Forgotten Histories: Ephemeral Culture for Children and the Digital Archive

2014 ◽  
Vol 150 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonie Rutherford
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Children's Television ◽  
Digital Archive ◽  
Digital Archives ◽  
Digital Resources ◽  
Television Programming ◽  
Television Production ◽  
Print Publication ◽  
Children's Magazines ◽  
History Of

The history of children's popular culture in Australia is still to be written. This article examines Australian print publication for children from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries, together with radio and children's television programming from the 1950s to the 1970s. It presents new scholarship on the history of children's magazines and newspapers, sourced from digital archives such as Trove, and documents new sources for early works by Australian children's writers. The discussion covers early television production for children, mobilising digital resources that have hitherto not informed scholarship in the field.

Learning, Teaching, and Television Production for Children: The Experience of Sesame Street

1972 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 232-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald Lesser
Keyword(s):  
Sesame Street ◽  
Children's Television ◽  
Educational Goals ◽  
National Board ◽  
Television Programming ◽  
Television Production ◽  
Working Together ◽  
Television Producers

The author discusses how educational goals are translated into the actual television programming of Sesame Street. Dr. Lesser serves as chairman of the National Board of Advisors to the Children's Television Workshop, which produces Sesame Street. He reflects here on the experience of researchers and television producers working together to develop television for children on the basis of knowledge (and hunches) about how children learn.

From Linear History to Discursive Constellation

2020 ◽  
pp. 99-128
Author(s):  
Paul Bowman
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Martial Arts ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Children's Television ◽  
First Century ◽  
Combat Sports ◽  
Ultimate Fighting Championship ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Twenty First Century

This chapter argues that any attempt to construct a linear history of martial arts in media and popular culture as it exploded after the 1970s cannot but fail. The sheer proliferation of martial arts images, themes, texts, and practices precludes easy linear narrativization. Accordingly, Chapter 5 argues for the need to move ‘From Linear History to Discursive Constellation’ in our approach to martial arts in media and popular culture. The chapter attempts to establish the main discursive contours that appeared and developed through the 1980s—a decade in which ninjas and Shaolin monks explode onto the cultural landscape. This is followed by attention to the 1990s, in which three major events took place in the same year: the first Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), the Wu-Tang Clan’s release of their enormously popular album, Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), and the appearance on children’s television screens around the world of ‘The Power Rangers’—all of which took place in 1993. The chapter then attempts to track the major discursive tendencies and contours of martial arts aesthetics through the first decade of the twenty-first century, up to the mainstreaming of combat sports in more recent years.

“I Know I Can’t Wait to See My Name in Lights”

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 7-26
Author(s):  
Jillian Báez
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Cable Television ◽  
Children's Television ◽  
Television Production ◽  
The Past ◽  
Feminist Media Studies ◽  
History Of ◽  
Critical Intervention

This essay explores the production, content, and reception of Nickelodeon’s sitcom Taina (2000–01). Created by Maria Perez-Brown, a Latina pioneer in cable television, Taina ran for two seasons and foregrounded a Puerto Rican teenage girl at a performing arts high school in New York City. Guided by an intersectional feminist media studies analysis, I argue that Taina presages the rise of girls’ tween and teen shows on cable television and paved the way for contemporary representations of Latina girlhood in mainstream broadcast, cable, and streaming television. Taina is rarely cited in the history of Latina/o television or children’s television. This essay re-centers Taina as a critical intervention into children’s television and as a leading forerunner in Latina television production. I also highlight the labor of fans in shedding light on Taina’s obscured history, creating new ways of engagement with television of the past, and demanding new representations of Latinas.

Cantopop

2002 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bryce T. McIntyre ◽  
Christine Wai Sum Cheng ◽  
Zhang Weiyu
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Chinese Characters ◽  
Television Programming ◽  
Mainland Chinese ◽  
Cultural Form ◽  
History Of ◽  
British Colonial

In post-Handover Hong Kong, one sees an influx of cultural products from mainland China, from increased radio and television programming in Mandarin to the adoption of simplified Chinese characters in some publication venues. These are symbols of the ‘resinicization’ of Hong Kong. Meanwhile, Beijingers proudly assert that the Chinese capital is the cultural centre of China, and they look with a combination of curiosity and disdain on the popular culture of Hong Kong. With this steady influx into Hong Kong of culture emanating from the Chinese capital, and with the imperialistic attitude of Beijing elites, one might conclude that Cantonese popular culture is in serious decline. However, this is not the case. Through a descriptive study of Cantonese popular music — or Cantopop, as it is known in the West — this article argues that Cantonese culture is a unique and irrepressible cultural force in Greater China. Further, this article argues — and this is the main point — that Cantopop has served the role of a strategic cultural form to delineate a local Hong Kong identity, vis-à-vis the old British colonial and mainland Chinese identities. The article includes a brief history of Cantopop.

Researching Provenance with Two New Tools Developed by the Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL)

Quaerendo ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 194-206
Author(s):  
Marieke van Delft
Keyword(s):  
International Cooperation ◽  
History Of The Book ◽  
Digital Archive ◽  
European Research ◽  
Digital Resources ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
Provenance Studies ◽  
History Of ◽  
Provenance Research ◽  
Material Evidence

Abstract Following the rise of the study of the history of the book in the 1980s and 1990s, provenance studies have become an important component in the research of social and cultural historians. This development was noticed and embraced by the Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL). The Consortium incorporated results of provenance research in existing resources and created new resources specifically with the question of provenance in mind. In this contribution I will focus on two CERL resources: the Material Evidence in Incunabula Database and the recently developed CERL Provenance Digital Archive and the relation between the two. Examples will show how these two digital resources stimulate international cooperation in the field of provenance research.

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.

Digital archives from the ground up

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 253-263
Author(s):  
Debora A. Person ◽  
Tawnya K. Plumb
Keyword(s):  
Law School ◽  
Controlled Vocabulary ◽  
Digital Archive ◽  
Historical Documents ◽  
Digital Archives ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Internet Address ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Law ◽  
Law Library

Purpose For many years, the librarians at University of Wyoming’s George William Hopper Law Library fielded questions about the history of the law school and alumni. Unfortunately, no one collection of institutional historical documents was available to search for relevant answers. The result was a decision to collect historic materials in a digital archive to make them available to anyone in the law school who might field such inquiries and to preserve them for future interest. The purpose of this case study is to provide a blueprint for building a digital archives from the ground up. Design/methodology/approach The digital archive began with print-born historical documents, scanned as preservation copies and entered into a database of images and files to which searchable metadata could be added. In addition to historical materials, it was important to collect the materials that the law school and the law library were producing. Therefore, the project was twofold: collect, preserve and make searchable the printed historic materials in a digital environment and harvest, preserve and make searchable print-born and digital-born materials as part of an ongoing process. To do this, appropriate software had to be identified. Findings The following steps blueprint the building of an archive on a digital platform: establish the site’s internet address, title and description; select a look and feel template and personalize the archive; create collections; identify Dublin Core preferences; add items and files using controlled vocabulary; experiment with any available plugins; and promote and provide access to the archive. Originality/value The digital archives project initiated by the library has led to other initiatives and opportunities for service.

Formation of Inner University Use Digital Archive for Highly Qualified Specialists Training

2009 ◽  
pp. 117-119
Author(s):  
Ivan D. Kotlyarov
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Philosophy Of Science ◽  
Digital Archive ◽  
Digital Archives ◽  
Highly Qualified

For the purpose of improving the training of highly qualified specialists the author suggests to create the inner university digital archives of translations of texts on a speciality (from within the exam candidate minimum foreign language) and reports on the history and philosophy of science.

The Art of Love Poetry

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erik Gray
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Love Poetry ◽  
Erotic Love ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Function ◽  
Meaning And Function ◽  
Comprehensive History

Love begets poetry; poetry begets love. These two propositions have seemed evident to thinkers and poets across the Western literary tradition. Plato writes that “anyone that love touches instantly becomes a poet.” And even today, when poetry has largely disappeared from the mainstream of popular culture, it retains its romantic associations. But why should this be so—what are the connections between poetry and erotic love that lead us to associate them so strongly with one another? An examination of different theories of both love and poetry across the centuries reveals that the connection between them is not merely an accident of cultural history—the result of our having grown up hearing, or hearing about, love poetry—but something more intrinsic. Even as definitions of them have changed, the two phenomena have consistently been described in parallel terms. Love is characterized by paradox. Above all, it is both necessarily public, because interpersonal, and intensely private; hence it both requires expression and resists it. In poetry, especially lyric poetry, which features its own characteristic paradoxes and silences, love finds a natural outlet. This study considers both the theories and the love poems themselves, bringing together a wide range of examples from different eras in order to examine the major structures that love and poetry share. It does not aim to be a comprehensive history of Western love poetry, but an investigation into the meaning and function of recurrent tropes, forms, and images employed by poets to express and describe erotic love.

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