Pancho Villa: The Making of a Modern Legend

1964 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 146-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy Brandt
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Historical Fiction ◽  
Public Memory ◽  
Motion Pictures ◽  
Western World ◽  
The Public ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
The Media ◽  
Magazine Articles

What makes a man—or the public memory of a man—into a a legend? The Western world has always had legendary heroes, men who in life waged vigorous campaigns against terrifying odds, and who, in death, bear reputations burnished and embellished and gloriously expanded by the stories their admirers tell. Dietrich of Berne, Frederick Barbarossa, Alexander of Macedon, Charlemagne, the Cid, Russia’s Prince Igor, Cordoba’s Great Captain, and others, live on in legend centuries after their physical lives ended. The stories of these heroes are told in sagas, epics, and lays, in ballads and folksongs, romances and myths. There are also heroes more newly-made. Their stories are broadcast through the media of twentieth-century communication: popular biographies, historical fiction, diplomatic telegrams, reports of senatorial committees, newspaper accounts, magazine articles, motion pictures. Mexico provided the pre-eminent legendary hero of modern times: Pancho Villa.

Should parents shiver?

1997 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 41-44
Author(s):  
Chris Goddard
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Child Sexual Abuse ◽  
Adverse Outcomes ◽  
Western World ◽  
World Views ◽  
The Public ◽  
Culture Of Fear ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Reports

According to at least one author, our lives are increasingly dominated by a ‘culture of fear’, in which possible adverse outcomes dominate our world views. Throughout the Western world, awareness of child sexual abuse has led to action by members of the public to draw attention to horrific crimes against children. This article reviews some of the media reports and seeks to explain why so many are concerned by those that prey on children.

The Rise and Fall of Phrenology in Australia

1993 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 518-525 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. John Thearle
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Western World ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Status ◽  
Lay Members ◽  
The Mind

In the first half of the nineteenth century phrenology, which was claimed to be the first science of the mind, experienced enormous popularity in the western world. It gave rise to a widespread movement attracting the attention of the professional and lay members of society. In Australia, as elsewhere, it had influence in penology and criminology, psychiatry, notions of racial inferiority, education, anthropology and popular application. By the second half of the nineteenth century, following advances in the knowledge of neuro-anatomy, it became relegated to the status of a pseudo-science. As such, it remained popular with charlatans and the public well into the twentieth century.

Democracy and the Media — Without Foundations

1992 ◽  
Vol 40 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 116-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Keane
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Service Model ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Media

In exploring whether or not the free and equal communication of citizens is a feasible ideal at the end of the twentieth century, this article presents a new account of the importance of the media to democracy. It offers a revised interpretation of the public service model of communications, in a risk-ridden society, and spells out the implications of these arguments for conventional views of democracy. After considering and rejecting foundationalist and relativist accounts of democracy, it offers a novel conception of democracy as a project of flexibly controlling the exercise of power.

Historical Fiction, Academic History, and Civic Pageantry (c. 1850–c. 1960)

2019 ◽  
pp. 120-156
Author(s):  
J. Patrick Hornbeck
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Historical Fiction ◽  
The Public ◽  
Academic History ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Christ Church ◽  
Historical Fictions

Chapter 4, which covers the period from c. 1850 to c. 1960, begins with a genre of representation that came into its own in the nineteenth century: historical fiction. The chapter addresses some of the interpretive challenges that historical fictions present and offers new readings of two early stories about Wolsey, both set in his native Suffolk. The emergence of historical fiction occurred contemporaneously with far-reaching developments in academic historiography. With the publication of copious original documents from the Henrician period came new resources for the study of Wolsey. The chapter explores the work of such historians as James Anthony Froude and J. S. Brewer, alongside the Wolsey biographies of Mandell Creighton (1891), Ethelred Taunton (1902), A. F. Pollard (1929), and Hilaire Belloc (1930). It observes how Victorian historians were often zealous about policing the boundaries of their discipline. Finally, since it is from this period that we have the earliest evidence for the public commemoration of Wolsey, the chapter explores the ways in which the cardinal was remembered in early-twentieth-century civic pageants in Oxford and Ipswich, as well as on the anniversaries of his Oxford foundation, currently known as Christ Church.

Munro Fox and the public promotion of biology in the mid-twentieth century

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. J. Morley
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
General Public ◽  
Scientific Communication ◽  
Research Career ◽  
New Developments ◽  
Victorian Era ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Radio Broadcasting ◽  
Magazine Articles

In Britain, a tradition of scientists actively communicating new developments in their fields with the general public has existed since the Victorian era. During the early twentieth century there were major developments in the nature of scientific communication with the rise of the mass media represented by popular magazines, newspapers and books, alongside the creation of a national radio broadcasting network. Many professional scientists took advantage of these changes to develop non-specialist careers through writing articles, books or radio talks for the enlightenment of the general public or the education of school children. However, most of this bibliographical material is ephemeral and may be ignored when considering the careers of the most distinguished scientists. One such scientist whose non-specialist activities have been generally undervalued is Munro Fox FRS (1889–1967). He was an eminent zoologist who, alongside a successful research career, had a well-developed non-specialist output promoting biological subjects that included many magazine articles and books as well as a substantial number of radio talks, particularly within the British Broadcasting Corporation's (BBC) Broadcasts to Schools programme.

The ‘Ritual’ and ‘Satanic’ Abuse of Children: Crop circles and the organised abuse of children require a careful and considered approach

1992 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Goddard
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Road ◽  
English Poet ◽  
The Past ◽  
English Population ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Times ◽  
Rural England

If you go down to the woods today…Matthew Arnold (1822–1888), the nineteenth-century English poet, wrote about the live murmur of a summer’s day’, presumably referring to bees, birds and other bugs humming around the countryside. A twentieth-century American (whom I believe to be a poet though not all would agree) wrote that The Times They Are A-Changin’ (1963). Nowhere have they changed more than in the English countryside. In 1991, it was the ‘live murmur’ of the summer’s night that was more likely to be heard. Out in fertile rural England the English people have discovered crop circles in their cornfields.It is good to be in England in (the admittedly all-too-brief) summer, but quiet evenings in cornfields sleeping off the effects of English ales are a thing of the past. These days, find a cornfield and you will find half the media and a sizeable chunk of the English population. In some country areas, they say, it is quieter sitting in the middle of the road because you avoid the crowds. Crop circles in cornfields have seized the imagination of the public.

scholarly journals Public Health: Socio-Political History of a People

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (8) ◽  
pp. 12
Author(s):  
Samuel Adu-Gyamfi ◽  
Aminu Dramani ◽  
Kwasi Amakye-Boateng ◽  
Sampson Akomeah
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Western Medicine ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The Public ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
Depth Study ◽  
History Of

<p>This study focuses on the transformations that have characterised public health in Asante. The study highlights the changes that have occurred in the traditional public health which include the use of roots, leaves, back of trees and spiritualities’ as well as the colonial administration’s introduction of modern or western medicine and post-colonial inheritance. The domination of Asante from 1902-1957 by the British influenced the public health in Asante. This necessitated the introduction of western medicine, which included the building of hospitals and clinics and training of physicians to cater for the sick. Post-colonial Ghana after 1957saw a new direction in public health in Asante it ensured continuity and change. However, of the all the successes of traditional medicine and its importance even in modern times, an in-depth study of this subject has not received attention for the benefit of academia and society. It is critical to turn back, consider how public health was ensured in the first half of the twentieth century and balance it with modern practices. This will help us draw necessary lessons for modern society. This study, therefore, does a retrospective analyses/narrative on the accessibility and equitability of health to all citizens of Ghana and Asante in particular within the twentieth century and to further access the continuity and change over time.   </p>

scholarly journals “Measure of Shame”: Media Career of the Global Slavery Index

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jelena Brankovic
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Moral Order ◽  
Global Burden ◽  
The Public ◽  
Modern Slavery ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Media ◽  
Magazine Articles ◽  
Longitudinal Examination ◽  
Coverage Points

Rankings are widely regarded as particularly well-suited for capturing the public eye, which is considered a reason why they have become so ubiquitous. However, we know surprisingly little about how rankings direct media attention, as well as how media in turn shape and help sustain careers of specific rankings in the public over longer periods of time. To advance our understanding of the discursive dynamics at the intersection of rankings and the press, this study examines the media career of Global Slavery Index by analyzing 361 newspaper and magazine articles, published between the release of index’s inaugural edition in 2013 and until the end of 2019. To interpret the media coverage, the study draws attention to the distinctive properties of the Global Slavery Index, in particular its universality, highly rationalized character, and a pledge to spotlight violation of the global moral order. The longitudinal examination of the media coverage points to the following properties of the index as having shaped and helped sustain its career in the public: (1) repeated publication; (2) broad conceptualization of modern slavery; and the construction thereof as (3) a measurable global burden. These properties further allowed for (a) the construction of countries, organizations, and individuals as morally responsible for the said global burden, as well as for (b) the discursive linking of local and situational concerns with global narratives.

scholarly journals Art. XII.—On Imperial and other Titles

1877 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 314-420
Author(s):  
T. E. Colebrooke
Keyword(s):  
Public Law ◽  
Western World ◽  
British Isles ◽  
The Public ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Law And Policy ◽  
The People ◽  
Popular Language

The collection of specimens of imperial titles which will be found in this paper was begun during the recent discussions in Parliament, and with reference to India only. When it was proposed to add to the titles hitherto borne by the Sovereigns of the British Isles another, which was supposed to be more expressive of the relation of the Crown of England to the people and princes of India, it seemed to me important to inquire what were the titles borne by the sovereigns of dynasties in the East whose power could alone compare with our own. Many of the titles of honour, and especially sovereign titles, which have been at different times current in the East, bear a different significance to those in Europe; and to apply to an Eastern dominion titles which had their origin in the public law and policy of the Western world seemed an anachronism, and likely to lead to confusion of language and ideas. Popular language has, indeed, long applied the title of Emperor to the sovereigns of extensive dominions in the East. So far is this carried that it is almost universally used in speaking of all the great monarchies in Asia in modern times, and by grave historians. We read of Emperors of China, of India, of Tartary, and of Constantinople.

Two Thumbs Up: The Media Are the Message

Public Voices ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
Samantha L. Durst ◽  
Charldean Newell
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Motion Pictures ◽  
Public Perceptions ◽  
Literary Form ◽  
Graduate Level ◽  
The Public ◽  
Creative Project ◽  
Music Television ◽  
The Media

This account is a commentary on efforts to incorporate a "creative" project into a graduate-level public management course. Students must complete an "Images of the Public Sector" project for which they review, reflect on, and analyze the effect  of specific media images of the public sector on public perceptions. The students select the images from books, music, television, motion pictures, or other art or literary form.

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