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Author: Adriana Cordali Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3031188063 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 258
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Visual Rhetorics of Communist Romania: Life under the Totalitarian Gaze offers personal accounts and theoretical insight into the Cold War era when little information about life beyond the Iron Curtain could transpire to the West. Adriana Cordali develops a unique visual rhetorical theory for analyzing communist totalitarian propaganda and the resistance to it, and reveals the deliberate, strategic in/visibilities the rhetoric of power engaged in. Building upon the local history, ideology, and politics of the regime imposed after WWII, she identifies propaganda’s rhetorical features, visual tropes, and symbols and examines striking photographs and print materials from Ceaușescu’s regime (1966-1989) and the time of regime change (1989-1990), as well as an award-winning Romanian film that depicts women’s life at the time. Converging visual rhetoric and culture with history and politics, Visual Rhetorics of Communist Romania is a first book of this kind and will interest readers of rhetoric and communication, visual rhetoric, and political discourse in the region.
Author: Adriana Cordali Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3031188063 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 258
Book Description
Visual Rhetorics of Communist Romania: Life under the Totalitarian Gaze offers personal accounts and theoretical insight into the Cold War era when little information about life beyond the Iron Curtain could transpire to the West. Adriana Cordali develops a unique visual rhetorical theory for analyzing communist totalitarian propaganda and the resistance to it, and reveals the deliberate, strategic in/visibilities the rhetoric of power engaged in. Building upon the local history, ideology, and politics of the regime imposed after WWII, she identifies propaganda’s rhetorical features, visual tropes, and symbols and examines striking photographs and print materials from Ceaușescu’s regime (1966-1989) and the time of regime change (1989-1990), as well as an award-winning Romanian film that depicts women’s life at the time. Converging visual rhetoric and culture with history and politics, Visual Rhetorics of Communist Romania is a first book of this kind and will interest readers of rhetoric and communication, visual rhetoric, and political discourse in the region.
Author: Adriana Cordelia Gradea Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 195
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In this dissertation, I theorize a post/communist visual rhetorical methodology (to include references to both communism and post-communism), situated at the intersection of rhetorical theories, visual rhetorical and cultural studies, biopolitics and embodied rhetorics, post-totalitarian and post-colonial studies, and feminism. By differentiating between various kinds of rhetorics along lines of political and institutional power in society, this dissertation helps explicate communist rhetorical practices, in general, and their visual rhetorics, as well as the embodied rhetorics of resistance and their existence within a restrictive and reductionist totalitarian sociopolitical system.Methodologically, I review theoretical perspectives that have extended visual rhetorics to various geographical, historical, and cultural spaces in the wake of the so-called digital, pictorial, social justice, and material turns. Subsequently, the first case study in this dissertation provides visual rhetorical analyses of propaganda materials in Communist Romania in order to lay bare the parameters within which rhetorical practices were supposed to exist. At the same time, this first case study illustrates the background on which rhetorics of resistance were predicated. The various rhetorics of power and resistance should be seen in a kind of dialog-albeit distorted given the unequal balance of power at play. Then, in the second case study, I showcase the rhetorics of survivance (survival + resistance) in Communist Romania, which in totalitarianism are often subtle, subdued, nondiscursive, and indeed embodied. The film I analyze is Cristian Mungiu's 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days (4,3,2), which was made in post-communism looking back at the communist times-a necessary redirecting of the collective gaze in the aftermath of that long-lasting regime. Through its cinematography, this film brings to the visible spectrum the resistance and survival of women as a population group in face of totalitarian biopolitics; recuperates post/communist memory; and employs a visual rhetoric that makes the epistemic and biopolitical violence visible to both those familiar with it and those who learn about it for the first time. In other words, the film is both remembrance and lesson, and is therefore a kind of necessary public pedagogy.The project's exigency emerges from the growing interest in merging visual rhetoric and visual culture studies in both rhetoric and composition and technical communication studies-as well as a dearth of inquiry into communist rhetorics, much less visual communist rhetorics, almost three decades after the dissolution of the communist states in Eastern Europe. It is a redirecting of the collective gaze to less investigated areas in order to recuperate lessons that can still be relevant to the present. Pedagogically, this methodology helps rhetoric and composition scholars contextualize past and present, foreign and domestic political matters, in relation to the so-called "Second World" of the post/communist regimes. Finally, this dissertation proposes a more robust presence of post/communist pedagogy in the U.S. higher education at the same time as it also aims at contributing to shaping public rhetorics in general.
Author: Cătălina Florina Florescu Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1003855806 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 149
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In this collection, the author focuses on several contemporary Romanian female playwrights with residencies in Europe and the U.S.: Alexandra Badea, Carmen Francesca Banciu, Alexa Băcanu, Ana Sorina Corneanu, Mihaela Drăgan, Dr. Cătălina Florina Florescu, Dr. Mihaela Michailov, Dr. Domnica Rădulescu, Saviana Stănescu, and Dr. Elise Wilk. In their bold works, written by female playwrights who are academics, activists, and performers, we are invited to discover variations in the modus operandi of the dramatic language itself from metaphorical to matter-of-fact approaches. Furthermore, while all these playwrights speak Romanian, they also think and operate in various other languages, such as Romani, German, French, Italian, and American English. This book facilitates scholars and students to discover contemporary issues related to Romanian society as presented heavily from a feminine angle and to reveal intersectional issues as seen and applied to dramatic characters in a post-communist country from some authors who experienced communism firsthand. The book is also an invitation to reinvent how we teach dramatic literature by offering 20 interactive, exploratory activities.
Author: Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004411135 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 333
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Thirteen original essays explore the qualities and challenges of urban life (in Europe, Asia, and the Americas) from a variety of disciplinary perspectives that illustrate the aesthetic, cultural, and political roles of bodies in the city streets.
Author: Adrian Bojenoiu Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag ISBN: 377574651X Category : Art Languages : de Pages : 107
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Gegenwartskunst ist mehr als schlichte Zeitgenossenschaft. Es ist eine neue Weise des Sehens und des Sichtbarmachens. Diesem Gedanken ist der radikale Wandel verpflichtet, mit dem die rumänische Kunst sich im vergangenen Jahrzehnt neu erfunden hat. Zu verdanken ist dies nicht nur etablierten Künstlern, die sich neue Ausdrucksmittel erschließen. Antrieb ist vor allem eine junge Generation rumänischer Künstler, die nicht mehr die direkte Erfahrung des Lebens und Arbeitens im Kommunismus gemacht hat. Ihre Werke artikulieren ein aktuelles Lebensgefühl samt seiner eigenen Wahrnehmung und Diskurse. Ein Hauptthema ihrer künstlerischen Produktion ist die Macht technisch vermittelter Bilder zur Kontrolle und Konstruktion von Realität und sozialer Erfahrung. Der prächtige Bildband nimmt diesen Schwerpunkt auf, um 29 der innovativsten Künstler und ihre eindringlichen wie faszinierenden Werke vorzustellen.
Author: Gail Kligman Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520919858 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 376
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The political hypocrisy and personal horrors of one of the most repressive anti-abortion regimes in history came to the world's attention soon after the fall of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. Photographs of orphans with vacant eyes, sad faces, and wasted bodies circled the globe, as did alarming maternal mortality statistics and heart-breaking details of a devastating infant AIDS epidemic. Gail Kligman's chilling ethnography—of the state and of the politics of reproduction—is the first in-depth examination of this extreme case of political intervention into the most intimate aspects of everyday life. Ceausescu's reproductive policies, among which the banning of abortion was central, affected the physical and emotional well-being not only of individual men, women, children, and families but also of society as a whole. Sexuality, intimacy, and fertility control were fraught with fear, which permeated daily life and took a heavy moral toll as lying and dissimulation transformed both individuals and the state. This powerful study is based on moving interviews with women and physicians as well as on documentary and archival material. In addition to discussing the social implications and human costs of restrictive reproductive legislation, Kligman explores the means by which reproductive issues become embedded in national and international agendas. She concludes with a review of the lessons the rest of the world can learn from Romania's tragic experience.
Author: Margaret Canovan Publisher: Polity ISBN: 0745628222 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 170
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Political myths surround the figure of the people and help to explain its influence; should the people itself be regarded as fictional? This original and accessible study sheds a fresh light on debates about popular sovereignty, and will be an important resource for students and scholars of political theory.
Author: Igor Cherstich Publisher: University of California Press ISBN: 0520343794 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 212
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A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. What can anthropological thinking contribute to the study of revolutions? The first book-length attempt to develop an anthropological approach to revolutions, Anthropologies of Revolution proposes that revolutions should be seen as concerted attempts to radically reconstitute the worlds people inhabit. Viewing revolutions as all-embracing, world-creating projects, the authors ask readers to move beyond the idea of revolutions as acts of violent political rupture, and instead view them as processes of societal transformation that penetrate deeply into the fabric of people’s lives, unfolding and refolding the coordinates of human existence.
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