Basilicata and Southern Italy Between Film and Ecology

Basilicata and Southern Italy Between Film and Ecology
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Publisher : Springer Nature
Total Pages : 297
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ISBN-10 : 9783031135736
ISBN-13 : 3031135733
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Synopsis Basilicata and Southern Italy Between Film and Ecology by : Alberto Baracco

This volume offers an open, transdisciplinary living space (also green) through which to explore the different connections between Basilicata and Southern Italy, cinema, and ecology, and thus to reflect on the different forms through which the historical, cultural, and social contexts of Southern Italian regions have been variously identified and represented. In order to explore these connections, the volume embraces a wide range of perspectives that may all be grouped under the key term film ecocriticism, offering the reader a thorough analysis not only of the different ways of representing reality but also of the processes of signification through which reality itself can be understood, rethought, and transformed. This is the general framework within which the authors consider film as a proper, effective medium for ecocritical and ecophilosophical reflections concerning not only Basilicata (to which the greater part of the volume is dedicated) but also Southern Italy and, therefore, its history and its territories, communities, and identities. Furthermore, in an even more general sense, Basilicata and Southern Italy reconnects with the very idea of the South, and of all Souths, to which this volume is dedicated.

Handbook of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology

Handbook of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology
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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages : 726
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ISBN-10 : 9783110314595
ISBN-13 : 3110314592
Rating : 4/5 (95 Downloads)

Synopsis Handbook of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology by : Hubert Zapf

Ecocriticism has emerged as one of the most fascinating and rapidly growing fields of recent literary and cultural studies. From its regional origins in late-twentieth-century Anglo-American academia, it has become a worldwide phenomenon, which involves a decidedly transdisciplinary and transnational paradigm that promises to return a new sense of relevance to research and teaching in the humanities. A distinctive feature of the present handbook in comparison with other survey volumes is the combination of ecocriticism with cultural ecology, reflecting an emphasis on the cultural transformation of ecological processes and on the crucial role of literature, art, and other forms of cultural creativity for the evolution of societies towards sustainable futures. In state-of-the-art contributions by leading international scholars in the field, this handbook maps some of the most important developments in contemporary ecocritical thought. It introduces key theoretical concepts, issues, and directions of ecocriticism and cultural ecology and demonstrates their relevance for the analysis of texts and other cultural phenomena.

Sonic ethnography

Sonic ethnography
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Publisher : Manchester University Press
Total Pages : 302
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ISBN-10 : 9781526151995
ISBN-13 : 1526151995
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Synopsis Sonic ethnography by : Lorenzo Ferrarini

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. Sonic ethnography makes a compelling argument for taking sound seriously as a crucial component of social life and as an ethnographic form of representation. This volume explores the role of sound-making and listening practices in the formation of local identities in the southern Italian region of Basilicata. With an approach that cuts across sensory anthropology, sound studies and ethnomusicology, Sonic ethnography demonstrates how acoustic tradition is made and disrupted and acoustic communities are brought together in shared temporality and space. Based extensive research, this volume provides an innovative take on soundful cultural performances such as tree rituals, carnivals, pilgrimages and more informal musical performances, with particular attention to the interactions between classic ethnographic scholarship from the past century and the local politics of heritage. Featuring stunning colour photographs and more than an hour of sound recordings, Sonic ethnography uses a unique combination of media to investigate distinctive ways of knowing, beyond more traditional ethnographic forms of representation. Two methodological chapters, respectively on music-making as creative research practice and on photo-ethnography, make the book an essential contribution for those interested in the production of sounds and still images as relational and interactive approaches to fieldwork. The pioneering anthropologist of sound, Steven Feld, collaborated to some of the research and contributed to the book an afterword and a soundscape composition.

Agrindex

Agrindex
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 780
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ISBN-10 : CORNELL:31924068457112
ISBN-13 :
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Southern Thought and Other Essays on the Mediterranean

Southern Thought and Other Essays on the Mediterranean
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Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Total Pages : 271
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ISBN-10 : 9780823233649
ISBN-13 : 0823233642
Rating : 4/5 (49 Downloads)

Synopsis Southern Thought and Other Essays on the Mediterranean by : Franco Cassano

Valerio Ferme is the Harold and Edythe Toso Endowed Chair professor in Italian Studies at Santa Clara University. --Book Jacket.

Eudised R & D Bulletin

Eudised R & D Bulletin
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 644
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105016098076
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Synopsis Eudised R & D Bulletin by : Documentation Centre for Education in Europe

Contains research project reports arranged by subject with descriptors from the EUDISED Multilingual Thesaurus.

Sonic Ethnography

Sonic Ethnography
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Total Pages : 200
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ISBN-10 : 1526152002
ISBN-13 : 9781526152008
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Synopsis Sonic Ethnography by : Lorenzo Ferrarini

Basilicata is a region of southern Italy that was the setting for ethnographic research during the 1950s by Ernesto De Martino, Friedrich Friedmann, Edward C. Banfield, amongst others. Sixty years on, many of the practices canonised in these classic studies live on in reconfigured ways, in which heritage, identity politics and mediatisation play important roles. Sonic ethnography applies to this contemporary frame the most recent perspectives on the anthropology of sound and photographic research, to explore situations as different as the soundscape of tree rituals, the management of sound, the role of the church in annual festivals, the afterlife of ethnographic research in heritage politics and recorded media among migrant communities. The book brings to light how in Basilicata sound plays a central role in the performance of local identities. The volume also contributes innovative insights on doing ethnography in sound and photography.

Methods of Murder

Methods of Murder
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Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Total Pages : 369
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ISBN-10 : 9781442698109
ISBN-13 : 1442698101
Rating : 4/5 (09 Downloads)

Synopsis Methods of Murder by : Elena M. Past

The first extended analysis of the relationship between Italian criminology and crime fiction in English, Methods of Murder examines works by major authors both popular, such as Gianrico Carofiglio, and canonical, such as Carlo Emilio Gadda. Many scholars have argued that detective fiction did not exist in Italy until 1929, and that the genre, which was considered largely Anglo-Saxon, was irrelevant on the Italian peninsula. By contrast, Past traces the roots of the twentieth-century literature and cinema of crime to two much earlier, diverging interpretations of the criminal: the bodiless figure of Cesare Beccaria’s Enlightenment-era On Crimes and Punishments, and the biological offender of Cesare Lombroso’s positivist Criminal Man. Through her examinations of these texts, Past demonstrates the links between literary, philosophical, and scientific constructions of the criminal, and provides the basis for an important reconceptualization of Italian crime fiction.

Snakes of Italy

Snakes of Italy
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 192
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ISBN-10 : 9783319141060
ISBN-13 : 3319141066
Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Synopsis Snakes of Italy by : Gabriele Achille

This book offers a comprehensive review of the biology of snakes, focusing on Italian species. The snakes of Italy belong to the two families Colubridae and Viperidae, and for each species the systematic classification and chorology including distribution maps are presented. Furthermore, readers will learn how to carry out field studies, how to handle snakes and how to photograph them. The book concludes with a chapter on the iconography of historical Italian snakes and their importance in popular science, and one on myths and legends. This SpringerBriefs volume will appeal to herpetologists and technical staff. The section on iconography may also be of interest to museum staff.