Recently added articles from Cultural Studies Review:
editorial
Mar 01, 2008; ... Thinking and writing about the past, challenging what 'history' might be and how it could appear, is an ongoing interest of this journal and an ongoing (sometimes contentious) point of connection between cultural studies and history. The shifts in how we research and write the past is no ...
a touching and contagious captain cook: Thinking History through Things
Mar 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT For how long can history, as it is conceived in 'the West', continue to attach itself to an exhausted humanism, where 'man' is central and all the natural and inanimate objects surrounding humans (and linked intimately to human activity) are relegated to the function of support ...
the presence of palestinian absence in narrating the zionist nation into being
Mar 01, 2008; ... Who sees? Who is capable of seeing, what, and from where? Who is authorised to look? How is this authorization given or acquired? In whose name does one look? What is the structure of the field of vision? Ariella Azoulay, Death's Showcase: The Power of Image in Contemporary ...
the challenge of film considered as historical research
Mar 01, 2008; ... Claude Lanzmann's Approach to the Shoah: Constructing History in Dialectical Time-Images You cannot see it, but what you cannot see, you have to show in images. Claude Lanzmann1 It is time to end [the] defensive posture and to adopt a different way of looking at ...
letters from beirut
Mar 01, 2008; ... In summer 20061 returned to Lebanon for a third time. I had lived in Beirut for almost a year in 2002-2003, during which time I fell in love with the city, as so many people do-the generosity, resilience and joie de vivre of so many Lebanese people, the lively artistic scene, the intensity with ...
captain cook: chased a chook
Mar 01, 2008; ... Captain Cook Chased a chook round and round the history book1 Captain Cook has been marked again and again as culturally and historically significant. Even mentioning his name risks a set of responses: The Great Navigator, The Original Invader, The Marker of ...
the pitfalls of picturing atlantic slavery: Steven Spielberg's Amistad vs Guy Deslauriers's The Middle Passage
Mar 01, 2008; ... -I The transatlantic slave trade was probably more present in the collective consciousness of Britons in 2007 than it had been at any time since the turbulences of abolition in the early nineteenth century. On 25 March 2007, Britain celebrated the 200th anniversary of the abolition of ...
but is it history?1
Mar 01, 2008; ... If we ... disown a realist and empiricist account of history, anything goes. We would have no means of distinguishing between history and myth, between biography and hagiography, between eyewitness reports and fairy tales. Keith Windschuttle2 History is a reconstruction of the ...
experience-information-image: A Historiography of Unfolding. Arab Cinema as Example
Mar 01, 2008; ... (ProQuest: ... denotes non-USASCII text omitted.) Why do certain images of history reach us, while others remain seemingly forgotten, in the infinite breadth of the past? Why do only certain events seem to matter? I suggest those experiences are not forgotten but enfolded. The ...
historical fiction and the allegorical truth of colonial violence in the proposition
Mar 01, 2008; ... INTRODUCTION On the eve of Australia Day 2006, Prime Minister John Howard used a short but much disputed part of his address to the National Press Club to berate postmodern approaches to historical truth: Too often, [history] is taught without any sense of structured narrative, ...
participating in the past: Recording Lives in Digital Environments
Mar 01, 2008; ... INTRODUCTION The profile of oral history research has grown dramatically over the past two decades. One of the reasons for this is that there has been a diversification of modes of public access and delivery. The increasing use of digital media means that oral histories are now reaching ...
'good building': Bertolt Brecht's Utopian Historical Optimism at the End of World War II
Mar 01, 2008; ... - I On 10 May 1945, a short prose text by Bertolt Brecht appeared in New York in the AustroAmerican Tribune, one of the numerous literary journals run by writers exiled from Nazi Germany to the far corners of the world. The text, entitled Der Städtebauer (The City Builder'), is set in a ...
cultures of fame and fandom
Mar 01, 2008; ... cultures of fame and fandom SU HOLMES AND SEAN REDMOND (EDS) Framing Celebrity Routledge, London, 2006 ISBN 9780415377096 (hb) 9780415377102 (pb) RRP £70.00 (hb) £18.00 (pb) Writing on celebrity never involves having to search for a contemporary instance to bounce off, only selecting ...
Palpable History
Mar 01, 2008; ... Imagine some undocumented circumstance, a situation that you know needs witnessing. Imagine it's an aftermath with no adequate residue of the textual kinds of records that we conventionally use for tracing what happened, for making history of it. Say these records have gone missing or were never ...
affectively addressing cultural studies
Mar 01, 2008; ... affectively addressing cultural studies MELISSA GREGG Cultural Studies' Affective Voices Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2006 ISBN 1403999023 RRP $144.00(hb) Employing in her own scholarship the positive affects that generate the 'solidarity, commitment and hope' Gregg claims for cultural ...
birth of the new clinic
Mar 01, 2008; ... birth of the new clinic ALAN PETERSEN The Body in Question: A Socio-Culturd Approach Routledge, London, 2006 ISBN 9780415321617 (hb) 9780415321624 (pb) RRP £65.00 (hb) £19.00 (pb) A moody photograph of Rodin's bronze The Thinker dominates the cover of Alan Petersen's new book. Perched on ...
Resurrecting Absence: Susan Howe's A Bibliography of the King's Book Or, Eikon Basilike and the Historically Unspoken
Mar 01, 2008; ... Perception of an object means loosing and losing it. Quests end in failure, no victory and sham questor. One answer undoes another and fiction is real. Trust absence, allegory, mystery. The setting not the rising sun is Beauty. Susan Howe, My Emily Dickinson1 The author of the ...
the power of memory
Mar 01, 2008; ... the power of memory ANNETTE KUHN AND KIRSTEN EMIKO MCALLISTER (EDS) Locating Memory: Photographic Acts Berghahn Books, New York and Oxford, 2006 ISBN 9781845452278 RRP $39.95 (pb) Memory is something that brings itself to cultural attention at ...
cultural studies in the age of disciplinary democracy
Mar 01, 2008; ... cultural studies in the age of disciplinary democracy GARYHALLANDCLAREBlRCHELL(EDS) New Cultural Studies: Adventures in Theory Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2007 ISBN 9780748622092 RRP $52.95 It came as something of a surprise to me when ...
'there was nothing to say and nobody said it': Silence, Disconnection and Interruptions of Gertrude Stein's Writing Voice during World War II
Mar 01, 2008; ... In this part of the world they have another thing, they say taisez-vous, or shut up, or shut it, and they say it as they are talking, they are talking along about something and they say, oh shut it, and it is not to themselves, nor to you, it is of the facts of which they are speaking, sometimes ...