红色影视价值表征的现代性审视

红色影视是红色精神在当代传承的载体,是现代商业机制下的一种经典价值图谋,是现代性语境下的主体建构镜像,亦是文化生态环境不可或缺的中国地标。消费原则对经典的解构使红色叙事由一元走向多元,但这种多元拓展下的现代主体建构却与红色经典隐喻的主流意识形态及其核心精神的延续形成一种文化症候。     

审美主义、审美心理主义与审美个体化——格奥尔格·西美尔的审美现代性体验论

西美尔作为第一位审美现代性思想家,其现代性理论表现为审美主义、心理主义和个体化的特征。在世纪末的现代生活碎片中,对现代人的生命感觉的敏感把握是理解现代性的关键。审美性是一种心理主义,感性基础与审美心理主义之间有着必然的联系,而这种审美主义从本质上是指向现代个体的。在此基础上,审美主义、心理主义和感性论是一体的。西美尔的审美现代性体验论为我们提供了理解现代性的另一种可贵视角。     

Métissage on the Airwaves: Toward a Cultural History of Broadcasting in French Colonial Algeria, 1930–1936

This article explores the methodological challenges and possibilities of writing a cultural history of broadcasting in French colonial Algeria during the tumultuous decades between the two world wars. In a diverse, multi-ethnic colonial society, how can historians and media scholars evaluate audience reception? What meanings did radio broadcasting acquire in the colonial context? To answer these questions, this article considers the controversies surrounding two culturally hybrid broadcasts produced by Radio-Algiers during the 1930s. A careful examination of the remaining historical record concerning these broadcasts, from newspaper accounts to archival sources, exposes the cultural fluidity that typified everyday colonial life and reveals how radio broadcasting politicized music and oral language in novel ways. Broadcasting—as a purely sonic medium—challenged the classificatory mechanisms of the French colonial state and the racial and ethnic boundaries that undergirded colonial society. In consequence, historical memories of Radio-Algiers and its role during the waning years of the French empire deny the sonic cultural hybridity that flourished over the interwar airwaves.     

图书馆员性别比失衡现象及其理论分析

[目的/意义] 通过对图书馆行业女性从业者远多于男性这一普遍现象进行社会性别文化归因,寻求对图书馆员这一社会角色的多角度解读。[方法/过程] 借助社会性别理论的基本概念和观点,从劳动性别分工、性别分层、性别关系及性别刻板印象角度对图书馆员性别比失衡现象进行分析。[结果/结论] 当传统社会性别文化表现为主流意识形态时,图书馆员性别比失衡现象便不可避免,这是其文化建构本质及社会对图书馆员职业的价值判断所决定的。     

Let’s Talk About Men: Some Suggestions on How We Can Include Men in Conversations About Gender Roles in Librarianship

Nine years ago, I did not imagine listing gender issues as one of my core research interests. Now I cannot imagine my research revolving around anything else. The way I study gender though, has taken a rather startling turn away from women to focus (sometimes uncomfortably) on men. What follows is an argument about why studying men and masculinities can make us better librarians. I argue that studying men broadly is important, and librarians should explore methods and strategies for studying a specific type of men: well-educated, white men with established careers in libraries. While my narrative is highly personal, it is based on 9 years of research and reflection about how librarians discuss gender and professional identity.     

Homonationalism and Western progressive narrative: locating ‘conservative heartlands’ with Zenne Dancer (2012) and its Western reviews

In this paper, we analyze the Turkish film Zenne Dancer (2012), which is largely based on what has been called a first gay honor killing in Turkey. We employ a framing analysis to both the film's content and its Western reviews to compare how different media texts frame the murder. The results indicate that while both the film and the reviews recognize tradition, understood here as native and archaic values as well as Islamic religion, as a key factor behind the murder, they locate this tradition quite differently: the film relegates it to the eastern Turkey, and thus implicitly to Kurds, while the reviews tend to extend it to the entire country or even the whole Middle East. We relate these results to the Western progressive narrative that positions the West as a civic and moral ideal that could be achieved by others over time. In particular, we employ Puar's concept of homonationalism to show how different media texts challenge or exploit the Western imperative to ‘come out’ and what effects it has for the East–West juxtapositions.     

‘We need a committee for men's rights’: reactions of male and female viewers to reverse gender discrimination in Korean comedy

This study investigates the ideological implications of Nambowon (‘the Committee for Men's Rights’), one of the most popular sketches in a live comedy series entitled Gag Concert in Korea. The sketch humorously criticizes women who take advantage of men in various situations and always ends with a funny slogan demanding equal rights for men and the end of reverse gender discrimination. We treat Nambowon not as an idiosyncratic text but as part of Korean television programs that portray the rising social status of women as well as gender differences. Previous studies of gender and comedy have typically focused on textual meanings, and relatively little work exists to explain the audience's reception. Thus, we explore why audiences enjoy the show and whether and why there are differences in the reactions of male and female viewers to the portrayal of gender in Nambowon.     

时尚,在实际意义上是一种大众审美主义——解读西美尔"时尚的哲学"的文化意义

时尚是一种个体行为,更是一种社会行为,它在实际意义上表现为一种大众审美主义。对西美尔时尚的哲学解读,也许可以为我们提供一把认识现代性的钥匙。时尚作为一种现代审美文化现象,呈现现在之感,为现代个体提供一种审美、救赎之途,尽管那也许只是一种乌托邦式的审美理想。     

Us,them, and the war on terror: reassessing George W. Bush’s rhetorical legacy

In this essay, I try to answer a few basic questions about George W. Bush’s war rhetoric: (1) How did the president talk about the Iraqi people specifically and Arabs and Muslims generally? (2) How did that vision of Iraqis, Arabs, and Muslims shape the war and its aftermath? Bush did not talk about tyrants and terrorists the same way he did everyday Arabs and Muslims. Tracking the simplified, singular vision of a democratic, freedom-loving Arab and Muslim Other that the Bush administration anticipated, based policy around, and, in the end, failed to find is vital to account for the failures of the war on terror and to differentiate Bush’s imperialism from fin de siècle imperialists, Orientalists, and garden-variety racists before and after his presidency. The Bush administration went to both war and postwar on the basis of a deeply flawed constitutive framework, but where Arabs and Muslims were concerned, that framework failed because of presumed sameness, not difference. Put differently, calamities in war on terror were due to violence done to those construed as savages and violence enabled by a total failure to strategize around difference.     

“I LOVE TO PLAY THE BIMBO SOMETIMES WITH ATHLETES”

This article analyses the professional interactions between female journalists and their sources, key moments in the information production process, and explores, in the context of the Swiss daily press, one of the most masculine journalistic universes: sports journalism. It illustrates that because of the specific mode of recruitment into this journalistic speciality, women are confronted with various constraints—a lack of knowledge in the domain of sports, overwhelmingly male sources, and tensions linked to the fact that they are women—and with expectations from their chief editors that they will develop a “feminine” view of sports news. They are required to adapt and adjust to their role in a way that severely constrains their interactions with their male sources. Thus, controlling their appearance, language, and attitudes, these women make intentional use of certain stereotypes associated with femininity—“women as object of seduction” and “women as weak and inoffensive”—for professional goals, when the interaction warrants. They believe that those strategies allow them to have easier access to their sources and to create interactions encouraging the exchange of information that they judge to be sincere, authentic and more private, that would permit them to write deeper and more “human” articles.     

David Letterman,his audience,his jokes,and their relationship

The present study analyzes the humor of David Letterman from a balance theory perspective. From this perspective it is predicted that the relationship of the audience to the subject of the joke will influence the amount of audience response to that joke. Significant ANOVA and follow‐up Duncan multiple range test results support the hypothesis and are interpreted in terms of the relational balance theory perspective.     

面向性别差异与任务复杂性的相关性判据研究

通过194名研究对象相关性判断文本的内容分析,探讨任务复杂性与性别对相关性判据选择的影响。通过spearman相关系数检验发现,任务复杂性对相关性判据的选择存在显著影响;而性别仅仅对文献总体、作者和文献类型三类判据的选择存在影响,总体而言影响甚微。该结论提示检索系统的分析和设计需要考虑任务复杂性的影响,而无需考虑性别的差异。