This article examines the quotations of Elizabeth I’s iconic portraiture as Virgin Queen in Shekhar Kapur’s Elizabeth (1998) and Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007), and their effect on our a posteriori conceptualization of the depicted body of the female sovereign. Using Mieke Bal’s concept of preposterous history, I argue that Kapur’s transposition of Virgin Queen iconography onto celluloid results in a “(complex) text” that “is both a material object and an effect” (1999: 14). Bal acknowledges that the complexity that lies in the material results of the artistic quotation is not necessarily subversive, as it is dependent on the quoting artist’s ideological premise. Indeed, Kapur’s intermedial quotation of Elizabethan portraiture imbues the highly complex body of the female ruler with contemporary heteronormative notions of female sexuality, thereby reducing it to an object for the male gaze.
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The (Pre)Posterity of Virgin Queen Iconography in Kapur’s Elizabeth Films
Evdokia Prassa
Soviet Russian Primers of the 1940s
The War after the Victory
Vitaly Bezrogov and Dorena Caroli
particular to teach reading skills, this article applies methods that take into account both the evolution of their internal structure from the point of view of language and iconography, and their textual content—in particular, the representation of war in
In Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society
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- 01 Mar 2019
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- 14–34 (21 total)
Vandalism as Symbolic Reparation
Imaginaries of Protest in Nicaragua
Ileana L. Selejan
( Ramírez et al. 1984 ). In a similar manner in 2018, scribbles and patches of paint accumulated, one over another, as an iconography of protest was beginning to emerge. Yet this iconography, and the slogans and chants, reflected upon and re
In The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
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- 01 Sep 2021
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- 19–38 (20 total)
Dealing with an Ocean of Meaninglessness
Reinhart Koselleck's Lava Memories and Conceptual History
Margrit Pernau and Sébastien Tremblay
senses and that the eyes act as both the receptor of political seduction and a guarantor of political distance to the subject. 27 Therefore, his research on iconography and interest in Politische Sinnlichkeit need to be understood as part of conceptual
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- 01 Dec 2020
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- 7–28 (22 total)
Representing the Enemy
The Iconography of the
Lara Campos Pérez
This article takes a close look at the iconographic construction of the so-called “otherness” in Spain between 1936 and 1945. During this three year period of civil unrest, the Franco regime set out to cast the defeated half of the war as an inimical “other.” In this process of building an impression of the “other,” the “New State,” created after April 1, 1939, played an important role, since in many ways the existence of this enemy “other” could favour unity between the rest, or “us.” The State used mandatory education as an efficient socialization tool in this process. The text looks at the different ways in which the image of the “other” was used in books that taught History, Civic Education and Patriotic Education in primary school.
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- 01 Dec 2009
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- 140–161 (22 total)
The Work of Claude Langlois
An Overview
Timothy Tackett
This article is conceived as an overview of the career and scholarship of Claude Langlois. It emphasizes the breadth, diversity, and volume of his work, giving particular attention to four fields in which Langlois made especially important contributions. These fields to some extent mark four phases of his scholarly career-although not necessarily in chronological order. These are historical religious sociology, the French Revolution, women and religion, and theology and spirituality. The conclusion stresses the originality and independence of thought displayed by Langlois throughout his career.
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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- 01 Mar 2013
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- 8–21 (14 total)
Femininity (Con)scripted
Female Images in Soviet Wartime Poster Propaganda, 1941–1945
Susan Corbesero
During the Second World War, legions of Soviet women behind the lines participated in war-time production in both industry and agriculture. Soviet propaganda, despite the overwhelming numbers, contributions and sacrifices of women, graphically portrayed them in ways that both re-established the pre-war patriarchal gender relations of the Stalinist era and circumscribed women’s wartime experiences. This article examines how, during the initial and la er years of the conflict, and in the important and under- studied source of Soviet poster propaganda, the symbolic configuration and recon- figuration of femininity and the female image was transmitted through shifting official policies and attitudes on the role of women. While early posters portrayed women’s wartime participation as atypical, temporary and unwomanly, propaganda by the end of the war featured hyper-feminised representations of women while the Soviet state moved to reassert political controls and institutionalise conservative gender policies to serve the needs of war and reconstruction.
The Cultural Imaginary of Foreignness in the Larousse Universel of 1922
Cècile Mathieu
Translator : Matthew Roy
Abstract
This article explores French imaginaries of different human groups between the world wars through a study of the Larousse universel of 1922. Dictionaries are generally assumed to be reliable tools for understanding language, reflecting a single, universally accepted, and neutral norm. In fact, as this article demonstrates, the Larousse universel of 1922 conveys an imaginary of otherness very specific to the time and place of its publication. Analyzing ethnonyms (names of peoples or ethnic groups) and demonyms or gentilics (names for residents or natives of a particular place) as well as the associated illustrations, I provide a typology of the dictionary’s treatment of the otherness of different peoples. Exoticism, colonization, war, and zoology emerge as the four themes around which human groups are concentrated. In particular, the predominance of the semantic feature warlike reveals the worry suggested by 20the “foreign” in the aftermath of World War I.
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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- 01 Jun 2017
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- Research Article
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- 48–72 (25 total)
Introduction
Materialities, Histories, and the Spatialization of State Sovereignty
Valentina Napolitano, Nimrod Luz, and Nurit Stadler
In the introduction to this special section of Religion and Society, we discuss existing and potentially new intersections of border theories and religious studies in relation to two contested regions—US-Mexico and Israel-Palestine (as part of the history of the Levant)—respectively. We argue for a recentering of borderland studies through an analysis of political theologies, affective labor, and differing configurations of religious heritage, traces, and materiality. We thus define 'borderlands' as translocal phenomena that emerge due to situated political/economic and affective junctures and that amplify not only translocal but also transnational prisms. To explore these issues, we put into dialogue studies on religion, borderlands, walls, and historical/contemporary conditions in the context of US-Mexico and Israel-Palestine borders. In particular, we argue for recentering analyses in light of intensifications of state control and growing militarization in contested areas.
The Politics of Happiness in Richard Brome's The Queen and Concubine
Lena Steveker
will show in the remainder of this article, The Queen and Concubine uses its protagonist Eulalia in her capacity as the queen of pastoral Palermo to promote a politics of happiness that draws on the iconography of Charles I as well as on the ideals of