Regional Scenes and Canadian Screens

2019 ◽  
pp. 184-200
Author(s):  
Darrell Varga
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Atlantic Canada ◽  
Aesthetic Design ◽  
Television Production ◽  
Film And Television ◽  
The World ◽  
Iconic Status

This chapter situates the conditions of production, funding, and labor in Atlantic Canada along with the representations of culture and work (or the lack of work) on screen through an analysis of selected films notable either for their iconic status within the regional film scene or as vehicles through which the condition of labor and culture can be explored and illuminated. Film and television production in Atlantic Canada is a case study of what Toby Miller et al. have described as Global Hollywood (2008). Under this model, production is understood not by aesthetic design or cultural context but rather by the existence of subsidies and incentives developed in competition with other regions in Canada and throughout the world for the business of Hollywood. The films that are produced generally reflect the dominant ideological tendencies of Hollywood, though films may also express the potential for resistance—even if only partially articulated.

Culture and the plasticity of perception

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Lifshitz ◽  
T. M. Luhrmann
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Sensory Experience ◽  
Cultural Learning ◽  
The World

Abstract Culture shapes our basic sensory experience of the world. This is particularly striking in the study of religion and psychosis, where we and others have shown that cultural context determines both the structure and content of hallucination-like events. The cultural shaping of hallucinations may provide a rich case-study for linking cultural learning with emerging prediction-based models of perception.

scholarly journals Language Means for Shaping the Media Image of China in Russian Internet Texts (Case Study of Blogs about the Chinese Opera)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Юйси Му
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Important Place ◽  
Media Image ◽  
Chinese Opera ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
The World ◽  
Audience Responses ◽  
The Media

The article presents the study of the media image of China in the Russian Internet texts. The purpose of the study is to identify the language means of shaping the media image of China in blogs about Chinese opera. The material involves some of the topical blogs published on the Internet version of «Live Journal» and the «Magazeta». In those materials, the media image of China is partially formed by various aspects of Chinese opera as a cultural phenomenon: it is the cultural context in which Chinese opera exists; features of diverse opera genres; images of performers; audience responses; assessments and feelings of bloggers. The possibilities of expression of different kinds of language means are revealed, so is the authors’ perception of this type of art. It is concluded that the media image created in blogs about Chinese opera by various language means represents China as a country with a long history and unique culture. Chinese opera not only occupies an important place in the world art, but also vividly and meaningfully reflects the mystery of China.

scholarly journals Sociological Analysis of Divorce: A Case Study from Pokhara, Nepal

1970 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 129-145
Author(s):  
Acharya Ram Bala
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Sociological Analysis ◽  
Sociological Perspective ◽  
Sociological Study ◽  
Social Events ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Anthropological Research

This article is based on field study among different caste and ethnic groups residing in Pokhara sub-metropolitan city of Nepal. It tries to identify the causes of divorce in those groups. Probably, it is the first sociological study on divorce based on empirical fact in Nepal, so it may contribute a little bit to the direction of the sociological study. The tradition of sociological and anthropological research on social institutions and processes is not dominant in Nepal. Sociologists have found that there are different natures of changes on social institutions, economy, culture and political structure. This is a universal phenomenon around the world. However it could be fruitful to analyze causes and consequences of the social events or changes from the sociological perspective in the different social and cultural context. This study focuses on divorce basically the legal separation of the husband and wife. However customary divorce practices are in different communities of the Nepalese society.DOI: 10.3126/dsaj.v1i0.284Dhaulagiri Vol.1 (2005) pp.129-145

Beyond nostalgia for the Soviet past: Interpreting documentaries on Russian television

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 285-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ekaterina Kalinina
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Symbolic Politics ◽  
Television Programming ◽  
Television Production ◽  
Film And Television ◽  
Soviet Film ◽  
Film Clips ◽  
Russian Media

The proliferation and recycling of Soviet popular culture and history is a central ingredient of post-Soviet film and television production, leading to accusations that the Russian media is nurturing nostalgia. Nostalgia can hardly account for the manifold uses of the Soviet past in contemporary Russian television programming. Nevertheless, in the aftermath of the Crimean annexation, it became evident that nostalgia for a strong empire with a ‘strong ruling hand’ was part of Putin’s symbolic politics for several years. Keeping these considerations in mind, this article investigates how nostalgia extends into the domain of television and becomes an element of symbolic politics, employing a case study of two documentaries produced during Putin’s presidency to focus the analysis. This study also examines how contemporary Russian television uses footage and film clips from the socialist period and witness testimonies to ‘dismantle’ popular myths.

scholarly journals Acting in the Name of Culture? The Participation of Organized Labour in the Canadian Broadcasting Policy Process

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Coles
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Policy Networks ◽  
Policy Network ◽  
Production Sector ◽  
Television Production ◽  
Film And Television ◽  
Broadcasting Policy ◽  
Cultural Goals ◽  
Role Efficacy

The thesis examines the role, efficacy and influence of the five national English-language independent film and television production sector unions in the Canadian broadcasting policy network. While labour is typically classified as a civil society organization within policy networks studies, this thesis will examine the blanket applicability of this typology in analysing labour's engagement with issues that involve both their vested economic/industrial interests as well as broader social/cultural goals, using the unions' engagement with the issue of Canadian dramatic programming from 1998 to present as a case study.

Making of a Mangaka: Industrial Reflexivity and Shueisha’s Weekly Shônen Jump

2019 ◽  
pp. 152747641987213
Author(s):  
Bryan Hikari Hartzheim
Keyword(s):  
Production Process ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
Television Production ◽  
Film And Television ◽  
Professional Self

Behind-the-scenes disclosures, a staple of film and television production, have extended to the visible documentation of manga (comics) and anime (animation) production in Japanese media. This article examines manga “industrial reflexivity, using as a case study publisher Shueisha’s most popular periodical, the best-selling shônen (boys) manga magazine, Shûkan Shônen Jump ( Weekly Shônen Jump). Jump’s documentary-like portrayals of the manga production process have bled out from the magazine in “exclusive” footage that takes viewers on behind-the-scenes tours exploring Shueisha offices or mangaka ateliers to spill insider knowledge and industry secrets. This article argues that such disclosures are borne out of industrial survival as much as education and promotion. Jump’s professional self-reflexivity is an example of an old media brand attempting to fight for relevance in a shifting media environment through appeals to the legacy and ecosystem of the manga magazine format itself.

scholarly journals "They Seek It Here, They Seek It There, They Seek It Everywhere": Looking for the "Global" Book

1998 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva Hemmungs Wirtén
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Combined Process ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Etude De Cas ◽  
The World ◽  
International Publishing ◽  
Étude De Cas ◽  
The Way ◽  
New Millennium

Abstract: At the brink of a new millennium, Harlequin Enterprises Ltd. has grown into an international publishing phenomenon, publishing in more than twenty languages on six continents and in more than a hundred markets around the world -- a long way from what began as a modest Canadian reprint operation in 1949. Concerned with the way in which the ``global'' becomes the ``local,'' this article uses Harlequin's Stockholm office as a case study for a closer look at just how Harlequin romances are transposed from one cultural context into another. By arguing that translation and editing are local strategies with considerable power in changing the text as well as its production and consumption, this paper focuses on the way in which the Harlequin book, through the combined process of editing and translation -- what I have termed transediting, is given a ``Swedish'' identity. Résumé: A la veille d'un nouveau millénaire, les Entreprises Harlequin Limitées sont devenues un phénomène international dans l'édition, publiant en plus de vingt langues sur six continents et dans plus d'une centaine de marchés autour du monde -- une longue distance de ce qui avait été au départ une modeste opération canadienne pour les réimpressions en 1949. Concerné par le moyen dont le "global" devient le "local", cet article utilise les bureaux d'Harlequin à Stockholm comme étude de cas pour porter un regard plus attentif sur la manière dont on transpose les romans Harlequin d'un contexte culturel à un autre. En soutenant que la traduction et la correction sont des stratégies locales avec un pouvoir considérable pour changer le texte autant que sa production et sa consommation, cet article se penche sur la façon dont le livre Harlequin reçoit une identité `suédoiseé, au moyen de la traduction et de la correction -- ce que j'ai appelé "transediting" (la "traducorrection").

scholarly journals Symbolic Meaning of Typical Minahasanese House Construction in Cultural Context of Tondano Javanese Society in Tondano-Minahasa

2019 ◽  
pp. 01-11
Author(s):  
Mr Heryati ◽  
Murni Rachmawati ◽  
Muhammad Faqih
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Symbolic Meaning ◽  
Preparation Process ◽  
Special Study ◽  
Construction Process ◽  
Connotative Meaning ◽  
House Construction ◽  
The World ◽  
Meaning Interpretation

The explanation of symbolic meaning would differ from one cultural group to another. In the view of Tondano Javanese people, the symbolic meaning has a very close meaning in the construction of the houses they are living in, start from the stage of preparation/pre-construction to post-construction. This is something that motivates the conduction of special study about the relation of the symbolic meaning of Minahasanese traditional house within the cultural context of Tondano Javanese society. The method of this research was a case study where the data collection was carried out in triangulation and the analysis was carried out descriptively. The meaning interpretation referred to Sassure and Barthes. Result of the study shows that the construction process which starts from the preparation process up to post-construction contains symbolic meaning marked by physical and non-physical forms. Its denotative meaning is more of the consideration of power/strength shown in joints and the placement of pillars and beams. Its connotative meaning is more on the expectation for prosperity, happiness, and safety both in the world and the after-life which is symbolized by the norms of building, while the myth refers to a belief where the truth is embraced based on the experience which is symbolized by the position of the main pillar, the position of the king pillar (the pillars' stance) and some other ritual following the construction process.

From Songfilms to Telecomics: Vallée Video and the New Market for Postwar Animation

Animation ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 207-228
Author(s):  
Shawn VanCour ◽  
Chloe Patton
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Important Case ◽  
Fluid Movement ◽  
Television Production ◽  
Film And Television ◽  
Theatrical Film ◽  
Production Company ◽  
Television Market ◽  
Small Screen

From 1948–1952, Rudy Vallée, a successful performer whose career spanned radio, film, recorded music and stage entertainment, expanded his operations into the burgeoning US television market with the launch of his independent production company, Vallée Video. One of hundreds of forgotten companies that arose during this period to meet growing demand for programming content, Vallée Video offers an important case study for understanding animation workers’ role in postwar television production. Drawing on corporate records and films preserved in the Rudy Vallée Papers at California’s Thousand Oaks Library and the UCLA Film and Television Archive, the authors’ analysis documents Vallée’s use of freelance artists and external animation houses for work ranging from camera effects for illustrated musical shorts to animated commercials and original cartoon series. These productions demonstrate the fluid movement of animation labor from theatrical film to small screen markets and participated in larger aesthetic shifts toward minimalist drawing styles and limited character animation that would soon dominate mid-20th century US television.

scholarly journals Acting in the Name of Culture? Organized Labour Campaigns for Canadian Dramatic Programming

2006 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda L. Coles
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Policy Network ◽  
Policy Actors ◽  
Television Production ◽  
Film And Television ◽  
Etude De Cas ◽  
Broadcasting Policy ◽  
Étude De Cas

Abstract: This article has two main objectives: to identify a link between organized labour representing English-language independent Canadian film and television production workers and developments in Canadian broadcasting policy, and to analyze the complex role of labour within the Canadian broadcasting policy network. The author uses union interventions around the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission’s 1999 Television Policy and the decline in Canadian dramatic programming as a case study to analyze the strategy and efficacy of labour’s involvement in the broadcasting policymaking process. She argues that labour’s adoption of a coalition framework, with the formation of the Coalition of Canadian Audio-visual Unions, has positively impacted labour’s power as policy actors in the Canadian broadcasting policy sphere. Résumé : Cet article a deux objectifs principaux : d’une part, identifier le lien qui existe entre les politiques sur la radiodiffusion canadienne et les syndicats qui représentent les travailleurs anglophones au Canada dans les secteurs de la production indépendante télévisuelle et cinématographique ; d’autre part, analyser le rôle complexe de la main-d’œuvre au sein du réseau d’action publique pour la radiodiffusion canadienne. L’auteur a recours à des interventions syndicales qui se rapportent à la Politique télévisuelle de 1999 du Conseil de la radiodiffusion et des télécommunications canadiennes ainsi qu’au déclin dans la production de programmation dramatique au Canada pour effectuer une étude de cas sur la stratégie et l’efficacité entourant la participation de la main-d’œuvre dans la formulation de politiques en radiodiffusion. L’auteur soutient que l’entente réalisée par la main-d’œuvre dans le dossier de la formation de la Coalition canadienne des syndicats de l’audiovisuel a eu un effet positif sur ses capacités à contribuer aux politiques de radiodiffusion canadienne.

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