Journal of European Popular Culture - Volume 13, Issue 2, 2022
Volume 13, Issue 2, 2022
- Editorial
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- Articles
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New feminist voices in Spanish audio-visual cultural production: Vis a vis (Locked Up) (Antena 3 and Globomedia, 2015–19) and La casa de papel (Money Heist) (Antena 3 and Netflix, 2017–21)
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:New feminist voices in Spanish audio-visual cultural production: Vis a vis (Locked Up) (Antena 3 and Globomedia, 2015–19) and La casa de papel (Money Heist) (Antena 3 and Netflix, 2017–21) show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: New feminist voices in Spanish audio-visual cultural production: Vis a vis (Locked Up) (Antena 3 and Globomedia, 2015–19) and La casa de papel (Money Heist) (Antena 3 and Netflix, 2017–21)By Fiona NobleThis article maps an emerging engagement with intersections amongst gender, voice/sound and feminism in the context of contemporary Spanish audio-visual cultural production. I locate the voice at the nexus of contemporary feminisms as these manifest through popular, public and theoretical means. Taking two recent internationally successful Spanish series (Vis a vis [Locked Up] and La casa de papel [Money Heist]) as examples, I contend that female voices and their treatment within contemporary Spanish audio-visual cultures constitute an important site within which female subjectivities emerge and are claimed. I analyse the importance of gender representations on- and off-screen in these works and attend to the use of music and voice-over in these shows as exemplifying the contradictory character of the voice within contemporary feminisms, both in and beyond Spain.
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Feuding with modernity: Portrayal of gjakmarra or blood vengeance in Albanian popular culture
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Feuding with modernity: Portrayal of gjakmarra or blood vengeance in Albanian popular culture show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Feuding with modernity: Portrayal of gjakmarra or blood vengeance in Albanian popular cultureAuthors: Soham Mukherjee and Madhumita RoyAlbania has been plagued for centuries by the act of taking blood as revenge for any perceived besmirching of honour. This practice of blood vengeance known as gjakmarra is a significant source of inspiration for creators of Albanian popular culture. Socialist popular culture intended to show this practice as evil while dissident and post-socialist creators have often taken a somewhat ambivalent stance. This article will survey, compare and contrast the depiction of blood vengeance in Albanian literature, specifically the novels of Ismail Kadare, and in Albanian cinema.
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The revival is dead: Is this something else? Or, holding onto Anta Helena Recke’s MITTELREICH as a work of art
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:The revival is dead: Is this something else? Or, holding onto Anta Helena Recke’s MITTELREICH as a work of art show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: The revival is dead: Is this something else? Or, holding onto Anta Helena Recke’s MITTELREICH as a work of artBy Crispin LordIn 2017, Anta Helena Recke restaged the production of MITTELREICH on which she had previously been employed as the assistant director, with one crucial difference: the entire cast, orchestra and creative team were now Black. This action, which she named a Schwarzkopie (‘black copy’), exposed a raft of material racial inequalities within the European theatre industry and brought about a more abstract inquiry into the very idea of a theatrical copy. In this article I bring some of the material and theoretical consequences of Recke’s production in direct conversation with McKenzie Wark’s thought experiments on finding, after Marx, a new language for the contemporary modes of production. Wark’s insistence on historical materialism provides a helpful framing for uncovering the specific value(s) of Recke’s staging and allows a discussion on class relations to enter a hitherto stymied debate around identity politics in European theatre.
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- Interview
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Crime, history and the making of Operation Hyacinth: An interview with Marcin Ciastoń
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Crime, history and the making of Operation Hyacinth: An interview with Marcin Ciastoń show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Crime, history and the making of Operation Hyacinth: An interview with Marcin CiastońBy Tom UePiotr Domalewski’s Operation Hyacinth (2021) centres on the young police officer Robert’s (Tomasz Ziętek) investigations into a case of serial murder and his developing romance with the student Arek (Hubert Miłkowski). The connective tissue is that all of the victims are gay men and Arek plays a role in it. As the film unfolds, we learn, alongside Robert, that the case is a massive cover-up operation and that his discoveries marry together his private and his professional lives. In this interview, I discuss, with writer Marcin Ciastoń, his extensive research for the film, which was inspired by historical events; and Robert’s and Arek’s romance. We explore how, if on the one hand, Arek represents rebellion to Robert, then, on the other, Robert is the embodiment of reticence, and we attend to a key scene wherein Robert is pressured by his father (Marek Kalita), also a police officer, into questioning Arek about his sexual history. All of the characters appear to be on trial, and as Ciastoń declares, ‘[e]veryone involved had a secret’. This interview advances scholarship by recovering the critical project that directly informs this imaginative one, by suggesting its importance in LGBTQ history and by attending to Ciastoń’s approach to personal and public histories.
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- Book Reviews
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Samuel Beckett and Technology, Galina Kiryushina, Einat Adar and Mark Nixon (Eds) (2021)
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Samuel Beckett and Technology, Galina Kiryushina, Einat Adar and Mark Nixon (Eds) (2021) show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Samuel Beckett and Technology, Galina Kiryushina, Einat Adar and Mark Nixon (Eds) (2021)Review of: Samuel Beckett and Technology, Galina Kiryushina, Einat Adar and Mark Nixon (Eds) (2021)
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 288 pp.,
ISBN 978-1-47446-328-7, h/bk, £85.00
ISBN 978-1-47446-329-4, p/bk, £24.99
ISBN 978-1-47446-331-7, e-book, £24.99
ISBN 978-1-47446-330-0, e-book, £85.00
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Artificial Generation: Photogenic French Literature and the Prehistory of Cinematic Modernity, Christina Parkerflynn (2022)
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Artificial Generation: Photogenic French Literature and the Prehistory of Cinematic Modernity, Christina Parkerflynn (2022) show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Artificial Generation: Photogenic French Literature and the Prehistory of Cinematic Modernity, Christina Parkerflynn (2022)By Barry NevinReview of: Artificial Generation: Photogenic French Literature and the Prehistory of Cinematic Modernity, Christina Parkerflynn (2022)
New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 256 pp.,
ISBN 978-1-97882-507-9, h/bk, €129.00
ISBN 978-1-97882-506-2, p/bk, €36.00
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