Surface and Edge: The Cinema of Jia Zhangke and Lou Ye

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qi Wang
Keyword(s):  
Complex Mechanism ◽  
Still Life ◽  
Subject Positions ◽  
Highly Active ◽  
Conscious Process ◽  
The Spectator ◽  
The Relationship

Chapter 3 approaches the cinema of Jia Zhangke from two angles: first, a complex mechanism of multivalent and metanarrative subject positions in and beyond the cinematic frame compels the spectator to a highly active and conscious process of taking up history and image critically; second, it proposes the concept of “surface” to highlight Jia’s cinematic texture through various figurations of superficial time and superficial space in Xiao Wu, Platform, Unknown Pleasures and Still Life. Lou Ye’s highly expressionist and kinetic works conflate screen subjectivities with directorial and spectatorial ones. An analysis of two films by Lou Ye, Suzhou River and Purple Butterfly, demonstrates that, despite the two auteurs’ difference in style, they share a highly comparable epistemological interest in the relationship between history, representation and subjectivity.

The Afterlife of Art and Objects

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Tweedie
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Historical Narratives ◽  
Still Life ◽  
Art Cinema ◽  
Spanish Baroque ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Moving Pictures ◽  
Tableau Vivant ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

Like the tableau vivant, the cinematic still life experienced a stunning revival and reinvention in the late twentieth century. In contrast to the stereotypically postmodern overload of images, the still life in film initiates a moment of repose and contemplation within a medium more often defined by the forward rush of moving pictures. It also involves a profound meditation on the relationship between images and objects consistent with practices as diverse as the Spanish baroque still life and the Surrealist variation on the genre. With the work of Terence Davies and Alain Cavalier’s Thérèse (1986) as its primary touchstones, this chapter situates this renewed interest in the cinematic still life within the context of both the late twentieth-century cinema of painters and a socially oriented art cinema that focuses on marginal people and overlooked objects rather than the hegemonic historical narratives also undergoing a revival at the time.

scholarly journals Hidden in the limelight: A feminist engagement with innovation studies

Organization ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 135050842110153
Author(s):  
Lara Pecis ◽  
Karin Berglund
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Bell Hooks ◽  
Innovation Studies ◽  
Subject Positions ◽  
Space Race ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Political Dimensions ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Positively Charged ◽  
Blind Spots

Innovation is filled with aspirations for solutions to problems, and for laying the groundwork for new technological and social breakthroughs. When a concept is so positively charged, the hopes expressed may create blindness to potential shortcomings and deadlocks. To disclose innovation blind spots, we approach innovation from a feminist viewpoint. We see innovation as a context that changes historically, and as revolution, offering alternative imaginaries of the relationship between race, gender and innovation. Our theoretical framework combines bell hooks (capitalist patriarchy and intersectionality), Mazzucato (the entrepreneurial state and the changing context of innovation) and Fraser (redistributive justice) and contributes with an understanding of innovation from the margin by unveiling its political dimensions. Hidden Figures, the 2016 biographical drama that follows three Black women working at NASA during the space race, provides the empirical setting of the paper. Our analysis contributes to emerging intersectionality research in management and organisation studies (MOS) by revealing the subject positions and dynamics of inclusion/exclusion in innovation discourses, and by proposing a radical – and more inclusive – rethinking of innovation. With this article, we aim to push the margins to the centre and invite others to discover the terrain of the margin(alised). We suggest that our feminist framework is appropriate to study other organisational phenomena, over time and across contexts, to bring forward the plurality of women’s experiences at work and in organisations.

Den anklagade tittaren. Strategiskt publiktilltal i satiriska anklagelser

2021 ◽  
pp. 87-105
Author(s):  
Tommy Bruhn ◽  
Joanna Doona
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Private School ◽  
Rhetorical Structure ◽  
Subject Positions ◽  
Queue System ◽  
Specific Focus ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Opening Up

Public accusations often lead to controversy. Accusations have been studied as causing certain types of defense, as well as for how accusing parties persuade audiences of guilt, and amplify an act’s offensiveness. We investigate a satire programme as a strategic act, with a specific focus on how its accusatory rhetorical structure strategically invites certain responses, and counteracts others. We show how a segment in the news satire programme ‘Swedish News’ constructed a complex accusation against the Swedish private school queue system, and against the character of the educated middle class who tend to use it. The segment’s structure places the accused middle class as an addressed audience in three different subject positions, wherein the relationship between them motivates penance rather than defense. The analysis shows how a changing positioning of the same group as judge, victim and accused can perform certain functions in accusatory speech, indicating roads to redemption and opening up for possibilities of reconciliation

scholarly journals La percepción visual del paisaje en la pintura y la fotografía: Un enfoque interdisciplinario hacia la presencia espacial

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Perla Carrillo Quiroga
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Analysis Data ◽  
Embodied Experience ◽  
Spatial Presence ◽  
Motor Action ◽  
Visual Elements ◽  
Fields Of Study ◽  
Phenomenology Of Perception ◽  
The Spectator ◽  
The Relationship

Este artículo explora la percepción visual como experiencia corporizada del espacio a través del paisaje en la pintura y la fotografía. Es una investigación interdisciplinaria, que busca contribuir al diálogo entre varios campos: la fenomenología de la percepción, la percepción del espacio en la neurociencia cognitiva y el estudio de las artes visuales. La investigación es de carácter correlacional y descriptivo; busca por una parte, explorar la relación entre la experiencia de presencia espacial y el realismo de la imagen; por otra, se observa si el uso de elementos visuales que sugieren una acción motora en el espectador (del inglés ‘affordances’)afecta la intensidad de presencia espacial. Además del análisis de literatura, se recolectaron datos a través de un cuestionario ilustrado en donde se presentaron 26 imágenes, 13 pinturas y 13 fotografías de paisaje. Este estudio se realizó con 28 participantes de 18 a 64 años de distintos géneros. This article explores visual perception as an embodied experience of space through landscape painting and photography. It takes an interdisciplinary approach, which seeks to contribute to the dialogue between different fields of study: phenomenology of perception, perception of space in cognitive neuroscience and visual arts. This research is correlational and descriptive; it seeks, on one hand, to explore the relationship between the experience of spatial presence and realism; on the other, it observes the use of affordances in landscape images, understood as visual elements that suggest a motor action in the spectator and the ways in which they affect the intensity of spatial presence. In addition to the literature analysis, data was collected through an illustrated questionnaire which included 26 images: 13 paintings and 13 landscape photographs. This study was conducted with 28 participants aged 18 to 64 years of different genders.

‘Quivering yet still’: Virginia Woolf, Roger Fry and the Aesthetics of Attention

2020 ◽  
pp. 33-75
Author(s):  
Claudia Tobin
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Life Writing ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Still Life ◽  
The Past ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
Physical Presence ◽  
The Relationship

When Virginia Woolf sought to evoke Roger Fry’s qualities as an art critic, she reached for the image of him as a humming-bird hawk-moth, ‘quivering yet still’ in his absorbed attention to Post-Impressionist paintings. This chapter argues that modes of ‘active’ stillness and receptive, vibratory states of being were crucial to Woolf’s experience and representation of art. It traces ‘quivering’ as a talismanic word across a range of her fiction and non-fiction, and explores the pervasive figure of the insect in Woolf’s re-imagining of the human sensorium, with particular focus on her essay Walter Sickert: A Conversation (1934), and on Sketch of the Past (1939). The second half of the chapter addresses Woolf’s underexplored biography of Roger Fry and her confrontation with the problem of ‘writing’ Fry under the imperative not to ‘fix’ her subject, but rather to register his ‘vibratory’ non-physical presence. It considers the role of vibration more widely in Woolf’s life-writing and in Fry’s art theory, in the context of twentieth-century spiritualism, Quakerism and new communication technologies. It proposes that by examining the different functions and meanings of still life (visual and verbal) in Woolf’s and Fry’s work, we can further illuminate their approach to the relationship between art and life.

Interactivity, Cinema, and Experimentation

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 68-85
Author(s):  
Bruno Mendes da Silva ◽  
Mirian Nogueira Tavares ◽  
Vítor Reia-Baptista
Keyword(s):  
Applied Research ◽  
Visual Language ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Online Platform ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Spectator ◽  
Narrative Forms ◽  
The Relationship

Based on the triad film-interactivity-experimentation, the applied research project The Forking Paths, developed at the Arts and Communication Research Centre (CIAC), endeavours to find alternative narrative forms in the field of Cinema and, more specifically, in the subfield of Interactive Cinema. The films in The Forking Paths invest in the relationship between the spectator and the film narrative, which is intended to be more active and engaged, and at same time they propose a research on the development of audio-visual language. The project is consubstantiated at an online platform that aims to foster the creation and web hosting of Interactive Cinema in its different variables.

scholarly journals ‘Diplomacy is a feminine art’: Feminised figurations of the diplomat

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (5) ◽  
pp. 573-593
Author(s):  
Ann E. Towns
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
News Media ◽  
Subject Positions ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractThe aim of this article is to examine whether and how diplomacy may be gendered, symbolically and rhetorically, using US representations of diplomacy as a case. Prior scholarship on gender and contemporary diplomacy is sparse but has shown that the symbolic figure of ‘the diplomat’ has come to overlap tightly with ‘man’ and be associated with traits often attributed to masculinity. Inspired by queer international relations methods, relying on the concept of ‘figuration’ and focused on US news media and biographies of diplomats from the past decade, this article uncovers and examines a palette of feminised figurations also at play in US representations of diplomacy, including the diplomat as ‘the “soft” non-fighter’, ‘the relationship builder’, ‘the gossip’, ‘the cookie-pusher’, and ‘the fancy Frenchman’. These feminised figurations alternate between configuring the diplomat as a woman and – more commonly – a (feminised) man. The analysis complicates rather than displaces existing claims, highlighting the importance of attention to slippages and challenges to dominant masculinised subject positions.

scholarly journals Avalanche of 18 January 1997 on Brenva glacier, Mont Blanc Group, Western Italian Alps: an unusual process of formation

2001 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 333-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gian Paolo Giani ◽  
Sandro Silvano ◽  
Giorgio Zanon
Keyword(s):  
Complex Mechanism ◽  
Southern Slope ◽  
Italian Alps ◽  
Valley Bottom ◽  
Glacier Surface ◽  
Powder Avalanche ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Southern Flank ◽  
Rate Of Movement

AbstractAt 1455 h on 18 January 1997, an airborne powder avalanche with a volume of about 3 × 106 m3 flowed along the tongue of Brenva glacier, high Aosta valley, on the southern flank of Val Veny, Italy It descended 2000 m and covered a distance of 5.5 km, with a rate of movement on the intermediate stretch of > 70 m s–1. It killed two skiers following a valley-bottom piste, damaged a hotel, destroyed a wide belt of woodland on the opposite slope and caused other minor damage. The avalanche occurred immediately after a large rockfall on the southern slope of the Sperone della Brenva (3567 m a.s.L). However, the relationship between the two events can only be considered indirect, since the main mass of the rockfall stopped at the base of the scar, on a large plateau on the glacier surface. The rockfall and subsequent shock caused the contemporaneous detachment of masses of ice and/or firn from hanging glaciers at the head of a nearby cirque, leading to the formation of the avalanche. The complex mechanism of detachment hypothesized was induced from available documentation and from in situ investigations. Its phases also coincide with seismograms recorded at a station 45 km from the avalanche area. Finally, a mathematical model of the avalanche was used to reconstruct its dynamics and path.

A Comparison of Grain Boundary Monolayer Segregation Measurements Made Using Fegstem and Auger Spectroscopy

1996 ◽  
Vol 439 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. B. Fisher ◽  
P. Spellward ◽  
R. Scowen ◽  
B. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Grain Boundary ◽  
Boundary Data ◽  
Auger Spectroscopy ◽  
Theoretical Description ◽  
Electron Optics ◽  
Highly Active ◽  
Active Electron ◽  
Nickel Base ◽  
Boundary Chemistry ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractThe active electron optics suite at Magnox Electric's Berkeley Centre has a VG HB501 FEGSTEM and a FE-sourced Auger Microprobe (a Fisons Microlab-F) which are routinely used for grain boundary chemistry studies in a variety of highly active austenitic and ferritic steels and nickel base alloys.In a number of investigations sufficient grain boundary data have been obtained to allow a meaningful comparison between the two instruments to be made. It has been established that for the overwhelming majority of materials and conditions there exists a reasonable correlation between the two sets of compositional (on-boundary) data.This paper presents this correlation and gives a simple theoretical description justifying the relationship between the raw data from the instruments. Examples are given of materials and conditions for which the correlation cannot be established and this leads to a discussion of the usefulness of the availability of the correlation.

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