Introduction to Counterdiscourses and Counterpublics in Cinema, Art, Media and Literature Adrian TĂTĂRAN Abstract: This text is a brief introduction to the notions of counterpublic, public sphere and counterdicourses, as well as a short overview of the articles included in the current themed issue. Read MoreKeywords: counterpublic, counterdiscourse, public sphere, publics |
Discipline and Punish in the Humanities: A Philosophically Indisciplined Manifesto Doru POP Abstract: Advancing the notion of a methodless method, the author proposes an alternative to the quest for methods and methodologies, as an indisciplined perspective and approach, one that is impertinent, insolent and ironic. Using Paul Feyerabend’s prosed anarchistic method and overviewing the p... Read More Keywords: research methods, philosophy of science, anarchic method, indiscplinarity |
Martina MARTAUSOVÁ Abstract: The issue of disability and its representation in the media offers a useful example for studying the relationship between hegemonical discourses and marginal narratives. Disability has been used previously to identify the workings of a dominant ideology (Mitchell 17), but its role as an experience... Read More Keywords: American cinema, disability, Down syndrome, narrative prosthesis, masculinity |
Between the Angel of History and Revolution. Jazz on the Threshold Horea POENAR Abstract: This paper investigates the intersections between jazz and popular culture in the 1950s and 1960s. It explores the production of signs and the generation of effects that led to a transformation of the music, of society and of the understanding of history. We will look into how the deaths of severa... Read More Keywords: myth, invention, melancholia, on-the-threshold, jazz |
Cuteness as Counterculture in Anthropomorphic Japanese Animation Alice TEODORESCU Abstract: Big eyes, flying tanukis, talking teddy bears, angry red pandas, and the list carries on. Anthropomorphic characters laugh and cry, search for retribution, fight evil magicians, try to stop experiments, fall in love, or just struggle with work while reenacting our human emotions on the big screen;... Read More Keywords: counterculture, Japanese animation, cute culture, kawaii |
Not a Film, but an Object: Emotional Politics of Appreciating Badfilm Mehmet SARI Abstract: The films embraced by the viewers due to their formal and/or aesthetic incompetence (e.g. technical flaws, lousy acting, cheap special effects, baffling storylines) are called “so bad, it’s good,” “goodbad film” or simply “badfilm”. Badfilm, which constitu... Read More Keywords: Badfilm, cult cinema, cinematic emotion, artifact emotions, schadenfreude |
Bageshree TRIVEDI Abstract: This paper analyses parallel cinema from the post-Emergency period in India, that dramatizes the politics of discourse and counterdiscourse in the ‘democratic’ nation, using Louis Althusser’s framework of ideology and ideological state apparatuses. Aakrosh (1980) and Jaane Bhi Do... Read More Keywords: Indian cinema, counterdiscourse, ideology, democracy, Althusser |
Museum as Counterpublic Space: Performing Direct Testimony Anca DOCZI LUCHIAN Abstract: Utilitarian and socially engaged, Applied Drama is a theatre domain and umbrella concept associated with social sciences, anthropology and cultural studies among other humanistic disciplines. The practice of Applied Drama has played a significant role in developing community-based interventions,&n... Read More Keywords: Applied Drama, counterpublic, counterdiscourse, museum, Memodrome |
Telling Another Story: Women’s Documentaries as Counter-Narration in Independent Algeria Silvia MASCHERONI Abstract: This essay analyses seven documentaries made by Algerian and Franco-Algerian female directors as examples of counter-narration in the contemporary Algerian and French public spheres. After a brief introduction to the historical context of creating the official discourse, whether colonialist or nat... Read More Keywords: women’s documentary, postcolonial Algeria, representation, counter-narration, memory, history |
Aylin ALTUNBULAK Abstract: This article discusses how film festivals provide a counterpublic space that goes beyond a cultural event for artistic exchanges, particularly in contexts where queer culture raises tensions both with political authorities and within society. They also serve as meeting points and safe spaces where LGBTIQ+ people gather t... Read More Keywords: counterpublic space, film festivals, queer, visibility, contemporary Turkey |
The Radical and Counterintuitive Way out of the Anthropocene Daniel CLINCI Abstract: Review of: MacCormack, Patricia. The Ahuman Manifesto. Activism for the end of the anthropocene. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. Read MoreKeywords: review, MacCormack Patricia, The Ahuman Manifesto. Activism for the end of the anthropocene |
The Philosopher and the Shadow Petrișor MILITARU Abstract: Review of: Bolea, Ștefan. Internal Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Literature. Reading the Jungian Shadow. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2020. Read MoreKeywords: review, Bolea Ștefan, Internal Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Literature. Reading the Jungian Shadow |
Adrian TĂTĂRAN Abstract: Review of: Călin Cotoi, Inventing the Social in Romania, 1848–1914. Networks and Laboratories of Knowledge. Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh/Brill, 2020. Read MoreKeywords: review, Călin Cotoi, Inventing the Social in Romania, 1848–1914. Networks and Laboratories of Knowledge |
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