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Woman As Contender For The United States Presidency: A Look At The Movie, "The Contender", Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article explores whether the movie, "The Contender," supports the viability of a woman for the presidency of the United States.

On The Double: The Hidden (Queer And Jewish) Career Of Danny Kaye, Michael Bronski

Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)

Last year, in the early stages of applying for the Duberman Fellowship, I began by trying to discern a topic, a subject, that would involve me intellectually as well as emotionally. As a free-lance writer and cultural critic I am, more frequently than not, assigned subjects, books, movies, performances by my editors. If I received the Duberman I wanted to research and write about something that resonated with my life and current interests.

Which Original Works? Tracking Sophocles' Narrative In "Jean De Florette" And "Manon Des Sources", Marie-Jo Binet

French Faculty Publications

Pagnol's two-part novel, L'Eau des collines ( 1962), was inspired by his own films, Manon des sources and Ugolin, released ten years before (1952). Much better known are Berri's 1986 films bearing the novel's titles Jean de Florette and Manon des sources.

In this essay I want to examine the architectural and thematic transformations between the three types of "texts:'

I will show that each piece is referring to a different diegetic universe. Pagnol's film is a celebration of provencal verbal activity, ` joie de vivre," and of the Christian notions of redemption and forgiveness. The musical motif of L'Arlesienne …

Oscar Micheaux's Body And Soul And The Burden Of Representation, Pearl Bowser, Louise Spence

Communication, Media & The Arts Faculty Publications

This essay discusses the 1925 silent motion picture 'Body and Soul,' directed by Oscar Micheaux. It also explores the politics of racial identity of the time.

Ibpp Research Associates: Botswana, Ditso Anneleng

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article discusses educational and legal issues surrounding students from Botswana enrolled in an alleged fake educational institution - African Media University in South Africa.

Style Guide Of Clcweb: Comparative Literature And Culture, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

CLCWeb Library

No abstract provided.

Copyright Clcweb: Comparative Literature And Culture ©Purdue University, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

CLCWeb Library

No abstract provided.

Ontology Of Organization As System, Joel Slayton

SWITCH

Organization is a naturally occurring phenomenon and is often seen in the field of digital media and data. Self organization is under the control of the data itsel, which leads and directs its own ordering. It evolves as more inputs are placed and ultimately forms networks for it to work within. All data has relations with other information.

Interview With Lev Manovich, Inna Razumova

SWITCH

In the interview with Lev Manovich, the author of the book, “Database as a Symbolic Form”, Manovich expands on his assessment of the relationship between narrative and database described in his book, particularly his assertion that the workings of cinema have afforded database the privilege of being the contemporary world’s key form of cultural expression as opposed to the former mechanisms of narratives, traditionally. Advancing the concept of new media changing the nature of the relationship between producers and users of cultural objects by creating a larger overlap between them, the interview leads into a detailed dissection of Manovich’s thoughts …

On Cultural And Structural Change In Rte Television Drama, Edward Brennan

Articles

No abstract provided.

Winter/Spring 2001, 90.9 Wmpg Fm

WMPG Program Guides

Newspaper format.

Summer 2000, 90.9 Wmpg Fm

WMPG Program Guides

No abstract provided.

Winter/Spring 2000, 90.9 Wmpg Fm

WMPG Program Guides

Newspaper format

Fall/Winter 2000, Wmpg 90.9 Fm

WMPG Program Guides

WMPG program guide for Fall/Winter 2000

Includes notes from Program Director, information on shows and events, and schedule.

Discours Préfaciel Et Poétique Africaine, Andre-Patient Bokiba

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

The rather common use of a preface in African literature raises the question of the poetic value of such a practice. A preface written for the author by an older or recognized writer usually seeks to legitimate or consecrate that work. The author who writes his own preface, however, has other goals in mind and his preface is marked by a certain number of properties which, on a practical level, lend themselves to ambiguous interpretation. The present study is based on an analysis of some 100 introductory texts of all types. It concludes that, in writing his own preface, an …

Machian Epistemology And Its Part In František Kupka's Painterly Cognition Of Reality, John G. Hatch

Visual Arts Publications

A consensus has emerged amongst art historians that portrays the work the Czech painter, František Kupka (1871-1957), as fluctuating between differing styles and never resolving itself into one straightforward and single-minded direction beyond abstraction. Visually this is true, but for Kupka the visual was secondary in that it plays a subsidiary role to the process involved in the creation of the work itself. A failure to properly understand this process has resulted in an inaccurate reading of Kupka's art, essentially missing the point that his paintings embody in their imagery the cognitive process involved in their creation. Significantly, as I …

Digital Songlines: The Use Of Modern Communication Technology By An Aboriginal Community In Remote Australia, Lydia Buchtmann

Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)

In the mid-1980s the AUSSAT satellite brought television and radio to remote Australia for the first time. There was concern amongst Aboriginal communities that the imposition of mass media without consultation could result in permanent damage to culture and language. However, over the years, the Warlpiri people have adopted modern communication technology including radio, video making, locally produced television, and more recently on-line services. This paper examines why the Warlpiri have adopted modern communication technology and whether there have been social changes as a result. It also looks at the pioneering media work by the Pitjantjatjara people at Ernabella in …

Secrecy As Strategy In Dracula, Jean Marigny

Journal of Dracula Studies

No abstract provided.

Desire And Loathing In Bram Stoker's Dracula, Nancy F. Rosenberg

Journal of Dracula Studies

No abstract provided.

Dracula And The Gothic Imagination Of War, Bryan Alexander

Journal of Dracula Studies

When Jonathan Harker first describes Castle Dracula, his journals rely on the language of war. Unable to pin down the castle’s site on an Ordnance Map, Harker is able to see instead the liminal city of Bistritz in terms of a historic siege (11). As he approaches nearer, Harker relates a companion’s (mis)quotation from Burger’s “Lenore,” a line spoken by an undead soldier, all too recently at war (17). Castle Dracula itself appears textually as a mix of military and Gothic discourses, whose “frowning walls and dark window openings” (21) serve both to situate Harker in classically Gothic space, and …

Vampire Crime, Katherine Ramsland

Journal of Dracula Studies

While most of the vampire subculture these days is a benign form of role-playing, there have been cases of people who were inspired by the predatory image to kill. To their minds, the vampire mythos provides a framework that inspires and even licenses certain types of violent behaviors. Although this bloodthirsty impulse reaches back centuries and crosses cultures, I want to examine the mythology’s influence on three cases in recent American culture: Roderick Ferrell, James Riva, and Richard Trenton Chase. I will take one case at a time and then discuss how they attach to the vampire frame.

Filming Dracula: Vampires, Genre, And Cinematography, Jörg Waltje

Journal of Dracula Studies

No abstract provided.

Creative Writing, Storyboarding And Video Script Writing As Techniques To Stimulate The Development Of Imagination And Imagery To Aid In Reading Comprehension, Ellen Settlemyer Bartelli

All Graduate Projects

The relationship between imagination, pretend play, and reading comprehension was researched through the literature. A curriculum unit was designed featuring two exercises using imagination and imagery in conjunction with the book Night by Elie Wiesel. The first exercise asked students to write a 10 entry journal synthesizing information from a variety of sources into a first person narrative of a Jewish child. The second exercise calls for student groups to write, storyboard, and film a scene from Night on videotape.

Ken Burns’S Rebirth Of A Nation: Television, Narrative, And Popular History, Gary Edgerton

Scholarship and Professional Work - Communication

Gary Edgerton's contribtution to "Landy, Marcia. The Historical Film: History and Memory in Media. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 2001."

Life That Loves To Happen Image Samples, Unknown

Landon Saunders Documents

Image mockups for book and seminar series Life That Loves to Happen. Date is estimated.

American Holocaust Films: A Case Study In Jewish American Identity (1937-1993), Jeff Daniels

Honors Theses

When examining the image of the Jew in American Holocaust films, one is truly determining how American Jews view themselves. These films' presentation of Jews exposes not only how Jewish Americans wished to see themselves but also how much Gentile Americans wanted to see of Jewish culture. An exploration of America's Holocaust films from the late 1930s to the early 1990s reveals an increasing concentration of Jews as the main victims of the event. The degree to which this specificity is emphasized exhibits how much the American public accepted Jews and their plight. At the same time, the prevalence of …

The Gendered World Of Disney: A Content Analysis Of Gender Themes In Full-Length Animated Disney Feature Films, Beth A. Wiersma

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Research has focused on the gender messages portrayed in television programs, cartoons, advertisements, literature, picture books, and fairy tales. One venue that has not received as much attention in the research is the Disney 1 full-length animated feature films. This is a qualitative study of the gender themes and portrayal of gender roles in full-length animated feature films by The Walt Disney Company. The findings in this research indicate there has been little change in the stereotyped portrayals of Disney characters from the release of the first full-length animated feature film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in 1937 to …

Review Of Searching For Hawa's Secret, John Stephen Brantley

Faculty & Staff Research & Creative Activity

No abstract provided.

Review Of Searching For Hawa's Secret, John Brantley

Faculty & Staff Research & Creative Activity

No abstract provided.

Fit To Print: A Content Analysis Of The Regent Universities' Student Papers, Ivy A. Sprague

Presidential Scholars Theses (1990 – 2006)

To the best of my knowledge, this is the first comparative study conducted regarding the student publications for the three Iowa Regents' universities. The data collected shows that the three publications are not as different in terms of content as many of their readers seem to believe. As the data reflects, the Northern Iowan is significantly more campus-centered in its coverage. However, the difference is not so significant that the staff of the Northern Iowan could not increase its national and international coverage to make it more comparable to the other two newspapers. I hope this research can be of …