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Pramod Ranjan deposited मणिपुर हिंसा: परतों के भीतर कितनी परतें होती हैं? in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoयह मणिपुर में 2023 में हुई हिंसा पर केंद्रित प्रमोद रंजन के रिपोर्ताजों का पहला भाग है।
प्रमोद रंजन इसमें पूर्वोत्तर भारत के इतिहास, संस्कृति और समाज में आ रहे परिवर्तनों को चिन्हित किया है तथा उसका संवेदनशील, मर्मस्पर्शी और विचारोत्तेजक चित्र प्रस्तुत किया है।
उन्होंने इस रिपोर्ताज में यह भी बताया है कि हिंसा के दौरान मैतेई महिलाओं के…[Read more]
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Swati Arora deposited A manifesto to decentre theatre and performance studies in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months agoWith the climate of Brexit, xenophobia and white supremacy on the rise, health and safety of Black and Global Majority people under threat during the spread of Covid in the UK and elsewhere, a discussion of colonialism, migration, borders, and equality – in the classrooms and outside – is more pertinent than ever. Situating the ongoing Dec…[Read more]
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Meredith Warren deposited Incestual Duplication by Female Sex Offenders: Lot’s Daughters (Genesis 19:30–38) as Challenge to Typologies and Violent Family-Systems in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months agoAgainst the background of the often female-focused view of sexual abuse victims, this paper addresses the issue of male-identifying victims of sexual violence through the lens of the Bible. I tackle one particular form of sexual abuse: female-on-male sexual violence, of the “forced/made to penetrate” type through a re-reading of Genesis 19:…[Read more]
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Gabriela Méndez Cota deposited Papel Máquina 18 in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months agoVolumen 18 de la revista chilena Papel Máquina, perteneciente a la editorial Palinodia, dedicado a la dimensión cultural y literaria del activismo político de Marta Lamas. Además de diversos ensayos a cargo de destacadas investigadoras feministas, el número incluye una entrevista con Marta Lamas y un recorte de su trabajo sobre la rabia, así como…[Read more]
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Jonathan Rose started the topic CfP: Spectacle and Empathy: The Role of Excessive (Em)Body(ment) in Narrative in the discussion
Comics Scholarship/Comics Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months agoCfP for seminar session at NeMLA 2024, 7 to 10 March in Boston, MA
Narratives need bodies. Stories are populated by characters whose bodies serve as focalizers for our experience of the narrated world. Certain genres, like body horror, pornography or fanfiction, are predicated on bodily excess, “spill[ing] out over the spectator and p…[Read more]
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Jonathan Rose started the topic CfP: Spectacle and Empathy: The Role of Excessive (Em)Body(ment) in Narrative in the discussion
Horror on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months agoCfP for seminar session at NeMLA 2024, 7 to 10 March in Boston, MA
Narratives need bodies. Stories are populated by characters whose bodies serve as focalizers for our experience of the narrated world. Certain genres, like body horror, pornography or fanfiction, are predicated on bodily excess, “spill[ing] out over the spectator and p…[Read more]
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Vicky Brewster deposited Lesbian Lovers and Forbidden Caves: Sapphic Survival Horror in Caitlin Starling’s The Luminous Dead in the group
Horror on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoIn 1894, Lord Alfred Douglas referred to homosexuality as “the love that dare not speak its name”, a phrase that describes the unmentionable nature of homosexuality in a period of time when sodomy was illegal. Even in the 21st century, there continues to be something unspeakable and forbidden about homosexuality. This paper equates the uns…[Read more]
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Eric Dienstfrey deposited Synch Holes and Patchwork in Early Feature-Film Scores in the group
Music and Sound on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoThe aesthetics of early feature-film scores were shaped by narrational problems introduced by multi-reel features and their longer durations. Using The Patchwork Girl of Oz, I show how stylistic devices like silences and musical pun- ctuation were used to address the coherence and pacing of multi-reel storytelling.
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Eric Dienstfrey deposited Synch Holes and Patchwork in Early Feature-Film Scores in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoThe aesthetics of early feature-film scores were shaped by narrational problems introduced by multi-reel features and their longer durations. Using The Patchwork Girl of Oz, I show how stylistic devices like silences and musical pun- ctuation were used to address the coherence and pacing of multi-reel storytelling.
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Eric Dienstfrey deposited Tape Recording Hollywood: The Inaudibility of New Film Sound Technology in the group
Music and Sound on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoThis article details the historical factors that shaped Hollywood’s adoption of magnetic recording during the late 1940s and early 1950s. It draws upon economic theories of technological change, archival correspondence, technical records, analyses of postproduction workflows, and delineations of the structural constraints that limited how the f…[Read more]
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Eric Dienstfrey deposited Tape Recording Hollywood: The Inaudibility of New Film Sound Technology in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoThis article details the historical factors that shaped Hollywood’s adoption of magnetic recording during the late 1940s and early 1950s. It draws upon economic theories of technological change, archival correspondence, technical records, analyses of postproduction workflows, and delineations of the structural constraints that limited how the f…[Read more]
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Eric Dienstfrey deposited Monocentrism, or Soundtracks in Space in the group
Music and Sound on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoThis chapter investigates how the introduction of stereo complicated Hollywood’s vococentric practices. It also reveals how sound technicians developed mixing techniques that preserved the salience of dialogue in multi-channel soundscapes. The author refers to such techniques as monocentrism and illustrates monocentric norms by analyzing the c…[Read more]
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Eric Dienstfrey deposited Monocentrism, or Soundtracks in Space in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoThis chapter investigates how the introduction of stereo complicated Hollywood’s vococentric practices. It also reveals how sound technicians developed mixing techniques that preserved the salience of dialogue in multi-channel soundscapes. The author refers to such techniques as monocentrism and illustrates monocentric norms by analyzing the c…[Read more]
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Joel Edelman deposited A Coherent Model of Musical Consonance in the group
Music and Sound on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoWithout fail a study in any depth of our fondness for music must eventually address the issue of consonance and dissonance. Past approaches to this issue have been bounded by a limited knowledge base and, further, marred by logical flaws, occasional hand waving, and the myopia of reductionism. Despite the explosion of progress in the last few…[Read more]
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Adrian Curtin started the topic CfP for online symposium: The Experimental Orchestra (December 13, 2023) in the discussion
Music on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoEvent date: December 13, 2023
Submission deadline: September 1, 2023
Orchestras around the world are conducting experiments related to performance, to the constitution of the orchestra, and to its operation. Professional classical music ensembles, like many other organisations and institutions in the cultural sector, face an existential…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA replied to the topic Experimental Films in the discussion
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoEl momento fílmico: De ‘Hamlet’ a ‘Saraband’ https://www.academia.edu/14107431/
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA started the topic Experimental Films in the discussion
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoLa Mort en Direct: https://www.academia.edu/12948280/
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA replied to the topic The Film of the Book in the discussion
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoReseña de ‘Film Adaptation’ (ed. James Naremore) https://www.academia.edu/12890219/
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA started the topic Women, Gender, & Film in the discussion
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoEmpezamos con una de Jane Campion. En la raja (In the Cut) https://www.academia.edu/12718189/
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Pragya Ranjan deposited Lysistrata: through a feminist’s lens in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months ago‘There is no truth, only perception of truth’, and that perception too changes with time. Lysistrata is one such text where this difference of perception prevails. Written by Aristophanes in 411 BCE, Lysistrata is one of the eleven Old Greek Comedy plays surviving out of forty-two. The play revolves around the Peleponnesian war, when women hav…[Read more]
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