Disability Studies and Spanish Culture is the first book to apply the tenets of Disability Studies to the Spanish context. In particular, this work is an important corrective to existing cultural studies of disability in Spain that tend to largely ignore intellectual disabilities. Taking on the representation of Down syndrome, autism, alexia/agnosia as well as childhood disability, its chapters combine close readings of a number of Spanish cultural products (films, novels, the comic/graphic novel and the public exhibition) with a broader socio-cultural take on the state of disability in Spain. While researchers and students of cinema will be particularly interested in the book's detailed analyses of the formal aspects of the films, comics, and novels discussed, readers from backgrounds in history, political science and sociology will all be able to appreciate discussions of contemporary legislation, advocacy groups, cultural perceptions, models of social integration and more.
Elementary and middle schools for children of most US military personnel provide an exceptional curricular component: A subject called Host Nation Studies is integrated in the daily schedule, teaching American children the culture and language of their current host country. The subject is unique for its early implementation as soon as 1946 when the fi rst US schools opened in Germany. And still today, native teachers provide cultural and intercultural opportunities to US elementary students all over the world. This dissertation focuses on the subject's conception and organization and the intercultural endeavours of US schools in Germany in two ways: First, historical research based on bibliographic resources regarding the school's history looks at the development of the program 1946 to 1970. A second perspective is given by a questionnaire survey, which asks Host Nation and American teachers about the current language and culture program within US schools in Germany.
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The purpose of the article is to reveal the "consonance" of urban-artistic reflections of musical and literary works in intermedial-eminent context. The research methodology are based on the complementary principle. The intermedial approach to the study of various artistic codes in one work was applied, as well as to the search of the consonant symbols and signs of a city in different types of synchronic and artistic practice. System-analytical, typological and comparative methods have been used in drawing the parallels and finding the coincidences and differences of realization of the "urban music" in the piano cycle "A Notebook of Miniatures" by the composer Mykola Zaderatskyi and a in the novel "City" written by V. Pidmohylnyi. A receptive methodology, as well as the empirical methods of description, observation and reflection, has been applied. Scientific novelty lies in an attempt of an intermedial comparison of the images of urban sounding in modernistic works of different arts by means of semantic-semiotic interferences. A concept of eminence has been used for the first time for a comparative characteristic of the urban music in the artifacts of the Ukrainian culture of the Industrialization era. Conclusions. Various scenes, pictures, emotional reactions, "technocratic" symbols became common audial-semiotic images of the city in the program-cyclic and novelistic discourses. The contrasts of sounding of the natural beauty of the clouds and artificial aesthetics of the machines, the silence as a contemporary island of self-concentration and "muscular strength" of the crowd (according to V. Zaderatskyi, Jr.), song folklore and a jazz band, a flashy poster and a spinning carousel in a symbolic and intermedial way reflect the interaction of sociological and psychological aspects of urbanism, i.e. personal and collective (private and public), contemplative and effective, emotional and rational, spiritual and material. "Notebook of Miniatures" and "musical-audial" fragments of "City" – are "eminent texts" (H. G. Gadamer) which interpret the encoded in them additional foreign medial contents (verbal – in a musical piece, and musical – in a literary work).
Key words: urbanism, urban music, composer, writer, novel, piano cycle, intermediality, eminent text.
Brings together key research and debates on the question of domesticity and shows how understandings of domestic cultures have been theorized in media and cultural studies and wider academic and social contexts. This book addresses the feminist and left critiques that argue that domesticity is conservative and oppressive
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The explosion of services such as Netflix, Spotify, Disney+, Apple Music, Amazon Prime and YouTube, which allow us to access content at the click of a button, has turned the norms surrounding cultural consumption upside down. How has this shift to an apparently unending supply of content affected the way we consume our favourite binge-worthy show, blockbuster movie or hot new album release? Positioning streaming alongside a major shift to contemporary capitalism, David Arditi demonstrates that streaming platforms have created an economy where consumers pay more for the same amount of consumptive time. Encouraging us to look beyond the seemingly limitless supply of multimedia content, Arditi calls attention to the underlying dynamics of instant viewing - in which our access to content depends on any given service's willingness, and ability, to license it.
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This major text draws on an outstanding group of internationlly acclaimed scholars and offers a critical reappraisal of the contemporary practice of cultural studies. It focuses in particular on the contribution of cultural studies to the understanding of media, communications and popular cultures in contemporary societies.
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This article is a methodological discussion, in which I argue that to study complex phenomena such as culture and femicide calls for other approaches other than the dominant interview and survey studies. By their focus on the contextual, the interactional and the process itself, and by rejecting language as referential and transparent, ethno-informed approaches better recognize and capture this complexity. To see the interview as a social interactional event grounded in a world of common-sense thinking makes members of a society share a common stock of knowledge, or a social world and communicative understanding. This is particularly relevant in cross-cultural studies, in which we can no longer assume that members share such common-sense thinking. This makes activities such as asking questions and filling answers into categories problematic. We need to see how a phenomenon such as femicide, telling stories about it and our representations reflect the diversity of cultural forms. I will draw on secondary data to illustrate my arguments and their relevance.
