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The Politics of Postmodernism
01 Jan 1989-
TL;DR: In this article, the postmodernist representation is de-naturalized the natural, Photographic discourse, Telling Stories: fiction and history, Re-presenting the past: 'total history' de-totalized, Knowing the past in the present, The archive as text.
Abstract: General editor's preface. Acknowledgements. 1. Representing the postmodern: What is postmodernism? Representation and its politics, Whose postmodernism? Postmodernity, postmodernism, and modernism. 2. Postmodernist representation: De-naturalizing the natural, Photographic discourse, Telling Stories: fiction and history. 3. Re-presenting the past: 'Total history' de-totalized, Knowing the past in the present, The archive as text. 4. The politics of parody: Parodic postmodern representation, Double-coded politics, Postmodern film? 5. Text/image border tensions: The paradoxes of photography, The ideological arena of photo-graphy, The politics of address 6. Postmodernism and feminisms: Politicizing desire, Feminist postmodernist parody, The private and the public. Concluding note: some directed reading. Bibliography. Index.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze the rhetoric of the dead map of curriculum and its relation to the ideology of control in education, and explore the alternative of a Zen journey in the living mapping of curriculum.
Abstract: This paper will first analyze the rhetoric of the dead map of curriculum and its relation to the ideology of control in education, then explore the alternative of a Zen journey in the living map of curriculum. As the practice of Zen meditation focuses on the reflection of daily routines to see alternatives and possibilities, it echoes Maxine Greene’s view of imagination by uncoupling from the ordinary: a power element in provoking the not yet openings in the living map of curriculum. Furthermore, the spiritual power of Zen calls us to play the stringless lute of curriculum to get a new key beyond in the living map of curriculum. Finally this paper touches on the challenge or danger of this living map under the “ecstasy of communication” in a postmodern age.
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TL;DR: The authors argued that the domination of the film's narrative by pastiche and textual allusion is central to its production of a critical discourse on Vichy France, particularly through its representation of gender relationships and patriarchy.
Abstract: In the 1990s, at the same time as political and intellectual debate in France has focused on the extent of collaboration in the Vichy period, a number of films have produced contrasting examinations of complicity and resistance during the German Occupation. This article concentrates on the construction of national identity through a reading of one such film, the critically and popularly acclaimed Delicatessen. It is argued that the domination of the film's narrative by pastiche and textual allusion is central to its production of a critical discourse on Vichy France, particularly through its representation of gender relationships and patriarchy. There are, however, important caveats. Firstly, that this discourse is de‐centred, characterised by temporal confusion and displacement; and secondly, that it does tend to incoherence. It is perhaps this confusion which best typifies the anxieties of the contemporary cinema of the Occupation taken as a whole.
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15 Nov 2005
TL;DR: Coetzee's Foe as discussed by the authors is probably not J.M. Coetzee best known novel, although it is a text of great importance because of the way in which its political, literary and theoretical values are interrelated.
Abstract: Foe is probably not J.M. Coetzee's best known novel, although it is a text of great importance because of the way in which its political, literary and theoretical values are interrelated. The novel addresses a foundational myth of Western societies in the figure of Robinson Crusoe, and draws attention to its textual quality. This concern with the process of representation and the narrative quality of our beliefs is also manifested throughout the novel in other issues. Thus, in the text there is a whole panoply of reflections about the central issues affecting the very mechanics of constructing a text, such as, for example, the proper way a story should be written, the relationship between representation and its referent in the real, the problem of realism, or the question of authorship.
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01 Jan 2008
TL;DR: This article explored the use of photography in children's picturebooks and its ability to extend image-making and reading by creating a hybrid genre that merges real and non-real worlds.
Abstract: This paper explores photography in children’s picturebooks and its ability to extend image-making and reading by creating a hybrid genre that merges real and non-real worlds. In analysing the use of photography in such a hybrid genre, the work of Lauren Child (2006, 2001a, 2001b, 2000), Polly Borland (2006), Shaun Tan (2007, 2000, 1998) and Dave McKean (2004a, 2004b, 1995) is deconstructed. These artists utilise photography in contemporary picturebooks that are fictional. In addition, David Doubilet’s images (1990, 1989, 1984, 1980) are discussed, which fuse underwater photojournalism with art, for factual outputs.
This research uncovers a gap in picturebook literature and creates a new hybrid by merging genres to produce a work that is both factual and fictional. The research methodology in this study includes a brief overview of photography and notions of truth, contemporary picturebook trend theory, use of a student focus group, industry collaborations and workshops, and environmental education pedagogy. This thesis outlines summaries of research outcomes, not the least of which is the capacity for photography to enrich narrative accounts by providing multilayered information, character perspectives and/ or a metafictive experience. These research outcomes are then applied to the process of creating such a hybrid children’s picturebook.
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