scholarly journals Fincher’s 'Fight Club' as an example of a critical dystopia

2018 ◽  
pp. 67-84
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Ginszt
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Negative Influence ◽  
Final Part ◽  
Fight Club ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Critical Dystopia

This article investigates David Fincher’s film Fight Club as a critical dystopian narrative. The first part of the article provides the definition of critical dystopia as well as it presents characteristic features of the subgenre. It also sets forward the difference between classical and critical dystopias. The following sections are case studies in which different elements of the film in the context of the subgenre are examined. They focus on the construction of a dystopian society and the negative influence of consumerism on the protagonist and therefore on other people. Moreover, this paper attempts to demonstrate how the overall pessimistic tendency of the narrative is realised. Finally, the protagonist’s actions as well as the aftermath of these actions are described and analysed. The final part of the article focuses on the significance of the last scene which introduces a utopian impulse into the narrative.

scholarly journals DOBRYNYA NIKITICH AND HIS TIME: HISTORIOGRAPHY AND PROSPECTS OF STUDYING THE IMAGE OF THE EPIC HERO

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 565-573
Author(s):  
S.V. Kozlovsky
Keyword(s):  
Social Practice ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Negative Influence ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Epic Hero ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Written Sources

Historical memory in texts and practices manifests itself ambiguously. It is not always possible to believe even written sources. Epic tradition was lucky - there are many versions of epic texts that have passed the test of time, eliminated all that was considered implausible. But the epics also experienced the negative influence of time, which manifested itself in the addition, rethinking, loss of certain parts of the text. Therefore, their historical study is impossible without reconstruction, the definition of texts on the time of appearance and connection with the social practice of the corresponding period. There is a gap between the epics and Chronicles, reflecting the difference in the perception of events, but they are connected by a common social practice, historical entourage, able to show the belonging of the epics to a certain time and space. The era’s entourage is most connected with the image of the hero. The article considers the attempts and prospects of studying the epic era on the example of the image of Dobrynya Nikitich.

scholarly journals CAPITALISM, CONSUMERISM AND POPULAR CULTURE

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 205-210
Author(s):  
Ankita Singh
Keyword(s):  
Credit Card ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Negative Influence ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Main Theme ◽  
Soap Industry ◽  
Fight Club ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Compulsive Buying Disorder

A product’s utility has evolved over time. In today’s world, the commodities possess the power to define us. Every product that we own today, through its branding, reflects our social status, values and vice versa. It is difficult to refute the negative influence of capitalism that we witness in form of obsession with possession. The aim of the paper is to study the extent to which the products of the modern society like the protagonists in the following two movies suffer; whether it is possible to imagine an end of consumerism and not the world or has it become an inherent part of the late capitalist world in which there is no completeness but the perennial emergence of substitutes (objects). This paper studies the aforementioned issues through the movies “Fight Club” and “Confessions of a Shopaholic”. The first section of the paper uses the case of soap industry as the foundation and analyses “Fight Club”. The second section examines the role of credit card companies in compulsive buying disorder through “Confessions of a Shopaholic”. Despite the similarity between the two movies on the grounds of the modern world “suffering”, the paper highlights the difference in their treatment of the main theme of consumerism and links it to the gender politics. The final section draws a comparison between the endings of the two movies and investigates the premise of disorder in “Fight Club” and its existential threat to capitalism.

scholarly journals FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OF THE SOCIALLY MARKED VOCABULARY (ON THE MATERIAL OF THE ITALIAN LANGUAGE)

2019 ◽  
pp. 68-82
Author(s):  
Kristina Bumar
Keyword(s):  
Social Group ◽  
Negative Influence ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Literary Language ◽  
Social Stratum ◽  
Communicative Behavior ◽  
Italian Language ◽  
Functional Features ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
Definition Of

This paper analyzes the processes of the progression of particular social vocabularies. The definition of advanced concepts has been considered in the analysis, and their functional features of the terms of socially marked vocabulary have been revealed as well. We attempted to distinguish and compare such notions as jargon, dialect, argot, vernacular and cant among the concept of general conversation. The characteristic features that are inherent to one or another sociolect are investigated. Socially marked vocabulary reflects important moments of human communicative behavior in a society, which is a part of national culture. In the modern world, where the globalization of cultures in conversation is observed, the vocabulary ceases to be confined to one particular language but becomes the property of a social stratum of a particular social group. In the analysis, in general, it became clear that in the Italian language there are only four varieties of the social dialect – dialect, jargon, vernacular and argot (But you have four here). The article reveals that the units of the vocabularies have their negative influence, since, in our study, the conversation has historically been formed in the criminal environment and socially low strata of the population. The operation of the overwhelming majority of units goes beyond the limits of a particular social group and becomes a colloquial language and is often used by writers in Italian literary works. Additionally, the examples presented in the article show that the Italians are trying to comprehend the essence of these concepts and distinguish them from each other. In some cases, in different social groups, we conclude that the vocabularies are implemented at the lexical-semantic, pragmatic, phonological, conceptual and contextual levels, enrich the content of the literary language, and get into and enrich literary language. It is hoped this study will inform practitioners and theorist about socially marked vocabulary used.

scholarly journals THE FACTOR OF TRAVEL JOURNALISM IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF TOURISM

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Igor Bezuliy ◽  
Igor Riabov ◽  
Viktoriia Busel
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Public Relation ◽  
Promising Practices ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Background Image

Informatization of society provides new tools for intensifying tourism activities, forming the motives of the population to travel and promoting tourism brands. One of the tools is travel journalism, which helps to transform impressions into information. The purpose of the article is to study the impact of travel journalism on the intensification of tourism and justify the introduction of its most promising practices. The methodology of the article uses methods of classification of journalistic publications and magazines on tourism, the method of comparing advertising and “public relations”, a descriptive method to reveal the content of types of texts and genres of television travel journalism. The influence of travel journalism on the intensification of tourism has been studied. The content of publications of information and reference nature, publications with promotional properties, cognitive-oriented, problem-analytical materials is revealed. It is recognized that informative publications help to inform the general public about tourist facilities and services that were not previously known to the consumer. It is proposed to use promotional publications as a tool for implementing short-term tasks. The effectiveness of the use of cognitive-oriented texts as a tool for forming long-term incentives for tourist activity of consumers is substantiated. It is recognized that problem-oriented materials are intended for a narrow audience of professionals and contribute to the coverage of professional problems. The difference between advertising and “public relation” is investigated. It is determined that the toolkit “public relation” is used as a strategic lever to promote the tourist organization. The definition of PR-text is given, its main features are given, and the classification of PR-texts for use in tourist activity is offered. The most commonly used types of PR-texts in tourism are given. The genres of travel journalism are studied. It is determined that in travel journalism the most common forms of information presentation such as reporting, travel essay, recommendation. The peculiarities of the use of such PR-texts in tourism as by-light, background, image and review articles, case history, newsletter, press release are revealed. Characteristic features of such texts are given. Examples of user, specialized, professional and on-board publications in the Ukrainian mass media are given. It is substantiated that visual content is better perceived by consumers of tourist services. Examples of popular foreign and Ukrainian travel programs are given. The practical value of the article is to develop recommendations for the implementation of the most promising travel practices.

The Distinction between [P] and [S]

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Galen Strawson
Keyword(s):  
Personal Identity ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
Legal Responsibility ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Over Time

This chapter examines the difference between John Locke's definition of a person [P], considered as a kind of thing, and his definition of a subject of experience of a certain sophisticated sort [S]. It first discusses the equation [P] = [S], where [S] is assumed to be a continuing thing that is able to survive radical change of substantial realization, as well as Locke's position about consciousness in relation to [P]'s identity or existence over time as [S]. It argues that Locke is not guilty of circularity because he is not proposing consciousness as the determinant of [S]'s identity over time, but only of [S]'s moral and legal responsibility over time. Finally, it suggests that the terms “Person” and “Personal identity” pull apart, in Locke's scheme of things, but in a perfectly coherent way.

L'anglicisme dans la langue française

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 00013
Author(s):  
Danny Susanto
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Oil Industry ◽  
English Word ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Font Size ◽  
The World ◽  
French Speaking ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Bibliographic Study

<p class="Abstract">The purpose of this study is to analyze the phenomenon known as&nbsp;<span style="font-size: 1rem;">“anglicism”: a loan made to the English language by another language.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Anglicism arose either from the adoption of an English word as a&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">result of a translation defect despite the existence of an equivalent&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">term in the language of the speaker, or from a wrong translation, as a&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">word-by-word translation. Said phenomenon is very common&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">nowadays and most languages of the world including making use of&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">some linguistic concepts such as anglicism, neologism, syntax,&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">morphology etc, this article addresses various aspects related to&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Anglicisms in French through a bibliographic study: the definition of&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Anglicism, the origin of Anglicisms in French and the current situation,&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">the areas most affected by Anglicism, the different categories of&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Anglicism, the difference between French Anglicism in France and&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">French-speaking Canada, the attitude of French-speaking society&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">towards to the Anglicisms and their efforts to stop this phenomenon.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">The study shows that the areas affected are, among others, trade,&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">travel, parliamentary and judicial institutions, sports, rail, industrial&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">production and most recently film, industrial production, sport, oil industry, information technology,&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">science and technology. Various initiatives have been implemented either by public institutions or by&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">individuals who share concerns about the increasingly felt threat of the omnipresence of Anglicism in&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">everyday life.</span></p>

COMPETENCE APPROACH IN EUROPEAN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION: ESSENCE AND DEVELOPMENT TRENDS (ARCHETYPAL ASPECT)

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (14) ◽  
pp. 132-143
Author(s):  
Martha Ivanivna Karpa
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
European Public ◽  
Territorial Organization ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
State And Local ◽  
Main Components ◽  
Definition Of

The article reveals the main features of the competence approach in the practice of European public administration. The features of the competence approach in public administration are determined on the basis of analysis of the basic concepts of public administration. In the dynamics of the formation and development of popular theories of interaction between state and local authorities, such as the theory of a free community, community (public) and public and state (the theory of municipal dualism), we can trace a number of characteristic features of a competency approach, which manifests itself both through the general theoretical relations and manifestations, and through the practice of coexistence of public authorities. There is a problem of definition and distribution of public functions as a prerequisite for defining and shaping the competences of public institutions. An important issue in the context of a competent approach is the institutional consolidation of functions in the context of the existence of the basic models of territorial organization of power. In each of the varieties of the Governance concept (Responsive Governance concept, Democratic Governance concept, Good Governance concept), the specifics of the use of competencies are defined. The archetypal symbols in the European public administration are singled out using the analysis of competence in public administration in its main constituents. A brief description of the archetypal aspect of European public administration is given. The main components of competence are shown in connection with the existing archetypal symbols and the characteristic trends of their development. Their connection is shown according to the scheme “the entity component (who?) — the object component (what?) — the administrative component (how?) — the basis (in what environment?)”. Concerning the trends of development of a competence approach in the context of practice and theory of public administration, it is determined that modern concepts of public administration are characterized by shifting the balance between state and public institutions to the sphere of common goals and tasks, and thus responsibility. The joint activity of all subjects of society requires new forms of cooperation, definition of the spheres and subjects of each entity’s activity for effective cooperation, distribution of functions and competences of the entities, formation and consolidation of their status characteristics.

Democracy and Political Culture

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ross McKibbin
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Social System ◽  
Political System ◽  
Democratic Politics ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The One ◽  
Definition Of

This book is an examination of Britain as a democratic society; what it means to describe it as such; and how we can attempt such an examination. The book does this via a number of ‘case-studies’ which approach the subject in different ways: J.M. Keynes and his analysis of British social structures; the political career of Harold Nicolson and his understanding of democratic politics; the novels of A.J. Cronin, especially The Citadel, and what they tell us about the definition of democracy in the interwar years. The book also investigates the evolution of the British party political system until the present day and attempts to suggest why it has become so apparently unstable. There are also two chapters on sport as representative of the British social system as a whole as well as the ways in which the British influenced the sporting systems of other countries. The book has a marked comparative theme, including one chapter which compares British and Australian political cultures and which shows British democracy in a somewhat different light from the one usually shone on it. The concluding chapter brings together the overall argument.

Historical Perspectives on Innovation in Indian Business

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claude Markovits
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Specific Context ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
Industrial Firm ◽  
Historical Perspectives ◽  
Entire World ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Trading Network

This chapter deals with the question of innovation in Indian business from a historical perspective. After a brief survey of the literature, emphasizing how divided scholarly opinion was regarding the existence of forms of innovation in Indian business prior to the colonial era, the focus shifts to the British period. It is shown that Schumpeter’s definition of innovation equating it with technological innovation cannot be fruitfully applied to the Indian business scene. Two case studies are then proposed: Tata Iron & Steel, the largest Indian industrial firm, is shown to have been innovative in the specific context of India’s backward industrial scene, while the Sindwork merchants of Hyderabad are an instance of an Indian trading network which extended its range to the entire world. Concluding remarks interrogate post-Independence developments and stress the limits of the innovativeness of Indian business, prior to the recent liberal reforms.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas J. Wheeler
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Calculative Trust

This Introduction to the book does three things. First, it introduces the concept of trust and develops a definition of trust as the ‘expectation of no harm in contexts where betrayal is always a possibility’. Next, it identities two conceptions of trust that guide the book, ‘calculative trust’ and ‘trust as suspension’, which provide very different explanations for how actors form expectations that another will be trustworthy. It then shows how trust as suspension opens up a new theory of accurate signal interpretation and demonstrates how this theory is superior to costly signalling-based theories of accurate signal interpretation. The final section of the Introduction sets out the rationale for the case studies and the key assumptions.

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