The American Woman and the Invention of Paris

2018 ◽  
pp. 68-97
Author(s):  
William Cloonan
Keyword(s):  
Gilded Age ◽  
American Woman ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Large Section ◽  
American Colony

The chapter deals with a woman’s triumph in a man’s world during the Gilded Age. It chronicles the American take-over of a large section of Paris which becomes an American colony. The main character is a beautiful American woman, more cunning than intelligent, who uses her wits, and willingness to divorce and remarry to make her name in a largely Americanized Paris.

scholarly journals Book Review: Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age by Susan Crawford

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Elliott Hibbler
Keyword(s):  
Gilded Age ◽  
Monopoly Power ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Cable Industry ◽  
Rate Of Growth ◽  
History Of ◽  
Telecom Industry

Susan Crawford’s Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age is a timely book on an industry whose rate of growth is only outpaced by its rate of change.Crawford traces the concentration of monopoly power in telecommunications, using Comcast as the story’s main character. The book’s focus is the 2010 merger of Comcast and NBC Universal, which tied several strands of the industry together. Not only is the book a fascinating history of the rise of an industry, it doubles as a manual on how the administrative apparatus of government operates.The book would benefit from a deeper exploration of the wireless market. However, without the same defining merger as in the cable industry (yet), using Comcast to drive the narrative is a reasonable and satisfying choice for readers of any level of familiarity with the topic.

scholarly journals Struggle and Survival in Cultural Clash: A Case Study of Pecola in The Bluest Eye

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 104
Author(s):  
Bin Yuan
Keyword(s):  
American Woman ◽  
The United States ◽  
Black Culture ◽  
Woman Writer ◽  
Blind Identification ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Bluest Eye ◽  
Mainstream Society ◽  
Mainstream Culture

Toni Morrison is not only one of the Afro-American writers who focus on the clash between black culture and the white mainstream culture in the United States as well as the marginalized existence of the blacks, but more importantly a unique Afro-American woman writer who goes beyond the simplistic dichotomies of the black male literary tradition and explores the root of the tragedy of the blacks in the mainstream society. Based on textual analysis of her first novel The Bluest Eye and a case study of Pecola, a main character in this novel and actually a victim and scapegoat, this paper, with the painful truth that Pecola’s tragedy results not just from the denial and rejection of the mainstream society, but more significantly, from the blind identification of some blacks in the mainstream culture, and their incompetence to cherish their own culture and identity, aims at exploring hope in the tragic story, and suggesting how blacks can struggle to survive so as to extend their heritage and values.

Interactive Experience and Identification as Predictors of Attributing Responsibility in Video Games

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-15
Author(s):  
Nathan Walter ◽  
Yariv Tsfati
Keyword(s):  
Video Game ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
External Factors ◽  
Theoretical Expectation ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Attribution Of Responsibility ◽  
Attributions Of Responsibility ◽  
Violent Video Game ◽  
Grand Theft Auto Iv ◽  
Interactive Experience

Abstract. This study examines the effect of interactivity on the attribution of responsibility for the character’s actions in a violent video game. Through an experiment, we tested the hypothesis that identification with the main character in Grand Theft Auto IV mediates the effect of interactivity on attributions of responsibility for the main character’s antisocial behavior. Using the framework of the fundamental attribution error, we demonstrated that those who actually played the game, as opposed to those who simply watched someone else playing it, identified with the main character. In accordance with the theoretical expectation, those who played the game and came to identify with the main character attributed the responsibility for his actions to external factors such as “living in a violent society.” By contrast, those who did not interact with the game attributed responsibility for the character’s actions to his personality traits. These findings could be viewed as contrasting with psychological research suggesting that respondents should have distanced themselves from the violent protagonist rather than identifying with him, and with Iyengar’s (1991) expectation that more personalized episodic framing would be associated with attributing responsibility to the protagonist.

Ignoring a Main Character: A Rookie Director’s Mistake

PsycCRITIQUES ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 56 (20) ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Albert Bardi
Keyword(s):  
Main Character

Creativity as a Haven: An Angel at My Table (Jane Campion, 1990)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alistair Fox
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Coming Of Age ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Personal Investment ◽  
Jane Campion

Through a comparison with Janet Frame’s Autobiography, from which it is adapted, this chapter analyses Jane Campion’s An Angel at My Table as the first New Zealand film to present all three of the main maturational phases characteristic of the coming-of-age genre, but as experienced by a Pākehā girl. Identifying the effects of a repressive environment as the source of the emotional stresses that lead the main character, Janet, to be institutionalized for schizophrenia, the discussion shows how she finds respite in fictive creativity and a world of the imagination. It also shows Campion’s personal investment in the story as a displaced representation of her own mother’s fight with mental illness.

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