scholarly journals Adaptation as revision: Transforming makeover narratives from canonical literature to contemporary Hollywood teen film

TEXT ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paige Tucker
Keyword(s):  
Canonical Literature ◽  
Teen Film

Book Review: Teen Film: A Critical Introduction

2013 ◽  
Vol 147 (1) ◽  
pp. 161-162
Author(s):  
Catherine Strong
Keyword(s):  
Teen Film

scholarly journals My Most Prized Possession, an American Obsession. Virginity and the Sexual Politics of the American Teen Film.

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 124-142
Author(s):  
Björn Sonnenberg-Schrank
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Sexual Politics ◽  
Sexual Identities ◽  
American Popular Culture ◽  
Jean Paul ◽  
Teen Films ◽  
Teen Film

American "teen films" and TV series can be regarded as mass consumerculture's version of literature's "bildungsroman". Their main trope isthe adolescent individual's search for identity and independence,narrated via the personal and social initiation associated with acoming-of-age experience, often ignited and/or epitomized by a sexualinitiation, most commonly in the form of virginity loss. Thus, manyteen films are negotiations of purity, chastity, and virginity—withquite mixed messages.With recourses to Jean Paul Sartre, Barrington Moore Jr., MichelFoucault, Sigmund Freud, Laura M. Carpenter and others, this paperaddresses how the transitional in-between state of adolescence isevaluated in American (popular) culture, the sexual politics of manyof these narratives, and their agency in reflecting as well as shapingadolescent sexual identities.

Methodological pluralism through the lens of the buddhist doctrine of time kālacakra: an interview with dr. Jensine Andresen

2021 ◽  
Vol - (2) ◽  
pp. 165-183
Author(s):  
Olena Kalantarova
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
The United States ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Western Science ◽  
Methodological Pluralism ◽  
Effective Solution ◽  
Tibetan Buddhist ◽  
Buddhist Doctrine ◽  
Canonical Literature

Modern dialogue between Western science and Buddhism raises an enormous range of cognitive issues that require interdisciplinary research. The idea of methodological pluralism (MP) arises here as an effective solution for such projects. Having immersed in the study of the background of its opponent, Western science touched the fairly old and specific way of reality cognition, which in certain aspects actually can be identified as a Tibetan-Buddhist version of the MP. In an interview with the professor from the United States, who for many decades has been engaged in research on the boundaries of various science disciplines, ethics, and religious studies, we tried to clarify the specifics of this so-called version of MP, which is set out in the Buddhist doctrine of time, K lacakra. Texts of this doctrine are included in the corpus of Buddhist canonical literature and form the basis for two classical Buddhist sciences: the science of stars (which is actually “social astronomy”); and the science of healing (which looks like a certain version of “psycho-medicine”). During the interview, we went directly to the possibility of using the Buddhist version of MP at least within the dialogue “Buddhism-Science”, to the need to understand the specifics of such an implementation, and to the mandatory combination of MP with an integrated approach. The interview was intended to raise the question that deals with transgressing the abovementioned dialogue from the “consumer” level (when we are looking for something that could be useful to the Western neuro-cognitivist) to the philosophical one, in order to formulate a criterion for recognizing a different way of thinking, and finally, to move on toward the semantic discussion, without which the integration phase of any kind of MP is impossible.

scholarly journals ‘I Wasn’t Born with Enough Middle Fingers’: How low-budget horror films defy sexual m orality and heteronormativity in Bollywood

2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 75-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aditi Sen
Keyword(s):  
Small Towns ◽  
Basic Function ◽  
Horror Films ◽  
Male Sexuality ◽  
Moral Order ◽  
Sexual Morality ◽  
Rural Market ◽  
Actual Content ◽  
Canonical Literature ◽  
The Relationship

Queen’s UniversityIn the early 1980s the Ramsay Brothers gave Bollywood a new genre of monster flicks with blockbusters like Purana Mandir, Hotel, and Veerana. Following the work of the Ramsay Brothers, low-budget horror films that were made exclusively for the small towns and rural market increased in the decades of 1980s and 1990s. These films are primarily known for their unintentional humor owing to poor production and acting, but they have never been acknowledged for their actual content. This article argues that Bollywood low-budget films fulfilled the basic function of horror movies—that is, they subverted mainstream moral order and sexual morality. These films opened up space for dialogues that the mainstream cinema had totally neglected; particularly, in the areas of incest, female lust, ‘othering’ of male sexuality, and transgendered identities. On a different register, the relationship between low-budget horror films and mainstream Bollywood can be compared to folklore and canonical literature, where folklore repeatedly resists the conformities endorsed by the mainstream prescriptive texts.

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