scholarly journals “Researching Starsky and Hutch is exquisite torture”

2021 ◽  
pp. 213-219
Author(s):  
E. Charlotte Stevens
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Television Viewing ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Domestic Market ◽  
Television History ◽  
Work In Progress ◽  
Primary Source Documents

This paper reflects on work-in-progress on archived media fans’ letterzines of the 1970s and 1980s. Growing out of the science fiction APA fanzine scene, letterzines collect letters of comment (LOCs) between female fans and capture conversations about their television viewing. Zines from this period go beyond science fiction and include fandoms for cop shows such as Starsky & Hutch (ABC, 1975–1979) and Simon & Simon (CBS, 1981–1989). Letterzines, which have not typically been used as a source for exploring women’s television history, contain a range of information of interest to historians: interpretations of character and narrative, reports on fan conventions and meet-ups, and discussions of how women related to contemporary television at a time when VCRs started to saturate the domestic market. These primary source documents can potentially nuance assumptions about what women watched, their views on the programmes, and the contexts in which they watched.

Sofonisba Anguissola, a Painter and a Lady-in-Waiting

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cecilia Gamberini
Keyword(s):  
Primary Source ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Climate ◽  
Sofonisba Anguissola ◽  
Primary Source Documents

Relying on primary source documents, Cecilia Gamberini outlines the reality of Sofonisba Anguissola’s experiences in the Household of Queen Isabel of Valois following the artist’s appointment to the Spanish court in 1559. Anguissola’s position is generally credited to her two roles there: painter and lady-in-waiting. The author argues that while Anguissola’s appointment was due in part to her remarkable painted self-representations, it was also facilitated by a largely overlooked network of familial contacts and the political climate of the time. Analyses of Anguissola’s behaviour in the Queen’s Household also offers a glimpse into the young woman’s personality, which was at times irreverent and rebellious, and the opportunity for new attributions.

From the Co-Editors

2016 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-18
Author(s):  
Rich Robbins ◽  
Leigh Shaffer ◽  
Shannon Lynn Burton
Keyword(s):  
Academic Advising ◽  
Growth And Development ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Global Community ◽  
Conference Presentations ◽  
History Of ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Primary Source Documents

With the addition of history to the title of the Theory, Philosophy, and History of Advising Commission of NACADA: The Global Community for Academic Advising, the time has come to reflect on this growing commission as a means to track and record the growth and development of the theoretical debates and questions regarding the field of academic advising. Therefore, I present the rise of the Theory, Philosophy, and History Commission through the lens of two founding members: Marc Lowenstein and Peter Hagen. I also provide insight into the trajectory of dialogue reflected in conference presentations, publications, and primary source documents from NACADA and others.

scholarly journals Anabiosis and the Liminal Geographies of De/extinction

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 321-345
Author(s):  
Adam Searle
Keyword(s):  
Synthetic Biology ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
Genetic Material ◽  
Turn Of The Millennium ◽  
Suspended Animation ◽  
Work In Progress ◽  
Iberian Ibex ◽  
Dead State ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Woolly Mammoth

Abstract The spectacle of de-extinction is often forward facing at the interface of science fiction and speculative fact, haunted by extinction’s pasts. Missing from this discourse, however, is a robust theorization of de-extinction in the present. This article presents recent developments in the emergent fields of resurrection biology and liminality to conceptualize the anabiotic (not living nor dead) state of de/extinction. Through two stories, this article explores the epistemological perturbation caused by the suspended animation of genetic material. Contrasting the genomic stories of the bucardo, a now extinct subspecies of Iberian ibex whose genome was preserved before the turn of the millennium, and the woolly mammoth, whose genome is still a work in progress, the author poses questions concerning the existential authenticity of this genomic anabiosis. They serve as archetypal illustrations of salvaged and synthesized anabiotic creatures. De/extinction is presented as a liminal state of being, both living and dead, both fact and fiction, a realm that we have growing access to through the proliferation of synthetic biology and cryopreservation. The article concludes through a presentation of anabiotic geographies, postulating on the changing biocultural significances we attach to organisms both extinct and extant, and considering their implications for the contemporary extinction crisis.

Endings

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra E. Bonura
Keyword(s):  
Financial Support ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Professional Relationship ◽  
Primary Source Documents

This chapter shows the decline of Kawaiaha‘o Seminary, a representation of the old alliance between the monarchy and missionaries to promote the education of Hawai‘i’s daughters. The school could not survive without the queen’s personal and financial support in the days of the Provisional Government under Sanford Dole. The Hawaiians show their outrage at its impending closure in primary-source documents. Pope is slandered in the newspapers along with the queen, causing a temporary rift in their personal and professional relationship. Pope takes to the newspapers to support the queen.

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