Search results for "censorship"
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Écrire sans honte: la sexualité féminine en question dans les traductions anglo-américaines de Passion simple, L’Événement et L’Occupation d’Annie Er…
2011
Cet article prend le parti d’étudier le rendu du discours sur la sexualité dans Passion simple et L’Occupation et celui sur la procréation dans L’Événement dans les traductions anglo-américaines de ces trois textes. Annie Ernaux conçoit l’écriture comme une activité politique destinée, entre autres tâches, à dénoncer la domination masculine. Ce travail passe par l’inscription textuelle de la sexualité et de la corporalité féminines. Il s’agit en effet pour l’auteure de s’approprier la liberté d’écrire « sans honte » et de transgresser une loi du silence imposée par la société. L’effort d’objectivation qui caractérise l’écriture ernausienne s’appuie sur un style dépourvu de métaphores et mar…
Recensione a Guido Bonsaver, "Mussolini censore. Storie di letteratura, dissenso e ipocrisia”
2015
Recensione del “Mussolini censore” di Guido Bonsaver Review of Guido Bonsaver’s “Mussolini censore”
: Metonymy, Identification and Subjecthood in Stanley Kubrick's Lolita (1962)
2009
The author argues that, in order to bypass the Hays code, the eroticism in Kubrick's film is produced by metonymy, both verbal and non-verbal. Basing his study on the works of Christian Metz and Laura Mulvey, and more broadly on Lacanian psychoanalysis, the author analyzes how the film first constructs the character of Lolita as a “sexual object” subjected to the male gaze, then deconstructs its own construction by enabling Lolita to accede to the symbolic order, thus breaking out of the solipsistic imaginary the pedophile had confined her to. The film puts the spectator in the pervert's shoes by encouraging primary identification with the camera eye, secondary identification with Humbert H…
Legal questions on financial market abuse
2015
Purpose – The purpose of this study is to underline the impact that globalization of financial markets has on national punishment policies. The US financial crisis has strongly affected consumers’ lives, but the focus of this research is on the national provisions against the illegal and unfair behaviour of economic actors, with special regard to a phenomenon that took place abroad, but whose effects came to light in many different countries. Design/methodology/approach – Different methodological approaches, both deductive and inductive, are combined in the present paper, together with comparative and philosophical insights on national Court decisions and scholar writings. Findings – As Eu…
Housing Memories in Riga: WWI and Its Aftermath—Representation of the Apartment in Soviet Cinema and Now
2020
Geography of film provides information on new historiographic perspectives in architecture, space and the imagination of urban environment. This chapter contributes to the field of human geography by conducting a content analysis of a vast number of films made between the early 1910s and present time focusing on development and spatial organization of living spaces in Riga. The research elucidates the construction of meaning of space and housing memory, where relations of dominance is defined and contested in visual representation of Riga’s apartments. A qualitative research methodology was used based on best practices of human geography data transcription and coding. The main findings show…
Conrad and Censorship in Poland
2012
This essay explores the ways in which Conrad's life and letters were inextricably connected with the censorship imposed by three political systems: Tsarist autocracy, Nazi totalitarianism, and Communism. Conrad's oeuvre was itself a “victim” of two regimes of totalitarian censorship and political persecution. In occupied Poland between 1939 and 1945, his writing became a spiritual guide for the young generation, helping them to survive the horrors of the war and occupation. After the war, Conrad was banned by the Polish Communists, and supposedly forgotten. Totalitarian systems, it is argued, regard Conrad's works as dangerous and subversive because of their moral message of respect for hum…
Cosmic censorship conjecture in some matching spherical collapsing metrics
2017
A physically plausible Lema{\^{\i}}tre-Tolman-Bondi collapse in the marginally bound case is considered. By "physically plausible" we mean that the corresponding metric is ${\cal C}^1$ matched at the collapsing star surface and further that its {\em intrinsic} energy is, as due, stationary and finite. It is proved for this Lema{\^{\i}}tre-Tolman-Bondi collapse, for some parameter values, that its intrinsic central singularity is globally naked, thus violating the cosmic censorship conjecture with, for each direction, one photon, or perhaps a pencil of photons, leaving the singularity and reaching the null infinity. Our result is discussed in relation to some other cases in the current liter…
Muslim Martyrs and Pagan Vampires
2005
In December 2000 the government of Kano State in Muslim northern Nigeria reintroduced shari’a and established a new board for film and video censorship charged with the responsibility to “sanitize” the video industry and enforce the compliance of video films with moral standards of Islam. Stakeholders of the industry took up the challenge and responded by inserting religious issues into their narratives, and by adding a new feature genre focusing on conversion to Islam. This genre is characterized by violent Muslim/pagan encounters, usually set in a mythical past, culminating in the conversion of the pagans. This article will first outline northern Nigerian video culture and then go on to e…
Nos inventamos un mundo que no existía. Una profesión de riesgo: ser editora durante el franquismo
2021
Desde el final de la dictadura franquista, la censura editorial se ha constituido en un objeto de estudio interdisciplinar que, al inicial análisis de la constitución y entramado de la censura, incorpora el estudio de una casuística varia que redimensiona el fenómeno. Por un lado, en el contexto de los memory studies, cabe analizar qué efectos tuvo en la configuración de la memoria cultural. Por otro, tiene, además, una notable incidencia en la edición, por la autocensura y la contracensura. En concreto, este artículo explora la labor de algunas editoras que, en la Barcelona de los años sesenta y setenta, integraron una generación histórica opuesta al franquismo que lidió con la censura en …
The Importance of the Romanian Library of Freiburg for the Romanian Exile in the Context of the Beginning of the Communism and the Sovietisation of t…
2018
One can notice a growing interest regarding the discovery and the highlighting of the forms of cultural resistance in the 1950-1989 period, especially the highlighting of the importance and significations of the post-war Romanian exile, in the communist period, based on the conservation and development of the interior existence together with keeping the modernist reaction regarding the autonomy of the aesthetics to its political insubordination. The Romanian Library of Freiburg constitutes an essential starting point in highlighting the types of cultural resistance of the exile. The Romanian cultural exile begun at the start of the 50s in Romania, when the persecutions of the intellectual e…