The Marketing-Character in Fiction: Len Deighton's Close up (1972) as a Sociological Description of Post-War Hollywood and the Process of Americanisation

2006 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 23-40
Author(s):  
Helmut Kuzmics
Keyword(s):  
Public School ◽  
The Self ◽  
Movie Industry ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Louis Xiv ◽  
Social Fabric ◽  
The Social ◽  
French Court ◽  
Post War

Len Deighton's book, although not well known among sociologists, provided as early as 1972 a profound and shrewd analysis not only of the American movie industry, its milieux and culture of deception and their influence on old Europe, but also of the more general mechanisms of a radical marketisation of the self. The novel can, thus, contribute to a better understanding of America's hegemonic position in Europe, insofar as it results in far-reaching Americanisation. The legionary barracks of the Romans, the French Court of Louis XIV and the English Public School have found their legitimate successor in the social fabric of Hollywood and the American spirit of commercial entertainment.

5. The courtier

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Cronk
Keyword(s):  
World History ◽  
Social Hierarchy ◽  
Ancien Regime ◽  
Louis Xiv ◽  
The Social ◽  
French Court ◽  
Ancien Régime

Voltaire worked hard throughout his life to establish and defend his status as an author within the social hierarchy of the ancien régime, with varying degrees of success, but with unflagging determination. ‘The courtier’ charts his time at the French court in 1725 and 1745–6, at the Prussian court of Frederick 1750–3, and his extensive correspondence with Catherine the Great. It describes Voltaire’s role as the Royal Historiographer in 1745 and some of his key works including the opera collaboration with Rameau, Le Temple de la gloire (1745), his historical masterpiece Siècle de Louis XIV (1751), and his world history, Essai sur les mœurs (1756).

scholarly journals Shaping Gender: Femininity and Masculinity Through Sartorial Fashion in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-19
Author(s):  
Alberto García García-Madrid
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Social System ◽  
The Novel ◽  
British Modernism ◽  
Major Work ◽  
The Social ◽  
Femininity And Masculinity ◽  
Post War ◽  
Literary Techniques

Abstract Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway — published in 1925 — not only represents a major work regarding its literary techniques during the years of British Modernism, but also constitutes a critique of the social system of the post-war years, which was experiencing a change regarding the strict Victorian stereotypes of gender. Social status linked to sartorial fashion is a recurring element in the novel when considering these configurations. Woolf vindicates through different characters’ reflections a rearrangement of femininity and masculinity.

The Ambivalence of Testimony in Elizabeth Bowen’s

2020 ◽  
pp. 109-122
Author(s):  
Ana Ashraf
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Political Commitment ◽  
Women's Experience ◽  
Binary Division ◽  
Post War ◽  
Romance Plot

Ana Ashraf’s exploration of Bowen’s novel demonstrates how, in the post-war milieu, ambivalent narratives of testimony and witnessing challenged the ideology of war and the machinery of propaganda. The novel’s metafictional style emphasizes the self-reflexive nature of witness and testimony. Interweaving personal and political spheres in an experimental form that juxtaposes the classic romance plot and the traditional spy novel, The Heat of the Day offers a feminine view of the masculine world of intelligence. In its presentation of the conflict between love and patriotism, the novel’s treatment of treachery appears unstable and unusual. It also highlights the role of literary testimony in challenging the dominant narrative of war. Demonstrating the ‘intermodern’ preoccupation with political commitment during periods of war, the novel exemplifies an ‘interfeminist’ awareness of the notion of ‘women’s time’, the marginalisation of women’s experience of war and the binary division between fact and fiction.

Scouting for scripts: Mizuki Yōko and social issue film in post-war Japan

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 265-285
Author(s):  
Lauri Kitsnik
Keyword(s):  
Social Issue ◽  
Social Fabric ◽  
The Social ◽  
Narrative Cinema ◽  
Studio System ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Post War

During the heyday of the studio system in Japan in the 1950s, Mizuki Yōko (1910–2003) was one of Japan’s most prominent and celebrated screenwriters. Despite screenwriting being a markedly homosocial profession, Mizuki forged a remarkable career as a freelance writer, working both for major studios and independent productions. Her collaboration with directors such as Naruse Mikio and, above all, Imai Tadashi resulted in a string of critically acclaimed films. While Imai’s films were lauded by contemporary critics, his approach to directing has subsequently been regarded, especially by western scholars, as somewhat impersonal and his sympathies too leftist. Conversely, these social issue (shakaiha) films, often based on original screenplays by Mizuki, scrupulously displayed the anxieties and ambiguities of the post-war era when the social fabric of Japan was radically reconfigured as its people embraced the newly imported values of democracy and consumerism. In this article, I examine the contributions of Mizuki to the oft-neglected oeuvre of Imai and social issue film in particular. I argue that besides pointing at the capacity and bounds of narrative cinema to engage with timely and sensitive social topics, Mizuki’s working methods underline a screenwriter’s awareness of her own agency in filmmaking.

Diplomatic Writing as Aristocratic Self-Fashioning

2019 ◽  
pp. 190-202
Author(s):  
Christine Vogel
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Diplomatic History ◽  
Louis Xiv ◽  
Proper Role ◽  
The Social ◽  
French Court ◽  
Social Logic ◽  
Dynamic Research

Taking French ambassadorial reports from the reign of Louis XIV as an example, this chapter argues that in their letters to their superiors, French ambassadors expressed themselves not primarily as professional diplomats, but as eminent members of French court society and potential aspirants to even higher charges and honours. First and foremost, early modern diplomats abided by the ethos of patronage. Far from home, the ambassador still obeyed the social logic of court factions, clientele networks, and competition for prestige. His letters had to compensate for his physical absence from Versailles, as his only currency in the French court society’s economy of honour. The ambassador therefore used his letters as a specific means of displaying his skills and abilities, and distinguishing and expressing himself. He could fashion himself as honnête homme, noble warrior, or pious man of letters—or whatever aristocratic virtue seemed appropriate. In this sense, his letters were genuine self-narratives, and diplomatic history could therefore benefit greatly from methods and concepts elaborated in the dynamic research field of early modern ego-documents. By understanding diplomatic writing as noble self-fashioning and analysing diplomatic correspondence as self-narratives, this chapter reassesses the proper role and specific functioning of diplomacy in early modern political culture.

scholarly journals Karakteristik Heterotopia Ruang Kafe dalam Al-Karnak Karya Najib Mahfudz: Analisis Other Space Michel Foucault

ATAVISME ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-146
Author(s):  
Fadlun Suweleh
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Space Analysis ◽  
The Social ◽  
Post War

Hal menarik yang menjadi ciri khas tulisan Najib Mahfudz selain politik adalah keberadaan latar tempat kafe yang nyaris tak pernah alpa dari karya-karyanya. Penelitian ini bertujuan menggambarkan karakteristik heterotopia ruang kafe dalam novel Al-Karnak (1974, 2008) karya Najib Mahfudz. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif. Data penelitian ini berupa kalimat atau dialog antartokoh yang berhubungan dengan kafe dan ruang heterotopia. Dengan menggunakan konsep other space Michel Foucault, penelitian ini menemukan adanya karakteristik heterotopia pada ruang kafe Karnak dalam novel Al-Karnak karya Najib Mahfudz. Sebagai karya memorial, Al-Karnak menggambarkan kafe Karnak dengan sangat kompleks. Kompleksitas tersebut erat kaitannya dengan realitas sosial masyarakat Mesir pasca perang Juni 1967. Kafe Karnak mampu merepresentasikan kondisi masyarakat Mesir yang menanggung beban distopis sekaligus menginginkan kehidupan utopis pada masa itu. Penelitian ini melihat bahwa karakteristik heterotopia yang ditemukan dalam kafe Karnak berkontribusi dalam memproduksi ruang lain, yang direfleksikan melalui imajinasi serta realitas tokoh-tokoh dalam novel.Kata kunci: heterotopia; kafe; ruang lain; utopia[Heterotopia Characteristics of Café in Najib Mahfudz’s Al-Karnak: Michel Foucault’s Other Space Analysis] The interesting thing that characterizes Najib Mahfudz’s works besides politics is the existence of café setting which is almost never neglected from his works. This study aims to describe the heterotopia characteristics of the café space in the novel Al-Karnak (1974, 2008) by Najib Mahfudz. This study uses a qualitative method. The data in this study are in the form of sentences or dialogues between figures related to cafes and heterotopia spaces. By using the concept of other space by Michel Foucault, this research found the characteristics of heterotopia at Karnak café space in Al-Karnak novel by Najib Mahfudz. As a memorial work, Al-Karnak describes Karnak café so complexly. The complexity is closely related to the social realities of the post-war June 1967 Egyptian society. Karnak café is able to represent the conditions of Egyptian society who bear the burden of dystopian as well as want a utopian life in those days. This research then sees that the heterotopia characteristics found in Karnak café can contribute in producing ‘other spaces’ which are reflected through the imagination and reality of the characters in Al-Karnak novel.

scholarly journals “Duermen bajo las aguas” (1955), de Carmen Kurtz: entre la autocensura y el asomo de una voz crítica en la posguerra española = “Duermen bajo las aguas” (1955), of Carmen Kurtz: between the self-censhorship and the emergence of a critical voice in the Spanish post-war

2018 ◽  
pp. 35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inmaculada Rodríguez-Moranta
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Franco Regime ◽  
Social Nature ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
Post War

<p class="Pa15">El artículo se enmarca en el análisis y recuperación de la obra narrativa de Carmen Kurtz (1911-1999), cuya producción novelística para adultos comprende trece obras de carácter realista y social. <em>Duermen bajo las aguas </em>(Premio Ciudad Barcelona, 1955) no tuvo problemas con la censura, y quizás por ello resul­ta una obra especialmente interesante. Se tratará de analizar cómo, en su primera incursión en la novela, la escritora se debatió entre la autocensura y el asomo de una voz crítica, pues, si bien evitó tratar de manera directa los efectos de la guerra y la posguerra española –trasfondo del relato-, introdujo una velada crítica a los mitos difundidos por el Régimen franquista en relación al papel de la mujer a través de su protagonista, Pilar, personaje en el que se centra este trabajo.</p><p class="Pa15"><span lang="EN-US">The article is part of the analysis and recovery of the narrative work of Carmen Kurtz (1911-1999), whose novelistic production for adults includs thirteen works of a realistic and social nature. <em>Duermen bajo las aguas </em>(Ciudad de Barcelona Reward, 1955) had no problems with the censorship, and perhaps for that reason it becomes a particularly interesting work. It will be tried to analyze how, in her first incursion in the novel, the writer was debated between the “self censorship” and the appearance of a critical voice, because, although she avoided to treat in direct way the effects of the war and the Spanish postwar pe­riod - background of the story -, introduced a critic veiled of the myths spread by the Franco regime in relation to the role of women through its protagonist, Pilar, a character in which this work is centered.</span></p>

Apology strategies between social unequals in The Dream of the Red Chamber

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 264-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lan Chun ◽  
Zhao Yun
Keyword(s):  
Social Distance ◽  
The Self ◽  
Power Relationship ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Social ◽  
Lower Status ◽  
The Right

This is a study of apology strategies deployed by social unequals in The Dream of the Red Chamber. It is found that, among the eleven instances of apologies collected from the novel, four variables together determine one’s choices of apology strategies, i.e. the social distance between the apologizer and the apologizee, their power relationship, the seriousness of the offence which leads to the apology, and the degree of the right the apologizer is assumed to have in apologizing. The lower-status apologizers typically adopted the self-degeneration and other-elevation strategies and spoke up to the higher-status victims, while the higher-status apologizers typically gave priority to protecting their own faces and spoke down to the lower-status victims in combining different strategies. The apologies from the lower-status servant apologizers were rarely accepted while those from the higher-status apologizers were often accepted on the spot. On the whole, the higher-status participants enjoyed more freedom in choosing which apology strategy to adopt than the lower-status participants.

Using Power as a Negative Cue: How Conspiracy Mentality Affects Epistemic Trust in Sources of Historical Knowledge

2018 ◽  
Vol 44 (9) ◽  
pp. 1364-1379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roland Imhoff ◽  
Pia Lamberty ◽  
Olivier Klein
Keyword(s):  
Attitude Change ◽  
Source Credibility ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Conspiracy Theories ◽  
Social Fabric ◽  
Perceived Credibility ◽  
The Social ◽  
Mind Set ◽  
Positive Effect

Classical theories of attitude change point to the positive effect of source expertise on perceived source credibility persuasion, but there is an ongoing societal debate on the increase in anti-elitist sentiments and conspiracy theories regarding the allegedly untrustworthy power elite. In one correlational ( N = 275) and three experimental studies ( N = 195, N = 464, N = 225), we tested the novel idea that people who endorse a conspiratorial mind-set (conspiracy mentality) indeed exhibit markedly different reactions to cues of epistemic authoritativeness than those who do not: Whereas the perceived credibility of powerful sources decreased with the recipients’ conspiracy mentality, that of powerless sources increased independent of and incremental to other biases, such as the need to see the ingroup in particularly positive light. The discussion raises the question whether a certain extent of source-based bias is necessary for the social fabric of a highly complex society.

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