scholarly journals The Disorder of Life

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-75
Author(s):  
Karen Thorsen
Keyword(s):  
James Baldwin ◽  
Film Festival ◽  
Common Humanity ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
The World

Filmmaker Karen Thorsen gave us James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket, the award-winning documentary that is now considered a classic. First broadcast on PBS/American Masters in August, 1989—just days after what would have been Baldwin’s sixty-fifth birthday—the film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 1990. It was not the film Thorsen intended to make. Beginning in 1986, Baldwin and Thorsen had been collaborating on a very different film project: a “nonfiction feature” about the history, research, and writing of Baldwin’s next book, “Remember This House.” It was also going to be a film about progress: about how far we had come, how far we still have to go, before we learn to trust our common humanity. But that project ended abruptly. On 1 December 1987, James Baldwin died—and “Remember This House,” book and film died with him. Suddenly, Thorsen’s mission changed: the world needed to know what they had lost. Her alliance with Baldwin took on new meaning. The following memoir—the second of two serialized parts—explores how and why their collaboration began. The first installment appeared in the sixth volume of James Baldwin Review, in the fall of 2020; the next stage of their journey starts here.

scholarly journals The Disorder of Life

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 140-154
Author(s):  
Karen Thorsen
Keyword(s):  
James Baldwin ◽  
65Th Birthday ◽  
Film Festival ◽  
Common Humanity ◽  
Award Winning

Filmmaker Karen Thorsen gave us James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket, the award-winning documentary that is now considered a classic. First broadcast on PBS/American Masters in August, 1989—just days after what would have been Baldwin’s 65th birthday—the film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 1990. It was not the film Thorsen intended to make. Beginning in 1986, she and Baldwin had been collaborating on a very different film project: a “nonfiction feature” about the history, research, and writing of Baldwin’s next book, Remember This House. It was also going to be a film about progress: how far we had come, how far we still had to go, before we learned to trust our common humanity. The following memoir explores how and why their collaboration began. This recollection will be serialized in two parts, with the second installment appearing in James Baldwin Review’s seventh issue, due out in the fall of 2021.

Afterword

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory S. Jay
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Moral Education ◽  
James Baldwin ◽  
Literary Form ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
Liberal Tradition ◽  
Black Lives Matter ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
Racial Liberalism ◽  
The World

Recently African American journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates published an award-winning book, Between the World and Me, which can serve as a useful perspective on racial liberalism today. The book’s literary form as a letter to his son, which is drawn from the work of James Baldwin, echoes the narrative strategies of addressing the reader found in all the novels studied in previous chapters. Here again the reader is positioned as a listener, student, and subject for moral education. But his audience is his black son, making his book a departure from the white-centered texts previously dominant in the race liberal tradition. Coates, too, engages in both historical teaching and emotional polemic, making us again explore why white readers (and writers) need to be reminded that “black lives matter.”

scholarly journals Istanbul 2007

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gönül Dönmez-Colin
Keyword(s):  
International Competition ◽  
Film Festival ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
First Time

ISTANBUL INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Istanbul International Film Festival (31 March-15 April 2007) celebrated its 26th birthday this spring with more than 200 films from around the world. This year, for the first time in its history, the festival opened with a film by a Turkish director, Ferzan Özpetek although the Italian production Saturn Opposite about depressed 40-year olds nostalgic about their youth, featuring some of the well-known actors of Italy could hardly be considered a Turkish film. The closing film was the US production, The Good German by Steven Soderbergh featuring George Clooney and Cate Blanchett. The films that compete for the Golden Tulip award are chosen for their relation to art and the artist or are adaptations from literary works. The fact that Istanbul takes place shortly before Cannes makes it rather difficult to find quality films for the International Competition, which had not been previously screened elsewhere....

Down the Rabbit-Hole: Exploring Health Messages on the World Wide Web

1997 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheryl A. Koski
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Health Messages ◽  
Information Superhighway ◽  
Quarter Century ◽  
Sense Of Direction ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
The World

Over a quarter century ago, James W. Carey and John J. Quirk questioned the prevailing belief that technology would revolutionize communication. Now that we have begun traveling on the information superhighway, we are bombarded more often than ever by what Carey and Quirk called “the rhetoric of the electronic sublime.” Yet an exploration of some fifty award-winning health messages on the World Wide Web suggests that our well-worn maps—that is, the traditional concepts of source, content, purpose, audience, and presentation—can give us a sense of direction as we begin our fall down the rabbit-hole.

History and Theory in Anthropology

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Barnard
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
New Developments ◽  
The Past ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Post Colonialism ◽  
New Generation ◽  
History And Theory

In the past twenty years, there have been exciting new developments in the field of anthropology. This second edition of Barnard's classic textbook on the history and theory of anthropology has been revised and expanded to include up-to-date coverage on all the most important topics in the field. Its coverage ranges from traditional topics like the beginnings of the subject, evolutionism, functionalism, structuralism, and Marxism, to ideas about globalization, post-colonialism, and notions of 'race' and of being 'indigenous'. There are several new chapters, along with an extensive glossary, index, dates of birth and death, and award-winning diagrams. Although anthropology is often dominated by trends in Europe and North America, this edition makes plain the contributions of trendsetters in the rest of the world too. With its comprehensive yet clear coverage of concepts, this is essential reading for a new generation of anthropology students.

Independência Africana: Como a África contemporânea redefiniu o mundo

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tukufu Zuberi
Keyword(s):  
World History ◽  
Development Aid ◽  
Present Condition ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
The World ◽  
Freedom Fighters ◽  
Heads Of State ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
The Impact

African Independence is a dynamic discussion of how African history shapes world events today. Africa has played a major role in human history, and it is impossible to understand the present condition of humanity, or our future without a consideration of Africa. Although Africa is often portrayed as a remote and impoverished area, remembered for the suffering of its people, it has played an important role in world history that is critical for understanding global events today. Tukufu Zuberi walks readers through the years of African independence through the present. The documentary discusses colonialism, the impact of the world wars, independence movements, the Cold War, ethnic conflict, terrorism, the health crisis, and more. The documentary weaves personal interview excerpts with people ranging from World War Two veterans, freedom fighters, to Heads of State into the arc of African and world history. Providing context for understanding events such as civil war, terrorism, and development aid, African Independence argues that it is impossible to understand our current world situation, or our future, without considering Africa. The award-winning documentary accompanies the book African Independence: how Africa shapes the world.

Clean Irene in the Parking Lot

2021 ◽  
Vol 187 ◽  
pp. 38-39
Author(s):  
Evalyn Parry ◽  
Anna Chatterton
Keyword(s):  
Award Winning ◽  
The World ◽  
Parking Lot ◽  
End Of The World ◽  
The Impact

Creator/performers and longtime collaborators Evalyn Parry and Anna Chatterton recall the night of the northeast blackout during the 2003 SummerWorks festival, when they performed their award-winning show Clean Irene and Dirty Maxine (Independent Auntie Theatre) in the parking lot outside Factory Theatre. They discuss the impact this production, and this particular performance, had on their careers, putting them on the map as emerging artists. They reflect on how their determination to perform during the blackout exemplifies the determination needed to pursue a career in the theatre. They discuss what details they remember about that night and what they don’t remember all these many years later, and their memory of walking home after the show through the dark city streets, how that night seemed like it might be the end of the world.

Groupe Bogolan Kasobané

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet Goldner
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
Rural Women ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
African Identity ◽  
Home Furnishings ◽  
Pan African ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
The World ◽  
Working Together ◽  
Local Materials

The Groupe Bogolan Kasobané is an association of six artists from Mali, West Africa: Kandioura Coulibaly, Klètigui Dembélé, Boubacar Doumbia, Souleymane Goro, Baba Fallo Keita, and Néné Thiam. The five men and one woman began working together in 1978. The Groupe is largely responsible for having elevated bogolan, a Malian textile technique traditionally used to decorate garments, to an important symbol of national and even pan-African identity. The members of the Groupe met as students at the Institut National des Arts (L’INA) in Bamako. At that time, bogolan was rarely seen in urban areas and was fabricated only by rural women. The study of bogolan was also strictly forbidden at the art academy. The Groupe’s use of local materials and elevation of materials associated with craft is a strategy employed by many contemporary artists throughout the world. Their first objective, to promote and preserve bogolan and to have it accepted and valued as artistic expression has been achieved. The Groupe moved the technique from craftsmanship to art. Today the Groupe is known because of their numerous exhibitions in Mali and around the world. Working collaboratively and developing new approaches to this centuries-old technique, they have continued to feature it in their art and award-winning costume and set designs for film and stage as well as fabrics for fashion and home furnishings.

Searching for Memories of Colonial Literature in Modern History

2020 ◽  
pp. 189-201
Author(s):  
Zhang Quan
Keyword(s):  
Japanese Literature ◽  
Transformative Change ◽  
Modern History ◽  
Colonial Literature ◽  
Professional Career ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
The World ◽  
Per Se

Mei Niang (1916-2013) enjoyed the longest career amongst those in Manchukuo’s “Manchurian writer group.” The century spanning Mei Niang's life witnessed dramatic, transformative change for both China and the world, and her experiences evoke a richly colourful, complex, and confusing history marked by political tensions. This chapter analyses important elements of the woman writer's professional career – from her use of local Northeastern words, Chinese translations of Japanese literature, and her award-winning novel Crabs. It argue that her fictional production during imperial Japan's occupation was not colonial per se but, rather, should be considered within the context of an extraordinary young woman’s experience of surviving colonialism and her perceptions of it.

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