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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Global Shakespeares in World Markets and Archives: An Introduction to the Special Issue in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoShakespeare is a local force to be reckoned with in the global marketplace and in digital and analog archives of collective memory. With the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth in 2014 and quatercentenary in 2016, there are several high-profile instances of global Shakespeare being tapped for its market value. The exchange value of…[Read more]
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Kendra Leonard deposited The Past is a Foreign Country: World Musics Signifying History in/and Elizabethan Drama in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoResearch on global Shakespeare has focused on the ways in which the plays have been adapted for indigenous languages and customs. Less attention has been paid to the ways in which non-British directors have treated the Elizabethan drama. Yet there are a number of works that create direct musical dialogues between Elizabethan drama, history, and…[Read more]
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Natascha Drubek deposited 140 Jahre Russisches Licht in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months agoFor archiving I made a couple of screenshots of this rare occasion. German director Alexander Kluge interviewing Natascha Drubek in June 2016. The whole film (45′) can be found when you follow the link below: “Von den Ikonen zum russischen Stummfilm”:
“Russisches Licht” hieß eine mondäne städtische Beleuchtungsart, zuerst in Paris erprobt, d…[Read more] -
Kanika Batra deposited Polygamous Postcolonialism and Transnational Critique in Tess Onwueme’s The Reign of Wazobia in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoNigerian authors have consistently and effectively critiqued insidious connections between
masculinity, political power, religious fundamentalism, and capitalist interests. The unstable
political structures in Nigeria since the 1970s have led to such critiques. This essay deploys the
idea of polygamy in Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the S…[Read more] -
Judy Bertonazzi deposited Caridad’s Choice for Transformation: Jumping off a Mesa Cliff in Ana Castillo’s Novel So Far from God in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoAs part of my research, I argue that one important way the definition of a feminist borderland develops in these narratives is from a female character’s knowledge of and interpretation of her physical presence within the borderlands. By applying Linda Martín Alcoff’s theories of gender “positionality” and “self-embodiment” from her text Visible…[Read more]
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Jacqueline Ristola deposited Recreating Reality: Waltz With Bashir, Persepolis, and the Documentary Genre in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months agoThis paper examines Ari Folman’s Waltz With Bashir (2008) and Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis (2007) to elucidate how artists, distributors, and audiences shape and define the porous boundaries of the documentary genre, and how such perceptions are shaped within a digital context. By analyzing how each film represents reality; that is, how doc…[Read more]
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Lidiana de Moraes started the topic CFP – Modern Languages and Literatures Graduate Student Conference in the discussion
Film on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoGood afternoon,
I would like to invite graduate students to submit papers for the upcoming Modern Languages and Literatures Graduate Student Conference, at the University of Miami. The theme of our conference is: Lands of Freedom? Oppressions, Subversions, and Pursuits of Justice in a Changing World. The presentations will be held on February…[Read more]
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Lidiana de Moraes started the topic CFP – University of Miami – MLL Graduate Student Conference 2018 in the discussion
Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoGood afternoon,
I would like to invite graduate students to submit papers for the upcoming Modern Languages and Literatures Graduate Student Conference, at the University of Miami. The theme of our conference is: Lands of Freedom? Oppressions, Subversions, and Pursuits of Justice in a Changing World. The presentations will be held on February…[Read more]
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Judy Bertonazzi deposited The Subaltern and Familial Ghosts: Impossible Representations in The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts and Beloved in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoThis paper discusses the relationships made between ghost figures and their living relatives within Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts and Toni Morrison’s Beloved. In this paper I argue that a specific female identity and agency is represented in these texts through figurative language and symbolization of…[Read more]
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William Nichols posted an update in the group
Cinemas of Spain & Latin America on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoCheck out this new book edited by Jordi Marí:
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Alberto Ribas-Casasayas started the topic Call for Articles. Spectral Mexico in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoSpectral Mexico. Ghosts and the Talking Dead in Contemporary Mexican Culture
The persistence of death and its figurative representations is a recognizable commonplace in the visual and narrative discourses of Mexican culture. Underworlds like Mictlan and Xibalba, the Catrina skull, the Santa Muerte, ghosts, dancing skeletons, post-mortem…[Read more]
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Miriam S. Gogol posted an update in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoDear members of the Women’s and Gender Studies, for your consideration:
Call for Papers
The International Theodore Dreiser Society will sponsor two panels at the American Literature Association Conference in San Francisco, CA on May 24-27, 2018.Panel One: Open Topic
Papers are invited on any topic concerning…[Read more] -
Miriam S. Gogol posted an update in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoDear Members of Literary and Cultural Theory, for your consideration:
Call for Papers
The International Theodore Dreiser Society will sponsor two panels at the American Literature Association Conference in San Francisco, CA on May 24-27, 2018.Panel One: Open Topic
Papers are invited on any topic concerning…[Read more] -
Adelheid Heftberger deposited Film archives and digital humanities – an impossible match? New job descriptions and the challenges of the digital era in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoThis article seeks to prompt a re-evaluation of the fi lm archive’s role within the current digital humanities debate as a logical, yet underrated, partner. The article invokes Jeffrey Schnapp’s and Todd Presner’s plea from 2009 for digital humanities to create as its core aim a more democratic view of knowledge-producing institutions by i…[Read more]
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Adelheid Heftberger deposited Die Verschmelzung von Wissenschaft und Filmchronik“. Das Potential der reduktionslosen Visualisierung von „Das elfte Jahr“ und „Der Mann mit der Kamera“ von Dziga Vertov in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoOn the potential of data visualization for Film studies and Film history.
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Adelheid Heftberger deposited Zerschnittene Bilder. Die drei Fassungen von Dziga Vertovs Tri pesni o Lenine (1934/35, 1938 und 1970) in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoOn the versions of Dziga Vertovs film “Three Songs on Lenin”.
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Adelheid Heftberger deposited Do Computers Dream of Cinema? Film Data for Computer Analysis and Visualisation in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoOn the potential of data visualization for Film studies and Film history.
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Adelheid Heftberger deposited Man with a Movie Camera under the Lens of Cinemetrics in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoArticle about Dziga Vertovs most famous film from 1929 with a focus on it’s surviving prints and structure. Investigation was carried out within the research project Digital Formalism (2007-2010) in Vienna.
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Adelheid Heftberger deposited Wer bringt das Filmerbe zu den Nutzern? Potentielle Synergien in der Erschließung und Vermittlung von Filmwerken zwischen Bibliotheken und Filmarchiven in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoIm digitalen Zeitalter verschwimmen die institutionellen Grenzen innerhalb der Kulturlandschaft. Umso gewinnbringender wäre es, innerhalb der Kultureinrichtungen gemeinsame Handlungsfelder zu definieren und von etablierten Prozessen und vorhandenen Infrastrukturen zu profitieren. Worin bestehen die zentralen Probleme der bisher erst zaghaften…[Read more]
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Martin Paul Eve deposited The Great Automatic Grammatizator: writing, labour, computers in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoWhat does it mean when we say that computers can ‘write’ and how are recent developments in neural networks and machine learning changing this capacity? This article examines the long-standing literary fear of authorship being replaced by machines while also interrogating the labour and credit implications that sit behind widely used str…[Read more]
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