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The debate about the state of film criticism has settled into two camps: traditional print critics claim the Internet has replaced expertise with amateurs, fanboys, and obscurantists. Web enthusiasts counter that we're in a new golden age of film criticism and accuse the traditionalists of jealousy, resentment and Ludditism. Film criticism was in better shape in the print era, and good work stood a greater chance of making an impact. There is good work on the Internet, but the nature of the medium makes it harder for that work to matter. Adapted from the source document.

Looking at musical globalization and vocal music, this collection of essays studies the complex relationship between the human voice and cultural identity in 20th- and 21st-century music in both East Asian and Western music. The authors approach musical meaning in specific case studies against the background of general trends of cultural globalization and the construction/deconstruction of identity produced by human (and artificial) voices. The essays proceed from different angles, notably sociocultural and historical contexts, philosophical and literary aesthetics, vocal technique, analysis o

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. A State of Play explores how the British have imagined their politics, from the parliament worship of Anthony Trollope to the cynicism of The Thick of It. In an account that mixes historical with political analysis, Steven Fielding argues that fictional depictions of politics have played an important but insidious part in shaping how the British think about their democracy and have helped ventilate their many frustrations with Westminster. He shows that dramas and fictions have also performed a significant role in the battle of ideas, in a way undreamt of by those who draft party manifestos. The book examines the work of overtly political writers have treated the subject, discussing the novels of H.G. Wells, the comedy series Yes, Minister and the plays of David Hare. However, it also assesses how less obvious sources, such as the films of George Formby, the novels of Agatha Christie, the Just William stories and situation comedies like Steptoe and Son, have reflected on representative democracy. A State of Play is an invaluable, distinctive and engaging guide to a new way of thinking about Britain's political past and present.

Christopher Partridge's The Lyre of Orpheus is the first general introduction to the subject of religion and popular music. His aim in this book is to introduce a range of theoretical and methodological perspectives to be used in the study of religion and popular music and popular music subcultures

Examines the background to the victory of Silvio Berlusconi's coalition and the political implications of a neo-fascist presence in the government. Focuses on the coalition which includes the Northern League, the National Alliance, and Forza Italia.

Why do some of the major Marxists of the twentieth century engage extensively with theology? What is the influence on their other work? This book explores the instersections between Marxism and theology in the work of Ernst Bloch, Walter Benjamin, Louis Althusser, Henri Lefebvre, Antonio Gramsci, Terry Eagleton, Slavoj Žižek and Theodor Adorno.

Nur scheinbar formuliert Timothy Morton in diesem bahnbrechenden Buch des Ecocriticism ein Paradox: Das Bild, das wir uns von der Natur machen, verhindert, dass wir der Umwelt, in der wir leben, gerecht werden können, dass wir ihre Ökologie begreifen. Stets trachtet das Schreiben über die Natur danach, eine Weltsicht zu vermitteln, die die Natur bewahrt und respektiert. Kein Wunder, dass wir uns angesichts der ökologischen Katastrophe, die wir erleben, nach einer unversehrten, wilden und >unschuldigen< Natur sehnen. Aber die Feier der Natur, oder der Einheit mit ihr, trübt unseren Blick. Rigoros und verstörend stellt Morton unsere ökologischen Grundannahmen auf den Prüfstand und versucht, ein neues Vokabular für das Verständnis von Natur zu entwickeln. In einem Parforceritt durch die Literatur- und Philosophiegeschichte trägt das Buch dazu bei, unseren Blick auf ökologische Zusammenhänge zu weiten und den Umweltgedanken in einen geistesgeschichtlichen Kontext zu stellen, der ihm politisch und intellektuell mehr Schlagkraft verleiht. TIMOTHY MORTON, geboren 1968, studierte Englische Literatur und promovierte zum Werk von Percy Bysshe Shelley. Er ist als Publizist und Philosoph tätig und lehrte an verschiedenen US-amerikanischen Universitäten, seit 2012 an der Rice University. Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte liegen neben der Literaturwissenschaft im Bereich der Ökologie und der Philosophie. DIRK HÖFER, geboren 1956, ist Autor und Übersetzer, war langjähriger Redakteur der Kulturzeitschrift »Lettre International« und Spieleentwickler (TwinKomplex). Bei Matthes Seitz Berlin erschien zuletzt »Alles und nichts«.

"At the outset of Marx for Cats, Leigh Claire La Berge declares that "all history is the history of cat struggle." Revising the medieval bestiary form to meet Marxist critique, La Berge follows feline footprints through Western economic history to reveal an animality at the heart of Marxism. She draws on a 1200-year arc spanning capitalism's feudal prehistory, its colonialist and imperialist ages, the Bourgeois Revolutions that supported capitalism and the Communist revolutions that opposed it, to outline how cats have long been understood as creatures of economic critique and liberatory possibility. By attending to the repeated archival appearance of lions, tigers, wildcats, and "sabo-tabbies," La Berge argues that felines are central to how Marxists have imagined the economy itself, and by asking what humans and animals owe each other in a moment of ecological crisis, La Berge joins current debates about the need for and possibility of eco-socialism. In this playful and generously illustrated radical bestiary, La Berge demonstrates that class struggle is ultimately an interspecies collaboration"--

The purpose of the present paper is to study the impact of Cambridge Literary Criticism (CLC) on Chinese scholars, since the visit to Peking's Tsinghua University by Prof. Igor Armstrong Richards, the initiator of CLC, in 1929, until present times. That first encounter signed the beginning of a fruitful intercultural communication activity between the two countries, which lasted for a decennial. Those contacts between the British literary world, imbued with the scientific spirit that was the basis of 'Cambridge Criticism', was very stimulating for the Chinese academic world, of that was being born. Unfortunately, those contacts were forcefully interrupted in 1939, in the raging of the anti-Japanese war. They resumed, with fruitful results, toward the end of last millennium, when the Chinese government issued a "Program for Education's Reform and Development in China". In present times the new movement of 'Ethical Literary Criticism' is developing in China by initiative of Prof. Nie Zhenzhao, from Peking's 'Central China Normal University', who took inspiration from the works of the Cambridge literary critic Frank Raymond Leavis.

I can see clearly now : twenty rock and roll lenses -- The roots of rock and roll : I went down to the crossroads -- Classic rockers : the first generation : just give me some of that rock and roll music -- Classic rockers : the second generation : there's good rockin' tonight -- Doo-wop : street corner serenade -- The early sixties : the calm before the storm -- The Beatles : because the world is round it turns me on -- The Rolling Stones : it's only rock and roll but I like it -- The Who : people try to put us down -- Bob Dylan : somethin' is happening, but you dont know what it is -- Folk-rock : so you want to be a rock and roll star -- Soul music : r-e-s-p-e-c-t -- Motown : Hitsville, U.S.A. -- The San Francisco sound : people in motion -- The guitar kings : and I gave her the gun -- The seventies : dazed and confused -- Punk rock : buzzsaw bravado and shock politics -- The eighties : the revolution will be televised -- Notes from the underground : the alternative rock and rap uprisings -- We should be together : festival frenzies, electronic dance music culture, heavy metal morphasis, and the deregulation of radio and file sharing