scholarly journals An Impossible Task? Reconciling Europeanism and National Popular Culture in Caliban (1947–51)

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Reynes-Delobel
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Global Marketplace ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Popular Book ◽  
Mass Audience ◽  
Cultural Legitimacy ◽  
Literary Periodicals ◽  
Impossible Task

A kind of hybrid between high-profile political and literary periodicals and successful popular book digests targeted at a mass audience, the French magazine Caliban (1947–51) both tried to adjust to a fast-changing global marketplace and to defend a form of cultural legitimacy based on national claims against globalist domination. This article traces the evolution of the magazine’s editorial venture in relation to questions connected to the issues of modernity and mobility. In particular, it aims at examining Caliban’s implacable ‘anti-digest’ stance.

Produced by Irving Thalberg

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Salzberg
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Conceptual Understanding ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Turning Points ◽  
Romeo And Juliet ◽  
Mass Audience ◽  
Production Code ◽  
Studio Era

Irving Thalberg was not just a critically important producer during Hollywood’s Golden age, but also an innovative theorist of studio-era filmmaking. Drawing on archival sources, this is the first book to explore Thalberg’s insights into casting, editing, story composition and the importance of the mass audience from a theoretical perspective. The book argues that Thalberg’s views represent a unified conceptual understanding of production – one that is still significant in the modern day. It examines Thalberg’s impact on film-historical turning points, including the transition from silent to sound cinema and the development of the Production Code, and features in-depth analyses of his productions at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer from 1924 to 1936. Indeed, each chapter offers a reading of Thalberg’s films through his own theoretical lens, thus highlighting his insights into production and introducing new ways of considering his classic pictures, including The Big Parade (1925), The Broadway Melody (1929) and Romeo and Juliet (1936). The work concludes by assessing his resonance in popular culture, tracing the mythology of Thalberg as it evolved after his death in 1936.

scholarly journals Building on Sand: Nation, Borders, Myth and History

2006 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather Goodall
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Public Intellectuals ◽  
Personal Safety ◽  
Historical Evidence ◽  
National History ◽  
High Stakes ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Political Conflicts ◽  
Social Authority

Building on Sand brought together scholars with high profile roles as public intellectuals whose work is engaged in three very different geographic areas: Australia, Israel/Palestine and India/Pakistan. Each of these, as the conjoined names of two suggest, are sites of conflict over the nature of the civil and social authority which holds power and the peoples who claim to belong there. History has been a central theme in the rhetoric of these political conflicts, in which a unitary and authoritative history for a ‘nation’ and a ‘state’ has been built on the shifting sands of always-emerging historical evidence and its interpretations. In each of these three regions, a history which celebrated national formation and unity was challenged by ‘new’ historians in the 1970s [or 1980s or 1990s]. They used a similar set of methodologies like oral history, popular culture and the built environment: the toolkit of researching ‘history from below’ for a generation of social and cultural historians. Such new histories have been now been challenged themselves by a reassertion of the validity of a celebratory ‘national’ history based on unproblematic, ‘factual’ evidence. These recent conflicts between the ‘new’ historians and the (even newer) re-asserters of a ‘national’ history have been bruising encounters, with high stakes in terms of individual reputations, public emotions and the real, personal safety in some cases of the participants and, more importantly, of vulnerable oppositional communities.

Silvio Berlusconi and the myth of the creative entrepreneur

Modern Italy ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 3 (02) ◽  
pp. 271-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emanuela Poli
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Department Stores ◽  
Charismatic Leader ◽  
Success Story ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Personal Success ◽  
Silvio Berlusconi

Summary Berlusconi became a high-profile entrepreneur in the course of the 1980s, founding his empire on construction, television and department stores. His transformation of AC Milan into a powerful force in football and popular culture set the scene for his entry into politics in 1994. Berlusconi presented himself as an outsider and a possible saviour of the nation in crisis. With his appealing image and constant repetition of his personal success story, he conveyed to the electorate a reassuring message of future prosperity. However, he lacked the visionary energy of the true charismatic leader. Instead he was a corporate politician who filled the personality vacuum left by the removal of the old élite.

Gospel Singing as Black Popular Culture

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Burford
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Gospel Music ◽  
Black Churches ◽  
Religious Music ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Black Popular Culture ◽  
Recording Artist ◽  
Alternate Forms ◽  
Gospel Singing

Gospel music was integral to the culture of many black churches, but gospel singing offered pleasures to its practitioners and fans that extended beyond musical worship. In the late 1940s, Jackson’s career was interwoven with two phenomena that nudged black gospel singing toward the realm of popular culture: the “song battle” and the high-profile programs of religious music presented at Harlem’s Golden Gate Auditorium by promoter Johnny Myers. Pitting Jackson against such rivals as Roberta Martin and Ernestine Washington, the battle of song offered gospel singers alternate forms of prestige and extended to gospel audiences opportunities for active and engaged participation. Myers made instrumental use of the song battle format, deploying a roster of local talent and national stars and connections with New York–based independent record labels. It was through this Myers “syndicate” that Jackson was introduced to Apollo Records, launching her career as a recording artist.

Withdraw, defend or destroy

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rowland Atkinson ◽  
Sarah Blandy
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
The State ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Lethal Force ◽  
Criminal Justice Systems ◽  
The Us ◽  
Legal Position ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Uk

Here we discuss the balance of responsibility between the state and the individual homeowner to protect the home, against the background of a lack of confidence in governments' ability to prevent crime and the rising sense of victimhood in popular culture and criminal justice systems. The focus of this chapter is on the legal position of the homeowner who uses lethal force in defence of their home. Illustrated by high-profile cases, developments in the law on defence and revenge are analysed and comparisons are made between the US, the UK and Australia.

Too hot to handle? An analysis of chefs’ job quality in Australian restaurants

2020 ◽  
pp. 002218562094037
Author(s):  
Susan Belardi ◽  
Angela Knox ◽  
Chris F Wright
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Job Quality ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Subjective Perceptions ◽  
Original Contribution

Chefs are lauded in popular culture. Yet doubts regarding the quality of chefs’ jobs have intensified in Australia following recent instances of underpayments in high-profile restaurants. This case study-based research examines the job quality of chefs in mid-level and premium restaurants. The findings allow for the development of empirical and theoretical contributions by revealing the prevalence of objectively ‘bad’ jobs and why they are tolerated subjectively. The article finds that temporal orientations influenced workers’ subjective perceptions of job quality, which represents an original contribution to job quality scholarship.

scholarly journals Two Sports, Two Systems, One Goal: A Comparative Study of Concussion Policies and Practices of the Australian Football League and Hockey Canada

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annette Greenhow ◽  
Alison Doherty
Keyword(s):  
Sports Injury ◽  
Public Health Issue ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Cultural Roots ◽  
Australian Football League ◽  
Cultural Legitimacy ◽  
Comparative Review ◽  
Australian Football ◽  
Institutional Actors ◽  
Policies And Practices

Concussion in sport is today regarded as both a public health issue and high profile injury concern in many contact and collision sports. This paper undertakes a comparative review of the current policies and practices of two high profile national sporting organisations of such sports—the Australian Football League (AFL) and Hockey Canada (HC)—in governing the issue as a regulatory concern. By examining the policies and practices of the AFL and HC, this study aims to identify common themes, divergent practices, and nuanced sport-specific approaches to develop understandings on the regulation and governance of this high profile sports injury. The paper aims to contribute to understanding concussion as a regulatory concern, while at the same time recognising the heterogeneity of sport and reinforcing nuanced understandings that align to specific social and cultural settings. We make recommendations based on regulatory and cultural legitimacy. The paper concludes that these NSOs are institutional actors with historical and cultural roots who assert regulatory legitimacy by steering and influencing behaviour and directing the regulatory agenda to manage and mitigate the harm associated with concussion.

Targeted translation

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aiden Ranford
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Pop Culture ◽  
Role Playing ◽  
Japanese Culture ◽  
Translation Strategies ◽  
Mass Audience ◽  
Translation Practice ◽  
Authentic Text ◽  
Role Playing Game

Abstract Japanese popular culture in the form of anime, manga, and videogames, enjoys significant popularity with diehard international fan groups, who have often become acquainted with aspects of Japanese culture through fan-translated media. However, this base of knowledgeable fans stands unique amongst standard translation practice, which seeks to iron out cultural specificities to create a text that reads flawlessly for a mass audience. This article therefore sets out to explain how videogame translators adopt targeted translation strategies to make their products more marketable to either a mass audience, the members of which may be ignorant, ambivalent, or even hostile to Japanese pop culture products, or to dedicated niche fan groups whose interest in Japan has been stoked by unofficial translations that frequently position themselves as the only avenue for accessing an “authentic” text. The final releases for eight pairs of Japanese games from the Role-Playing Game genre will be analysed to illustrate how far-reaching translation decisions have been used to make individual games more marketable to either group.

Turns of ‘fate’: Jack Cole, jazz and Bharata Natyam in diasporic translation

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rohini Acharya ◽  
Eric Kaufman
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Cultural Practice ◽  
Musical Theatre ◽  
Indian Culture ◽  
Bharata Natyam ◽  
American Popular Culture ◽  
Film Version ◽  
Mass Audience ◽  
Classical Indian Dance

The musical Kismet opened on Broadway in 1953. This commercially successful play, translated into a film version released two years later, included some of Jack Cole’s most widely viewed and popular choreography, which resulted in the exposure of Bharata Natyam to a mass audience through its incorporation into jazz dance. Cole’s ‘Hindu swing’ continues to confound years later, even as Bharata Natyam has ever-increasing prominence in global theatre. This article considers how the form, in migration from Madras to Manhattan, was (and is) materialized and reinscribed, discussing how exoticism and Orientalism are implicated in the mechanisms of this transmogrification. Exploring Cole’s involvement with ‘Hindu’ dance calls into question a range of issues related to the parallel histories of musical theatre dance in the mid-twentieth century, and classical Indian dance in the period of transition from colonial possession to postcolonial independence. We investigate the ways in which Indian culture in diaspora has been translated in our practice, and the ways in which the reception of dance reflects an ‘invisibilization’ of ‘foreign’ cultural practice in American popular culture. Collaborating on presenting our juxtaposed experience brings embodied reflection into dialogue with dance scholarship, while also exploring the intersection of these distinct and seemingly discrete dance practices.

Landscape as Spectacle: World's Fairs and the Culture of Heroic Consumption

1988 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
D Ley ◽  
K Olds
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
Culture Industry ◽  
World's Fairs ◽  
The Other ◽  
Mass Audience ◽  
Economic Elite ◽  
The One ◽  
World’S Fairs ◽  
The Web

The meaning of a public spectacle, world's fairs, is examined, with particular emphasis on the 1986 world's exposition in Vancouver. Various theoretical readings of mass culture and popular culture are analysed: on the one hand, the view of the culture industry, imposing hegemonic meanings through spectacles onto a depoliticised mass audience, and on the other the view of an active interpenetration of cultural producers and consumers, which includes the capacity for resistance to the web of signification spun by dominant elites. The thesis is considered that world's fairs are an instrument of hegemonic power. Although Expo 86 was organised by a political and economic elite, evidence from 2200 visitors points to a fractured and negotiated power that was never absolute.

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