scholarly journals Religious Broadcasting and the "Fantastic" Tele-Universe of Adnan Oktar's A9 TV

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 116-132
Author(s):  
Kumru Berfin Emre Çetin
Keyword(s):  
Religious Broadcasting ◽  
The Fantastic

Aesthetic Dilemmas of Adaptation and the Politics of Subjectivity: Animating the Chinese ClassicJourney to the West

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chengcheng You
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Modern China ◽  
Historical Time ◽  
The West ◽  
The Real ◽  
Quest For Meaning ◽  
National Allegory ◽  
Canonical Text ◽  
The Fantastic ◽  
Monkey King

This article reviews four major Chinese animated adaptations based on the classic Journey to the West. It shows how these adaptations, spanning four historical phases of modern China, encapsulate changes in Chinese national identity. Close readings underpin a developmental narrative about how Chinese animated adaptations of this canonical text strive to negotiate the multimodal expressions of homegrown folklore traditions, technical influences of western animation, and domestic political situations across time. This process has identified aesthetic dilemmas around adaptations that oscillate between national allegory and individual destiny, verisimilitude and the fantastic quest for meaning. In particular, the subjectivisation of Monkey King on the screen, embodying the transition from primitivistic impulse, youthful idealism and mature practicality up to responsible stewardship, presents how an iconic national figure encapsulates the real historical time of China.

Models Of The Fantastic In Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman

2020 ◽  
pp. 337
Author(s):  
عبدالهادى أبو جويد ◽  
غادة سعسع
Keyword(s):  
The Third ◽  
The Fantastic

Sobre la obra literaria de Madame Blavatsky

2009 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 87-94
Author(s):  
José Ricardo Chaves
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
The Fantastic ◽  
Xix Century ◽  
Fiction Writer

The main goal of this essay is to present Helena P. Blavatsky, widely known as a great occultist of the XIX century, as a fiction writer, that used the rethorical powers of the fantastic to develop some stories to attract a wider audience. Her traveling chronicles around India are very interesting because of her skillful narrative and her Russian point of view, that differs from writers from England or India.

Fantastic reversals of time: Representations of ageing in the fantastic mode

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 336-359 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heike Hartung
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Age Stereotypes ◽  
Counter Narratives ◽  
The Fantastic ◽  
Level I ◽  
Cultural Functions

AbstractThe focus of the essay is the question how the genre of fantasy affects age narratives in terms of the representation of old age. Analyzing George McDonald’s “Little Daylight” (1864), Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s “Good Lady Ducayne” (1896) and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The curious case of Benjamin Button” (1921), I will argue that the mode of the fantastic serves to open up alternative visions of time and ageing. These age fantasies serve different cultural functions, both by reinforcing contemporary age stereotypes and by envisioning possible counter-narratives of old age. On a discursive level, I will compare the problems with representing old age, its contradictions and ambiguities, to the internal oppositions of the fantastic genre.

Regulating Religious Broadcasting

1992 ◽  
Vol 2 (10) ◽  
pp. 287-304
Author(s):  
Ian Leigh
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Technological Advance ◽  
Regulatory Framework ◽  
Religious Expression ◽  
Satellite Broadcasting ◽  
Religious Broadcasting ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Uk ◽  
A Minor ◽  
And Control

The broadcasting world is currently undergoing a revolution. The new technologies of cable and, more importantly, satellite broadcasting have brought within reach an enormous potential expansion and diversity in broadcasting. The Broadcasting Act 1990 is the government's response to the challenge, creating a mostly new regulatory framework. Alongside technological advance there has been a growing concern with regulating programme quality, as the creation of the Broadcasting Standards Commission (placed by Pt. V of the Act on a statutory footing) bears witness. A minor, but not insignificant, place in these cross-currents of ferment is occupied by religious broadcasting. This article seeks to place the controls and duties relating to religious broadcasting under the new regime within the context of its history in the UK and to consider the extent to which the new legal and administrative controls achieve an acceptable balance between religious expression and control of standards.

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