scholarly journals When the Author Owns the World

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 959-978
Author(s):  
Steven D. Jamar ◽  
Christen B’anca Glenn
Keyword(s):  
Pop Culture ◽  
Fan Fiction ◽  
Television Series ◽  
The World ◽  
Original Works

Fan fiction is amateur writing that imaginatively reinvents a work in pop culture while maintaining the identifiable aspects of the preexisting work. Fans of various books, films, and television series write their own versions of the stories and post them online in fan fiction communities. Fan fiction as practiced today is a way for fans to creatively express themselves and become integrated into the story and world they love. The stories range from highly derivative works, where relatively few plot points are changed, to entirely new plot lines using the same world and characters of the original, underlying work. Some provide backstories about existing characters, and some are more in the nature of sequels. Some are quite original works more in the nature of “inspired by” than “derived from.”

scholarly journals Female-centered fan fiction as homoaffection in fan communities

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ria Narai
Keyword(s):  
Star Trek ◽  
Fan Studies ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Fan Fiction ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Television Series ◽  
Male Characters ◽  
Fan Communities ◽  
The World ◽  
The Way

In the scholarship of fan studies, a lot has been said about why female fan communities enjoy writing about male characters and relationships in fan fiction. In contrast, there has been a dearth of research into female fan communities that are centered around female characters and their relationships with each other. Here I examine the heretofore unnamed female-centered fan fiction genre of homoaffection fic through a close reading of examples chosen from the Star Trek fandom. I show how this fan fictional genre reworks the masculine narratives of the television series and movies in order to define female experience and demonstrate the way in which this in turn creates female communities in both the world of the fic and our own world.

"Mustard" from the cycle: "Medical and sanitary issues of chemical defense"

1930 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-100
Author(s):  
Editorial Board
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Study ◽  
Chemical Defense ◽  
Russian Literature ◽  
World War ◽  
Gas Poisoning ◽  
The World ◽  
Original Works ◽  
Translated Literature ◽  
Sanitary Services

Bibliography and reviews. Until now, Russian literature has been extremely poor in original works devoted to the issues of medical and sanitary services for gas poisoned persons. Most of the available books and brochures (X lopin, Blinchikov, etc.) reflected mainly the experience of the World War and were somewhat outdated, since in the years following the war, the issues of gas poisoning were subjected to careful experimental study in all countries, and many sides cases were presented from completely new perspectives. The same is the case with translated literature, among which you can count only a few brochures devoted to the issues of pathology and the clinic of gas poisoning.

scholarly journals A contribuição de Rubem Alves para o estudo da teologia na arte sequencial: anotações de um fragmento de mosaico misturadas com biografia

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 155
Author(s):  
Iuri Andréas Reblin
Keyword(s):  
Daily Life ◽  
Pop Culture ◽  
Human Dimension ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Sequential Art ◽  
Cultural Goods ◽  
Creation Process ◽  
The World ◽  
Theological Study ◽  
Symbolic World

Resumo: O estudo apresenta duas ideias cruciais de Rubem Alves para o estudo teológico dos bens artístico-culturais da cultura pop: as estórias como invocações da vida e a teologia como atividade inerente ao ser humano. A primeira ideia remete à centralidade da narrativa no processo de constituição do mundo humano e na manutenção e contínua reinvenção deste, influindo na própria identidade do ser humano, em sua interpretação do mundo e das relações, na partilha de um universo simbólico-cultural, enfim, em sua própria biografia. A segunda ideia remete à atividade teológica enquanto faculdade inerente ao ser humano. Nessa perspectiva, Rubem Alves amplia a compreensão de teologia – usualmente entendida como estudo (acadêmico) sobre a divindade, para a dimensão humana existencial profunda da busca por sentido. Ao final, o texto reitera a importância do pensamento de Rubem Alves para a teologia e seu papel particular nos estudos dos bens artístico-culturais da cultura pop. Palavras-chave: Rubem Alves. Estudos Culturais. Teologia do Cotidiano. Arte Sequencial. Cultura Pop. Abstract: The study presents Rubem Alves’ two central ideas for the theological study of artistic cultural goods of pop culture: stories as invocation of life and theology as an inherent activity of human being. The first idea refers to the centrality of storytelling in the creation process of the human symbolic world, its maintenance and its continuous reinvention, influencing in human’s identity, their interpretation of the world and the relations in it, the sharing of a symbolic cultural universe, finally, his own biography. The second idea refers to the theological activity while a faculty inherent to the human being. In this perspective, Rubem Alves expands his understanding of theology – usually understood as (academic) study on the deity, to a deeper existential human dimension of the seek for meaning. At the end, the text reiterates the importance of Rubem Alves’ thought to theology and his particular role in the study of artistic cultural goods of pop culture. Keywords: Rubem Alves. Cultural Studies. Theology of Daily Life. Sequential Art. Pop Culture.

scholarly journals Book Review: Beauty around the World: A Cultural Encyclopedia

2018 ◽  
Vol 57 (4) ◽  
pp. 301
Author(s):  
Stacey Marien
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Pop Culture ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
The Body ◽  
Identity Performance ◽  
State University ◽  
Research Experience ◽  
The World ◽  
The Caribbean

Kenny is an assistant professor of anthropology at Missouri State University with research experience in East and West Africa. Nichols is a professor of Spanish at Drury University with her research specializing in cultures of Latin America. Nichols has also co-written Pop Culture in Latin American and the Caribbean (ABC-CLIO, 2015) and authored a chapter on beauty in Venezuela for the book The Body Beautiful? Identity, Performance, Fashion and the Contemporary Female Body (Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2015). Both authors have taught extensively on the topic of beauty and bodies (xi). 

scholarly journals A Writer’s Guide to Understanding Charles Dickens’s "George Silverman’s Explanation"

Meliora ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chaya Sara Oppenheim
Keyword(s):  
Charles Dickens ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Original Work ◽  
Writing Process ◽  
Growth Trajectory ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Original Works ◽  
Comprehensive Treatise ◽  
New Perspective

 This thesis proposes that “George Silverman’s Explanation”—the last short story completed by Charles Dickens—should be read as Dickens’s final and most comprehensive treatise on writing. The argument states that Dickens, instead of outlining an explicit approach to the writing process, utilizes the narrative of George Silverman as an allegory to detail the formation of a story. The thesis suggests that the framework of “George Silverman’s Explanation” portrays the growth trajectory of the writer and his eternal struggle to create original work from the world of literature that precedes him. For a renowned author like Dickens, approaching his last short story as his departing discourse on the construction of literature is invaluable instruction for future writers. Interestingly, “George Silverman’s Explanation” is also Dickens’s least analyzed work. For this reason, this thesis addresses essentially all of the scholarship that has been written on the short story before preceding to add a new perspective on how the short story can be approached. Understanding this short story as a blueprint for writers provides an innovative and unique angle for approaching literature, since a writer reads with their eyes on the future—and the original works that they can create.

THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE

Think ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (30) ◽  
pp. 11-24
Author(s):  
Michael Shermer
Keyword(s):  
Cigarette Smoking ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Pop Culture ◽  
Conspiracy Theory ◽  
Serial Killers ◽  
Television Series ◽  
Urban Legends

The 1990's über conspiracy-theory television series The X-Files was a decade-defining and culture-reflecting mosh pit of UFOs, extraterrestrials, psychics, demons, monsters, mutants, shape-shifters, serial killers, paranormal phenomena, urban legends turned real, corporate cabals and government cover-ups, and leakages unveiled by a deep-throat-like ‘cigarette smoking man’ character played, ironically, by real-life skeptic William B. Davis. Gillian Anderson's skeptical FBI agent Dana Scully played off David Duchovny's believing character Fox Mulder, whose slogans became posterized pop-culture catch-phrases ‘I want to believe’ and ‘The truth is out there’.

The Wire

Forms ◽  
2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Levine
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Television Series ◽  
New Model ◽  
Social Patterns ◽  
Social Forms ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
The World ◽  
The Wire

This chapter offers a surprising, even counterintuitive, paradigm for bringing all four major forms together. HBO's recent television series, The Wire (2002–2008), conceptualizes social life as both structured and rendered radically unpredictable by large numbers of colliding social forms, including bounded wholes, rhythms, hierarchies, and networks. Dependent on a narrative logic that traces the effects of each formal encounter on the next, it refuses to posit a deep, prior, metaphysical model of causality to explain its world. By tracking vast numbers of social patterns as they meet, reroute, and disrupt one another, The Wire examines the world that results from a plurality of forms at work. It is argued that this series could provide a new model for literary and cultural studies scholarship.

TV Series in Turkish Foreign Policy: Aspects of Hegemony and Resistance

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Constantinos Constantinou ◽  
Zenonas Tziarras
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Pop Culture ◽  
Soap Operas ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
Turkish Foreign Policy ◽  
The World ◽  
Tv Shows ◽  
The Impact

This article examines the ways in which (pop or) popular culture may fall within the context of foreign policy. More specifically, it situates our analysis against such backdrop by delving into how Turkey effectively exports pop culture, propaganda and positive images of itself via the use of television (TV) shows. To that end, notable Turkish soap operas market its ancient glorious past. Admittedly, these telenovelas form a salient cultural product export for Turkey as they reach diverse and far-away audiences – from Latin America to Russia, Central Asia, North Africa, the Middle East, and the Balkans, to merely name a few. Paradoxically, the frenzy has even reached places like Greece. Not to mention, Serbia or Israel, with the latter’s phenomenal success accompanied also with some backlash. Therefore, the current study seeks to better understand the magnitude alongside the impact of Turkey’s achievement given how it comprises a multi-million-dollar industry, by partially unearthing what makes Turkish TV series so powerful the world over. Further, this research firstly presents an analysis of the hegemonic efforts before presenting the limitations to its success by thoroughly covering the empirical data while, theoretically framing it.  

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-36
Author(s):  
Stanley J. Rabinowitz
Keyword(s):  
Golden Age ◽  
Initial Phase ◽  
New Age ◽  
Modern History ◽  
Silver Age ◽  
The World ◽  
Original Works ◽  
Broad Scale

HISTORIANS OF CULTURE LOOK at Russia’s Silver Age—the period of aesthetic activity roughly between 1895 and 1915—as one of the great artistic revivals of modern history, the initial phase of what eventually became more generally known as modernism. Even more than the previous Golden Age of Pushkin, Lermontov, and other Romantic poets some sixty years earlier, this period reveals a flowering of cultural refinement rarely seen on such a broad scale. Not only writers and poets but musicians, painters, and figures in the world of theater and dance cultivated a greater sensitivity to art, which placed a premium as much on the artists’ unique personalities as on the variety and quality of the original works they produced. An early and defining emblem of the new age was Sergei Diaghilev’s lavishly illustrated ...

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