Editors’ Introduction

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Nea Ehrlich ◽  
Jonathan Murray
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Aesthetic

Introducing the collection, this chapter sets the stage for researching animated documentary. The introduction explores how animated imagery, which often assumes obviously artificial, non-indexical visual forms, can be used to communicate the qualities of believability and factuality commonly expected from documentary artefacts. The writers contributing to this book consider the varied kinds of subject matter animation might effectively document, and the extent to which animated documentary reflects and influences contemporary understandings of “reality” and “the real”. The book’s essays present interdisciplinary investigations into the aesthetic, practical, ethical, epistemological, philosophical, technological and political issues associated with animated documentary cinema. Tracing the historical roots of animated documentary and where its future directions might lead, Drawn from Life identifies a range of theoretical and practice-led bases from which animated documentary cinema can be productively understood and reimagined. The book’s sections include Past and Present, Defining Terms and Contexts, and Films and Filmmakers.

scholarly journals Documentary REAL-ism: Catfish and This Is Not a Film

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-91
Author(s):  
Jennifer Friedlander
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
The Other ◽  
Documentary Films ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Aesthetic

This article explores two recent documentary films, one of which may not be a documentary, the other of which may not be a film. Although starkly different in their subject matter and political stakes, bothCatfish(Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost, 2010) andThis Is Not a Film(Jafar Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, 2011) point to underappreciated dimensions of filmic realism, in particular its propensity to evoke what I will call Real-ism—i.e. hints of the Real that emerge precisely when the symbolic framework governing reality becomes imperiled. Drawing upon Jacques Lacan’s notion of the Real and Jacques Rancière’s concept of the “aesthetic regime,” I will suggest that elements of conventional filmic realism have the potential to produce a politically destabilizing Real-ism which, rather than involving the representation of reality in any recognizable form, calls forth that which is necessarily excluded/repressed from the symbolic framework.

scholarly journals The Impacts in Real Estate of Landscape Values: Evidence from Tuscany (Italy)

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 2236
Author(s):  
Francesco Riccioli ◽  
Roberto Fratini ◽  
Fabio Boncinelli
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
House Prices ◽  
Spatial Econometric ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Real Estate ◽  
Landscape Values ◽  
Individual Perception ◽  
Real Estate Prices ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The Individual

Using spatial econometric techniques and local spatial statistics, this study explores the relationships between the real estate values in Tuscany with the individual perception of satisfaction by landscape types. The analysis includes the usual territorial variables such as proximity to urban centres and roads. The landscape values are measured through a sample of respondents who expressed their aesthetic-visual perceptions of different types of land use. Results from a multivariate local Geary highlight that house prices are not spatial independent and that between the variables included in the analysis there is mainly a positive correlation. Specifically, the findings demonstrate a significant spatial dependence in real estate prices. The aesthetic values influence the real estate price throughout more a spatial indirect effect rather than the direct effect. Practically, house prices in specific areas are more influenced by aspects such as proximity to essential services. The results seem to show to live close to highly aesthetic environments not in these environments. The results relating to the distance from the main roads, however, seem counterintuitive. This result probably depends on the evidence that these areas suffer from greater traffic jam or pollution or they are preferred for alternative uses such as for locating industrial plants or big shopping centres rather than residential use. Therefore, these effects decrease house prices.

scholarly journals وسطية الإسلام في التعامل بين الحاكم والمحكوم

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Najm Abd Rahman Khalaf
Keyword(s):  
Good Care ◽  
Problem Statement ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Islamic History ◽  
The Real ◽  
Islamic Religion ◽  
Push And Pull ◽  
Modern Era

Islamic religion has been taking good care of political issues as well as other issues. Therefore, we can find verses in Quran about governance, judiciary and peace, with other verses about prayers, zakat and decency. All those verses can be linked together with one common link, true devotion to Almighty Allah, unity in accepting everything from Him, a righteous attemption to build life according to the best standard, similar to what have been prepared to our hereafter and for meeting our Lord. There are many verses in Quran about governance and succession, as well as managing people justly. Political sides of Islamic nation in the modern era are imponderable between push and pull, and between bickering and hypocritical. It has been identified that the moderation, balance and moderation of what Allah intended to have been lost. Hence, examples of cooperation between the ruler and the rule in Islamic history that embodied three case: 1. moderation and balance, 2. flattery and adulation, and 3. resistance and brawl. These are the major problem statement for this paper. This paper focuses on bringing back all muslims to the moderate model of politic that has been prescribed and legislated by Islamic teachings. Political issues such as the responsibilities of the ruler and his specifications, as well as the responsibilities of the followers and their obeyance, are described in this paper according to Quranic verses, Prophet's traditions, and traditions of the first three centuries of this Islamic nation, as these sources contributed to the real understanding of Islamic teaching.

The sisyphean task of biblical transformation

1977 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 501-521
Author(s):  
R. P. Carroll
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Religious Tradition ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Alternative Form ◽  
Intellectual Activity ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Bible ◽  
European Culture ◽  
Independent Entity ◽  
The Given

The task of interpreting the Bible has two main phases— the understanding of the text and the transformation or making relevant of its meaning for modern readers. The steady decline of monolithic religious structures and the growth of pluralism in modern society have produced multivariant forms of intellectual activity embracing the Bible as part of their subject matter. Thus the Bible is embedded in the given of European culture and functions as part of the hermeneutical processes of Jewish, Christian, Muslim and secular traditions. The quest for understanding may be common to all the traditions but the task of transformation can take one of two forms. From within the religious tradition transformation is the attempt to reinterpret the text so as to make it meaningful in contemporary terms but always controlled by the tradition. This form may simply be termed transformation from within or controlled transformation. The alternative form is transformation without limits or control. In this form fidelity to a tradition is not paramount and the real concern is to see how far the material may be transformed so as to constitute an independent entity itself.

Stanisław Kowalczyk. Elementy filozofii i teologii sportu [The elements of philosophy and theology of sport]

1970 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 293-294
Author(s):  
Stanisław Kowalczyk ◽  
Jan Kłos
Keyword(s):  
Social Integration ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Religious Faith ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Art Philosophy ◽  
The Aesthetic

Sport plays today an eminent role in man's life and in societies. Various sciences have made it the subject-matter of their reflection, i.e. psychology, sociology, the natural and humanistic sciences, art, philosophy, and theology. The present work seeks to answer some fundamental questions connected with the phenomenon of sport: what is it for man (part one)? whether and when does it serve the social integration of a community (part two)? what are the premises and principles of the ethics of sportive activity (part three)? what is the aesthetic dimension of sport (part four)? what are the relations between sport and religious faith (part five)? The philosophical profile is dominant in the book, taking into consideration various aspects of sport: anthropological, social, axiological, and theological.

The Golden Cockerel, Censored and Uncensored

2018 ◽  
pp. 177-196
Author(s):  
Simon Morrison
Keyword(s):  
The Real ◽  
The Fantastic ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The Erotic

This chapter addresses two contrasting aspects of The Golden Cockerel: its political provocativeness, which leads to a censorship saga, but also the attraction of the music and the mystery of the story. Using the aesthetic notion of enchantment, it also places the opera in the context of Symbolist and “decadent” currents in the culture of the time and shows how these were still relevant in the 2012 production by the choreographer Alexei Ratmansky. Three spheres emerge in the opera as in the ballet versions of The Golden Cockerel: the human, represented by Dodon and his court; the fantastic, where the Astrologer dwells; and the erotic exotic, home to the Astrologer's forever beloved Queen. Ultimately, the opera inverts Russian convention: the real Russian characters lose; the fake ones, the non-Russian characters from who knows where, win.

Efficiency Analysis of Food Processing Industry

2021 ◽  
pp. 097084642110451
Author(s):  
Seema Shrivastava
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Food Processing ◽  
Efficiency Analysis ◽  
The State ◽  
Food Processing Industry ◽  
Processing Industry ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Efficiency And Productivity

Food processing industry (FPI) is at a nascent stage and is tagged as a sunshine industry. The efficiency and productivity of the inputs for the aforesaid industries have to be measured to not only find out if the potential is achieved or not, but also to identify the grey areas. Against such a backdrop, it is obvious that industries like FPI would grow and become the subject matter for further investigation. The research revealed that the majority of cases have been consistent with the real facts and the underlying principles, and the structure of the economy provide valid reasons for it. However, in some cases, the results have not been consistent with the movement of the economy and there are no valid economic reasons for the performance of the state.

The Making of Singer-songwriters

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-105
Author(s):  
Shuwen Qu ◽  
Jian Xiao
Keyword(s):  
Folk Music ◽  
The Real ◽  
History Of ◽  
Process Of Urbanization ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Dynamic Relationships ◽  
Discursive Field ◽  
Three Phases

This paper addresses the importance of singer-songwriters to understanding China's contemporary folk music ethos. Instead of considering singer-songwriters as those who perform their own material, this paper examines them as a discursive field that involves the notion of authorship. The first part of the paper revisits the history of singer-songwriters as a thickening process of the aesthetic and sociological voices in their singular authoritarian role. Drawing on Negus's “unbundling” concept, the myth of singer-songwriters' heightened investment of authorship is deconstructed via analysis of the dynamic relationships between the song, the performance and the real author. We then demonstrate three kinds of authorship across three phases of the making of folk singer-songwriters, namely confession, parody and scenius. The analysis reveals why and how the making of singer-songwriters and the issue of authorship are useful to the understanding of contemporary folk ethos in China. Overall, the transformation of authorship in the making of singer-songwriters reveals the complexity of textual narratives, the expansion of performance approaches, and the enhancement of sociological agency in the evolution of contemporary folk music. Folk music carves out a distinctive space for reflection on the process of urbanization and its effects on the thought and practice of people of different cultural, social and ethnic backgrounds.

scholarly journals The P.R.O.S.E. (Psychological Research on Synthetic Environments) Project: Conducting In-World Psychological Research on 3D Virtual Worlds

1970 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard L Gilbert
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Worlds ◽  
Real World ◽  
Virtual World ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Web Based ◽  
The Real ◽  
3D Virtual Worlds ◽  
Core Questions

The P.R.O.S.E. (Psychological Research on Synthetic Environments) Project was established to investigate the psychology of 3D virtual worlds. Under the auspices of the project, a systematic program of in-world behavioral research is being conducted that addresses three core questions related to the psychology of 3D immersive environments: What are the characteristics of active participants in virtual worlds? Do the principles of psychology that operate in the real world also apply to the virtual world? Do experiences in the virtual world have the capacity to influence behavior and subjective experience in the real world? The current paper describes a series of studies that examine each of these questions and outlines future directions for the project. If projections for a highly populated, ubiquitously accessible (web-based), and seamlessly integrated (interoperable) network of virtual worlds are borne out, a new realm of psychological reality and interaction will have been created that will be increasingly important for behavioral scientists to investigate and understand.

CRITICAL ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSES: THEORY, POLITICS, AND PRACTICE. Sarah Benesch. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 2001. Pp. xiv +162. $39.95 cloth, $18.50 paper.

2003 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 159-161
Author(s):  
John M. Swales
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
English For Academic Purposes ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
University Settings

In this short volume, Benesch makes a timely and useful contribution to emerging debates about future directions for English for Academic Purposes (EAP) and for ESL classes in university settings. The book is divided into two parts. The first, consisting of the opening four chapters, deals with historical, theoretical, and political issues; the second, entitled “Practice,” offers four case studies of Benesch's attempts to develop a critical EAP pedagogy in the New York area, followed by a closing “Implications” chapter.

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