scholarly journals The Multiply Produced Film: Collaboration, Ethnography, and Feminist Epistemology

2021 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Hong
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Feminist Epistemology ◽  
Community Solidarity ◽  
The Gift ◽  
Shared Authority ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Fundamental Tension

This article introduces the “multiply produced film” as a methodology and analytic that highlights the asymmetrical dynamics inherent to collaboration. I draw on (auto)ethnographic material from the making of Get By (2014), a film on worker-community solidarity, to explore collaboration across race, class, and gender in subject matter and method. I situate the multiply produced film within a genealogy that grafts ontological insights from the anthropology of exchange onto the epistemological contributions of feminist, decolonial, and visual anthropologists committed to collaboration. I argue that as a method, collaborative filmmaking has the potential to challenge narrow Western conceptions of autonomy and authorship through shared authority and fluid roles that engender a cascading multivocality that shapes the resulting filmic form. As an analytic, the multiply produced film reveals how collaboration entails a fundamental tension between the gift-like exchanges of solidarity and the outwardly commoditized form (e.g., films, books) produced by such exchanges, raising questions about asymmetries of power, prestige, and accountability. 

Does Lara Croft Wear Fake Polygons? Gender and Gender-Role Subversion in Computer Adventure Games

Leonardo ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 221-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne-Marie Schleiner
Keyword(s):  
Gender Role ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Computer Games ◽  
First Person ◽  
Adventure Games ◽  
Gaming Culture ◽  
On Line ◽  
The Subject ◽  
And Gender ◽  
First Person Shooter

The subject matter of this article emerged in part out of research for the author's thesis project and first game patch, Madame Polly, a “first-person shooter gender hack.” Since the time it was written, there has been an upsurge of interest and research in computer games among artists and media theoreticians. Considerable shifts in gaming culture at large have taken place, most notably a shift toward on-line games, as well as an increase in the number of female players. The multidirectional information space of the network offers increasing possibilities for interventions and gender reconfigurations such as those discussed at the end of the article.

scholarly journals A Paradoxical Convergence: National Identity and Gender in 'The Topp Twins' Exhibition and the New Zealand Rugby Museum

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Chelsea Torrance
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Entry Point ◽  
Final Part ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Museum Practice ◽  
Contemporary Context

<p>In May 2017, there was a strange convergence inside Palmerston North’s Te Manawa museum. As visitors arrived on the first floor, they were left with two options. Turn left for the New Zealand Rugby Museum, or turn right for an exhibition on Jools and Lynda Topp. Left for masculinist rugby history. Right for radical activist lesbians. While both exhibitions have very different subject matter, themes of gender and national identity are prevalent within them both. Using this convergence as an entry point, this thesis considers the ways national identity and gender are put on display within the permanent exhibition at the New Zealand Rugby Museum and The Topp Twins exhibition.  Using data from interviews with key people involved with the two exhibitions, documentary research, and analysis of the two exhibitions, this thesis asks how New Zealand national identity and gender are narrated and displayed within The Topp Twins and the New Zealand Rugby Museum, and considers what this means for museum practice. In so doing, the thesis begins with an overview of key literature looking at nation, discourse and gender in museum and heritage scholarship. It also considers literature of New Zealand identity formation and gender. The intellectual foundation of this thesis resides in the idea that gender, nation and museums are intimately bound.  In the second part of the thesis, an investigation into the historical and contemporary context of the two exhibitions is conducted. This section provides an overview of the content and design of the exhibits. In combining both the context and content of the exhibitions, the thesis is able to consider intentions as well as the outcomes of the two. The final part of the thesis considers the ways national identity and gender have been presented within The Topp Twins exhibition and the New Zealand Rugby Museum. This chapter shows that while gender is presented in very different ways, the museums have a very similar narrative about ‘New Zealandness’.</p>

scholarly journals An Empirical Analysis Of Underlying Factors Affecting The Choice Of Accounting Major

2007 ◽  
Vol 4 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Abbas Heiat ◽  
Doug Brown ◽  
Debra M. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Influential Factors ◽  
Accounting Profession ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Choice Of Major ◽  
The Subject ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Accounting Major ◽  
Selection Of

This study explores the factors that influence a student’s choice of major along with students’ perceptions of accounting classes and the accounting profession The results indicate that students are most strongly influenced in their choice of major by a genuine interest in the subject matter.  This finding is the same regardless of major and gender.  Other influential factors include availability of employment, starting pay, and the ability to interact with people.  The factor with the least amount of influence on selection of a major is the expected ease of earning a degree.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Hilliard
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Basic Pattern ◽  
The Subject ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Interwar Britain

The introduction sketches the basic pattern of the events—a quarrel between neighbours led to a storm of abusive letters, private prosecutions for criminal libel, one of the antagonists going to prison, protesting her innocence, and securing a re-examination of her case, which led to the eventual resolution of the affair, though not before further trials that became media spectacles—and then identifies some of the stakes of the subject matter. The dispute can be explained with the existing historiography of class and gender in interwar Britain, but the oddities of the language in the libellous letters lead to more elusive questions about agency and literacy.

Bioethical Matriarchy: Race, Gender, and the Gift in Genomic Research

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
James Doucet-Battle
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Genomic Research ◽  
Diaspora Studies ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Legal Implications ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Gift ◽  
Status Inequality ◽  
And Gender

Abstract: The 2013 sequencing of the epigenome and genome from Henrietta Lacks’s HeLa cell line illuminates the bioethical intersections of genomics, race, and gender. Subsequent announcements by Francis Collins and reports in the scientific media referring to Henrietta Lacks as a matriarch, expose the missing political and resource allocations alluded to by the quasi-viral matriarchal designation, an assemblage I term Bioethical Matriarchy. Drawing from field, media, biomedical archival research, I am concerned with the ways African-descent and matriarchal status reproduce the social order, reflecting racialized and gendered histories of kinship, desire, and status inequality. I address these concerns through an anthropological engagement with African American/Diaspora studies and Feminist technoscientific scholarship in both the social sciences and humanities. I build on Richard Hyland (2014), by arguing that unequal and gendered forms of exchange (re)produce wealth and obligations to give, but not necessarily to reciprocate. I discuss why the bioethical, intellectual property, and legal implications of these asymmetrical relationships necessarily take our discussion beyond issues of consent and inclusion to engaging larger questions of reparative and restorative justice. 

Other Women: Thinking Class and Gender in Contemporary Brazilian Documentary Film

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carla Maia
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Documentary Film ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Difference ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The Impact

Focusing on the relational dimension of some selected works, this essay proposes to consider the subject matter as films with women rather than films of women. The main effort is to understand something that takes place in-between spaces – before and after the camera, but also between viewer and film – and critically reflect on the aesthetic, ethical and political potential that a cinema marked by different women’s perspectives can bring to light. The author concludes that instead of reflecting a certain proximity between women, most films by contemporary female documentarists in Brazil, are suffering from the impact of the difference in social station between the director and the women being filmed.

Gutter and Skyline

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Timberman Newcomb
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Urban Modernity ◽  
Machine Age ◽  
Claude Mckay ◽  
Little Magazines ◽  
And Gender ◽  
American Poets ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Ethnicity And Gender

This chapter examines the little magazines' shift to a poetry of modern life between 1910 and 1925 by discarding long-standing generic strictures of style and subject matter in favor of themes dealing with the industrialized metropolis. Soon after 1910, many poets such as T. S. Eliot, Claude McKay, and Carl Sandburg began to write verses about life in the modern city. This turn toward urban subject matter marked a decisive change in American poetry's relationship to modernity and an epochal departure from national traditions. This chapter considers the integral connection between verse and the visual arts as many American poets focused on investigating urban modernity as a subject. It also discusses the different ways that these poets learned to represent the machine-age metropolis after 1910 and challenged the aesthetic and ideological verities of class, ethnicity, and gender underlying their romantic-genteel inheritance; acts of observation in American cityscape verse that operate at both microscopic and panoramic levels; and poems of gutters, street pavements, and skylines that are complementary within an emerging poetics of urban materiality.

Diverse Cultures and Recurrent Themes in Recent Melanesian Ethnography—A Review Article

1986 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 797-805
Author(s):  
Jennifer M. Blythe
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Cultural Ecology ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Cultural Themes ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Recurrent Patterns ◽  
Diverse Cultures

Melanesia is an area of cultural and ecological variety that has attracted anthropologists with diverse theoretical interests. However, the diversity of the region is tempered by recurrent patterns that represent local elaborations of common cultural themes. Investigation of these themes by ethnographers gives an underlying unity to Melanesian studies. The recent publications reviewed here recapitulate the history of ethnography in Melanesia. Books written by two missionaries follow a tradition of amateur ethnography that began in Melanesia during the last century. Contributions by professional anthropologists discuss topics considered in the 1950s and 1960s when the New Guinea Highlands were first studied intensively. These include cultural ecology, problems of social structure, and gender relations. Several of the studies make use of or refer to theoretical frameworks common at that time, while others approach familiar subject matter from new perspectives.

Geographic Influences on the Uptake of Infant Immunisations: 1. Concepts, Models, and Aggregate Analyses

1993 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 425-436 ◽  
Author(s):  
M L Senior ◽  
S J New ◽  
A C Gatrell ◽  
B J Francis
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Health Authority ◽  
Statistical Problem ◽  
Multilevel Analyses ◽  
District Health ◽  
Transport Time ◽  
Statistical Framework ◽  
Time Space ◽  
The Subject ◽  
And Gender

This is the first of two papers in which the effects on the uptake of immunisation of transport, time—space, and gender-role constraints, among a wider range of influences, are assessed statistically. A critique of a paper by Jarman et al leads to the formulation of an improved conceptual and statistical framework for analyses of uptake. Within this framework, the possibility of explaining immunisation uptake by using readily available data at the District Health Authority scale is reevaluated. Results suggest that analyses solely at this highly aggregate scale are plagued by the statistical problem of overdispersion, and cannot provide reliable explanations of uptake. Rather, it is argued, disaggregate or, preferably, multilevel analyses are required. Such analyses form the subject matter of the second paper.

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