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Alan Moore Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel
No full textEclectic British author Alan Moore (b. 1953) is one of the most acclaimed and controversial comics writers to emerge since the late 1970s. He has produced a large number of well-regarded comic books and graphic novels while also making occasional forays into music, poetry, performance, and prose. In Alan Moore: Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel , Annalisa Di Liddo argues that Moore employs the comics form to dissect the literary canon, the tradition of comics, contemporary society, and our understanding of history. The book considers Moore's narrative strategies and pinpoints the main thematic threads in his works: the subversion of genre and pulp fiction, the interrogation of superhero tropes, the manipulation of space and time, the uses of magic and mythology, the instability of gender and ethnic identity, and the accumulation of imagery to create satire that comments on politics and art history. Examining Moore's use of comics to scrutinize contemporary culture, Di Liddo analyzes his best-known works-- Swamp Thing, V for Vendetta, Watchmen, From Hell, Promethea , and Lost Girls . The study also highlights Moore?s lesser-known output, such as Halo Jones, Skizz , and Big Numbers , and his prose novel Voice of the Fire. Alan Moore: Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel reveals Moore to be one of the most significant and distinctly postmodern comics creators of the last quarter-century.Intro -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1. Formal Considerations on Alan Moore's Writing -- CHAPTER 2. Chronotopes: Outer Space, the Cityscape, and the Space of Comics -- CHAPTER 3. Moore and the Crisis of English Identity -- CHAPTER 4. Finding a Way into Lost Girls -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- ZEclectic British author Alan Moore (b. 1953) is one of the most acclaimed and controversial comics writers to emerge since the late 1970s. He has produced a large number of well-regarded comic books and graphic novels while also making occasional forays into music, poetry, performance, and prose. In Alan Moore: Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel , Annalisa Di Liddo argues that Moore employs the comics form to dissect the literary canon, the tradition of comics, contemporary society, and our understanding of history. The book considers Moore's narrative strategies and pinpoints the main thematic threads in his works: the subversion of genre and pulp fiction, the interrogation of superhero tropes, the manipulation of space and time, the uses of magic and mythology, the instability of gender and ethnic identity, and the accumulation of imagery to create satire that comments on politics and art history. Examining Moore's use of comics to scrutinize contemporary culture, Di Liddo analyzes his best-known works-- Swamp Thing, V for Vendetta, Watchmen, From Hell, Promethea , and Lost Girls . The study also highlights Moore?s lesser-known output, such as Halo Jones, Skizz , and Big Numbers , and his prose novel Voice of the Fire. Alan Moore: Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel reveals Moore to be one of the most significant and distinctly postmodern comics creators of the last quarter-century.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
In Alan Turing’s Name: Pardoning the Dead, Forgetting the Living
No full textThis special panel discussion brought together authorities on Alan Turing and the statutory pardon legislation intended to honour him. Leading academics, in conversation with those who have unsuccessfully petitioned to have offences disregarded, were joined by the Turing Bill’s author
PROPAGANDA IN THE PRESS AND THE FORMATION OF PUBLIC OPINION: POLITICAL AND WARTIME GOALS OF THE USTASHA GOVERNMENT AND THE THIRD REICH IN THE PRESS OF THE INDEPENDENT STATE OF CROATIA AT THE END OF WORLD WAR 2
No full textNa temelju izvorne građe fondova Ministarstva vanjski poslova Nezavisne Države Hrvatske (NDH) i Hrvatskog dojavnog ureda „Croatia“ kao i novinske građe dnevnih i periodičnih izdanja s kraja 1944 i prvih pet mjeseci 1945., autor analizira sadržaj vanjskopolitičkih, unutrašnjopolitičkih i ratnih tema u tisku NDH. Povezujući naputke ustaških vlasti s većim brojem članaka u novinama i stvarnu situaciju na brojnim europski bojištima, autor zaključuje kako je ustaška promidžba, potpomognuta njemačkom imala značajan utjecaj na formiranje javnog mnijenja u NDH na kraju Drugog svjetskog rata. Iz autoru dostupne građe razvidno je da je većini građana NDH bilo jasno kako je Treći Reich, a onda i njeni sateliti, izgubio rat, no flagrantno stvarana atmosfera straha od komunističke odmazde doprinijela je masovnom egzodusu hrvatskih građana u svibnju 1945.Based on the primary documentary sources of the Croatian State Archives (CSA), the Fonds of the Foreign Ministry of the Independent State of Croatia (ISC) and the Croatian Information Bureau “Croatia”, as well as information found in daily and periodical newspapers printed from late 1944 to May 1945, the author analyzes the content of the ISC press regarding foreign and domestic politics and war issues. Comparing political orders and dictations to newspaper editors with a large number of articles and the actual situation at the European battlefronts of that time, the author concludes that Ustasha propaganda, supported by the Third Reich, significantly influenced the formation of public opinion in the ISC at the end of World War II. From the sources available, it is now obvious that the majority of the ISC population was fully aware that the Third Reich, as well as its satellite states, had lost the war but the atmosphere which was deliberately created by the Ustasha authorities in the ISC caused a mass exodus in early May 1945 nevertheless
Bernard Williams
No full textAn edited multi-author volume assessing the moral philosophy of the late British philosopher Bernard Williams. Contributors: Adrian Moore, John Skorupski, Alan Thomas, Robert B Louden, Michael Stocker, A. A. Long, Edward Crai
Post-war British working-class fiction with special reference to the novels of John Braine, Alan Sillitoe, Stan Barstow, David Storey and Barry Hines
No full textThis study is about British working-class fiction in the post-war period.
It covers various authors such as Robert Tressell, George Orwell, Walter Greenwood, Lewis Grassic Gibbon and DH Lawrence from the early twentieth century; writers traditionally classified as 'Angry Young Men' like John Osborne, Arnold Wesker, Shelagh Delaney, John Wain and
Kingsley Amis; and working-class novelists like John Braine, Stan Barstow, David Storey, Alan Sillitoe and Barry Hines from the 1950s and 1960s.
Some of the main issues dealt with in the course of this study are language, form, community, self/identity/autobiography, sexuality and relationship with bourgeois art. The major argument centres on two questions: representation of working-class life, and the
relationship between working-class literary tradition and dominant ideologies.
We will be arguing that while working-class fiction succeeded in challenging and rupturing bourgeois literary tradition, on the level of language and linguistic medium of expression for example, it utterly failed to break away from dominant, bourgeois modes of literary production in relation to form, for instance.
Our argument is situated within Marxist approaches to literature, a political and aesthetic position from which we attempt an analysis and an evaluation of this working-class literary tradition. These critical approaches provide us also with the theoretical tool to define the political perspective of this tradition, and to judge whether it was confined to a descriptive mode of representation or
located in a radical, political outlook
THE PROFESSION OF A JOURNALIST IN THE INDEPENDENT STATE OF CROATIA
No full textNa osnovi dijela arhivske građe i svjedočanstava suvremenika, autor razmatra na koji je način, u kojoj mjeri te preko kojih institucija, ustaška vlast u Nezavisnoj Državi Hrvatskoj 1941. – 1945. kontrolirala rad novinskih redakcija i utjecala na sadržaj novina. Pri tome posebno analizira model višeslojnog cenzuriranja novina te profesionalni, materijalni i društveni položaj novinara u NDH, koristeći kao izvor dokumente iz službene korespondencije novinskih redakcija i organa vlasti. U fokusu ovoga članka novinarske su sudbine dijela novinara, nesiguran status i položaj novinara, kao i funkcija koju je ustaška politika nadjenula tom zanimanju. Posebna pažnja posvećena je važnosti formiranja Državnog izvještajnog i promidžbenog ureda, Hrvatskog novinarskog društva i Ustaškog nakladnog zavoda kao institucija koje su bitno predodredile položaj i ulogu novinara u Nezavisnoj Državi Hrvatskoj.Based on a part of an archive material and the testimony of the contemporaries, the author examines how, to what extent and through which institutions Ustasha authorities in the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) controlled the work of journalists and influenced the content of newspapers from 1941 to 1945. The model of the multilayer censorship of newspapers and professional, financial and social status of journalists in the NDH are specifically analyzed by using documents from official correspondence between the newspaper editorial staff and the authorities. This article focuses on the fate of some of the journalists, their uncertain status and position as journalists and the function that Ustasha policy determined for this profession. It also pays special attention to the importance of forming the State Reporting and Promotion Office, Croatian Journalists' Association and Ustasha Publishing Institute since these institutions significantly predetermined the position and the role of journalists in the Independent State of Croatia
Elements of Abstraction: Space, Line and Interval in Modern British Art
No full textThe book is the catalogue of the exhibition Elements of Abstraction: Space, Line and Interval in Modern British Art, which the author curated from the collections of the Tate Gallery, London, the Arts Council, London, Southampton City Art Gallery and private collections. The author provided three essays, 'The Geometry of Modern British Art', 'West Country Constructivism', and 'Abstract Art and the Decline of Modernism' to advance critical histories of three distinct moments of importance in the development of British abstract art. A fourth, edited by him, was by a research student under his supervision (Alan Fowler) and covered Systems Art and Constructionism
USTASHA PROPAGANDA ON THE 1943 BIG THREE CONFERENCE IN TEHRAN, AND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE ALLIED DECISIONS FOR THE OUTCOME OF WORLD WAR II, THE DEFEAT OF THE THIRD REICH AND THE DOWNFALL OF THE INDEPENDENT STATE OF CROATIA
No full textNa temelju dijela izvorne građe, Fonda Predsjedništva vlade Nezavisne Države Hrvatske i zapisa sastanaka „velike trojice“ u Teheranu te dnevnih i periodičnih tiskovina koje su izlazile u Nezavisnoj Državi Hrvatskoj, autor članka prije svega pruža uvid u način javnog informiranja i položaj tiskovnih medija u totalitarnoj državi, kakva je bila NDH. Uz to, u radu se, koji obrađuje prijelomno razdoblje Drugog svjetskog rata posebno tematiziraju odluke Saveznika iz Teherana, reagiranja ustaških vlasti prema političkim i vojnim odlukama Saveznika, kao i posljedice koje su po vlasti NDH proizašle iz dogovora Saveznika. Ustaške vlasti, autor zaključuje, prvi sastanak predsjednika SAD-a, SSSR-a i Velike Britanije u Teheranu ocjenjuju kao potvrdu podređenog položaja zapadnih Saveznika u sprezi sa Sovjetskim Savezom, sovjetske dominacije na jugoistoku Europe i korak ka obnovi Jugoslavije, ali pod vodstvom boljševika, Titovih partizana, bude li Treći Reich poražen. Ustaški režim, služeći se tada dominantnim tiskovnim medijima, nastojao je stvoriti opće uvjerenje među građanima NDH kako alternative savezništvu s Trećim Reichom, zapravo nema te da bi svako drugo vojno i političko rješenje, izuzev pobjede sila Trojnog sporazuma, značio gubitak države.Based on the primary documents of the Croatian State Archive, the Fonds of the Government Presidency of the Independent State of Croatia (the NDH), the documents on the Great Alliance, 1942-1943 (the Tehran Conference), and information from daily and periodical journals, the author of the article explains the ways in which the public was informed in the NDH and how media was governed in a totalitarian state like the NDH. The paper, which is dedicated to the crucial period of World War Two, additionally analyzes topics such as the decisions of the Alliance in Tehran, the reaction of the Ustasha government to the political and military plans of the Alliance, as well as the consequences for the NDH authorities, which the said decisions brought about. The first meeting between the Big Three was considered by the Ustasha authorities to be a proof of the Soviet victory and dominance in south-eastern parts of Europe, as well as a step towards the restitution of Yugoslavia led by the Bolsheviks, or Tito’s Partisans, under the presumption that the Third Reich was defeated. Using the influence of the current press, the Ustasha regime tried to form the public opinion that there was no alternative to the alliance between the NDH and the Third Reich and that any other solution, apart from the victory of the Axis powers, would lead to the loss of the state
Observations on the music and life of pianist/composer Herbie Hancock
No full textAn analysis of Hancock's musical style, pianism and biographyM.A.Includes bibliographical referencesIncludes vitaby Alan SimonIncludes discograph
Interview with Alan Pisarski, January 2015
No full textThis document contains the content of an oral history interview and is part of a series of interviews conducted by the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center (VTC). These interviews are personal, experiential, and interpretative, reflecting the memories and associations of individuals. All reasonable attempts are made to ensure accuracy, but statements should not be interpreted as facts endorsed by Rutgers University, the Edward J. Bloustein School, or VTC. The associated website also contains links to other resources, but does not endorse or guarantee their content
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