Journal Articleboundary 2 · May 1, 2022
AbstractFor the past twenty years or so, the Austrian cultural theorist Robert Pfaller has been positing and analyzing the concepts of “interpassivity” (as opposed to interactivity) and the delegation of enjoyment both in s ...
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Book · April 13, 2021
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Rey Chow takes up this challenge by articulating the plight of the humanities in the age of global finance and neoliberal mores through a resharpened focus on Foucault’s concept “outside.” This general discussion is followed by a ... ...
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Journal ArticleCambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry · April 1, 2020
This article is a brief discussion of Pooja Rangan's book Immediations, highlighting her argument for the need to analyze carefully the audiovisual materialities and ideological assumptions of documentary as a medium. ...
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Journal ArticleDaedalus · January 1, 2020
In reference to the work of Michel Foucault and to residual Victorian novelistic features, this essay explores the biopolitical dimension of contemporary televisual dramas, focusing on the popular crime genre as seen in The Sopranos (1999– 2007), Breaking ...
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Book · 2019
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What exactly does the emerging discipline of sound studies study? Sound Objects pursues these questions while exploring how history, culture, and mediation entwine with sound’s elusive objectivity. ...
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Journal ArticleYearbook of Comparative Literature · January 1, 2019
Has critique run out of steam, as Bruno Latour famously proclaimed? Or has critique, like all historical practices, simply evolved? Latour's mention of steam suggests that critique may be regarded as a form of energetics with specific modes of productivity ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2018
When it comes to Foucault and questions of race, the critical challenge to date seems to be the ready reproach of Eurocentrism-the charge that Foucault’s perspectives, derived as they are from close studies of European cultures and histories, stand neglige ...
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Journal ArticleRepresentations · 2017
This article considers Alfred Hitchcock’s work in relation to the connotations of “fallacy” within conventional settings of modern Western society. Focusing on two films, STRANGERS ON A TRAIN (1951) and REAR WINDOW (1954), we point to the phenomenon of the ...
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Journal ArticleProblemi · January 1, 2017
Tourists in the People's Republic of China often encounter “Chinglish” signs giving directions, instructions, or warnings. Why are these signs so funny? The article explores this question by drawing on the perspectives of the PRC government, sinologists, s ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2017
As an artifact in cultural representation, the voice has a much longer history than cinema. Older representational forms based in writing—poetry, literary fiction, essays, and nonfiction in general—all bear remnants of the voice in different registers. In ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2017
This chapter demonstrates how the question of woman in Chinese cinema partakes of larger modern theoretical discourse about femininity and mediatized visuality. In his famous analysis of commodity fetishism at the beginning of Capital, Karl Marx provides t ...
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Chapter · May 20, 2016
A married woman, Zhou Yuwen, serves as the narrator in Fei Mu’s film classic Xiao cheng zhi chun / Spring in a Small Town. A novel experiment in Chinese filmmaking of the 1940s, this feature of the film remains a highly provocative point of interest. Since ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2016
The questions I would like to explore in this chapter pertain to the type of action specific to human relations we call forgiveness. Hannah Arendt’s erudite reflections in The Human Condition provide a powerful justification for the necessity of forgivenes ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2015
This is the new and fully revised third edition of the well-received text that is the benchmark book in the field of nutrition and aging. The editors (specialists in geriatric nutrition, medical sociology, and clinical nutrition, respectively) and contribu ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2015
The future of the IT industry, many would argue, lies in Asia. In the 2014 figures released by the International Telecommunication Union (a UN agency for communication and information technology), Asia stands out as an untapped new media market for manufac ...
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