture. At last estimates, he evangelized over two billion people during his sixty-year career. He remained culturally nimble enough to stay in the public eye through all the tumultuous years of the late twentieth century. Billy Graham did not just reflect his times—he also changed them. Exactly what that means is a matter of debate. Despite the evangelist’s durable popularity, his legacy is surprisingly difficult to measure. This chapter identifies that there are uncertainties about the future of the evangelical world Billy Graham shaped, and that the long-term prospects for religion in American society remain uncertain. It also discusses the possible successors to Graham and posits that a successor—if there will be one at all—is unlikely to be an American.

Culture Is Associated With the Experience of Long-Term Self-Concept Changes

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 1047-1056
Author(s):  
Brian W. Haas ◽  
Michelle R. vanDellen
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Adult Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Family Based ◽  
Moderating Role ◽  
Over Time

Cultural context can affect how changes in self-concepts are either valued or tolerated. However, very little is currently known regarding how culture may differentially confer consequences to people that change their self-concepts over the course of several years. We investigated the moderating role of culture (Japan and USA) on the link between long-term (∼4 years) self-concept changes and a comprehensive set of well-being measures (hedonic, eudaimonic, and family based). We found that American’s self-concept instability was more negatively associated with one’s well-being and emotional support within one’s family than Japanese. Furthermore, Americans were particularly negatively impacted when they became less agentic and conscientious over time. One possible interpretation is that Western, individualistic cultures may discourage people from changing their identities throughout their adult life. Although American culture often espouses the sanctity of freedom, American culture may also limit people’s freedom to change how they see themselves over time.

scholarly journals Archives Management and Permanent Storage of Documents

Atlanti ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-161
Author(s):  
Fikrie Berisha
Keyword(s):  
Entire Area ◽  
Digital Documents ◽  
Digital Network ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Permanent Storage ◽  
Digital Document ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Selection Of

Modern digital archives are modern archives which in big computer devices (servers), preserve archived original document overlooking the moment is produced. Archives in Kosovo assessment of archival documents make in two directions. First; selection of classical documents (on paper) with the value to be transformed into digital documents, and second; selection of contemporary documents produced by institutions of computer and internet era. Management of these digital documents requires procedures and professional standards for its storage and processing by the archive, in order to be ready to serve researchers and interested parties. Access to digital documents should be fast, simple procedures, providing documentation from the penetration of ‘hackers’ and people badly intention. To fulfil its mission digital document should ensure and complement the appearance of the original document. Since the user does not have the option of intervention and change in the document. Should work in protect emblem, which protects the entire area of the document in the form of molten seal, which also shows the ownership of certain archive. Safety documentation and document base by external users will be able to organize, deposit and stored at three levels: Server (1) be stored (saved) archival documents for use by the applicant; Server (2) stored data of the first and simultaneously updates added by continuous processing of new documents; and Server (3) is not accessible from outside through digital network, but stored all digital archive documentation and from here there should be no often exit. In Server 3 only entered document and stored as recent bank. From there, the document will be drawn only if it is missing or damaged document on server 1 and 2.Thus, through this categorization could be provided for long time electronic documents (digital), until to new modern inventions of modern digitalization technology that would ensure the preservation of documents for the ‘real’ long-term or permanent time.

Stalin’s terror and the long-term political effects of mass repression

2018 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 267-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuri M Zhukov ◽  
Roya Talibova
Keyword(s):  
Voter Turnout ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Political Regime ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Stalin Era ◽  
Political Effects ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Election Results

Repression has a long-term negative effect on political participation. Using millions of arrest records from archival documents, and polling station-level election results, we examine how exposure to Stalin-era repression affects voter turnout in Putin’s Russia. To estimate the effect of repression on voting, we exploit exogenous variation in repression due to the structure of mid-century Soviet railroads, and travel distances to prison camps. We find that communities more heavily repressed under Stalin are less likely to vote today. The electoral legacy of Stalin’s terror – decades after the Soviet collapse, and across multiple election cycles (2003–12) – is systematically lower turnout. To show that our result is not unique to the Putin regime, we replicate our analysis in Ukraine (2004–14), and find similar patterns. These results highlight the negative consequences of repression for political behavior, and challenge the emerging view that exposure to violence increases political engagement. While past research has emphasized the short-term effects of repression over several months or years, we show that these effects may be durable over generations and even changes of political regime. Our findings also demonstrate that repression need not be collective or indiscriminate to have community-level effects.

scholarly journals Reframing Aging: A Generation's Work

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 430-431
Author(s):  
Patricia D'Antonio
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Older People ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Attitudes And Behaviors ◽  
Perceptions Of Aging ◽  
The Many ◽  
Changing Attitudes

Abstract Changing American culture is challenging and changing attitudes and behaviors around the universal experience of aging especially so. Unless the field of advocates who care about aging issues cultivates a more visible, more informed conversation on older people, it will remain difficult to advance the systemic changes needed to adjust to a society with increased and increasing longevity. Advocates will need to be vigilant to avoid cueing negative attitudes towards aging and aging policies. The Reframing Aging Initiative is a long-term, social change endeavor designed to improve the public's understanding of what aging means and the many contributions older people bring to society. Using evidence-based research, the initiative seeks to teach how to tell an effective story about aging that will promote positive perceptions of aging and reduce ageism.

History and Reception in the Music of The Legend of Zelda Peritexts

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 44-67
Author(s):  
Vincent Rone
Keyword(s):  
Visual Cues ◽  
Reception History ◽  
The Other ◽  
Western Music ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
Musical Cues ◽  
Self Reference

This article argues that the music of opening peritexts within two The Legend of Zelda games reflects their reception history and continuity within the series mythology. On the one hand, “The Legendary Hero” peritext of The Wind Waker mirrors the game's reception history as one of departure from a Zelda tradition established by Ocarina of Time, which caused controversy initially yet gained acceptance in the long term. The audiovisual components of “The Legendary Hero” all position gamers to consider the events of Ocarina of Time as old, submerged under the Great Sea. Textual references to “legend” and “myth,” visual cues of antique art and runes, and musical cues harkening to medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque tropes within Western music—all these serve to depart from Zelda tropes. On the other hand, the title-screen peritext of Twilight Princess restores the legacy of Ocarina of Time. Reception of the former always includes its nostalgic, intimately connected relationship to the latter. Consequently, Twilight Princess garnered immediate praise but became problematic in the long term. The audiovisual components of the title-screen peritext position gamers to reestablish continuity with Zelda tropes. Visual and musical cues reach across several previous games and as far back as the original The Legend of Zelda game, all of which orient players back to traditions from which the franchise had departed for years. Thus the music of the peritext enables players to engage in Zelda's potential for self-reference more apparently than its adoption of Western-music tropes, as in Wind Waker. The peritexts of Wind Waker and Twilight Princess complement each other and allow us to understand more critically the reception and historiography of each game, how the music can reveal a deeper understanding of narrative themes characteristic of each game, and their placement within the Zelda mythology.

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