... feminine moral superiority encouraged a desire to feminise middle-class public life. Thus, by contravening idealised notions of a sequestered femininity, middle-class public women sought to remould society in their own righteous image. ‘national efficiency’ STL drawing room meetings America Foreign...

... editors focused their attacks on vagrant Jewish criminals from Eastern Europe. All of these images of Jews were conflated into a single anti-Semitic stereotype of the foreign Eastern Jew, the ‘Ostjude’. This chapter seeks to appraise this unity, rooted in hermeneutic differences. Anti...

... on the ‘Ontology of the photographic image’ and the ‘Myth of total cinema’ appear fundamentally to cement his approach to cinema as one that is unflinchingly representational. For him, cinema has the capacity to create reality in a specific way, one that conceives of modes of life in an ‘authentic’ manner...

...This chapter explores the importance of ‘image’ in African-donor relations. Focusing on East Africa, it compares the cases of Uganda and Rwanda – long viewed positively and supported by donor officials in spite of their semi-authoritarian tendencies – with that of Kenya, a country which has...

...This chapter examines the directorial image of Anthony Asquith that was built upon ‘filmed theatre’ during the late 1940s and through the 1950s. For him the theatre played a major role, with eight of the seventeen feature films he directed between 1947 and his final film in 1964 based on stage...

... public image, the character of his electoral strategy, the nature of the domestic policy initiatives pursued by the administration and the president's approach to moral and cultural issues were shaped by other processes. In particular, ‘W-ism’ was informed and structured by events and developments during...

..., and, in many ways, is a compendium of the earlier films, with its sudden violence, explicit and exaggerated misogyny, and vicious and none-too-innocent children. In addition, the film recycles images and motifs from the earlier films. This is a cinema that pulls against the ‘ontology of the photographic image...

... The Religious Tract Society Benbow John Blake Robert Drake Francis Victorian magazines Braudel Fernand Spanish Armada Channel tunnel idea of HMS Orlando Trafalgar Battle of 1805 periodical press mid-Victorian period heroism post-heroism popular image Napoleonic Wars modernity If the history...

... the critical concepts introduced in the previous chapters and referring to the development–design–heritage nexus. Discussing the function of the image, the project is seen in terms of an assemblage of nostalgic images, suggesting how nostalgia has been positively utilized towards mitigating the cultural...

... contemporary projections of the good, productive life rely on images of failure. The book riffs on the aphorism ‘less is more’ – a dominant refrain in present-day productivity advice – to tell stories about efficiency and tidiness over a time period of around a hundred years. The time frame of the book...

... ability to rationalise herself, or her relationship with the object of her spectatorship, is compromised. In terms of the ways in which emergencies are dramatized for the spectator, this book focuses primarily on the framing and distribution of images. Because images are cheap and easy to produce; because...

...This book is about images of Africa; who creates them, how they are manipulated, and what the effects are for African actors and their relationships in the wider world. While the role of image in international politics is taken seriously by practitioners and academics, no one has yet produced...

... studies America image It always seems that I’m dreaming of something that I can never be, I will always be that pimp that I see in all of my fantasies (Korn, ‘A.D.I.D.A.S’, 1996) For gangsta rappers, referring only to the experience of everyday life in the ‘hood is illusory, since the records also...

... and best’ in the national canon. On the whole, as France becomes an increasingly multicultural and globalised society, the tension between commitment to a national self-image premised on elite cultural values, and the reality of majority cultural practices, remains, albeit in plural and evolving forms...

...This chapter offers suggestions on how to use film-related sources. It includes detail on accessing and exploring archival materials, interviews and financial records as well as personal and company papers which relate to all forms of moving image material. It explores a range of sources...

... of representation designated as realist. The chapter also discusses the varieties of realism and the comparative formal relations among sound, image and writing. form of media content analysis reality television television audio visual media production mediation textual analysis Cultural Sociology journal...

... awkwardness. The chapter also examines how the photographic image works within its distinctive alignments of the pictorial and the physical. It evaluates three written documents, including George Orwell's The Road to Wigan Pier, Sebastian Junger's The Perfect Storm...

...) and Listen to Britain (1942). This chapter explains how, in addressing this question, Jennings constructed representations that departed radically from extant practices characteristic of the nonfictional forms of newsreels. It discusses the way Jennings utilised the elements such as sound, image...

... Haussmann Baron Eugène rhetoric Huysmans J K ekphrasis iconotext Zola Manet Baudelaire modernity naturalism word and image art criticism exchange This chapter addresses ekphrastic practice from two directions: first, conventionally, as critical and literary writing about painting; second...

... prototypically characterised as ‘images’ and ‘narratives’, it is crucial to examine in more detail how border images and narratives act in the world, focus on the temporalities of such images and narratives, and also explore their emotional dimensions. References Note: References without year numbers to Müller...