scholarly journals Crossing the boundary

2019 ◽  
pp. 165-168
Author(s):  
Davide Abbatescianni ◽  
Dan Connell
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Film Theory ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Technical Knowledge ◽  
Comprehensive Understanding ◽  
Creative Practice ◽  
Screen Media ◽  
The World ◽  
Film And Media Studies

The following dossier responds to the burgeoning interest in the area of academic creative practice that is expanding rapidly within the field of film and screen media, evidenced by the spate of practice-led and practice-based degrees being introduced in universities across the world. Increasingly, it seems that practitioners feel the need to acquire a more comprehensive understanding of film and screen media artworks through film theory while theoreticians aim to gain new, more profound perspectives on the creative process and the technical knowledge preceding the realisation of the finalised artworks. These new modes and intersections between theory and practice have produced an innovative and complex set of methods, expressions and approaches that are widening the scope of research in the area of film and media studies and blurring the traditional boundary between theory and practice. While these explorations complicate the formulation of precise, well-honed questions and adequate study methodologies, they also contribute to the production of a more vibrant and diversified research landscape.

scholarly journals Let's get Physical: Supporting Arts Based Research through Haptic Learning

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 149-152
Author(s):  
Chris Jones
Keyword(s):  
Creative Process ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Creative Arts ◽  
Arts Based Research ◽  
The World ◽  
Haptic Learning ◽  
The University ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

What is a materials collection? Why is it in the library? The aim of this paper is to introduce the idea of a materials collection as a result of explorations in arts based research. This involved theorizing ideas of materiality, haptic engagement with objects and relating them to the creative process within a library environment. The collection is a response to a perceived gap between theory and creative practice expressed within the student cohort. The risk to the library comprises a possible erosion of value in the student experience, in that the service becomes marginalized in contrast to the studio based activities. The nature of the research undertaken by the student cohort at the University for the Creative Arts is considered, and the development of the materials collection is presented as a response to this inquiry. The collection forms the site of haptic learning: the sensual engagement with the world is combined with a phenomenological approach to create a space within which the relationship of theory and practice may be developed.

scholarly journals 2. Simondon as a Neo-Scholastic?

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 28-35
Author(s):  
Johan Fredrikzon
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Research Assistant ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Yale University ◽  
Academic Environments ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Film And Media Studies ◽  
Creative Force ◽  
Information Image

Johan Fredrikzon spent one and a half years as a visiting research assistant at the Film and Media Studies Program at Yale University 2018/2019. Some months before he arrived, a two-day workshop on Simondon was held by the Yale-Düsseldorf Working Group on Philosophy and Media, titled Modes of Technical Objects, with scholars from the US and Germany. Fredrikzon decided to engage a few of the workshop participants for this special issue of Sensorium, with the purpose to discuss perspectives on Simondon as a theoretical instrument for thinking technology, how the French philosopher matters in their work, and why there seems to be a revival in the interest in the writing of Simondon these days. On behalf of the Sensorium journal, the interviewer would like to thank the three interviewees for their generous participation. About John Durham Peters: John Durham Peters is María Rosa Menocal Professor of English and of Film & Media Studies at Yale University. Peters has been a creative force in media studies for many years and his thinking continues to influence academic environments throughout the world. His book The Marvelous Clouds: Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media (Chicago, 2015) was an attempt to rethink the concept of media by including weather, dolphins and fire to the infrastructural landscape of digital communications and climate change. His new book, in cooperation with Kenneth Cmiel, is called Promiscuous Knowledge: Information, Image, and Other Truth Games in History (Chicago, 2020).

scholarly journals The Shudder of a Cinephiliac Idea? Videographic Film Studies Practice as Material Thinking

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Grant
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Digital Video ◽  
Film Studies ◽  
Moving Image ◽  
Creative Practice ◽  
Film And Media Studies ◽  
Technology Grant ◽  
Audio Video

This chapter carefully considers the practice of the audio-video essayist, reflecting on the topics of subjectivity, textuality, and technology. Grant is a film scholar who, in the last ten years, has begun to produce, write about, and publish creative-critical digital-video essays on film and media studies subjects, essays that use footage from the films studied, as well as other moving image/sounds from existing media. Her chapter examines the critical and theoretical threads that surround the audiovisual essay as it belongs to the tradition of the essay film and as it belongs to the broader realm of creative practice. She also thinks through some of the spectatorial implications of her online practice as research.

On Not Narrating the History of Feminism and Film

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 6-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane M. Gaines
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Film Theory ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Silent Film ◽  
Feminist Film Theory ◽  
Film And Media Studies ◽  
History Of ◽  
Feminist Film ◽  
Narrative Account

“On Not Narrating the History of Feminism and Film” poses two questions: What happened to women in the early silent film industries, and why don't we know about them? While the author and others have addressed the first question elsewhere at recent international conferences and in publication, the second remains largely unanswered and is taken up here. It is specific to the field of feminism and film and media studies, where in the 1970s moment of feminist film theory, the powerful paradigm of “no women” or woman as “absent” could be taken as either theoretical or empirical. The question arises as to how to write a narrative account given earlier prohibitions against narrative and empirical work, even when that very kind of work has discovered evidence of women working in significant roles in early film industries worldwide.

Deleuze as Subject – B2430.D454 – Mapping Deleuze Studies in the Library

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 429-456
Author(s):  
Melissa Adler
Keyword(s):  
Academic Libraries ◽  
The Body ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Library Of Congress ◽  
Abstract Machine ◽  
Discipline Formation ◽  
The World ◽  
Circulation Of Knowledge

Guided by Deleuze's taxonomic theory and practice and his concepts concerning the body, literature, territory and assemblage, this article examines library classification as a technique of discipline and bibliographic control. Locating books written by and about Deleuze reveals processes of discipline formation and the circulation of knowledge, and it troubles the principles upon which the classification is based. A Deleuzian critique presents the Library of Congress Classification as an abstract machine that diagrams knowledge in many academic libraries around the world.

Mission Theology Revisited: Keeping up with the Crises

1985 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 168-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
William B. Frazier
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Systematic Theology ◽  
Mission Theology ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
Mission Agencies ◽  
The World ◽  
Theology Of Mission ◽  
General Chapter ◽  
Comprehensive Study

Maryknoll, the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America, holds its General Chapter, or assembly, every six years. This is a gathering of leaders and delegates, representing Maryknoll Missioners from around the world, to reflect on the affairs and concerns of the society. The General Chapter provides a prime occasion for reflecting on missional principles and reassessing priorities. In preparation for the most recent chapter, held in late 1984, Father William B. Frazier, M.M., Professor of Systematic Theology at Maryknoll School of Theology, Maryknoll, New York, prepared a painstaking and comprehensive study entitled “Mission Theology Revisited.” Although this was prepared as an “in-house” document to help fellow Maryknollers clarify their thinking about fundamental issues Maryknoll has been confronting in recent years, the society and Father Frazier have kindly agreed to share the study with the readers of the International Bulletin. Two decades ago Frazier captured the attention of missiologists when, in the aftermath of Vatican Council II, he published “Guidelines for a New Theology of Mission” (Worldmission 18, No. 4, Winter 1967–68; reprinted in Gerald H. Anderson and Thomas F. Stransky, eds., Mission Trends No. 1 [1974]). In the current study, he analyzes the tension—and the implications far mission theory and practice—between those missioners who retain a more or less traditional focus on the evangelization of persons and those who wish to emphasize the “evangelization” of societal institutions and systemic structures. Although lengthy and at times occupied with developments particular to Maryknoll, Frazier's study, we believe, makes a major contribution toward explicating the current missiological debate and ferment. Few, if any, of today's mission agencies—Protestant or Catholic—can hope to remain aloof from the dynamics of the issues he discusses. Testimony to the seriousness of the situation and the debate is found in the reflections of three mission leaders invited by the editors to respond to Father Frazier's study. Their responses appear following Frazier's article below.

Carbon price: theory and practice of greenhouse gas emissions regulation

2021 ◽  
pp. 95-116
Author(s):  
Ilya Stepanov ◽  
Karina Galimova
Keyword(s):  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
World Economy ◽  
Carbon Price ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Price Theory ◽  
Carbon Pricing ◽  
The World ◽  
Low Carbon Development ◽  
Effective Use

In the context of transition to low-carbon development, carbon price is rapidly gaining ground all over the world. Discussions on its implementation are under way in Russia as well. However, the use of carbon price as an indicator can be compounded by certain risks. In practice, to overcome them depends on the ability of carbon price designing to take into account the specifics of a country or industries where the regulation is introduced. The regulator needs to determine the specifics of carbon pricing, identify the acceptable degree of regulation and coverage of carbon price; consider the consequences for vulnerable sectors of population, companies, etc. The study aims at systematizing theory and practice of carbon pricing across various countries and regions of the world economy. Drawing on the analysis of fundamental and empirical works, the authors identify the factors that limit the effective use of carbon price; classify the key elements of carbon pricing design. Based on the analysis of international experience, the article provides recommendations on the development of a system for regulating carbon in Russia.

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