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Articles 1 - 17 of 17
Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
The Return Of Navajo Boy, Wvu Humanities Center
The Return Of Navajo Boy, Wvu Humanities Center
2019-2020
Poster for film was aired April 22, 2020 as part of the Local to Global 19-20 Film Series.
Harlan County Usa, Wvu Humanities Center, Wvu Libraries
Harlan County Usa, Wvu Humanities Center, Wvu Libraries
2019-2020
Poster for film aired February 5, 2020 as part of the Local to Global 19-20 Film Series.
Tank Girl, Wvu Humanities Center
Tank Girl, Wvu Humanities Center
2019-2020
Poster for film to be aired April 1, 2020 as part of the Local to Global 19-20 Film Series. The presentation was cancelled due to University response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Biutiful, Wvu Humanities Center
Once Upon A Time In Tarantino’S West: Persistence Of The Western As An American Fairy Tale, Beth Jane Toren
Once Upon A Time In Tarantino’S West: Persistence Of The Western As An American Fairy Tale, Beth Jane Toren
Faculty & Staff Scholarship
Traditionally associated with fairy tales, “Once upon a time” invites us to suspend disbelief, leave time behind, and be transported to an alternative world. Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in the West (C’era una volta il West, 1968), a follow-up to his Dollars Trilogy, invites us to visit “The West” not as a historical landscape but a surreal domain. Like the fairy-tale worlds of Grimm or Perrault, or in the film medium of Leone’s, Quentin Tarantino’s cinematic universes invite the audience to experience another dimension entirely. Not surprisingly then, his ninth film Once Upon a Time in …
'Tomboy' Is Anachronistic. But The Concept Still Has Something To Teach Us, Lynne Stahl
'Tomboy' Is Anachronistic. But The Concept Still Has Something To Teach Us, Lynne Stahl
Faculty & Staff Scholarship
This article explores the tomboy trope in film and literature and the "taming" that characterizes it, framing both in relation to contemporary debates about gender and sexual identity as well as cultural anxieties around queer, trans, and nonbinary identity. Examining texts from Louisa May Alcott's Little Women to the 1980 film Little Darlings, the article argues that even while the term tomboy may be obsolete, tomboy narratives document processes of rebellion that hold continuing value.
Mad Max Fury Road Introduction, Lynne Stahl
Mad Max Fury Road Introduction, Lynne Stahl
2019-2020
Transcript--Introduction to Mad Max: Fury Road
Lynne Stahl, WVU Libraries
9/4/2019
The Big Short, Wvu Humanities Center, Wvu Libraries
The Big Short, Wvu Humanities Center, Wvu Libraries
2019-2020
Poster for film aired November 6, 2019 as part of the Local to Global 19-20 Film Series.
Local To Global Film Series 19-20, Wvu Humanities Center, Wvu Libraries
Local To Global Film Series 19-20, Wvu Humanities Center, Wvu Libraries
2019-2020
The WVU Libraries and WVU Humanities Center are partnering up to bring a curated lineup of films to the WVU Campus. Spanning multiple genres and regions, each film will be introduced by WVU speakers.
Mad Max Fury Road, Wvu Humanities Center, Wvu Libraries
Mad Max Fury Road, Wvu Humanities Center, Wvu Libraries
2019-2020
Poster of film aired September 4, 2019 as part of the Local to Global 19-20 Film Series
Touki Bouki, Wvu Humanities Center, Wvu Libraries
Touki Bouki, Wvu Humanities Center, Wvu Libraries
2019-2020
Poster for film aired December 4,, 2019 as part of the Local to Global 19-20 Film Series.
Snowpiercer, Wvu Humanities Center, Wvu Libraries
Snowpiercer, Wvu Humanities Center, Wvu Libraries
2019-2020
Poster for film aired October 2, 2019 as part of the Local to Global 19-20 Film Series.
Assuming Identities: Gender, Sexuality, And Performativity In The Silence Of The Lambs, Lynne Stahl
Assuming Identities: Gender, Sexuality, And Performativity In The Silence Of The Lambs, Lynne Stahl
Faculty & Staff Scholarship
In the introduction to Epistemology of the Closet, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick discusses the instability of the ignorance/knowledge binary, which generally equates the latter with power and the former with impotence. She argues that ignorance (or the appearance thereof) can be a tool of power as well, citing as an example the 1986 ruling by the United States Justice Department that employers “may freely fire persons with AIDS” provided that those employers “can claim to be ignorant of the medical fact, quoted in the ruling, that there is no known health danger in the workplace from the disease” (5). That this …
Bam! Pow! Graphic Novels Fight Stereotypes In Academic Libraries: Supporting, Collecting, Promoting, Beth Jane Toren
Bam! Pow! Graphic Novels Fight Stereotypes In Academic Libraries: Supporting, Collecting, Promoting, Beth Jane Toren
University Libraries Faculty Scholarship
This study examines the launch of a graphic novel collection in an academic library and presents a study analyzing the increase of titles in Association of Research Libraries with the subject heading “Graphic Novels” between fall 2008 and fall 2009. Statistics show a 40% increase, averaging 62 additional titles, during a year of global financial crisis. Exploring the prejudice against comics lingering in more traditional corners of academia, this paper encourages librarians to counter stereotypes and therefore bring more people, including other librarians, to view graphic novels as literature. This study includes recommended practices for supporting, collecting, and promoting these …
Reading/Teaching Lawyer Films, James R. Elkins
Reading/Teaching Lawyer Films, James R. Elkins
Law Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Gandhi: The Spirituality And Politics Of Suffering, Charles R. Disalvo
Gandhi: The Spirituality And Politics Of Suffering, Charles R. Disalvo
Law Faculty Scholarship
This Article examines the 1982 film Gandhi. Although it took factual liberties with Gandhi's life, Professor DiSalvo concludes that it accurately conveyed Gandhi's dedication to self-suffering and philosophy of non-violence. The Article analyzes excerpts from the film which illustrate Gandhi's five fundamental beliefs on the spirituality and politics of suffering. Those beliefs are in suffering as a weapon, as empowerment, as self-interest, as propaganda, and as reconciliation. The film Gandhi also masterfully introduced millions to Gandhi's life, message, and legacy.
What Killed Mcmurphy, Roger A. Lohmann
What Killed Mcmurphy, Roger A. Lohmann
Faculty & Staff Scholarship
Despite the generally optimistic and hopeful tone of organizational goals and public policy, the general record of residential treatment institutions, or asylums, and of efforts to reform them have been equally unsuccessful. In this paper, it is argued that the lack of success in basic institutional reform over much of the past two centuries is, itself, a part of the tragic cycle of institutionalization. A principle factor in the failure of reforms (the tragic flaw, as it were) is the naive rationalism, which forms the psychological and sociological basis of the dominant model of institutional life used by institutional officials …