Spectral Elaine May—The Later Mike Nichols Collaborations and the Myth of the Recluse

2019 ◽  
pp. 202-218
Author(s):  
Tim O’Farrell
Keyword(s):  
American Culture ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Adolf Hitler ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
Television Documentary ◽  
Mike Nichols ◽  
German Jewish ◽  
The Way

Elaine May's documentary Mike Nichols: An American Master (2016) surveys Nichols' life and, in particular, work as a noted Hollywood director. The American Masters series, described on the PBS website as "an award-winning biography series", is designed to produce biographies of leading figures in American culture. May's contribution to the series is at first sight a conventional short form television documentary profile of an artist. However, it repays examination both as an example of May's artistry (the opening includes a signature sly moment, importing archival footage of a blustery Adolf Hitler to reference Nichols German Jewish background, reminding us of May and Nichols' shared heritage) and as a launching pad for dissecting the way May and Nichols' careers have become intertwined in fact and in Hollywood legend. I will frame the documentary's content by considering other May tributes to Nichols (such as speeches at the AFI Life Achievement Awards and at the Kennedy Center Honors) and her early comedy work with Nichols, as well as biographical background to material which is suggested or touched on in the documentary

Adolf Hitler in American Culture

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Hirt ◽  
Kurt Müller ◽  
Bernd Engler ◽  
Görres-Gesellschaft
Keyword(s):  
American Culture ◽  
Adolf Hitler

scholarly journals Fragile Visions of the Social: Rethinking Solidarity with the Performance Piece Faust and the TV-series Skam

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Schumann
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Late Capitalism ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
The Social ◽  
Venice Biennale ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
The Way

AbstractThe paper explores the portrayal of social relations among youth in the popular Norwegian TV-series Skam and places this analysis in relation to Anne Imhof’s award-winning performance piece Faust, which received the Golden Lion at the 2017 Venice Biennale for the German Pavilion. As expressions of how today’s youth experience social relations under the conditions of late capitalism, I examine the way in which the TV-series and the performance work respectively explore when and how ‘we’ is shaped. I argue that they provide particular insight into the limits and possibilities for the formation of relations of solidarity today.

Animal Death: Paolo Bacigalupi

2017 ◽  
pp. 133-180
Author(s):  
Brian Willems
Keyword(s):  
Short Circuit ◽  
Double Vision ◽  
Dialectical Structure ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
The Way

Paolo Bacigalupi’s Nebula award-winning novel The Windup Girl (2009) sets up a dialectical situation which it then disrupts. This is important for two reasons. First, dialectic formations are often also assemblages or networks, meaning that their constituent parts are defined by how they interact with each other rather than by the essence which is withdrawn from such interactions. In the previous chapter, symbiosis was seen as a powerful tool for change. However, the way it was described often bordered on a dialectical structure, as did the doubling of double-vision and the contradiction of crisis energy. The Windup Girl offers a different strategy, the short circuit. In brief, this means that one of the terms of a symbiosis disrupts the symbiosis. This disruption takes the form of spatial and temporal tensions, as described above and developed below.

Genre and Narrative

2015 ◽  
pp. 115-128
Author(s):  
Emily Hughes
Keyword(s):  
Film Maker ◽  
Hollywood Films ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
The Spectator ◽  
The Way

This chapter studies the genre and narrative of Pedro Almodóvar's Talk to Her (2002). The narrative of Talk to Her flits between a double- and single-stranded plot line, plays with time with sometimes careless abandon, and contains coincidences that verge of the ridiculous. But yet, far from alienating the spectator, the narrative of Talk to Her pleasingly draws one in and lures the spectator into a position where they are able to suspend their disbelief, enjoy and engage with the plot. The spectator familiar with Almodóvar's films somewhat expects an unconventional narrative and thus is likely to find it unobtrusive. Meanwhile, like most Almodóvar's films, Talk to Her is hard to classify in terms of genre. Unlike the Hollywood system that relies heavily on either star or genre marketing, the marketing for Almodóvar's films relies heavily on his own status as an award-winning auteur film-maker. Talk to Her is thus not bound by generic convention in the way that many Hollywood films are.

Making Advice Modern

2021 ◽  
pp. 9-21
Author(s):  
Julie Golia
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Conduct Books ◽  
Traditional Gender Roles ◽  
Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries ◽  
The Way

From early periodicals to conduct books, advice in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries was largely a one-way transmission from advice giver to receiver. It also served conservative ends, reinforcing traditional gender roles to wide audiences, and soothing male anxieties about cultural change. But transformations in media and in American culture at the end of the nineteenth century paved the way for a new and strikingly modern paradigm of advice—one that was interactive, public, flexible in topic and form, and woman-centered. This chapter offers an overview of the rise of the advice column and frames its genesis in the context of the changing newspaper and advertising industries.

Elements from Hell: An exhibition of molecules that are mainly malevolent

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Emsley
Keyword(s):  
Side Effects ◽  
Third Reich ◽  
Adolf Hitler ◽  
The West ◽  
The Road ◽  
Northern France ◽  
The Way

The road to hell is paved with good intentions . . . so the old saying goes. In this Gallery I want to show you that this can be indeed true, but it is also true that the road to hell can be paved with evil intentions—sometimes all the way down to the pit of fire. Elements cannot really be described as coming from hell, nor can molecules, but they can produce effects that can only be described as satanic. Some elements that exist naturally can be very toxic, such as beryllium and lead, and the same is true of some natural molecules, such as atropine. We have seen in other Galleries that when chemists discover a natural molecule which has desirable properties, it is often possible to make a safer version that retains these properties, or even enhances them, while unwanted side-effects can be eliminated or at least toned down. The opposite is also possible. If the desired property of a molecule is its ability to kill, then it is possible to refine that aspect. What was merely dangerous can be made maliciously deadly. We begin our tour of the portraits of Gallery 8 with an inspection of one of these terrible molecules. Could Adolf Hitler have saved his Third Reich from defeat? Quite possibly. What he needed was a secret weapon to wipe out the Allied troops when they invaded the Normandy beaches of northern France on D-day, 6 June 1944. Then with a quick victory in the west he could have rushed his troops to meet the oncoming onslaught of Russian armies from the east, and maybe even have wiped out those invaders as well. Hitler was fond of secret weapons. Some, like the jet fighter, the V1 flying bomb and the V2 rocket bomb, were triumphs of engineering and did a lot of damage, but they were generally developed too late to save his empire. In fact Hitler had one secret weapon that was very cheap and easy to make, and that would have stopped advancing armies dead, but he never used it.

Teaching Controversial Issues

2022 ◽  
pp. 252-272
Author(s):  
William Paul Bintz
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Instructional Strategies ◽  
Picture Books ◽  
The United States ◽  
Controversial Issues ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
The Way

This chapter describes recent research findings on homelessness in the United States and its relationship to poverty and other related factors. It also provides an introduction to text clusters, a curricular resource that includes high-quality and award-winning picture books and is anchored in the Way-In and Stay-In books. It continues by presenting a text cluster on the topic of homelessness, along with a variety of research-based instructional strategies that K-8 teachers can use with this text cluster, as well as with other text clusters on controversial issues. It ends with some final thoughts.

scholarly journals A Gramscian Study of Ideology and Hegemony in Amiri Baraka play: The Dutchman

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 729-737
Author(s):  
Shiva Zaheri Birgani ◽  
Maryam Jafari
Keyword(s):  
American Culture ◽  
Amiri Baraka ◽  
Material Life ◽  
White American ◽  
Material Goods ◽  
Material Entity ◽  
Actual Material ◽  
Mode Of Production ◽  
Means Of Production ◽  
The Way

This paper attempts to investigate significations of the tropes of whiteness and blackness in white American culture in Baraka`s play, The Dutchman. . Gramsci is concerned with how one views man in history. His point is that men determine history rather than the reverse and this history is determined by the way in which men produce their means of subsistence. Man therefore is a social and “material” entity since. By producing their means of subsistence men are indirectly producing their actual material life.   Man’s ability to produce, the means of production, and the product produced, therefore, are central to man’s ability to be self-determined, to be real rather than an abstraction, a concept. It is in man’s reality, a reification brought about by the conscious act of production that he establishes his humanity. Marx’s humanism, therefore, is social in that man produces for more than himself; it is material in the “mode of production.” By material is not meant “psychic motivation” towards material goods. Based on the Gramsci hegemony, the black man has no history, he must create it; more importantly, since, according to Baraka, “Negro Literature” can never emerge from black consciousness unless it separates itself from the pre-established conditions, the literature must create and define itself in the process of becoming.

V&A Illustration Awards – new directions

2005 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 32-38
Author(s):  
Margaret Timmers ◽  
Annemarie Bilclough
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Important Branch ◽  
The Way

The V&A Illustration Awards have been running since 1972, with many famous illustrators receiving the prestigious and highly coveted prizes. In 2004, the Awards were strongly contested, and their success points the way forward for this important branch of art. A display of the award-winning entries for 2005 will be on show at the V&A from 7 December 2005 until 30 April 2006. The Awards are being expanded to widen the entry categories and to reflect new trends in illustration at the beginning of this 21st century.

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