Frank Grimes’ Enemy: Precarious Labour and Realism in The Simpsons

Animation ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 138-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Greg Sharzer
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
The Simpsons ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Qualitative Changes

Although many fans have identified the end of The Simpsons’ golden era in 1997, at the beginning of season nine, there has been little critical analysis of what that shift signified for the show and for popular culture as a whole. For The Simpsons, this shift signifies two important qualitative changes: first, in the changing definition of work, from a Fordist model of employment to a precarious one, and second, as a result of the first, in its mode of realism, moving from an internally coherent to a fractured portrayal of the characters’ lives. The first sign of this transformation comes in season eight through the character of Frank Grimes. His relationship to Homer marks a turning point, after which characters and viewers alike are no longer able to inhabit a stable Fordist universe. If the task of realism, as a mode of expression is to approach social reality then The Simpsons’ failure to provide consistent characterizations reflects neoliberalism’s own dislocations.

scholarly journals The Problem of Form and the Relavitization of the Status of Documentary Film in Contemporary Slovak Authorial Production

2017 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-62
Author(s):  
Martin Palúch
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Documentary Film ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Status ◽  
Subjective Views ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Formal Point

Abstract The present study offers a critical reflection of contemporary Slovak authorial production. Focusing on three films, the author analyses the authors′ approaches to representing reality from a formal point of view. The author claims that all of them relativize the status of documentary film, using as a tool of critical analysis Carl Plantiga’s definition of documentary film, included in his concept of “asserted veridical representation”. The films under analysis use three formally different approaches of relating to social reality. One relies on an acted form, the second takes the form of a historicizing essay, and the third promotes the author’s subjective views through a cut collage of motifs stemming from reality.

Public Service Motivation in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Public Voices ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon Mastracci
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Public Service Motivation ◽  
Public Servants ◽  
Buffy The Vampire Slayer ◽  
The Public ◽  
American Popular Culture ◽  
Public Servant ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Individual

In this paper, the author examines public service as depicted in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (BtVS). First, she shows how slaying meets the economist’s definition of a public good, using the BtVS episode “Flooded” (6.04). Second, she discusses public service motivation (PSM) to determine whether or not Buffy, a public servant, operates from a public service ethic. Relying on established measures and evidence from shooting scripts and episode transcripts, the author concludes Buffy is a public servant motivated by a public service ethic. In this way, BtVS informs scholarship on public service by broadening the concept of PSM beyond the public sector; prompting one to wonder whether it is located in a sector, an occupation, or in the individual. These conclusions allow the author to situate Buffy alongside other idealized public servants in American popular culture.

scholarly journals A fuzzy set model for assessment of a perspectives level for integration of new materials in industrial enterprise processes

2018 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 00045
Author(s):  
Elena Kasianenko ◽  
Evgenii Konnikov ◽  
Nikita Lukashevich
Keyword(s):  
Risk Process ◽  
Industrial Enterprise ◽  
New Materials ◽  
Process Systems ◽  
Industrial Enterprises ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Effective Models ◽  
Further Development ◽  
Qualitative Changes

The definition of effective improvement vectors is currently one of the most pressing challenges facing the industry representatives. The transition to the sixth technological mode effectively contributes to competition intensification in all markets of industrial products. This is largely due to the fact that existing process systems are at the peak of their effectiveness. Further development requires qualitative changes. However, the principal improvement is a long-term and high-risk process. For this reason the issue of creating effective models for assessment of the strategic lines of processes improvement becomes increasingly important for industrial enterprises. This article considers in details the vector of industrial enterprise processes improvement based on the integration of new materials. As a result, a model allowing to assess a perspectives level for integration of new materials in industrial enterprise processes is created.

scholarly journals Situační analýza a role diskurzů v sociálněvědním výzkumu

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-52
Author(s):  
Markéta Košatková
Keyword(s):  
Social Reality ◽  
Situational Analysis ◽  
Situation Analysis ◽  
Meso Level ◽  
Social Organizations ◽  
Collective Actors ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Insight Into

The article introduces situation analysis (cf. Clarke 2005) as an epistemologicalontological basis for science freed of the positivistic paradigm. Situation analysis in a broader perspective dives into present discourses as well as discourses that have been concealed. At the meso-level, the analysis offers insight into social and discursive arenas formed by collective actors, key material elements, social organizations and institutions. At the micro-level it is aimed at the position of individual actors in a situation. Situational analysis provides multidimensional research resonating marginalized discourses and supports the everydayness of knowledge in a socially engaged, emic research of social reality. The focus on language constructions in the humanities allows for the re-definition of one’s own entities, formulas, and rules. Their (im)possible transgression is a necessary response to the accelerated and diverse shape of the recent globalized and particularized society.

scholarly journals The Specificity of the Interpretation of Freedom by S. Kierkegaard in the Context of Modernization of Christianity

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (19) ◽  
pp. 52-54
Author(s):  
Serhii Shevchenko
Keyword(s):  
Main Idea ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Humanistic Psychology ◽  
Creative Transformation ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Existential Problem ◽  
Qualitative Changes

Existential-humanistic psychology has started the tradition of the creative transformation of classical-existentialist ideas in the practice of their involvement and application in psychology and psychotherapy. The source of these qualitative changes in the psychology of the twentieth and early XXI centuries was, in particular, the multifaceted creativity and ideas of S. Kierkegaard. His religious anthropology was rooted not only in Christology, but also in psychology. But psychology does not become a means of indulgence for a little foolish person, but a way to show her what she had not known about herself before. Contrary to the natural sciences of the time, his method did not set human boundaries, because it proceeded from the fact that the horizons of her hopes are, in principle, endless and the purpose of each person is to become equal with him. "WITH. Kierkegorov's main idea is, "writes M. Biergoso," that a person should be understood as a relationship: a constant attitude towards himself, his environment, and God. This is the most successful definition of the inseparable triad of the basic existential problem ..., which defines Kierkegaard's thinking as a whole "

scholarly journals TRANSFORMING THE POST-MUWAḤḤIDDŪN MAN: MALIK BENNABI’S CRITIQUE OF THE CONTEMPORARY MUSLIM SOCIETY

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-78
Author(s):  
Muhammad Yusuf Patria
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
The State ◽  
Analytic Approach ◽  
Muslim Society ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Current State ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Society Today

This article is aimed at discussing the critical analysis of a Muslim thinker, Malik Bennabi, of the state of contemporary Muslim society. This discussion uses a descriptive-analytic approach with Bennabi's works as the primary source and other supporting works as secondary sources. Bennabi's definition of a society, especially its origin, basic elements, and its stages, is described in detail as a basis for understanding Bennabi's thoughts. then, the article discusses Bennabi's analysis and criticism of the current state of Muslim society. For him, the root of all the problems experienced by Muslim society today is an internal weakness or what he calls "colonisability". This situation, according to him, creates vulnerable individuals and societies to be "colonized" again. Bennabi referred to these individuals in Muslim society as “Post-Muwaḥḥiddūn man”, as a sign that internal weaknesses began to emerge in Muslim society after the Muwaḥḥid dynasty. Based on his explanation, it can be concluded that the current Muslim society is disoriented and has lost its identity. The author also concludes that Bennabi's approach and analysis are able to describe the current state of Muslim society and the root of the problems it is experiencing.

scholarly journals Iranian Feminist Activists and Critical Media Literacy

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 45-58
Author(s):  
Kobra Mohammadpour Kachalmi ◽  
Lee Yok Fee
Keyword(s):  
Media Literacy ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Gender Ideology ◽  
Critical Media Literacy ◽  
Dominant Ideologies ◽  
Critical Media ◽  
Core Concepts ◽  
Literacy Framework ◽  
Definition Of

Abstract Considering the exponential growth of technology and media in Iranian society as well as the significant role of media culture in reproducing, reinforcing, and legitimizing dominant ideologies such as sexism, the central question posed by this paper is how Iranian feminist activists critically analyze media messages. Further, this paper explores the extent to which this analysis fits the critical media literacy framework. Using a critical media literacy framework underpinned by feminist standpoint theory, this paper presents results from qualitative interviews with 15 Iranian feminist activists. We find that Iranian feminist activists focus more on politics of representation and critique of gender ideology in the critical analysis of media products. Thus, critical analysis of media by Iranian feminist activists better fits the definition of critical media literacy than its core concepts. The findings also demonstrate that a transformative dimension of critical media literacy is ignored by the feminist activists despite using media in the struggle against dominant gender ideology.

Reappraisal of Arundian–Asbian successions of the Great Scar Limestone Group across northern England

2021 ◽  
pp. pygs2021-002
Author(s):  
Colin N. Waters ◽  
Iain C. Burgess ◽  
Pedro Cózar ◽  
Douglas W. Holliday ◽  
Ian D. Somerville
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Lake District ◽  
Lithostratigraphic Units ◽  
Definition Of

The correlation of disparate mid- to late Viséan platform carbonate successions of the Great Scar Limestone Group across northern England formerly relied heavily upon a coral and brachiopod biozonation scheme erected in the early 20th century. This subsequently guided the development of a regional chronostratigraphic scheme some sixty years later that continues to be used to the present day, broadly coinciding with development of new lithostratigraphical nomenclatures, different for each distinct structural area. Correlation problems encountered within these lithostratigraphic units from study of their foraminiferal assemblages, as well as critical analysis of the stratotype sections for the Holkerian and Asbian substages, questions the veracity of the long-established coral and brachiopod biostratigraphy. This study appraises the lithostratigraphical and biostratigraphical relationships of late Arundian to late Asbian limestones across the Askrigg and Alston blocks, the Stainmore Trough and flanks of the Lake District Block. It considers the correlation and potential rationalisation of lithostratigraphic units, comments on revisions to the definition of the Holkerian and Asbian substage stratotypes and the suitability of the various biostratigraphical guide fossils.

Decolonization as Existential Paradox

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-121
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Frantz Fanon ◽  
Human Being

This article offers a critical analysis of Euromodernity through an engagement with the Africana existentialism of Lewis R. Gordon. Drawing on Gordon’s recent work Freedom, Justice, and Decolonization (Routledge, 2021) as well as Frantz Fanon, the author argues for the need to decolonize modernity by decoupling Europe and reason, freedom, knowledge, and power. Understanding what it means to be a human being involves an ongoing commitment understanding its relationship to the larger structures of reality, including social reality.

Meghalaya Transfer of Land (Regulation) Act, 1971 : A Critical Analysis

LAW REVIEW ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 37 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
Arun Kumar Singh
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
The State ◽  
Land Transfer ◽  
The Will ◽  
Land Regulation ◽  
Definition Of

Meghalaya is the state comprises of different tribes mainly Khasi and Garos. Culturally they are different. Land transfer in the State is governed by the Meghalaya Transfer ofLand(Regulation)Act,1971,which has been amended in 2010. The objective of the Act is to protect the interest of tribals. By the amendment word 'will' has been included in the detention of Transfer that created confusion .Although,the court has said that the 'will' should not be included in the definition of transfer but still it is there. In this paper the analysis of the Act of 1971 has been done. How far the SARFAESI Act,2002 is relevant here has been discussed. And also,the role of judiciary has been highlighted

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