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Smash and Laugh: A philosophical analysis on the relationship between humour and violence
2019
This article focuses on the relationship between humour and violence from a philosophical perspective. It is necessary to analyze different forms of violence and humour to understand in which ways ...
Bodies of Disorder: Gender and Degeneration in Baroja and Blasco Ibáñez
2019
Humanismo y Germanías: la decoración del palacio condal de Oliva1
2019
En visperas de la conmemoracion de la revuelta o guerra de las Germanias (1519–22) y la de las Comunidades (1520–22) en Espana, contamos con solidos estudios historicos, pero con escaso analisis so...
With God and Guitars: Popular Music, Socialism, and the Church in East Germany
2017
AbstractIn the socialist German Democratic Republic (GDR), the Church entered into a long-term, complex and productive symbiosis with popular music. Beginning in the 1950s, reform-minded pastors opened their doors to jazz, and, later, almost the entire spectrum of popular music could be found in their churches: from pop hits, beat, rock, blues to singer/songwriters and punk. The interplay between the Church and popular music gave rise to a highly unique communicative space, a counterpart to the rigidly organized public realm. Here, political dissidents took refuge from a repressive system and were free to examine their society critically. This political force infused the alliance of the Chu…
“This England”: Re-Visiting Shakespearean Landscapes and Mediascapes in John Akomfrah’s The Nine Muses (2010)
2017
The paper will offer a reading of John Akomfrah’s The Nine Muses (2010), a 90-minute experimental feature film that has been defined as “one of the most vital and original artistic responses to the subject of immigration that British cinema has ever produced” (Mitchell). It will focus on the multifarious ways in which the film makes the “canonical” literary material that it incorporates, including Shakespeare, interact with rarely seen archival material from the BBC regarding the experience of Caribbean and South Asian immigrants in 1950s and 1960s Britain. It will argue that through this interaction the familiarity of Western “canonical” literature re-presents itself as an uncanny landscap…
You Are In the Army Now : Militarism and masculinity in contemporary Polish cinema, the case of Karbala
2020
James L. Boone, Lost Civilization? The Contested Islamic Past in Spain and Portugal. (Duckworth Debates in Archaeology.) London: Duckworth, 2009. Pp.…
2013
Carla Cucina, Il “Seafarer”: La “navigatio” cristiana di un poeta anglosassone. (Biblioteca Medievale: Saggi, Richerche, Edizioni, 2.) Rome: Kappa, 2…
2010
Kadri, Alice; Moreno Moreno, Yolanda y Echevarría Arsuaga, Ana (Eds.), Circulaciones mudéjares y moriscas: redes de contacto y representaciones. (Est…
2021
From the Worship of God to the Worship of Beauty? The Reception of Italian Catholic Religious Paintings in the Private Chapels of English Country Hou…
2010
This study discusses the shifting reception of Italian Catholic religious paintings in the private chapels of English country houses. It first investigates how the practice of art collecting and patronage informs the strategies deployed by the English aristocracy to expunge from these pictures all Catholic overtones. It moves on to assess the impact of this ideological reinterpretation on works of art, whose original religious message was thus gradually displaced. The article concludes that these paintings came, effectively, to extol a religiosity of splendour, representative of a desire to glorify both the host's good taste and God's greatness.