DOCSLIB.ORG

The Pacific Sentinel, March 2018

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
The Pacific Sentinel, March 2018 Portland State University PDXScholar University Archives: Campus Publications & The Pacific Sentinel Productions 3-2018 The Pacific Sentinel, March 2018 Portland State University. Student Publications Board Follow this and additional works at: https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/pacificsentinel Let us know how access to this document benefits ou.y Recommended Citation Portland State University. Student Publications Board, "The Pacific Sentinel, March 2018" (2018). The Pacific Sentinel. 12. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/pacificsentinel/12 This Book is brought to you for free and open access. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Pacific Sentinel by an authorized administrator of PDXScholar. Please contact us if we can make this document more accessible: [email protected]. IN THIS ISSUE 21 R1s1NG lNDIE Duo R EFIN ES T11E 1R 4 SOL\'D O.\' NEW RELEASE \ V 11AT' s HAPPE,\ 1:-1c Album Review Concerts by Shane Johnson In Other News Movies 14 RARE SCUTTLES SKEPTICS WITH "SEA OF THIEVES" BETA Video Game Review by Joshua Engledow 22 T ll E TE\'TATl\' E EXISTE\'CE OF 6 BEALTY L\'DISCO\'ER ED STO RI ES Beauty Standards are not as Absolute Why We Should Start Exploring as People are Led to Believe African Fiction by Aurora Mak By Daniel Nickolas 15 CHICAGO-BASED RAPPER SWADE'S DYNAMIC NEW EP DESERVES YOUR ATTENTION Album Review by Shane Johnson 24 8 Fi\LL FROM GRACE THE 'ffTH OF TllE SHARl\'G The Story of Rajneeshpuram, OR: ECO\'OMY Home of the Biggest Bioterror Attack by Camillo Assad in Modern U.S. History 18 by Andreas Bassett PORTLAND JAZZ FESTIVAL SHOWCASES PORTLAND STAT E 12 TALENT CHl\'A MADE ME GAY by Shane Johnson Personal Essay by Alexander Meyers 20 EARLY MAN Movie Review by Aaron Clausen 2 THE PACIFTC SE \TJ\EL STAFF FEATURED THIS MONTH EDITOR-IN-CH I EF Alexandra Louis just had to take three Savannah Quorum is a graphic design Kasey Colton tries to spell her own last name and was student at PSU. She's trying to march responsible for editing many of these forward but she'd much rather take a nap. MANAG ING EDITOR pieces. Let that inform your reading. Alexandra Louis Alex Skousen studies English and Film at Josie Allison is a sophomore transfer PSU, isn't really sure what else you want PRODUCT ION MANAGER studying international relations whose him to say ... McKenzie Lee mood has a positive correlation with the quality of avocados. Shane Johnson is a business major and :\1ULTL\1EDIA EDITOR writing minor at PSU. He would follow Jason Mekkam Andreas Bassett Who is the biggest Mike Schur to the ends of the earth. gangster in the ocean? Al Caprawn . \RTS & CULTURE EDITOR Jake Johnson studies painting in the BFA Alex Skousen Jason Mekkam studies English. Likes program and writes about life during the brevity. dystopian present. INTERNATIONAL & NATIONAL POLITICS EDITOR Kasey Colton thinks a lot about the future Daniel Nickolas is working toward a Andreas Bassett humanity missed out on when Biggie dual major in English and Germanic Smalls was shot. We miss you, Big. Languages. He thinks German is the most SO CIAL & EN\'I RONMENTAL beautiful language in the world ... no, JUST ICE EDITOR Aurora Mak If you're not my mom: seriously. Josie Allison Aurora Mak is studying mathematics at PSU because she couldn't think of Alex Meyers is an English student at PSU. OPI N ION EDITOR anything better. If you're my mom: Aurora He is stuck between pursuing the lifestyle Aurora Mak Mak loves mathematics with all her heart. of a starving artist and making a barely livable salary as a college professor. McKenzie Lee wishes she could live in a far off land next to the ocean drinking Clarissa Fredericks- Wright is the margaritas everyday, but is stuck in contributing illustrator for this months Portland. illustrations. WHO WE ARE CONTACT The Pacific Sentinel magazine offers an inclusive forum incorporating editor. pacificsen [email protected] in-depth content from the PSU community. We advocate on behalf of the marginalized, explore the merits of cultural artifacts, and initiate The Pacific Sentinel interdisciplinary communication. Smith Memorial Student Union I S-29 Portland State University COPYRIGHT© 2018 THE PACIFIC SENTINEL. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 1825 SW Broadway The Pacific Sentinel is published monthly as an independent student news magazine governed Portland, OR 97201 by the PSU Student Media Board. Views and editorial content expressed herein are those of the staff, contributors, and readers and do not necessarily represent those of the PSU student body, faculty, staff, or administration. THE PACTFTC SENTT.\EL 3 WHAT'S HAPPENING CONCERTS & EVENTS IN OTHER NEWS Oregon Community College Campus Taken Over by "Gang" of Wild Turkeys A community college in Eugene, OR was recently overrun by a gang of wild turkeys. Greg Evans, a Eugene City Council member stated, "There is turkey feces everywhere;' and that "they're not scared of humans:' Urban wildlife other than turkeys such as rats are also on the rise. A wildlife control measure ordinance appears to be on the horizon for the city of Eugene, OR in the near future. KFC Suffers Serious Gravy Shortage in the UK After a devastating chicken shortage last month, 97 percent of KFC restaurants Brockhampton Current Joys in the UK are experiencing supply March 2 March25 disruptions in gravy. Select restaurants Crystal Ballroom Holocene are currently on a reduced menu and The diverse, 14-member rap group Alternative folk rock artist, Current some customers are upset. The police Brockhampton will light up the Joys will play at Holocene on March 25. department of Whitefield, Manchester has McMenamin's Crystal Ballroom on His instrumentals and lyrics are honest, urged citizens to refrain from contacting March 2. The show is an all ages event. nostalgic, and bound to pull heartstrings. the police regarding the ongoing KFC Doors will open at 8 p.m. and music will The show is open to all ages and will start gravy shortage. start at 9 p.m. at 8:30 p.m. Smelling Your Partners' Flatulence Bondax Taylor Bennett Linked to Illness Prevention March 18 March 26 Hydrogen sulfide, the gas that makes Holocene Roseland Theater farts smell bad, has recently been linked UK-based, genre-fusing electronic duo Rapper Taylor Bennett will be performing to help reduce the risk of stroke, heart Bondax will play at Holocene on March in Peter's Room at the Roseland Theater attack, cancer, and dementia. Hydrogen 18. The event is 21 and over. Doors on March 26. You may know Bennett as sulfide is produced in the cells of the will open at 9 p.m. with music starting Chance the Rapper's younger, equally body when suffering from illness. Its shortly after. as talented brother. He will be joined by purpose is to power the mitochondria of artists Kami and Melo Makes Music. The the cell in order to help combat ailments. George Clinton & Parliament show is an all ages event. The show starts Researchers at the University of Exeter in Funkadelics at 8 p.m. the UK have developed a new compound, .:;: AP39, which aids the body in producing . ~ March 21 ~ The Roseland Theater Crumb the optimal amount of hydrogen sulfide. ii R&B icon George Clinton is bringing March 28 AP39 is thought to reverse mitochondrial ·;::.,u his band and groove of the '70s to the Analog Cafe and Theater damage in cells, which would help to ] Roseland Theater on March 21. Joining Psychedelic pop-rock group, Crumb will treat conditions like diabetes and heart him will be openers Miss Velvet & The bring their jazzy sounds to the Analog failure. Dr. Mark Wood stated, ''Although "'~ Blue Wolf and DJ Doc Roe. This is a 21 Cafe on March 25 along with their fellow hydrogen sulfide is well known as a pungent, foul-smelling gas in rotten eggs a and over event. The doors open at 8 p.m. cumbia influenced, psych-soul band, £ and the show starts at 9 p.m. Combo Chimbita. This is an all ages event. and flatulence, it is naturally produced in :: The doors open at 6 p.m. and the show the body and could, in fact, be a healthcare ~ hero with significant implications for ~ starts at 7 p.m. "':: future therapies for a variety of diseases:' ~ 4 THE PJ\CTFIC SK\TTYEL _/ OPENING IN FEBRUARY Red Sparrow Tomb Raider March2 March 16 Russian intelligence officers coerce Based on the video game series, this Dominika Egorova, a ballerina, into their adaptation follows Lara Croft as she "sparrow" program, where she learns the looks for her father who mysteriously art of espionage and seduction. Her first disappeared on an island several years mission targets a CIA agent, threatening earlier. Directed by Roar Uthaug and .... the security of both nations. Directed by starring Alicia Vikander, Hannah John­ Francis Lawrence and starring Jennifer Kamen, and Walton Goggins, "Tomb Lawrence, Joel Edgerton, and Charlotte Raider" is released March 16. Rated PG-13. Rampling, "Red Sparrow" is rated R. Pacific Rim Uprising Foxtrot March23 March2 Earth is under a fresh, high-stakes threat After their son's death at a desolate military that requires newer, bigger explosions to post, a troubled family grapples with the resolve. Directed by Steven S. DeKnight facts that led to his premature demise. and starring Scott Eastwood, Adria Arjona, Israel's official submission to the Academy and Charlie Day, "Pacific Rim Uprising" is Awards, "Foxtrot" is directed by Samuel rated PG-13. Maoz and stars Lior Ashkenazi, Sarah Adler, and Yanaton Shiray. Rated R. Isle of Dogs March23 In the Fade After all dogs are banned from Japan, March2 a young boy goes in search of his lost When Katja Sekerci's husband and son are canine with the help of new friends.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Pr-Dvd-Holdings-As-Of-September-18
    CALL # LOCATION TITLE AUTHOR BINGE BOX COMEDIES prmnd Comedies binge box (includes Airplane! --Ferris Bueller's Day Off --The First Wives Club --Happy Gilmore)[videorecording] / Princeton Public Library. BINGE BOX CONCERTS AND MUSICIANSprmnd Concerts and musicians binge box (Includes Brad Paisley: Life Amplified Live Tour, Live from WV --Close to You: Remembering the Carpenters --John Sebastian Presents Folk Rewind: My Music --Roy Orbison and Friends: Black and White Night)[videorecording] / Princeton Public Library. BINGE BOX MUSICALS prmnd Musicals binge box (includes Mamma Mia! --Moulin Rouge --Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella [DVD] --West Side Story) [videorecording] / Princeton Public Library. BINGE BOX ROMANTIC COMEDIESprmnd Romantic comedies binge box (includes Hitch --P.S. I Love You --The Wedding Date --While You Were Sleeping)[videorecording] / Princeton Public Library. DVD 001.942 ALI DISC 1-3 prmdv Aliens, abductions & extraordinary sightings [videorecording]. DVD 001.942 BES prmdv Best of ancient aliens [videorecording] / A&E Television Networks History executive producer, Kevin Burns. DVD 004.09 CRE prmdv The creation of the computer [videorecording] / executive producer, Bob Jaffe written and produced by Donald Sellers created by Bruce Nash History channel executive producers, Charlie Maday, Gerald W. Abrams Jaffe Productions Hearst Entertainment Television in association with the History Channel. DVD 133.3 UNE DISC 1-2 prmdv The unexplained [videorecording] / produced by Towers Productions, Inc. for A&E Network executive producer, Michael Cascio. DVD 158.2 WEL prmdv We'll meet again [videorecording] / producers, Simon Harries [and three others] director, Ashok Prasad [and five others]. DVD 158.2 WEL prmdv We'll meet again. Season 2 [videorecording] / director, Luc Tremoulet producer, Page Shepherd.
    [Show full text]
  • Statistical Yearbook 2019
    STATISTICAL YEARBOOK 2019 Welcome to the 2019 BFI Statistical Yearbook. Compiled by the Research and Statistics Unit, this Yearbook presents the most comprehensive picture of film in the UK and the performance of British films abroad during 2018. This publication is one of the ways the BFI delivers on its commitment to evidence-based policy for film. We hope you enjoy this Yearbook and find it useful. 3 The BFI is the lead organisation for film in the UK. Founded in 1933, it is a registered charity governed by Royal Charter. In 2011, it was given additional responsibilities, becoming a Government arm’s-length body and distributor of Lottery funds for film, widening its strategic focus. The BFI now combines a cultural, creative and industrial role. The role brings together activities including the BFI National Archive, distribution, cultural programming, publishing and festivals with Lottery investment for film production, distribution, education, audience development, and market intelligence and research. The BFI Board of Governors is chaired by Josh Berger. We want to ensure that there are no barriers to accessing our publications. If you, or someone you know, would like a large print version of this report, please contact: Research and Statistics Unit British Film Institute 21 Stephen Street London W1T 1LN Email: [email protected] T: +44 (0)20 7173 3248 www.bfi.org.uk/statistics The British Film Institute is registered in England as a charity, number 287780. Registered address: 21 Stephen Street London W1T 1LN 4 Contents Film at the cinema
    [Show full text]
  • The Finance and Production of Independent Film and Television in the UK: a Critical Introduction
    The Finance and Production of Independent Film and Television in the UK: A Critical Introduction Vital Statistics General Population: 64.1m Size: 241.9 km sq GDP: £1.9tr (€2.1tr) Film1 Market share of UK independent films in 2015: 10.5% Number of feature films produced: 201 Average visits to cinema per person per year: 2.7 Production spend per year: £1.4m (€1.6) TV2 Audience share of the main publicly-funded PSB (BBC): 72% Production spend by PSBs: £2.5bn (€3.2bn) Production spend by commercial channels (excluding sport): £350m (€387m) Time spent watching television per day: 193 minutes (3hrs 13 minutes) Introduction This chapter provides an overview of independent film and television production in the UK. Despite the unprecedented levels of convergence that characterise the digital era, the UK film and television industries remain distinct for several reasons. The film industry is small and fragmented, divided across the two opposing sources of support on which it depends: large but uncontrollable levels of ‘inward-investment’ – money invested in the UK from overseas – mainly from the US, and low levels of public subsidy. By comparison, the television industry is large and diverse, its relative stability underpinned by a long-standing infrastructure of 1 Sources: BFI 2016: 10; ‘The Box Office 2015’ [market share of UK indie films] ; BFI 2016: 6; ‘Exhibition’ [cinema visits per per person]; BFI 2016: 6; ‘Exhibition’ [average visits per person]; BFI 2016: 3; ‘Screen Sector Production’ [production spend per year]. 2 Sources: Oliver & Ohlbaum 2016: 68 [PSB audience share]; Ofcom 2015a: 3 [PSB production spend]; Ofcom 2015a: 8.
    [Show full text]
  • White, Rachel. 2020. All This Is for You and Contemporary Uses of Omniscient Narration: Theories and Case Studies
    White, Rachel. 2020. All this is for you and contemporary uses of omniscient narration: theories and case studies. Doctoral thesis, Goldsmiths, University of London [Thesis] https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/28377/ The version presented here may differ from the published, performed or presented work. Please go to the persistent GRO record above for more information. If you believe that any material held in the repository infringes copyright law, please contact the Repository Team at Goldsmiths, University of London via the following email address: [email protected]. The item will be removed from the repository while any claim is being investigated. For more information, please contact the GRO team: [email protected] All this is for you and Contemporary Uses of Omniscient Narration: Theories and Case Studies Submitted by Rachel White Goldsmiths College, University of London Thesis submitted for the PhD in Creative and Life Writing 1 Declaration of Authorship I, Rachel White, declare that this thesis and the work presented in it is entirely my own. I have clearly stated where I have consulted the work of others. Signed: Date: 2 Acknowledgements I would like to offer my sincere thanks to my creative supervisor, Ardashir Vakil, and my critical supervisor, Jane Desmarais, for their unflagging support and encouragement, and their much-appreciated advice in the writing of this thesis. 3 Abstract This thesis consists of two parts. Part One is the creative writing component, a 62,000 word novel, All this is for you, about Hemu Daswani, immigrant turned wealthy entrepreneur, and his daughter-in-law, Joanna, who between them debate the question, once a person has become rich, what else is there to strive for.
    [Show full text]
  • One Survivor Remembers Teacher’S Guide 0 Grades 8 Through 12 Contents a Summary of Gerda’S Story 3 How to Use This Kit 4 a Note About the Primary Documents 5
    ONE SURVIVOR REMEMBERS Teacher’s Guide 0 Grades 8 ThrouGh 12 Contents A Summary of Gerda’s Story 3 How to Use This Kit 4 A Note About the Primary Documents 5 LESSON PLANS Providing Context for the Film Tapping Students’ Prior Knowledge 7 Holocaust Timeline Activity 10 Viewing the Film Discussing the Film 11 Connecting with Gerda 34 Empathizing with Loss 37 Humanizing the Dehumanized 39 Building on the Film’s Themes Antisemitism 42 Bullies & Bystanders 49 Holding Onto Hope 54 Applying the Film’s Themes A Call to Action: Service Learning 58 Intolerance Today 61 EXTRAS Recommended Resources 69 Content Standards 70 Acknowledgements 71 A Note from Gerda 73 one survivor remembers PREFACE A Summary of Gerda’s Story by Michael Berenbaum This is a story about the strength of the human spirit, the story of a woman who survived the Holocaust and emerged with her humanity intact. Stripped of family, friends, pos- sessions and freedom, she lived to tell her story, a story she tells eloquently and power- fully in One Survivor Remembers. A Polish Jew, Gerda Weissmann lived six years under German rule. It was a time when Jews were stigmatized, discriminated against, harassed and beaten. Their houses of worship were burned; their places of business, looted. They were driven from their homes, imprisoned in ghettos and forced to work in slave-labor camps. And they were murdered — some where they lived, town by town, person by person; others in death camps, where millions were gassed in an assembly-line process that mimicked the great factories of industrialized Europe.
    [Show full text]
  • Syllabus for Classics 140 (#20821) Introduction to Classics
    SYLLABUS FOR CLASSICS 140 (#20821) INTRODUCTION TO CLASSICS Fall 2014 Semester, San Diego State University Brett Robbins, PhD., Department of Classics & Humanities Class Hours: M/W 2-3:15 PM, Classroom: PSFA-310 Office Hours (AL-672): MW 12:30-1:45 PM (or by appointment) Phone: 805-444-2393, E-Mail: [email protected] 1) COURSE DESCRIPTION If you’re curious about your own society, you should also be curious about the ancient Greeks and Romans, because they were the inventors of western culture and you should be curious about where so much of what you take for granted comes from. It’s inherently pleasurable to trace so much of what we think and do today to their roots in ancient Greece and Rome, to make sense of their world and our own world through their world and of both worlds through their interrelationships with each other. That is, I believe, what is most special about the study of antiquity: we find, if we look closely, so many firsts in western culture: the first epic and lyric poems, the first plays, the first theaters, the first histories, even the first cinema (huh?). And through the literature of ancient Greece and Rome we encounter the first expression of certain ideas like community, democracy, and imperialism and of certain emotions like courage, curiosity, and love. If tracing things back to their roots, their origins in the past, excites you, you are in the right place, because that is what I am primarily interested in: getting back to the roots. There is more.
    [Show full text]
  • Shaun the Sheep's Creator
    PRODUCTION NOTES STUDIOCANAL RELEASE DATES: UK – OCTOBER 18th 2019 SOCIAL MEDIA: Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/shaunthesheep Twitter - https://twitter.com/shaunthesheep Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/shaunthesheep/ YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/user/aardmanshaunthesheep For further information please contact STUDIOCANAL: UK ENQUIRIES [email protected] [email protected] 1 Synopsis Strange lights over the quiet town of Mossingham herald the arrival of a mystery visitor from far across the galaxy… For Shaun the Sheep’s second feature-length movie, the follow-up to 2015’s smash hit SHAUN THE SHEEP MOVIE, A SHAUN THE SHEEP MOVIE: FARMAGEDDON takes the world’s favourite woolly hero and plunges him into an hilarious intergalactic adventure he will need to use all of his cheekiness and heart to work his way out of. When a visitor from beyond the stars – an impish and adorable alien called LU-LA – crash-lands near Mossy Bottom Farm, Shaun soon sees an opportunity for alien-powered fun and adventure, and sets off on a mission to shepherd LU-LA back to her home. Her magical alien powers, irrepressible mischief and galactic sized burps soon have the flock enchanted and Shaun takes his new extra-terrestrial friend on a road-trip to Mossingham Forest to find her lost spaceship. Little do the pair know, though, that they are being pursued at every turn by a mysterious alien- hunting government agency, spearheaded by the formidable Agent Red and her bunch of hapless, hazmat-suited goons. With Agent Red driven by a deep-seated drive to prove the existence of aliens and Bitzer unwittingly dragged into the haphazard chase, can Shaun and the flock avert Farmageddon on Mossy Bottom Farm before it’s too late? 2 Star Power The creative team behind the world’s favourite woolly wonder explain how, in Farmageddon, they’ve boldly gone where no sheep has gone before..
    [Show full text]
  • Uk Animation 2018 2 Short Animation Contents
    UK ANIMATION 2018 2 SHORT ANIMATION CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 4 SHORT ANIMATION 6 FEATURE-LENGTH ANIMATION 38 VIRTUAL REALITY / IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE ANIMATION 42 ABOUT BRITISH COUNCIL 46 BRITISH COUNCIL AND FESTIVALS 48 BRITISH COUNCIL FILM GLOBAL PROJECTS 50 BRITISH COUNCIL AND SHORTS 53 ANIMATION IN THE UK 2018 54 INDEX OF FILMS 62 , Director: Jonathan Hodgson Jonathan , Director: Roughhouse All inclusive images remain the copyright of their respective owners and may Cover: Cover: not be reproduced without the expressed permission of the rights holders. 3 INTRODUCTION Welcome to the 2018 UK Animation Catalogue presented by the British Council. We’re proud to be championing new and upcoming UK films and filmmakers to programmers and audiences around the world. The catalogue includes details of selected recent UK animated shorts, features and VR, and flags up some productions due for release in 2018. You can also find information about some of the work we do and the partners we work with. The PDF version of this catalogue will be updated periodically throughout the year and you can download it at film.britishcouncil. org/british-films-directory/uk-filmcatalogues Film credits and information in this catalogue are drawn from our British Films Directory. The Directory is an information resource which includes an extensive selection of UK titles currently in production, as well as details of recently completed UK shorts and feature- length films. You can explore the British Films Directory, as well as further directories listing both UK filmmakers and international film festivals, at britishcouncil.org/film 4 , Director: Joseph Wallace , Director: Edith Piaf (Said It Better Than Me) - Sparks Me) Than Piaf (Said It Better Edith 5 SHORT ANIMATION , Directors: Karni and Saul Karni , Directors: Perfect World Perfect 6 SHORT ANIMATION Adelaide McCarthy and the Attraction Making of a Legend Synopsis Synopsis We join Adelaide McCarthy as he explains the Urges in the undergrowth, erupting fungal fantasies, wonders of how stop motion puppets are made.
    [Show full text]
  • Shail, Robert, British Film Directors
    BRITISH FILM DIRECTORS INTERNATIONAL FILM DIRECTOrs Series Editor: Robert Shail This series of reference guides covers the key film directors of a particular nation or continent. Each volume introduces the work of 100 contemporary and historically important figures, with entries arranged in alphabetical order as an A–Z. The Introduction to each volume sets out the existing context in relation to the study of the national cinema in question, and the place of the film director within the given production/cultural context. Each entry includes both a select bibliography and a complete filmography, and an index of film titles is provided for easy cross-referencing. BRITISH FILM DIRECTORS A CRITI Robert Shail British national cinema has produced an exceptional track record of innovative, ca creative and internationally recognised filmmakers, amongst them Alfred Hitchcock, Michael Powell and David Lean. This tradition continues today with L GUIDE the work of directors as diverse as Neil Jordan, Stephen Frears, Mike Leigh and Ken Loach. This concise, authoritative volume analyses critically the work of 100 British directors, from the innovators of the silent period to contemporary auteurs. An introduction places the individual entries in context and examines the role and status of the director within British film production. Balancing academic rigour ROBE with accessibility, British Film Directors provides an indispensable reference source for film students at all levels, as well as for the general cinema enthusiast. R Key Features T SHAIL • A complete list of each director’s British feature films • Suggested further reading on each filmmaker • A comprehensive career overview, including biographical information and an assessment of the director’s current critical standing Robert Shail is a Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Wales Lampeter.
    [Show full text]
  • Dance, Space and Subjectivity
    UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CHICHESTER an accredited college of the UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON DANCE, SPACE AND SUBJECTIVITY Valerie A. Briginshaw This thesis is submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy by publication. DANCE DEPARTMENT, SCHOOL OF THE ARTS October 2001 This thesis has been completed as a requirement for a higher degree of the University of Southampton. WS 2205643 2 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 ..::r'.). NE '2...10 0 2. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CmCHESTER an accredited college of the UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON ABSTRACT DANCE Doctor of Philosophy DANCE, SPACE AND SUBJECTIVITY by Valerie A. Briginshaw This thesis has been completed as a requirement for a higher degree of the University of Southampton Thisthesis, by examining relationships between dancing bodies and space, argues that postmodern dance can challenge traditional representations of subjectivity and suggest alternatives. Through close readings of postmodern dances, informed by current critical theory, constructions of subjectivity are explored. The limits and extent of subjectivity are exposed when and where bodies meet space. Through a precise focus on this body/space interface, I reveal various ways in which dance can challenge, trouble and question fixed perceptions of subjectivity. The representation in dance of the constituents of difference that partly make up subjectivity, (such as gender, 'race', sexuality and ability), is a main focus in the exploration of body/space relationships presented in the thesis. Based on the premise that dance, space and subjectivity are constructions that can mutually inform and construct each other, this thesis offers frameworks for exploring space and subjectivity in dance. These explorations draw on a selective reading of pertinent poststructuralist theories which are all concerned with critiquing the premises of Western philosophy, which revolve around the concept of an ideal, rational, unified subject, which, in turn, relies on dualistic thinking that enforces a way of seeing things in terms of binary oppositions.
    [Show full text]
  • 9781474410571 Contemporary
    CONTEMPORARY HOLLYWOOD ANIMATION 66543_Brown.indd543_Brown.indd i 330/09/200/09/20 66:43:43 PPMM Traditions in American Cinema Series Editors Linda Badley and R. Barton Palmer Titles in the series include: The ‘War on Terror’ and American Film: 9/11 Frames Per Second Terence McSweeney American Postfeminist Cinema: Women, Romance and Contemporary Culture Michele Schreiber In Secrecy’s Shadow: The OSS and CIA in Hollywood Cinema 1941–1979 Simon Willmetts Indie Reframed: Women’s Filmmaking and Contemporary American Independent Cinema Linda Badley, Claire Perkins and Michele Schreiber (eds) Vampires, Race and Transnational Hollywoods Dale Hudson Who’s in the Money? The Great Depression Musicals and Hollywood’s New Deal Harvey G. Cohen Engaging Dialogue: Cinematic Verbalism in American Independent Cinema Jennifer O’Meara Cold War Film Genres Homer B. Pettey (ed.) The Style of Sleaze: The American Exploitation Film, 1959–1977 Calum Waddell The Franchise Era: Managing Media in the Digital Economy James Fleury, Bryan Hikari Hartzheim, and Stephen Mamber (eds) The Stillness of Solitude: Romanticism and Contemporary American Independent Film Michelle Devereaux The Other Hollywood Renaissance Dominic Lennard, R. Barton Palmer and Murray Pomerance (eds) Contemporary Hollywood Animation: Style, Storytelling, Culture and Ideology Since the 1990s Noel Brown www.edinburghuniversitypress.com/series/tiac 66543_Brown.indd543_Brown.indd iiii 330/09/200/09/20 66:43:43 PPMM CONTEMPORARY HOLLYWOOD ANIMATION Style, Storytelling, Culture and Ideology Since the 1990s Noel Brown 66543_Brown.indd543_Brown.indd iiiiii 330/09/200/09/20 66:43:43 PPMM Edinburgh University Press is one of the leading university presses in the UK. We publish academic books and journals in our selected subject areas across the humanities and social sciences, combining cutting-edge scholarship with high editorial and production values to produce academic works of lasting importance.
    [Show full text]
  • The Hollywood Cinema Industry's Coming of Digital Age: The
    The Hollywood Cinema Industry’s Coming of Digital Age: the Digitisation of Visual Effects, 1977-1999 Volume I Rama Venkatasawmy BA (Hons) Murdoch This thesis is presented for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy of Murdoch University 2010 I declare that this thesis is my own account of my research and contains as its main content work which has not previously been submitted for a degree at any tertiary education institution. -------------------------------- Rama Venkatasawmy Abstract By 1902, Georges Méliès’s Le Voyage Dans La Lune had already articulated a pivotal function for visual effects or VFX in the cinema. It enabled the visual realisation of concepts and ideas that would otherwise have been, in practical and logistical terms, too risky, expensive or plain impossible to capture, re-present and reproduce on film according to so-called “conventional” motion-picture recording techniques and devices. Since then, VFX – in conjunction with their respective techno-visual means of re-production – have gradually become utterly indispensable to the array of practices, techniques and tools commonly used in filmmaking as such. For the Hollywood cinema industry, comprehensive VFX applications have not only motivated the expansion of commercial filmmaking praxis. They have also influenced the evolution of viewing pleasures and spectatorship experiences. Following the digitisation of their associated technologies, VFX have been responsible for multiplying the strategies of re-presentation and story-telling as well as extending the range of stories that can potentially be told on screen. By the same token, the visual standards of the Hollywood film’s production and exhibition have been growing in sophistication.
    [Show full text]