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Sensing Time and Space through the Soundtracks of Interstellar and Arrival
Authors: Richardson John , Pääkkölä Anna-Elena , Qvick Sanna 
Published: March 2021

Abstract
This chapter discusses the recent science fiction films Interstellar (2014; music by Hans Zimmer) and Arrival (2016; music by Jóhann Jóhannsson) as benchmarks for new ways of configuring the listening body in time and space. These films are characterized by soundtracks that emphasize visceral as much as audiovisual involvement. Both draw on influences from postminimalism and electronic music with historical allusion to produce sonic end results that convey a texturally rich but semantically impervious sense of the otherworldly. Our analyses draw on theories of multisensory cinema to explain how the soundtracks create experiences of altered time and space. While evoking a sense of monumentalism reminiscent of tropes of the sublime, the music of these films communicates also optimism about futures where conflict and ecological shortsightedness give way to something more intuitive and all encompassing.
“If You Know Arabic, Indian Songs Are Easy for You”
Authors: Young Katie 
Published: March 2021

Abstract
With the arrival of cinema halls in northern Ghana in the mid-1950s, Indian and Hollywood films circulated among diverse audiences with varying religious, economic, and educational backgrounds. In Ghana, educational approaches to listening differed greatly between Christian and Islamic schools: mission schools promoted English literacy, centered around contextual understanding and moral readings of English text, while Islamic schools taught Qur’anic recitation through aural and oral transmission, with precedence given to the indexical experience of untranslated religious text. This chapter explores how contrasting modes of listening developed in mission and Islamic schools shaped Christian and Muslim experiences of early postcolonial Hollywood and Hindi films, both inside and outside the cinema hall.
Listen Again
Authors: Westrup Laurel 
Published: March 2021

Abstract
This chapter encourages scholars to listen again to music video. While music videos are often defined as moving images synchronized to a song, they have frequently incorporated sounds associated with cinematic sound design—sound effects, dialogue, and score—that are not part of the featured song(s). Even when a particular song remains central to a music video’s sonic address, it is often rearranged or extended to emphasize elements within the audiovisual mix. Through case studies featuring Logic, Janet Jackson, and the work of Jonathan Glazer, this chapter explores three key functions of cinematic sound in music video: building a fuller narrative, reinforcing the atmosphere or mood of the song, and subverting or challenging the song’s ostensible meaning. These motivations are not mutually exclusive, nor exhaustive; rather, this critical framework is offered as a means of opening up a larger conversation about the interplay between music video and cinematic sound.
Evolving Storylines and Patterns of Listening
Authors: Stilwell Robynn J. 
Published: March 2021

Abstract
While cinematic listening is typically associated with narrative immersion and uninterrupted viewing experiences, television listening has been theorized as distracted and fragmented, because of consumption in spaces that challenge attention and the “pollution” of the broadcast flow by commercials and program/channel switching. Time-shifting, DVD box-sets, and streaming have gradually generated highly focused and engaged “binge-watching.” Invasion (ABC, 2005–06), a truncated show with an initial three-season plan, emerged between box sets and streaming, presaging many qualities that make a television show “bingeworthy.” The music participates intimately in an intricate, long-arc narrative, blending cinematic and television scoring strategies. Themes are primarily “situational” rather than character-based, but ramify across the single season and occasionally shift meaning or add unexpected layers—for instance, a theme suggesting the uncanny comes to signify family and community, and another gives hints of storylines that were never developed because of cancellation. Listening to the show thus rewards the kind of intense engagement thus far primarily associated with watching.
iPod Listening as an I-voice
Authors: Cenciarelli Carlo 
Published: March 2021

Abstract
Walkman and iPod devices have often been discussed in quasi-cinematic terms. This typically implies an analogy between the personal stereo user and the transcendental subject of film theory, who is allowed to see and hear without being seen or heard. This chapter offers an alternative route. Taking as starting point a cinematic moment in which iPod listening is turned into a first-person voiceover, it suggests that cinematic and personal stereo listening share not only an orientation towards privatization and individualization but also a fantasy of communication: one that blurs the lines between “self” and “other” and between listening and speaking. Analyzing a wide range of films and historical marketing campaigns by Sony and Apple, the chapter shows how mainstream cinema—through its representational tropes and modes of spectatorial address—feeds into a broader cultural construction of personal stereo listening as a highly individualized activity that is always imaginatively open-ended.
Performing Political Ideologies
Authors: Finlayson Alan 
Published: March 2021

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This chapter shows the importance of performance studies to the theory and analysis of political ideas and ideologies. Reviewing ways in which these have been studied in political science it argues that there is a need to understand more about how ideologies are manifested in and through their public performance. In particular, drawing on Rhetorical Political Analysis (RPA), it argues that rhetorical performances of ethos—of character in various dimensions—are fundamental to the manifestation of ideologies. Using examples from British and American political rhetoric the chapter demonstrates how political leaders perform fidelity to a political tradition, draw rhetorical authority from it, and promote, perform, and embody a particular sort of ideological ethos. The chapter further discusses how performances of ethos may draw on very general archetypes, the playing of parts in larger ideological social dramas, and the ways in which polities governs and sets limits to the range of performances possible.
Performing Political Empathy
Authors: Bleiker Roland , Hutchison Emma 
Published: March 2021

Abstract
The purpose of this chapter is to explore the role of performance in the relationship between emotions and politics. To do so it focuses on the role that empathy plays in processes of reconciliation after conflict and trauma. Emotions triggered by conflict often perpetuate existing antagonisms. They tend to reproduce the hostile attitudes that have created violence in the first place. A performative approach illuminates not only how emotions perpetuate conflict but also how they can help divided societies adopt more reflective cultures of reconciliation. The performative dimensions of emotions are crucial because they link individual emotions with collective ones. Drawing on a range of conceptual sources the chapter shows how actively drawing on empathy can promote alternative ways of dealing with conflict. A short case study examines the roles that art, and theater in particular, play in peacebuilding in Sri Lanka. An active appreciation of the whole spectrum of emotions—not only fear, anger, and resentment, for instance, but also compassion—may facilitate forms of social healing and reconciliation.
National Identity
Authors: Klivis Edgaras 
Published: March 2021

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This chapter aims at presenting the complex correlations between nationalism and modern theater with a special focus on performative construction of national identity. Whether seen as primordial essence or as a social construction national identity is grounded on public rituals and artistic practices (rather than rational ideological systems) which makes theatrical stage, along with print, museums, other media, central to understanding how imagined communities come into being and continue their existence into the global contemporary society. The chapter addresses the question of how the theatrical apparatus of bourgeois theater and staged representations in national theaters function in forming theatrical nationhood as well as concepts (postcolonialism), strategies (theatrical public sphere), artists (Jean Genet), and practices (interweaving performance cultures) that contest the dominant modes of performing national identity.
Law, Presence to Absence
Authors: Leader Kate 
Published: March 2021

Abstract
The live presence of a defendant at trial is a long-standing feature of adversarial criminal trial. So much of what constitutes the adversarial method of adjudication is dependent on qualities that arise from this presence: confrontation and demeanor assessment, among other factors, play important roles in how truth is constructed. As such, performative matters—how a defendant enacts and inhabits her role, how she is positioned or silenced-- have long been of concern to legal scholars. These performative concerns are also centrally implicated in defendant rights, such as the right to a fair trial. But today we face new challenges that call into question fundamental beliefs around trials, defendant presence, and fairness. First, technological advances have led to defendants appearing remotely in hearings from the prison in which they are held. Second, the trial itself is arguably vanishing in most adversarial jurisdictions. Third, the use of trials in absentia means that criminal trials may take place in a defendant’s absence; in England and Wales for less serious offenses this can be done without inquiring why a defendant isn’t there. This chapter therefore seeks to understand the performative implications of these challenges by shifting the conversation from presence to absence. What difference does it make if a defendant is no longer there? Does being there facilitate greater fairness, despite the obvious issues of constraint and silencing? Drawing on sociolegal, political, and performance theory the chapter considers the implications of absence in the criminal trial, asking what happens when the defendant disappears.
Eroticism and the Politics of Representing the Abused Body
Authors: Fitzpatrick Lisa 
Published: March 2021

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This chapter discusses the photographic and dramatic representation of sexual violence in conflict and the potential for such visual spectacle to be received as erotic or titillating. The chapter begins with a brief consideration of the human fascination with horror, then draws upon the work of Judith Butler on vulnerability, and Susan Sontag and Georges Bataille on suffering to analyze the relationship between pornographic imagery and the images of Abu Ghraib prison. Taking an example of a dramatic representation of wartime rape, Colleen Wagner’s The Monument, the author’s decision not to display the body is explored as one strategy to avoid the exposure of the body to the gaze of the spectator.
Taking a Position
Authors: Coleman Stephen 
Published: March 2021

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This chapter is stimulated by the author’s collaboration with the renowned choreographer Sharon Watson and dancers from the Northern School of Contemporary Dance to produce a contemporary dance work exploring the feelings of people who had voted for and against Brexit in the UK referendum of 2016. Suggesting that through attention to corporeal experience we might find ways of encapsulating prevalent political moods, it considers the ways in which political affect can exceed the capacities of typical scientific representation. Focusing on what it means to take a position, the chapter argues that dance has the potential to provide ways of attending to deep, prereflective, affective moods underlying and surrounding political situations. The chapter reflects upon the work of translation through which a choreographic devising process was informed by qualitative data. The idea of affective framing is outlined as a new way of thinking about such translatory work. Four arguments for further imaginative collaboration between artists and social scientists are offered, with a view to developing modes of political attention that capture the dynamics of politics as a felt experience.
The Bible in Modern Chinese Fiction
Authors: Starr Chloë 
Published: March 2021

Abstract
This essay surveys existing scholarship on the appearance and use of the Bible in modern Chinese fiction, including chronological, biographical, and thematic studies, while offering its own approach to the Bible in fiction through the type and degree of literary engagement. This ranges from direct, sustained dialogue with the Bible, as in stories based on a particular biblical scene or pericope or the many semi-fictional Lives of Christ produced in the first half of the twentieth century, through to much more diffuse or passing references to biblical themes or allusions. The essay begins with the representation of the physical Bible in literature before considering the transcribed Bible, in direct citation of Bible passages in stories or novels, while the second part of the essay considers literary or thematic engagement.
The Bible and the Public Square in China
Authors: Chia Philip P. 
Published: March 2021

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This essay examines the Bible as it manifested in the public square in China, both before and after 1949 as the communist power ruled New China. It looks at: (1) the context and controversy of the Bible in the public square; (2) the concentration and conservation of the Bible in the public square; (3) the culture and control of the Bible in the public square; (4) the current and construction of the Bible in the public square; and (5) the challenge and contribution of the Bible in the public square. A broader and brighter prospect is provided, as insights and lessons drawn from history, with a positive perspective looking forward to the Bible and the public square in China.
Bible Translations for Ethnic Minority Groups in China
Authors: Yu Suee Yan 
Published: March 2021

Abstract
There are fifty-five officially recognized ethnic minority groups in China. There were concerted efforts to translate the Bible into some of these languages from the nineteenth century ce until now, resulting in the publication of various vernacular Bible translations, especially among the Miao, Lisu, and Yi groups, events that impacted these communities in significant ways. Since people groups of the same ethnicity live in China as well as in other countries, Bibles translated in these countries could perhaps be used by those in China. Careful linguistic analyses and mappings are needed so that people groups who do not yet have the Bible can access the Scriptures in their heart language or mother tongue.
The Bible and Christian Poetry in Modern China
Authors: Rong Guangqi , Bao Zhaohui 
Published: March 2021

Abstract
With the arrival of Christianity and the translation of the Bible in China, Chinese culture and society have experienced tremendous transformation. On the one hand, the Chinese Bible, Chinese Union Version (CUV) in particular, influences modern Chinese poets in that they learn from the Bible words, images, imagination, stories, and narrative modes different from traditional literature; on the other hand, it affects them spiritually, with concepts of life, world, and values from the Bible. This essay looks at the above relationship between the Chinese Bible and Christian poetry in People’s Republic of China. Many Chinese poets in the twentieth century have indispensable dialogues with Christianity in their writing, particularly the Bible, which endows Chinese modern literature with unique life experience and world imagination. From modern to contemporary times, Chinese Christian literature has gradually improved, from the initial superficial influence of the Bible to the internalized life experience, thus leading to a profound artistry that gains respect in the public sphere.
New Testament Monograph and Commentary in Contemporary China
Authors: Changping Zha 
Published: March 2021

Abstract
Biblical studies in China more than twenty years ago was characterized by two aspects: (1) more studies of the constituent parts than of whole books of the New Testament (hereafter NT); and (2) more research in religious studies than in the theology of NT texts. This essay looks at representative new perspectives in New Testament studies (1976–2018) by the following scholars: Choong Chee Pang, Xie Wenyu, Yang Yan, K. K. Yeo, Zha Changping, and Zhao Dunhua. The new perspectives selectively covered are rhetorical literary, socio-rhetorical, historical, and philosophical, as well as history-logic criticisms.
The Chinese Face of Jesus Christ
Authors: Malek Roman 
Published: March 2021

Abstract
Jesus Christ has been the subject of manifold and intensive reflection in the Chinese context and has shown various faces. The essay surveys the innumerable works of biblical, apologetical, catechetical, liturgical, general theological, literary, and art-historical nature on Jesus Christ covering the periods from Tang and Yuan dynasties (seventh–ninth centuries and twelfth–fourteenth centuries) to the “Cultural Revolution” (1966–1976). The essay observes how various Chinese portraits of Jesus Christ engage with Chinese religions, and how the Chinese context limited the possibilities for the unfolding of a specific face and image of Jesus much more than other Asian and Western contexts. It raises the question of the future: Which faces and images of Jesus Christ will the Chinese context still generate? In this vast part of Asia, will he remain a vox clamantis in deserto?
The Bible and Ethics in Chinese Society
Authors: Wong Bernard K. , Jun Song 
Published: March 2021

Abstract
Confucianism, the dominant ideology of Chinese culture, exerts significant influence on how Chinese Christians read the Bible for ethics. Confucian pragmatism and emphasis on ethics causes readers to accentuate the ethical function of the Bible. Early converts in the nineteenth century championed a common morality between the Bible and Confucian classics as an apologetic strategy. The Confucian ethical framework of “inner sageliness and outer kingliness” has been widely adopted by Chinese interpreters, informing how Christian intellectuals read the Bible for “national salvation by character” in the early twentieth century. When Christianity became rooted in China, Confucian concepts and maxims continued to be used to help Chinese understand the Bible. Besides Confucianism, other factors that shape how an interpreter reads the Bible for ethics include the reader’s historical and social context, theological tradition, and intellectual and educational background.
Biblical Presence in Chinese Contemporary Films
Authors: Xu Jinghan 
Published: March 2021

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This essay aims to look at the exploration of the Christian faith by means of Chinese contemporary photographic images through categorizing Christianity-related image artwork in China. The exploration will focus on the “film” genre, including documentaries and the artists involved. In terms of territories, it mainly focuses on works produced in mainland China but also discusses some works from Hong Kong and Taiwan that have had some influence reaching China. After surveying art films and experimental films, commercial and popular films, the essay re-reads the films using biblical lenses and images.
Issues, Challenges, and Promises in Chinese Bible Translation
Authors: Peng Kuo-Wei 
Published: March 2021

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This essay discusses three broad issues faced by today’s Chinese Bible translations: the continuation and discontinuation of the legacy of the authoritative text, the issue of syntactic differences between Chinese and languages of the source texts, and the issue of differences between the Chinese culture and those behind the source texts. To tackle these issues, the essay highlights the importance in the definition of the Skopos (purpose) of any given Bible translation project, the importance of consistency in the use of translation techniques, and the importance of coherency of the materials used in translational action.
Teaching Australian Politics
Authors: Ghazarian Zareh , Laughland-Booÿ Jacqueline 
Published: March 2021

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A citizen’s understanding about their nation’s system of politics and government is crucial for how they engage with and participate in the political system. This chapter discusses the political, institutional, and pedagogical changes to teaching young people about Australian politics over the last thirty years, examining how successive Australian national governments have sought to enhance students’ political knowledge and how the constitutional limitations of the federal system have impacted their approaches. It also explores how political factors have impacted government actions on civics and citizenship education as well as the pedagogical debates which have shaped the curriculum. The chapter concludes by assessing the efficacy of these reforms and what steps can be taken to strengthen teaching and learning approaches in the future.
FUGIN hot core survey. I. Survey method and initial results for l = 10°–20°
Authors: Sato Kazuki , Hasegawa Tetsuo , Umemoto Tomofumi , Saito Hiro , Kuno Nario , Seta Masumichi , Sakamoto Seiichi 
Published: March 2021

Abstract
We have developed a method to make a spectral-line-based survey of hot cores, which represent an important stage of high-mass star formation, and applied the method to the data of the FUGIN (FOREST Unbiased Galactic plane Imaging survey with the Nobeyama 45 m telescope) survey. First, we select hot core candidates by searching the FUGIN data for the weak hot core tracer lines (HNCO and CH3CN) by stacking, and then we conduct follow-up pointed observations on these candidates in C34S, SO, OCS, HC3N, HNCO, CH3CN, and CH3OH J = 2–1 and J = 8–7 lines to confirm and characterize them. We applied this method to the l = 10°–20° portion of the FUGIN data and identified 22 “HotCores” (compact sources with more than two significant detections of the hot core tracer lines, i.e., SO, OCS, HC3N, HNCO, CH3CN, or CH3OH J = 8–7 lines) and 14 “DenseClumps” (sources with more than two significant detection of C34S, CH3OH J = 2–1, or the hot core tracer lines). The identified HotCores are found to be associated with signposts of high-mass star formation such as ATLASGAL clumps, WISE H ii regions, and Class II methanol masers. Many of the FUGIN HotCores are identified with the Herschel Hi-GAL clumps with a median mass of 6.8 × 102 M⊙ and a median bolometric luminosity of 7.4 × 103 L⊙. Five of the seven HotCores with stronger CH3CN lines exhibit elevated gas temperatures of 50–100 K. These observations suggest that FUGIN HotCores are closely related to the formation of stars with medium to high mass. For those associated with ATLASGAL clumps, their bolometric luminosity to clump mass ratios are consistent with the star formation stages centered at the hot core phase. The catalog of FUGIN HotCores provides a useful starting point for further statistical studies and detailed observations of high-mass star forming regions.