Memoir - autotheory - the personal essay — first-personalism as dark literary style

SINCE THE 1920s, the majority of US college applications have required, along with test scores and transcripts, a written personal statement demonstrating "character." That such a subjective quality should be decisive in admissions is an odd, distinctly (though perhaps not uniquely) American practice that, at its genesis, was motivated by antisemitism and racism. As Jerome Karabel writes in The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton (2005), requi...

Say Goodbye to Hollywood: John Schlesinger’s The Day of the Locust (1975)

By Jeremy Carr. There has never been a self-referential Hollywood feature quite like 1975’s The Day of the Locust, a twisting and twisted tale of sullied lives, desperation, and, ultimately, sheer madness." Hollywood has always been rather good at building itself up, generating films that flaunt the glamour of Tinseltown, the glory of sun-kissed stardom, and the charm of movie magic. At the same time, and particularly in the hands of more iconoclastic filmmakers, Hollywood has a...

Cultural Sophistication and Self-Reference on American Television

Fully:Cultural Sophistication and Self-Reference on American Television: Seeds of Hope?by Ralph DumainGenerally when I look at American culture these days I see little but degeneracy. I am rarely heartened even by the obvious sophistication that our society has achieved in certain respects over the past two decades, because it is so heavily counterbalanced by increased fragmentation, intellectual laziness, dehumanization, and superficiality. The sophistication that we do have is not so much a...

On Not Asking if I should Insert Myself in the Text

There is a passage in Ruth Behar’s book, The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology that breaks your heart, in which she identifies the ‘most difficult feat of all’ for writers: how to ‘insert our participating-and-observing selves into the story’. It was 1996 and Behar was addressing anthropology researchers who were tasked with developing a rich textual account of the workplaces and communities where they had spent months and years. She made a case for using what she called a ‘personal voice’ in...

Adaptation, Appropriation, Translation - Online, 8-10 Dec 2023

updated:     Friday, September 1, 2023 - 9:53am    full name / name of organization:           Theatre and Drama Network (TDN)        contact email:     theatredramanetwork@gmail.com    categories (up to 5):     ecocriticism and environmental studiesfilm and televisiontheatretheorytwentieth century and beyond    deadline for submissions:     September 30, 2023In her work, A Theory of Adaptation, Linda Hutcheon describes the term "adaptation" as "[a]n acknowledged transposition of a recog...

Linguistic Idealism as a Weapon of Poststructuralist and Postmodernist Politics

This is the follow up to my essay ‘Poststructuralism and Deconstruction as Forms of (Linguistic) Idealism’. My last essay was about Catherine Belsey’s poststructuralism, and how it’s strongly reliant (if implicitly) on linguistic idealism. (Belsey was a literary critic and academic.) This essay, on the other hand, attempts to show how Belsey and other poststructuralists/postmodernists use the philosophical position of linguistic idealism (if without using that term) as a means to further vari...

Robert Burns

RB is also Roast Beef and Roland Barthes! -zas Jun 2022 Robert Burns (person) See all of Robert Burns, there is 1 more in this node. (person) by Gone Jackal (2.9 mon) Rep: 51 ( +52 / -1 ) (Rep Graph) (+) Mon Jan 15 2001 at 17:32:42 A short, oversimplified biography: Robert Burns was born on the 25th of January, 1759 in Alloway, a village in Ayrshire, Scotland, to a poor but educated farmer. Since the village was too poor to afford a school master, he was educated by his fath...

Filippo Fimiani, Just a Mess. Définitions Analogies Dialectiques - PhilPapers

Just a Mess. Définitions Analogies Dialectiques Filippo Fimiani Parigi, Francia: Mimesis (2021) Authors Filippo Fimiani Università degli Studi di Salerno Abstract The paper leans on a movie cult from the 1960s, Blow-Up (1966) by Michelangelo Antonioni, of which a famous sequence is often mentioned, the one in which the protagonist, the photographer Thomas (considered here as a "conceptual character"), repeatedly enlarged the photographs he made in a park, in order ...

Supreme Court to Hear Warhol Copyright Infringement Case

The US Supreme Court today announced that it will rule as to whether Andy Warhol’s use of a photograph taken by Lynn Goldsmith constitutes fair use. The case centers around a full-length black-and-white portrait of Prince that Goldsmith shot in 1981, working on commission for Newsweek. Three years later, Warhol appropriated the image for a silk-screen illustration accompanying a Vanity Fair article titled "Purple Fame," boosting the portrait’s contrast, altering the palette to include deep or...

Portuguese-English False Cognates | AJE

Portuguese-English False Cognates There are certain terms that authors should be particularly aware of when translating from Portuguese to English. Also available in: português Another article features a set of false friends (or false cognates) to watch out for when translating from Spanish to English. False cognates are terms that look similar but have very different meanings. Authors translating their work need to be careful with such terms; it is easy to substitute a similar-s...

Experimental Cinema of Neelon Crawford

Working primarily with a hand-wound 16mm Bolex, Neelon Crawford made a series of experimental films from 1968 through 1980. Shot in the US, the United Kingdom, and South America, the films explored light and movement in a variety of landscapes. Crawford manipulated the image through film stocks, filters, frame rates, double- and triple-exposures, animation, editing, and printing, at times adding soundtracks to imagery that ranged from observational to abstract.Crawford’s films were featured i...

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Jean-François Lyotard quote

Philosophers Home Jean-François Lyotard @PoMoCondition (1924-1998)Major Works: The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, Libidinal Economy, Differend: Phrases in Dispute Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Wikipedia ...