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Under Our Eye: Margaret Atwood's Variation on the Panopticon in "The Heart Goes Last"
2020
In her dystopian dark comedy The Heart Goes Last (2015), Margaret Atwood openly refers to Jeremy Bentham’s concept of the Panopticon. The future world depicted in her novel is filled with violence and deprived of both human bonds and hope. Hence, being contained, monitored and — after Foucault — disciplined and punished appears to be the characters’ last resort. Surveillance tempts both sexes as it is politically correct and universal, and it does not privilege one group of people over the other. The article discusses the dystopian vision of the near future as created by Atwood in her 2015 novel, with direct references to the conception of the Panopticon, both in its original meaning propos…
«Prendere ad esempio». Quando padri e figli sono innamorati (con una lettura di Sen. contr. ii 6)
2018
This paper investigates the theme of erotic rivalry between father and son in Roman declamation, particularly in Ps. Quint. decl. 356, Calp. decl. 37 and, especially, in Sen. contr. ii 6. The analysis emphasizes the decisive contribution of the comedy to outlining this kind of conflict, also interpreted according to Quintilian’s theoretical reflection on this scholastica materia.
Nota sui caratteri delle cortigiane nella commedia e in Luciano
1998
Will they, won’t they? Dream sequences and virtual consummation in the series Moonlighting
2021
The 1980s series Moonlighting was one of the first dramedies on the small screen; it took its cue from venerable genres like the screwball comedy or the hard-boiled novel (particularly The Thin Man) and translated them to television’s changing structures and aesthetics, participating in what has been termed the second Golden Age of television. However, the Nick and Norah Charles of Moonlighting, David and Maddie, were not married: on the contrary, the series was largely fuelled by the tension between the two leads, who were constantly sparring but were seemingly drawn to one another. Though this romantic tension has long been a staple of the silver screen, translating it into weekly episode…
La Comèdia de la General Conquista de Mallorca en relació amb el context cultural del sis-cents
2017
Resum: A l’article analitzem una obra teatral mallorquina de finals del segle xvii que porta per titol Comedia de la General Conquista de Mallorca . Del seu autor no en sabem mes que el nom, Pere Antoni Bernat. Hem volgut situar aquesta obra en l’ambit sociocultural del moment, i per a aixo ens hem centrat principalment en quatre aspectes: el contextual, per veure les condicions que pogueren afavorir la gestacio d’una obra d’aquestes caracteristiques; l’historic, per a la qual cosa ens hem fixat en el contingut de la Comedia en relacio amb la historiografia; el formal, amb les possibles influencies que hem pogut trobar de la literatura de l’epoca; i l’ideologic, consistent en una analisi de…
Cinema audiences reproducibly vary the chemical composition of air during films, by broadcasting scene specific emissions on breath
2016
AbstractHuman beings continuously emit chemicals into the air by breath and through the skin. In order to determine whether these emissions vary predictably in response to audiovisual stimuli, we have continuously monitored carbon dioxide and over one hundred volatile organic compounds in a cinema. It was found that many airborne chemicals in cinema air varied distinctively and reproducibly with time for a particular film, even in different screenings to different audiences. Application of scene labels and advanced data mining methods revealed that specific film events, namely “suspense” or “comedy” caused audiences to change their emission of specific chemicals. These event-type synchronou…
Brancati su Pirandello e il pirandellismo
2019
Nel romanzo breve "Sogno di un valzer" uscito a puntate su “Quadrivio”, dal 5 giugno al 14 agosto 1938, Vitaliano Brancati mette in scena, tra osservazione dei luoghi e rilevamento di costume, un’umanità fuori misura, continuamente in bilico tra realtà e sogno. A Caltanissetta (Nissa) la città nel cui Istituto magistrale lo scrittore, voltate le spalle alla Roma fascista, è venuto a insegnare, personaggi non appariscenti, insignificanti, che tuttavia covano desideri, si arrovellano in domande metafisiche. Prende così forma il leitmotiv delle critica al pirandellismo che più volte con ironia sottile affiora negli scritti brancatiani. Il saggio mostra come esso si intrecci con la comicità sul…
Parodiando la frustración de la superwoman: Liz Lemon en el entorno laboral de Rockefeller Plaza
2014
El personaje protagonista de la ya finalizada sitcom Rockefeller Plaza (30 Rock, NBC, 2006-2013), Liz Lemon, puede definirse como la caricatura de un modelo de mujer que se siente fracasada por su incapacidad de “tenerlo todo”, esa utopía conciliadora impuesta al género femenino casi desde su incorporación al mundo del trabajo. Liz es la jefa de guionistas de un programa de sketches humorísticos en directo de relativo éxito, un puesto de gran exigencia que trata de compaginar con una inexistente vida no laboral. Así, muchos de los gags recurrentes de la serie proceden de insistir en los desastrosos resultados de su torpeza a la hora de conciliar estas dos áreas de su caótica vida diaria, de…
Girls strike back : the politics of parody in an indigenous TV comedy
2016
The diversification of the media has opened up new spaces for performances that seek not only to evoke laughter but also to voice social critique. One example of this development is the TV comedy show Märät säpikkäät/Njuoska bittut, created by two young women belonging to the indigenous Sámi people living in Finland. This paper focuses on one particularly critical sketch in the show: a counter-parody of a popular parody of the Sámi presented by two Finnish male comedians. The original sketch was a parody of ethnicity. As they strike back, however, the female presenters consciously foreground the categories of gender and class, thereby introducing a completely new figure: a white, urban, und…
Expresiones proverbiales y comedia en la Declamación XXVI de Libanio
2016
Publicado en el monográfico dedicado a: ΕΥΠΟΙΚΙΛΟΝ ΑΝΘΟΣ. Estudios sobre teatro griego en homenaje a Antonio Melero [ES] La Declamación XXVI de Libanio muestra a un misántropo que no soporta los ruidos y se ha casado con una charlatana. El tema de la excesiva locuacidad tiene un amplio reflejo en los proverbios –presentes también en la comedia–, que el autor utiliza para dar vida a su discurso y para caracterizar a sus personajes. [EN] The Declamation XXVI by Libanius shows a misanthrope who does not support noises and is married with a talkative woman. The topic of the excessive talkativeness has a broad reflection in proverbs –also present in the comedy–, which the author uses to breathe …