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David Buxton, Le Rock : star-système et société de consommation, 1985.
No full textStraw Will. David Buxton, Le Rock : star-système et société de consommation, 1985. In: Communication. Information Médias Théories, volume 8 n°2, Août-septembre 1986. La musique populaire. pp. 190-192
Media Functions
No full textHow media affect our relationships to everything — they don't just inform and entertain us, but shape our connections to the world, and define our relationships to it
Public
No full textEditors Marchessault and Straw briefly outline the topics broached in this issue of Public, which originated from an interdisciplinary research project called “The Culture of Cities Project.” Dedicated to the study of “scenes” – described here as “phenomenal elements in the cultural life of cities” – the essays deal with subjects such as: the matinée and daydreaming; film scenes and cities; Montreal’s anglophone music scene and art “biennalism”; Russian and Eastern Jews in Berlin; and Toronto’s diasporic public spheres. Includes six artists’ projects (mostly photography) on similar themes. Brief biographical notes on contributors. Circa 300 bibl. ref
Theory Rules : Art as Theory/Theory and Art
No full textFifteen lecturers (most of whom participated in a conference held at the University of Ottawa in 1991) analyse the manifold features that characterize the art/theory interchange and the effects of the current "inflation of commentary" on the market valorization and the intellectual and political legitimation of art. Among the topics discussed: theory's institutional affiliations to the academy and the museum; the influence of identity politics, cultural policies, body politics, feminism, and new technologies. Biographical notes on contributors. Circa 340 bibl. ref
La notte a Venezia. Frontiera della colonizzazione turistica o spazio-tempo per pratiche sociali?
No full textIl presente contributo è incentrato sulla notte a Venezia, una dimensione spaziotemporale assai poco presente tanto negli studi, quanto nei discorsi sulla città lagunare. Questo lavoro intende indagare alcune manifestazioni ascrivibili da un lato al fenomeno turistico, dall’altro alle espressioni di “diritto alla città” (Lefebvre 1976) scaturenti principalmente dai movimenti sociali e associazioni (Cavallo 2016), integrandone l’analisi con prospettive interpretative sviluppate nell’ambito dei night studies. L’articolo muove da una classificazione tassonomica delle attività collettive svolte nello spazio pubblico in fascia serale/notturna, integrata da un lavoro di campo condotto tramite osservazione partecipante e interviste semi-strutturate somministrate in un’area campione
Géographies de la nuit / Geographies of the night / Geografie della notte: from geographical object to Night Studies
No full textInternational audienceGeographies of the night. This intervention invites us to explore "geographies of the night" at multiple levels, in different contexts and through different approaches. If this project seeks to map out the geographies of a particular astronomical moment in the 24-hour cycle, it also aims to reflect on the emergence of a specific branch of the discipline, one with its own concepts, methods and tools. This is both a reflection "on" the night, "with" and "through" geography and an interrogation of geography from the perspective of night. In this article, we will begin by tracing the pressures which act upon the night and have made it a present-day concern, a preoccupation of public policy and an object of research in geography and across the social sciences and humanities. In a second movement, we will analyse research on the night within the discipline and trace the emergence of an interdisciplinary field of research: "night stud-ies". Finally, we will explore the possible contributions of a "night" turn for geography. From such a perspective, the night is simultaneously a matter, an infrastructure, an object, an environment, an ambiance and a generator of research.Géographies de la nuit. Cet article nous invite à explorer «les géographies de la nuit »à plusieurs niveaux, dans différents contextes et selon différentes approches. Si ce projet cherche à cartographier les géographies d'un moment astronomique particulier dans le cycle de 24 heures, il vise également à réfléchir à l'émergence d'une branche spécifique du discipline, une avec ses propres concepts, méthodes et outils. C'est à la fois une réflexion «sur»la nuit, «avec» et «à travers» la géographie et une interrogation de la géographie de la perspective de la nuit. Dans cet article, nous commencerons par retracer les pressions qui agir la nuit et en faire une préoccupation actuelle, une préoccupation du public politique et un objet de recherche en géographie et dans les sciences sociales et sciences humaines. Dans un second mouvement, nous analyserons la recherche nocturne sur le discipliner et retracer l'émergence d'un champ de recherche interdisciplinaire: les «études de nuit». Enfin, nous explorerons les contributions possibles d'un virage «nocturne» pour la géographie. Dans une telle perspective, la nuit est à la fois affaire, infrastructure, objet, environnement, ambiance et générateur de recherche
Labyrinth : cinema, myth and nation at Expo 67
No full textThis thesis provides an historical description and analysis of Labyrinth, the National Film Board of Canada's pavilion at Montreal's Expo 67. The thesis discusses Labyrinth in the context of traditions of multiscreen cinema and immersive artworks; further it relates the pavilion's structure, film content, and role in Expo within the context of Canadian art traditions and the 1967 centennial celebrations. Analysis of the pavilion is grounded in Bruce Elder's treatise on Canadian cinema entitled "The Cinema We Need". The thesis also explains the technological and formal, connections between Labyrinth and the invention of IMAX cinema
Harry Belafonte, race, and the politics of success
No full textThe goal of this thesis is to examine the relationship between race, masculinity, and the politics of success as they relate to the figure of Harry Belafonte. During the 1950s and 1960s he was, by all accounts, a wildly successful performer and, due to his celebrity, avoided many of indignities which plagued the daily lives of most African Americans. Although this was typically taken as a sign of race's declining importance in American culture, the varied reaction to his success show that even 'success stories' of integration during this period were far from clear cut
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