scholarly journals In search of a lost cinema

2021 ◽  
pp. 72-88
Author(s):  
Marie Krämer
Keyword(s):  
Khmer Rouge ◽  
Memory Studies ◽  
The Other ◽  
Moving Image ◽  
Social Perspectives ◽  
Feature Films ◽  
Memory Culture ◽  
Dual Perspective ◽  
The One ◽  
Multidirectional Memory

This article shows how creative approaches can contribute to a productive engagement with losses in film heritage. By (re)producing and (re)circulating images, sounds and narratives, documentaries on film heritage in particular relate to larger contexts of cultural and moving image memory. On the one hand, they are premediated by older productions, including feature films. On the other hand, they bring in new artistic, political and/or social perspectives. Golden Slumbers (Davy Chou, 2012), a documentary about Cambodia's lost film heritage before the Khmer Rouge period, serves as an example to illustrate these ideas. It carries a dual perspective that is simultaneously post-migratory and marked by (French) cinephilia as a cinematographic memory culture. In order to do justice to this complexity, dynamic concepts from the field of memory studies such as Svetlana Boym’s notion of nostalgia (Boym 2001) and Michael Rothberg’s concept of multidirectional memory (Rothberg 2009) are drawn on alongside literature on the history and theory of (French) cinephilia. In this way, cinephilia is reimagined as a multidirectional moving image memory culture that plays a particularly important but also complex role with regard to film heritage. In conclusion, several questions are outlined that need to be explored in further research.

Mediating and Disrupting the Flow

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-158
Author(s):  
EVELYN KREUTZER
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Classical Music ◽  
The Other ◽  
Student Writing ◽  
Moving Image ◽  
History Of ◽  
Listening Experience ◽  
The One ◽  
Nam June Paik ◽  
The Relationship

This essay explores the relationship between ‘highbrow’ classical music traditions and ‘lowbrow’ associations with television culture in the collaborative oeuvre of Charlotte Moorman and Nam June Paik. Contextualizing them within the history of classical music broadcasting conventions on TV on the one hand, and the countercultural avantgarde on the other, I argue that Moorman and Paik’s acts of disrupting and breaking with musical, performative, and/or televisual notions of flow prevent the immersive listening experience that had marked classical music and TV discourses, and in so doing empower the listener in an anti-authoritarian, participatory appeal. This article is the winner of the 2019 Claudia Gorbman Graduate Student Writing Award, selected by the Sound and Music Special Interest Group of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies in conjunction with Music, Sound, and the Moving Image.

scholarly journals A challenge to collective memory: Yitskhok Rudashevski’s "Diary of the Vilna Ghetto"

2018 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. 99-123
Author(s):  
Mindaugas Kvietkauskas
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
The Other ◽  
Holocaust Memory ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Memory Culture ◽  
The One ◽  
Negative Imagery

A challenge to collective memory: Yitskhok Rudashevski’s Diary of the Vilna GhettoThis article aims to analyse the diary of Yitskhok Rudashevski (1927–1943), the story of its writing and publication and the existing biographical material about the author. It attempts to answer the question of what is or could be the significance of this lieu de mémoire for the current developments in Holocaust memory culture in Lithuania. The adopted definitions of cultural and collective memory and sites of memory are based on the concepts proposed by Jan and Aleida Assmann and Pierre Nora. On the one hand, the diary written by a child in the Vilnius ghetto is of major documentary, moral and aesthetic significance and stimulates individual empathy. On the other hand, the text raises acute issues reflecting a conflict between different memory narratives and interpretations of history. Pro-Soviet sympathies of the author, negative imagery of Lithuanians and certain deheroisation of the ghetto community make the text a “problematic” memory site. These challenges of the diary are interpreted as indicators showing whether contemporary Holocaust narrative in Lithuania is already mature enough to accept the dialogical forms of cultural memory. Wyzwanie dla pamięci zbiorowej: Pamiętnik z wileńskiego getta Icchaka RudaszewskiegoTematem niniejszego artykułu jest analiza dziennika napisanego w getcie przez czternastoletniego Icchaka Rudaszewskiego (1927–1943), historia jego powstania, publikacji i zachowania dla przyszłych pokoleń, a także materiał biograficzny dotyczący postaci autora. Artykuł jest próbą odpowiedzi na pytanie, jakie jest i jakie mogłoby być znaczenie tego miejsca pamięci (lieu de mémoire) w kształtującej się obecnie na Litwie kulturze pamięci Holocaustu. Badania pamięci kulturowej i zbiorowej, a także miejsc pamięci, zostały oparte na koncepcjach badawczych Jana i Aleidy Assmanów oraz Pierre’a Nory. Z jednej strony, napisany przez dziecko w getcie wileńskim pamiętnik ma dla pamięci kulturowej Litwy ogromne znaczenie symboliczne, etyczne i estetyczne, wzmocnione przez silne uczucie empatii wobec autora. Z drugiej strony, tekst pamiętnika stawia wysokie wymagania badawcze wynikające z konfliktu różnych interpretacji historii II wojny światowej i narracji pamięci. Socjalistyczne i proradzieckie poglądy autora, negatywny obraz Litwinów i swoista deheroizacja społeczności getta przekształca ten tekst w „problematyczne” miejce pamięci. Powyższe wyzwania badawcze są interpretowane w artykule jako znaki, które mogą opisać stan współczesnej litewskiej narracji Holocaustu i odpowiedzieć na pytanie, czy jest ona na tyle dojrzała, by w drodze dialogu zintegrować różne warianty pamięci kulturowej.

scholarly journals Las salinas en la Cartografía. Construcción del territorio y del paisaje Salt flats on mapping = Building territories and landscapes

2020 ◽  
pp. 24
Author(s):  
Pilar Chías Navarro ◽  
Tomás Abad Balboa
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Salt Flats ◽  
Main Target ◽  
Dual Perspective ◽  
Double Approach ◽  
The One ◽  
Sistemas De Informacion

RESUMEN:Las salinas conforman territorios de características singulares y paisajes de especial encanto. Su estudio implica efectuar una doble aproximación: desde un punto de vista objetivo, que considera los elementos y fenómenos que tienen lugar en un determinado ámbito geográfico; y también subjetivo, que valora las cualidades que percibe o experimenta ante él un observador. Nuestro objetivo es recuperar la memoria de los territorios y los paisajes sobre la base de esta doble perspectiva, y elaborar series cartográficas que sirvan de base a sistemas de información geográfica patrimonial. Para ello resulta esencial combinar una exhaustiva búsqueda en archivo con un intenso trabajo de campo. El resultado permite conocer la existencia pretérita de elementos naturales y construidos, así como de usos y costumbres perdidos que durante una época existieron sobre un territorio concreto y conformaron unos paisajes singulares. Entre el material de archivo, las imágenes, los mapas y los planos realizados antes y después del desarrollo de la cartografía científica resultan de particular interés como fuentes de datos, aunque su interpretación requiere contar con conocimientos especializados. Asimismo, las manifestaciones artísticas tienen gran valor para conocer cómo se han experimentado unos paisajes que son el resultado de las culturas sucesivas que los conformaron. El artículo se centra en esta parte esencial de la metodología.ABSTRACT:Salt flats use to shape territories characterized by particular features, and particularly charming landscapes. Their study implies a double approach. On the one hand, an objective point of view considers every element and phenomenon that take place on a given area. On the other hand, a subjective perspective allows to assess all the spatial qualities that are perceived or experienced by the observer. Our main target aims to recover the historical memory of territories and landscapes, on the grounds of such a dual perspective. But also, to produce the corresponding cartographic series that will provide the digital basis for a geographic information system focused on the cultural heritage. For this purpose, it becomes essential to develop an exhaustive archival search, as well as an intensive fieldwork. They will permit to get a deep knowledge of every natural or built element in the area, together with the old uses and habits that shaped the current territories and landscapes. Among the historic sources, old pictures, and ancient or scientific maps should be stressed, due to their interest as essential sources of geographic data. However, they must be carefully read, what requires a specialised knowledge. Similarly, the artistic expressions are of great interest because of their ability to show the experience of a landscape as a result of an overlapping of cultures. The article focuses in such aspects of a global methodology.

Die Lüge ohne Worte erzählen

2018 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-114
Author(s):  
Oliver Dimbath
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
The Other ◽  
Feature Films ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
Wenn Sich

Eine Lüge ohne Worte zu erzählen mutet paradox an. Gleichwohl aber gibt dieser Titel den Hinweis darauf, dass Lügen in Interaktionen auf der einen Seite eine zweite Wirklichkeit erzählen. Auf der anderen Seite scheint es aber ein Wissen darüber zu geben, wie eine Lüge nonverbal angezeigt wird. Es geht also nicht um das Ergründen kommunizierter Inkonsistenzen, sondern um das Erkennen von Fehlern, die unterlaufen, wenn sich jemand der Anstrengung des Lügens aussetzt. Der Beitrag analysiert das Lügen als Bestandteil sozialer Interaktion unter Berücksichtigung nonverbalen Ausdrucksverhaltens. Das Untersuchungsmaterial hierzu entstammt Lügensequenzen aus TV-Serien und Spielfilmen. To tell a lie without words seems paradoxical. Nevertheless, this title indicates that lies in interactions on the one hand tell a second reality. On the other hand, there seems to be a knowledge of how a lie is displayed non-verbally. It is therefore not a matter of investigating communicated inconsistencies, but of recognising the mistakes that are made when someone exposes himself or herself to the effort of lying. The article analyses lying as a component of social interaction, taking into account non-verbal expressive behaviour. The material for this analysis is taken from lie sequences from TV series and feature films.

Fluchtpunkt Techno?

2021 ◽  
Vol 74 (4) ◽  
pp. 362-371
Author(s):  
Matthias Pasdzierny
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Study ◽  
Print Media ◽  
The Other ◽  
Military Dictatorship ◽  
Early Internationalization ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Memory Culture ◽  
Transatlantic Exchange ◽  
The One

The term “conexión chilena” is regularly used in print media and internet articles to describe a group of DJs, some of them very successful, who fled as children with their families to Europe during the Chilean military dictatorship (1973–1990) and have become part of the growing EDM scene there since the 1990s. Names that are often mentioned in this context include Matías Aguayo, Andrés and Pier Bucci, Luciano (Lucien Nicolet), Martin Schopf/DJ Dandy Jack, Paula Schopf/DJ Chica Paula, Ricardo Villalobos and Cristian Vogel. Based on interviews and the analytical study of selected tracks by three of these artists, this article explores the question of the role that the “conexión” actually played. On the one hand, this question is applied to the work and career of the artists themselves, especially in light of developments in Chilean memory culture. On the other hand, it is applied to the early internationalization and transatlantic exchange in the field of techno and EDM. (Vorlage)

Cyborg Affect and the Power of the Posthuman in the Ghost in the Shell Franchise

Noir Affect ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 156-177
Author(s):  
Peter Hitchcock
Keyword(s):  
Free Association ◽  
The Other ◽  
Central Character ◽  
Quarter Century ◽  
Feature Films ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Old Japanese ◽  
The Media ◽  
Police Procedural ◽  
The One

This chapter explores noir affect in Ghost in a Shell, a quarter-century-old, Japanese manga/anime franchise that spans several series in print, feature films, and television. Whatever the media, the different versions of the narrative conform to standard expectations of adolescent heterosexual masculinism. Yet such elements seem to form the series’ mystical shell rather than the conflicted and contradictory rationality of their central kernel (which itself springs from the serial logic of the noir police procedural). On the one hand, the chapter argues that representational aesthetics necessarily constrain even the radical and free association of an anime subculture; on the other hand, the series critically engages the forms of time articulated in the intersection of cyborg signification and seriality. Cyborg affect does not just ask the familiar question, where does a body end? It also interrogates the terms of technological reproducibility in relationship to political possibility. The synchrony of Major Motoko Kusanagi (the central character/cyborg) holds important lessons for how we read/see affect in relationship to the series, a formation haunted by the ghost of socialization itself.

scholarly journals Some remarks on the cognitive impact of metallurgical development in promoting numerical and metrological abstraction in Europe

2015 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aleksander Dzbynski
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
The Other ◽  
Simple Consequence ◽  
Metal Production ◽  
Social Perspectives ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Early Metallurgy ◽  
The One

If we accept the thesis that advanced metrological systems existed in Bronze Age societies, described and analysed as weight standards by many authors, we should also consider its simple consequence; these weight standards were the successors of earlier and rather simpler systems of value that developed within Eneolithic societies. Dealing with the issue of early metallurgy in Europe, some authors have traced patterns and proliferation cycles of copper for this period that allow us to see that the introduction of metal to the main regions in Europe was the subject of growth, spread, and changing social perspectives rather than a crisis in metal production and hiatus. This is the point, I think, at which we can embed one source of Bronze Age weight standards on the one hand, and earlier simpler methods of measuring copper, on the other.

scholarly journals Observance, Notes towards Decipherability

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-96
Author(s):  
Marquard Smith
Keyword(s):  
Memory Studies ◽  
The Other ◽  
State Of Exception ◽  
Trauma Studies ◽  
Media Archaeology ◽  
Dark Tourism ◽  
Intangible Heritage ◽  
Digital Memory ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One

Provoked by the terrorist-related murders in England that marked the spring and summer of 2017, I have felt compelled to write this article on the idea of observance (observe, care, follow, obey). I engage with this idea in the context of our contemporary Memory Industry – that confluence of memorialization, remembrance and commemoration culture; Memory Studies and Trauma Studies; tangible and intangible heritage; digital memory and media archaeology; and its series of facing-backwards-to-go-forwards impulses (the archival impulse, the genealogical impulse and the archaeological impulse). Through the Contemporary’s prism, I deploy observance as a rejoinder to the seeming irreconcilability between, on the one hand, the incomprehensibility of the Shoah and, on the other hand, the prevalence of its rendering in figurative and abstract memorials, literature, art and film; and by way of dark tourism, Shoah selfies and genealogy websites. I propose that, because of its assorted senses, as a grievable moment observance may be a way of negotiating (without necessarily wanting or needing to reconcile) such irreconcilability. I argue that this is possible because of how observance (observing a minute’s silence, for instance) as a (secular, vernacular) performative action somehow opens up a space of the imagination that might lead, for good and ill, to a decipherability all the more necessary in our interminable state of exception that is the Contemporary.

scholarly journals A Study on the Evolution of Tax Pressure in Romania

2014 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-107
Author(s):  
Georgeta Vintilă ◽  
Ioana Laura Ţibulcă
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Regional Level ◽  
The Other ◽  
Tax Burden ◽  
European Context ◽  
Dual Perspective ◽  
The One ◽  
Fiscal Pressure ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Descriptive Statistical Analysis

Abstract Fiscal pressure is often considered a barometer for the impact and level of taxation experienced by individual taxpayers and businesses. In Romania, the study of the tax burden has been and will remain a highly debated topic in a national as well as European context. Thus, in this article, we conducted a descriptive statistical analysis of the evolution of the tax burden in Romania, and showcased the research results in different graphically expressive ways (maps, tables, graphs), all presented from a dual perspective. On the one hand, we followed the impact of taxation on households, and on the other hand, in a broader approach, we highlighted the tax burden reflected at the county and regional level

scholarly journals The Second World War, Imperial, and Colonial Nostalgia: The North Africa Campaign and Battlefields of Memory

Humanities ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 113
Author(s):  
Eva Kingsepp
Keyword(s):  
North Africa ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Documentary Films ◽  
National Narratives ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The North ◽  
Feature Films ◽  
Memory Culture ◽  
And Function ◽  
Multidirectional Memory

The article addresses the function of (post)colonial nostalgia in a context of multidirectional memory (Rothberg 2009) in contemporary Europe. How can different cultural memories of the Second Word War be put into respectful dialogue with each other? The text is based on a contrapuntal reading (Said 1994) of British and Egyptian popular narratives, mainly British documentary films about the North Africa Campaign, but also feature films and novels, and data from qualitative interviews collected during ethnographic fieldwork in Alexandria and Cairo, Egypt, during visits 2013–2015. The study highlights the considerable differences between the British and Egyptian narratives, but also the significant similarities regarding the use and function of nostalgia. In addition, the Egyptian narrative expresses a profound cosmopolitan nostalgia and a longing for what is regarded as Egypt’s lost, modern Golden Age, identified as the decades before the nation’s fundamental change from western-oriented monarchy to Nasser’s Arab nationalist military state. The common elements between the two national narratives indicate a possibly fruitful way to open up for a shared popular memory culture about the war years, including postcolonial aspects.

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