“Regional” Cinema or Products of Bricolage? An Introduction to Malayalam Studio Film of the Early 1950s

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenson Joseph
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Cultural Considerations ◽  
Indian Cinema ◽  
South Indian ◽  
The Family ◽  
Stage Performances ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Cultural Pressures

This article offers an overview of the exhibition and distribution sectors in Kerala between the late 1920s and the 1940s, and the economic and cultural considerations behind the initiatives to set up production centers within this region by the late 1940s. The incipient industry identified the “family social” as a convenient format to negotiate with the industrial and aesthetic terms set by South Indian cinema, mainly based in Madras, and the cultural demands placed on it by linguistic constituencies and elite patronage in the 1950s. The industrial constraints of small budgets and a narrow linguistic market necessitated an aesthetic that could cater to a socially and regionally mixed audience. Strategies of adapting existing popular genres like mythologicals, and subordinating these to the overarching narrative structure privileging an aesthetic of contemporaneity, enabled the early studio films to negotiate commercial and cultural pressures. Jeevithanouka (The Boat of Life; Vembu, 1951 ) is discussed as an instance where elements from popular mythologicals and stage performances were appropriated to privilege rationalist values.

Modes of gender relationships in early medieval India: Study based on inscriptions

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-128
Author(s):  
Anjali Verma
Keyword(s):  
Large Body ◽  
Indian Languages ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Male Preference ◽  
South Indian ◽  
The Family ◽  
Medieval India ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Epigraphic Evidence ◽  
Source Of Information

One major source of information on the position of women and the male attitude towards them in early medieval India (ad 800–1200) consists of the large body of inscriptions in Sanskrit and south Indian languages. This article is concerned with the woman’s position in the family as contemporaneously conceived based on this extensive source. Male preference and dominance were expressed in particular ways; and it is with this particularity that the present study is largely concerned. Since inscriptions, especially the voluble ones, were set up to record some act of the royalty or the nobility, one is warned in advance of the limitations of the evidence. Yet, as will be seen, ordinary women too sometimes appear in our epigraphic evidence.

scholarly journals Man of the Theatre: Stage Performances of T. S. Eliot’s Work in Spain (1949–2016)

Neophilologus ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dídac Llorens-Cubedo
Keyword(s):  
A Priori ◽  
Cocktail Party ◽  
Family Reunion ◽  
National Theatre ◽  
The Family ◽  
Verse Drama ◽  
National Catholicism ◽  
Stage Performances ◽  
The 1950S

AbstractT. S. Eliot’s presence in Spanish theatres has taken various forms. His verse drama enjoyed a relative popularity in the late 1940s and in the 1950s: Murder in the Cathedral, The Family Reunion and The Cocktail Party were staged by student and amateur groups, “chamber” companies and even a national theatre. Reviews were ambivalent, most of them finding fault with the plays’ poetic density as an impediment for performance. Although, as a conservative Anglo-Catholic, Eliot was a priori an unproblematic author for the Francoist establishment and its censorship, critics loyal to Spanish National Catholicism were uncomfortable with the tragic fatalism of The Family Reunion, or with the non-judgemental treatment of adultery in The Cocktail Party. When Eliot’s plays were losing their appeal from the late 1950s onwards, only Murder in the Cathedral was occasionally performed in Spain. More recently, intermedial transpositions and dramatizations of Eliot’s poetry have consolidated his image as a great influential poet whose drama is a rarity.

The Hodson Shop

Costume ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheila B. Shreeve
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Women's Magazines ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Home ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Set Up

In about 1920, Miss Edith Hodson set up a draper’s and haberdasher’s shop at the family home in front of her brother Edgar’s lock factory in the Midlands town of Willenhall. This article explains how the author became involved with the shop’s remaining stock and looks at some of the customers’ experiences of it. It goes on to describe the collection of clothes and related items, mostly comprising working-class women’s and children’s garments and accessories from 1920 to the early 1960s. The collection includes Utility pieces, quantities of haberdashery, and costume jewellery and cosmetics of the 1950s. A large archive has also been preserved of the shop’s paperwork (bills, invoices, bank statements, correspondence), warehouse catalogues, advertising pamphlets and women’s magazines. The ownership of the collection was passed to Walsall Museum in February 1993.

Federal/State Responsibility for Child Welfare Services

1984 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 26-27
Author(s):  
Susan M. Griffin
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
State Government ◽  
Family Policy ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Final Report ◽  
Raising Children ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
The Family ◽  
Major Review ◽  
Set Up

In Victoria at the present time a major review is being undertaken into child welfare practice and legislation. The importance of this task is two-fold. Not only do children have to gain from a sensitive and workable final Report, but families too could find that they will be offered the support they need to assist in the difficult task of raising children today. It is hoped that the Review Committee will not concentrate solely on the rights of the child, but will also give due recognition to the rights of the family to a caring and protective environment.The Victorian Government was the first state government to adopt a family policy approach to dealing with the child. This was confirmed by the Norgard Report (1976) and formed the basis of a submission by the Victorian Minister of Social Welfare to the Federal Minister of Social Security (1977) which culminated in the Family Support Services Scheme being set up the following year. This joint federal/state program officially recognised the interaction of children’s rights and needs with those of their parents.

scholarly journals ‘I Looked and Beheld a Country’: Home Movies, Homesteads and the Family Archive

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Clayton Rathbone
Keyword(s):  
Southern Africa ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Family Identity ◽  
Home Movies ◽  
Family Photographs ◽  
The Family ◽  
British Colonial ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The 1950S

Home movies, like family photographs, are important parts of family life, acting as ways to frame the idea of the family and connect different, inter-generational memories together. Footage of key moments helps develop a family identity, as well as locate it within broader historical contexts. As a result, home movies provide an incredibly useful source with which to examine the intersections between narratives of the family, nation and belonging. Utilising a collection of personal home movies, this paper will explore how these themes are touched on within the context of British Colonial Southern Africa. These films explore how ideas of family identity are rooted within ideas of home and belonging, articulating a conceptualisation of colonial Southern Africa as a ‘home-scape’ for descendant of British settlers living there during the 1950s and 1960s. These home movies draw attention to the creation of the idea of home and family, while also producing disruptive elements to those narratives.

scholarly journals COVID-19: Threat or ally in the teaching-learning process in phytopathology?

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
María Del Milagro Granados-Montero
Keyword(s):  
Learning Process ◽  
Culture Media ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Information And Communications Technologies ◽  
Educational Project ◽  
Years Of Teaching Experience ◽  
Communications Technologies ◽  
The Family ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Teaching Learning

<p>Preventive confinement against COVID-19 changed the teaching-learning process of the Phytopathology course at the Faculty of Agronomy of the UCR. Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) were integrated into a program called ‘Phytopathology 2020, at the distance but together’. Each student received at her home a box of materials, including culture media and a paper microscope, that allowed her to set up and carry out different phytopathological techniques. The result obtained exceeded expectations and previous results in 16 years of teaching experience. The integration of the family into the educational project was surprising, fostering values of mutual commitment in education and prevention of COVID-19.</p>

scholarly journals A Study of Extra Marital Relations in Urdu Dramas: A Qualitative Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 251-271
Author(s):  
Yasar Arafat ◽  
Nauman Sial ◽  
Abid Zafar
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Structure Analysis ◽  
Married Couple ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Electronic Media ◽  
Family Values ◽  
Marital Relations ◽  
Happy Life ◽  
The Family

It is highly perceived that most of the stories of Urdu televise dramas in Pakistan are revolving around the problems of wedded couple. It is point of discussion that plots of the contemporary Pakistani Urdu televise dramas is depicting more extramarital relations. Through narrative structure analysis, the current study revealed that drama serials start with a family and then a quarrel arises between married couple. At that point, a protagonist enters in the scene which also becomes as catalyst in making separation between the married spouses. The bad and harsh attitude of the husband appears to be the enough reason to bend toward extramarital relation. Divorce seems to be the only solution in case of incompatible relations between the spouses. Consequently, the divorced lady marries with her protagonist and starts living a happy life with her second husband. It is apparent that these dramas are promoting extramarital relations in positive ways. The current bombardment of such issues by electronic media seems to be trying to legitimize the illegitimate relation. The analyses depict that televise Urdu dramas of Pakistan are violating the family values and promoting the extramarital relations in positive ways.

scholarly journals Radical freedom: Periyar and women

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 6
Author(s):  
Karthick Ram Manoharan
Keyword(s):  
Child Rearing ◽  
Social Reformer ◽  
Economic Equality ◽  
The West ◽  
Sexual Freedom ◽  
Radical Feminist ◽  
South Indian ◽  
Child Bearing ◽  
The Family ◽  
Radical Freedom

This paper looks at South Indian social reformer and anti-caste radical Periyar E.V. Ramasamy's approach to the women's question. Periyar was not just an advocate of social and economic equality between the sexes but espoused a radical concept of sexual freedom for women, which is central to his concept of liberty as such. While the anti-colonialists of his period defended native traditions and customs, Periyar welcomed modernity and saw it laden with possibilities for the emancipation of women. Likewise, where other social reformers addressed the women's question within the ambit of the nation and/or the family, Periyar saw both nation and family as institutions that limited the liberties of women. This paper compares his thoughts with The Dialectic of Sex, the key work of the radical feminist Shulamith Firestone, and highlights the similarities in their approach to women's liberation and sexual freedom, especially their critique of child-rearing and child-bearing. It explores Periyar's booklet Women Enslaved in detail and engages with lesser known, new primary material of Periyar on the women's question, concluding with a discussion of his perspective of the West.

Printers to Hendrik Niclaes: Plantin and Augustijn van Hasselt

Quaerendo ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 247-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Valkema Blouw
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Literary Sources ◽  
The Family ◽  
Religious Sect ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Number Of Publications ◽  
First Time ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
Publishing Business

AbstractFrom the chronicles of the Family of Love we know that, besides printers in Deventer and later in Cologne, both Plantin and Augustijn van Hasselt printed for this religious sect. On the basis of this information quite a large number of publications have hitherto been attributed to Plantin, while only one single edition in Latin was reckoned to be the work of Augustijn. An analysis of the typography, however, shows that apart from Hendrik Niclaes's chief work, Den Spegel der Gherechticheyt, Plantin only printed two of his minor writings and that all the other ascriptions to Plantin must be revised in favour of Augustijn van Hasselt. In 1561-2 Augustijn was running a printing shop in the Dutch town of Kampen, specially set up by HN for the purpose of publishing those of his works that had not previously been printed. Plantin, who was partly involved in this enterprise, took the opportunity to have a book printed on this press for his publishing business. The analysis providing the typographical evidence of this collaboration proves for the first time the accuracy of the literary sources as regards Plantin's involvement in the publication of the works of Hendrik Niclaes. In the presentation of the new evidence it was necessary to establish more clearly the date of Plantin's '[1561]' inventory and which roman and German types he owned at what times. The article ends with some notes regarding the end of the 'Bohmbargen' press at Cologne.

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