Drawn to Life

2018 ◽  
pp. 122-142
Author(s):  
Kylie Cardell
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Teenage Girl

As forms of auto biography, diaries are of ten framed as secret, private, and confessional genres–they are presumed to be (desired as) an unfiltered and uncensored mode. In popular culture, diaries are frequently used to connote the image or experience of a teenage girl and are connected to expectations for emotionally heightened and subjective or unfiltered narration. This chapter explore show the contemporary comics artists Gabrielle Bell and Julie Doucet use diary as a both a methodology (a structural device) and a symbolic mode: in a body of diary comics, these artists respectively narrate autobiographical stories that center on the mundane, banal, and ephemeral, in away that both heightens and contests the voyeuristic frame of diary point of view.

scholarly journals Shakespeare for Revolution: From Canon to Activism in V for Vendetta and Sons of Anarchy

2020 ◽  
pp. 85
Author(s):  
Maria Consuelo Forés Rossell
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Culturally Diverse ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
First Century ◽  
Cultural Activism ◽  
Political Struggles ◽  
Political Weapon ◽  
V For Vendetta

Shakespeare’s works have long been a place of cultural and political struggles, and continues to be so. Twenty-first century non-canonical fiction is appropriating Shakespeare for activist purposes. The present article will analyze this phenomenon, applying the concept of cultural capital, the theories of cultural materialism, intertextuality, and appropriation in relation to popular culture, in order to study how Shakespeare’s plays are being appropriated from more radically progressive positions, and resituated in alternative contexts. Among the plethora of Shakespearean adaptations of the last decades, non-canonical appropriations in particular offer brand new interpretations of previously assumed ideas about Shakespeare’s works, popularizing the playwright in unprecedented ambits and culturally diverse social spaces, while giving voice to the marginalized. Thus, through entertainment, non-canonical fiction products such as V for Vendetta and Sons of Anarchy recycle the Shakespearean legacy from a critical point of view, while using it as a political weapon for cultural activism, helping to make people aware of social inequalities and to inspire them to adopt a critical stance towards them, as free and equal citizens.

The Lady Composer Takes Her First Steps

2020 ◽  
pp. 17-53
Author(s):  
Wanda Brister ◽  
Jay Rosenblatt
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Royal College ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Teenage Girl ◽  
World War ◽  
Musical Style ◽  
Musical Education ◽  
Radio Broadcast

Dring’s musical education took place at the Royal College of Music, beginning in the Junior Department at the same time as her formal education in Roman Catholic grade schools. Her mentors included Percy Buck and Angela Bull, who together directed the Department. Dring also benefited from the encouragement of the directors of the RCM, Hugh Allen and George Dyson. Principal teachers included Betty Barne and Freda Dinn for violin, Jewel Evans and Lilian Gaskell for piano, and Stanley Wolff and Leslie Fly for composition. Important first performances of her music took place on the BBC radio broadcast of the “Children’s Hour” and at a concert at Lambeth County Hall. As an actor, Dring’s participation in the yearly Christmas play is documented, and as an example of her musical style, her Fantasy Sonata (In one movement) is examined in detail. The effect of the beginning of World War II is considered from Dring’s point of view, specifically in the way it affected a teenage girl at the Royal College of Music.

scholarly journals Six Thinkers in Search of the Author

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 44-67
Author(s):  
Ekaterina B. Kriukova ◽  
Oxana A. Koval
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Philosophy And Literature ◽  
Privileged Position ◽  
Literature And Philosophy ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
Modern Era

The article presents a survey of the 20th century intellectual quests related to the problem of the author and her status. The question of authorship becomes a key issue in the modern era for both philosophy and literature. On the one hand, both fields reflect upon the authorship as their own intrinsic principle, on the other hand, both literature and philosophy question the privileged position of the author as the sole meaning-maker. The undertaken comparison of the original interpretations of the prominent 20th century thinkers allows us: (1) to demonstrate how the ideological content of the concept itself has changed, the author being labeled as a co-participant, producer, collective subject, function within discourse, non-reader, and witness; (2) to introduce different strategies of understanding the author’s figure, depending on the chosen point of view; (3) to trace the logic of the transition from the modern to the postmodern through the explication of relations between the author and the character (M. Bakhtin), the author and his work (W. Benjamin), the author and popular culture (T. Adorno), the author and the discourse (M. Foucault), the author and the letter (M. Blanchot), and the author and the Other (G. Agamben).

scholarly journals A Real Witcher—Slavic or Universal; from a Book, a Game or a TV Series? In the Circle of Multimedia Adaptations of a Fantasy Series of Novels “The Witcher” by A. Sapkowski

Arts ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 102
Author(s):  
Sławomir Gawroński ◽  
Kinga Bajorek
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
Computer Games ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Literature Analysis ◽  
National Pride ◽  
Polish People ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Eastern European Countries

A series of novels about a witcher, written by Andrzej Sapkowski almost thirty years ago, has now become an inspiration for the creation of mass productions of mainstream popular culture—film and multimedia adaptations for use in computer games. It is one of the few examples of global messages of mass culture being based on Polish creativity. The recognition of “The Witcher”, due to the Netflix production, soon contributed to building the national pride of Polish people, and at the same time sparked a discussion in Central and Eastern European countries on the consequences of the multimedia adaptation of Andrzej Sapkowski’s prose. Questions about the dissonance between the Slavic and universal dimensions of “The Witcher” in relation to the original novels and their adaptations are a part of the traditional discourse on the adaptability of literature and its consequences for the reception by the audience. This article tries to capture the specific character of the adaptations of Andrzej Sapkowski’s literature from the point of view of typology, known from the literature of the subject, as well as to answer the question about the consequences of the discrepancy between the original book and its adaptations in the form of a film, a TV series, and computer games. The considerations in the article were based on the literature analysis and the research based on the existing sources.

scholarly journals Anthropological Studies of Popular Culture

2010 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 17-39
Author(s):  
Bojan Žikić
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Cultural Communication ◽  
Research Issues ◽  
Absolute Certainty ◽  
Art Forms ◽  
The Subject

One of the questions raised at the symposium "Our World, Other Worlds. Anthropology, Science Fiction and Cultural Identity", held in Belgrade in December 2009, is how anthropology is to study contemporary art forms: how research issues are to be defined and approached; how research is to be organized in a specific semantic area, which cannot always and with absolute certainty be said not to be an anthropological construction; whether the subject of research can be said to have the shared nature of cultural communication; whether the anthropologist is to interpret the author/artist’s intention, or that which is produced as a result of that intention, etc. The aim of this paper is to suggest some answers to these questions, from the point of view of a researcher focused on cultural communication.

scholarly journals The childish adult and popular culture: some thoughts to the anthropology of translation as taken from a translated poem of j. R. R. Tolkien

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 382-406
Author(s):  
Cyril Korolev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Literary Translation ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Translation Practice

The article examines the theory and practice of modern literary translation in Russia based on the examples of published works of translated children’s literature in foreign languages. From the point of view of the anthropology of translation, various extralinguistic factors affecting translation and publishing intentions are analyzed. An attempt is made to demonstrate how readers’ expectations define the particular age field of specific literary works, regardless of the author’s initial addressees. As an example of translation practice, clearly reflecting the peculiarities of intercultural communication, the translation of an early poem by J. R.R. Tolkien is analyzed.

scholarly journals “If you want to be classy, have Yugoclass.” Postmodern Cultural Images of Josip Broz Tito

2021 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
pp. 274-293
Author(s):  
Marta Harasimowicz
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Reading Process ◽  
Cultural Meanings ◽  
Primary Material ◽  
Cultural Images ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Specific Scheme ◽  
Social Critical

Abstract The article deals with internet memes related to the person of the socialist leader of Yugoslavia, Josip Broz Tito. For purposes of our research, we define internet meme as conventionalized text-iconic composition, built on a basis of a specific scheme. In intentions of contemporary narratology we also consider it as a text of its kind and its creating, reproduction, transformation and reading process – as a special discursive activity. Based on analysing the primary material occurring and spreading on internet, we provide a typology of the representations of Tito from a narratological and semiotic point of view, and regarding its function in current discourse on socialist Yugoslavia. We focus mainly on cultural meanings generated by this meme culture, its relation to the narratives formed in the context of official and unofficial representations of the leader during the socialist era and to a wider context of contemporary popular culture. Pursuant to the analysis, we try to follow the features of postmodern cultural images of the socialist Yugoslavia and its leader, and relation of these narratives to nostalgic and social-critical attitudes in the contemporary world.

BERTEOLOGI DALAM BUDAYA POPULER - DENGAN KONSEP DIY

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Itut Dian Setyawijaya
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Television Programs ◽  
Cultural Products ◽  
Do It Yourself

In the discussion about popular culture, analysis often appears based on products that can be seen directly, such as films, television programs, clothes, etc. But there is rarely an analysis based on products in the form of methods, ideologies, or understanding of something. One popular culture that develops on the internet with its products in the form of methods is do it yourself, or is often abbreviated as DIY. Freely, DIY or do it your self, can be translated as "do this yourself / independently". In the writer's observation, DIY has several advantages, such as helping to solve problems; free; in some cases it can save (which in some views, popular cultural products tend to be consumptive); offers several solutions, so that they can be chosen that are most suitable for the context in question. Departing from the positive concepts above, it is very interesting to see DIY from the theological point of view.

scholarly journals Aristophanes and de Ste. Croix: The Value of Old Comedy as Evidence for Athenian Popular Culture

Antichthon ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 14-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
David M. Pritchard
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Fourth Century ◽  
Lower Class ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Social Classes ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
Old Comedy ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Rich

AbstractDe Ste. Croix famously argued that Aristophanes had a conservative political outlook and attempted to use his comedies to win over lower-class audiences to this minority point of view. The ongoing influence of his interpretation has meant that Old Comedy has been largely ignored in the historiography of Athenian popular culture. This article extends earlier critiques of de Ste. Croix by systematically comparing how Aristophanes and the indisputably popular genre of fourth-century oratory represented the social classes of the Athenians and political leaders. The striking parallels between the two suggest that Aristophanes, far from advocating a minority position, exploited the rich and, at times, contradictory views of lower-class citizens for comic and ultimately competitive ends. As a consequence his plays are valuable evidence for Athenian popular culture and help to correct the markedly fourth-century bias in the writing of Athenian cultural history.

Soundscapes of war: the audio-visual performance of war by Shi'a militias in Iraq and Syria

2020 ◽  
Vol 96 (3) ◽  
pp. 649-666
Author(s):  
Helle Malmvig
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Visual Field ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Music Videos ◽  
Visual Performance ◽  
View Point ◽  
Inner Life ◽  
The Us ◽  
Visual Frame

Abstract This article sets out to bring sound and music to the field of visual studies in International Relations. It argues that IR largely has approached the visual field as if it was without sound; neglecting how audial landscapes frame and direct our interpretation of moving imagery. Sound and music contribute to making imagery intelligible to us, we ‘hear the pictures’ often without noticing. The audial can for instance articulate a visual absence, or blast visual signs, bring out certain emotional stages or subjects’ inner life. Audial frames steer us in distinct directions, they can mute the cries of the wounded in war, or amplify the sounds of joy of soldiers shooting in the air. To bring the audial and the visual analytically and empirically together, the article therefore proposes four key analytical themes: 1) the audial–visual frame, 2) point of view/point of audition, 3) modes of audio-visual synchronization and 4) aesthetics moods. These are applied to a study of ‘war music videos’ in Iraq and Syria made and circulated by Shi'a militias currently fighting there. Such war music videos, it is suggested, are not just artefacts of popular culture, but have become integral parts of how warfare is practiced today, and one that is shared by soldiers in the US and Europe. War music videos are performing war, just as they shape how war is known by spectators and participants alike.

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