Chris Marker: Interactive Screen and Memory

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristian Feigelson
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
General Public ◽  
Entire Body ◽  
History And Memory ◽  
Non Linear ◽  
Chris Marker ◽  
Unique Relationship ◽  
Looking Back

Chris Marker (1921–2012), the creator of more than eighty films, has become a source of fascination for an entire generation of documentary filmmakers, as well as for the general public. Video and digital technical advancements allowed Marker to further develop his inquiry into image objectivity, and to keep looking back on the history and memory of the twentieth century in a non-linear, reflexive and interactive manner. This chapter examines the continuities and breaks in Marker's uses of technology and his views on history, as well as the specific bond he created with his audience. This unique relationship, which characterises Marker's entire body of work, stems from his concern with interactivity: an idea that operates under different definitions and is manifested in diverse ways within his art. Above all, his main objective concerns the circulation of images that explore cinema's various visual frameworks and how they transcribe history in different ways.

EEN POPULAIRE ARISTOCRAAT

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-169
Author(s):  
Erica van Boven
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Interwar Period ◽  
General Public ◽  
Literary Culture ◽  
Reading Public ◽  
Cultural Hierarchy ◽  
Intellectual Elite

A POPULAR ARISTOCRAT. ARTHUR VAN SCHENDEL AND THE READING PUBLIC IN THE 1930S In Dutch literary culture of the first half of the twentieth century, intellectual elite and general public were not only separate, but even opposite categories. ‘Highbrow’ and ‘middlebrow’ held polarized positions in matters of cultural hierarchy and literary taste, which led to fierce debates. Strikingly, one author was able to bridge this gap: Arthur van Schendel (1874-1946) appealed both ends of the spectrum and thus had an exceptional, connecting role in the cultural divides of the interwar period. This article analyses the responses to Van Schendels so-called ‘Dutch novels’ in order to find out what made Arthur van Schendel highly valued by leading professionals as well as loved by the reading audience.

Looking back at twentieth-century revolutions

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert P. Hager
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Looking Back

The Qing Empire's Last Flowering: The expansion of China's Post Office at the turn of the twentieth century

2015 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 895-930
Author(s):  
WEIPIN TSAI
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
General Public ◽  
Chinese History ◽  
Postal Service ◽  
Post Office ◽  
Railway Network ◽  
Opium War ◽  
Great Rivers ◽  
History Of ◽  
Set Up

AbstractThe Great Qing Imperial Post Office was set up in 1896, soon after the First Sino-Japanese War. It provided the first national postal service for the general public in the whole of Chinese history, and was a symbol of China's increasing engagement with the rest of the globe. Much of the preparation for the launch was carried out by the high-ranking foreign staff of the Chinese Maritime Customs Service, an influential institution established after the first Opium War.With a mission to promote modernization and project Qing power, the Imperial Post Office was established with a centrally controlled set of unified methods and procedures, and its success was rooted in integration with the new railway network, a strategy at the heart of its ambitious plans for expansion. This article explores the history of this postal expansion through railways, the use of which allowed its creators to plan networks in an integrated way—from urban centres on the coasts and great rivers through to China's interior.

Looking Back at History of Madness

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynne Huffer
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
French Philosophy ◽  
History Of ◽  
Anglophone World ◽  
Looking Back

This essay offers an overview of History of Madness, including its place in Foucault's oeuvre, its publication and translation history. Huffer focuses especially on the significance of History of Madness as an under-read text whose philosophical and historical implications have not yet been adequately explored. She argues that a careful reading of History of Madness on its own terms offers resources for moving beyond some of the impasses that characterize not only twentieth-century French philosophy, but also many of the fields in the Anglophone world—especially feminist, queer, and critical race theory—that arose in the wake of a debate about madness.

Verschweizerung, or: Some Brief Remarks on Sovereignty, Transnationality, and “Sense-Security” in the Middle of Europe

2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 143-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Geyer
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
English Translation ◽  
State Power ◽  
European History ◽  
Central European ◽  
The World ◽  
Looking Back ◽  
Better Than

Even for readers of Central European History, it is easy to forget that there is more than one country in the middle of Europe and that there is more than one solution to the geopolitical problem associated with the perception of being in the “middle.” That problem is so overwhelmingly claimed by Germany and its interpreters, and it is so weighed down by reflections on the (ab)uses of state power, articulated in the long-running debate on the “primacy of foreign policy,” that it is somewhat jarring to encounter a book with the title In the Middle of Europe—André Holenstein's Mitten in Europa: Verflechtung und Abgrenzung in der Schweizer Geschichte—that is not at all concerned with Germany. It has Switzerland as its subject and Verschweizerung as its substance and subtext. I leave the term untranslated because it means nothing to most of the world and an English translation would surely not capture the partly facetious, partly scandalized, partly admiring undertones that the German conveys: “Die Welt wird entweder untergehen oder verschweizern,” in the words of Friedrich Dürenmatt. Even if not taken in jest, it still sounds better than: “Am deutschen Wesen soll die Welt genesen.” But if horror in the latter case makes sense when looking back at the twentieth century, why is there so much mockery in response to the former?

Jews and Queers: Symptoms of Modernity in Late-Twentieth-Century Vienna

2006 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 178-181
Author(s):  
Larry Wolff
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Nazi Regime ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Nazi Past ◽  
Late Twentieth Century ◽  
Looking Back

“We have all suffered,” remarked the Austrian chancellor Leopold Figl in 1946, looking back at Austria during the Nazi period (p. 34). This blanket affirmation of Austrian victimhood became the ideological basis of the postwar Austrian state and mandated an inability or refusal to recognize that some Austrians had suffered rather more than others, while some Austrians had actively contributed to the suffering of others by their participation in the Nazi regime. This Austrian victim myth was left largely intact for forty years until the controversy that erupted around the election to the presidency in 1986 of Kurt Waldheim, whose convenient suppression of his own Nazi past was emblematic of Austria's more general national amnesia.

Living with Disasters: Perspectives on the (Re-)Production of Knowledge

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah Swee ◽  
Zuzana Hrdličková
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
General Public ◽  
Loss Of Life ◽  
Production Of Knowledge ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Local Agencies ◽  
Consequent Increase

Although communities around the world have been experiencing destructive events leading to loss of life and material destruction for centuries, the past hundred years have been marked by an especially heightened global interest in disasters. This development can be attributed to the rising impact of disasters on communities throughout the twentieth century and the consequent increase in awareness among the general public. Today, international and local agencies, scientists, politicians, and other actors including nongovernmental organizations across the world are working toward untangling and tackling the various chains of causality surrounding disasters. Numerous research and practitioners’ initiatives are taking place to inform and improve preparedness and response mechanisms. Recently, it has been acknowledged that more needs to be learned about the social and cultural aspects of disasters in order for these efforts to be successful (IFRC 2014).

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