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Big Screens, Small Forms
We witness an era with more screens than ever before, and within each screen, a multitude of visual varieties. Lisa Gotto investigates this medial diversity as a field of tension between large and small forms of digital image culture. This includes, on the one hand, the immersive potential of large image arrangements, such as digital 3D cinema, and, on the other hand, the compactness of mobile image forms, such as those of the smartphone film or the media practices of Instagram. Weaving together a rich variety of examples and sources, this book presents a multifaceted collection of essays that explore the transformational potential of digital media culture, contextualize its media-technical conditions, and reflect on its social consequences.
Differences in Common
Differences in Common engages in the ongoing debate on ‘community’ focusing on its philosophical and political aspects through a gendered perspective. It explores the subversive and enriching potential of the concept of community, as seen from the perspective of heterogeneity and distance, and not from homogeneity and fused adhesions. This theoretical reflection is, in most of the essays included here, based on the analysis of literary and filmic texts, which, due to their irreducible singularity, teach us to think without being tied, or needing to resort, to commonplaces. Philosophers such as Arendt, Blanchot, Foucault, Agamben or Derrida have made seminal reflections on community, ofte...
Genero y cultura popular/ Genre and Popular Culture
I. ESTUDIOS CULTURALES Y ESTUDIOS DE GENERO: METODOLOGÍAS. II. LITERATURA. III. CINE. IV. TELEVISIÓN. V. CIBERESPACIO Y NUEVAS TECNOLOGÍAS. VI. MÚSICA Y CULTURA JUVENIL.
Nip/Tuck
Promoted as a 'disturbingly perfect' and 'deeply shallow' television drama and created by Ryan Murphy, who is also behind the teen musical show Glee, Nip/Tuck has been one of the most popular and controversial shows on cable TV. The misadventures and soap opera-esque entanglements of the lives of plastic surgeons Christian Troy (Julian McMahon) and Sean McNamara (Dylan Walsh) won Golden Globes and boycotts from the American Family Association. Yet, as this first full critical examination of Nip/Tuck shows, ironically the show is an examination of the American family and its many definitions, anxieties and complications of gender and sexuality, and the class issues and illusions surrounding the American dream. It is also revealed as a glorious televisual melodrama, full of Gothic tropes and contemporary sensationalism and at the same time, a deeply misanthropic satire on the American dream with a sometimes highly problematic portrayal of women and minorities. The book also features an interview with frequent Nip/Tuck director Elodie Keene and an episode guide.
Pioneras. Las voces femeninas en la construcción cultural italiana y europea.
El presente volumen, titulado “Pioneras. Las voces femeninas en la construcción cultural italiana y europea”, propone una selección de contribuciones por parte de investigadoras e investigadores expertos en estudios de género. Este trabajo nace de la necesidad de rescatar y visibilizar las voces femeninas olvidadas por la Historia y excluidas del canon literario, proporcionando una nueva mirada crítica hacia la escritura. El monográfico que presentamos a continuación se divide en cuatro secciones y representa un recorrido filológico, artístico y científico de algunas de las etapas más importantes de la historia subalterna, contada por sus principales intérpretes.
Violencias textuales. La representación de las violencias contra las mujeres
Violencias textuales. La representación de las violencias contra las mujeres ofrece a lectores y lectoras un conjunto de producciones enyasísticas que giran, como su propio nombre indica, en torno a las violencias sufridas por las mujeres y su representación en la literatura, la pintura, los textos legales, la cultura popular, los ámbitos de la vida social y política y un largo etcétera. La elección de estos plurales, violencias y mujeres, ni es casual, ni sigue ningún principio de gramaticalidad que los exija. Lo que sí pretende es serle fiel a una realidad en la que existe una violencia estructural, y por tanto plural, con una tipología inmensa, ejercida contra las mujeres y no contra la mujer, siendo este reduccionismo otra forma de violentarnos. [Texto de la editorial].
Agli inizi della querelle des femmes in Italia. Scrittrici e percorsi interpretativi
Il primo capitolo “Alle origini della Querelle: tra Andalusia, Francia ed Italia” si occupa delle origini della Querelle e di come sia necessario anticipare l’origine del dibattito e di come i temi che appaiono nei testi delle autrici italiane del Duecento e del Trecento si possano ricondurre ad una tradizione poetica anteriore che vede nelle poetesse dell’al-Andalus e nelle trobairitz dei modelli di riferimento.Il secondo capitolo “Temi e questioni della querelle nelle mistiche italiane” sottolinea come il dibattito della Querelle trovi spazio anche nei testi delle mistiche e come, in particolare in quelli di Angela da Foligno, Chiara da Assisi e Caterina Da Siena, si possano ri...
Diàlegs gais, lesbians, queer / Diálogos gays, lesbianos, queer
En los últimos años, los estudios de identidad y género han enriquecido notablemente el panorama intelectual. Con una perspectiva multidisciplinaria que va de las representaciones artísticas a las lingüísticas, de las teorías académicas al activismo político y al compromiso intelectual, los presentes diálogos someten a análisis conceptos, normas, prácticas, mitologías y estereotipos asociados a la sexualidad y al erotismo y nos animan a revisar las formulaciones convencionales de género e identidad.
Homo Mimeticus II
After the linguistic and the affective turns, the new materialist and the performative turns, the cognitive and the posthuman turns, it is now time to re-turn to the ancient, yet also modern and still contemporary realization that humans are mimetic creatures. In this second installment of the Homo Mimeticus series, international scholars working in philosophy, literary theory, classics, cultural studies, sociology, political theory, and the neurosciences engage creatively with Nidesh Lawtoo’s Homo Mimeticus: A New Theory of Imitation to further the transdisciplinary field of mimetic studies. Agonistic critical engagements with precursors like Plato, Aristotle, Nietzsche, Bataille, Irigaray and Girard, involving contributions by leading international thinkers such as Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen, William E. Connolly, Henry Staten and Vittorio Gallese among many others, reveal the urgency to rethink mimesis beyond realism. From imitation to identification, mimicry to affective contagion, techne to simulation, mirror neurons to biomimicry, homo mimeticus casts a shadow—but also a light—on the present and future, from social media to the Anthropocene.
