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Journal articles on the topic "Actors, biography"
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Wijaya, I. Nyoman. "Bagaimana Menulis Biografi Audiovisual Poststrukturalis?" Jurnal Sejarah Citra Lekha 6, no. 2 (December 31, 2021): 130–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.14710/jscl.v6i2.40409.
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Poststructuralist audiovisual biography is written using a poststructuralist historical approach and audiovisual archives. This study presents a new method in writing concise and concise biographies for the purpose of making papers and publication articles. The problem is focused on how the writing technique is? Like poststructuralist history, this biography model departs from the actor's present situation in the past. The goal is to explore the actor’s experience that brought him to where he is now. The actor’s successness or failureness today depend on the capital (resources) he has. Are these resources in accordance with the profession? Resources are formed from habits that have undergone internalization to form habits as a guide for actors in thinking and acting when dealing with social reality. Considering this biography model is relatively unknown to academics and history students in genera. This study also discusses the method to write biography as well as the theory that can be used as a basis for thinking. Thus, Bourdieu's generative structural theory is considered very relevant to be used.
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Modisane, Litheko. "Experiments in cinematic biography: Ken Gampu’s early life in the cinema." Journal of African Cinemas 12, no. 2-3 (December 1, 2020): 119–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jac_00032_1.
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Contemporary scholarship on South African film is yet to address the participation of Black actors in film production, exhibition and publicity. The actors’ interpretive roles in the films, their memories and experiences, and the contradictions of their participation in colonial films and beyond, form part of an unexplored and hidden archive in South African film scholarship. This article focuses on Ken Gampu’s early life in the cinema by reflecting on his participation in two films: a western The Hellions and the drama Dingaka. Gampu was a well-known South African actor and also the first Black actor from that country to succeed in Hollywood. This article proposes an experimental methodology of life-writing called ‘cinematic biography’. It shows that the cinematic lives of the marginalized and colonized actors harbour critical potential in enriching the critical perspectives on the cinema and cinematic cultures in South Africa and beyond.
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Prasetyoaji, Anggihat. "TRANSIVITY ON ELON MUSK’S ONLINE BIOGRAPHY:A SOCIAL ACTORS DISCOURSE ANALYSIS." JURNAL BASIS 7, no. 1 (April 6, 2020): 13. http://dx.doi.org/10.33884/basisupb.v7i1.1673.
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This research’s content is the analysis of biography texts about Elon Musk taken from four websites by combining SFL’s transitivity and Leeuwen’s social actor representation approach. The aims of this research are (1) to find the portrayal patterns of the social actor using social actor approach, (2) to find the linguistic evidences of the patterns using transitivity, (3) to explain the portrayal of the social actor based on the patterns found, and (4) to compare the results with the context and genre of biography. This research is categorized as a descriptive-qualitative research by using transitivity and Leeuwen’s social actor approach. Spradely’s method of domain, taxonomy, componential, and cultural context analysis is used to collect and analyze the data. The data sources for this research are four biography texts about Elon Musk taken from Britannica, BBC, Business Insider, and Investopedia. The research produced several results as follows: (1) various social actor representation patterns are used by the writer to convey their intention and stance in relation with the social actor, (2) the processes contained in the texts are identified by using transitivity, thus providing linguistic evidences, (3) representation patterns that are the most consistently occurring are: activation, passivation (subjection and beneficialization), determination, nomination, functionalisation, and instrumentalisation. These patterns can be deduced as the obligatory patterns in biography texts, and (4) the texts analyzed are relevant with the qualities of a biography text.
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Wanzo, Rebecca, and Carol A. Stabile. "#MeToo: A Biography." Biography 45, no. 4 (2022): 379–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/bio.2022.a910376.
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Abstract: This introduction looks at the difference between Tarana Burke's "me too" and #MeToo. The chronologically distinct origin stories for the forms of activism #MeToo has generated illustrate a distinction between Burke's "me too," grounded in her work with Black girls and created to raise awareness of the collective plight of survivors of sexual violence, and "#MeToo," an example of hashtag feminism that has come to be associated with identifying individual bad actors. We look at various manifestations of #MeToo as well as feminist debates in telling the story about #MeToo's successes and failures.
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Lee, Tom. "HENRY RAND HATFIELD AND ACCOUNTING BIOGRAPHY." Accounting Historians Journal 29, no. 2 (December 1, 2002): 123–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.2308/0148-4184.29.2.123.
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The paper reasserts the importance of biographical research in accounting history by reference to Stephen Zeff's book on Henry Rand Hatfield. It illustrates that depth studies of individual actors offers compelling insights to the history of accounting theory, practices and institutions. Biography also has the capacity to reveal insights which have a bearing on modern day issues.
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Baldwin, Olive, and Thelma Wilson. "Nancy Dawson, Her Hornpipe and Her Posthumous Reputation." Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research 30, no. 1-2 (2015): 55–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/rectr.30.1-2.0055.
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Abstract Nancy Dawson was famous for dancing the hornpipe during her short career on the London stage (1756-63). The tune to which she danced was quickly named after her and became popular as a ballad tune. After her death, “Nancy Dawson” was used as a name for race horses and boats and the tune took on a life of its own, while the dancer was forgotten. During her stage career she had been slandered in so-called Genuine Memoirs (quickly pirated as Authentic Memoirs) and attacked in satires over her liaison with the comic actor Edward Shuter. However, the tune’s popularity with sailors and a set of bawdy words made to it in the early nineteenth century led to her acquiring a reputation of being little more than a common prostitute. This paper attempts to sift fact from fiction about her life and character and considers errors and omissions in her entries in the Biography Dictionary of Actors and the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
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Danzer, Gerhard. "Sagbares, Unsagbares, Unsägliches." Rhetorik 37, no. 1 (November 1, 2018): 7–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/rhet.2018.002.
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Abstract Rhetoric in medicine refers to various acts and actors: the patients speech; the doctors speech; the resulting narratives - for instance the medical history; the patients biography; the narration of the doctor-patient relationship; the cultural history of doctor, patient and illness.
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Soares, Hélio Nuno, and Maria Luísa Jacquinet. "Em busca da “freira do Santo Cristo” os bastidores da primeira biografia de Madre Teresa da Anunciada, OSC (1658-1738)." Via Spiritus: Revista de História da Espiritualidade e do Sentimento Religioso, no. 29 (2022): 139–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.21747/0873-1233/spi29a6.
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The first biography of Teresa of Annunciation (1658-1738), a famous Poor Clare of the Monastery of Nossa Senhora da Esperança in Ponta Delgada, is recognised as a major source in the crystallisation of the opinion of virtue of the biographee and in the promotion of the cult of the Holy Christ,of which she was the most impressive promoter. Symptomatically nicknamed the “Book of the Holy Christ”, this copy of the devotional biography, signed by the oratorian José Clemente and published in 1763, may be understood as part of the process of canonical authorisation of the nun’s holiness, although it should itself be seen as the result of a constructive process in which various intentions, wills, mentors and actors took part. It is this process which, based essentially on unpublished sources, namely the epistolary correspondence exchanged between the 4th Countess of Ribeira Grande and some nuns from the Monastery of Esperança, the present study intends to examine, and which lastly aims to contribute to the analysis of the figure of the illustrious mother and the expressions of piety that have always been associated with her.
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Tańczuk, Renata, and Sławomir Wieczorek. "Sensitive Recording as a Form of Life: The Case of Ryszard Siwiec’s Message." Prace Kulturoznawcze 26, no. 1 (July 22, 2022): 35–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.19195/0860-6668.26.1.3.
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By analyzing the biography of Ryszard Siwiec’s recording of his message, we explore the function and changing identity of sensitive sound recordings, and the ethics of handling them. In our view, sensitive recordings are linked to the experiences of trauma, exclusion, and injustice of those whose voices were recorded and the community they were part of. A recording may also be considered sensitive if it is used in a racist context or for other stigmatizing practices. Sensitive recordings are “difficult,” sometimes “troubling,” but also “moving”; they stir emotions. Although sensitive recordings are associated with physical and social death and exclusion, we view them and what is recorded on them as a form of life. Each recording has its own biography and agency, becomes an active actor in a complex social network, and is subject to the actions of other actors. Our analyses of the biography of Siwiec’s recording reveal its affective and emotional power, its role as a carrier of family and national memory, its changing identity, and its agency in shaping the identities of its listeners. We would like to argue that sensitive recordings require attentive and sensitive listening. This kind of listening becomes an ethical postulate that results from a concern for those whose voices are made public, the author of the recording, and the recording itself.
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Tomanovic, Smiljka. "Bringing social biography to life course studies: Agency and reflexivity in education-to-work transitions in young adults’ biographies." Stanovnistvo 60, no. 2 (2022): 9–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/stnv2202009t.
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The paper is based on my longitudinal qualitative study, which takes a ?social biography approach? to exploring and interpreting biographical sequences in a person?s life course from early childhood to young adulthood. Against the background of a recent debate that argues for bringing ?life? back to life course research through the implementa?tion of qualitative data, the paper explores how life course studies could gain from taking a social biography approach to youth transitions. I focus on analysing education-to-work transitions within the biographies of a young woman and a young man from working-class families. The analysis shows that their education-to-work transitions were not based on linear trajectories, but their decision-making agency was path-dependent on their previous agency in differ?ent biographical contexts, and also linked to the lives of significant others. I argue that there is a heuristic benefit to including reflexivity within a study of the life course through the actors? interpretation of the impact of coun?try-specific ?opportunity structures? on their education and employment. Analysis of the two biographies has also revealed that the emotions and satisfaction displayed in the actors? reflections also had an impact on their agency in relation to education and work. After discussing the compatibility of the social biography approach with life course studies, I conclude that life course studies benefit from including a biographisation to the contextualisation of transition process.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Actors, biography"
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Raymond, Emilie E. ""From my cold, dead hands' : a political and cultural biography of Charlton Heston" /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p3091960.
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Prenter, Tracey. "A psychobiographical study of Charlize Theron." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1020843.
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Psychobiographers study the lives of extraordinary, prominent, and enigmatic individuals. Psychobiographical research advances our insight into the uniqueness and complexity of the human personality and therefore makes a substantial contribution towards one of the major objectives of the field of psychology. Purposive sampling was employed to select Charlize Theron as the subject of this psychobiographical study. As the only South African who has won an Oscar, Theron is an exceptional individual who demonstrates tenacity and a will to succeed despite significant traumatic events in her childhood. The case study data was organised and analysed according to the general analytic approach developed by Huberman and Miles (2002) and one of Alexander’s (1990) strategies, namely questioning the data. Erikson’s psychosocial theory (1950, 1963, 1995) was selected to guide this study because it recognises the impact of socio-cultural influences on developmental processes and provides a comprehensive, staged framework for studying Theron’s personality development. This study contributes to the development of psychobiographical research in South Africa.
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Adams, Sean A. "Genre of Acts and collected biography." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/8759.
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This thesis argues that the best genre parallel for the Acts of the Apostles is collected biography. This conclusion is reached through an application of ancient and modern genre theory and a detailed comparison of Acts and collected biographies. Chapter 1 offers prolegomena to this study and further delineates the contours of the thesis. Chapter 2 provides an extensive history of research, not only to provide the context and rationale for the present work, but also to indicate some of the shortcomings of previous investigations and the need for this present study. Chapter 3 presents the methodological perspective for this exploration. Making use of ancient and modern genre theory, I propose that scholars need to understand genre as a dynamic and flexible system that is culturally influenced and highly adaptable. In Chapter 4 I trace the diachronic development of ancient biographies, describe different sub-divisions, and note the strong, enduring relationship between biography and history. In evaluating the development of biography as a whole, there appears to be a distinct preference by ancient biographers for collected biographies. Chapters 5 to 7 interpret Acts in light of its possible relationship with collected biographies. Chapter 5 provides a detailed comparison of the structural and content features of history, novels, collected biographies, and Acts. Overall, this chapter argues that the structural and content features of Acts are most strongly related to the genre of biography and, secondarily, to history. Chapters six and seven evaluate Acts as a modified collected biography, identifying notable similarities in content features, structure, and endings. Chapter 8 summarizes and concludes the thesis, along with a brief mention of avenues for future research. Related literary investigations, such as a list of literary topoi references in biographies, biographies referenced by Diogenes Laertius, and a full discussion of biography’s adaptability in the first century (modelled by Plutarch and Philo), are treated in appendices.
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Lenk, Erika 1978. "Carlitos : história de vida e obra de Chales Chaplin." [s.n.], 2012. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/250941.
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Orientador: Ana Angélica Medeiros AlbanoDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação
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Resumo: Esta dissertação percorre a trajetória de vida do célebre ator e cineasta inglês Charles Spencer Chaplin (1889-1977), o imaginativo criador de Carlitos, cuja graça e lirismo marcaram fortemente a arte do século XX. Sua obra ridiculariza os padrões culturais da sociedade estabelecida através das aventuras do Tramp, o errante marginalizado que permanece vivo no cenário cultural atual. Este estudo busca uma relação entre a vida e arte de Chaplin, identificando fatores que contribuíram para seu desenvolvimento artístico e seu conhecimento em arte.
Abstract: This dissertation contains the life story of the famous actor and English filmmaker Charles Spencer Chaplin (1889-1977), the imaginative creator of the Tramp, whose grace and lyricism left his impression on the twentieth (20th) century. His work satirizes the cultural patterns of the established society through the adventures of the Tramp, the marginalized vagabond that remains alive in the recent cultural scenario. This study searches the connection between Chaplin's life and art, identifying factors that contributed to his artistic development and his knowledge in art.
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Lewis, Shane. "Orry-Kelly : an Australian in Hollywood : producing meaning through costume." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 1997.
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Costume designer Orry-Kelly has a unique place in Hollywood history as one of the few designers to win three or more Academy Awards and one of the few Australians to succeed in
the Hollywood studio system. His work was a major factor in the success of Bette Davis at Warner Bros. However, Orry-Kelly and his work have received little critical attention.
This study examines the function of Orry-Kelly's costumes in a selection of Bette Davis vehicles produced at Warner Bros. between 1938 and 1942. In order to assess the value of Orry-Kelly's contributions, the thesis charts the development of the role of the Hollywood studio costume
designer and summarises theories relevant to the function of costume in classical Hollywood narrative.
Films analysed are Jezebel, Dark Victory, The Letter, The Little Foxes, Now, Voyager, The Great Lie and In This Our Life. Sources consulted for background to Orry-Kelly's life and career include records in the Orry-Kelly File in the Warner Bros. Archives at the University of Southern
California, and material gathered in Australia which has not been previously presented in an academic study.
The study concludes that Orry-Kelly's costume concepts display an intuitive understanding of processes of human perception and behaviour, and knowledge of the requirements of the film medium, to convey the preferred meanings about characters and aid in story-telling.
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Joubé, Poreau Martine. "Biographie d'un artiste dramatique oublié : romuald Joubé (1876-1949)." Thesis, Pau, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PAUU1005.
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Ce projet a vu le jour afin de tirer de l'oubli un artiste dramatique nommé Romuald Joubé, né en 1876 et décédé en 1949. Cet homme était mon ancêtre, c'est l'oubli familial et collectif dont il a été victime qui a suscité la réalisation de ce travail. Il a eu la particularité de devenir un acteur reconnu au théâtre et au cinéma muet, en traversant deux guerres mondiales. Cette biographie s'attache à faire découvrir l'évolution du jeune comédien et celle du milieu théâtral et cinématographique de la première moitié du XXe siècle. Son parcours le mène de Saint-Gaudens à Paris, de l'Odéon à la Comédie-Française, des tournées européennes aux tournées internationales où il côtoie les grands noms du théâtre et du cinéma tels qu'André Antoine, Sarah Bernhardt, Abel Gance. Devenu une vedette il ne renie jamais sa région pyrénéenne où il crée un théâtre de verdure et défend ardemment le théâtre de plein air jusqu'à la fin de sa vie. Son éclectisme lui permet d'interpréter différents répertoires. Aussi remet-il en cause certaines idées reçues sur l'histoire du monde théâtral, par exemple le clivage entre Théâtre commercial et Théâtre littéraire. Acteur du cinéma muet, il est aussi intéressé par la radiophonie en 1936 et plus tard il fera une expérience au cinéma parlant avec Sacha Guitry. Homme entre tradition et modernité, Joubé révèle les ambiguïtés du monde artistique en temps de guerre. Cet homme aux multiples dons, à la fois acteur, dessinateur, peintre, spécialiste de la langue gasconne, se battra jusqu'à sa mort pour défendre l'art de qualité pour tous, sans jamais oublier sa famille et ses racinesThis project has been conceived to get out of oblivion Romuald Joubé (1876-1949). He was a professional dramatic artist and an ancestor of mine. Because of this familial and collective forgetting of the great works of Joubé, the main goal of this thesis is to reveal his biography. He became a famous and talented theatre and silent movie actor by crossing two world wars.This biography presents the evolution of Joubé as a young stage actor as well as the evolution of theatre and cinema during the first part of the twentieth century. From Saint-Gaudens (France) to Paris, and from Odéon to the Comédie-Française, Joubé met some of the great actors such as André Antoine, Sarah Bernhardt or Abel Gance. Even if he became famous at Paris, he did not forget his native region: Southwest of France and the Pyrénées. He created an open-air theater in this region. Until the end of his life, he promoted the open-air theatre. Joubé could play many different roles. He was also a silent film actor. Then in 1936, he got interested in radio. He accepted then sound films with Sacha Guitry. Tradition and modernity characterize this major and forgotten actor of the twentieth century. The biography of Joubé also brings us into the lives of artists of this period. Finally, Joubé, as an actor but also as a painter, a draughtsman and a defender of Gascon language. He will fight up to his dead to defend the quality art for all, without over forgetting his family and his region
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Bayet, Brigitte. "Récits de jeunes en situation de handicap : comment devenir auteur de son parcours de formation vers l'insertion professionnelle ?" Thesis, Paris 10, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020PA100018.
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L’évolution de l’approche conceptuelle du handicap, les directives des organisations internationales et leur déclinaison européenne au niveau des droits et de la participation sociale des personnes handicapées ont entraîné progressivement la mise en place d’une société inclusive avec des impacts concernant les accès à l’éducation, la formation professionnelle ousupérieure et à l’insertion professionnelle de jeunes en situation de handicap. L’objet de cette thèse en sciences de l’éducation s’inscrit dans une enquête qualitative interprétative et compréhensive avec une sensibilité phénoménologique, et porte sur le parcours de formation vers l’insertion professionnelle de jeunes en situation de handicap. Elle propose, à partir de leurs récits, de comprendre le sens personnel subjectif que chacun peut donner à son parcours et à sa propre vie, d’appréhender comment ces jeunes élaborent leur projet d’orientation professionnelle, comment ils peuvent devenir auteurs de leur formation et de leur insertion à travers l’expérience du handicap, pour certains dans les entraves du corps. La démarche choisie a été de donner la priorité à la narration avec une ouverture à l’altérité, l’écoute sensible aux fragments de parcours livrés par ces jeunes, et à une analyse dans une multiréférentialitéapportant de l’intelligibilité à l’objet de recherche et aux phénomènes émergents. Un premier travail d’analyse-synthèse pour chacun des portraits avec une lecture s’appuyant sur des notions clefs comme celles de sujet-acteur, d’empowerment psychologique, d’évènements, de bifurcations et de transitions biographiques, induit des perspectives de généralisation sous forme de typologies de parcoursThe evolution of the conceptual approach to disability, the guidelines developed by international organizations, declined at the european level in terms of rights and social participation of people with disabilities gradually led to the establishment of an inclusive society, with impacts on access to education, vocational training or higher education and professional insertion of young people with disabilities. The subject of this thesis in Education Science is part of a qualitative interpretive and comprehensive survey with phenomenological sensitivity, and focuses on the training path towards the professional insertion of young peoplewith disabilities. It proposes, from their stories, to understand the personal subjective meaning that each one can give to his/her path and his own life, to understand how these young people develop their vocational guidance project, how they can become the authors of their training and of their insertion through the experience of disability, for some of them with physical impairments. The chosen approach was to give priority to the narrative feature with an opening to otherness, a sensitive listening to the fragments of course delivered by these young people, and an analysis in a multi-referentiality bringing intelligibility to this research topic and emerging phenomena. A first analysis-synthesis work for each of the portraits with a reading based on key notions such as subject-actor, psychological empowerment, events, bifurcations and biographical transitions, gives prospects of generalization in the form of pathways typologies
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Bullock, Edward L. "Considering the Human and Nonhuman in Literary Studies: Notes for a Biographic Network Approach for the Study of Literary Objects." UKnowledge, 2014. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/english_etds/8.
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In recent years critical projects spanning philosophy, the social sciences, science studies, and nearly everywhere that has employed the term ecology have engaged in thinking humans and non-humans together as collectively producing outcomes, where objects do work beyond how humans perceive or make use of them. Taking Zelda Fitzgerald’s Save Me the Waltz as its focus, this thesis explores how this reorientation might contribute to literary studies and to literary criticism more specifically. The thesis considers a notion that novels constitute objects with biographies running “against” the biographic material of their authors, mobilizes actor network theory as a manner of mapping that biographic assemblage, and tentatively develops a biographic network approach as one alternative to traditional literary interpretative practices. Attending to the novel as an actor shifts critical focus away from its interior – the “text” or content – and expands traditional literary criticism’s default practice – interpretation – and logic – mimetic representation – in hopes of facilitating a discussion of Zelda’s novel in a manner which destabilizes the overdetermined themes that continue to scaffold her imaginary. Ultimately, this work argues that a biographic network approach can prove instructive as a “method” for dealing with other texts which remain relatively obscured at the margins of literary consciousness.
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Zoll, Wolfgang. "Die Wahrheit ist die Tochter der Zeit : zu John Henry Newmans und Lord John Actons Umgang mit der Geschichte und zur geschichtsphilosophischen Bedeutung der Newman'schen Erkenntnistheorie : zugleich ein Beitrag zum Verständnis von Person und Biographie Newmans /." Frankfurt am Main : P. Lang, 2003. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39114609q.
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Joly, Rachel. "Henry Corot (1864-1941) et ses correspondants, les acteurs de l'archéologie préhistorique sous la IIIe République." Thesis, Paris 1, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA010631/document.
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En introduction générale, est dressé un état de la Recherche sur trois thématiques : l’histoire et l’épistémologie de l’archéologie, le genre biographique, les archives et les correspondances scientifiques. Il est suivi d’une présentation du sujet de thèse et de ses problématiques. La première partie est une biographie consacrée à Henry Corot (1864-1941), figure emblématique de l’archéologie pré- et protohistorique en région Bourgogne. Sa vie et son œuvre sont appréhendées, principalement, au travers l’exploitation de son fonds d’archives – lequel comprend des centaines de dossiers de travail et une correspondance de 2500 lettres -. La deuxième partie est consacrée aux correspondants de H. Corot. Un répertoire biographique, comptant 490 entrées, rassemble les notices biographiques et les publications de ces archéologues. Suivent : le recrutement géographique et le recrutement sociologique de ces savants, le thème de la sociabilité à l’époque de H. Corot à travers l’analyse de sa correspondance, enfin, l’analyse des publications de ces archéologues, soit un corpus de 1300 références. Cette thèse permet à travers la biographie singulière de H. Corot d’envisager une perspective plus large, celle de biographies collectives, qui à leur tour rendent possible l’élargissement du propos à l’histoire et à l’épistémologie de la recherche protohistorique sous la Troisième République venant ainsi combler une importante lacune dans la production universitaire intéressant l’histoire de l’archéologieThe general introduction sets up a state of research on three themes : history and epistemology of archaeology, biographical genre, archives and scientists correspondences. Next, there is a presentation of thesis subject and its problematic. The first part is about Henry Corot’s biography (1864-1941). He was an emblematic figure in prehistoric and protohistoric archeology in Bourgogne area. His life and his work are apprehended thanks to the study of his archives containing hundreds of working folders and a correspondence of 2500 letters. The second part focus on H. Corot’s correspondents. A biographic directory includes biographical information and all publications of 490 French and foreign archaeologists. To follow, this thesis centers on: the geographical and sociological recruitment of these archaeologists, the topic of sociability at the time of H. Corot through the analysis of his correspondence, and the examination of the publications of these archaeologists (corpus of 1300 references). To conclude, this thesis allows, through the H. Corot’s singular biography, to consider a broader view, the collective biographies, which in turn make it possible the enlargement at history and epistemology of research in prehistory from the Third Republic and fill an important gap in the academic production about archaeology history
Books on the topic "Actors, biography"
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Falk, Quentin. Anthony Hopkins: The authorized biography. New York: Interlink Books, 1993.
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Rollinson, Edward. Sydney Valentine 1865-1919: An actor's actor. Harefield: Sarratt, 1996.
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Iannucci, Lisa. Will Smith: A biography. Santa Barbara, Calif: Greenwood Press, 2010.
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Millar, Ingrid. Liam Neeson: The first biography. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995.
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Bono, Irene. "Rescuing Biography from the Nation: Discrete Perspectives on Political Change in Morocco." In Methodological Approaches to Societies in Transformation, 139–63. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65067-4_6.
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AbstractPolitical biographies and the narratives of the nation-state may exert a reciprocal fictional influence: the nation as imagined community is often embodied in the biographies of imaginary actors. Since the 2004 launch of the transitional justice process in Morocco this tendency has led to increased attention for the stories of the victims of the violations committed by the State between 1956 and 1999 as if they were the main witnesses of the political change. In parallel, the protagonists of the nationalist struggle that led to independence from the French protectorate in 1956 have been acknowledged without, apparently, feeling it necessary to hear what they have to say about it. This chapter reflects on theoretical and methodological perspectives that allow the use of biography to explore political change beyond taken-for-granted conceptions of the nation-state and its trajectories of change. Reflecting on the relationship that developed between the author and a single actor called Abk, who wanted to tell his life story, the chapter proposes the writing of biography as a form of archival research and a fieldwork practice for exploring memory. It shows how paying attention to personal ways of conserving memory and remembering enables us to approach politics beyond predefined horizons of change without seeing a priori social configurations as ineluctable givens. Such a perspective, which the author calls “discrete”, suggests considering politics as a phenomenon that is difficult to fit into formal models of explanation, and taking subjectivity, the variability of life paths and contingency as relevant objects of inquiry for understanding political change.
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Ströhle, Claudius. "Conceptualizing Remittance Affordances: Transformations of a Knife Across Borders." In Remittances as Social Practices and Agents of Change, 275–98. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81504-2_12.
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AbstractResearch on remittances mainly focuses on the nexus of migration and development, economic effects on the places of origin, and motives for remitting. However, little is known about the materiality of remittances. Drawing on a multi-sited ethnography in Stubai Valley (Austria) and Usṃak (Turkey), this chapter introduces the concept of remittance affordances by following the spatial and temporal trajectories of a crucial type of material remittances in the encountered research field, namely knives and tools manufactured by the Stubai cooperative. It examines the transformative effects of migration on the involved actors and the built landscape. I argue that in order to be appropriated in the intended way, the remitted objects depend on certain criteria, such as impact of the transactors’ relations, which are historically accumulated and hierarchically constituted, on the material and biography of the object and the bodily incorporated practices of usage.
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Ellis, Claire, and Anna Triandafyllidou. "Precarity, Opportunity, and Adaptation: Recently Arrived Immigrant and Refugee Experiences Navigating the Canadian Labour Market." In IMISCOE Research Series, 101–27. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14009-9_5.
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AbstractImmigrants and refugees have contributed significant growth in the Canadian economy over the last three decades. Despite clear advantages of a smooth transition into the labour force, many newcomers experience multiple barriers impeding their pathways to sustainable livelihoods. Further, significant increases in refugee resettlement and asylum claims in Canada since 2015 resulted in a growing number of refugee newcomers entering the labour market, often facing additional challenges of precarious legal status while seeking employment. To interrogate the settlement landscape, this chapter examines newcomers’ employment-related needs, experiences, and aspirations through a case study of migrants and refugees in Greater Toronto. Using narrative-biographic interviews, the chapter presents an ethnographic approach to examine how individual migrants navigate labour market policies and settlement dynamics during their initial years. A biographical approach allowed us to focus on the interplay of migrant agency, precarity, and adaption to both long-standing labour market dynamics as well as new barriers and enablers brought on by the shifting sands of Canada’s pandemic affected economy. The chapter highlights how emotions, decisions, and actions are inter-related and coalesce with broader structural conditions within a network of actors – individuals, networks, and institutions – to shape the labour market experiences of recently arrived immigrants and refugees.
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Jiang, Jieyu, Esther Pretti, Keti Tsotniashvili, Dilraba Anayatova, Ann Nielsen, and Iveta Silova. "16. Re-membering Ceremonies." In (An)Archive, 371–94. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.11647/obp.0383.16.
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Drawing on collective biography, memory work, and diffractive analysis, this chapter examines childhood memories of our entanglements with plants. By approaching research as a ceremony, our goal is to reanimate the relationships we have shared with plants and places, illuminating multiple intra-actions and weaving different worlds together. Our collective ceremony of re-membering brings into focus how plants called us forward, evoked our gratitude and reciprocity, shared knowledge, and offered comfort, companionship, love, belongingness, and understanding throughout life. The process of our collective re-membering and writing has turned into a series of ceremonial gatherings and practices, bringing forth vivid memories, poetic expressions, and creative drawings. As humans, we have often (re)acted to plants’ generous gifts in meaningful gestures and communications that have co-created and made visible our deeply felt inter-species love and care.
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Şenay, Banu. "A Biography of the Ney." In Musical Ethics and Islam, 25–45. University of Illinois Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252043024.003.0002.
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This chapter traces the key shifts in the ney’s modern history, from its de-legitimization in the early Republican period, its survival in the transitional years of its learning through the master-disciple pedagogic system (meşk), to its re-invigoration in the 1990s. These episodes underline how the meanings informing the ney are context-bound and socially constructed. The chapter also sketches out the incredibly rich sonic landscape of the city of Istanbul with which the ney interacts. Attention is given to the creation and consumption of new forms of ‘Sufi music’, and the popularization of Sufism sponsored by both private and state actors in Turkey, including the implications of these processes on the re-contextualization of the ney as a ‘spiritual sound.’
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Laursen, Ole Birk. "Introduction." In Anarchy or Chaos, 1–24. Oxford University Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197752159.003.0001.
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Abstract This introduction provides an overview of the contents of this biography of the Indian anticolonial anarchist M. P. T. Acharya. Explaining its rationale and major arguments, the chapter situates the book within existing literature and intellectual histories of anticolonialism and anarchism, accounting for its fresh contributions to these fields. Laying out the theoretical and methodological approaches, the chapter reflects on the process of writing a biography and the search for archives. Throughout, the chapter raises several important research questions that are central to understanding the multifarious and complex nature of Acharya’s trajectory through the underbelly of global political events: nationalism, anticolonialism exile, war, revolution, communism, anarchism, pacifism, freedom, and independence. These issues preoccupy this intellectual biography of Acharya, which accounts for the complex and entangled histories of anticolonialism and anarchism through a detailed exploration of his actions, wanderings, thoughts, and connections with key actors of the time.
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Hasselbalch, Jacob A., and Leonard Seabrooke. "Prosopography." In Research Methods in the Social Sciences: An A-Z of key concepts, 223–28. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/hepl/9780198850298.003.0052.
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This chapter discusses prosopography, which is defined as the investigation of the common background characteristics of a group of actors in history by means of a collective study of their lives. The etymology of the word suggests that prosopography is about describing or recording a person’s appearance or life, but prosopography differs from biography in that it analyses structured biographical data of groups of individuals that have something in common. Prosopography emerged primarily as a method for historical research. Outside of historical research, it is more commonly known as ‘group biography’ or ‘career-path analysis’. Prosopography has also been a key element of ‘field-based’ research on social groups and the sociology of professions, and is more of an approach than a method sui generis: it implies the systematic organization of data in such a way that connections and patterns that influence historical processes are revealed. The chapter then details the five stages of prosopography.
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Bitkeeva, Aysa N. "New Goals and Methods of Language Policy Research." In Modern Language Policy: Theory and Practice, 34–52. A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.22455/978-5-9208-0707-6-34-52.
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The article deals with the language problems of modern Russia in the context of new goals and methods of language policy research. In presentday conditions, the need for prognosis is actualized in order to increase the productivity of language policy measures,preventing ethnolinguistic conflicts. One of the ways to improve the effectiveness of language policy is considered in scenario method in regard of the development of language policy. The use of the scenario method for an expert assessment of the current language situation in the Russian Federation, its trends, ideologies and actors is one of the most efficient and should subsequently form the basis for language policy planning in the Russian Federation. In Russian and foreign scientific discourse, the issues of sociolinguistic prognosis have been poorely considered, therefore this scientific topic should be considered a new one, aimed at researching and forming the future of the languages of Russia. The article also considers the conceptual and methodological aspects of linguistic biography, on example of Taz ethnic group analyzes positive and critical discourses in the autobiographical narrations about native language, culture, historical memory, etc. Nowadays, in scientific discourse, linguistic biography is interpreted more broadly and develops especially actively in the context of interdisciplinary research. In this context,linguistic biography is understood as a linguistic reconstruction of the history of the people, as a rule, it does not have a specific textual form, it is projected through autobiographical narratives, in the form of long narrative texts. The main method of gaining knowledge about linguistic biography is interviews, broad autobiographical narratives, the central theme of which is language/ languages.
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Dudziak, Mary L. "Introduction." In Exporting American Dreams. Princeton University Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691152448.003.0001.
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This introductory chapter sets out the book's purpose, which namely is to follow Thurgood Marshall from his civil rights practice in New York to Kenya under colonial rule. This story cannot be found in traditional sources for an American biography. The Bill of Rights that Marshall wrote for Kenya, for example, is not in any American archive, but in British colonial records in England. Marshall's African journey is not a triumphalist story of American law solving all problems. The legal ideas Marshall offered often were not American ones. And legal solutions did not create a legal edifice that would last for all time. Instead law could serve as a way station, giving political actors a way to talk to each other, a way to keep working together when things were hard.
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Michael F. Suarez, S. J. "In Good Company." In Textual Transformations, 153–70. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198808817.003.0009.
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Throughout the eighteenth century, the business of reprinting books was associated with abridging texts. However unusual it may seem today, the copyholder’s property right in a ‘thoughtful abridgment’ of another’s text was commonly protected by law. This chapter examines the abridging activities of John Wesley, and of a variety of other actors in such areas as law and history, medicine and science, philosophy and theology, biography and fiction. Publishing ‘epitomes’ of proven sellers posed less financial risk than publishing new titles. Considering the extracts and abridgements that characterized so much of eighteenth-century newspapers and periodicals helps us understand how such practices were a routine part of the circulation and consumption of print. Abridgments of provincial publishers can be particularly instructive, as these are commonly adjusted in length and format to suit the productive capacity of the local printer and/or the buying power of consumers in the local market.
Conference papers on the topic "Actors, biography"
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Maus, Christoph. "The Heterogeneous Accentuation of Economic Content in Vocational Education: A Starting Point for Occupation-Specific Human Resource Development." In Interdisciplinarity Counts. University of Maribor, University Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.18690/um.fov.3.2023.51.
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Since the successive introduction of “learning field“ oriented curricula in Germany, teaching at vocational schools has been based on concrete actions. The underlying curricula describe business-oriented learning fields. The translating of these learning fields into pedagogical learning situations is the responsibility of the vocational curriculum conferences at the individual vocational school level. This means that, despite there being an identical curricular basis, it is possible for individual schools to apply heterogeneous content emphases within the education programmes for commercial vocations. This study examines the correlation between such heterogeneous content with regard to the subject of economics and the person characteristics of the relevant teachers. In order to determine the individual significance of economics curricula as part of the education programme for commercial occupations on a learning field basis, an online survey was conducted among commerce teachers. The findings for the correlations indicate a relationship between the relevance of economics content and individual experience of teaching staff with regard to that particular academic discipline, because a high relevance rating correlates with individual tangencies within the teacher’s educational biography.
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Shalak, Alexander. "Kolchak and «The Allies» in Siberia: the Evaluation by Anti-Bolshevik Politicians." In Irkutsk Historical and Economic Yearbook 2020. Baikal State University, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.17150/978-5-7253-3017-5.07.
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In his article, the author considers the works by the famous political opponents of Bolsheviks: N.D. Avksentiev, V.P. Zenzinov, K. Goppers, A. Budberg, K.V. Sakharov, G.K. Guins and D.F. Rakov, in which the activities of A. Kolchak and his government are evaluated. Their evaluation concerns such aspects as the interrelations between Kolchak and the representatives of the «Allies» army, the reaction to the coup and proclaiming him Supreme Governor of Russia, evaluation of his real possibilities and abilities and also of the internal political situation in Siberia and Far East. According to the author, this evaluation does not contradict the conclusions of Soviet historiography. Taking into account the attempts made to re-examine the image of A. Kolchak consolidated in historiography, the author suggests one should evaluate his activities from the perspective of the historicalgeopolitical approach rather than from the perspective of the class theory. Taking into consideration the role of foreign states in his political biography, his choice during the years of the Civil War was not between the Red and the White but between Russia and foreign intervention. The proposed approach allows us to consider the political activities of A. Kolchak in a broader context and to make judgment about him from the geopolitical perspective rather than from the perspective of the class theory. In this case, the criterion for evaluation of the activities of the politician are his actions aimed at the defense of the territorial integrity and sovereignty of the state.