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Omniscience and Wisdom
Authors: Harvey Ramon
Published: January 2022

This chapter studies the divine attribute of omniscience, or knowledge, which was affirmed by many Islamic theologians, and wisdom, which was given special attention by al-Māturīdī. After discussion of premodern debates, a contemporary reading is made of these attributes. Notably, this includes a defence of divine omniscience against several prominent objections from different philosophical perspectives.
The Second World War, Soviet Sports and Furious Space Walks: Soft Power and Nation Branding in the Putin 2.0 Era
Authors: Norris Stephen M.
Published: January 2022

This chapter analyzes recent Russian popular historical movies in the era of Vladimir Medinskii as Minister of Culture and Vladimir Putin’s return to the Russian presidency (2012-present). Following Keith Dinnie, Melissa Aronczyk, and Robert Saunders, I see attempts to “brand” a nation, even for domestic audiences, as a crucial component of soft power and as a form of public diplomacy. Medinskii in particular has helped to promote a patriotic culture centered on the Second World War, Soviet sports achievements, and the Soviet space program. Developing this patriotic brand, however, has come with some costs. The branding of a Russian nation as advertised onscreen since 2012, in short, has produced a mixed bag of results in terms of soft power success.
Introduction: Fictions of Comfort
Authors: Pieters Jürgen
Published: January 2022

The introduction to the book focuses on the current wave of bibliotherapy (for instance, Berthoud and Elderkin’s The Novel Cure) and singles out a number of fundamental questions with respect to the relationship between literature and consolation that underlie this reading practice. Taking its cue from a number of recent bibliotherapeutic writings, the introduction identifies the book’s central argument and highlights its structure.
Hotel Modernity
Authors: Moore Robbie
Published: January 2022

Hotel Modernity explores the impact of corporate space on the construction and texture of modern literature and film. It centres the hotel and corporate space as key sites of modern experience and culture. Examining architectural and financial records, hotel trade journals, travel journalism, advertisements and cinematic and literary representations, it charts the rise of hotel culture from 1870 to 1939. The book defines corporate space as the new urban, capital-intensive, large-scale spaces brought about by corporations during the nineteenth century, including department stores, railway stations and banking halls. Only in hotels, however, did the individual live within corporate space: sleeping in its beds and lounging in its parlours. The hotel structured intimate encounters with the impersonal and the anonymous, representing a radically new mode of experience.
In chapters featuring readings of both canonical and relatively little-studied texts by Henry James, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Elizabeth Bowen, Arnold Bennett, and Henry Green, alongside films by F. W. Murnau, Segundo de Chomón, and Charlie Chaplin, Hotel Modernity considers the relationship between new kinds of spatial organisation and new forms of subjective and intersubjective life. Hotels provoked these writers and filmmakers to rethink the conventions and functions of fictional characters. This book charts the warping and decentring of the category of ‘character’ within the corporate, architectural, informatic and technological networks which come to define hotel space in this period.
Lounging Bodies: The Lobby and Piazza
Authors: Moore Robbie
Published: January 2022

This chapter considers oversized American hotel lobbies and the kinds of bodies that were imagined to inhabit it. It focusses on Henry James’s early travel journalism, ‘Daisy Miller’ and The American, as well as Fanny Fern’s writing on hotel etiquette. For James, the lobby produced a new kind of masculinity and a new kind of body: the stretched-out, elastic body of leisured bourgeois men. James’s fiction contains a hidden genealogy of long-legged men, many of whom were drawn to big hotel spaces. If the genteel ideal of the well-mannered body was self-control and self-possession, James’s long-legged men breach the genteel code. Their elasticity confounds the margin between self and other, and by melding into hotel furniture and architectural structures, they also confound the margin between human and stuff. In ‘Daisy Miller’, the comingling of elastic bodies means that servants, bourgeois gentlemen and counts, minor characters and major characters, all look the same. Hotel lobbies and hotel bodies are shown to be disruptive agents in Victorian culture with ambivalent social potential.
Rising Timely and Untimely: On Joycean Anachronism
Authors: Saint-Amour Paul K.
Published: January 2022

This essay focuses on the complexities of time, showing how the ghosts of events that happened after the day on which Ulysses is set on June 16, 1904—the Easter Rising and World War I—still haunt its pages. It argues that Joyce resists the eschatological narrative of nation building by refusing to predict Ireland’s future. Instead, it shows how Joyce embeds references to any given historical event in a nexus of other events that could have several different implications for a political future.
The Insurgent Romance and Early Cinema in Ireland
Authors: Brown Matthew
Published: January 2022

This chapter examines early cinema in Ireland, an artform pioneered by James Joyce who founded the Cinematograph Volta in 1909, and focuses on two production companies, the Kalem Company (based in New York) and the Film Company of Ireland (an indigenous enterprise established just before the Easter Rising of 1916). Together they launched a series of increasingly ambitious films, which introduced many of the cinematic tropes that dominated Irish filmmaking in the revolutionary era. Brown focuses on ‘insurgent romances’—a popular genre often criticised for presenting a nostalgic, sentimental view of Ireland—and reframes these works as political-erotic dramas that rebel against their own conventions and demand to be taken seriously. Although they could be seen as rear-guard heresies against high modernism, these films subvert their own genre protocols, especially through ambiguous endings that resist the consolations of closure. (137)
Challenging the Iconic Feminine in Contemporary Irish Women’s Poetry: Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
Authors: Darcy Ailbhe
Published: January 2022

This chapter shows how poets Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin dissent from both the longstanding orthodoxy of the Catholic Church and the newly ascendant orthodoxy of secular neoliberalism. Writing in the Irish language, itself a pocket of resistance to the bureaucratic languages of capitalism, Ní Dhomhnaill and Ní Chuilleanáin call on relics or ‘ruins’ of the past, such as the ‘síscéal’ (fairy tale) and the keen, to challenge the reigning ideology of growth and progress. While dismantling the ‘iconic feminine’—that is, the myth of the sexless selfless mother enshrined in both Catholic and nationalist ideology—these poets recover forms of female ritual and discourse that resist global secular capitalism.
‘A form that accommodates the mess’: Degeneration and / as Disability in Beckett’s Happy Days
Authors: Kennedy Seán , Valente Joseph
Published: January 2022

The essay begins with Max Nordau’s theory of degeneration, which intact form signals cultural health and broken form cultural deterioration, to show how Samuel Beckett de-pathologized the indices of degeneracy by finding a form to “normalize” the messy feelings of non-normative experience. Beckett uses disability as aesthetic principle by formalising affect, thereby universalizing divergence from ideals of embodiment.
Jumping Cats and Living Handkerchiefs: The Queer and Comic Non-Human World of Elizabeth Bowen’s Fiction
Authors: O’Connor Maureen
Published: January 2022

This chapter draws on the insights of New Materialism, especially the work of Karen Barad, Donna Haraway, and Jane Bennett, to examine Bowen’s idiosyncratic treatment of the inhuman world. Like the New Materialists, O’Connor argues, Bowen’s fiction poses ‘a radical challenge to received ideas about human centrality by undermining foundational divisions including the assumed separation between the human and the nonhuman’. Much of the humour and arresting oddity of Bowen’s fiction arises from her mischievous subversion of these epistemological categories. Her insistence on the sustaining and undeniable bonds that deeply entangle the human and non-human poses an ethical challenge to our customary modes of perception.
Tracing the Science Fiction Genre in Hong Kong Cinema
Authors: Cunliffe Tom
Published: January 2022

This chapter traces the sporadic historical development of the science fiction genre in Hong Kong cinema and analyses several films made in Hong Kong since 1979, which adopt science fiction elements to negotiate cultural and ideological anxieties related to modernity, coloniality and Chinese nationalism. The films analysed in this chapter blend science fiction motifs, iconography and narratives with other local genres such as wuxia, kung fu, comedy and the undercover cop/agent thriller. This mixing of genres foregrounds Hong Kong cinema’s particular ideological perspective, which sometimes undermines, challenges or embraces the conventions of the science fiction genre. In this experimental stage from the late-1970s to the 1980s, Hong Kong science fiction films reveal the locus of Hong Kong cinema as one that shuttles between the local, national and global, both resisting and welcoming the modernity that the imagination of science fiction offers. This negotiation is a reaction to Hong Kong’s position in-between Chinese nationalism and British colonialism.
Domesticity, Sentimentality and Otherness: The Boundary of the Human in Monster Hunt
Authors: Yang Mei
Published: January 2022

The 2015 Chinese box-office hit, Monster Hunt, in its appropriation of classical Chinese fantasy tales, raises questions about the differences between the human and its strange other. As a successful contemporary narrative that incorporates elements from both popular culture and Chinese classics, this film has much to tell about China in the new millennium. In what specific ways does a modern society try to reconnect with the imaginative world of early China, and to what extent are domesticity (family relationships) and sentimentality, or qing (personal feelings), identified in Chinese cinemas, applicable once again to these new-fangled monster films? This essay contends that the film’s assemblage of the strange and the miraculous as captured in traditional tales and the abnormal points to the haunting monstrosity of contemporary life.
Coda: Sino-Enchantment in a Time of Crisis
Authors: Chan Kenneth , Stuckey Andrew
Published: January 2022

In the coda that concludes this volume, the book’s editors confront COVID-19 as a global phenomenon that forces into view cultural anxieties about critical work on fantastic Chinese cinema. The key question the pandemic raises is not just the significance of studying the fantastic as a cinematic form but also how one’s understanding of the fantastic, especially as seen through the theory of Sino-enchantment, can help reconceptualize the understanding of life on this shared planet, as one is ‘re-enchanted anew’ toward the hope of better days to come.
Tracing the Academy Awards ceremony’s footprint into the mediascape
Authors: Lundén Elizabeth Castaldo
Published: January 2022

This chapter explores how the ceremony turned into a media event, following its association with television and its journey towards global distribution. It looks into the negotiations behind the first deal to televise the event in NBC, the different venues and networks that carried the event, the Public Relations efforts to accommodate journalists to cover it, the structuring of the red-carpet area as an outdoors spectacle, and the steps to distribute the ceremony abroad.
The emergence of fashion conglomerates turns couture into prêt-à-porter
Authors: Lundén Elizabeth Castaldo
Published: January 2022

This chapter analyses a transitional period in fashion at the Academy Awards ceremony. The global cultural, political and economic turmoil that impacted the fashion and film industries materialised in a clash between emergent and residual voices that blurred formality, glamour and stardom in Hollywood. Throughout this period, the ceremony struggled to find a new identity that could accommodate the emerging youth culture, negotiating tradition and innovation by engaging the so-called New Hollywood exponents. After being in charge of the ceremony's fashion for 18 years, this period marked the end of figures such as Edith Head and paved the way for a succession of costume designers experienced in musicals and colour television. This period also consolidated changes in the fashion industry, leaving couture behind and entering an era of ready-to-wear.
3 Key Concepts and Definitions
Authors: Chattopadhyay Budhaditya
Published: January 2022

The Greek notion of storytelling, diegesis, which denotes the use of a narrative process to construct the diegetic world, is often cited in film theory. Mary Ann Doane refers to it as ‘the internal space’ of the cinematic universe (Doane 1985b) framed and constructed by the technical tools of filmmaking. Translated to sound, this term could be understood in relation to the environmental, incidental and other location-specific sounds that are made to emanate from the story space in which events occur (...
4 Approach and Method
Authors: Chattopadhyay Budhaditya
Published: January 2022

The Auditory Setting takes a practice-based approach to its investigation of how ambient sound recorded from particular sites as sonic material contributes to the production of mediated environments in films and media artworks. Places are studied for their specific sonic environment and as sites recorded and (re)presented, firstly, in a number of films and, secondly, in a few sound and media artworks developed from field recordings made at specific sites. Methodologically, five primary tracks are followed that open dialogue with one another: a historical overview; ethnographic research and fieldwork; personal input, including interviews with artists and practitioners; artistic research; and self-reflective analysis....
12 Riverbank, Beach, Island
Authors: Chattopadhyay Budhaditya
Published: January 2022

Where land meets water such as at a city’s riverbanks or on a seashore, a dynamic encounter between stillness and motion is enacted. Relentless waves crashing on a shore invite land to break away and delve into an unknown realm, a wild nature of abandon. However, the land cannot always move. It is often bound by girders and fences, culture and civilisation. The subtle drama that emerges from this tension (sound-)marks most water sites: riverbank, beach or island. This is a collection of interrelated sites; all of these, however, are situated around water. There are degrees of human involvement in these sites. Some of them could be natural as such. On the whole, I refer to the cityscapes, as in the river by a city, whose banks have been constructed. Island would perhaps be the least humanly constructed. When these sites are recorded on media, the constructed auditory settings provide a glimpse of the conflict between water and human habitat, mobility and stasis, nature and culture....
Epilogue: Poverty won? Republicans and poverty, 1982–2018
Authors: Mclay Mark
Published: January 2022

This chapter charts the Republican Party’s evolution in its approach to antipoverty policies since 1981. In doing so, it finds little change in the party’s approach. Throughout the rest of his presidency, Reagan delighted audiences by mocking the War on Poverty and noting that ‘poverty won’. Meanwhile, Reagan’s view that government should not launch vast anti-poverty efforts but should instead unleash the power of free enterprise, dominated Republican thinking through both Bush presidencies, and even into the Trump era.
Virgil's English Translators
Authors: Calvert Ian
Published: January 2022

This book considers the writers who translated Virgil into English during the civil wars, Interregnum and early years of the Stuart Restoration (c. 1636–c. 1661). It argues that these writers translated and imitated Virgil in order to display and interrogate their political loyalties, articulate personal responses to past traumas, draw attention to the contingent nature of the systems of government which followed the death of Charles I in 1649 (particularly Oliver Cromwell’s Protectorate) and express their hopes for the country’s future. This future often, but not invariably, imagined a restored Stuart monarchy under Charles II, and all of the translators in this period spent time in royal service or were associated with the royalist cause. Their writings, however, demonstrate that royalism encompassed a wide variety of opinions, some of which emphasised a sense of duty to an individual or dynasty, but others were more committed to monarchy as an institution or to monarchical forms of government. This book also situates the translations within each author’s wider body of work in order to identify further political resonances in their individual receptions of Virgil and illuminate Virgil’s broader status and cultural function in the period.
‘A Great Many People I Know from Victoria’: The Victorian Dimension of the Otago Gold Rushes
Authors: Davy Daniel
Published: January 2022

Chapter Two places the Otago gold rushes within the Tasman World by considering the links between Otago and Victoria during the gold rushes. It discusses the impacts of the contraction and industrialisation of the Victorian goldfields on facilitating migration to Otago. It further analyses the two-way traffic of people, information and commodities that wedded the Otago and Victorian goldfields into a single economic and social trans-Tasman community. Gold seekers also transplanted social networks in Otago, where they dug and drank alongside Victorian mates. Meanwhile, the Otago and Victorian press competed for itinerant gold seekers. Despite the attempts of the Otago newspapers, few had any attachment to Otago and their experiences in Otago were a temporary sojourn rather than permanent settlement.
Work and Environments
Authors: Davy Daniel
Published: January 2022

Chapter Three looks at work on the Otago goldfields, emphasising particularly the daily practices and randomness of gold deposits in Otago. It locates the work of goldmining within local natural environments that made the rushes fluid and unstable events. As gold seekers encountered new weather patterns, geological formations, and ecologies, they utilized ethnic networks and adapted labour practices from the Victorian goldfields to local contexts. Meanwhile, they drew on Chartist language as they fought with the Provincial Government over the meaning of the gold rushes and the nature of the gold-rush population.
Leisure Sites and Cultures
Authors: Davy Daniel
Published: January 2022

Chapter Four elucidates the leisure worlds of the Otago gold rushes. While it recognises that gold seekers placed leisure in binary opposition to work, Chapter Four also stresses the commercialised production of entertainment spaces. Through a discussion of the goldfield public house, court, and theatre, the analysis calls attention to the cultural work of leisure in forming local communities. While leisure practices often drew upon metropolitan cultural forms, they also offered individuals a prism into the society they were forming on the goldfields.
Under the Skin of Society: Rakhshan Banietemad’s Social History of Post-revolutionary Iran
Authors: Wittmann Matthias
Published: January 2022

Surveying Banietemad’s films, beginning with Nargess, Wittman argues that Banietemad’s urban ballads not only show “the people who are missing,” uncovering suppressed, silenced voices; they also illustrate how ordinary people are organizing themselves into communities, networks, and grassroots move- ments. He further asserts that, in doing so, the films expose the emptiness of the official claims made by the Islamic Republic of Iran. At the same time, they desta- bilize stereotypes regarding Iran emerging outside of the country, especially the image of “fatalistic Muslim masses,” “the passive poor”, and the “disoriented marginal.”
Tales and the Cinematic Divan of Rakhshan Banietemad
Authors: Langford Michelle
Published: January 2022

This chapter considers the film in the context of Banietemad’s other works, analyzing the ways in which its style creates a delicate balance between social realism and poetic cinema. This chapter discusses how the theme of love and its structural treatment within the film evokes classical Persian traditions of love poetry known as ghazal, constituting evidence of the emergence of what she has previously termed the “cinematic ghazal.”
“Modes of Expression not Subject to the Law of Male Desire”: Considering the Role of Voice-over and Enunciation in the Work of Rakhshan Banietemad
Authors: Holman Rosa
Published: January 2022

Considering the Role of Voice-Over and Enunciation in the Work of Rakhshan Banietemad.” Holman argues that voicing encompasses not only the aesthetic practices associated with the literal, acoustic voice in Banietemad’s films, but also the process of inscribing authorship. Referencing feminist film scholarship of the 1980s concerning voice-over and the positioning of the female subject beyond the gaze of the spectator in experimental women’s cinema, this chapter looks at how Banietemad’s social melodramas and documentaries have played with the notion of voice, disembodiment, and enunciation.
Western China on Screen
Authors: Zou Hongyan
Published: January 2022

This book examines how films set in western China have represented cities since the 1980s by drawing on spatial theories first proposed by Henry Lefebvre and further developed in Edward Soja’s Thirdspace theory. Focusing on the cinematic representation of urban centres located in western China, this book breaks the long-standing stereotypes of the region established in the ethnographic films of China’s Fifth Generation filmmakers. The twelve films examined in this book record and represent a dynamic space transforming from enclosed spaces of production, traditional values, political inertia and socialist capsules to heterogeneous spaces of consumption, modern practices, national power and disappearance under the discourses of urbanisation and modernisation. This spatial transformation of western China diversifies the glamourised images of the post-socialist, technocratic metropolises of Beijing and Shanghai. Analysing the real and imagined spaces represented in and by the films, this book advances the current research on China’s urban cinema by orchestrating space, class, gender, post-colonialism and post-socialism in discussion. It concludes that cinematic western China acts as a space of resistance that reflects the political and ideological power imposed on urban development and lives of the residents in the region; This space of resistance also breaks down such dichotomies as China’s developing west-developed east, countryside-city, tradition-modernity and submission-domination by preserving and presenting multi-layered realities in contemporary western China.
Female Space and Bodies
Authors: Zou Hongyan
Published: January 2022

This chapter presents cinematic Xi’an as a capsule of rural inertia and socialist China by investigating the female appropriation of spaces in both rural and urban areas represented in Wang Quan’an’s 2003 The Story of Ermei [Jingzhe] and 2009 Weaving Girl [Fangzhi guniang]. The Story of Ermei shows the protagonist’s rural-urban experiences and the limited physical spaces she can access, and displays a complicated space-power relation which is not only limited to gender but also to social class and rural-urban disparities. Weaving Girl explores female bodies and human sufferings that resonate with grim anonymous industrial areas plagued with rundown factories, alienated streets and neighbourhoods. The cinematic image of Xi’an in this film is deprived of the thick historical and cultural sense, but is associated with fateful diseases suffered by female characters, which can be regarded as resonating with the collapse of the socialist state-owned enterprise.
“The Tranquil March of the Revolution”: German and German-American Reverberations of Mary Wollstonecraft’s Writings
Authors: Johns Alessa
Published: January 2022

This chapter considers the reception of Mary Wollstonecraft’s work by German-speaking authors. Several of her books were translated into German by Friedrich Christian Weissenborn, a teacher at the Erziehungsanstalt, an innovative philanthropical school in Schnepfenthal founded by the pastor Christian Gotthilf Salzmann, whose Moralisches Elementarbuch (1783) Wollstonecraft had translated into English in 1790. In his introduction and footnotes to Weissenborn’s 1793–94 translation of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), Salzmann attempts to tone down some of Wollstonecraft’s more radical feminist ideas and anti-aristocratic sentiment. In both his translations and his own writings, however, Weissenborn supports her views about women’s roles, though he emphasizes her gradualist vision of social change. Johns concludes by considering the reception of the work by the German-American Forty-Eighter Mathilde Franziska Anneke, who embraces Wollstonecraft’s more radical feminist ideas.
Translation as Conceptual Reverberation: “Revolution” in Wales 1688–1937
Authors: Löffler Marion
Published: January 2022

Drawing on Reinhart Koselleck’s conceptual history, this essay traces the various words coined to convey the concept of revolution in Welsh in reaction to various moments of upheaval from the Glorious Revolution of 1688 to the American War of Independence and the French Revolution. Whereas at first writers opted for the positive adymchweliad (which had religious connotations suggesting a return to God) or the more neutral cyfnewidiad llywodraeth (a change of government), from 1797 on they began to use the more negative chwyldro, which evoked a dizzying circular movement. Chwyldro would go on to become the standard Welsh concept for revolution. As Marion Löffler shows, this semantic shift reflected a growing concern about the direction of the uprising following the attempted French invasion of Britain through Wales.
‘I’m making a white man of him’: Making and Breaking Whiteness in The Garies and their Friends
Authors: Murray Hannah Lauren
Published: January 2022

Returning to the origin of critical whiteness studies, antebellum African American literature, this chapter examines how tenets of Whiteness are performative and arbitrary in Frank J. Webb’s The Garies and their Friends. Assembling a cast of respectable free African American families and cunning and dishonest White men, Webb depicts Whiteness as a set of values not intrinsic to White bodies, and that the privileges Whiteness affords are not extended to Black Americans who embody those tenets. Influenced by the cross-racial oratory of his wife Mary E. Webb, Webb conveys the permeability of the colour line through episodes of White racial transformation and African American passing, and he shows White male anxieties that they could lose the privileges of Whiteness themselves. In the final section the chapter considers prescriptive Whiteness itself as deadly through deathbed speeches in The Garies and across early African American fiction.
Benjamin’s Emergence as an American Lawyer and Politician
Authors: Gilmore William C.
Published: January 2022

This chapter reflects on Benjamin’s emergence as one of the leading American legal practitioners of his day. It considers his legal education in Louisiana, his first contribution to legal scholarship and its positive impact on his swift acquisition of an extensive, substantial and lucrative practice initially in his home state and then nationally. It notes his acquisition of a sugar plantation and a substantial number of slaves. It incorporates coverage of the manner in which he nurtured his political ambitions culminating in his appointment as a member of the United States Senate. Finally it outlines how, in his years in Washington DC, Benjamin – who had declined nomination to the US Supreme Court in 1853 – became a constant feature in litigation before it
Concluding Reflections
Authors: Gilmore William C.
Published: January 2022

This commences with Benjamin’s death in Paris in May 1884 and the manner in which this news was received in the media and in professional circles in the United Kingdom, his home state of Louisiana and in America more generally. This forms the context for an assessment of his several careers and of the personal and professional attributes which contributed, often in the face of disadvantage and adversity, to his successes. His legacy, more as a distinguished jurist and pioneer of comparative private law scholarship than as a flawed and controversial politician, is also considered in concluding this biographical sketch of an intriguing and complex figure
Introduction: Making Films in Hell
Authors: Kozma Alicia , Freibert Finley
Published: January 2022

This introductory chapter traces Doris Wishman’s personal and professional biography. In doing so, the authors describe the archival and filmic instabilities found when research and writing about exploitation and adult film. Embracing this destabilization, the chapter presents the volume’s methodology and intellectual pathos as reflective of Wishman herself.
Trans/sexual Negativity and the Ethics of (S)exploitation in Let Me Die a Woman
Authors: Shalloe Harper
Published: January 2022

This chapter underscores important links between trans studies and psychoanalysis through the case study of Let Me Die a Woman (1978) and presents the film as a site of struggle pertaining to genre classifications (documentary and pornography), the psychoanalytic concept of sublimation, and recent theorizations of trans negativity in trans studies. The chapter arguing that trans studies’ ontological turn has underacknowledged relations to psychoanalytic understandings of the process of sublimation. The author discusses editing as the key formal element in the film that initiates a sublimation-like process, coining a novel conceptual parallel that the author calls “editing as edging.”
“It’s strange, but it’s wonderful”: Doris Wishman’s Nude on the Moon
Authors: Kohoutek Karen Joan
Published: January 2022

This chapter presents a narrative and genre analyses of Wishman’s Nude on the Moon to forward how the film flouts traditional conventions of the science fiction and nudist genres in a way that critiques hegemonic gender norms. In doing so it provides a contextual analysis of the film attuned to the history of second wave feminism and gender constructions in the 1960s. Resultingly, the essay provides a starting point for re-evaluating the film, which is one of Wishman’s rarely studied works. The chapter provides ample textual evidence and analysis for the film’s relationship to science fiction and nudist films while narrating critical industrial information on the film’s production.
Revolutionization of the EroticScreen: The Films of DorisWishman and Wakamatsu Koji
Authors: Kim Molly
Published: January 2022

This chapter compares the work of Wishman and Wakamatsu Koji, examining Wishman’s Double Agent 73/Deadly Weapon (1973, 1974) in conjunction with Wakamatsu’s contemporary works Season of Terror (1969) and Ecstasy of Angels (1972) and tracing how their concept of “erotic” was cinematized to cater to the commercial, sexual and political desires of the time. Wishman, as one of the very few female filmmakers, suggested new possibilities in the representation of female agency within male dominated field of erotic cinema. Wakamatsu, largely known for his radical leftism demonstrated how politics could be voiced through the erotic conventions of Pink Film. Following, this chapter traces how Wishman and Wakamatsu came to represent rule breaking and progressive cinema.
Worship and Devotion in Multiconfessional Scotland, 1686–9
Authors: Raffe Alasdair
Published: January 2022

This chapter examines worship and devotion among Episcopalians and Catholics during this Revolutionary period in confessional relations and argues that multiconfessional competition encouraged churchmen to emphasise and defend the beliefs and practices that distinguished their religious group from the others. The circumstances of the Restoration settlement had entailed that Episcopalian worship was in most aspects similar to that of the Presbyterians, particularly in the absence of a formal liturgy. But in their sermons, and in the theology underlying their preaching, Episcopalians had developed a different tone, less rigid in doctrinal certainties, more sympathetic to patristic and ancient wisdom, and increasingly open to the strands of English theological writing that emphasised free will and a holy life. The chapter begins by considering the growing interest in liturgical worship in the Episcopalian Church of the 1680s and then, in the second section, turns to the books and pamphlets published to promote one confessional tradition over another, including the striking development of James VII’s reign was the setting up of a Catholic printing press at Holyroodhouse.
The Liturgical Tradition of the English Non-jurors
Authors: Sharp Richard
Published: January 2022

This chapter considers Eucharistic doctrine and liturgical developments of the English non-jurors. For the first generation after their deprivation in 1690, liturgical innovation was not a priority for English non-jurors. Although assembling in their own chapels and oratories, and avoiding use of distinct names in prayers for the King and Royal Family, they continued to worship in accordance with the Book of Common Prayer. However, absence of innovation did not reflect lack of interest in liturgical matters. Together with their High Church contemporaries who contrived to accommodate conscience to the new orders in Church and State, Non-jurors persevered in a common scholarly enterprise which had already gone far towards raising awareness of the faith and practice of the primitive Church of the first four centuries. Taking into consideration of the usages controversy which split the non-jurors after 1718 and promoted an intense polemical debate which promoted a raft of innovative church practices: primarily the mixing of water with wine in the communion chalice, but also controversial were prescription of oblation and Epiclesis, reservation of the communion elements and prayers for the sick and dying.
Introduction: The Non-Linguistic Environment
Authors: Spolsky Bernard
Published: January 2022

Language repertoires develop in various human habitats, a fact that makes geography, demography, birth order and population density relevant to the creation and expansion of individual and community linguistic repertoires. In the modern world, technological developments (such as television and the computer) have provided a wider environment for communication. At the same time, non-linguistic forces (war, civil unrest, climate change induced floods and droughts, poverty and corruption) interfere even with wise language policies.
Military Language Policy and Management
Authors: Spolsky Bernard
Published: January 2022

The military sets language policy to allow management at various levels, whether to give orders to lower ranks, agree on plans with allies, or spy on the enemy. Armies often teach significant languages.
Present and Absent Bodies of the Beloved
Authors: Alharthi Jokha
Published: January 2022

The presence and absence of the beloved's physical form is the primary subject of discussion in this chapter. It argues that the bodily presence in ‘udhri poetry does not always take the form of a physical body — sometimes it appears through symbolic channels, where the symbolising of the body appears alongside its physical depiction. The chapter examines such themes as gestures, speech, phantoms, the beloved’s house, and her presence through nature.
Conclusion
Authors: Alharthi Jokha
Published: January 2022

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Iranian Literature after the Islamic Revolution
Authors: Nanquette Laetitia
Published: January 2022

This book analyses the field of contemporary Iranian literature. It explores how literature has functioned and circulated since the 1979 revolution until the present, both within Iran and in countries of the Iranian diaspora, focusing on North America, Western Europe and Australia. It focuses on prose productions, analysing several genres and media. The book takes Iran as its starting point, revealing the forms, structures and functions of Iranian literature within Iranian society, before turning to the global diaspora to examine the current dynamics of literary production and circulation between Iranian diasporic spaces and the homeland. It provides a comprehensive analysis of the contemporary Iranian literary field in its relation to the social, economic and political fields, both within Iran and in the diaspora. It is also a critical intervention in the field of World Literature as it explores Persian literary texts and the Iranian literary field in their worldly dimensions, with an interdisciplinary and global perspective. It is based on 15 years of fieldwork and travels in Iran, with unique interviews, data collection and participant observation.
Introduction
Authors: Nanquette Laetitia
Published: January 2022

This book aims to show what literature can tell us about post-revolutionary Iran and to profile the Iranian literary field in all its complexity, its variations, its disjuncture, by insisting on its polyvocality. It narrates several different aspects of the story of contemporary literature: within Iran and in the diaspora; the independent and the governmental fields; canonical literature (defined as the texts recognised by literary institutions and the texts perceived as worthy of reading and interpretation), as well as popular and children’s literatures; the local, the national and the global levels and all the informal connections in between. All these voices and strands need to be understood in their relations to one another, in order to analyse the state of contemporary Iranian literature. Despite, or maybe because of, censorship, sanctions, strong nationalism and exile, contemporary Iranian literature is complex, as so many factors add layers to its understanding. This book takes a broad scope in order to show its richness. In the introduction, I define the scope and perimeter of the research, explain my methodology, as well as the main theoretical framework used. I also give a detailed synopsis of the chapters.
Iranian Children’s Literature: A Success Story Nationally and Globally
Authors: Nanquette Laetitia
Published: January 2022

Children’s literature has been more successful internationally than Iranian adult fiction and it is also a field that is more professionalised than the one for adults. In this chapter, I analyse children’s literature to understand phenomena that have been occurring in the larger field. The chapter analyses the history of Iranian children’s literature in the past decades, zooms in on the important institutions supporting it, and theorises both its importance to the Islamic republic and its reception nationally and globally, explaining its relative success. This chapter concludes the first part of the book, where I have discussed the production and circulation of Iranian literature within Iran. In the second part, I move to these topics outside of the Iranian borders and analyse the literary relations between the Iranian diaspora and Iran as well as the circulation of Iranian literature in languages other than Persian for non-Iranian readers.
Walter Scott and Short Fiction
Authors: Cook Daniel
Published: January 2022

Walter Scott’s historical novels dominated the literary marketplace for much of the nineteenth century. As an author of short fiction, in which he also excelled, he has received far less attention. Walter Scott and Short Fiction is the first extended study of The Author of Waverley’s only collection of short stories, Chronicles of the Canongate; periodical and gift-book pieces; and interpolated tales that appeared in the novels, such as ‘The Fortunes of Martin Waldeck’, a devilish folk story, and ‘Wandering Willie’s Tale’, which remains one of the most widely anthologised short prose works ever written. Through extensive readings of the Highland stories (‘The Highland Widow’ and ‘The Two Drovers’), his Indian novella (The Surgeon’s Daughter), Gothic keepsakes (‘My Aunt Margaret’s Mirror’ and ‘The Tapestried Chamber’), his Calabrian tale Bizarro, and other texts, this book offers new insights into the production and consumption of the short story, the novella, the tale, the sketch, and other forms of fiction in the early nineteenth century and beyond.
Dialectical Relationships
Authors: Vlassopoulos Kostas
Published: January 2022

Chapter 6 examines three dialectical relationships: between masters and slaves; between free persons and slaves; and within slave communities. The master-slave dialectic formed a spectrum with two extremes: on the one hand, it could lead to the cruel tyranny of masters exercised over slaves without any control; on the other hand, rich and powerful masters could offer their slaves significantly better opportunities than those existing for most of the free population. The free-slave dialectic depended on the intervention of the political community in the theoretically unmediated relationship between masters and slaves in order to achieve two things: to formulate slave status and the distinction between free people and slaves and to shape the master-slave relationship according to the wider interests of the community as a whole. The third dialectic comprises the full range of relationships within the communities that enslaved persons constructed and participated in. These communities were based on kinship and family, ethnicity, religion, neighbourhood, profession, or belonging to the same master.
Romeo y Julieta: A Spanish-Language Shakespeare in the Park
Authors: Sicre Daphnie
Published: January 2022

This chapter focuses on the author’s experiences directing the first ever-Spanish production of Shakespeare in the Park in Miami, Florida in 2006. The author directed Romeo y Julieta. Having directed in Spanish but not necessarily Shakespeare in Spanish, Sicre embraced the challenge. This chapter addresses the practitioner-pedagogical challenges of mounting such production and shares the ways Sicre was able to overcome the challenges of casting various Spanish speaking actors, finding the perfect translation, and mounting a production in the park in the middle of the summer to engage the Latinx community in Miami. Needless to say, mounting Romeo y Julieta was not only a crash course in Shakespeare, but also a course on how to mount a Spanish translation of a classic in to various Latinx audiences.
Politics, Poetry and Popular Music: Remixing Neruda’s Romeo y Julieta
Authors: Ruiz Jerry
Published: January 2022

This chapter focuses on Jerry Ruiz’s work directing a staged reading of Neruda’s play in 2016 as part of The Public Theater’s Mobile Unit Shakespeare program, which tours to correctional facilities, homeless shelters, and community centers throughout New York City. This unique project tried to overcome the barriers that Spanish-speaking communities potentially face in accessing Shakespeare. In the summer of 2016, following the Mobile Unit’s formula of stripped down stagings and texts, an abridged version of Neruda’s work was performed. During the rehearsal process, my collaborators and I discovered the power of music to illuminate Shakespeare’s play for Spanish-speaking audiences. Ruiz explains how interpolating well known Spanish-language songs by Violeta Parra and Luis Alberto Spinetta helped blossom the play into Mala Estrella, an evening of music and excerpts from Romeo y Julieta.
A ‘Rule of Thumb’ and the Return on Investment: The role of valuation devices in the financialization of Northern Australian pastoral land
Authors: Langford Alexandra
Published: January 2022

Northern Australian pastoral land prices have become higher and more volatile over the last twenty years, raising concerns about the potential implications of the financialization of the industry. These prices are not inevitable results of market forces, but mediated and co-constructed by a range of actors using two valuation devices: the ‘Beast Area Value’, a ‘rule of thumb’ which emerged during the early development of the industry, and the ‘Return on Investment’, a tool widely used to compare financial ventures. The Beast Area Value treats land as a commodity whose value is derived from its physical characteristics, while the Return on Investment treats land as an asset whose value is based on its future income generation potential. This article describes how some pastoral companies are strategically combining these devices to earn capital gains through ‘speculative development’ of properties in ways that do not necessarily increase their productivity. It argues that pastoral land is often developed in ways more reflective of the valuation devices used in the region than of the realities of station management, representing a shift from competing in the sphere of production to competing in the sphere of valuation and implicating these devices in the financialization of Northern Australian land.
The Design of Matched Balanced Orthogonal Multiwavelets
Authors: Karel Joël M.H. , van Steenkiste Sjoerd , Peeters Ralf L.M.
Published: January 2022

The theory of orthogonal multiwavelets offers enhanced flexibility for signal processing applications and analysis by employing multiple waveforms simultaneously, rather than a single one. When implementing them with polyphase filter banks, it has been recognized that balanced vanishing moments are needed to prevent undesirable artifacts to occur, which otherwise compromise the interpretation and usefulness of the multiwavelet analysis. In the literature, several such balanced orthogonal multiwavelets have been constructed and published; but however useful, their choice is still limited. In this work we present a full parameterization of the space of all orthogonal multiwavelets with two balanced vanishing moments (of orders 0 and 1), for arbitrary given multiplicity and degree of the polyphase filter. This allows one to search for matching multiwavelets for a given application, by optimizing a suitable design criterion. We present such a criterion, which is sparsity-based and useful for detection purposes, which we illustrate with an example from electrocardiographic signal analysis. We also present explicit conditions to build in a third balanced vanishing moment (of order 2), which can be used as a constraint together with the earlier parameterization. This is demonstrated by constructing a balanced orthogonal multiwavelet of multiplicity three, having three balanced vanishing moments, but this approach can easily be employed for arbitrary multiplicity.