bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
The museum experience in the environment of the Japanese collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Authors: Lee Jungwon
Published: April 2011

The purpose of this study was to examine how viewers experienced the museum environments of the Japanese collection, and to explore how these physical environments affected visitors' experiences. The museum environment selected for the study was the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New
York City. A phenomenological research methodology using qualitative data-gathering techniques and analysis was employed. Data-gathering involved the observation and description of the museum environment housing the Japanese collections, the observation of visitor behaviour, including conversations
at the research site, and in-depth interviews with visitors.

The proposed study provides a model for the phenomenological examination of personal meaning-making in museums. It is hoped that this study will encourage museum educators, curators, designers and directors to reconsider museum
exhibitions and physical environments in order to facilitate the process of making meaning by visitors.
Social functions of art: Educational, clinical, social and cultural settings. Trying a new methodology
Authors: Fernndez-Cao Marin Lpez , Diguez Mara Del Ro , Rudn Ana Eva Iribas , Lled Guillermo Garca , Giner Matilde Moll , Vanrell Catalina Rigo , Rodrguez Julio Romero , Rigo Miguel Domnguez , Seco Rosaura Navajas
Published: April 2011

The fruit of the work of our research group, set up ten years ago at the Faculty of Education of the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain, this article will present a review on how art can help and empower children and adults at risk of exclusion in different settings. We have been
working from an intercultural, gender-equity and social inclusion perspective, introducing methods of art therapy practice. From this standpoint, we will show how our group has developed a methodology that can be validated in several domains. We will show the foundations of our proposals,
and will present experiences in educational and social areas, showing how we can work on gender and interculturality, in clinical areas, where we have been working with art therapy and empowerment, and in cultural areas, where we show, from a new museological perspective, how it is possible
to reconstruct new narratives that help marginalized groups to become stronger, and that transform museums into social agents for change.
Reviews
Authors: Crabtree Paula , Romans Mervyn , Bew Carolyn
Published: April 2011

RETHINKING THE CONTEMPORARY ART SCHOOL: THE ARTIST, THE PH.D. AND THE ACADEMY, BRAD BUCKLEY AND JOHN CONOMOS (EDS), (2009) NSCAD, Canada: The Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 229pp., ISBN: 978-0-919616-49-352500, Paperback, C$25

BAUHAUS
DREAM-HOUSE: MODERNITY AND GLOBALIZATION, KATERINA RUEDI RAY (2010) London and New York: Routledge, 228pp., ISBN: 10: 0-415-47582-1, Paperback, 27.50, ISBN: 10: 0-415-47581-3, Hardback, 95.00

ART SCHOOL: PROPOSITIONS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY, STEVEN HENRY MADOFF (ED.) (2009)
Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 372pp., ISBN: 978-0-262-13493-4, (pbk) 22.95/US$29.95
Book Reviews
Authors: B Sar Maty , Hagood Caroline , Kholeif Omar , McSweeney Terence
Published: April 2011

Diamond in the swamps? The contact zones of slavery, migration, exile and bent boundaries Contact Zones: Memory, Origin, and Discourses in Black Diasporic Cinema, Sheila J. Petty, (2008) Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 295pp., ISBN-10: 0814330991 (pbk), 25.99

The
Cinema of Lars Von Trier: Authenticity and Artifice, Caroline Bainbridge, (2007) London: Wallflower Press, 210pp., ISBN 1905674430 (pbk), $25

Andy Warhol: Blow Job, Peter Gidal, (2008) Cambridge, MA and London: Afterall Books and The MIT Press, ISBN 9781846380419
(pbk), 9.95

Andrei Tarkovsky: Interviews, John Gianvito (ed.), (2005) Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 190 pp., ISBN 1578062209 (pbk), $22.00
Film Review
Authors: Wallace Marlon
Published: April 2011

Patrik Age 1.5,
(2008) Sweden Director Ella Lemhagen Screenplay Ella Lemhagen Original Story Michael Druker Producer Tomas Michaelsson Director of Photography Marek Wieser Art Director Lene Willumsen Costumes Angelica Tibblin
Chen With Gustaf Skarsgard (Goran Skoogh), Torkel Petersson (Sven Skoogh), Thomas Ljungman (Patrik), Annika Hallin (Eva), Amanda Davin (Isabell) Runtime 98 minutes
Narrations de l'altrit l'le Maurice
Authors: Peghini Julie
Published: April 2011

Using several twentieth-century Mauritian novels that stage the difficulties inherent in the island's social order and evoke the formation of possible new social links, this study focuses on the representation of otherness in the culture of the island. Literature has long served in
Mauritius as an important locus for the definition and discussion of the nature and content of forms of sociality and what is termed here being-together. The works of the intellectual and social elite that were published in the pre-independence years, between 1920 and 1968, were crucial in
the formation of values. Since the 1970s, new writings and the re-evaluation of history have challenged dominant interpretations by exposing race, ethnic and gender issues within national debates. The four literary texts discussed here underscore a more layered and plural vision of existing
social conditions and the forms of togetherness they generate. These novels provide a key that allows for the decoding of a multiplicity of intersecting, juxtaposed or opposed worlds in which the representations of self and other are dialectically constructed and deconstructed, whether the
other is close or distant and whether the fictional circumstances are those of rejection, fascination and/or appropriation. These fictional representations foreground the question of otherness, and the methodology used in this article consists in analyzing the mechanisms of negation of the
other that play themselves out in the social contexts and the symbolic space of the literary narrative.
Border crossings: Arts and health work in a university
Authors: Rowe Nick
Published: April 2011

This article describes and analyses a project developed at York St John University that offers courses to mental health service users taught by students and their tutors. A model is suggested that provides a means through which people who have used mental health services can access
higher education (HE) experience that is both flexible and supportive. The project is a collaboration between the university and local mental health service providers. It is an innovation in line with current UK agendas with regard to widening participation and lifelong learning in the HE
sector, and to social inclusion in the mental health field. It offers valuable ways for full-time students to develop the attitudes and insights needed to work with people who use mental health services, and it inevitably challenges the cultural attitudes that surround mental illness.
Objects in transition: The puppet and the autistic child
Authors: Trimingham Melissa
Published: April 2011

Although claims for the efficacy of puppetry in therapeutic contexts lack extensive academic research, some published evidence does exist. A phenomenological and embodied approach is used here beginning with the writer's own experience as a mother to theorize on the puppet's role as
a surrogate communicator and facilitator with children who lack communication skills. Instead of foregrounding language difficulties (as is often the case in writings on autism), this article focuses on the physical reality of a puppet. The writer explores notions of embodiment where neurological
patterns are established through physical interaction with the world, and suggests ways in which this patterning may be interrupted or disturbed, and how puppets, as safe and to some extent controllable physical objects, may act therapeutically to re-establish some of these patterns. It is
further suggested that puppets may work in similar ways to Winnicott's transitional objects in babyhood, operating in a transitional space. Winnicott claims that in a psychologically healthy adult, the comfort of infantile transitional objects and phenomena is transferred to religion, art
and creativity activities that provide a bridge between the inner world that we totally control and the external world, which we do not. Such activities are linked to a creative space of mind and are psychologically necessary. Puppets operate in this space. Overall, stress is laid on the importance
of the material reality of the puppet and its objectness to help explain its particular efficacy.
A descriptive analysis of a pilot drama project in a forensic psychiatric setting
Authors: Ho Hilda , Richard Karen
Published: April 2011

This article describes an innovative drama project that took place in a forensic psychiatric unit in Perth, Scotland. The project aimed to engage mentally disordered patients in a meaningful and creative activity. We sought to measure any individual changes in behaviour, self-confidence
and self-awareness using questionnaires given to the participating patients and nursing staff. Patients attended weekly drama sessions and devised a performance using their own ideas and improvisations. Six patients participated in the full drama project. They reported that they had enjoyed
the project, and that the performance was well received by the audience. Patient and nursing feedback reported improvements in behaviour, interaction with others, self-confidence, self-awareness of feelings and ability to control negative feelings. Most patients hoped to become involved in
another similar project. Participation in a creative activity such as drama in this group of participants has found a promising initial outcome that merits further work.
A report from an arts and health consultation about research and evaluation
Authors: Stickley Theodore
Published: April 2011

In 2008, a consultation was conducted in the East Midlands in the United Kingdom amongst people working in the area of Arts & Health. The focus of the consultation was on how Arts & Health workers conduct, report and disseminate research and evaluation. In addition to workers,
participants of Arts & Health projects also contributed to the consultation process. The process included commissioning eight Arts & Health groups in the region to contribute to the consultation by arranging workshops with their staff and participants to elicit their views. In these
days of health commissioners demanding evidence for the effectiveness of interventions, questions such as How do we produce evidence? What research methods are appropriate? were asked of participants. This article reports the findings from the consultation. There is much energy for
evaluation and research and interest in becoming more equipped to conduct this aspect of the work. There is an opportunity for regional and local research to contribute to the development of Arts & Health theory. It is thought that evaluation and research should employ mixed methods but
reflect the philosophy and ethos of the organizations.
Reviews
Authors: Jenkins Alison , Stickley Theo
Published: April 2011

Arts Activities for Children and Young People in Need Helping Children to Develop Mindfulness, Spiritual Awareness and Self Esteem, Diana Coholic (2010) London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers UK, 193pp. ISBN: 978-1-84905-001-2, Paperback, RRP 19.99

Arts Development
in Community Health: A Social Tonic, Mike White (2009) Oxon: Radcliffe Publishing Ltd. UK, 252pp. ISBN-13: 978-1846191404, Paperback, RRP 24.99
Pride and Prejudice and the adaptation genre
Authors: Cartmell Deborah
Published: April 2011

Following from the work of Thomas Leitch (2008) and Christine Geraghty (2009), adaptations that position themselves as adaptations are considered in relation to an evolving definition of an adaptation genre. In particular, Pride and Prejudice is regarded as a template for such
a genre, a genre signified by a period setting; period music; a focus on intertitles, words, books and authors; the foregrounding of new media; the inclusion of artwork in the sets or in the mise-en-scne; implicit or explicit tributes to the author; and an appeal to a female audience
through the insertion of female-friendly episodes. The films Pride and Prejudice (1940), Pride and Prejudice (2005) and Becoming Jane (2007) are examined in relation to this concept of the genre adaptation.
But never mind about politics: Arnold Wesker's The Merchant and its critics
Authors: Franssen Paul J. C. M
Published: April 2011

Arnold Wesker's play The Merchant (1983) is usually discussed as a response to its Shakespearean original, The Merchant of Venice, and criticized for being both too full of irrelevant historical detail and insufficiently attentive to history in the Marxist sense. The latter
charge overlooks the fact that Wesker's play was not just about Shakespeare's supposed anti-Semitism, but also signalled his own disillusionment with radical politics. In his analysis of history, Wesker had concluded that capitalism was more likely to promote tolerance of minorities than alternative
systems. His growing disillusionment with the left sprang from his experience of Communism in Eastern Europe, and from the Middle East wars, in which the capitalist West backed Israel. The play also reflects Wesker's quarrels with radical colleague John McGrath over cultural politics. The
Merchant does not mark Wesker's farewell to politics, therefore, but a reorientation of his politics away from radical socialism.
We felt that if we kept looking hard enough, we might begin to understand how they were feeling and who they were: Point of view and performance in The Virgin Suicides
Authors: Hovland Ceri
Published: April 2011

This article uses Sofia Coppola's 2000 film adaptation of Jeffrey Eugenides's 1993 novel, The Virgin Suicides, as a tool to reveal the articulation of characterization and point of view which the film offers through style, performance, narrative organization and mode of address.
It explores the gendered perspectives that the film offers on the action and in particular focuses on the film's appropriation of the rhetoric of still photography to inflect the story's concern with obsession and epistemological limits.
Reviews
Authors: Collard Christophe , Musca Szabolcs , Raw Laurence , Shaughnessy Robert , Welsh James M
Published: April 2011

THE THEME OF CULTURAL ADAPTATION IN AMERICAN HISTORY, LITERATURE, AND FILM: CASES WHEN THE DISCOURSE CHANGED, LAURENCE RAW, TANFER EMIN TUN AND GLRIZ BKEN (EDS) (2009) Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 553 pp., ISBN 978-0-7734-3876-7, Hardback, 84.95

CULTURAL BORROWINGS:
APPROPRIATION, REWORKING, TRANSFORMATION, IAIN ROBERT SMITH (ED.) (2009) Nottingham: Scope: An Online Journal of Film and Television Studies, 224 pp., ISBN: 978-0-9564641-0-1, e-Book

THE METALANGUAGE OF TRANSLATION, BENJAMINS CURRENT TOPICS VOL. 20, YVES GAMBIER AND LUC
VAN DOORLAER (EDS) (2009) Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, h/bk 192 pp., ISBN 978-90272-22503

RELOCATING SHAKESPEARE AND AUSTEN ON SCREEN, LISA HOPKINS (2009) Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, vi 183 pp., ISBN 978-0-230-57955-2 (hbk), 50.00

SHAKESPEARE
ON SILENT FILM: AN EXCELLENT DUMB DISCOURSE, JUDITH BUCHANAN (2009) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 316 pp., ISBN 9780521871990, Hardcover, $99.00
The Muslim woman as a beauty queen
Authors: Galal Ehab
Published: April 2011

The aim of this article is to examine how Muslim women on Islamic satellite television channels are represented as symbols, as citizens and as religious authorities within or outside the Mosque. The article presents an analysis of a series called Malikat Jamal Iqraa (Iqraa's beauty
queen). The analysis illustrates how the Islamic satellite channels offer Muslim female viewers a multitude of identities. I argue that the programme can be interpreted as a critique of the cultural hegemony of western media, while highlighting the ideal image of the Muslim woman as a selfless,
obedient daughter.
Media coverage of women in the Arab political sphere
Authors: Salem Maryam Ben
Published: April 2011

This article reports on some of the findings of a large research project conducted by the United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women and The Centre of Arab Women for Training and Research entitled Strengthening women's leadership and participation
in politics and decision-making processes in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia. The aim is to further our understanding of the relationship between the media and women in the political field in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia. The findings discuss the way media in the above countries propagate certain
images of women who participate in the political field, and how these women react to such images, particularly the images of female politicians. The article concludes with some reflection on the way female politicians can harness the new media technologies to break through social barriers
and to gain visibility.
Film Reviews
Authors: Thorburn Jane , Adegbola OluwaTosin
Published: April 2011

LOVE AND MADNESS Reading Araromire and Love in the Time of Cholera

FELA! CHOREOGRAPHED AND DIRECTED BY BILL T. JONES
A Broadway Musical written by Jim Lewis, Produced by Shawn Jay-Z Carter, Will Smith, Jada Pinket Smith, Ruth and Stephen Hendel,
Roy Gabay, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Edward Tyler Nahem, Slava, Smolokowski, Chip Meyrelles and Ken Greiner, Douglas Smith, Steve Semlitz/Cathy Glaser, Daryl Roth, True Love Productions/Jeanne Donovan Fisher and Laurie Gilmore, Susan Dietz, Mort Swinsky, Joseph Deitch and Kitting Factory
Entertainment.
Representations of the Third World in NGO advertising: Practicalities, colonial discourse and western understandings of development
Authors: Rideout Lisa
Published: April 2011

This article examines the many factors influencing NGO advertisements and their visual representations of the Third World. Focusing on two specific advertisements, this work explores the influence of practical constraints and specific marketing techniques. Applying the work of Edward
Said and Homi Bhabha in its analysis, this article will consider the relationship of the NGO advertisements to colonial discourse. Visual representations of the Third World that circulated into Europe during colonialism naturalized the division between white and black racial categories. This
distinction, as utilized in the advertisements, is explored through Paulette Goudge's The Whiteness of Power. Following, an examination of imagery as grounded in a specific understanding of development is undertaken with reference to Arturo Escobar's work. Both advertisements' imagery
is argued to be an essential part of justifying the development practices. It is concluded that as producers of visual representations, NGOs are in a position to disseminate alternative depictions of the Third World1 and, consequently, contribute to the production of new discourses within
the field of development.
Communication and collective memory: The plight of oral traditions in Cte d'Ivoire
Authors: Bl Raoul Germain
Published: April 2011

A people must face the issue of the perpetuation of its history as well as its values, permitting it to maintain the link with the following generations. As in most of sub-Saharan Africa, the medium of communication and the functioning mechanisms that permitted Ivorians to safeguard
and transmit their culture has, until recent times, been the oral tradition. This has served as the vehicle of collective memory, but today, this tradition is rapidly eroding. Based on ethnographic work with three different ethnic groups in Cte d'Ivoire, this text explores the key elements
and functions of the oral tradition. Given that the survival of a people is strongly dependent on its capacity to transmit its culture and identity to new generations, the situation is critical. However, it is also argued that modern media technologies can be put to use in order to document
and catalogue much of the collective memory that still remains among the older generations.
Digital switchover, or digital grip: Transition to digital television in the Russian Federation
Authors: Strukov Vlad
Published: April 2011

The article presents essential information on the development of digital television (DTV) in Russia by providing an analysis of government documents, DTV markets, and the forms of signal delivery and configuration of DTV channels in Russia's regions. It outlines the interrelated geographical,
technological, political, economic, social and cultural factors influencing the development of DTV in Russia and puts this in the context of Russia's transition from a totalitarian state to a country with a market economy. The article discusses the role of different actors on the DTV market
and puts forward concerns over the government's attempts to maintain state control over television by building capabilities for competing in the new media sphere. It also places DTV developments in the context of Russia's ongoing project of nation building.
Digital turmoil for South African TV
Authors: Armstrong Chris , Collins Richard
Published: April 2011

South Africa is scheduled to migrate all of its terrestrial television signals from analogue to digital by June 2015. In 2007, the South African Department of Communications (DoC) called for the switchover to digital terrestrial television (DTT), using the Digital Video Broadcasting-Terrestrial
(DVB-T) transmission standard, to begin in November 2008 and be complete just three years later, with an analogue switch-off on 1 November 2011. This ambitious plan for a rapid three-year migration is currently in disarray. At the time of writing in October 2010, household migration to DTT
has not begun, and there are multiple uncertainties: the DoC is considering replacing the DVB-T transmission standard with Integrated Services Digital Broadband-Terrestrial; the DTT set-top box specifications are not yet finalized; and the government's first Digital Dzonga advisory body has
been disbanded by the Communications Minister and is being replaced by new appointees. Other key stakeholders in the migration, the public broadcaster (the South African Broadcasting Corporation) and the state-owned signal carrier (Sentech), are in financial and management disarray. The regulator
the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa has effectively ruled that the earliest analogue switch-off could occur would be in 2013, and it now appears that even the June 2015 International Telecommunication Union switchover deadline may be difficult to meet. The authors consider
the possible consequences of these events.
Educational tools based on MIR system for Arabian woodwinds
Authors: Haddad Rami , Al-Ghawanmeh Fadi Mohammad , Al-Ghawanmeh M. T
Published: April 2011

Most educational musical software is designed for occidental music and instruments. As Arabian music has special features, utilization of most available musical software is limited. This article presents educational tools developed for Arabian woodwinds. These tools are based on a recently
proposed system devoted to melodic retrieval of Arabian woodwinds and benefiting from an open Musical Instrument Digital Interface Toolbox. Four applications are presented and evaluated: Automatic Music Transcription of Arabian woodwinds, Music Information Retrieval to serve Arabian polyphony,
query-by-playing for musical libraries and a tool for melodic analysis.
The demonic and the divine: Unfixing replication in the phenomenology of sampling
Authors: Wilsmore Robert
Published: April 2011

We might sometimes note that listeners are divided in their ascription of authenticity to sampling in music: the essence of unoriginality for one, the found-object building block of real creativity for the other. This article explores how the use of existing music and sampling in particular
might be re-perceived in the discourse of repetition, authenticity, creativity and originality, and collapses the gap in how types of existing music have been used over the last millennium, so that we might reconcile the difference in the technological means of replication across the
centuries with the repetition of schema in the way extant music is reused, and that we might see the sameness of sampling and quotation in new music as well as the differences.

This article hopes to encourage an understanding for the composer-producer engaged in replication
and re-presentation (through sampling, remixing, covering, etc) that his or her creative acts can be unveiled as honest (if not always lawful), and that whilst shifting technologies may make the sonic landscape different, the composer driving the technology need not bear the accusation
of unoriginality when the repetition of schema is unveiled.
Writing on film as art through Ricoeur's Hermeneutics
Authors: Friedman Ditte
Published: April 2011

Despite the broad interest in film as an essential aspect of contemporary life, there is no generally accepted and theoretically rigorous method for film analysis suited to a broad range of scholars. The rich tradition of hermeneutics provides such a method. Using Paul Ricoeur's hermeneutical
theory to interpret film requires a structure anchored in five key themes. These five themes are (1) explanation and understanding, (2) symbol, (3) metaphor, (4) narrative and (5) imagination. These five themes permit us to understand how a text or film communicates and builds meaning. Each
of Ricoeur's five themes offers a specific way to understand the text, in this case, the film. All five themes work together to demonstrate the text or the work as a communicative and artistic whole, a single unit of several interlocked parts. This article will examine the five themes to show
how they function together, establishing their role in interpretation. As an example, I apply Ricoeur's hermeneutics to Clint Eastwood's (1992) Western Unforgiven.
Here and there: An artist's writing as aesthetic form
Authors: Francis Mary Anne
Published: April 2011

Developing the recent interest in art-writing, this one-act play explores one aspect of that area: specifically, an artist's writing. The monologue adapts Mieke Bal's notion of art history, written from the place of its objects, to invoke the idea of an artist's writing as writing
by and as an artist. Contending that this is writing as aesthetic form, the play's Speaker proposes that an artist's writing is distinct from other forms of discourse about art precisely by virtue of its aesthetic dimension. The speaker defines aesthetic via Hegel's notion of
the arts as a symbolic discourse in which the signifier is visible, and motivated by its signified. In a Hegelian scheme, this makes the arts inferior, and hence makes the task of defending aesthetic writing, which takes up the rest of this drama, all the more urgent. The case is made with
reference to pedagogic pragmatics, cultural politics, ethics and therapeutics: Barthes' pleasure of the text with which the text concludes.
Writing experiments with a lateral leaning
Authors: Edwards Harriet , Tappenden Curtis
Published: April 2011

The drawing and writing experiment that I offered at the Centre of Learning and Teaching in Art and Design (CLTAD) conference in Berlin, 2010 is related to my Ph.D. research (based at Leeds Metropolitan University). The research centres around what I am calling the lateral or supra-rational
sides of designing processes. While the term lateral was originally made popular by de Bono (1967) in his book Lateral Thinking, its association in the research project embraces the kinds of thinking and making connected to ideation, visualization, intuition and other elements of a sphere
of practice that are harder to contain and evidence within orthodox Humanities approaches to academic research. Schon (1983) in The Reflective Practitioner, Law on Beyond Method: Mess (2004) and tangentially, in terms of contemplating a network of practice, Lefebvre's Rhythmanalysis (1992)
have all further influenced my research. The research project's particular portrait of processes emerged, in a first stage, from interviews with design students, designers/tutors and young designers in Leeds and at the Royal College of Art. The second, more speculative stage of research asks
what might happen if such subject matter and such modes of practice are imposed on writing culture. The drawing and writing experiment in Berlin was a hands-on exploration of the theme of Observation.
Digital culture in Brazil: Building peeracy?
Authors: de Luca Pretto Nelson , Bailey Olga Guedes
Published: April 2011

The analysis of emerging digital culture in Brazil demands an understanding of certain aspects of Brazilian life. This article examines the relationship between Brazilian socio-economic and cultural factors, and digital development. Having initially outlined inequalities in media and
digital provision, the article proceeds to examine Brazilian policy on the creation of an information society through digital inclusion programs and the provision of free and open source software (FOSS). The analysis considers policies of the Brazilian Ministry of Culture, and considers the
concept of peeracy, a hybrid term coined by former Culture Minister Gilberto Gil suggesting equality and rights of access and sharing. The article examines digital take-up besides other media consumption patterns in Brazil, analyses the impact of telecentros and lan houses (both being public
access spaces for digital participation) and concludes with an evaluation of the link between participation in digital culture and the empowerment of citizens.
Reviews
Authors: Demont-Heinrich Christof , Gozzi Raymond , Zanker Ruth
Published: April 2011

Theaters of Occupation: Hollywood and the Reeducation of Postwar Germany, Jennifer Fay (2008)
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 264 pp., ISBN: 0816647453, $22.50 (pbk)

McLuhan: A Guide for the Perplexed, W. Terrence Gordon (2010)
New York:
Continuum, 205 pp., ISBN 9781441126290, $75 (hbk); ISBN 9781441143808, $19.95 (pbk)

The World Summit on Children, Youth and Media, Karlstad, Sweden (2010)
Rules of the forbidden game: Violence in contemporary Chinese cinema
Authors: Ning Ma
Published: April 2011

This article examines the new trend in the filmic representation of violence in contemporary Chinese cinema by analysing more recent key works made by the renowned Fifth Generation film-makers in the new millennium in terms of their production economy and aesthetics, the specific generic
conventions, narrative structures and strategies employed and the promotional and critical discourses of the distributors, exhibitors and critics. The article argues that the form and function of these films can best be explored by focusing on the rules by which this new type of filmic discourse
on violence is produced and regulated within the context of the emerging global cultural economy in relation to international politics.
Gendered trauma in Korean cinema: Peppermint Candy and My Own Breathing
Authors: Soyoung Kim
Published: April 2011

Peppermint Candy (1999) and My Own Breathing (1999) are privileged texts for understanding the historical burdens of Korean society. These films touch upon key traumas in modern Korean history: the Gwangju Uprising and the plight of the comfort women during the colonial
era. I argue that the trauma played out in Peppermint Candy, under the pretence of progressive political historiography, renders women's traumas invisible and unrepresentable in public discourse. My Own Breathing, on the other hand, presents an alternative way of approaching
the historical trauma of comfort women.
The language of violence in Indonesian cinema
Authors: Sen Krishna
Published: April 2011

In thinking of the relationship between political and cinematic violence in Indonesia, this article ponders the relatively infrequent violence in the cinema that emerged in the shadows of the mass killings of 196566. How should one think about the new fascination with violence in recent Indonesian cinema? The answer may lie in a comparison of Indonesian film form with the unique nature of the Indonesian language and its prevalence of the passive voice or object-focused syntax. In Indonesian films the agent of the act of violence is not articulated, and instead violence becomes victim-focused. This article pays close attention to a post-New Order film,Novel Tanpa Huruf R/A Novel without R, which marks a departure in moments of graphic violence while also maintaining some consistencies with the language of New Order cinema.
Family and social dynamics among European mixed couples
Authors: Gaspar Sofia
Published: April 2011

This article analyses some of the issues enabling us to understand European intra-marriage as a social phenomenon, by presenting some empirical findings resulting from 30 in-depth interviews carried out on couples in Lisbon. It begins by explaining how free movers may be seen as an
emerging group of citizens within the European matrimonial market, in order subsequently to clarify how the expression European intra-marriage is useful for categorising this new type of mixed partnership. Some results relating to personal, social and marital aspects will then shed light on
the dynamics of these European mixed unions. A final section suggests further lines of research that must be taken into consideration in future work in this field.
Political tolerance in Portugal and Spain: The importance of circumstantial factors
Authors: Viegas Jos Manuel Leite
Published: April 2011

A survey carried out in various European countries (the Citizenship, Involvement, Democracy [20012003] research project) revealed, rather surprisingly, that Portugal registered significantly higher overall levels of political tolerance than Spain (tolerance being measured by the number
of minority groups the respondents excluded from participation in public meetings). The explanation put forward for these results was based on the distinction between structural tolerance, based on established dispositions and attitudes, and the circumstantial component of tolerance, which
is dependent on the level of conflict with the minority groups. The greater presence in Spain than in Portugal of ideological extremism (Basque terrorism by ETA) and Islamic fundamentalism would explain this difference. In 2006, the same battery of questions measuring political tolerance was
applied in Portugal and, partly, in Spain. In this study I seek to analyse (1) how these tolerance levels have developed, (2) whether the difference in tolerance levels between the two countries has been maintained and (3) whether the explanation for this difference is still valid.
The image of, or in, sublation
Authors: Cassar Ignaz
Published: April 2011

Following thinkers of the archive such as Derrida, Foucault and Groys, among others, one of the ethical functions of the archive is to enable differentiation: to do archival work is to unlock difference. Yet how is one to deem the archival content outside of those moments in which we
deliberately engage with it? More specifically, how is one to think the spectatorial relation to images that, assigned to the sequestered space of the archive, remain most of the time without spectators?

In approaching the archival mode through the philosophical lens of sublation and its
Hegelian precursor of Aufhebung that performs alteration through preservation-as-cancellation, this essay sets out to articulate a phenomenology of the archived photograph as an image of, or in, sublation. Exploring the fragile dynamics at stake between the archived and its non-archived
outside, emphasis is laid on the critical contradictions inherent in the logics of archivization: seeking to preserve its documents, the archive cannot do so without also provoking further differentiation.
Reviews
Authors: Cunningham John , Fisher Andrew , Sluis Katrina
Published: April 2011

Memorial to an Eternal Present?
Toppled, Florian Gttke (2010), 1st ed., Rotterdam: Post editions, 150pp, ISBN: 9789460830167, paperback, 23.00

Time, Again, Now
Time and Photography, Jan Baetens, Alexander Streitberger and Hilde Van Gelder (eds) (2010)
Leuven: Leuven University Press, 187pp., ISBN 9789058677938, Paperback, 30.00

Words Without Pictures
Words Without Pictures, Alex Klein (ed.) (2010), 1st Aperture Edition, New York: Aperture and LACMA, 510 pp., paperback ISBN 978-1-59711-142-3, 16.95
College student net-radio audiences: A transnational perspective
Authors: Baker Andrea Jean
Published: April 2011

This article is part of a larger study that examines the characteristics of a transnational youth net-radio audience and their associated values, attitudes, behaviour and cultural practices. It reports on a survey of 209 college students' media habits. Respondents were enrolled in undergraduate
journalism, media and communications programmes at either City University of New York (CUNY) or New York University (NYU) in the United States, or Monash University in Australia. Extending existing US-based studies (Free 2005; Albarran et al. 2007; Ferguson et al. 2007), this comparative survey
uses transnational research to focus on why two different sample groups of Australian and US college students access radio online and net-only radio. The article identifies a youth net-radio audience within the transnational arena that is alienated by traditional radio programming in its locale.
Review
Authors: Street Sen
Published: April 2011

Pieces of Sound German Experimental Radio, Daniel Gilfillan (2009) Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 211 pp., ISBN 978-0-8166-4772-9 (pbk), $25.
There is an I in artist: dysfunctional collaborations and the doomed Pop Musicals Come (1994) and The Capeman (1998)
Authors: Ullom Jeffrey
Published: April 2011

A subgenre of rock musicals known as pop musicals is flooding Broadway, and these productions especially those that utilize a flimsy plotline in order to differentiate themselves from a concert are threatening the traditional book musical. The arrival of pop musicals differs from the
development of rock musicals in that the latter used its music for a thematic purpose within the framework of a traditional show. Pop musicals, however, are turning Broadway theatres into performance halls, as audiences now expect concert-like performances, devaluing the importance of the
book and character development in favour of spectacle and accessibility. Given this threat to the continuation of the traditional Broadway musical, research opportunities exist to explore how these pop musicals will change the future of the Great White Way, both artistically and economically.
Reviews
Authors: Macdonald Laura , Poston-Anderson Barbara , Russell Susan , Mukherjee Madhuja
Published: April 2011

BROADWAY NORTH: THE DREAM OF A CANADIAN MUSICAL THEATRE, MEL ATKEY (2009) Toronto: Natural Heritage Books, 311pp., ISBN: 1897045085, Paperback, 20.99

THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO THE MUSICAL, WILLIAM A. EVERETT AND PAUL R. LAIRD (EDS) (2008) 2nd ed., Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 412pp., ISBN: 978-0-521-86238, Hardback, 52.00, ISBN: 978-0-521-68084-4, Paperback, 19.99

THE OXFORD COMPANION TO THE AMERICAN MUSICAL: THEATRE, FILM AND TELEVISION, THOMAS HISCHAK (2008) Oxford: Oxford University Press, 923pp., ISBN-13: 978-0-19-533533-0,
Hardback, 24.99

MUSICAL THEATRE TRAINING: THE BROADWAY THEATRE PROJECT HANDBOOK, DEBRA MCWATERS (2009) Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 159pp., ISBN: 9780813033570, paperback, $29.95

BEHIND THE CURTAIN: MAKING MUSIC IN MUMBAI'S FILM STUDIOS, GREGORY
D. BOOTH (2008) New York: Oxford University Press, 336pp., ISBN: 978-0-19-532763-2, Hardback, 54.00, ISBN: 978-0-19-532764-9, paperback, 13.99
Integration through the wide open back door: African Americans respond to Flower Drum Song (1958)
Authors: Edney Kathryn
Published: April 2011

The mainstream press was lukewarm regarding Rodgers and Hammerstein's Flower Drum Song (1958). In contrast to white media responses to Flower Drum Song, black newspapers wholeheartedly embraced it. Although the praise by black newspapers for the musical can be attributed
to African-American actress Juanita Hall's prominent role in the production, more than just racial pride is in evidence in these reviews. By examining the ways in which African-American newspapers constructed Flower Drum Song as holding particular significance to the black community
when the Civil Rights movement was gaining momentum, this article analyses the ways in which musicals can take on new and unexpected meanings for unforeseen audiences.
Ol' (wo)man river?: Broadway's gendering of Edna Ferber's Show Boat
Authors: Wood Bethany
Published: April 2011

Competing philosophies of American womanhood permeate Edna Ferber's Show Boat, which first appeared as a serial in the Woman's Home Companion. Published in 1926, in the midst of a dramatic redefining of American womanhood, Ferber's story engaged with the complexities of
conflicting gender ideologies and offered a model for navigating the turbulent discourses in women's culture. While well suited for a women's magazine, Ferber's focus on femininity dissipated as Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II and Florenz Ziegfeld adapted her Show Boat into the iconic
American musical familiar to theatre scholars. This essay examines gender ideologies in Ferber's original work and the restructuring of these ideologies in adapting her work for the stage.
Authenticity and realism in documentary sound
Authors: Murray Leo
Published: April 2011

While we expect a dramatic feature film to use creative license in bringing the sound-track to life, does the same carte blanche approach apply for documentary? Does it, and should it, matter? This article highlights some of the problems and questions relating to the notions of realism
and authenticity in the production of the documentary soundtrack. The production of the documentary film Gallipoli Submarine is used as a case study to examine the implications for practice.
Towards a radically different understanding of experience: Looking for an heautonomous auditory field in film
Authors: Huvenne Martine
Published: April 2011

What can be the status of sound in film? Is sound always dependent on image in film? Or is it possible to give sound a more autonomous status? If yes, what are the consequences for the workflow?

In the 1980s and early 1990s two opposing propositions about the relation of the audible and the visible in film were presented. For Michel Chion the auditory field is completely a function of what appears on screen and for Gilles Deleuze the externality of the visual image as uniquely framed has been replaced by the interstice between two framings, the visual and the sound.

Introducing the auditory field as multi-layered, dynamic, experienced and embodied, the author proposes a phenomenological approach of the audio-visual that moves towards a different understanding of the filmic experience, which has its roots in a phenomenology of auditory experience. In the practice-based research project,Surrounded, the author explored together with sound designer and sound mixer Griet Van Reeth, how the creative process of film-making can start from the auditory field, including inner sound and a heautonomy of the auditory field.
Analyzing the Diffusion of Global Customer Relationship Management: A Cross-Regional Modeling Framework
Authors: Kumar V. , Sunder Sarang , Ramaseshan B.
Published: April 2011

Most recent research on customer relationship management (CRM) has been restricted to developed economies such as the United States. Researchers have done little to study the growth of CRM in developing markets such as Asia and South America, which are becoming increasingly relevant to business today. With the changing business climate, firms are beginning to embrace the concept of managing customers rather than products. This leads managers down the path of customer centricity, and here lies the relevance of truly global CRM (GCRM). The authors conduct a qualitative study to understand the concept of GCRM and its relevance. Their results quantify the growth of CRM on a global scale using a diffusion modeling framework. The results of the generalized cross-regional diffusion model indicate that there is untapped market potential in the GCRM market, with varying adoption patterns across regions. The authors also propose a conceptual framework to understand the factors that affect cross-regional learning in GCRM adoption. In addition, the study provides insights into implementation and calibration of a GCRM framework and directions for further research.
Convergence and Divergence: Developing a Semiglobal Marketing Strategy
Authors: Douglas Susan P. , Craig C. Samuel
Published: April 2011

Many markets are converging, as communications and logistic networks become more integrated and firms from all parts of the world are expanding operations on a global scale. At the same time, other markets are becoming more diverse, and marketers are increasingly encountering economic and cultural heterogeneity. The authors examine the implications of these trends and the extent to which they necessitate rethinking and refocusing global marketing strategy. First, they examine the perspective of global marketing strategy as an evolutionary process. Next, they divide markets into five major spheres, examining the economic and cultural diversity of markets in each. Next, they discuss the resultant need to develop and implement different strategies for markets in each of these spheres. Some conclusions are drawn relating to the difficulties involved in developing a coherent strategy in international markets. The authors advocate developing a semiglobal marketing strategy, which involves following different directions in different parts of the world, resulting in greater autonomy at the local level.
Online Social Interactions: A Natural Experiment on Word of Mouth versus Observational Learning
Authors: Chen Yubo , Wang Qi , Xie Jinhong
Published: April 2011

Consumers’ purchase decisions can be influenced by others’ opinions, or word of mouth (WOM), and/or others’ actions, or observational learning (OL). Although information technologies are creating increasing opportunities for firms to facilitate and manage these two types of social interaction, to date, researchers have encountered difficulty in disentangling their competing effects and have provided limited insights into how these two social influences might differ from and interact with each other. Using a unique natural experimental setting resulting from information policy shifts at the online seller Amazon.com , the authors design three longitudinal, quasi-experimental field studies to examine three issues regarding the two types of social interaction: (1) their differential impact on product sales, (2) their lifetime effects, and (3) their interaction effects. An intriguing finding is that while negative WOM is more influential than positive WOM, positive OL information significantly increases sales, but negative OL information has no effect. This suggests that reporting consumer purchase statistics can help mass-market products without hurting niche products. The results also reveal that the sales impact of OL increases with WOM volume.
The Sources and Consequences of the Fluent Processing of Numbers
Authors: King Dan , Janiszewski Chris
Published: April 2011

Consumers often like fluently processed stimuli. The authors find that one source of fluency for numerical stimuli is the generation of a number through common addition (e.g., 1 + 1 through 10 + 10) and common multiplication (2 × 2 through 10 × 10) problems (study 1). Common addition and multiplication problems (arithmetic), or their operands, can be used to prime a number and increase its fluency (study 3). The benefits of arithmetic and operand primes are limited to single primes (i.e., more primes are not necessarily better) (Study 5). Number fluency is relevant to creating numeric brand names (Study 2), enhancing the liking of numeric brand names through advertising (Study 4), and executing price promotions (Study 6).