Gloria Patri, Gender, and the Gulf War: A Conversation with Mary Kelly

Mary Kelly\u27s gallery size installation, entitled Gloria Patri, was first shown at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University in 1992. Gloria Patri focuses on the issues of heroism, mastery, and war within the context of a pathologized masculinity; that is, on the identification by both men and women with masculine ideals of mastery, domination, and control, and their simultaneous physical and psychological collapse. This crisis of masculine mastery is set against the backdrop of the Persian Gulf War

The magic of television: Thinking through magical realism in recent TV

After decades in which television has been marked as more banal than bewitching, recalling the "magic of television" is more likely to evoke a sense of wonder for the perceived innocence of an earlier televisual audience than for television itself. With TV offered on demand, captured with DVRs, downloaded or watched streaming on the Web, purchased as DVD sets, miniaturized for private screenings, jumbo-sized for public spectacles, monitored in closed circuits, and accessed for open forums, once-mysterious television flows have flowed to new media forms, giving TV an appearing/disappearing, now-you-see-it/now-you-don't magical act of its own. Has TV disappeared, or has it multiplied—redoubled each time it's sawed in half, replicating like rabbits pulled out of a hat? Is it still TV or something else when programs are screened (as if through a magic curtain) via today's delivery systems

Melodrama egípcio: uma tecnologia do sujeito moderno?<A NAME="suptitulo"></A> Egyptian melodrama technology of the modern subject?

Considero bastante evidente que os textos melodramáticos podem atuar sobre os espectadores de vários modos. Não podemos simplesmente analisar as mensagens explícitas da trama e dos personagens, assim como não devemos nos limitar ao estudo da recepção. O que pretendo explorar neste ensaio, entretanto, é como a representação da emoção dos personagens no melodrama egípcio pode fornecer um modelo para um novo tipo de sujeito individualizado. A análise considera os objetivos dos produtores e escritores dos seriados televisivos, assim como a convivência de uma empregada doméstica com estes conteúdos.<br>I think it is abundantly clear thar melodramatic texts can work on viewers in multiple ways. One cannot simply analyze the overt messages of plot and character, just as one should not limit oneself to the study of reception. What I want explore in this essay, however, is how the representation of characters' emotions in Egyptian melodrama might provide a model for a new kind of individuated subject. The analyses is based on the objectives of TV series writers and producers, and on a domestic servant lived experience interacting with such content