scholarly journals Poetyka współczesnego teatru faktu – Rozmowy z katem oraz Golgota wrocławska jako znaczące realizacje gatunku

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 61
Author(s):  
Ilona Fabisiak
Keyword(s):  
Historical Development ◽  
Historical Documents ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Political Theatre ◽  
Broad Perspective ◽  
Stalin Era ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
Theatrical Performances ◽  
Stage Performances ◽  
Documentary Drama

The Poetics of Contemporary Non-fiction Theatre – Conversations with an Executioner and Wrocław Via Dolorosa as Significant Representations of the Genre The aim of the article is to examine the specificity of theatrical performances based on historical documents and carried out as part of a Television Theatre.The author of the paper observes the described phenomenon from a broad perspective and ponders on current and past characteristics of a nonfiction theatre. She endeavours to bring the reader close to the origins of a TV Non-fiction Theatre and to the idea of this enterprise. The first part of the article focuses on the historical development of a theatrical genre, which is a documentary drama (docudrama). A special attention is drawn to its links with a political theatre, for instance to Piscator’s and Brecht’s artistic activities.The discussion about a contemporary phenomenon of the Non-Fiction Theatre is based on the description of the two selected stage performances – Conversations with an Executioner and Wrocław Via Dolorosa. Similarly to many other spectacles of this genre these plays rediscover the Stalin era. The action of the spectacles takes place in Poland at the end of the 1940s and their protagonists are people persecuted during that system. Conversations with an Executioner directedby Maciej Englert (the premiere was in 2007) is the adaptation of a widely known Kazimierz Moczarski’s book under the same title. Wrocław Via Dolorosa written by Piotr Kokociński and Krzysztof Szwagrzyk, and directed by Jan Komasa (the premiere: 2008) recounts the story of a ruthless investigation and a fabricated process that took place in Wrocław. The ruminations on both these stage performances lead to the conclusion that a theatrical reconstruction of true events may currently play key roles. The critics draw the attention to the fact that both the spectacles have not only educational and documentary dimensions. They, first and foremost, revive the interest in the most recent history provoking the debates over stalinism. By showing an individual drama they make the viewer identify with historical characters and therefore the very history appears closer to him/her. The author assumes that if the non-fiction theatre avoids certain mistakes that are imputed to it (such as conventionality, martyrdom, direct didacticism) it will still constitute a significant element of contemporary culture. 

scholarly journals Features and specificity of creating a script for a television documentary drama

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (3) ◽  
pp. 328-335
Author(s):  
N. G. Stezhko
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Historical Documents ◽  
Documentary Films ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Feature Film ◽  
Feature Films ◽  
Life Challenges ◽  
Television Documentary ◽  
Documentary Drama ◽  
Additional Figure

The author analyses the specifics of writing a script for a television documentary drama (hereinafter referred to as docudrama), which combines the characteristics of the feature and documentary films. The article points out that many books have been written about the rules of scriptwriting for a feature film. However, there is no literature on the art of scriptwriting for a docudrama despite the fact that there are numerous docudramas being created worldwide. The opinion is given that the mastery of the docudrama scriptwriting is in choosing the most interesting and paradoxical moments in a hero’s life and showing his or her character through the resistance to life challenges: how the hero overcomes them, the motivation behind their actions and why a particular choice is being made. While in feature films the narrative is presented through action and actors’ performances, the article emphasises that docudramas explain the hero’s motivations through an additional figure such as an expert or co­participant in the events. While the difficult moments in the hero’s life and their overcoming are usually depicted through the staged episodes, an exploration into the hero’s character is supported by historical documents, a chronicle or other genuine historical sources. Docudrama is inherently narrative and the author investigates how the best practices of television journalism are used in scriptwriting, in addition to the cinema laws that are used in creating an image. The author explores the methodology of the docudrama scriptwriting in the project “Countdown” (“Vladimir Bokun’s Workshop”,Belarus) as an example.

Introduction: Adaptation and the Battle of, and for, and over, and within the Public Humanities

Adaptation ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Leitch
Keyword(s):  
Public Good ◽  
Culture Wars ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Public Figures ◽  
Ecological Implications ◽  
Theatrical Performances ◽  
The Creation

Abstract This introduction to the special issue of Adaptation devoted to adaptation and the public humanities focuses on the ways the once-anodyne term ‘public humanities’ has become more sharply politicized and contested over the past few years. In many ways, adaptation, which generates new versions and new readings of old texts instead of cancelling, erasing, or unpublishing them, offers the possibility of transcending the conflicts in contemporary culture. But the creation and the study of adaptations offer not a retreat from the culture wars but an array of new tools for waging them more productively by reframing them in ways that lead to more open and fruitful dialogue on the subjects proposed by the essays in this issue: theatrical performances cast for the public good, the costs of performing adapted versions of oneself or of encouraging adaptation-induced tourism, the ecological implications of adaptation, and the shifting valence of adaptation when it is practiced by public figures and posthuman agents.

scholarly journals THE SACRED MOUNT TAISHAN IN THE PROFANE SPACE OF THE CONTEMPORARY CULTURE INDUSTRY OF PRC

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 190-197
Author(s):  
Evelina HEIN
Keyword(s):  
Historical Development ◽  
Intrinsic Value ◽  
Culture Industry ◽  
The State ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Sacred Places ◽  
National History ◽  
Cultural Resource ◽  
History Of ◽  
Heaven And Earth

e paper seeks to address some questions connected to the conflict between the very nature of sacred places like mount Taishan in China and the contemporary phenomenon of culture industry which has its intrinsic value in exploitation of the national history and culture with the purpose of ensuring economical profit for the state. The author traces the roots and the historical development of the worship of mount Taishan into an emblematic universal symbol of Chineseness and points to possible problematic connection between this symbol and the clear profit-making purpose of one concrete project of the culture industry in PRC – the “Culture Industry Park of Mount Taishan”, whose realization started in 2009. As a meaningful focus of the whole project the landscape mega-spectacle “Chinese Taishan: The Great Sacrifice to Heaven and Earth” is examined through its official media covering and the feedback of the spectators. The paper finds that the promoted “harmony” between the history of the sacred mount Taishan and the contemporary mundane use of it as a cultural resource contains potential dramatical developments.

scholarly journals From Relativization to Nominalization and More: Evidence from the History of Okinawan

2010 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 382 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reijirou Shibasaki
Keyword(s):  
Relative Clause ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Survey Result ◽  
The Other ◽  
Syntactic Analysis ◽  
Historical Documents ◽  
Historical Evidence ◽  
Full Account ◽  
History Of ◽  
Asian Languages

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt:The nominalization-relativization syncretism is characteristic of languages in Tibeto-Burman areas (e.g. Noonan 1997; DeLancey 1999), whilst the diachronic process of the phenomenon is now pursued in East and Southeast Asian languages as well (e.g. Yap and Wrona forthcoming). These preceding works propose two different directions of change. One is that nominalization has developed into relativization (e.g. Yap and Matthews 2008) albeit with a lack of syntactic explicitness in some cases by the want of historical documents. The other concerns the inverse direction from relativization to nominalization, which is proposed by researchers such as LaPolla (2003 with Huang). Although they are opposing against each other, each survey result remains and raises an intriguing possibility, which is worth reconsideration through the analysis of other languages. However, it should be pointed out that preceding research cannot give a full account of the directions with a paucity of crucial historical evidence. Genetti (2008) embarks on a reconstructing research into the diachronic process in which relativization and nominalization each give rise to the other based on five Tibeto-Burman languages; she provides a good syntactic analysis, but any synchronic study seems to have its own limits. Building on these preceding works, this study addresses the historical development of the Okinawan nominalizer si, which used to be sï (see the next section), out of its earlier usage as the head of relative clause i.e. from relativization to nominalization.

New Ways of Being Church: The Promise of Fresh Expressions

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 287-305
Author(s):  
Robert K. Martin
Keyword(s):  
Historical Development ◽  
Target Population ◽  
Faith Communities ◽  
Integral Approach ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
The Past ◽  
Ways Of Being

Abstract In 2006, British Anglicans and Methodists organized an evangelical initiative called Fresh Expressions to start experimental faith communities. The target population was people who are not involved in church. Over the past 13 years, Fresh Expressions has expanded to almost every continent as a movement that holds together traditional, inherited church practices with entrepreneurial experimentation. It has been lauded as an incarnational approach to mission and it has been criticized for colluding with the worst of contemporary culture. This essay explores the historical development of Fresh Expressions, its unique integral approach to ecclesiology, and its potential for ecclesial renewal and reform.

The History of the Rule of Law

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 430-466 ◽  
Author(s):  
Till Patrik Holterhus
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Theoretical Concept ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Broad Perspective ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
History Of ◽  
Theoretic Foundations

The article discusses the historical development of the rule of law’s basic principles. While indications of societies governed by law can be traced back to early civilizations in ancient Mesopotamia, what today is understood as the rule of law, is, however, a remarkable and continuous historical ascendency of a theoretical concept forged in the century-lasting struggle of subjecting governmental powers to law. Applying a broad perspective, the article first assesses the rule of law’s early antecedents in ancient Sumer, Babylonia, Rome, and Athens. It then examines the rule of law’s theoretic foundations in the Middle Ages and the concept’s advancements through the Enlightenment-fostered intellectual and religious revolutions. Finally, against this background, it takes a particular look at the rule of law’s consolidation, advancement, and proliferation in the 19th and 20th centuries.

The 1820s and Beyond

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Esterhammer
Keyword(s):  
Print Culture ◽  
Media History ◽  
Prose Poetry ◽  
Literary Magazines ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
Rapid Changes ◽  
Stage Performances ◽  
New Research ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Age Of Information

In light of new research on print culture and media history, the 1820s—once considered an age of superficiality, conservatism, and mediocrity—are emerging as a key moment of experimentation and innovation at the interface of Romanticism and modernity. The era abounds in periodicals and literary magazines, non-traditional stage performances and spectacles, popular novels and serialized fiction, and curious hybrids of prose, poetry, drama, fiction, and non-fiction. The chapter argues that a recurring contrast between theatricality and authenticity characterizes these forms of expression, as do themes of spectatorship and speculation. The 1820s may be redefined and reinterpreted as an ‘age of information’ as well as an ‘age-in-formation’, a time when literature thematizes and reflects on rapid changes in the conditions of communication and in the relationship between writers and readers.

scholarly journals Vietnamese Language in Westernization: Integration or Disguise?

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 18-21
Author(s):  
Cuong Le Khac
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Mutual Influence ◽  
National Language ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Historical Documents ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Daily News ◽  
Positive Side ◽  
Unique Identity

Through proud historical development, the Vietnamese language has overcome all obstacles to become a rich and beautiful language, with a unique identity and full of potential. In the international arena, in all fields of activities, Vietnamese has equal status with all other languages. The process of integration and development will inevitably entail contact and mutual influence between cultures, including languages. On the positive side, it has contributed to enriching the lexicology of the national language, especially new terminologies in the fields of science and technology, make more diverse forms of communication, and in some ways, it shortens the gaps to more developed cultures and civilizations. However, in terms of culture, it can also cause negative effects, that is, chaos, tension in Vietnamese disguise. This paper reports the current status of the Vietnamese language in the midst of Western trends in Vietnam. Data were collected from historical documents and daily news from popular sites of Vietnamese mass media.

The Nation Past and Present: A Study of Robert Lowell's ‘For the Union Dead’

1971 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Kavanagh
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Racial Equality ◽  
Historical Documents ◽  
Robert Lowell ◽  
The North ◽  
Social Disintegration ◽  
American Liberalism ◽  
Die Material ◽  
American Society

In ‘For the Union Dead’ Robert Lowell evokes a landscape which is symbolic in both a social and an historical sense. His aim in doing so seems to be to test the relevance of the traditional ideals of freedom and racial equality in contemporary American society. The landscape is arid and undermined by a garage which stands for the destructive and unreasoned actions of a city enslaved by the motives of affluence. Two major symbols stand together over the abyss of the underground garage, the Statehouse and a bas-relief of Colonel Shaw. The first stands for the actual administration of the ideals of democracy as expressed in the constitution, while the second represents the deepest convictions of American liberalism which motivated the North during the Civil War. This article explores the historical relevance of the death of Colonel Shaw, who was ‘a martyr’ for the cause of die Negro soldiers he led into battle. This is done through historical documents, and through an examination of James Russell Lowell's ‘Memoriae Positum’ which is a celebration of the death of Shaw. The conclusions drawn indicate that Robert Lowell's poem is ambiguous in its treatment of die material relating to Shaw, that he is far less certain as to the relevance of liberalism either to die historical development of American society, or to the disintegrating contemporary scene. Robert Lowell is forced to accept the unreality of claims made for the racial equality, either supposedly realized or hoped for. His vision extends into the future and contemplates social disintegration in the image of atomic destruction which illustrated the destructive power of American idealism in die last war.

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