The Kaleidoscopic Lens

The Kaleidoscopic Lens
Author: Randall M. Miller
Publisher: Jerome s Ozer Pub
Total Pages: 222
Release: 1980
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780891981213

Beyond Spatial Montage

Beyond Spatial Montage
Author: Michael Betancourt
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2016-02-19
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1317359143

Beyond Spatial Montage: Windowing, or the Cinematic Displacement of Time, Motion, and Space offers an extended discussion of the morphology and structure of compositing, graphic juxtapositions, and montage employed in motion pictures. Drawing from the history of avant-garde and commercial cinema, as well as studio-based research, here media artist and theorist Michael Betancourt critiques cinematic realism and spatial montage in motion pictures. This new taxonomic framework for conceptualizing linkages between media art and narrative cinema opens new areas of experimentation for today’s film editors, motion designers, and other media artists.

The Kaleidoscopic Worlds of Poe Black

The Kaleidoscopic Worlds of Poe Black
Author: Mark Roland Langdale
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2024-01-28
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1805147528

What would you do if you lost yourself in another world? Orphan Poe Black finds himself lost in a forest inside an attic fighting both real and imaginary entities from the spirit world. Here he meets a young girl, named Sorrow, who he shares a connection with. Two is better than one and they forge ahead together, aware of the danger that creeps ever closer toward them. Set in Finland, just after the covid pandemic, this dark and supernatural, fairy tale follows Poe Black as he manoeuvres through three entirely different worlds, the real world, a parallel world and the spirit world. Can Poe and Sorrow defeat the dark and mysterious entity and make their way back to the so called real world or will they be stuck in the other realms for all eternity?

The Kaleidoscope of Gendered Memory in Ahlam Mosteghanemi’s Novels

The Kaleidoscope of Gendered Memory in Ahlam Mosteghanemi’s Novels
Author: Nuha Baaqeel
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2019-07-12
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1527536769

Through its unique kaleidoscopic lens, this book analyzes the work of Algeria’s first postcolonial woman writer to publish a novel in Arabic, Ahlam Mosteghanemi. Her novels Memory in the Flesh and Chaos of the Senses return to the trauma of the Algerian War of Independence to address the lingering anxieties of national belonging and memory in postcolonial Algeria at a time when the nation is caught between two forces: entrenched bureaucratic-political elites and populist Islamists, who imagine a return to a pre-modern, utopian past. This book argues that Mosteghanemi’s polyphonic narratives reveal that national narratives are always multiple—“unity” is not one, all-encompassing narrative, but instead an ever-evolving Bakhtinian dialogism accommodating multiple perspectives, memories, and stories. The study interprets Mosteghanemi’s metaphor of the bridge as a powerful device for exploring tensions between reality and imagination, exile and belonging, and traditional concepts of gender in ways that reimagine nationhood and gesture towards a new, collective future.

Refocusing Ethnographic Museums through Oceanic Lenses

Refocusing Ethnographic Museums through Oceanic Lenses
Author: Philipp Schorch
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2020-04-30
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0824881176

Refocusing Ethnographic Museums through Oceanic Lenses offers a collaborative ethnographic investigation of Indigenous museum practices in three Pacific museums located at the corners of the so-called Polynesian triangle: Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Hawai‘i; Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa; and Museo Antropológico Padre Sebastián Englert, Rapa Nui. Since their inception, ethnographic museums have influenced academic and public imaginations of other cultural-geographic regions, and the often resulting Euro-Americentric projection of anthropological imaginations has come under intense pressure, as seen in recent debates and conflicts around the Humboldt Forum in Berlin, Germany. At the same time, (post)colonial renegotiations in former European and American colonies have initiated dramatic changes to anthropological approaches through Indigenous museum practices. This book shapes a dialogue between Euro-Americentric myopia and Oceanic perspectives by offering historically informed, ethnographic insights into Indigenous museum practices grounded in Indigenous epistemologies, ontologies, and cosmologies. In doing so, it employs Oceanic lenses that help to reframe Pacific collections in, and the production of public understandings through, ethnographic museums in Europe and the Americas. By offering insights into Indigenous museologies across Oceania, the coauthors seek to recalibrate ethnographic museums, collections, and practices through Indigenous Oceanic approaches and perspectives. This, in turn, should assist any museum scholar and professional in rethinking and redoing their respective institutional settings, intellectual frameworks, and museum processes when dealing with Oceanic affairs; and, more broadly, in doing the “epistemic work” needed to confront “coloniality,” not only as a political problem or ethical obligation, but “as an epistemology, as a politics of knowledge.” A noteworthy feature is the book’s layered coauthorship and multi-vocality, drawing on a collaborative approach that has put the (widespread) philosophical commitment to dialogical inquiry into (seldom) practice by systematically co-constituting ethnographic knowledge. Further, the book shapes an “ethnographic kaleidoscope,” proposing the metaphor of the kaleidoscope as a way of encouraging fluid ethnographic engagements to avoid the impulse to solidify and enclose differences, and remain open to changing ethnographic meanings, positions, performances, and relationships. The coauthors collaboratively mobilize Oceanic eyes, bodies, and sovereignties, thus enacting an ethnographic kaleidoscopic process and effect aimed at refocusing ethnographic museums through Oceanic lenses.

How to Get Along With Your Church

How to Get Along With Your Church
Author: George B. Thompson
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 171
Release: 2013-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1620326418

By culture, George B. Thompson Jr. means not just racial, ethnic, economic, or regional culture, but also a congregation's way of doing things--its history, customs, conventions, and procedures. In order to launch and maintain a successful ministry, pastors and other church leaders must come to grasp that unique culture of their parish. They must develop a culture capital within their congregations, meaning that they invest themselves deeply in how their church does its work and goes about its ministries. The author presses clergy to answer such questions as How well do I know what I'm getting into? and Have I been adopted yet? and even Is it time to move on? The book is ideal for pastors in solo settings, but pastors in multiple staff settings will also find the author's insights helpful.

Dudley Murphy, Hollywood Wild Card

Dudley Murphy, Hollywood Wild Card
Author: Susan Delson
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2006
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780816646548

Follows the life of Hollywood's first independent filmmaker known for "The Emperor Jones" and "Ballet mâecanique."