Fragile feeling

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 315-332
Author(s):  
Danai S. Mupotsa
Keyword(s):  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Tall Buildings ◽  
Visual Language ◽  
Temporal Relation ◽  
History Of ◽  
Chick Lit ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

Abstract Where analyses of the city as a landscape often visualize 'urban-ness' through images of tall buildings and concrete, this article thinks about how the genre of romance might turn our attention to other genres of city-as-landscape. I offer Johannesburg from this orientation through a reading of its history as a 'Secret Garden'. Most romance genres rely on a temporal closure of 'happily-ever-after', but here I am interested in other possible endings. This reading of romance I draw from David Scott's (2004) account of romance as a temporal relation to anticolonial struggle. The article examines Kagiso Lediga's 2018 film, Catching Feelings. The film is framed around the narrative of the 'cuckold', which I argue articulates the libidinal economy between the protagonist Max and his friend, Heiner. This libidinal economy is also presented through the landscape of the city. While more accurately defined as a film within the genre of 'bro' or 'lad lit', what Lediga's film does share with chick lit is the way that it borrows from the form of the fairy tale. Through this fairy tale, I locate emergent and continuous forms of masculinity in a history of Johannesburg's landscape through the visual language of the domesticated forest. Through the cuckold as a fairy tale, Lediga offers the city not simply as the place of the action, but as an object of desire, or of fantasy that makes his fragile protagonist 'strange'.

scholarly journals A full catalogue and analysis of a collection of postcards at the Art Gallery of Ontario depicting scenes of Toronto

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Piitz
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Literature Survey ◽  
Production Cycle ◽  
Art Gallery ◽  
History Of ◽  
Art Gallery Of Ontario ◽  
Commercial Photography ◽  
The City ◽  
Photographic Imagery ◽  
The Way

This applied thesis is focused on the full cataloguing and contextualizing of a collection of one hundred and sixteen postcards at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) depicting scenes of Toronto a the beginning of the twentieth century. Twenty-seven publishers representing international, national and regional manufacturers are identified with their imprint on the verso of the postcard. The applied thesis includes a literature survey discussing a rationale for the cataloguing of postcards, as well as a brief overview of the history of postcards and the history of the urbanization of the City of Toronto. A description and analysis of the AGO postcards provides information about the production cycle of postcards, the scope of commercial photography and the dissemination of photographic imagery in Toronto. The thesis also examines the way images were altered in the production cycle and the manner in which photographers and publishers exchanged photographs intended for postcard production.

scholarly journals A full catalogue and analysis of a collection of postcards at the Art Gallery of Ontario depicting scenes of Toronto

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Piitz
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Literature Survey ◽  
Production Cycle ◽  
Art Gallery ◽  
History Of ◽  
Art Gallery Of Ontario ◽  
Commercial Photography ◽  
The City ◽  
Photographic Imagery ◽  
The Way

This applied thesis is focused on the full cataloguing and contextualizing of a collection of one hundred and sixteen postcards at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) depicting scenes of Toronto a the beginning of the twentieth century. Twenty-seven publishers representing international, national and regional manufacturers are identified with their imprint on the verso of the postcard. The applied thesis includes a literature survey discussing a rationale for the cataloguing of postcards, as well as a brief overview of the history of postcards and the history of the urbanization of the City of Toronto. A description and analysis of the AGO postcards provides information about the production cycle of postcards, the scope of commercial photography and the dissemination of photographic imagery in Toronto. The thesis also examines the way images were altered in the production cycle and the manner in which photographers and publishers exchanged photographs intended for postcard production.

Efforts towards Establishing a New State-conceptualized History in Russia

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 132-145
Author(s):  
Gyula Szvák
Keyword(s):  
Social Climate ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Self Image ◽  
Deep Conviction ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media ◽  
Pluralistic Approach ◽  
First Time ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

It would be too early to try and summarize the way in which the issue of Russia’s “state historical and remembrance policy” has evolved or foresee its possible outcomes, as the standard uniform set of schoolbooks has not yet been approved. The media-voting competitions presented in this essay, however, clearly demonstrate the national social climate and its trends, which would have to be moulded into some form of an “all-Russian socium” by such a new approach to history. As contemporaries we might curiously await the next rounds of the “identity battle,” but as historians we must give voice to scepticism in regards to hopes of any form of quick success. Yet most of all, we have to stand by the deep conviction that only a pluralistic approach to history based on free research and the freedom to present freely conceived alternatives can help in the crystallization of a realistic national self-image. P.S.: For the first time in the history of Russia a statue has been erected for Ivan IV (the Terrible, the Fearsome) in the city of Oryol on 15 October 2016. The countdown has begun.

scholarly journals History of Dezful City

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-127
Author(s):  
Samira Bashiri
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
The People ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

In the present article, an attempt has been made to present a picture of the city of Dezful and to describe the details of the city and the way of life of the people using first-hand sources, and this description, geographical and historical conditions and type of economy And it encompasses the livelihood of the people and provides an overview of the city of Dezful.

scholarly journals Al-Tāsāmuḥ al-Islāmī fī al-Futūḥāt al-Islāmiyyah; Fatḥ Miṣr Namūdzaj

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 135
Author(s):  
Mukhamad Hadi Musolin Subagio ◽  
Rido Uwais Hasan Surur
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Method ◽  
History Of ◽  
Islamic Conquest ◽  
The City ◽  
Egyptian History ◽  
Muslim Scholars ◽  
The Way

The story of the Islamic conquest of Egypt is one of the most exciting episodes of Egyptian history. Not because of the events and battles that accompanied the conquest, but rather because of the enormous effects and developments that have resulted in the history of Egypt and its people in terms of religion, language, culture,  etc. As for the march of conquest, the conduct of armies, and the war against the soldiers, they were subjected to many statements by historians, and there were conflicting reports about the conquest of Egypt, and was this conquest reconciled with a covenant, or by force? The way Egypt was conquered went in a way that contrasts with its conquests in the City of Shams and others. Also, the march of opening Egypt was subjected to multiple suspicions and myths that have no basis, some were able to attach to the history of the Islamic conquests of Egypt, but Allah defended the conquests through the writings of Muslim and non-Muslim scholars. This paper comes to reveal aspects of greatness in Islamic tolerance with the Christians of Egypt, which was their main reason for converting to Islam.  This study used the historical, critical and analytical method to present facts and discuss ideas. Among the most important results: the proof of tolerance in theory and in reality concerning the conquest of Egypt, the conversion of Egyptians to Islam because of its grace and ease, and rejecting the myth of the march of the Islamic conquest of Egypt from the beginning to the end.

The Origins of Printing in Spanish in Antwerp

Quaerendo ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 317-338
Author(s):  
José Luis Gonzalo Sánchez-Molero
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Special Place ◽  
History Of ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

AbstractThe city of Antwerp occupies a special place in the history of relations between Spain and the Netherlands during the centuries of the modern period. Hispano-Netherlandish relations in the centuries of the modern period have been studied from many different points of view. On this occasion we propose to delve into the origins of the very important links created around books and to deal, in particular, with the beginnings of the production of books in Spanish in Antwerp. Our intention here, therefore, is not to make a new listing of the editions printed at that time but a quite different one: to analyse the way in which this interesting publishing phenomenon developed in its origins and within a very specific period of time: the years prior to Christophe Plantin’s great publishing success.

Book Reviews

Transfers ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 165-178
Keyword(s):  
Urban Culture ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Moving Pictures ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

Richard Vahrenkamp, The German Autobahn 1920-1945: Hafraba Visions and Mega Projects Peter MerrimanAlexandra Boutros and Will Straw, Circulation and the City: Essays on Urban Culture Fabian KrögerTed Conover, Routes of Man: How Roads Are Changing the World and the Way We Live Today Rudi VoltiPradeep Thakur, Tata Nano: The People's Car Thomas BirtchnellEmmanuela Scarpellini, Material Nation: A Consumer's History of Modern Italy Massimo MoraglioKuntala lahiri-Dutt and David J. Williams, Moving Pictures: Rickshaw Art of Bangladesh Tracy Nichols BuschPatrick Laviolette, Extreme Landscapes of Leisure: Not a Hap-Hazardous Sport Carroll Pursell

Quand observations et interprétations diffèrent : le cas de l'arc de triomphe de Tripoli dans les sources arabes

2017 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 149-157
Author(s):  
Anis Mkacher
Keyword(s):  
Local History ◽  
Urban Fabric ◽  
The Past ◽  
Arab Muslim ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

AbstractThe only building which has been preserved from the ancient urban fabric of Tripoli, Oea in antiquity, is the Triumphal Arch. By considering Arab sources, we may shed new light on its evolution, the place it had been in the past and the way it was considered during those times. If we compare two excerpts from Arab-Muslim historiography, written by local travellers, with Western testimonies, we see that the monument was reinterpreted in the light of the new culture which was established in the region and of the local history of the city.

Ladies, Gentlemen, Flirts, Mashers, Snoozers, and the Breaking of Etiquette's Code

Prospects ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 169-196
Author(s):  
Guy Szuberla
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Line Drawing ◽  
Eye Contact ◽  
City Life ◽  
Line Drawings ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

Some time after the Civil War, writers of American etiquette books marked the rise of the city by introducing new sections on “etiquette in the street” and “conduct in a crowd.” No one should look to their texts and the accompanying illustrations for a faithfully detailed and documented history of 19th-century city life. The stiff, cutout figures that walk through city streets in these old line drawings represent a particular fantasy of social order, focused in the figure and type of the lady and gentleman. “Walk slowly, do not turn your head … and,” The Ladies' Book of Etiquette (1876) warned, “avoid any gesture or word that would attract attention.” That advice is illustrated, with punctilious care, in Gentleman Meeting a Lady, a line drawing in John Young's 1882 guide, Our Deportment (Figure 1). The gentleman and the lady make no apparent eye contact; they, in strict observance of propriety, look off and away from each other. Again, in Alice Emma Ives's Social Mirror (1886), the ladies who illustrate the way to give a gentleman “formal street recognition” grant it with averted eyes and unturned heads. Ives quite properly avoids the word “meet” (Figure 2).

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