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| jesse copjec: Record of Proceedings of the Board of Trustees of the Ohio State University Ohio State University. Board of Trustees, 2003 |
| jesse copjec: Shades of Noir Joan Copjec, 1993 For this was the summer when, after the hiatus of the Second World War, French critics were again given the opportunity to view films from Hollywood. The films they saw, including The Maltese Falcon, Double Indemnity. Laura, Murder, My Sweet, and The Woman in the Window, prompted the naming and theorization of a new phenomenon: film noir. Much of what has been written about the genre since has remained within the orbit of this preliminary assessment. While sympathetic towards the early French critics, this collection of original essays attempts to move beyond their first fascinated look. Beginning with an autonomy of that look—of the 'poujadist' climate that nourished it and the imminent collapse of the Hollywood studio system that gave it its mournful inflection—Shades of Noir re-explores and calls into question the object first constructed by it. The impetus for this shift in perspective comes from the films themselves, viewed in the light of contemporary social and political concerns, and from new theoretical insights. Several contributions analyze the re-emergence of noir in recent years, most notably in the hybrid forms produced in the 1980s by the merging of noir with science fiction and horror, for example Blade Runner and Angel Heart, and in films by black directors such as Deep Cover, Straight out of Brooklyn, A Rage in Harlem and One False Move. Other essays focus on the open urban territory in which the noir hero hides out; the office spaces in Chandler, and the palpable sense of waiting that fills empty warehouses, corridors and hotel rooms. Finally, Shades of Noir pays renewed attention to the lethal relation between the sexes; to the femme fatale and the other women in noir. As the role of women expands, the femme fatale remains deadly, but her deadliness takes on new meanings. Contributors: Janet Bergstrom, Joan Copjec, Elizabeth Cowie, Manthia Diawara, Frederic Jameson, Dean MacCannel, Fred Pfeil, David Reid and Jayne L. Walker, Marc Vernet, Slavoj Zizek. |
| jesse copjec: A Concise Companion to Visual Culture A. Joan Saab, Aubrey Anable, Catherine Zuromskis, 2020-12-31 Provides an up-to-date overview of the present state Visual Cultural Studies, featuring new original content, topics, and methods The Wiley Blackwell Concise Companion to Visual Culture brings together original research by both established scholars and new voices in the dynamic field, exploring the history, current state, and possible future directions of visual cultural studies. Organized as a series of non-traditional keyword essays, this innovative volume engages readers with a diversity of ideas and perspectives to broaden and enrich their understanding of visual culture and its operations. This accessible, reader-friendly volume begins with a brief introduction to the history and practices of visual studies, featuring interviews and conversations with key figures such as W.J.T. Mitchell and Douglas Crimp. The majority of the text explores key concepts within a broad framework of history, ecologies, mediations, agencies, and politics while placing particular emphasis on interdisciplinarity and intersectionality. Essays cover keyword topics including Identities, Representation, Institutions, Architectures, Memes, Environment, Temporality, and many more. Offering a unique approach to the subject, this timely resource: Presents new work from a diverse group of scholars with a broad range of social, cultural, and generational perspectives Emphasizes the importance of activism and political urgency in humanities scholarship Discusses engaging objects and discourses beyond film and art, such as architecture, video games, political activism, and the nonhuman Highlights the diverse and interconnecting elements of visual culture scholarship Includes case studies and short introductions that provide context and reinforce core concepts The Wiley Blackwell Concise Companion to Visual Culture is essential reading for advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and scholars in the fields of visual studies, art history, film studies, and media studies. |
| jesse copjec: Writing Center Research Paula Gillespie, Alice Gillam, Lady Falls Brown, Byron Stay, 2001-12 Original essays by writing center researchers directly address current concerns about writing ctr. research through detailed accounts of research and use of diversity of research methodologies available to both veteran & novice writing ctr. professionals |
| jesse copjec: Dreams of the Burning Child David Lee Miller, 2018-07-05 In Dreams of the Burning Child, David Lee Miller explores the uncanny persistence of filial sacrifice as a motif in English literature and its classical and biblical antecedents. He combines strikingly original reinterpretations of the Aeneid, Hamlet, The Winter's Tale, and Dombey and Son with perceptive accounts of dreams found in memoirs, poems, and psychoanalytic texts. Miller looks closely at the grisly fantasy of the sacrifice of sons as it is depicted in classical epic, early modern drama, the nineteenth-century novel, the postcolonial novel, the lyric, the funeral elegy, sacred scriptures, and psychoanalytic theory. He also draws examples from painting, sculpture, photography, and architecture into a witty and engaging discussion that ranges from the binding of Isaac to Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, and from questions of literary history to the dilemmas of patriarchal masculinity. |
| jesse copjec: War and Television Bruce Cumings, 1992 Television has come to play an ever more decisive role in the preparation and planning of war, as well as in its execution. In War and Television Bruce Cumings carefully explores the history of television's relationship to US warmaking since World War II, up to and including its presentation of the carnage in Kuwait and Iraq. Cumings examines Vietnam, long thought to have been the first television war, but finds that characterization more apt for the Gulf conflict which was fought through, packaged by, and sold to the public on television. At the centre of the book is the extraordinary tale of Cumings's own experience as historical consultant to a Thames Television production, Korea: The Unknown War, and his subsequent trials with the Public Broadcasting System when the film was released for North American distribution. |
| jesse copjec: Race, Politics, and Economic Development James Jennings, 1992 In April 1992, the world witnessed a renewal in South Central Los Angeles of the urban violence that exploded over a quarter of a century earlier. As in 1965, the spark that ignited the firestorm was Black rage over police brutality. But in both eras the tinder was prepared by decades of social neglect and political disenfranchisement that have left the predominantly non-white urban poor trapped and virtually without hope. Race, Politics, and Economic Development strips away the veneer of mass-media images to examine the underlying causes of Black urban poverty and to recommend means to escape the seemingly endless cycle of retributive violence that it spawns. The book brings together Black activists and scholars, including two former mayors of American cities, to analyse the theoretical and practical problems currently facing the Black community in the United States. The essays collected here are dominated by three key themes: that political influence, power, and wealth are major factors in determining social welfare policies directed at Blacks, the poor and the working class; that both liberal and conservative policies over the last fifty years are no longer effective in alleviating a growing human service crisis among Blacks; and that the political mobilization of impoverished sectors of the Black community is absolutely critical in resolving the problem of poverty in urban America. Drawing on new work in the social sciences, political theory, and economics, and also on the contributors' activist experiences, these essays represent a pathbreaking new agenda for the participation of grassroots Black leaders in developing and implementing urban policy. Contributors: Jeremiah Cotton, Julianne Malveaux, Mack H. Jones, Charles P. Henry, Walter Stafford, William Fletcher Jr., Eugene Newport, Sheila Ards, Jacqueline Pope, Keith Jennings, Lloyd Hogan, Richard Hatcher. |
| jesse copjec: Kittler Now Stephen Sale, Laura Salisbury, 2015-03-17 Friedrich Kittler was one of the world’s most influential, provocative and misunderstood media theorists. His work spans analyses of historical ‘discourse networks’ inspired by French poststructuralism, influential theorizations of new media, through to musings on music and mathematics. Always controversial and relentlessly unpredictable, Kittler’s work is a major reference point for contemporary media theory, literary criticism and cultural studies. This is the only book of essays currently available in English on an important thinker whose influence across disciplines is growing. The volume situates Kittler’s ideas, explaining and critiquing his sometimes difficult writing, and using his theories to undertake innovative readings of old and new media. It also includes previously untranslated work by Kittler himself. Contributors include Caroline Bassett, Steven Connor, Alexander R. Galloway, Mark B. Hansen, John Durham Peters and Geoffrey Winthrop-Young. |
| jesse copjec: Performing the Body/Performing the Text Amelia Jones, Andrew Stephenson Nfa, Andrew Stephenson, 2005-08-12 This book explores the new performativity in art theory and practice, examining ways of rethinking interpretive processes in visual culture. Since the 1960s, visual art practices - from body art to minimalism - have taken contemporary art outside the museum and gallery; by embracing theatricality and performance and exploding the boundaries set by traditional art criticism. The contributors argue that interpretation needs to be recognised as much more dynamic and contingent. Offering its own performance script, and embracing both canonical fine artists such as Manet, De Kooning and Jasper Johns, and performance artists such as Vito Acconci and Gunter Brus, this book offers radical re-readings of art works and points confidently towards new models for understanding art. |
| jesse copjec: Red Dirt Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, 1997 Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz tells the story of her hardships as a child growing up in Oklahoma. |
| jesse copjec: Cinematic Cuts Sheila Kunkle, 2016-05-09 <i>Explores the philosophical, literary, and psychoanalytic significance of film endings.</i><br> Editing has been called the language of cinema, and thus a film’s ending can be considered the final punctuation mark of this language, framing everything that came before and offering the key to both our interpretation and our enjoyment of a film. In <i>Cinematic Cuts</i>, scholars explore the philosophical, literary, and psychoanalytic significance of film endings, analyzing how film endings engage our fantasies of cheating death, finding true love, or determining the meaning of life. They examine how endings offer various forms of enjoyment for the spectator, from the momentary fulfillment of desire in the happy ending to the pleasurable torment of an indeterminate ending. The contributors also consider how film endings open onto larger questions relating to endings in our time. They suggest how a film ending’s hidden counternarrative can be read as a political act, how our interpretation of a film ending parallels the end of a psychoanalytical session, how film endings reveal our anxieties and fears, and how cinema itself might end with the increasing intervention of digital technologies that reorient the spectator’s sense of temporality and closure. Films by Akira Kurosawa, Lars von Trier, Joon-Hwan Jang, Claire Denis, Christopher Nolan, Jane Campion, John Huston, and Spike Jonze, among others, are discussed.<br> |
| jesse copjec: Shades of Noir Joan Copjec, 1993-11-17 These essays examine film noir in the light of contemporary social and political concerns, attempting to move beyond the views of the early French critics. Topics range from the re-emergence of noir in films such as Bladerunner, to the relations between the sexes and the role of women. |
| jesse copjec: Everyday Evil in Stephen King's America Jason S. Polley, Stephanie Hamilton, 2024-06-03 This edited collection variously interrogates how everyday evil manifests in Stephen King’s now-familiar American imaginary; an imaginary that increases the representational limits of both anticipated and experienced realism. Divided into three parts: I. The Man, II. The Monster, and III. The Re-mediator, the book offers rigorous readings of evil, realism, and popular culture as represented in a range of texts (and paratexts) from the King canon. Rich with images, a photo-essay, and appendices collecting classical texts and cultural detritus germane to King, this book moves away from viewing King’s work primarily through the lens of the “American gothic” and toward the realism that the suspense novelist’s voice (fictional and non-) and influence (literary and popular) indelibly continue to amplify, all the while complicating the traditional divide between serious literature and popular fiction. Stephen King remains perpetually popular. And he is finally receiving the academic treatment he has craved since the early 1980s. Yet still unexamined in the King critical canon is the suspense novelist’s fascination with “everyday evil.” Beyond rigorous interrogations of King’s fictional depictions of “everyday evil” by an array of scholars of different ranks living around the world (Canada, Finland, Hong Kong, the UK), the book, replete with 20 images, considers how King widens the parameters of literary production and appreciation. An integral part of the Americana that King’s five-decades-in-the-making canon configures, of course, includes King himself. King has long made use of self-referentiality in his fiction and nonfiction. Some of his nonfiction, several of our essays reveal, recirculates in paratextual form as “Prefatory Remarks” to new novels or new editions of older ones. The paratexts considered here (both across the volume and in the appendices) offer alternate ways by which to appreciate King and his sphere of influence (literary and popular). Said appendices are a grouping of King's paratexts on his writing as Bachman, appearing here, for the first time, as a cohesive collection. King's influence took off in the 1970s, as is further explored in the book-enveloping three-part photo-essay “King’s America, America’s King: Stephen King & Popular Culture since the 1970s.” About the transformative quality of “everyday evil,” the photo-essay tracks the cultural impacts of King first as an emerging author, then a pop culture phenomenon, and, finally, as an established American literary voice. Everyday Evil in Stephen King's America is designed to appeal to teachers and students of American literature, to Stephen King enthusiasts, as well as to acolytes of Americana since the Vietnam War. |
| jesse copjec: White Liberal Identity, Literary Pedagogy, and Classic American Realism Phillip Barrish, 2005 White Liberal Identity, Literary Pedagogy, and Classic American Realism brings literary works from the turn of the last century face to face with some of the dilemmas and paradoxes that currently define white liberal identity in the United States. Phillip Barrish develops fresh analytic and pedagogical tools for probing contemporary white liberalism, while also offering new critical insights and classroom approaches to American literary realism. New ground is broken by using bold close analysis of works by canonical American realist writers such as Henry James, Edith Wharton, Mark Twain, and Kate Chopin. These contexts include an affirmative-action court case, the liberal arts classroom, and the war on drugs, as well as current debates about the United States' role on the international scene. Invoking a methodology that he calls critical presentism, Barrish's book offers a fresh response to that perennial classroom question, often posed most forcefully by students committed to progressive political agendas: why devote so much time and effort to detailed analyses of canonical American literature? This book makes specific contributions not only to American literary and cultural studies, but also to critical race theory, masculinity studies, and critical pedagogy. -- from back cover. |
| jesse copjec: Beyond Sexuality Tim Dean, 2000-09 Beyond Sexuality points contemporary sexual politics in a radically new direction. Combining a psychoanalytic emphasis on the unconscious with a deep respect for the historical variability of sexual identities, this original work of queer theory makes the case for viewing erotic desire as fundamentally impersonal. Tim Dean develops a reading of Jacques Lacan that—rather than straightening out this notoriously difficult French psychoanalyst—brings out the queer tensions and productive incoherencies in his account of desire. Dean shows how the Lacanian unconscious deheterosexualizes desire, and along the way he reveals how psychoanalytic thinkers as well as queer theorists have failed to exploit the full potential of this conception of desire. The book elaborates this by investigating social fantasies about homosexuality and AIDS, including gay men's own fantasies about sex and promiscuity, in an attempt to illuminate the challenges facing safe-sex education. Taking on many shibboleths in contemporary psychoanalysis and queer theory—and taking no prisoners—Beyond Sexuality offers an antidote to hagiographical strains in recent work on psychoanalysis, Foucault, and sexuality. |
| jesse copjec: Back Talk from Appalachia Dwight B. Billings, Gurney Norman, Katherine Ledford, 2013-07-24 Appalachia has long been stereotyped as a region of feuds, moonshine stills, mine wars, environmental destruction, joblessness, and hopelessness. Robert Schenkkan's 1992 Pulitzer-Prize winning play The Kentucky Cycle once again adopted these stereotypes, recasting the American myth as a story of repeated failure and poverty—the failure of the American spirit and the poverty of the American soul. Dismayed by national critics' lack of attention to the negative depictions of mountain people in the play, a group of Appalachian scholars rallied against the stereotypical representations of the region's people. In Back Talk from Appalachia, these writers talk back to the American mainstream, confronting head-on those who view their home region one-dimensionally. The essays, written by historians, literary scholars, sociologists, creative writers, and activists, provide a variety of responses. Some examine the sources of Appalachian mythology in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literature. Others reveal personal experiences and examples of grassroots activism that confound and contradict accepted images of hillbillies. The volume ends with a series of critiques aimed directly at The Kentucky Cycle and similar contemporary works that highlight the sociological, political, and cultural assumptions about Appalachia fueling today's false stereotypes. |
| jesse copjec: Villainy in Western Culture M. Gregory Kendrick, 2016-03-01 Every society has its lineup of wicked, unethical characters--real or fictional--who are regarded as villainous. This book explores how Western societies have used villains to sort insiders from outsiders and establish behavioral norms to support harmony and well-being. There are three parts: nature and barbarians as sinister others bent on destroying Western civilization; tyrants, traitors and femmes fatales as challenges to ideals of legitimate governance, patriotism and gender roles; and gangsters, grifters and murderers as models of evil or unprincipled behavior. The author also discusses two related phenomena: the dramatic paring down of what is considered villainous in the West, and the proliferation of over-the-top villains in pop culture and mass media. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here. |
| jesse copjec: Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism Adrian Johnston, 2019-09-15 Adrian Johnston’s trilogy Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism aims to forge a thoroughly materialist yet antireductive theory of subjectivity. In this second volume, A Weak Nature Alone, Johnston focuses on the philosophy of nature required for such a theory. This volume is guided by a fundamental question: How must nature be rethought so that human minds and freedom do not appear to be either impossible or inexplicable within it? Asked differently: How must the natural world itself be structured such that sapient subjects in all their distinctive peculiarities emerged from and continue to exist within this world? In A Weak Nature Alone, Johnston develops his transcendental materialist account of nature through engaging with and weaving together five main sources of inspiration: Hegelian philosophy, Marxist materialism, Freudian-Lacanian metapsychology, Anglo-American analytic neo-Hegelianism, and evolutionary theory and neurobiology. Johnston argues that these seemingly (but not really) strange bedfellows should be brought together so as to construct a contemporary ontology of nature. Through this ontology, nonnatural human subjects can be seen to arise in an immanent, bottom-up fashion from nature itself. |
| jesse copjec: Hot Equations Jesse S. Cohn, 2024-05-15 Inspired by the new diversity of science fiction, fantasy, and horror in the twenty-first century, Hot Equations: Science, Fantasy, and the Radical Imagination on a Troubled Planet confronts the kinds of literary and political “realism” that continue to suppress the radical imagination. Alluding both to the ongoing climate catastrophe and to Tom Godwin’s “The Cold Equations”—that famous touchstone of “hard science fiction”—Hot Equations reads the crises of our post-normal moment via works that increasingly subvert genre containment and spill out into the public sphere. Drawing on archives and contemporary theory, author Jesse S. Cohn argues that these imaginative works of science fiction, fantasy, and horror strike at the very foundations of modernity, calling its basic assumptions into question. They threaten the modern order with a simultaneously terrible and promising anarchy, pointing to ways beyond the present medical, ecological, and political crises of pandemic, climate change, and rising global fascism. Examining books ranging from well-known titles like The Hunger Games and The Caves of Steel to newer works such as Under the Pendulum Sun and The Stone Sky, Cohn investigates the ways in which science fiction, fantasy, and horror address contemporary politics, social issues, and more. The “cold equations” that established normal life in the modern world may be in shambles, Cohn suggests, but a New Black Fantastic makes it possible for the radical imagination to glimpse viable possibilities on the other side of crisis. |
| jesse copjec: Lacanian Perspectives on Blade Runner 2049 Calum Neill, 2020-12-18 This book provides a collection of Lacanian responses to Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049 from leading theorists in the field. Like Ridley Scott’s original Blade Runner film, its sequel is now poised to provoke philosophical and psychoanalytic arguments, and to provide illustrations and inspiration for questions of being and the self, for belief and knowledge, the human and the post-human, amongst others. This volume forms the vanguard of responses from a Lacanian perspective, satisfying the hunger to extend the theoretical considerations of the first film in the various new directions the second film invites. Here, the contributors revisit the implications of the human-replicant relationship but move beyond this to consider issues of ideology, politics, and spectatorship. This exciting collection will appeal to an educated film going public, in addition to students and scholars of Lacanian psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic theory, cultural studies, film theory, philosophy and applied psychoanalysis. |
| jesse copjec: Kubrick's Men Richard Rambuss, 2021-03-02 A provocative re-reading of Stanley Kubrick’s work and its focus on masculine desire The work of Stanley Kubrick amounts to a sustained reflection on the male condition: past, present, and future. The persistent theme of his filmmaking is less violence or sex than it is the pressurized exertion of masculinity in unusual or extreme circumstances, where it may be taxed or exaggerated to various effects, tragic and comic—or metamorphosed, distorted, and even undone. The stories that Kubrick’s movies tell range from global nuclear politics to the unpredictable sexual dynamics of a marriage; from a day in the life of a New York City prizefighter preparing for a nighttime bout to the evolution of humankind. These male melodramas center on sociality and asociality. They feature male doubles, pairs, and rivals. They explore the romance of men and their machines, and men as machines. They figure intensely conflicted forms of male sexual desire. And they are also very much about male manners, style, taste, and art. Examining the formal, thematic, and theoretical affiliations between Kubrick’s three bodies of work—his photographs, his documentaries, and his feature films—Kubrick’s Men offers new vantages on to the question of gender and sexuality, including the first extended treatment of homosexuality in Kubrick’s male-oriented work. |
| jesse copjec: An Investigative Cinema Fabrizio Cilento, 2018-07-17 This book traces the development of investigative cinema, whose main characteristic lies in reconstructing actual events, political crises, and conspiracies. These documentary-like films refrain from a simplistic reconstruction of historical events and are mainly concerned with what does not immediately appear on the surface of events. Consequently, they raise questions about the nature of the “truth” promoted by institutions, newspapers, and media reports. By highlighting unanswered questions, they leave us with a lack of clarity, and the questioning of documentation becomes the actual narrative. Investigative cinema is examined in relation to the historical conjunctures of the “economic miracle” in Italy, the simultaneous decolonization and reordering of culture in France, the waves of globalization and neoliberalism in post-dictatorial Latin America, and the post-Watergate, post-9/11 climate in US society. Investigative cinema is exemplified by the films Salvatore Giuliano, The Battle of Algiers, The Parallax View, Gomorrah, Zero Dark Thirty, and Citizenfour. |
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| jesse copjec: The Biopic in Contemporary Film Culture Tom Brown, Belén Vidal, 2013-12-17 The biographical film or biopic is a staple of film production in all major film industries and yet, within film studies, its generic, aesthetic, and cultural significance has remained underexplored. The Biopic in Contemporary Film Culture fills this gap, conceptualizing the biopic with a particular eye toward the life of the genre internationally. New theoretical approaches combine with specially commissioned chapters on contemporary biographical film production in India, Italy, South Korea, France, Russia, Great Britain, and the US, in order to present a selective but well-rounded portrait of the biopic’s place in film culture. From Marie Antoinette to The Social Network, the pieces in this volume critically examine the place of the biopic within ongoing debates about how cinema can and should represent history and real lives. Contributors discuss the biopic’s grounding in the conventions of the historical film, and explore the genre’s defining traits as well as its potential for innovation. The Biopic in Contemporary Film Culture expands the critical boundaries of this evolving, versatile genre. |
| jesse copjec: The Subject of Torture Hilary Neroni, 2015-05-05 Considering representations of torture in such television series as 24, Alias, and Homeland; the documentaries Taxi to the Dark Side (2007), Ghosts of Abu Ghraib (2007), and Standard Operating Procedure (2008); and torture porn feature films from the Saw and Hostel series, Hilary Neroni unites aesthetic and theoretical analysis to provide a unique portal into theorizing biopower and its relation to the desiring subject. Her work ultimately showcases film and television studies' singular ability to expose and potentially disable the fantasies that sustain torture and the regimes that deploy it. |
| jesse copjec: The Serial Podcast and Storytelling in the Digital Age Ellen McCracken, 2017-02-03 Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: The Unending Story -- 1 The Ethics of Serialized True Crime: Fictionality in Serial Season One -- 2 Sounds Authentic: The Acoustic Construction of Serial 's Storyworld -- 3 Narrative Levels, Theory of Mind, and Sociopathy in True-Crime Narrative-Or, How Is Serial Different from Your Average Dateline Episode? -- 4 The Serial Commodity: Rhetoric, Recombination, and Indeterminacy in the Digital Age -- 5 What We Know: Convicting Narratives in NPR's Serial -- 6 The Impossible Ethics of Serial : Sarah Koenig, Foucault, Lacan -- 7 Serial 's Aspirational Aesthetics and Racial Erasure -- Contributors -- Index |
| jesse copjec: A Concise Companion to Psychoanalysis, Literature, and Culture Laura Marcus, Ankhi Mukherjee, 2014-03-31 This concise companion explores the history of psychoanalytic theory and its impact on contemporary literary criticism by tracing its movement across disciplinary and cultural boundaries. Contains original essays by leading scholars, using a wide range of cultural and historical approaches Discusses key concepts in psychoanalysis, such as the role of dreaming, psychosexuality, the unconscious, and the figure of the double, while considering questions of gender, race, asylum and international law, queer theory, time, and memory Spans the fields of psychoanalysis, literature, cultural theory, feminist and gender studies, translation studies, and film. Provides a timely and pertinent assessment of current psychoanalytic methods while also sketching out future directions for theory and interpretation |
| jesse copjec: Gothic in Comics and Graphic Novels Julia Round, 2014-02-07 This book explores the connections between comics and Gothic from four different angles: historical, formal, cultural and textual. It identifies structures, styles and themes drawn from literary gothic traditions and discusses their presence in British and American comics today, with particular attention to the DC Vertigo imprint. Part One offers an historical approach to British and American comics and Gothic, summarizing the development of both their creative content and critical models, and discussing censorship, allusion and self-awareness. Part Two brings together some of the gothic narrative strategies of comics and reinterprets critical approaches to the comics medium, arguing for an holistic model based around the symbols of the crypt, the spectre and the archive. Part Three then combines cultural and textual analysis, discussing the communities that have built up around comics and gothic artifacts and concluding with case studies of two of the most famous gothic archetypes in comics: the vampire and the zombie. |
| jesse copjec: No Crystal Stair Lynell George, 1992-11-17 Contains essays, reports, vignettes, oral histories, and autobiographies examining the daily lives of African Americans in Los Angeles. |
| jesse copjec: In Praise of Cinematic Bastardy Sébastien Lefait, Philippe Ortoli, 2012-03-15 Cinema may be called a bastard art in both meanings of the word: because it is usually defined as a hybrid art form, obviously, but also, and perhaps more importantly, because it has been able to become formally as well as generically innovative mostly through adulterous relationships, thus making illegitimacy its grounding principle by preferring a blurred lineage to a legible succession. Trying to find what film is referred to in a sequence, therefore, amounts to establishing a clear family tree, which takes no account of the illegitimate unions, natural children and forgotten ancestors that are nevertheless part and parcel of film history. If that quest should still be conducted, its object, it seems, should not be one sole point of reference. The aim of this book is to create the opportunity of studying, and perhaps of rehabilitating, those shadowy corners of cinematographic creation and film memory, and to provide film studies, but also literature and Arts studies altogether, with a newly productive way of using such familiar notions as difference, quotation, reference, blending, hybridity, miscegenation or crossbreeding. |
| jesse copjec: Straight with a Twist Calvin Thomas, Joseph O. Aimone, Catherine A. F. MacGillivray, 2000 This engaging collection poses the question, Can straight people think queer? Straight with a Twist offers a refreshing look at the relation between queer theory and critical examinations of the construction of heterosexuality. Seeking to proliferate the findings and insights of queer theory, contributors explore the issue of whether and how queer theory can speak for and include the straight. In some of the ways that men have learned from feminism to interrogate the construction of masculinity, straights are learning from queer theory to interrogate constructions of straightness, to question their place in those constructions, and to make critical interventions into the institutional reproduction of the heterosexual norm. Straight with a Twist responds to the formulations of some of the leading figures in queer theory, considers demonstrations of the queer in television programs (Seinfeld, for example) and contemporary films, and explores to what extent and in what ways literary texts from Shakespeare to Dorothy Allison are open to queer interpretation. Committed to antihomophobic cultural analysis, Straight with a Twist aims to extend the reach of queer theory and humanize the world by making it queerer than ever. |
| jesse copjec: Confronting Appalachian Stereotypes Dwight B. Billings, Gurney Norman, Katherine Ledford, 1999 The essays provide a variety of responses from people who live or were born in the region. Some examine the sources of Appalachian mythology in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literature. |
| jesse copjec: Wide Angle , 1993 A quarterly journal of film history, theory, criticism, and practice (varies slightly). |
| jesse copjec: A Panorama of American Film Noir (1941-1953) Raymond Borde, Etienne Chaumeton, 2002 This first book published on film noir established the genre--a classic, at last in translation. |
| jesse copjec: Projects Review , 2000 |
| jesse copjec: The Other Side Ruben Martinez, 1992-05-17 This collage of journalism, diary entries and verse explores the tensions within culture, politics and spirituality experienced by an author living between two worlds: specifically the First and Third World. |
| jesse copjec: FILM-KONZEPTE 54 - Nicolas Winding-Refn Jörg von Brincken, 2018-05-31 Nicolas Winding Refn (*1970) gehört zu den bemerkenswertesten, aber auch umstrittensten Regisseuren, die sich in der heutigen internationalen Filmlandschaft finden lassen. Einerseits wird Nicolas Winding Refn für die Neubelebung überkommener Genrekonventionen sowie für seine höchst extravagante Bild- und Soundästhetik gefeiert. Andererseits werden ihm ein Hang zu Oberflächlichkeit und Fetischismus sowie die sensationalistische Zurschaustellung von Gewalt vorgeworfen. Tatsächlich jedoch provozieren die Filme Winding Refns vor allem durch die radikale künstlerische Konsequenz, mit der der Däne seine persönlichen Interessen und Obsessionen in höchst atmosphärische Geschichten und Bilder verwandelt. Von seinen erfolgreichen realistischen Anfängen im Gangsterdrama (z. B. Pusher) hat sich Winding Refn über Filme wie Drive und Only God Forgives bis ins nahezu Surreale vorgearbeitet und dabei eine ganz eigene filmische Handschrift entwickelt. Die Beiträge in diesem Band ordnen das bisherige Werk Winding Refns formal, inhaltlich und generisch ein, diskutieren herausstechende Einzelaspekte und stellen übergreifende Zusammenhänge zwischen den einzelnen Filmen her. |
| jesse copjec: Vergangenheitsbewältigung am Ende des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts Michael Kohlstruck, 2013-07-29 In der Bundesrepublik hat die Auseinandersetzung mit dem Nationalsozialismus eine fast 50jährige Geschichte. In dieser Zeit sind Begriff und Vorstellungswelt der Vergangenheitsbewältigung geprägt von sehr verschiedenen Möglichkeiten durchgespielt worden, mit der belastenden Vergangenheit umzugehen. In den Ländern Mittel- und Osteuropas haben die Auseinandersetzungen mit dem Staatssozialismus und seinen Hinterlassenschaften vor knapp zehn Jahren begonnen. Es ist offen, ob sie bald versanden oder in eine vergleichbare Tradition einmünden werden. Dabei gelten für die Bewältigung der DDR-Vergangenheit noch einmal besondere Bedingungen. Während z. B. in Polen, Tschechien und Ungarn die Auseinandersetzung mit der Vergangenheit im Rahmen einer neu entstehenden demokratischen Struktur stattfinden muß, vollzieht sich der Umgang mit dem Staatssozialismus in Deutschland im Rahmen einer bereits fest etablierten politischen Kultur. Hinzu kommt, daß trotz aller Unterschiede der beiden politischen Vergangenheiten die Verschränkung der beiden Vergangenheitsbewältigungen heute ein fester Bestandteil der deutschen Politik und der deutschen Diskussion ist. |
| jesse copjec: Projects Review 99/00 Architectural Association (Great Britain). School of Architecture, 2000 Projects Review accompanies the annual AA end-of-year exhibition and illustrates the best and most interesting student work produced during the academic year. Each unit is represented by a summary of its achievements and its own selection of work. |
| jesse copjec: Positions Tani E. Barlow, 2003 |
Jesse (biblical figure) - Wikipedia
Jesse (/ ˈdʒɛsi / JESS-ee) or Yishai[a][b] is a figure described in the Hebrew Bible as the father of David, who became the king of the Israelites. His son David is sometimes called simply "Son …
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Jesse, in the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament), the father of King David. Jesse was the son of Obed and the grandson of Boaz and Ruth. He was a farmer and sheep breeder in Bethlehem. David …
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Jan 4, 2022 · Jesse in the Bible is father of David and thus an important part of the lineage of Christ, the Son of David (Matthew 22:42). We don’t know much about Jesse as a person; most …
Topical Bible: Jesse
Jesse, a significant figure in the Old Testament, is best known as the father of King David, one of Israel's greatest kings. His lineage is crucial in biblical history, as it establishes the …
Jesse - Encyclopedia of The Bible - Bible Gateway
Jesse is formally introduced to the reader of the OT where Samuel anointed Jesse’s son David as the future king of Israel (1 Sam 16:1-13). At the command of Yahweh, the prophet journeyed to …
What Do We Learn from David's Father Jesse in the Bible?
Apr 12, 2024 · As King David's father, Jesse plays a critical role in the Bible's story, but most of us don't know much about him. Can we learn anything from his story? Discover the meaning and …
Jesse (biblical figure) - Wikipedia
Jesse (/ ˈdʒɛsi / JESS-ee) or Yishai[a][b] is a figure described in the Hebrew Bible as the father of David, who became the king of the Israelites. His son David is sometimes called simply "Son …
Jesse | Bible, David, Jesus, Family Tree, & Windows | Britannica
Jesse, in the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament), the father of King David. Jesse was the son of Obed and the grandson of Boaz and Ruth. He was a farmer and sheep breeder in Bethlehem. David …
Who Was Jesse in the Bible? - Bible Study Tools
Jul 29, 2022 · Jesse was an ordinary guy with eight sons and two daughters. (If you call having ten kids ordinary.) There is no indication from the Bible that Jesse served in any influential or …
Who was Jesse in the Bible? - GotQuestions.org
Jan 4, 2022 · Jesse in the Bible is father of David and thus an important part of the lineage of Christ, the Son of David (Matthew 22:42). We don’t know much about Jesse as a person; most …
Topical Bible: Jesse
Jesse, a significant figure in the Old Testament, is best known as the father of King David, one of Israel's greatest kings. His lineage is crucial in biblical history, as it establishes the …
Jesse - Encyclopedia of The Bible - Bible Gateway
Jesse is formally introduced to the reader of the OT where Samuel anointed Jesse’s son David as the future king of Israel (1 Sam 16:1-13). At the command of Yahweh, the prophet journeyed …
What Do We Learn from David's Father Jesse in the Bible?
Apr 12, 2024 · As King David's father, Jesse plays a critical role in the Bible's story, but most of us don't know much about him. Can we learn anything from his story? Discover the meaning and …
