Department of Theatre and Film

April 01, 2010
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Rethinking Discursive Practices



 

Editor: Cynthia Baron
Associate Editor: Rosalind Sibielski
Editorial Essay: Rosalind Sibielski
Contributors:   Kari-Anne Innes, Carolyn Jambard-Sweet, Cynthia Stroud, Darin Kerr, and Justin Philpot

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Introduction: Rethinking Discursive Practices
Articles in this spring 2010 issue of The Projector are related to essays in the fall 2009 issue, for they echo the type of meta-discursive analysis of critical practices in film, media, and cultural studies found in those fall essays.
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Loie Fuller from "la fée lumiére” to “la fée éléctricité: Cybernetic Logic, Embodiment and the Electrical Woman
In her signature technique, Serpentine and Salome dancer Loie Fuller disappeared into a giant flowing silk bathed in electric light....
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A Woman's Perspective on the Female Nude as the Site of Modernity
Suzanne Valadon (1865-1938), a female artist and nude model featured in the modernist works of Henri de Toulouse Lautrec, Pierre Auguste Renoir, and others, makes her an interesting case study...
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Function is in the Eye of the Beholder: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Consumer Intent in the International Tourist Art Market
...While tourist art serves a distinct economic function for the artisans who produce it, it also serves as a way for the artisans to construct, distribute, and promote a group identity with which they wish to be identified within their larger society....The function of tourist art for its consumers is equally complex....
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Old Is the New New: Paradox and Duality in the Modernist Project
The academic grudge match over the relative modernity or postmodernity of our own era...has now gone on for so long that one could only charitably describe the debate as a “modern” one....
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The Intent of Methodology: Cultural Studies, Film Studies and Challenging the Corporate Demands of the Academy
The history of cultural studies and film studies is intertwined.  As a discipline film studies preceded cultural studies...
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Editorial Comment: Media Studies as "Work That Matters": Intersections between Media Studies and Cultural Studies in the Analysis of Popular Culture
The study of popular media in both fields is at something of a crossroads in the current moment...
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Appendix: A First Pass Through Alternative Media Sites
As the introduction explained, we have assembled this provisional list of links to alternative media sites to facilitate studies...
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