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Motion pictures are made, not mass produced, requiring a remarkable collection of skills, self-discipline, and sociality—all of which are sources of enormous pride among Hollywood’s craft and creative workers. The interviews collected here showcase the pleasures that attract people to careers in film and television. They also reflect critically on changes in the workplace brought about by corporate conglomeration and globalization. Rather than offer publicity-friendly anecdotes by marquee celebrities, Voices of Labor presents off-screen observations about the everyday realities of Global Hollywood. Ranging across job categories—from showrunner to make-up artist to location manager—this collection features voices of labor from Los Angeles, Atlanta, Prague, and Vancouver. Together they show how abstract concepts like conglomeration, financialization, and globalization are crucial tools for understanding contemporary Hollywood and for reflecting more generally on changes and challenges in the screen media workplace and our culture at large.

YouTube features a wide array of multimodal musical figurations, including fan-made music videos, musical aestheticisations of pre-circulating content, and musical self-performances. Jonas Wolf explores open-ended forms of musical creative relay on YouTube, delving into formal, imitative, affective, and (non-)institutional aspects of networked media remix and (self-)aestheticisation. Beyond creating value for non-musical fields of discourse, this study is directed at filling a gap in a largely ocularcentric domain of study. It provides a concise theory of vernacular composition within our time's total digital archive that accounts for socio-aesthetic phenomena and their relation to systems of knowledge, control, and discourse.

Neben der Zeitschrift Wiener Slawistischer Almanach erscheinen seit 1980 auch 2-3 Mal jährlich Sonderbände (seither 94 Ausgaben) mit literaturwissenschaftlichem oder linguistischem Schwerpunkt. Die literarische Reihe umfasst Monographien oder Tagungsbeiträge aus allen Bereichen der aktuellen slavischen Literaturwissenschaft und weit darüber hinaus (Medientheorie, Kulturwissenschaft, Literaturkritik). Die Beiträge oder Monographien erscheinen in der Regel in deutscher, russischer oder endlischer Sprache. Publikationsvorschläge an [email protected]

Hiphop ist die weltweit bedeutendste Jugendkultur. In Deutschland hat sich der Gangsta-Rap seit der Jahrtausendwende zum kommerziell erfolgreichsten Subgenre der Sparte entwickelt. Seit einigen Jahren sorgen aber nicht nur gewaltaffirmative, misogyne, homo- und transfeindliche Botschaften des deutschen Gangsta-Rap für öffentliche Skandale, sondern vor allem dessen antisemitischen Inhalte. Jakob Baier beleuchtet, auf welche Weise diese Ideologeme auf historische und kulturelle Wurzeln im US-amerikanischen Rap zurückgehen und sich mit der Zeit auch im deutschsprachigen Gangsta-Rap etabliert haben. Wie seine Untersuchung an einer Vielzahl von Beispielen unterschiedlicher Vertreter des deutschen Gangsta-Rap und ihrer Produkte zeigt, werden antisemitische Weltdeutungen in die genrespezifischen autoritären Gesellschaftsvorstellungen, hypermaskulinen Geschlechterbilder und heroischen Machtfantasien integriert. Durch die Analyse ausgewählter Fallbeispiele legt die Studie eine grundlegende Struktur der antisemitischen Welterklärungsideologie im deutschen Gangsta-Rap offen und findet Antworten auf die Frage, warum der Antisemitismus in diesem Teil der Populärkultur der Gegenwart besonders unverhüllt zutage tritt. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode

De- und postkoloniale ästhetische Praktiken haben als Interventionen das Kunstfeld nachhaltig verändert und einen wichtigen Beitrag zu postkolonialer Kritik und dekolonialer Theorie-Praxis geleistet. Sie haben Gegen-Narrative und Methoden der Erinnerung entworfen und für die Sicht- und Lesbarkeit hegemonialer Strukturen sensibilisiert. Dennoch ist angesichts der fortgesetzten epistemischen Gewalt die Dekolonisierung der Künste ein unabgeschlossener und umkämpfter Prozess. Die Beiträger*innen des Bandes fokussieren gegenwärtige künstlerische, ästhetische und epistemische Praktiken des Lernens und Verlernens und fragen nach den Konsequenzen dieser Wissenspraktiken für die Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften, für die Institutionen der Kunst und für die Frage der Vermittlung von Kunst.

“This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. This book examines the trajectory and development of the Japanese religious movement Agonshu and its charismatic founder Kiriyama Seiyu. Based on field research spanning 30 years, it examines Agonshu from when it first captured attention in the 1980s with its spectacular rituals and use of media technologies, through its period of stagnation to its response to the death of its founder in 2016. The authors discuss the significance of charismatic leadership, the 'democratisation' of practice and the demands made by movements such as Agonshu on members, while examining how the movement became increasingly focused on revisionist nationalism and issues of Japanese identity. In examining the dilemma that religions commonly face on the deaths of charismatic founders, Erica Baffelli and Ian Reader look at Agonshu’s response to Kiriyama's death, looking at how and why it has transformed a human founder into a figure of worship. By examining Agonshu in the wider context, the authors critically examine the concept of ‘new religions’. They draw attention to the importance of understanding the trajectories of 'new' religions and how they can become ‘old’ even within their first generation.

The Vocabulario de Términos de Arte (Vocabulary of Art Terms) is the most important lexicographic work about art history published in Spain in the 19th century. Following his intention to spread knowledge about the lexis of art, José Ramón Mélida published this work after translating and adapting for the Spanish audience Jules Adeline’s Lexique des terms d’art (Lexicon of art terms). This chapter employs descriptive-contrastive methodologies to analyse Mélida’s translation strategies, his interventions on the source text as well as neologisms.

This open access book analyses the international data of the European Values Study (EVS 1990 - 2017), with a focus on the impact of religious on political values from empirical as well as theoretical perspectives, i.e. sociology, political and cultural studies, philosophy, ethics, theology and the law. It interprets results from interdisciplinary perspectives, including the viewpoints of social ethics, sociology and cultural studies, law and practical theology. In the political and public as well as media debates of the European Union, the recourse to (above all "European" and also "Christian") values has played a central and controversial role in the field of politics and religion for several decades. This collection is a contribution to a qualified discourse on values in Europe by providing empirical, hermeneutical and ethical criteria for a responsible use of the concept of values. In addition to a comparison of political value systems in Western and Eastern Europe and the possible role of religion in this context, the book also deals with topics such as, f.i., solidarity, economics and values, value formation, and law and values. Additionally, specific population groups such as the socio-culturally marginalized strata are examined more closely. Besides current scientific analyses and interpretations of interest to researchers from various disciplines, this book also offers valuable impulses and suggestions for various multipliers in political, civil society and religious organisations, as well as a sound overview for graduate students.

The volume gathers the papers presented at the conference “Il Milione nel tempo tra Asia ed Europa. Marco Polo nelle letterature medievali e contemporanee”, held in Siena on 7–8 November 2024 and co-organized by Francesco Stella (UNISI), Anna di Toro (UNISTRASI), and Paola Mocella (UNISI), in collaboration with the Sala Confucio and the Centro CeSK of UNISTRASI. It also includes the contributions from the seminar “700 anni di Marco Polo. Le novità della ricerca internazionale”, organized by Francesco Stella on 11 December 2024 at the Accademia La Colombaria in Florence. Structured into three sections—medieval, sinological, and contemporary—the volume advances scholarship on Marco Polo and the Milione , delineating new paths of research and interpretation that emerge from dialogue among experts across diverse fields.

L’Osservatorio 2023 conferma la crescita delle imprese in rete e delle reti, sottolinea una maggior concentrazione territoriale delle reti e la crescente diffusione di aggregazioni tra imprese dello stesso settore, la crescita di reti ‘piccole’ o micro, conferma il ruolo del settore agroalimentare ed evidenzia la crescita delle reti nell’edilizia e nel commercio. Queste reti nascono prevalentemente per aumentare il potere contrattuale, per condividere spese e per partecipare a bandi e appalti e le loro performance sono positivamente correlate alla complementarità delle risorse. Quando però si parla di resilienza e innovazione, l’apertura della rete ad imprese di settori diversi sembra essere un plus. Infine, lo studio enfatizza l’importanza di utilizzare di più e meglio gli strumenti giuslavoristici e fiscali a disposizione delle reti.

This work deals with intertextual theories and investigates narrative texts (by Wieland, Novalis, Chamisso, Storm, Andersen and Thomas Mann) from the Enlightenment of the 18th century to Classical Modernism of the early 20th century. In addition to the fairytale requisites, the less obvious fairytale-like text structures, which show a connection between different literary genres (novella/novel and fairytale) and a confrontation between the fairytale-like and the fictitious-realistic, will also be examined. The relationship between the writing process of fairytale adaptation and literary modernity - a literary modernity that reflects a social modernity characterized by its social ambivalence and plurality (modernity as a macro epoch after Anke Lohmeier and Dirk von Petersdorff) - will be shown. The six narrative texts - Die Abentheuer des Don Sylvio von Rosalva, Die Lehrlinge zu Sais, Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte, Der Schimmelreiter, Peer im Glück (as an excursion and outlook into contemporary European literature) and Königliche Hoheit - with their diversity of layers of meaning are regarded as modern narrative texts and represent various milestones in the development of the concept of modernity.

Bedarfs-, bedürfnisgerechte und nachhaltige soziotechnische Transformationen im Sozial- und Gesundheitswesen basieren auf der Gestaltung neuer Mensch-Technik-Verbindungen. Sie gehen mit der Aushandlung einer Perspektivenpluralität einher, in der Normen und Werte kritisch reflektiert und Diversitäten mitgedacht werden. Soziotechnische Transformationen werden durch neue regionale und sozialräumliche Netzwerke angestoßen. Sie erfordern die Beteiligung aller relevanten Zielgruppen, um die vielfältigen Herausforderungen im Sozial- und Gesundheitswesen zu adressieren.

Roman Frontier Archaeology – in Britain and beyond gathers contributions by some 30 leading archaeologists and historians in honour of Paul Bidwell. In a wide-ranging career Paul has been one of the leading excavators and pottery specialists of his generation, admired for his ground-breaking work both in the south-west and the military north of Roman Britain.Contributions reflect the wide range of Paul Bidwell’s interests. Studies of samian pottery use, coins, carved stone pinecones, multi-piece bone dice and agricultural strategies shed light on the economy and everyday life of a Roman frontier province. For the civil southern part of the province there are studies of place-names and various aspects of the public baths of the Roman cities, as well as the impact of changing sea-levels on coastal topography. A number of contributions focus on the problems of the military north and Hadrian’s Wall, including studies of the nineteenth century antiquarian pioneers and assessments of the purpose of the Wall, the possibility of destructive attacks by an enemy, the way in which Roman forts were designed, and the use of Iron Age tradition military gear by the Roman army. The papers also take us beyond Britannia to consider developments on and beyond Rome’s Eastern, Danube and North African frontiers.<br><br>The collection will be essential reading for anyone with an interest in either the civil or military aspects of Roman Britain, or the frontiers of the Roman empire.Paul Bidwell (1949-2022)Tragically Paul Bidwell died after a short illness in November 2022 soon after being presented with this book by his friends and colleagues. What was conceived as a gesture to honour Paul has become, in effect, a monument to one of the most respected Roman archaeologists of his generation, and a testament to the wide range of his archaeological interests and achievements.

Wie war Musikwissenschaft in der DDR als Beruf, Institution und Forschungsfeld organisiert? Dieser Band untersucht erstmals systematisch die institutionellen und thematischen Strukturen der Musikforschung der DDR. Im Zentrum steht nicht die Einzelbiografie, sondern die Funktionsweise eines wissenschaftlichen ‚Apparats‘, dessen Entwicklung im zeithistorischen Kontext der Deutschen Teilung entscheidend geprägt wurde. Die Studie verbindet quellenkritische Archivarbeit mit einer digital gestützten Inhaltsanalyse der Berichte über die musikwissenschaftlichen Arbeiten in der DDR . Sie versteht sich gleichermaßen als Beitrag zur interdisziplinär geöffneten Aufarbeitung der DDR-Vergangenheit und zur historischen Selbstreflexion des Fachs im Kontext der aktuellen DDR-Forschung.

The Aulic Council is one of the most outstanding European supreme courts of its time and one of the most important institutions of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation in the early modern period (16th-18th century). In close proximity to the emperor, it dealt with legal disputes and fiefdom, privilege matters and the requests of individuals for help, protection and mediation. The systematic and detailed listing of the records of the Aulic Council preserved in the Austrian State Archives in Vienna provides a comprehensive insight into the tasks of maintaining legal peace with which the Aulic Council had to deal. The records cover not only politically highly explosive conflicts over rule, denomination and territories between the powerful of the Empire; they also make visible everyday disputes over debts, inheritances and provisioning, which were brought before the emperor by nobles and commoners, clergy and laymen, women and men from the entire Empire. The record thus becomes a productive aid both for legal and constitutional history and for the entire intellectual and cultural history of the Old Empire and Europe.