570 research outputs found
Marshall McLuhan’s Mosaic. Probing the Literary Origins of Media Studies
No full textOne hundred years after Marshall McLuhan’s birth, Elena Lamberti explores a fundamental, yet
neglected aspect of his work: the solid humanistic roots of his original ‘mosaic’ form of writing. In this
investigation of how his famous communication theories were influenced by literature and the arts,
Lamberti proposes a new approach to McLuhan’s thought.Reconnecting McLuhan with his literary
past, Marshall McLuhan’s Mosaic is a demonstration of one of his greatest ideas: that literature not
only matters, but can help us understand the hidden patterns that rule our environment
“Introduction”
No full textWriting Our Way Home is an important contribution to
literary studies. “Italian-Canadian writers are not just
Canadian writers, but world writers,” states literary critic
Elena Lamberti in the introduction to Writing Our Way
Home. “They write from Canada with an original point of
view on multiple (hybrid) identities and have something to
tell the whole world ...” A unique volume of creative and
critical texts, Writing Our Way Home features contributors
from Canada, Italy and the United States: Annalisa
Bonomo, John Calabro, Michele Campanini, Licia
Canton, Maria Giuseppina Cesari, Pietro Corsi, Domenic
Cusmano, Marisa De Franceschi, Mike Dell’Aquila,
Alberto Mario DeLogu, Delia De Santis, Gil Fagiani, Nino
Famà, Venera Fazio, Frank Giorno, Gabriella Iacobucci,
Elena Lamberti, Maria Lisella, Ernesto Livorni, Darlene
Madott, Michael Mirolla, Caroline Morgan Di Giovanni,
Linda Morra, Oriana Palusci, Gianna Patriarca, Maria
Cristina Seccia, Maria Tognan, Osvaldo Zappa, Jim
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Landscape and Memory in Post-Fascist Italian Film: Cinema Year Zero by Giuliana Minghelli - Review by Elena Lamberti
No full textBook Review of the Volume "Landscape and Memory in Post-Fascist Italian Film: Cinema Year Zero", by Giuliana Minghell
"Blowing Off the Dust: On Marshall McLuhan and Counterbasting"
No full text"Counterblast" is one of the Canadian media philosopher's most radical yet relatively under-explored works. Two very different versions of this text exist, the full 1969 edition produced in collaboration with Harley Parker, and the biting never-before published manifesto McLuhan distributed as a hand-made 'zine' in 1954. On the occasion of the 'McLuhan in Europe 2011' network initiative, with the kind permission of The Estate of Corinne McLuhan and in collaboration with the Gingko Press (Hamburg) transmediale publish a special hardcover 'limited edition' facsimile of the original 1954 'COUNTERBLAST'. Featuring an introduction by McLuhan biographer Terrence Gordon and an afterword by literary scholar Elena Lamberti
“Europe Year Zero: from Gated memories to Intercultural Reconciliation”
No full textA conference promoted by the Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Toronto, in collaboration with: the European Union Centre of Excellence (EUCE) at the Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, university of Toronto; the University of Bologna; the Canadian Centre for German and European Studies at York Univesity, and with the supporto of EUNIC in Canada.
The themes of memory studies and the problem of identity were addressed by invited speakers: Prof. Julia Creet, Prof. Shelley Hornstein; Prof. Andreas Ktzmann, Dr Elena Lamberti, Prof Claudio Magris.
in a time of global migrations after 20th century wars, how does cultural memory strenghten or undermine social and political coehesion. The points of departure for this discussion were two books: "Memories and Reprsentations of War: The Case of World War I and World War II" ( E. Lamberti, V. Fortunati, eds, New York/Aserdam, Rodopoi 2009) and "Memory and Migration - Mutidisciplinary Approaches to Memory Studies" /J Creet, A. Kitmann eds, Toronto, University of toronto Press, 2010). Both collections of essays explore the complex cultural identity/ies of the peoples of Canada and the European Union member states and the bonds between the two political entities thrugh individual, institutional and artistic expressions of cultural memory
Elena Lamberti, Vita Fortunati (eds.), Memories and Representations of War. The case of World War I and World War II
No full textL’opera curata da Elena Lamberti e Vita Fortunati raccoglie i contributi di 19 autori italiani, tedeschi, spagnoli, inglesi intorno a un progetto sul trauma, ideato all’interno del Dipartimento di Lingue e letterature straniere dell’Università di Bologna. La caratteristica del testo è l’interdisciplinarietà tra storia e letteratura
David Cronenberg's "Videodrome": Media Theories and Cultural Clichés
No full textThis essay approaches David Cronenberg’s celebrated movie Videodrome (1983) not as a Sci-Fi film exploring the future but instead as a movie which helps to better understand complex media theories of the time (1980s). Probing ideas coming from the School of Toronto, and especially from Marshall McLuhan, Videodrome frames the side effects of an environment where television is still the dominant medium. Consistently, in that movie Cronenberg assesses the technological extension of the human body, as well as the psychological effects on human beings living in a hyper-consumerist landscape, in turn leading to blur inner and outer self and to subvert traditional sexual and moral biases. However, while opening up the doors of perception to the complexity of the technological environment soon to be superseded by the digital revolution, that movie nevertheless casts a mask on McLuhan, which limited our appreciation of both the man and his message and, at the same time, of the School of Toronto legacy
"TRA ZONE DESOLATE E SDRAIO MUSKOKA: LETTERATURA E DISOBBEDIENZA CIVILE"
No full textNon di rado, istituzioni governative nazionali o sovranazionali sembrano imporre alle comunità decisioni politiche ed economiche, escludendole di fatto da una riflessione partecipata, accessibile e condivisa. In questo contesto, anche la letteratura può giocare un ruolo importante nel preservare un approccio ecologicamente corretto al nostro essere cittadini del mondo. Wikileaks o gli archivi di Snowden hanno fatto scalpore per avere rivelato ciò che qualcuno voleva rimanesse segreto; ma quando la letteratura gioca un ruolo simile ci dà, oltre all’informazione, anche l’ispirazione per affermare la nostra differenza e originalità come cittadini capaci di pensiero indipendente. Con questo scopo, la scrittrice canadese di origine ucraina, Janice Kulyk Keefer ha riscritto un classico del Novecento (La terra desolata di T.S. Eliot) non solo per ricordare e rileggere gli scontri accaduti nella città di Québec in occasione del terzo Summit delle Americhe (aprile del 2001), ma anche per stimolarci come cittadinanza attiva. La sua Zona desolata, che molto deve anche alla Disobbedienza Civile di H.D. Thoreau, aiuta così, partendo dal particolare, a riflettere su questioni ecologicamente universali che riguardano con urgenza e da vicino tutti
MOBILE INTERVENTIONS YVZ
No full textAt each city, the EU Project PERFORMIGRATIONS: PEOPLE ARE THE TERRITORY presented e series of interactive project realized by seven artist selected through a public call, in dialogue with the various geo-cultural realities and with local artists and scholars. At each location, Mobile Interventions was composed of those pieces of an installation in process that can change over time, evolve, interact with local artists and conditions, and be shipped to other locations. Rather than operating just in formal gallery spaces, Mobile Interventions also operated in the interstices of events; the exhibition was therefore conceived of as a mutable, malleable, mobile assemblage because it will adapt to different spaces, territories and communities. In Toronto, the selected projects were: Address Known; A/Vgrations; Mass Trasfer; La vie saissoniere; The Secret School. The exhibited 'solo project' was “Transition in Progress: Making Space for Place” by Italian artists Elena Basile, Roberta Buiani, Valentina Sutti. The event took place in October 2015 at the Paul H. Cocker Gallery Ryerson University(see brochure)
“Pearl Buck, a Nob(e)le Lady. Speaking to/of the Masses in/from the Land of Logocracy”.
No full textThe paper proposes an analysis of Pearl Buck’s Nobel Prize for Literature (1938) in the light of the then forming transmedia storytelling and populism. It cross reads Buck’s literary productions in relation to the film adaptation of her masterpiece The Good Earth, as well as of the mass culture of her time; the goal is to show the appropriation of cultural production to facilitate public euphemism and mainstream ‘historical’ storytelling, as well as Buck’s counter-narratives and original poetics
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