Scenes Of The Obscene
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Scenes Of The Obscene
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Author : Kassandra Nakas
language : en
Publisher: VDG Weimar - Verlag und Datenbank für Geisteswissenschaften
Release Date : 2014-05-27
Scenes Of The Obscene written by Kassandra Nakas and has been published by VDG Weimar - Verlag und Datenbank für Geisteswissenschaften this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-27 with Art categories.
Artists and the public alike have always been fascinated by obscene imagery. The Obscene, however, is difficult to define. One of the earliest interpretations is of Greek origin and argues that the word derives from "ob skene", indicating the space behind the stage or scene. "Off-scene" remains what should be hidden from public view, be it morally questionable, offensive, disgusting or unbearable to look at. This book presents a collection of essays that cast light on some "Scene of the Obscene" in art and visual culture from the Middle Ages to today, taking into consideration the malleable nature of socio-cultural assumptions and theoretical reflections on the topic.The contributions focus on historically distinct artistic acts and social sites where established cultural categories and legal norms are violated, with artists and publishers deliberately breaking moral taboos and offending the public taste. They discuss how society reacted to these transregressions and how obscenity and its conceptions shape the face of their respective time.
Actors Without Scenes
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Author : Kisuo Kyalo
language : en
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
Release Date : 2020-04-21
Actors Without Scenes written by Kisuo Kyalo and has been published by Dorrance Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-21 with Fiction categories.
Actors Without Scenes By: Dr. Kisuo Kyalo Actors Without Scenes reflects of contemporary issues seemingly virtual but perpetuated by secret societies manipulated to the contrary expectations. Amoso is a vibrant youth of the Kamba tribe, ever striving to remain flamboyant and maintain social integrity, despite his contorted struggle by unrealistic forces influencing his ultimate downfall. The tale reveals veined ideals obtained through experience and speculation that leads to moral fabric disintegration due to mysteries activities by the visible actors without scenes . The revelation of secrecy and manipulation by visibly symbolic may necessitate emancipation of the cocoon of ignorance coupled with prejudiced and bigotry of the author and readers, especially in prefabricating and actualizing dynamic and cultural dictates. The malpractices are encoded in the in the symbolic language that aggravates the misunderstanding of events, yet vivid to the agents of secret societies whose activities permeates socio-cultural and religious beliefs. Dr. Kisou Kyalo’s conceptualization clearly voices “hidden-in-plain-surface” information that may result in societal reformation.
Obscene Indecent Immoral Offensive
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Author : Stephen Tropiano
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2009-01-01
Obscene Indecent Immoral Offensive written by Stephen Tropiano and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-01 with Performing Arts categories.
This entertaining and insightful book is the first devoted exclusively to the films that have earned a special place in motion picture history by pushing the “cinematic envelope” with their treatment of provocative subjects and themes. Obscene, Indecent, Immoral & Offensive: 100+ Years of Controversial Cinema chronicles the history of Hollywood censorship and the films that were banned, censored, and condemned by the Production Code Administration and the Legion of Decency. Stephen Tropiano offers readers insightful and accessible analysis of films that were branded “controversial” at the time of their release due to explicit language, nudity, graphic sex, violence, and their treatment of “adult” subject matter and themes. The films profiled include The Birth of a Nation, Anatomy of a Murder, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Baby Doll, Blackboard Jungle, Bonnie and Clyde, The Wild Bunch, A Clockwork Orange, Natural Born Killers, Caligula, Rosemary's Baby, Life of Brian, The Last Temptation of Christ, and The Passion of the Christ.
A Matter Of Obscenity
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Author : Christopher Hilliard
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2023-09-26
A Matter Of Obscenity written by Christopher Hilliard and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-26 with History categories.
A comprehensive history of censorship in modern Britain For Victorian lawmakers and judges, the question of whether a book should be allowed to circulate freely depended on whether it was sold to readers whose mental and moral capacities were in doubt, by which they meant the increasingly literate and enfranchised working classes. The law stayed this way even as society evolved. In 1960, in the obscenity trial over D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover, the prosecutor asked the jury, "Is it a book that you would even wish your wife or your servants to read?" Christopher Hilliard traces the history of British censorship from the Victorians to Margaret Thatcher, exposing the tensions between obscenity law and a changing British society. Hilliard goes behind the scenes of major obscenity trials and uncovers the routines of everyday censorship, shedding new light on the British reception of literary modernism and popular entertainments such as the cinema and American-style pulp fiction and comic books. He reveals the thinking of lawyers and the police, authors and publishers, and politicians and ordinary citizens as they wrestled with questions of freedom and morality. He describes how supporters and opponents of censorship alike tried to remake the law as they reckoned with changes in sexuality and culture that began in the 1960s. Based on extensive archival research, this incisive and multifaceted book reveals how the issue of censorship challenged British society to confront issues ranging from mass literacy and democratization to feminism, gay rights, and multiculturalism.
Obscene Pedagogies
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Author : Carissa M. Harris
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2018-12-15
Obscene Pedagogies written by Carissa M. Harris and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
As anyone who has read Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales knows, Middle English literature is rife with sexually explicit language and situations. Less canonical works can be even more brazen in describing illicit acts of sexual activity and sexual violence. Such scenes and language were not, however, included exclusively for titillation. In Obscene Pedagogies, Carissa M. Harris argues instead for obscenity’s usefulness in sexual education. She investigates the relationship between obscenity, gender, and pedagogy in Middle English and Middle Scots literary texts from 1300 to 1580 to show how sexually explicit and defiantly vulgar speech taught readers and listeners about sexual behavior and consent. Through innovative close readings of literary texts including erotic lyrics, single-woman’s songs, debate poems between men and women, Scottish insult poetry battles, and The Canterbury Tales, Harris demonstrates how through its transgressive charge and galvanizing shock value, obscenity taught audiences about gender, sex, pleasure, and power in ways both positive and harmful. She focuses in particular on understudied female-voiced lyrics and gendered debate poems, many of which have their origin in oral culture, and includes teaching-ready editions of fourteen largely unknown anonymous lyrics in women’s voices. Harris’s own voice, proudly witty and sharply polemical, inspires the reader to address these medieval texts with an eye on contemporary issues of gender, violence, and misogyny.
Art And Obscenity
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Author : Kerstin Mey
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2006-11-22
Art And Obscenity written by Kerstin Mey and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-11-22 with Art categories.
Explicit material is more widely available in the internet age than ever before, yet the concept of 'obscenity' remains as difficult to pin down as it is to approach without bias: notions of what is 'obscene' shift with societies' shifting mores, and our responses to explicit or disturbing material can be highly subjective. In this intelligent and sensitive book, Kerstin Mey grapples with the work of twentieth-century artists practising at the edges of acceptability, from Hans Bellmer through to Nobuyoshi Araki, from Robert Mapplethorpe to Annie Sprinkle, and from Hermann Nitsch to Paul McCarthy. Mey refuses sweeping statements and 'knee-jerk' responses, arguing with dexterity that some works, regardless of their 'high art' context, remain deeply problematic, whilst others are both groundbreaking and liberating.
The Svetlana Boym Reader
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Author : Svetlana Boym
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2018-04-19
The Svetlana Boym Reader written by Svetlana Boym and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-19 with Art categories.
Svetlana Boym was a prolific writer, a charismatic professor, a novelist, and a public intellectual. She was also a fiercely resourceful and reflective immigrant; her most resonant book, The Future of Nostalgia, was deeply rooted in that experience. Even after The Future of Nostalgia carried her fame beyond academic circles, few readers were aware of all of her creative personas. She was simply too prolific, and her work migrated across most people's disciplinary boundaries-from literary and cultural studies through film, visual, and material culture studies, performance, intermedia, and new media. The Svetlana Boym Reader presents a comprehensive view of Boym's singularly creative work in all its aspects. It includes Boym's classic essays, carefully chosen excerpts from her five books, and journalistic gems. Showcasing her roles both as curator and curated, the reader includes interviews and excerpts from exhibition catalogues as well as samples of intermedial works like Hydrant Immigrants. It also features autobiographical pieces that shed light on the genealogy of her scholarly work and rarities like an excerpt from Boym's first graduate school essay on Russian literature, complete with marginalia by her mentor Donald Fanger. Last but not least, the reader includes late pieces that Boym did not live to see through publication, as well as transcripts of her memorable last lectures and performances.
Obscene Gestures
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Author : Patrick Lawrence
language : en
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Release Date : 2022-06-07
Obscene Gestures written by Patrick Lawrence and has been published by Fordham University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-07 with Literary Criticism categories.
Drawing on sources as diverse as Supreme Court decisions, nightclub comedy, congressional records, and cultural theory, Obscene Gestures explores the many contradictory vectors of twentieth-century moralist controversies surrounding literary and artistic works from Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer to those of Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Kathy Acker, Robert Mapplethorpe, 2 Live Crew, Tony Kushner, and others. Patrick S. Lawrence dives into notorious obscenity debates to reconsider the divergent afterlives of artworks that were challenged or banned over their taboo sexual content to reveal how these controversies affected their critical reception and commercial success in ways that were often determined at least in part by racial, gender, or sexual stereotypes and pernicious ethnographic reading practices. Starting with early postwar touchstone cases and continuing through the civil rights, feminist, and LGBTQ+ movements, Lawrence demonstrates on one level that breaking sexual taboos in literary and cultural works often comes with cultural cachet and increased sales. At the same time, these benefits are distributed unequally, leading to the persistence of exclusive hierarchies and inequalities. Obscene Gestures takes its bearings from recent studies of the role of obscenity in literary history and canon formation during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, extending their insights into the postwar period when broad legal latitude for obscenity was established but when charges of obscenity still carried immense symbolic and political weight. Moreover, the rise of social justice movements around this time provides necessary context for understanding the application of legal precedents, changes in the publishing industry, and the diversification of the canon of American letters. Obscene Gestures, therefore, advances the study of obscenity to include recent developments in the understanding of race, gender, and sexuality while refining our understanding of late-twentieth-century American literature and political culture.
The Origins Of The Ban On Obscene Indecent Or Profane Language Of The Radio Act Of 1927
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Author : Milagros Rivera-Sánchez
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
The Origins Of The Ban On Obscene Indecent Or Profane Language Of The Radio Act Of 1927 written by Milagros Rivera-Sánchez and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Censorship categories.
How American legislators came to outlaw certain kinds of offensive speech in broadcasting, and the legacy of their laws today.
The Novel And The Obscene
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Author : Florence Dore
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2005
The Novel And The Obscene written by Florence Dore and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Novel and the Obscene challenges our vision of early twentieth-century America as sexually progressive by identifying a resonant silence at the heart of the modernist American novel—a narrative mode that renders censorship symbolic at the very moment of its legal demise.
