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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"social critique"”.
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Destabilizing U.S.-Japan Relations: Nikkatsu Film Noir as Postwar Social Critique
… directors at Nikkatsu in the 1950s and 1960s to critique the development of U.S.-Japan relations during this period as the two countries shifted from World War II enemies to Cold War partners. Through close textual analysis of Rusty Knife, Pigs and Battleships, and Cruel Gun Story, I illustrate …
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Self Creation and Social Critique: Kierkegaard, Arendt, and Castoriadis on Thinking and Discourse
In this essay, I respond critically to two social phenomena: the unreflective repetition of values and the problem of a democracy in name only. After revealing the stakes of the project through an introduction to the three main thinkers and some central contemporary issues that are particularly …
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A Social Critique of Reflexive Reason: Relocating Critical Theory After Habermas and Foucault
… present Foucault's genealogies as an externalist critique of reflexive agency. Contrary to the interpretation that genealogy dispenses with agency and precludes critique, I argue that our constitution as reflexive agents, and our capacity for taking normative stances and critical action, concern …
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Social critique in the major novels of John Wyndham : civilization's secrets and nature's truths
… critical attention, but that there is consistent social criticism inherent in these works. In the four novels in question, Wyndham seems preoccupied with a number of ideas. He attacks the power of Big Business, Government, and the Military, and what I would characterize as their "Cult of Secrecy". …
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Teaching, activism, and the purposes of education: Toward an integrated vision of teachers' work
… through a conceptual comparison to the work of social activists. The author developed a four-part analysis of the work of activists through a reading of the social movement literature and compared that analysis to the work of teachers according to four contemporary approaches to teachers' work …
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Agape and Emancipation: The Common Good in Recent Postcolonial Fiction
… tendency is a part of a Marxist tradition of social critique that aims to expose and thus undo the hidden workings of domination, but it also has something in common with liberal thought, which assumes that education will improve those who are not already free to participate in market …
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A self-conscious Kurt Vonnegut: an analysis of Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse-Five and Breakfast of Champions
… technique, theoretical underpinnings and the social critique of each novel. Guided by an idea of the postmodern novel the study examines how these elements interact, concluding that by way of what may be considered "simple" yet self-conscious metafiction and prose as well as variations in …
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A hairy predicament: The problem with long hair in the 1960s and 1970s
… it became associated with a political and social critique of American society. Quickly, hair length, like bell bottoms and other symbols of youth rebellion became commercialized and meaningless. This paper focuses on the conflict over long hair at educational institutions, in the workplace, …
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The Man in the Transatlantic Crowd: The Early Reception of Edgar Allan Poe in Victorian England
… fiction to his own unique form of satire and social critique.
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Flickering lights on the eve of destruction: Technology and being in the nuclear war film
… One explores the problems of discourse in social critique and commentary about nuclear war. Chapter Two lays the methodological and theoretical foundations for this reading of film, building on the traditions of Symbolic Interactionism and American cultural studies. Chapter Three examines …
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Some of My Best Dolls Are Black: Colorblind Rhetoric in Online Collecting Communities
… play objects, they have also been the subject of social critique for many years. From the generic "baby" to the sexualized Barbie, they have been alternately praised and vilified for their role in forming the behaviors and identities of the children who play with them. However, such criticism …
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A Comprehensive Design for Molière's 'The Miser' through Costumes, Lights, and Set
… to effectively represent the unique cultural and social elements of the play, with a particular focus on its artistic representations and cultural influences in French society, by examining Molière’s use of references such as the authority the nobles had back in the 1600s. This research also …
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The fate of universal history: on the task of philosophy of history between Kant and Benjamin
… of historical universality, without which the social critique of historical violence falls into incoherence. For both Kant and Benjamin, that locus of historical universality remains the idea of happiness. As a result, the task of philosophy of history must include the determination of what …
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Vom Buch zum Film: zur Frage der Adaptation bei Sternberg, Schlöndorff und Tykwer
… In Der Blaue Engel, the main focus shifts from social critique to the sensual beauty played by Marlene Dietrich. In Die Blechtrommel, Oskar's mother takes on the role of a femme fatale. In Das Parfum, the main character's sexual drive is less important than his characterization as a lonely …
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Riotous Reform, Staging Complaint, 1561–1595
… numbers by playing upon commons grievance. This social critique was sweetened with novelty. The evanescent energy of Italian commedia dell’arte, as a continental form of playing, was harnessed for its entertainment value, its adaptability, and its malleability in a climate of growing demand and …
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Segregation, Education and Space - a Case Study of Malmö
… Bourdieu, especially in his work Distinction – A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste. This dissertation concludes that education differs from other social variables in describing segregation and deserves to be analyzed on its own merits. The second question is whether, how, and in what ways …
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Altered states: feminist utopian literature
… Tower Sargent’s definition of utopianism as “social dreaming” and Tom Moylan’s understanding of critical utopia. It also develops and expands Lucy Sargisson’s definition of feminist utopianism as subversive, fluid, ambiguous and committed to ongoing personal and social transformation. …
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Drag hinge : "reading" the scales between architecture and urbanism
… archetypal traits of another gender, sex, or social class, or battle through dance, commonly known as "voguing." Most ballroom participants belong to one of a series of groups known as "Houses" which are led by a Mother and/or Father who provides wisdom and guidance to the other members of the …
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