scholarly journals THE REPRESENTATION OF MEXICAN CULTURE IN DISNEY PIXAR’S MOVIE ENTITLED “COCO”

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-114
Author(s):  
Istiwarni Diah ◽  
Siti Anisa ◽  
Budiarto Budiarto
Keyword(s):  
Family Conflict ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Family Culture ◽  
Day Of The Dead ◽  
Mexican Culture ◽  
The Family ◽  
Dia De Los Muertos ◽  
Research Problems ◽  
The Dead

The aims of this research are (1) to find out the meaning of the day of the dead holiday (Día de Los Muertos) based on the movie; (2) to elaborate on the importance of the day of the dead holiday (Día de Los Muertos); and (3) to find out how to deal with a family conflict during the day of the dead holiday (Día de Los Muertos). This study uses a qualitative approach to address research problems as it enables the researcher to perform in-depth studies of a specific phenomenon. The findings or this research are (1) The meaning of the day of the dead holiday (Día de Los Muertos) based on Coco has some indicators such as symbols, heroes, and ritual (2) How the main character deals with his family conflict is that (a) The conflict which comes from the family culture is making the main character to become a rebel. Conflict is highly present in families; however, in general, the presence of conflict is not problematic by itself. (b) parents are making decisions about what they consider is best for all family members.

Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano (1947): singular experiences

2018 ◽  
pp. 118-135
Author(s):  
Steven Earnshaw
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
World War ◽  
Malcolm Lowry ◽  
Day Of The Dead ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Under The Volcano

Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano places the committed drinker, in the form of ex-Consul Geoffrey Firmin, in the Mexican ‘Day of the Dead’ festival, so that the main character encounters ‘hell’ in physical and spiritual dimensions. The novel is technically innovative in its aim to register the subjective experience of the Existential drinker: Geoffrey Firmin’s world is constructed through a highly-individualised, expressionistic symbolism, a mid-century representation of the modern, alienated self, abandoned and suffering despair in a Godless world – the latter made evident by the novel’s attention to the rise of totalitarianism, which forms the backdrop to the events here on a day close to the onset of World War II. There is discussion of the novel’s difficulty and form, and a comparison of some aspects of the novel with Kafka’s The Trial, and how these relate to representation of the Existential drinker.

Dia de los Muertos and its Representation of Calaveras

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Bradfield
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Traditional Practice ◽  
Day Of The Dead ◽  
Religious Festivals ◽  
Catholic Culture ◽  
Dia De Los Muertos ◽  
The Dead

The word death is not pronounced in New York, Paris or London, because it burns the lips. The Mexican, by contrast, is familiar with death, jokes about it, caresses it, sleeps with it, celebrates it... it is one of his most favourite toys and his most steadfast love. True, there is perhaps as much fear in his attitude as in that of others, but at least death is not hidden away... (Paz, 1967, in Sayer, 2009: 105) While every country has its own festivals and celebrations, each deeply rooted in the country’s culture, none does so more vibrantly than Mexico’s festival of Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead), which dates back to the Aztec belief in life as part of the wider cycle of existence (Weiss, 2010). Celebrated on All Saints’ and All Souls’ days at the start of November, Mexico’s festival is significantly different from other countries’ celebrations, such as the perhaps more familiar Westernised, secular celebration of Halloween. Although festivities vary from region to region across Mexico, it seems that remembrance remains central to the festival, during which the living “honour the souls of the departed with gifts of food and flowers” (Sayer, 2009: 12). Far from being a sombre affair, Dia de los Muertos is a time for celebration mixing Spanish Catholic traditions with ancient Aztec rituals, it is “quite the reverse of morbid; it is a period full of life, colour and festival” (Carmichael and Sayer, 1991: 7). By contrast, Western Catholic countries continue to honour more traditional practice of All Saints’ Day, a national holiday in many Catholic countries, including Spain, where Todos los Santos remains as one of the country’s most celebrated religious festivals and All Souls’ Day, on which ancient customs of decorating graves and praying for the dead are still observed (Catholic Culture, 2015).

scholarly journals Partisipasi Perempuan Suku Sasak dalam Meningkatkan Ekonomi Keluarga di Dusun Medas Desa Obel-Obel Kecamatan Sambelia Kabupaten Lombok Timur

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Erni Sartika ◽  
Hamidsyukrie ZM ◽  
Dahlan Dahlan
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Household Work ◽  
Data Presentation ◽  
Purposive Sampling ◽  
Analysis Techniques ◽  
Farm Laborer ◽  
Family Economy ◽  
The Family ◽  
Research Problems ◽  
Descriptive Method

Permasalahan yang dikaji dalam penelitian ini adalah : (1) Bagaimana Pembagian Kerja dalam Rumah Tangga Suku Sasak di Dusun Medas Desa Obel-obel? (2) Bagaimana Partisipasi Perempuan Suku Sasak dalam Meningkatkan Ekonomi Keluarga   di  Dusun   Medas   Desa   Obel-Obel?.   Penelitian  ini  menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif dengan metode deskriptif. Teknik penentuan sampel dalam penelitian ini menggunakan purposive sampling. Teknik pengumpulan data yang digunakan  adalah w aw ancara,  observasi,  dan dokumentasi.  Tehnik analisis data penelitian  ini  meliputi  reduksi  data, penyajian  data, dan penarikan  kesimpulan. Hasil penelitian menunjukan bahw a (1) Pembagian Kerja dalam Rumah Tangga Suku  Sasak  di  Dusun  Medas Desa  Obel-obel  tidak  mempengaruhi  pekerjaan utama menjadi ibu rumah tangga dalam bekerja sebagai buruh tani dan pedagang, karena mereka dapat membagi w aktu untuk mengerjakan tugas utamanya sebagai seorang  istri untuk  menyelsaikan  pekerjaan  rumah,  adapun pekerjaan  suaminya diantaranya  sebagai  (a)  buruh  tani  (b)  kuli  bangunan  dan (c) sebagai  nelayan. Namun   penghasilan   yang   didapat   suami   masih   kurang   dalam   memenuhi kebutuhan  lainnya  maka  dari itu istri ikut bekerja untuk membantu menambah penghasilan  suami  agar  kebutuhan  sehari-hari  yang  lain  dapat  terpenuhi.  (2) Partisipasi  perempuan dalam meningkatkan ekonomi keluarga di Dusun Medas Desa Obel-obel meliputi (a) bekerja sebagai pedagang (b) bekerja sebagai buruh tani harian (c) bekerja sebagai petugas kebersihan dan (d) bekerja sebagai penjual sembako.  AbstractThe research problems of this study are: (1) How the division of labor in female household  Sasak tribal at Medas Obel-obel? (2) How the participation of Sasak w omen in improving family economy at Medas Obel-Obel?. This research used qualitative  approach w ith descriptive method. The technique in determining  the sample  of  this study  w as purposive  sampling. Data collection techniques w ere interview s, observation and documentation. Data analysis techniques of this study w ere data reduction, data presentation, and conclusion. The results of this study indicated  that (1) The division of Sasak Household  Work at Medas Village of Obel-obel Village does not affect the main job of being a housew ife in w orking as a farm laborer and trader, because they can divide the time to do her main duties as a w ife to  finish her  homew ork, such as (a) farm  laborers  (b) construction laborers and (c) as fishermen. But the income earned by husbands is still lacking in other needs so the w ife w ork to help the husband's income so that other daily needs can be fulfilled. (2) The participation of w omen in improving  the family economy at Medas Village of Obel-obel Village includes (a) w orking as a trader (b) w orking as a daily farm laborer (c) w orking as a janitor and (d) w orking as a seller of basic needs. Keywords: Participation, Women and Family Economy

scholarly journals Mourning Experiences of Families of Dead Infected with COVID-19: A Qualitative Study

2021 ◽  
Vol In Press (In Press) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fereshteh Araghian Mojarad ◽  
Ravanbakhsh Esmaeili ◽  
Mohammad Ali Heydarigorji ◽  
Tahere Yaghoubi
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Family Member ◽  
Sampling Method ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Social Lives ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Dead

Background: With the outbreak of the Coronavirus, many restrictions are imposed on the processes of a funeral procession, funeral ablution, burial, mass mourning, and the memorial gathering of the family, relatives, friends, and neighbors. Objectives: Given the lack of research on the mourning experiences of families of the dead infected with coronavirus, the present study was to fill this gap in the literature. Methods: In this qualitative study, some semi-structured individual interviews were carried out in the Bu Ali Sina Medical Educational Center, Sari, Iran, with 16 individuals of the families of the dead with coronavirus, who were selected using the purposive sampling method. The interviews were recorded, transcribed, encoded, and categorized, and the data analysis was performed using Graneheim and Lundman’s qualitative approach. Guba and Lincoln’s criteria were also adopted to ensure the data reliability and validity. Results: Four main themes (namely psychological, behavioral, and physical reactions, virtual mourning, regretful mourning, and feelings of rejection and fear) and twelve subthemes were extracted from the collected data. Conclusions: According to the research results, COVID-19 changed the personal and social lives of the families with dead infected with Coronavirus from different perspectives. In this regard, providing support to families during the mourning period would help them better adjust with such changes causing the loss of a family member.

scholarly journals Immersion Through Culture: Representations of the “Day of the Dead” in Film

2020 ◽  
pp. 61-78
Author(s):  
Giorgos Dimitriadis ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Visual Metaphor ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Sergei Eisenstein ◽  
Day Of The Dead ◽  
Sam Mendes ◽  
Cultural Element ◽  
Dia De Los Muertos ◽  
The Dead ◽  
The Way

The Mexican celebration of the “Day of the Dead” (Día de Muertos or Día de los Muertos) has been recurrently used in film, with three of the most notable examples ranging from the recent Coco (Lee Unkrich and Adrian Molina, 2017) and Spectre (Sam Mendes, 2015), all the way back to the surviving footage of ¡Que Viva Mexico! (Sergei Eisenstein, 1931, unfinished). Though vastly different from one another in almost every respect, all three cases explore the topic of “in-between” both thematically and technically: the celebration that merges life and death becomes a visual metaphor and a tool for filmmakers to explore the ways in which film technique creates overlapping areas between cinema and reality. In each film, a visually powerful cultural asset such as the “Day of the Dead,” is combined with different aspects of film technique, explicitly, but differently, appealing to a kind of sensory immersion in order to attract viewers inside its world. By doing so, the “Day of the Dead” exemplifies the ways in which a common cultural element can help translate the personal visions of different filmmakers into distinct filmic events.

Horror and Death: Rethinking Coco's Border Politics

2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (4) ◽  
pp. 41-49
Author(s):  
Orquidea Morales
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Horror Film ◽  
Walt Disney Company ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Walt Disney ◽  
Day Of The Dead ◽  
Animated Film ◽  
Border Politics ◽  
The Dead ◽  
The U.S

In 2013, the Walt Disney Company submitted an application to trademark “Día de los muertos” (Day of the Dead) as they prepared to launch a holiday themed movie. Almost immediately after this became public Disney faced such strong criticism and backlash they withdrew their petition. By October of 2017 Disney/Pixar released the animated film Coco. Audiences in Mexico and the U.S. praised it's accurate and authentic representation of the celebration of Day of the Dead. In this essay, I argue that despite its generic framing, Coco mobilizes many elements of horror in its account of Miguel's trespassing into the forbidden space of the dead and his transformation into a liminal figure, both dead and alive. Specifically, with its horror so deftly deployed through tropes and images of borders, whether between life and death or the United States and Mexico, Coco falls within a new genre, the border horror film.

Antecedents of Family Conflict in Uganda

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 35-54
Author(s):  
Rogers Matama ◽  
Kezia H. Mkwizu
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Social Identity ◽  
Sample Size ◽  
Social Identity Theory ◽  
Family Conflict ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Family Conflicts ◽  
The Core ◽  
Quantitative Studies

The purpose of this study was to explore the antecedents of family conflict in Uganda. A qualitative approach was used in this study. A sample size of 139 participants provided data which was subjected to content analysis. Results revealed that the core themes associated with family conflict are finances and priority of resources. Further findings show that differences in tastes and interests, selfishness and lack of communication played a key role as causes of family conflicts. The implication of this study is that finances and priority of resources are antecedents of family conflict in the context of Uganda. Therefore, the antecedents of family conflict that emerged from this study can be understood, defined and analyzed through the lens of social identity theory. Future research may include conducting quantitative studies with a particular demographic using the themes that have emerged from this study.

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