| 1. |
-
Transcultural Identity Constructions in a Changing World
- 2016
-
Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- This volume takes a broad outlook on the concept of transculturality. Contributions from 19 authors and specialists, of almost as many diverse origins, grapple with this concept, each in their own way. How can transculturality be described? How can it help us understand our world? Many of the chapters deal with literary texts, others with the stories told in movies, drama, and visual art. There are texts about the complexity of the European Burqa-Ban debate, the negative aspects of Portuguese multiculturalism, or the border-crossing experiences of Filipino immigrants in Ireland. Several chapters examine stereotypes, the idea of movement, the dissolution of cultural borders, or the nature of bilingual writing. It is a unique contribution to the field, on a virtually global scale.
|
|
| 2. |
|
|
| 3. |
- Axelson, Tomas, 1960-
(författare)
-
Vernacular meaning making : Examples of narrative impact in fiction film questioning the 'banal' notion in mediatization of religion theory
- 2015
-
Ingår i: Nordicom Review. - : Walter de Gruyter GmbH. - 1403-1108 .- 2001-5119. ; 36:2, s. 143-156
-
Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The outcome of an audience study supports theories stating that stories are a primary means by which we make sense of our experiences over time. Empirical examples of narrative impact are presented in which specific fiction film scenes condense spectators' lives, identities and beliefs. One conclusion is that spectators test the emotional realism of the narative for greater significance, connecting diegetic fiction experiences with their extra-diegetic world in their quest for meaning, self and identity. The 'banal' notion of the mediatization of religion theory is questioned as unsatisfactory in the theoretical context of individualized meaning-making processes. As a semantically negatively charged concept, it is problematic when analyzing empirical examples of spectators' use of fictional narratives, especially when trying to characterize the idiosyncratic and complex interplay between spectators' fiction emotions and their testing of mediated narratives in an exercise to find moral significance in extra-filmic life. Instead vernacular meaning-making is proposed.
|
|
| 4. |
- Hermansson, Joakim
(författare)
-
Characters as fictional migrants : Atonement, adaptation and the screenplay process
- 2020
-
Ingår i: Journal of Screenwriting. - : Intellect Ltd.. - 1759-7137 .- 1759-7145. ; 11:1, s. 81-97
-
Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The migration metaphor has been widely used in connection with media adaptions, but the metaphor has remained an abstract figure of speech. Yet, to understand characters as migrants who go through journeys of acculturation when they are adapted for the screen may enhance understanding of both the characters' potential and problems that may arise during the development process. This article proposes that the development of characters and their processes - as fictional beings - can be understood through the use of models that describe real migrants' adaptation processes. Using Christopher Hampton's screenplay drafts for the film Atonement (2001), it outlines how such migratory journeys go hand in hand with screenwriters' problem-solving processes. The article thus develops the idea that migrating characters, in their capacity as fictional beings and the thematic issues that they represent, both adapt to and appropriate their new media environments; simultaneously, they are appropriated by new creative forces and by the conventions of those new media environments, who in turn must adapt to the characters in this process of bi-directional acculturation.
|
|
| 5. |
- Tjell, Mette, 1981, et al.
(författare)
-
Les âges d’or du manifeste artistique et littéraire en France : étude contrastive à partir de la base de données MANART
- 2013
-
Ingår i: Etudes littéraires. - : Consortium Erudit. - 0014-214X .- 1708-9069. ; 44:3, s. 151-163
-
Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Cet article propose une étude statistique de l’évolution quantitative connue par le genre manifestaire de 1886 à 2009, dans l’objectif de situer ses « âges d’or » et de vérifier ainsi les idées répandues à son sujet. Dans cette étude, qui s’appuie sur des informations tirées de Manart, une base de données recensant les manifestes artistiques et littéraires du XXe siècle, deux corpus sont mis en comparaison, constitués à partir de critères de sélection différents (critère définitoire et critère de réception). Croisant les approches et les données, une étude contrastive portant sur le manifeste nous semble être la seule qui puisse présenter des résultats solides et un tant soit peu objectifs.
|
|
| 6. |
|
|
| 7. |
|
|
| 8. |
- Hauksson-Tresch, Nathalie
(författare)
-
Visual Rhetoric of the Truth in the Dreyfus Affair : A Semiotic Approach
- 2021
-
Ingår i: International Journal for the Semiotics of Law. - : Springer. - 0952-8059 .- 1572-8722. ; 34, s. 127-143
-
Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- At the turn of the twentieth century, French society was shaken by a scandal that affected it at many levels to varying degrees and that is still considered as a symbol of injustice, miscarriage of justice and antisemitism. The Dreyfus Affair started in 1894 when an artillery officer of Jewish descent was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for communicating military secrets to the German embassy in Paris. Only years later was Alfred Dreyfus exonerated and rehabilitated, due mainly to the role of the media and the famous article by the novelist Emile Zola, “J’accuse”. The press, in general, played a fundamental role in the narration of the event and in the complex chemistry that led a confidential case of espionage to become a broad public debate, exemplifying the constant struggle against prejudice and irrational impulses that implies democracy. From the impressive volume of publications, I selected two drawings issued when the truth about captain Dreyfus’s innocence began emerging. One is by Félix Vallotton, “That’s why she was not coming out!”, the other by Gustave-Henri Jossot, “She was too naked”, and they both give an interpretation of the truth and of the reasons why it—the truth—came out so late. The semiotic approach of the drawings and of Zola’s pamphlet in terms of visual message leads us to distinguish three aspects. The first is iconic and consists of establishing the links between a signifier, a signified and a referent in order to recognize the immediate message but also the connoted signification; the second is linguistic and consists of the captions; and the third is plastic, focusing on size, colors and shapes. These analyzes of the mode in which visual artefacts produce meaning and provoke an interpretative process are made in terms of rhetoric insofar as rhetoric is considered, not only in terms of figures of speech, but as a method of persuasion and argumentation.
|
|
| 9. |
|
|
| 10. |
- Liljas, Juvas Marianne
(författare)
-
"En ny musikuppfostran" : reformpedagogiska anspråk i Siljanskolans bildningsinnehåll
- 2016
-
Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Educational History. - Umeå : Umeå University Library. - 2001-7766 .- 2001-9076. ; 3:1, s. 47-74
-
Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- "A new form of musical upbringing": Pretenses of reform pedagogy content in the Siljan schoolIn this article, I describe the Siljan school in Tällberg as a Swedish example of alternative pedagogy. The overall questions relate to the reform pedagogy content of the school and its ability to give Swedish music teaching a new form of musical upbringing. An important issue is how the Siljan school as a model for Swedish reform has been inspired by the reform pedagogy movements in USA and Germany. The analysis is thus based on the Alm couple’s ability to give the school an international character which shines light on Swedish reforms in the greater context of reform pedagogy. With its basis in discursive education of the 1930s, two main questions are discussed: what perspective on musical education can be identified in the personal development ethos of the Siljan school? How can the school’s relation to the reform pedagogy music movement during the start of the 1900s be understood? From a hermeneutic perspective, the article contributes by investigating how the Siljan school can have affected decisions in education politics, Swedish schooling, and Swedish musical life. In summary, the article contributes with new knowledge on a chapter in the history of Swedish music pedagogy.
|
|
