Touré, Ecstatic Consumption, and Soul City: Satire and the Problem of Monoculture

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Furgerson Selzer
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Products ◽  
Non Fiction

This chapter reads Touré’s fiction against his non-fiction in order to highlight a conceptual tension between artistic experimentation and monocultural consumption. This chapter posits that a similar tension exists between the desire to share in cultural products that help construct a unified identity and the necessity to diversity those forms. Ultimately, Touré satirizes the danger inherent in monocultural productions.

Photoromance, she read: Fandom and the politics of Italian media

2022 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paola Bonifazio
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Women's Bodies ◽  
Cultural Products ◽  
Class Culture ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
Women's Emancipation ◽  
Privately Owned

This article examines Italian non-fiction media productions of the late 1950s and 1960s that represent the photoromance industry and its female fans. I argue that state-controlled and/or privately owned media outlets and their contributors (among them, Cesare Zavattini and Mario Soldati) scapegoated photoromances in defence of moral, social and cultural respectability, but also on the basis of anxieties towards the increasing role played by female audiences in the making of culture. Furthermore, I show that politically engaged documentaries similarly chastised the photoromance industry without necessarily serving the cause of women’s emancipation. Blaming photoromances for the degeneration of Catholic values, for the debasement of working-class culture and for the degradation of consumerist society, all films serve the same purpose of maintaining a patriarchal society’s status quo, of diverging attention from ‘higher’ cultural products and their exploitation of women’s bodies and of minimizing the important role that female fans played in the success of a global market.

Bookworms versus nerds: The social abilities of fiction and non-fiction readers

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raymond A. Mar ◽  
Keith Oatley ◽  
Jacob Hirsh ◽  
Jennifer dela Paz ◽  
Jordan B. Peterson
Keyword(s):  
Non Fiction ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Abilities

GENDER DIFFERENCES IN READING PREFERENCE: EVIDENCE FROM A MOBILE PHONE PLATFORM

Mousaion ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Kelly De Villiers ◽  
Johann Louw ◽  
Colin Tredoux
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
South African ◽  
The Self ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Reading Preference ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
Proxy Measure ◽  
Poor Communities

Two studies were conducted to investigate gender differences in a sample of young South African readers from poor communities. In the first study, the self-reported reading preferences of 2 775 readers on a mobile phone platform supplied by the FunDza Literacy Trust were surveyed. Both male and female readers indicated that they liked four genres in particular: romance, drama, non- fiction, and stories with specific South African content. There were nevertheless some differences, such as that a higher percentage of males liked stories involving sport. The second study examined the unique FunDza site visits made by readers, as a proxy measure of what they actually were reading. Four genres stood out: romance, drama, biography, and action/adventure. Again the similarity between male and female readers was noticeable, although many more females than males read content on the site.

Georges Méliès, de la non-fiction à la fiction

1895 ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-83
Author(s):  
Jacques Malthête
Keyword(s):  
Non Fiction

ANALYSIS OF THE TEXT STRUCTURE AS A STAGE OF PRACTICE-ORIENTED LEARNING

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ольга Александровна Морохова
Keyword(s):  
Text Structure ◽  
Rhetorical Structure ◽  
Internal Logic ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
Initial Stage

В статье раскрываются задачи обучения работе с текстом в контексте формирования универсальных компетенций обучающихся. Автор статьи показывает, что обучение работе с нехудожественным текстом на начальном этапе обучения в вузе состоит в анализе его риторической структуры и выявлении внутренней логики и цели повествования. The article reveals the tasks of teaching to work with text in the context of the formation of universal competencies of students. The author of the article shows that learning to work with a non-fiction text at the initial stage of training at a university consists in analyzing its rhetorical structure and identifying the internal logic and purpose of the narrative.

John Henry Newman

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael D. Hurley
Keyword(s):  
John Henry Newman ◽  
Seminal Work ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
Prose Style ◽  
Definition Of

Newman has been much vaunted as a ‘master’ of non-fiction prose style, and justly so. His felicity of phrasing is astonishing: so precise, so elegant, so vivid. This chapter admires Newman’s stylistic achievements too, but with a view to explaining why Newman himself baulked at such praise, by insisting instead on the importance of veracity over verbalism. While a number of different writings by Newman are surveyed in the course of the chapter, the argument comes to focus in particular on his seminal work of faith, Grammar of Assent, a book that took him some twenty years to write, which almost killed him, and which best exemplifies his suggestive but enigmatic definition of ‘style’ as ‘a thinking out into language’.

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