scholarly journals Triumph of the Will: A memorial in film

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 41-54
Author(s):  
Daniel Maddock ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Ancient Egypt ◽  
Nazi Regime ◽  
Monumental Architecture ◽  
Motion Picture Film ◽  
Art Form ◽  
The Will ◽  
Bear Witness ◽  
Public Evidence

Despite Hitler’s efforts to transform Berlin into Germania, the capital of the new world he envisioned and which he believed would bear comparison with Ancient Egypt, Babylon, and Rome, there is little in the way of monumental architecture to bear witness to that ambition. Though there is only limited public evidence of Hitler’s architectural hubris present either in stone or steel, the same cannot be said of film. Leni Riefenstahl’s masterpiece Triumph of the Will (1935) (German: Triumph des Willens) is the most famous propaganda film of all time and a staple of university film schools and secondary schools across the world. At the time of its creation, celluloid motion picture film was a relatively new technology and the documentary format a nascent art form. Nevertheless, it was lauded almost immediately as a visually stunning imagining of the new regime and its leader. Though the film maker was subsequently reviled for her Nazi associations, as an art work her film has retained an almost miasmic aura that justifies continued re-assessment of its standing as a monument to the Nazi regime and the horrors perpetrated in its name.

Utopian Visions in United States Urbanism

Moreana ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 42 (Number 164) (4) ◽  
pp. 157-186
Author(s):  
James M. McCutcheon
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
New World ◽  
New Technology ◽  
World's Fair ◽  
Open Spaces ◽  
Central Park ◽  
Garden Cities ◽  
Oneida Community ◽  
The City

America’s appeal to Utopian visionaries is best illustrated by the Oneida Community, and by Etienne Cabet’s experiment (Moreana 31/215 f and 43/71 f). A Messianic spirit was a determinant in the Puritans’ crossing the Atlantic. The Edenic appeal of the vast lands in a New World to migrants in a crowded Europe is obvious. This article documents the ambition of urbanists to preserve that rural quality after the mushrooming of towns: the largest proved exemplary in bringing the country into the city. New York’s Central Park was emulated by the open spaces on the grounds of the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893. The garden-cities surrounding London also provided inspiration, as did the avenues by which Georges Haussmann made Paris into a tourist mecca, and Pierre L’Enfant’s designs for the nation’s capital. The author concentrates on two growing cities of the twentieth century, Los Angeles and Honolulu. His detailed analysis shows politicians often slow to implement the bold and costly plans of designers whose ambition was to use the new technology in order to vie with the splendor of the natural sites and create the “City Beautiful.” Some titles in the bibliography show the hopes of those dreamers to have been tempered by fears of “supersize” or similar drawbacks.

scholarly journals Education à l'image and Medienkompetenz : On the discourses and practices of film education in France and Germany

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bettina Henzler
Keyword(s):  
State Of The Art ◽  
Global Politics ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Nazi Regime ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
German Film ◽  
Art Form ◽  
Film Education ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The Media

This article compares the discourses, practices and politics of film education in France and Germany, and outlines their historical development. The discourses on film education in the two countries are fundamentally different: whereas German film education is anchored in the global politics of media education and around notions of Medienkompetenz (media competence), cinema in France is a field of art education centred on the transmission du cinéma (film mediation) or l'éducation artistique (art mediation). While the first initiatives in film education in both countries date back to the beginning of the twentieth century, this article explores how they developed in significantly different ways. In France, the establishment of film education was promoted and influenced by the culture of cinephilia, which imposed the notion of film as an art form. In Germany, film education – after having been pushed by the Nazi regime – suffered for a long time from sceptical attitudes towards the media and their ideological impact, and was formed by the critical approach of the Frankfurt School. This article details how history and the 'state of the art' of film education are interlinked with the different discourses and cultures of cinema in both countries, as well as the extent to which present political and educational practices draw upon long-standing historical and cultural traditions. In doing so, this article contributes to reflections upon film education at a wider European or international level, where similar debates around film or media literacy are taking place.

scholarly journals The structural and technical solution for precipitation moisture reducing

2019 ◽  
Vol 91 ◽  
pp. 04002
Author(s):  
Nazira Dzhumagulova ◽  
Vladimir Smetanin ◽  
Nguyen Dinh Dap
Keyword(s):  
New Technology ◽  
Sewage Treatment ◽  
High Capacity ◽  
Technical Solution ◽  
Solid Domestic Waste ◽  
Major Drawback ◽  
Sewage Treatment Plants ◽  
Urban Sewage ◽  
Treatment Facilities ◽  
The Will

One of the main problems in Russia is an acute shortage of free land for the disposal of solid domestic waste and sewage sludge. The treatment and removal of precipitation is a major problem in wastewater treatment. Urban sewage treatment plants were built on model projects in the 1970s, in which natural dehydration on silt areas was provided. Sludge dehydration on silt areas of sewage treatment plants of medium and high capacity is impossible due to the lack of free land areas. The major drawback of this method is the rejection of significant land areas, contamination of the geo-environment, the release of pollutants into the air, as well as the loss of land resources. In sludge processing and utilization, it is necessary to achieve minimum damage to the environment and to increase the possibility of using it on behalf of the national economy. The adoption of new technology and processing of sediments allowed to reduce the initial amount of precipitation by 4 times and to reduce the humidity from 97% to 83%, the amount of sludge formed at the treatment facilities will decrease by 6 times (from 300 m3/day to 50 m3/day) as a result of dehydration of the filter presses, the will be a reduction in the surface concentrations of pollutants in the atmosphere from 5,4 tons per year to 2,9 tons per year.

Lifting Bodies: interactive dance – finding new methodologies in the motifs prompted by new technology – a critique and progress report with particular reference to the Bodycoder System

2000 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
JULIE A. WILSON ◽  
MARK A. BROMWICH
Keyword(s):  
New Technology ◽  
Progress Report ◽  
Detailed Case ◽  
Art Form ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
New Methodologies

This paper offers a critique of what are seen as key issues which are problematised within the field of interactive dance, centring on the role of the various artists and technologies involved in the development of interactive dance systems, the notion of interactivity versus non-interactivity, and the influence of traditional single art-form practices. The paper proposes that it is only through identifying the particular motifs promoted by the technology itself that a way forward can be found, and an interactive dance aesthetic can begin to emerge in earnest. The arguments presented in this paper are framed within the context of the authors' long-term work and collaboration within the area of interactive dance, and provides a detailed case study of the piece Lifting Bodies (1999).

scholarly journals Nymphaea cults in ancient Egypt and the New World: a lesson in empirical pharmacology

2004 ◽  
Vol 97 (2) ◽  
pp. 84-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Bertol ◽  
V. Fineschi ◽  
S. B Karch ◽  
F. Mari ◽  
I. Riezzo
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
Ancient Egypt

scholarly journals Web based fingerprint roll call attendance management system

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 4364
Author(s):  
Ademola A. ◽  
Somefun T. E. ◽  
Oluwabusola A.
Keyword(s):  
Management System ◽  
Web Application ◽  
New World ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Roll Call ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Tertiary Institutions ◽  
Authentication And Security

Managing people and keeping adequate record of the attendance for most of the tertiary institutions are difficult task. Moreover, the manual taking of attendance adds to the difficulty of this task because it is strenuous, time intensive and can easily be falsified. Meanwhile, With the advent of new technology, a new world of authentication and security has been created via biometrics. This work aims at improving Covenant Universities paper-based attendance by using biometrics, specifically fingerprint technology. It is a web application that works with a fingerprint reader from which the features of the student’s fingerprint are extracted during enrolment. This is also needed during the authentication phase which occurs during the roll call attendance in the halls of residence. It is implemented using PHP and MySQL.

Multimodale graphische Kommunikation im pharaonischen Ägypten: Entwurf einer Analysemethode

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 81-116
Author(s):  
Silvia Kutscher
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Ancient Egypt ◽  
Second Step ◽  
Old Kingdom ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Graphic Communication ◽  
Semiotic Approach ◽  
The Will ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Interdisciplinary Dialog

“Multimodal graphic communication in Ancient Egypt: A method for analysis”: This article presents a method to analyse Hieroglyphic-Egyptian artefacts based on the semiotic approach of multimodality. In a first step, the theoretical background of multimodality research is given and its methodological application to Hieroglyphic-Egyptian text-image-compositions is discussed. In a second step, the method is illustrated analysing a relief from an Old Kingdom mastaba in Giza – the will of Wep-em-nefert (G8882). In a third step, some graphic techniques for information structuring are compared to similar techniques that can be found in Franco-Belgian comics. In indenting semiotic methods of multimodality research with Egyptology, this article presents a new perspective for the investigation of Hieroglyphic-Egyptian artefacts, which opens new grounds for both research areas and for interdisciplinary dialog.

Self-Injuring Body Art

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-170
Author(s):  
Rosemarie Brucher
Keyword(s):  
Vietnam War ◽  
Past Research ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
Body Art ◽  
Self Injury ◽  
Art Form ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Will ◽  
Artistic Self

AbstractArtistic self-injury, established as an art form since the late 1960s, polarizes the audience and still raises questions about the motivations behind such actions as well as about the narrative contexts in which they occur. While past research has focused on either specific performers or specific trajectories of violence in the contexts in which each artist was working, for instance, the Vietnam War (Kathy O’Dell), this article localizes artistic self-injury within the larger coherencies of the history of mind with respect to aesthetic theories. Questions of subjectivation and desubjectivation seem especially productive for such a discussion. Read against the backdrop of the aesthetics of the Kantian sublime as a strategy of self-empowerment that sets the independence of the will against the powerlessness of the body, the self-wounding act can also be understood with Georges Bataille as a purposeful desubjectivation, in which the artist strives for a radical disempowerment through pain. A consideration of selected artists sounds out the range between these two theoretical references.

Luis Cernuda’s “Historial de un libro”: A Travelogue

2019 ◽  
pp. 167-177
Author(s):  
Christina Karageorgou-Bastea
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
New World ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Intellectual Biography ◽  
Critical Reading ◽  
Spatial Point ◽  
Art Form ◽  
Temporal And Spatial

The essay offers a reading of Luis Cernuda's intellectual biography, "Historial de un libro" (Chronicle of a Book), a travelogue where the author traces the routes through which his poetry was generated. In the chronicle life and poetry unfold in tandem and refract under mutual illumination. Cernuda's response to the voices with which he meets on his way from Spain to the New World forges a poetics of crossings, while it extends bridges between physical, metaphorical, and discursive territories. From a temporal and spatial point of view beyond the end of the journey, life and art form a horizon towards which the traveler is headed and on which, at the end, the poet inscribes his diaspora across countries and continents as translation and interpretation of a poetic continuum made of lived experience, literary depiction, and critical reading.

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