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Browse, Sam, and Mari Hatavara. "“I can tell the difference between fiction and reality”." Narrative Inquiry 29, no. 2 (October 16, 2019): 333–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ni.19018.bro.
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Abstract This article approaches fictionality as a set of semiotic strategies prototypically associated with fictional forms of storytelling (Hatavara & Mildorf, 2017b). Whilst these strategies are strongly associated with fiction, they might also be used in non-fictional and ontologically ambivalent contexts to create ‘cross-fictional’ rhetorical effects. We focus on the representation of thought and consciousness. Using the concept of ‘mind style’ (Fowler, 1977, 1996; Leech & Short, 1981; Semino, 2007), we investigate the linguistic representation of the internal monologue of British Prime Minister, Theresa May, in a satirical newspaper article. The stylistic analysis of the PM’s mind style facilitates an account of the elaborate and nuanced mixing of May and the author’s ideological perspectives throughout the piece. We argue that this cross-fictional, stylistic approach better accounts for the satirical effects of fictionality in the text than those placing a premium on authorial intention and the invented nature of the narrative discourse.
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Nikolaidis, A. "The Unexpected Prime Minister: Politics, Class and Gender in Television Fiction." Parliamentary Affairs 64, no. 2 (December 17, 2010): 296–310. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsq057.
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Raj, RANJITHA. "History, Fiction, and Trauma." Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 16, no. 1 (May 6, 2024): 54–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/ccs.v16.i1.8667.
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Abstract Post independent India has witnessed several horrific incidents of communal violence. The largest communal riot happened in the year 1984, in the capital city New Delhi. The Anti- Sikh Riots of 1984, happened after the assassination of Indira Gandhi, the then Prime Minister of India. But for a long time, there was silence surrounding the incident in which thousands lost their lives. The silence was primarily caused from the trauma inflicted from the incident. There are reasons to believe that the silence was politically motivated too. But the role fictional writings have played in communicating the traumatic memory of the incident was significant. This paper studies the novel Amu written by Shonali Bose to understand representation of traumatic memory of the community. The paper attempts to problematize the decades long silence surrounding the incident and the novel’s role along with other similar fictional accounts’ in unraveling the truth of the incident. The concept of unspeakability in trauma is examined alongside the forced silencing of the incident. Keywords: History, Unspeakability, trauma, 1984 Anti-Sikh Riots, Fiction, Silencing
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Mashevskyi, O., and M. Baraboi. "THE QUEBEC NATIONAL QUESTION DURING THE WORLD WAR II AND IN THE POSTWAR PERIOD." Bulletin of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. History, no. 132 (2017): 28–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/1728-2640.2017.132.1.06.
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The paper deals with the Quebec national question during the Second World War and the postwar period in the context of the causes and preconditions of "Quiet Revolution" in 1960s in Quebec. Based on articles, memoirs, non-fiction literature, statements we analyze the views of the French-Canadian and the English-Canadian public and political figures on the crisis of conscription, as well as the impact of the crisis on the social and political situation in post-war Quebec. Particular attention is paid to an under-researched aspect in the historiography – to attempts of a reform in Quebec, in times of Adelard Godbout (1939 – 1944) as a prime-minister of Quebec. He was considered to be a precursor of the "quiet revolution" in 1960s. During his tenure in the Quebec government he adopted important laws on women suffrage, compulsory schooling of children from six years. It weakened the influence of foreign companies on the Quebec's economy. The Adelard Godbout's defeat in provincial elections in 1944 resulted in rise of a nationalist-conservative Maurice Duplessis. We thoroughly analyzed the post-war period in the history of Quebec, which is known as the "period of darkness" (1944 – 1959), when prime minister of Quebec Maurice Duplessis was elected on second term. The paper also focuses on the policy of the M. Duplessis's regime in Quebec, on how it contributed to further backlog in socio-economic development, which accelerated discontent of opposition which demanded major reforms. This discontent had become the catalyst of the "Quiet Revolution." The postwar period has transformed French-Canadian national question in Quebec. Basic issues during the government of M. Duplessis were not linguistic, religious or cultural ones. The main question was that of equality of the provinces in the federation and concerned expansion the autonomous rights of Quebec.
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Jaggard, Edwin. "Small Boroughs and Political Modernization 1832–1868: A Cornwall Case Study." Albion 29, no. 4 (1997): 622–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4051886.
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Mid-nineteenth century elections in England's small towns were vividly described in contemporary fiction. For example, Charles Dickens' Pickwick Papers included the Eatanswill contest in which a bucolic exuberance among voters rendered irrelevant the political differences between candidates Slumkey and Fizkin. Who could blame the enfranchised mob for their behavior during polling when “Excisable articles were remarkably cheap at all the public houses,” producing an epidemic of dizziness “under which they [the voters] might frequently be seen lying on the pavements in a state of utter insensibility.” Following his bitter experience in unsuccessfully contesting Beverley in East Yorkshire, one of the Eatanswills of the sixties, Anthony Trollope parodied the election in Ralph the Heir when he took his readers to Percycross, where the Conservative Sir Thomas Underwood managed to edge out Ontario Moggs, the radical bootmaker. Similarly, at Trollope's Silverbridge (in The Prime Minister), the levers of the “Castle” interest had long been pulled by the ironmonger Sprugeon and the cork sole maker Sprout, issues and principles apparently being of peripheral importance.
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Raza, Gauhar, and Surjit Singh. "Politics, Religion, Science and Scientific Temper." Cultures of Science 1, no. 1 (September 2018): 39–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/209660831800100105.
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Spreading scientific temperament and communicating science to the public at large is a cultural and political undertaking. This article looks at a recent transition in Indian politics, the nexus between majoritarian religious leadership and political leadership, and its impact on science, science communication and scientific temper. 1 In the first section, the focus is on an unfolding three-pronged attack on science and scientific temper. First, those in power, including the Prime Minister of India, have publicly attacked established norms for distinguishing science from fiction. Second, the strengthening of the nexus between political leaders and ‘god-men’ has led to a blurring of the boundaries between religious and scientific discourses. Third, an effective cut to science and technology research expenditure has made the scientific community restless. The second section explores how religio-mythical culture affects scientific institutions. The third section shows how scientific output (scientific publications in reputable journals) has been affected in the recent past, when the political balance shifted in favour of blatant anti-science discourse.
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Bukhari, Syed Rizwan Haider, Amir Ullah Khan, and Inam Ul Haq. "Babari Masjid Chronicles: Modi’s Ideology not Embracing Ayodhya Spirit and India’s Future." Spry Contemporary Educational Practices 3, no. 1 (January 2024): 67–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.62681/sprypublishers.scep/3/1/4.
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Introduction: After the Babri Masjid demolition, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's treatment of Ayodhya’s was criticized for violating its unity tradition. Modi's politics emphasize inclusion over exclusion. Reconciliation initiatives are examined in Ram temple construction. The essay promotes discourse, harmony, and India's diversity, emphasizing the need for integration. Methodology: The study uses inductive qualitative research to examine Modi's ideology and its relationship to Ayodhya's symbolism of unity and diversity in India. Literary secondary sources including books, journals, and novel research help collect data. The study uses interpretive content analysis and is qualitative. The protagonist's psychological journey is explored using inductive inquiry. Results/ Findings: The analysis reveals The analysis indicates a notable discrepancy between Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ideological stance and the historical essence of Ayodhya as a symbol of unity and pluralism. The necessity of reevaluating Modi's ideology vis-à-vis Ayodhya and its broader implications for India's future trajectory. The research emphasizes the importance of embracing inclusivity and dialogue to safeguard the nation's unity and diversity in the face of socio-political challenges. Modi's policies and decisions concerning Ayodhya, including his role in the Ram temple construction, come under scrutiny for their implications on India's socio-political landscape. Future Direction/ Implication: This study improves understanding of "Babri Masjid Chronicles: Modi’s Ideology Not Embracing Ayodhya Spirit and India’s Future" and opens the door to further research on socio-political narratives and their psychological roots in literature. This includes studying national identity, ideological disagreement, and cultural and religious pluralism in fictional and historical situations. This research inspires further study of literary discourse, socio-political ideologies, and Indian national identity and unity
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McWilliam, David. "London's Dispossessed: Questioning the Neo-Victorian Politics of Neoliberal Austerity in Richard Warlow's Ripper Street." Victoriographies 6, no. 1 (March 2016): 42–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/vic.2016.0210.
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The moral justification for the rollback of benefits and services under the austerity programme unleashed by George Osborne since 2010, when he was first appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer by British Prime Minister David Cameron, is predicated on a neoliberal ideology that views unemployment and poverty as stemming from personal failings rather than the ways in which the free market has shaped British society since the election of Margaret Thatcher in 1979. By using Charles Murray's neo-Victorian argument that the welfare state has created a work-shy, antisocial ‘underclass’, neoliberal politicians and journalists have mythologised the Victorian era as one of discipline and stability, providing a model for the sort of society we should aspire once more to be. This article argues that Richard Warlow's television series, Ripper Street (2012 –), in showing the socio-economic causes of crime in late-Victorian London and the need for collective action and state intervention to alleviate them, challenges the construction of the era used to justify neoliberal austerity. It does so through what Ann Heilmann and Mark Llewellyn characterise as one of the defining features of neo-Victorian fiction: its ability to demonstrate the ‘quasi-fictiveness of the Victorians to our own period’, implicitly drawing parallels between the progressive zeal of nineteenth-century social reformers and the anti-austerity movement today.
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Layne, Bethany. "‘Full cause of weeping’: Affective Failure in The Queen (2006) and The Crown (2019)." European Journal of Life Writing 10 (September 8, 2021): WLS41—WKS63. http://dx.doi.org/10.21827/ejlw.10.37912.
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This article reads The Crown, Series Three, Episode Three, ‘Aberfan’, as an adaptation of The Queen, both of which were written by Peter Morgan. Each focuses on a crisis in public relations emerging from Elizabeth II’s delayed reaction to a tragedy: the mining disaster in The Crown and the death of Princess Diana in The Queen. Both are double portraits, in which the monarch’s affective failure is contrasted with the more humane response of the prime minister, Harold Wilson and Tony Blair respectively. And both texts explore the tension between private grief and public performance. By reading these texts in dialogue, their relevance to their contemporary contexts is magnified. The Queen uses Elizabeth II’s nadir in public relations to comment on Blair’s fall from grace as a result of the Iraq War, while ‘Aberfan’, by emphasising the avoidable nature of the disaster, comments on the Grenfell Tower fire of 2017. While neither text shrinks from criticising the monarch for her breakdown in empathy, the resonances between Aberfan and Grenfell allow the Queen’s immediate and humane response in 2017 to redeem her delayed reactions in the past. This demonstrates the capacity of fictional texts to intervene in the popular perception of their subjects.
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Carlson, Bronwyn. "Total Control: “black bitch” offending the offenders." AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, May 30, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/11771801241255145.
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Total Control (2019–2024) is a political drama that follows the story of Rachel Griffiths as the prime minister of so-called Australia and Deborah Mailman as her political rival. Available on demand on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) iView, Total Control was initially called “Black Bitch” to draw attention to the historical racial slur but was forced to change its title due to a social media storm. Total Control demonstrates striking parallels with the treatment of real-life Indigenous women in politics. This article looks at the role of social media as a platform that provides a way for Indigenous women to engage in public politics. It discusses these technologies as providing settlers with the means to publicly malign Indigenous women. It draws from research on the use and abuse of social media in relation to Indigenous users and is underscored by the blurred boundary between fiction and non-fiction Indigenous realities.
Books on the topic "Prime ministers – Fiction"
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Austin, Clarke. The Prime Minister. Toronto: Exile Editions, 1994.
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Jayaseela, Julian. The prime minister's secret. Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia: Gerakbudaya Enterprise, 2016.
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Anthony, Trollope. The Prime minister. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
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Anthony, Trollope. The prime minister. London: Penguin Books, 1993.
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Trollope, Anthony. The prime minister. London: Folio Society, 1991.
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Anthony, Trollope. The Prime Minister. Edited by Nicholas Shrimpton. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
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Anthony, Trollope. The prime minister. London: Penguin Books, 1994.
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Anthony, Trollope. The prime minister. London: The Trollope Society, 1991.
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Efe başvekil: Şükrü Saracoğlu'nun romanı. Cağaloğlu, İstanbul: Remzi Kitabevi, 2006.
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Ai, Bei. Jiao fu qin tai chen zhong. Hong Kong: Ming Chuang, 1994.
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Robertson, Jennifer. "Families of Future Past." In Robo sapiens japanicus. University of California Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520283190.003.0003.
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Chapter 3 continues the backstory to Innovation 25 and Prime Minister Abe’s plans to robotize Japan. The fictional ethnography of the Inobe family included in Innovation 25, which was expanded and published as a book, is translated and critiqued. Comparisons are drawn between the three-generation Inobe family and a wartime predecessor, the Yamato family. Eminent cartoonist Hasegawa Machiko was among the cartoonists who created the Yamato family comic, and her popular postwar comic strip Sazae-san is presented as another model for the invention of the Inobe family. In this context, parallels between Prime Minister Abe and his maternal grandfather, Nobusuke Kishi, an influential wartime politician and postwar prime minister, are drawn with reference to the applications of technology and soft power.
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Sengupta, Jagriti. "The Women in the Fictions of Arundhati Roy." In Advances in Media, Entertainment, and the Arts, 113–20. IGI Global, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-6572-1.ch012.
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Arundhati Roy, the world-renowned novelist and political essayist from India, is a dominant voice against injustice perpetrated against the marginalized in the country. For her, the marginalization of women is part of a process through which social oppression is unleashed upon the weak. Roy got the prestigious Booker prize for her debut novel, The God of Small Things. The fiction brought out the unjust politics of caste and gender discrimination inherent in an orthodox society. However, after her first fiction, Roy shifted gear to non-fictions that she continued to write for almost two decades. Roy got engaged in more serious political debates and became a powerful critic of corporate globalization. In 2017, Roy published her second novel, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness. In it, Roy offered a journalistic review of all the sociopolitical events of the post-Independent India. This chapter examines that the women protagonists in Roy's fictions extend solidarity to others who are in the margins because, according to Roy, feminism should be a powerful force against oppression in general.
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Heidensohn, Frances. "Introduction." In Women in Control?, 1–3. Oxford University PressOxford, 1992. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198252559.003.0001.
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Abstract Social scientists can learn much from the study of images. In the early 1990s, for instance, it was possible to collect a striking series of pictures of women from western mass media. Margaret Thatcher, Britain’s Prime Minister for more than eleven years, resigned. World-wide she was shown not only departing in dramatic style, but her premiership was portrayed and analysed at length. A few months later, Edith Cresson became the first female Prime Minister of France. Between these two political events, women serving in the Coalition Forces in the Gulf War were depicted in combat gear and with weapons and also embracing their children as they left for the war. The most senior woman police officer in Britain claimed that she had been sexually discriminated against and was suspended while a disciplinary charge was brought against her. Fictional portrayals of women as detectives, especially in television series, are not new, but the 1990s saw new departures with films such as Nikita, Blue Steel, and The Silence of the Lambs in all of which the pursuing officer is a tough, armed female.
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Jaising, Shakti. "The Neoliberal Script." In Beyond Alterity: Contemporary Indian Fiction and the Neoliberal Script, 39–66. Liverpool University Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781837645121.003.0003.
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This chapter demonstrates the formation and proliferation across advanced capitalist contexts like the US and emerging economies like India of a neoliberal script over the last four decades, which has eroded the social currency of redistributive approaches such as Keynesianism and developmentalism. The chapter tracks resonances between diverse performances of this script—from Chicago School neoliberal Milton Friedman’s 1980 documentary series, Free to Choose, to former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s iconic addresses in the wake of economic liberalization in the early 1990s, and public intellectual Gurcharan Das’s bestselling national biographies about the rise of New India. By highlighting the role of Indian elites, and not simply Northern agents, this chapter complicates the widely held belief that the neoliberal turn in the Global South results primarily from material and ideological pressures imposed by the North.
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"Caroline Norton (1808-77)." In A Century of Sonnets, edited by Paula R. Feldman and Daniel Robinson, 204–5. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195115611.003.0075.
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Abstract Best known today as a political reformer who played a crucial role in influencing the passage through Parliament of the Infants’ Custody Bill (1839) and the Marriage and Divorce Act of 1857, Caroline Norton was also recognized in her own time as a poet, a fiction writer, an essayist, an editor, and a fashionable celebrity at the center of a major political scandal involving the prime minister, Lord Melbourne. Her books of poetry included The Sorrows of Rosalie: A Tale, with Other Poems, published anonymously in 1829, The Undying One (1830), A Voice from the Factories (1836), and Child of the Islands (1845). In the early 1830s, she earned as much as 1400 pounds a year publishing in the annuals and editing gift books.
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Lockhart, Greg. "Made in Britain." In The Vietnam War in the Pacific World, 31–53. University of North Carolina Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469671147.003.0003.
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In 1941–42, the Japanese destroyed the Western, particularly British, imperial order in Southeast Asia. In white Australia post-1945, the shocked response was to support the reestablishment of that order in a new form. This largely meant government opposition to the post-1945 process of decolonization going on in the countries to the north, opposition that was set in a sense of the menacing “downward thrust” of Asian geography and that was also race based. In a period of decolonization, however, the government could not say that. While Prime Minister Robert Menzies drew on an early British form of the “domino theory”, which was a clear fiction and fantasy, imposition of the Cold War on the process of decolonization then facilitated his policy. Indeed, anti-communist rhetoric disguised a race-based “forward defense” strategy that was designed to support the neo-imperial order in Asia.
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Niqueux, Michel. "A French Detective Novel about S.A. Esenin." In Sergey Esenin, His Contemporaries and Successors: Сollective Мonograph to the Аnniversary of N.I. Shubnikova-Guseva, 290–300. A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.22455/978-5-9208-0718-2-290-300.
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The article examines Jean de Boishue’s novel “La Vie interrompue de Sergueï Alexandrovitch Essenine” (Paris, Bartillat Publ., 2021. 250 p.) Jean de Boishue (born in 1943) is a grandson of the founder of the Russian House in Saint-Geneviève-des-Bois, Princess Vera Meshcherskaya, a former statesman (adviser to the French Prime Minister Francois Fillon, deputy, member of the State Council). Boishue relies mainly on Eduard Khlystalov, Stanislav and Sergey Kunyaev (but keeps silent about it) and introduces a fictitious retired KGB colonel of the perestroika epoch to investigate the circumstances of S.A. Esenin’s death. The novel is divided into 33 chapters, in which truth and fiction are mixed. The author of any novel is free to interpret events at his own discretion, but incomprehensibly Jean de Boishue made many factual inaccuracies, absurdities and contradictions that undermine the main thesis of this otherwise wellwritten conspiracy novel.
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Lee, Cheryl Julia, and Graham Matthews. "Intelligent Infrastructure, Humans as Resources, and Coevolutionary Futures." In Imagining AI, 382–402. Oxford University PressOxford, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192865366.003.0025.
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Abstract Singapore’s status as a world leader in the design and implementation of digital technologies can be largely attributed to the Smart Nation initiative inaugurated in 2014 by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, who presented a vision of ‘a nation where people live meaningful and fulfilled lives, enabled seamlessly by technology, offering exciting opportunities for all’. While artificial intelligence (AI) narratives in Singapore problematize this discourse, which simultaneously valorizes and objectifies the human, they also typically eschew the tropes of existential risk common in Western cultural narratives. A survey of Singaporean-authored fiction featuring AI across the four official languages reveal three foci: intelligent infrastructure and human resources (both of which allow authors to explore the potential consequences of techno-social engineering and the ways in which critical faculties risk being short-circuited by technological paternalism) and coevolution, through which authors interrogate the possibilities of imagining new forms of existence alongside technology.
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Lehtisalo, Anneli. "The Private Life of the Prime Minister? Politics, Drama and Documentary in Pääministeri and Palme." In Nordic Genre Film, 119–30. Edinburgh University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9780748693184.003.0009.
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Palme and Pääministeri can be considered exceptional films in their respective national contexts. Politics and public figures have not been a typical subject for contemporary feature films in Sweden or in Finland, although similar topics have thrived in Anglo-American media culture. Films like The Deal (UK, 2003), Looking for Fidel (USA, Brazil, 2004), The Queen (UK, France, Italy, 2006) and Margaret (UK, 2009) have depicted the political past and present by portraying the experiences or actions of known politicians in different generic modes, such as documentary dramas, documentaries and fictional biographical films. The film Palme differentiates itself in the Swedish context with its extremely controversial main character and sensitive topic. In Finland, as well, politicians have rarely been depicted in recent years. The documentary drama Pääministeri exemplifies such Finnish films. Although the docudramatic mode was not unprecedented in Finland, Pääministeri exemplified a new, international trend in television production by depicting a dramatised account of a living person and a relatively recent political incident.