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The Politics Of Magic
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Author : Fintan O'Toole
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
The Politics Of Magic written by Fintan O'Toole and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with categories.
The Politics Of Magic
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Author : Qinna Shen
language : en
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Release Date : 2015-06-15
The Politics Of Magic written by Qinna Shen and has been published by Wayne State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-15 with Social Science categories.
From Paul Verhoeven’s The Cold Heart in 1950 to Konrad Petzold’s The Story of the Goose Princess and Her Loyal Horse Falada in 1989, East Germany’s state-sponsored film company, DEFA (Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft), produced over forty feature-length, live-action fairy-tale films based on nineteenth-century folk and literary tales. While many of these films were popular successes and paved the way for the studio’s other films to enter the global market, DEFA’s fairy-tale corpus has not been studied in its entirety. In The Politics of Magic: DEFA Fairy-Tale Films, Qinna Shen fills this gap by analyzing the films on thematic and formal levels and examining their embedded agendas in relation to the cultural politics of the German Democratic Republic. In five chapters, Shen compares the films with earlier print versions of the same stories and analyzes revisions made in DEFA’s film adaptations. She also distinguishes the DEFA fairy-tale films from National Socialist, West German, and Disney adaptations of the same tales. Her archival work reconstitutes the cultural-historical context in which films were produced and received, and incorporates the films into the larger narrative of DEFA. For the first time, the banned DEFA fairy-tale comedy, The Robe (1961/1991), is discussed in depth. The book’s title The Politics of Magic is not intended to suggest that DEFA fairy-tale films were merely mouthpieces of official ideology and propaganda. On the contrary, Shen shows that the films run the gamut from politically dogmatic to implicitly subversive, from kitschy to experimental. She argues that the fairy-tale cloak permitted them to convey ideology in a subtle, indirect manner that allowed viewers to forget Cold War politics for a while and to delve into a world of magic where politics took on an allegorical form. The fact that some DEFA fairy-tale films developed an international audience (particularly The Story of Little Mook and Three Hazelnuts for Cinderella) not only attests to these films’ universal appeal but also to the surprising marketability of this branch of GDR cinema and its impact beyond the GDR’s own narrow temporal and geographic boundaries. Shen’s study will be significant reading for teachers and students of folklore studies and for scholars of German, Eastern European, cultural, film, media, and gender studies.
Tom Murphy
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Author : Fintan O'Toole
language : en
Publisher: Dufour Editions
Release Date : 1994
Tom Murphy written by Fintan O'Toole and has been published by Dufour Editions this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Poetry categories.
Critical study of the life and work of the acclaimed Irish playwright
Politics Of Magic
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Author : L.C. Mawson
language : en
Publisher: L.C. Mawson
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Politics Of Magic written by L.C. Mawson and has been published by L.C. Mawson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Young Adult Fiction categories.
One last fight to bring it all down... So, we're probably screwed. The Council have made it clear that they intend to take back the Amazons, no matter what. And I'm not sure we can stop them. But if we can - if we can claim just this one victory - the Council will have lost control of the Witches, and the rest of their little empire will fall. Every victory so far has come with a cost, the only question is, if we manage this, what will it take? POLITICS OF MAGIC is the sixth and final book in the Ember Academy for Young Witches YA Urban Fantasy Academy series. If you love kick-ass heroines, Sapphic slow-burn romances, and magical boarding schools, you’ll love this latest fast-paced series in L.C. Mawson’s Snowverse.
Political Magic
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Author : Brenda Blagg
language : en
Publisher: Butler Center for Arkansas Studies
Release Date : 2012
Political Magic written by Brenda Blagg and has been published by Butler Center for Arkansas Studies this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Political Magic is the story of how Bill Clinton's lifelong friends--the Arkansas Travelers--helped the governor of a small state become president of the United States. This engaging and amusing story tells how the Travelers personalized politics and made a difference in Bill Clinton's election and also went to work for Hillary Clinton in her 2008 bid for president.
Magic As An Element Of Political Debate In The Historiography Andimperial Biography Of The 1st 5th Centuries Ad
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Author : Justyna Migdał
language : en
Publisher: Studies in Classical Literature and Culture
Release Date : 2023-05-30
Magic As An Element Of Political Debate In The Historiography Andimperial Biography Of The 1st 5th Centuries Ad written by Justyna Migdał and has been published by Studies in Classical Literature and Culture this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-30 with categories.
The book explores the hitherto rarely discussed connection of magic with politics in the writings of Tacitus, Suetonius and Ammianus Marcellinus, offering insight into the way language of magic and ritual pollution is used as means of characterization and historiosophical commentary on the nature of power and political struggle. Religious deviation and innovation, theurgy, necromancy, black and erotic magic, the topoi of an emperor-magician, a semi-divine emperor-healer/saviour and a witch/poisoner, all play an important role in the analyzed texts. Magic is depicted as a way of abusing the official state religion; every such abuse disturbs pax deorum and brings misery on both the perpetrator and the whole state.
The Politics Of Magic
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Author : Fintan O'Toole
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
The Politics Of Magic written by Fintan O'Toole and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with categories.
Empire Of Magic
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Author : Geraldine Heng
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2003
Empire Of Magic written by Geraldine Heng and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Ballads, English categories.
Drawing upon feminist and gender theory, as well as cultural analyses of race, class and colonialism, this book revises our understanding of the literary genre of medieval romance. It argues that the romance genre arose in the 12th century as a cultural response to the trauma of war.
The Politics Of Evil
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Author : Clifton Crais
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2002-10-17
The Politics Of Evil written by Clifton Crais and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-10-17 with History categories.
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Empire Of Magic
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Author : Geraldine Heng
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2003-07-13
Empire Of Magic written by Geraldine Heng and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-07-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
Empire of Magic offers a genesis and genealogy for medieval romance and the King Arthur legend through the history of Europe's encounters with the East in crusades, travel, missionizing, and empire formation. It also produces definitions of "race" and "nation" for the medieval period and posits that the Middle Ages and medieval fantasies of race and religion have recently returned. Drawing on feminist and gender theory, as well as cultural analyses of race, class, and colonialism, this provocative book revises our understanding of the beginnings of the nine hundred-year-old cultural genre we call romance, as well as the King Arthur legend. Geraldine Heng argues that romance arose in the twelfth century as a cultural response to the trauma and horror of taboo acts—in particular the cannibalism committed by crusaders on the bodies of Muslim enemies in Syria during the First Crusade. From such encounters with the East, Heng suggests, sprang the fantastical episodes featuring King Arthur in Geoffrey of Monmouth's chronicle The History of the Kings of England, a work where history and fantasy collide and merge, each into the other, inventing crucial new examples and models for romances to come. After locating the rise of romance and Arthurian legend in the contact zones of East and West, Heng demonstrates the adaptability of romance and its key role in the genesis of an English national identity. Discussing Jews, women, children, and sexuality in works like the romance of Richard Lionheart, stories of the saintly Constance, Arthurian chivralic literature, the legend of Prester John, and travel narratives, Heng shows how fantasy enabled audiences to work through issues of communal identity, race, color, class and alternative sexualities in socially sanctioned and safe modes of cultural discussion in which pleasure, not anxiety, was paramount. Romance also engaged with the threat of modernity in the late medieval period, as economic, social, and technological transformations occurred and awareness grew of a vastly enlarged world beyond Europe, one encompassing India, China, and Africa. Finally, Heng posits, romance locates England and Europe within an empire of magic and knowledge that surveys the world and makes it intelligible—usable—for the future. Empire of Magic is expansive in scope, spanning the eleventh to the fifteenth centuries, and detailed in coverage, examining various types of romance—historical, national, popular, chivalric, family, and travel romances, among others—to see how cultural fantasy responds to changing crises, pressures, and demands in a number of different ways. Boldly controversial, theoretically sophisticated, and historically rooted, Empire of Magic is a dramatic restaging of the role romance played in the culture of a period and world in ways that suggest how cultural fantasy still functions for us today.