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The English Renaissance and the Far East: Cross-Cultural Encounters
No full textIn The English Renaissance and the Far East, Lee offers an innovative approach to a history and ties it in to modern day importance. She challenges the anglocentric models of the relationship between the east and west and by bringing forth a reconceptualization of the English Renaissance and how it is not very different from the developments present in the rising Sinocentric world. Inspired by the current tilt in global power, with China at the forefront, Lee explores the cultural interactions between Britain and the Far East in both the early modern and postmodern periods. She discovers how key encounters and representations of the Far East are portrayed in early modern writing, and expresses how work of that period, particularly Shakespeare, provides a special power in current times to facilitate encounters between Britain and East Asia
International Handbook of Media Literacy Education
No full textCo-editor, Mihailidis, along with his team offer a leading handbook that examines the conceptual, methodological, pedagogical, and theoretical development of media literacy education and research around the world. Using the traditional frameworks such as assessment, critical analysis, and evaluation as the foundation, it builds upon new literacies emerging in connective technologies, mobile platforms, and social networks. This book is globally focused with contributors from around the world and structured into these five themes: Educational Interventions; Safeguarding/Data and Online Privacy; Engagement in Civic Life; Media, Creativity and Production; and Digital Media Literacy. The International Handbook of Media Literacy Education underlines the competencies that are necessary for engagement and participation in the digital culture
Horrific Humor and the Moment of Droll Grimness in Cinema: Sidesplitting Laughter
No full textIn a collection of twelve essays from international authors, editors Cynthia J. Miller and John A. Dowell, create a book that focuses on the moment in audience reception where screams and laughter collide. Beginning with an examination of the aesthetics and mechanics of the sLaughter (scream and laughter) moment, the book then examines the impact of its awkward frission of humor and horror on the individual viewer, and lastly, widens the lens of exploration on sLaughter’s general implications for the human condition. The chapters discuss cinematic works such as A Clockwork Orange (1971), Fargo (1996), The Dark Knight (2008), and The Cabin in the Woods (2012), The Toxic Avenger (1984), and Dead Snow (2009). This book serves an interest to fans of cult cinema, those working in reception studies, as well as both scholars of humor and horror
Diversity in Multinational Corporations
No full textDue to the gaps in literature surrounding diversity engagement, Maiorescu and Wrigley, have created a book to address the gaps and investigate the newest corporate engagement in diversity. This book examines the diversity approaches of twenty-eight US companies from ten industries to create a theoretical framework whose practical application allows companies to make significant contributions to their operating environments. The context addresses current challenges American corporations face in diversity engagement and suggests implementing a new social responsibility that aims to address inequality at a global scale by focusing more on the local environment and less on the immediate business benefits. This book discusses diversity engagement in global business environments, therefore making it applicable to international companies that operate at a global scale
Light Breeze in Paradise/ Ελαφρύ αεράκι στον Παράδεισο
No full textThis book is a bilingual translation that has challenged the limits of the meaning of collaboration, as it happens in many layers. Light Breeze in Paradise is the product of collaboration in the frame of he Advanced Training in Greek Poetry Translation & Performance Workshop, founded and directed by Dr. Vassiliki Rapti at Harvard University. This narrator of turns her back on Berlin and the hectic throb of the big city for a summer, so that she may recharge and reconnect with herself in the seclusion of a Greek mountain village. Coinciding with the human interactions, dramas play out in the microcosm of insects, beetles, and small animals – akin to Greek mythology. This book provides a detailed narration of the small world and how it is reflected in the larger one
