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ISBN: 9789089646736 9789048523573 9048523575 9089646736 Year: 2016 Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press,
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Melodrama, it is said, has expanded beyond the borders of genre and fiction to become a pervasive cultural mode. It encompasses distinct signifying practices and interpretive codes for meaning-making that help determine the parameters of identification and subject formation. From the public staging of personal suffering or the psychologization of the self in relation to consumer capitalism, to the emotionalization and sentimentalization of national politics, contributions to this volume address the following question: If melodramatic models of sense-making have become so culturally pervasive and emotionally persuasive, what is the political potential of melodramatic victimhood and where are its political limitations? This volume represents both a condensation and an expansion in the growing field of melodrama studies. It condenses elements of theory on melodrama by bringing into focus what it recognizes to be the locus for subjective identification within melodramatic narratives: the victim. On the other hand, it provides an expansion by going beyond the common methodology of primarily examining fictive works - be they from the stage, the screen or the written word - for their explicit or latent commentary on and connection to the historical contexts within which they are produced. Inspiration for the volume is rooted in a curiosity about melodramatic forms purported to increasingly characterize aspects of both the private and the social sphere in occidental and western-oriented societies.
Affective and dynamic functions --- Sociology of culture --- Mass communications --- Melodrama in motion pictures. --- Melodrama --- Motion pictures --- History and criticism. --- Melodrama in motion pictures --- Melodrama - History and criticism --- Melodrama, Victimhood, Cultural Studies.
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ISBN: 3839445272 9783839445273 9783837645279 3837645274 Year: 2018 Publisher: Bielefeld
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The relationship between economy, finance and society has become opaque. Quantum leaps in complexity and scale have turned this deeply interdependent web of relations into an area of incomprehensible abstraction. And while the economization of life has come under widespread critique, inquiry into the political potential of representational praxis is more crucial than ever. This volume explores ethical, aesthetic and ideological dimensions of economic representation, redressing essential questions: What are the roles of mass and new media? How do the arts contribute to critical discourse on the global techno-economic complex? Collectively, the contributions bring theoretical debate and artistic intervention into a rich exchange that includes but also exceeds the conventions of academic scholarship.
Money. --- Finance --- Funding --- Funds --- Economics --- Currency question --- Currency --- Monetary question --- Money, Primitive --- Specie --- Standard of value --- Exchange --- Value --- Banks and banking --- Coinage --- Gold --- Silver --- Silver question --- Wealth --- Social aspects. --- E-books --- Economy; Techno-Economy; Finance; Media Representation; Mass Media; New Media; Culture; Media; Cultural Studies; Media Aesthetics; Media Art; Cultural History --- Cultural History. --- Cultural Studies. --- Culture. --- Finance. --- Mass Media. --- Media Aesthetics. --- Media Art. --- Media Representation. --- Media. --- New Media. --- Techno-Economy.
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