scholarly journals Game of text: Bruce Lee’s media legacies

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 325-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Bowman
Keyword(s):  
Martial Arts ◽  
Limited Range ◽  
Media Theory ◽  
Bruce Lee ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Texts ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Asian Martial Arts

This article situates Bruce Lee at the heart of the emergence of ‘martial arts’. It argues that the notion ‘martial arts’, as we now know it, is a discursive entity that emerged in the wake of media texts, and that the influence of Bruce Lee films of the early 1970s was both seminal and structuring of ‘martial arts’, in ways that continue to be felt. Using the media theory proposition that a limited range of ‘key visuals’ structure the aesthetic terrain of the discursive entity ‘martial arts’, the article assesses the place, role and status of images of Bruce Lee as they work intertextually across a wide range of media texts. In so doing, the article demonstrates the enduring media legacy of Bruce Lee – one that has always overflowed the media realm and influenced the lived, embodied lifestyles of innumerable people the world over, who have seen Bruce Lee and other martial arts texts and gone on to study Chinese and Asian martial arts because of them.

scholarly journals Media and culture: Dialectics of values

Kultura ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 221-233
Author(s):  
Divna Vuksanović
Keyword(s):  
Technological Progress ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Media Theory ◽  
Cultural Value ◽  
Value Systems ◽  
Media Communication ◽  
Teaching Activities ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media

Along with studying the world of culture, Milena Dragićević Šešić has also dealt with reflections in the field of media theory. These two parallel lines of study, as well as long-term teaching activities in the designated areas, in my opinion, represent a paradigm, where they approach each other, conflict and fight for the dominance of two different value systems existing today. In principle, on the side of culture and its interests and possibilities, M. D. Šešić does not fall into the trap of technophobia, but, on the other hand, does not fetishize the existing media reality. By analysing the current media scene - either theoretically or practically, the author Šešić discreetly supports culture in its struggle for a more equal status in relation to the media dictum, in the era of the rule of modern communication technologies. Without disputing the idea and practice of accelerated technical and technological progress, M. D. Šešić critically valorises the world of media, advocating a cultural value paradigm in the field of the media communication.

scholarly journals Unicorn in Rainbow Park: A glance at young children’s game design ideas

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pekka Mertala
Keyword(s):  
Game Design ◽  
Design Elements ◽  
The World ◽  
Emotional Aspects ◽  
Media Texts ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Design Ideas

In this study, 5-to7-year-old Finnish children were asked to show, by drawing a design, what would be “the best game in the world” for them. Data were analyzed through a framework of game design elements. Children were found to be keen to modify existing games by adding new things to them. Often these additions had their roots in other meaningful media texts. Thus, children’s game ideas became collage-like representations of their lifeworld, which highlights the importance of the aesthetic element of game design (i.e. the emotional aspects of a gaming experience).

scholarly journals Discursive Construal of Current Events in Russian and English Language Media in the Light of Linguistic Security

2020 ◽  
pp. 111-126
Author(s):  
Valentina Tyrygina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Possible World ◽  
Social Design ◽  
Internet Media ◽  
The World ◽  
Current Events ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Texts ◽  
Linguistic Approach ◽  
Modern Era

The article examines a number of issues pertaining to how reality can be discursively presented in media texts. The modern era is characterized by the rapidly increasing influence of the media on the socio-political changes taking place in the world. The media frequently model events and phenomena around us, and this type of activity is associated with actively transforming reality and constructing a new reality, media reality. All this inevitably raises the question how authentically or accurately the world is represented or reflected in the media. In structuralist studies, the representation in the media is not a key problem and thus is only partially touched upon. In critical linguistics, however, where the concept of biased, distorted, prejudiced representation of reality in discourse is introduced, this problem becomes central. The linguistic approach to the analysis of media reality is based on the idea of discursive construal of the world, which derives from the concept of social design of the world. The purpose of the study presented in this article is to examine the names of subjects or attributes associated with the same facts and events but featured in different Internet media. Using the method of comparative analysis of alternative nominations, the author analyzes media texts from Russian, Belarusian, European, and American sites, and the results of the analysis confirm the fact of alternativeness in the reality representation in the media discourse. The theoretical significance of the results lies in confirming the idea that the choice of nomination is directly related to the creation of the “possible world” and thus contributing to the field of cognitive, discursive, and critical linguistics. The practical value of the results lies in their possible introduction into relevant university courses.

scholarly journals Symmetry and Asymmetry in the Structure of Temporal Opposition “Past / Future” (based on Media Texts)

2020 ◽  
pp. 117-128
Author(s):  
I. N. Ponomarenko ◽  
N. A. Segal ◽  
Y. N. Bychina ◽  
S. A. Mospan
Keyword(s):  
A Priori ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Political Views ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Asymmetry ◽  
Media Texts ◽  
Linguistic Units

The article is devoted to the identification of the asymmetric basis of explication of temporal oppositions in the Russian-language media discourse. The semantic-pragmatic potential of linguistic units representing the antithesis of “past / future” and its textual explicators is established and analyzed. Given the specifics of linguistic and extralinguistic factors, the features of modeling the current political picture of the world are revealed. It is emphasized that the asymmetry of the media discourse, which has become the subject of scientific research only in the last decade, is dictated by the manipulative orientation of media texts. An analysis of practical material allows us to conclude that the media texts of the beginning of the XXI century are a priori asymmetric and are built on both communicative and linguistic asymmetries, which consist primarily in the contraposition of linguistic and contextual antonyms that reflect polar political views and aspirations. The asymmetry of images of the past and future and the ambiguity of connotations inherent in the linguistic representatives of these images allow us to talk about the variability of the value component of the key categories of the political picture of the world and prove its dynamic nature.

scholarly journals THE HANDICRAFTS MUSEUM AS AN ACTUAL FORM OF MUSEUM ACTIVITY IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE XIX - THE FIRST THIRD OF THE XX CENTURIES (ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE MOSCOW HANDICRAFTS MUSEUM)

2020 ◽  
pp. 273-278
Author(s):  
Ekaterina А. Rychkova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
Folk Art ◽  
Russian Empire ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Actual Form ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World ◽  
The Russian Empire ◽  
The Aesthetic

The development of folk crafts in Russia was closely connected with the formation of handicrafts museums that performed complex tasks of preserving, studying and promoting folk art. The study of their history today is one of the problems that have not yet been sufficiently studied in museology. Handicrafts museums were considered by researchers primarily in the general historical context of the influence of state policy and provincial zemstvos on the development of handicraft industry in Russia. However, the phenomenon of handicrafts museums remains insufficiently studied from the point of view of history and the theory of museum work. The type of the handicrafts museum has not yet been singled out as an actual form of the museum institution of the last quarter of the XIX – the first third of the XX centuries, which spread in several provinces of the Russian Empire. The purpose of the article is to review the main activities of the Moscow Handicrafts Museum - an example of the formation of new types of museums in Russia and their influence on the development of folk crafts in the second half of the 19th century – the first third of the 20th centuries. Moscow Handicrafts Museum opened in 1885. His task was to fully promote the development of folk art and the implementation of handicrafts. One of the main features and goals of creating the Handicrafts Museums in the Russian Empire was the formation of an established system of state patronage over the peasants who were freed from serfdom and promotion of their involvement in the new sector of the economy. The museum staff formed the museum collection, actively participated in organizing the training of folk craftsmen, arranging production workshops, became intermediaries in the art market, and was engaged in active exhibition work around the world, especially at large industrial fairs. In the 1890–1910s, the case started in Moscow spread quickly to almost the whole country. Handicrafts museums immediately arose in several provinces of Russia. One of the program documents of that period was the concept of the development of the Handicrafts Museum, proposed in a report of Sergey Morozov in 1910. Thus, at the beginning of the twentieth century in Moscow, the structure of an effective museum was formed, aimed at systematic work with folk crafts and successfully involving a wide range of partners: artists and scientists, merchants and foreign industrialists. Thanks to the assistance of handicrafts museums in Russia in the late XIX – early XX centuries traditional folk crafts were able to survive and be adequately represented throughout the world. The aesthetic significance of folk art has been recognized. The study of folk art has become an important subject of scientific research. All aspects of the multifaceted history of the formation and development of handicrafts museums and their role in the socio-economic and cultural development of Russia are of great scientific interest and require careful further study.

scholarly journals COLORISTICS AS A FACTOR OF AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (10) ◽  
pp. 111-109
Author(s):  
М. Дудченко ◽  
M. Dudchenko ◽  
А. Попов ◽  
A. Popov
Keyword(s):  
Aesthetic Experience ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Architectural Space ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World ◽  
Spatial Environment ◽  
Successful Design ◽  
Creative Experience ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Aesthetic

The article describes the importance of coloristics. Color is an integral part that forms a complete image of the world. It can unite urban ensembles, to bear the emotional and aesthetic burden. Color fills the world with expressiveness. The various functions of light in a person's life help to reveal the concepts of a color phenomenon, which contains a mixture of colors, the theory of color harmonies, manifested in the spiritual and material qualities of being. The color phenomenon is association formed in the consciousness. An important aspect in the formation of architectural space is the color of the object-spatial environment. This is a system that includes the color environment of natural objects and the human made architecture. Creative experience and scientific research in the field of color solutions are used for the successful design of the subject-spatial environment. In architecture, color is manifested in terms of aesthetic and psychological approaches. Any activity to create color solutions of the architectural space aims to meet the aesthetic requirements. In addition, coloristics must consider the function of objects, their design and features of the object concept in order to solve a wide range of issues.

Innovations as a Reflection of the Current Epidemic Situation in the World

2020 ◽  
Vol 81 (5) ◽  
pp. 55-60
Author(s):  
V. E. Zamaldinov
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Negative Attitude ◽  
Word Formation ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Media Communication ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media ◽  
Psychological Influence ◽  
The Common ◽  
Media Texts

The article considers word-building neologisms as a reflection of the current epidemic situation in the world. The material for the analysis was mass media texts. The sociocultural aspect of the language of the media led to the emergence of a large number of new nominations. The author makes an attempt to single out the common ways of word formation (prefixation, suffixation) and notes the expansion of affixoids. With the help of neologisms, journalists express a negative attitude towards the epidemic situation in the world, exert a psychological influence on the reader, ironically comprehend the surrounding reality, bring media communication closer to speaking, and designate high-tech phenomena. The author describes such occasional methods of word formation as contamination, tmesis, interword overlapping and substitutional derivation. The study reveals that occasional derivative means allow journalists to achieve a comic effect, attract the attention of the addressee; violating the principle of the integrity of the word, as well as to express negative expression. Structural-semantic and derivational types of analysis of innovations are carried out. It is concluded that extralinguistic factors have a great impact on the language.

scholarly journals The Limits of Post-marxism: The (dis)Function of Political Theory in Film and Cultural Studies

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 329-345
Author(s):  
Paul Bowman
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Martial Arts ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Limited Range ◽  
The Political ◽  
Cultural Discourses ◽  
Kung Fu ◽  
Bruce Lee ◽  
Political Dimensions

This article first sets out the value of the political discourse theory of Laclau and Mouffe. It argues that this work was central to the development of cultural studies, in its theorisation of social and cultural practices as being part of 'political discourse'. This confers a dignity, status, value and political importance on cultural practices of all kinds. However, the article seeks to probe the limits of this approach to cultural politics, and it does so through a necessarily unusual exploration. First, it takes an example of something ostensibly trivial from the realms of film and popular culture and explores it in terms of Laclau and Mouffe's categories, in two different ways. The 'trivial'/pop cultural example is Bruce Lee. Could Bruce Lee be regarded as 'politically' significant or consequential? He was certainly an enormously influential film and popular cultural icon of the 1970s, one who arguably ignited a global 'kung fu craze'. Moreover, Bruce Lee also had his own 'hegemonic project', seeking to transform and unify martial arts practices. In this paper, Bruce Lee's own 'project' is first examined in the terms of Laclauian categories. These are shown to be extremely useful for grasping both the project and the reasons for its failure. Then the article moves into a wider consideration of the emergence of globally popular cultural discourses of martial arts. However, Laclau and Mouffe's approach is shown to be somewhat less than satisfactory for perceiving at least some of the 'political' dimensions entailed in the spread martial arts culture and practices, from contexts of the global south into affluent contexts such as Hollywood film and Euro-American cultural practices. The paper argues that this is because Laclau and Mouffe's approach is logocentric, which leads it to look for and to perceive a very limited range of factors: specifically, political identities formed through political demands. However, to more fully perceive the political dimensions of culture, the paper argues that different kinds of perspective, paradigms and analysis are required. Adopting or developing some of these would enrich the field of political studies.

scholarly journals Lyubimova T. B. (1941–2020): Tradition and Civilization

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Timoschuk
Keyword(s):  
Goal Setting ◽  
Ancient Philosophy ◽  
Sociology Of Music ◽  
Russian Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World ◽  
Liturgical Practice ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Creative Life

the article provides an overview of the work of T. B. Lyubimova, an original Russian thinker, a representative of the aesthetic school of the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences. During her rich creative life, Tatyana Borisovna has explored a wide range of the most intriguing topics: the aesthetic categories of the comic / tragic and the sociology of music, the metaphysical dimension of politics and the ideology of modernization, initiatory traditions and the profanation of the spiritual. She was interested in the issues of the formation of the spiritual elite, the essence of metaphysical goal-setting, theater as a liturgical practice. The big theme of her life was traditionalism as an integral worldview system and a view of the world of a single tradition, the traces of which T. B. Lyubimova reconstructed from ancient philosophy, Hinduism, Christianity and Islam. Particular attention is paid to the final monograph by T. B. Lyubimova "Philosophy and Countertradition" (Moscow: Golos, 2019, 292 p.), where the author demarcates tradition, pseudo-tradition and anti-tradition and seeks to lead the reader on a razor's edge between the temptations of profaning the spiritual, mass representation of esoteric practices and their vulgar interpretation

scholarly journals The Art Through the Media in the Conditions of the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-34
Author(s):  
Luchia Angelova ◽  
Bojidar Angelov
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Aesthetic Perception ◽  
Media Pedagogy ◽  
The World ◽  
Aesthetic Attitude ◽  
The Media ◽  
Modern Information ◽  
The Aesthetic

In kindergarten and primary school, the aesthetic perception and aesthetic attitude to the world, as components of aesthetic culture are formed through a cycle of artistic and aesthetic activities. children's audience in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic The question is answered, what do we need to know about the media in order to be able to live in accordance with the modern information society? It is pointed out that the task of media pedagogy is to specify where the interactions between the media and people - especially children, intervene by educating, educating and advising, orienting and informing despite the new conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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