Dialogue and Character Construction

2018 ◽  
pp. 75-101
Author(s):  
Jennifer O'Meara
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Group Character ◽  
Independent Cinema ◽  
Individual Character ◽  
Speaking Style ◽  
Naming Practices

This chapter examines how speech in American independent cinema can be crucial to individual character construction and to the development of group character dynamics. It considers creative naming practices; the ways in which dialogue is used to individuate a character through a personalised speaking style; how nuanced choices of words and phrasing can influence how we perceive and understand characters; selective and racial silencing; and how idioms can be used to represent a group of characters as part of a particular sub-culture. The chapter demonstrates the various ways in which American indie filmmakers can foreground verbal games and debates as a form of action. It also argues that, in keeping with the tendency for such cinema to capture the mundanity of everyday life, dialogue can also be used to create the illusion that characters exist independent of the film world. The analysis includes a case study of Noah Baumbach’s Mistress America (2015).

scholarly journals Japanese Rice Straw Community Approaches in Developing Rice Straw Culture (Case Study: Inagaki Wara No Kai, Aomori Prefecture, Japan)

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-120
Author(s):  
Pandu Purwanduru ◽  
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Eka Permanasari ◽  
Akira Ueda ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Rice Straw ◽  
Wetland Rice ◽  
Global Issues ◽  
Special Events ◽  
Aomori Prefecture

The Japanese rice straw culture started from the Yayoi period, the start of wetland rice method of farming technique. The rice straw culture is spread across Japan, as the supply of the rice straw is high, and it does not require special tools to process it. The rice straw culture is performed both during the special events and everyday life. However, along with the modernization and industrialization of agriculture, the culture slowly disappears. It is increasingly difficult to find the rice straw culture in Japan. To prevent this, several rice straw communities create a movement to preserve the culture. Within their methods, the community focuses on pure preservation, preservation and development or pure development. An example of the community focusing on the preservation and development is the Inagaki Wara no Kai. With this method, this community help to preserve the traditional activities of Inagaki village while at the same time creating new events for wider community. The development is rooted in local and global issues and the process of preserving and developing the rice straw culture is documented through workshops, exhibition and festival. These activities are conducted in the cooperation with different stakeholders such as participants, research and development partners, facilitators, or sponsors.

scholarly journals “A point that escapes Darwin”: Crises of colonial self in the nature essays of Edward Hamilton Aitken and Philip Robinson

2021 ◽  
pp. 002198942110328
Author(s):  
Jason Sandhar
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Civil Servants ◽  
Gender And Race ◽  
Daily Work ◽  
Psychic Life ◽  
British Rule ◽  
The Everyday

This article shows how the colonial nature essay both spoofs and affirms crises of the European self in British India’s post-Rebellion era (1857–1947). Authored by English civil servants who took to naturalism as a hobby, the nature essay’s exaggerated misadventures with quotidian animals such as ants, beetles, and mosquitos parody British accounts of the 1857 Rebellion, while dehumanizing caricatures of uncooperative servants reduce Indian society’s complex hierarchies of class, caste, gender, and race to buffoonery. Taking as a case study two of the genre’s exemplars, Edward Hamilton Aitken and Philip Robinson, I read the colonized animals and people in these texts as agents who destabilize the material and psychic life of empire. Historians and postcolonialists agree that censorship, paranoia, and violence defined British rule over India between 1857 and 1947, yet they overlook the everyday life of empire. The nature essay’s peculiar synthesis of humour and science grants surprising insights into how colonial agents understood themselves as Raj hegemony shifted into its final stages. As the nature essay’s colonized people and animals thwart the daily work of empire, they also reveal the colonial class’ failure to confront its anxieties about the sahib’s political and epistemic stability as a rational, post-Enlightenment agent destined to master the colony.

scholarly journals IMPLEMENTASI PENDIDIKAN LIFESKILL SEJAK DINI DALAM PEMBELAJARAN ENTERPRENEURSHIP

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 85
Author(s):  
Yeni Suprihatin ◽  
Etika Lisyana Dewi
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Life Skill ◽  
Report Result ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
Main Components ◽  
Study Type ◽  
And Training

Life skill education is an education that provides basic supplies and training to learners about the values of life needed and useful for the development of everyday life. Research on integrated life skill education in enterpreneurship subject in SMP Cahaya Bangsa School aims to know what life skill orientation in Entrepreneurship subject and examine the extent of life skill education implementation in Enterpreneurship subject. The design of this study used qualitative research with case study type. A descriptive inductive approach is used to describe a case by understanding symptoms and meaning. Researchers use in-depth interview techniques, digging information with direct observation, and study documentation. In analyzing the data, the researcher through three main components, namely, data reduction, display data, and data conclusion drawing. The results showed that the concept of life skill education is internalized in the entrepreneurship subject syllabus, then the teacher describes it in various learning activities such as washing activities, ironing activities, live in program, and market day. Evaluation done by teacher in assessing ability of life skill of student is by observing directly activity in enterpreneurship subject and student also given duty to write report result of activity live in.

Putting Across Tangibility

2018 ◽  
pp. 211-225
Author(s):  
Dieu Hack-Polay
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Teaching Process ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Organisational Behaviour ◽  
Approach To Teaching ◽  
The Subject

This chapter examines a case study-approach to teaching organisational behaviour. It explains the effectiveness of the use of case study in teaching the subject which is often termed theoretical and complex. The chapter advocates that the use of real life organisational cases can make the learning and teaching process more tangible and contribute to the development of critical thinking. The chapter specifically supports the view that there are aspects of organisational behaviour that are visible in both everyday life of individuals and groups. If lecturers could bring this up in the delivery of the OB curriculum, the learners, who are future managers and supervisors, could connect the learning experiences to reality, which could lead them to a better academic understanding and later effective practitioners.

A Space Sans Fear

2018 ◽  
pp. 183-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Priyanuj Choudhury
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
Built Form ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Pedagogic Practices ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Way

Fear is one of the foremost debilitating factors that hinder an individual’s growth, and one of the cornerstones of mainstream competitive schooling in India. The presence of fear in the process of schooling has great significance in the way it shapes an individual and affects learning. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the ways in which education can be imparted without the operation of fear, by looking at the everyday practices, rituals and built form of a KFI school in Bengaluru. Through an ethnographic exploration, the author attempts to interpret the micro processes of everyday life in the school and pedagogic practices employed across junior, middle and senior school classrooms that work in collusion to create an environment free of fear. Through a case study of contradictions, the author also looks at the possible factors that may work against the creation of such a space.

scholarly journals Promoting a sense of security in everyday life—A case study of patients and professionals moving towards co‐production in an atrial fibrillation “learning café”

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. 1240-1250
Author(s):  
Anne‐Marie Suutari ◽  
Kristina Areskoug‐Josefsson ◽  
Sofia Kjellström ◽  
Annika M. M. Nordin ◽  
Johan Thor
Keyword(s):  
Atrial Fibrillation ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Sense Of Security
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