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Braus, Ira, and Michael Musgrave. "Brahms 2: Biographical, Documentary and Analytical Studies." Journal of Music Theory 34, no. 1 (1990): 108. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/843865.
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Helseth, Tore. "Elements in the biographical discourse of the documentary Ole Bull." Journal of Scandinavian Cinema 11, no. 3 (September 1, 2021): 327–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jsca_00058_1.
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The article discusses how the biographical is represented in the documentary Ole Bull (Aarhus 2006), a film about the world-famous Norwegian composer and violin virtuoso (1810‐80). It focuses on the biographical discourse ‐ that is, by what kind of stylistic devices his life story is told and the audio-visual strategies the film employs to make the past present.
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Kerr, Paul. "Authorship, Autobiography and the Archive." VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture 4, no. 8 (December 30, 2015): 67. http://dx.doi.org/10.18146/2213-0969.2015.jethc094.
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In 2004, documentary theorist Michael Renov described ‘the recent turn to filmic autobiography’ as ‘the defining trend of “post-verite” documentary practice...’ In 2008 Renov went further still, suggesting that ‘the very idea of autobiography challenges/reinvents the VERY IDEA of documentary.’ Archive based autobiographical filmmaking, meanwhile, is even more problematic for documentary theory. Indeed, a number of recent documentaries, because of their status somewhere in the spectrum between biography and autobiography, have prompted the construction of an entirely new conceptual category, deploying archival film, often in the form of home movies, to document the lives of their human subjects in Renov’s formulation ‘shared textual authority’. In this article I examine one of ‘my’ own archive based documentaries, ‘Marilyn on Marilyn’ (BBC2 2001), as a way of asking questions not just about biographical and autobiographical documentary but also - and perhaps more urgently - about attributions of authorship in archive-based documentary.
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Murray, Tom. "Emotions, Activism and Documentary Storytelling: A Biographical Production-Based Case Study." Emotions: History, Culture, Society 5, no. 1 (July 13, 2021): 103–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2208522x-02010116.
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Abstract The biography of Douglas Grant (c.1885–1951) has been publicly and popularly told in media since 1916. Interestingly, Grant’s unusual life-story has consistently been deployed to serve various political agendas. This essay examines the role of popular-media biographies of Douglas Grant and the emotions embedded in them, and utilises a documentary-film production as a case study to examine relations between these emotions, activist agendas and documentary-film storytelling. Additionally, given the consistent use of tragedy as a formal narrative structure employed in tellings of Douglas Grant’s story, this essay also describes how narrative structures are not culturally neutral, but are themselves emotionally suggestive cultural productions. Analysing a century of tellings of the Douglas Grant biography, this essay also offers insights into how conquest-colonial ideology is manifest in these often ‘tragic’ tales. As an attempt at decolonising scholarship, this essay also responds to insights by Indigenous commentators within the case-study text to reflect on Indigenous ontologies and the role of Country and Indigenous futurism as places/sites/histories of hope.
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Pronin, Alexander A. "Documentary Footage in the TV Film Portrait: Methods and Techniques of Mastering." Journal of Flm Arts and Film Studies 8, no. 2 (June 15, 2016): 133–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.17816/vgik82133-143.
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The article explores the mechanisms of using historical documentary footage in creating biographical TV shows. The author analyses the methods of incorporating alien texts into a new cinematic text and proves the relevance of TV biographies as a unique discourse practice of memory reproduction.
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Joan Kelly, Elizabeth. "Andy Warhol: documentaries and biographical films." Collection Building 33, no. 3 (July 1, 2014): 81–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/cb-04-2014-0021.
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Purpose – This paper aims to compile an annotated list of films about or pertaining to the artist Andy Warhol. Design/methodology/approach – Films were located using library catalogs, databases and online searches. Selections were evaluated through inspection and both academic and popular film reviews. Inclusion was predicated not only on subject matter and merit but also on availability either on home media or online. Findings – Warhol’s many artistic creations can be introduced and evaluated using a combination of visual and auditory representation. Movies and television (TV) depicting Warhol through dramatization, primary source film, biographical documentary and his art in the context of other artists and movements are readily available through a variety of media. Originality/value – The selected titles provide a comprehensive introduction to the scholarly analysis of Warhol’s art and work through a format that allows the most extensive representation of Warhol’s artistic output.
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Ebrahim, Haseenah. "The cinematic life of the Sistren Theater Collective: forays into biographical documentary." Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies / Revue canadienne des études latino-américaines et caraïbes 41, no. 2 (May 3, 2016): 129–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08263663.2016.1182285.
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Zaytseva, T. I., and O. M. Maksimova. "The genre of biographical essay in the works of Udmurt writers." Bulletin of Ugric studies 11, no. 3 (2021): 435–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.30624/2220-4156-2021-11-3-435-443.
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Introduction: genre transformation in the Udmurt journalism of the end of the XX century is most clearly manifested in the biographical essays, based on real-life facts from the lives of famous representatives of the intelligentsia, natives of Udmurtia. The biographical essay in the Udmurt literature of this period demonstrates the presence of the elements of memoir, biography, elements of portrayal, problematic, biographical, social, historical essays as well as document / fact and fiction within the same work; the mental, intellectual principle is strengthened in it. The relevance of the article is due to the . fact that for the first time an attempt was made to consider the problems and poetics of the biographical essay in the work of Udmurt writers. Objective: to study the features of the biographical essay in the Udmurt social and political journalism at the end of the XX century; to describe the content and the formal components of the biographical essay, based on particular texts by Udmurt authors. Research materials: biographical essays of the Udmurt publicists M. A. Lyamin and S. A. Samsonov. Results and novelty of the research: the article is one of the first attempts of comprehensive analysis of the genre of the Udmurt biographical essay. The peculiarities of the modern Udmurt biographical essay are largely due to the desire of writers to convey the complex of the personality traits of their famous fellow countrymen – public figures, scientists, politicians, culture professionals. A biographical essay which combines «portrait-biography» and «portrait-characterization» as well as the parameters of a documentary story, a literary portrait and a historical biography testifies to the expansion of the aesthetic boundaries of Udmurt prose.
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Volkov, Evgeny V. "DOCUMENTARY RESEARCH ON THE “BROTHER-GENERAL”: NEW BIOGRAPHICAL STUDIES ON THE WHITE MOVEMENT." History and Archives, no. 1 (2020): 126–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.28995/2658-6541-2020-1-126-139.
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Mhiripiri, Nhamo Anthony. "(Auto)Biographical and cinematographic exposition of Dambudzo Marechera on documentary film and video." Journal of African Cinemas 5, no. 1 (April 1, 2013): 99–121. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jac.5.1.99_1.
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Panyukova, Tatiana. "Dostoevsky’s Godchildren." Dostoevsky and world culture. Philological journal, no. 3 (2020): 240–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.22455/2619-0311-2020-3-240-269.
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The article, based on archival sources, provides new information about two godchildren of F.M. Dostoevsky: Platon Milyukov (with clarification of the name, date and place of his baptism) and Grigoriy Snitkin (the fact of the writer's participation in the baptism has not yet been noted in the biographical literature). Two authentic metric records found in the Central State Archive of Saint Petersburg are put into scientific circulation, allowing to supplement or correct the information contained in the “Chronicle of the life and work” of the writer. The attraction of documentary sources (stored in the Russian State Historical Archive of service and form lists), analysis of the preserved epistolary, reference and biographical literature allowed to attempt to systematize all available data about Grigoriy Ivanovich Snitkin and for the first time to make a biographical reference about his person, native nephew of Anna Grigoryevna Dostoevsky and godson of the writer – thus adding information about F.M. Dostoevsky’s family circle.
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Boon, Tim. "British Science Documentaries: Transitions from Film to Television." Journal of British Cinema and Television 10, no. 3 (July 2013): 475–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2013.0151.
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The relationship between documentary films made for projection and television documentaries has not been studied in any sustained way. This is partially a product of the weakness of the literature on both postwar documentary and of the development of the form within the new medium. This article uses a combination of biography and formal analysis to begin to address this lacuna in the literature as it relates in particular to films and programmes with scientific themes. It examines four individuals who worked in documentary film before spending varying amounts of time in television: Duncan Ross, Paul Rotha, Michael Orrom and Ramsay Short, who joined the BBC respectively in 1947, 1953, 1954 and 1963. The analysis shows that those who stayed long term at the BBC (Ross and Short) adapted their technique to the new medium, while Rotha and Orrom – who both left after a comparatively short time – mainly sought to use TV as a medium for broadcasting existing documentary styles. It concludes that the approach of taking biographical details and formal qualities is useful, but that larger samples of programme-makers would be required to reach firm conclusions about the relationship between documentary films made for projection and television documentaries
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Selejan, Ileana L. "Actions. Situations. Possible Scenarios." Protest, Vol. 4, no. 2 (2019): 50–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.47659/m7.050.art.
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Zigzagging through personal memory and historical episodes of great consequence – the fall of the Berlin wall, the Romanian revolution and the April 2018 protests in Nicaragua – the essay seeks points of connection between the personal and the political, exploring how the two are intimately and inextricably intertwined. The textual approach can be situated in-between historical analysis and auto-biographical fiction; the aim is to enable multi-layered narratives, and contrasting, conflicting temporalities to co-exist. Illustrative of this intent, Romanian artist Călin Man intervenes upon the more well-known documentary photographs referenced in the text, by conflating them with everyday snapshots from the city of Arad taken at different points along the temporal arc described. Keywords: documentary, memory, personal history, photography, revolution, transnationalism
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Oates, Thomas Patrick. "Failure Is Not an Option: Sport Documentary and the Politics of Redemption." Journal of Sport History 41, no. 2 (July 1, 2014): 215–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/jsporthistory.41.2.215.
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Abstract With the growth of sport documentary, the biographical profile has become an increasingly prevalent form of meaning making around sport. This essay develops a critical approach to the genre by engaging two examples produced by ESPN Films that profile a failed National Football League (NFL) player: The Best There Never Was and The Marinovich Project. It engages Judith Halberstam’s concept of the “queer art of failure” and adapts it to racialized, hyper-masculine sport as a possible strategy for resistance. In doing so, it considers how the production of popular history through sporting “failures” can challenge dominant ideas about the NFL and its sociopolitical implications.
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Alibekova, Patimat Magomedovna. "ABDULKADIR DAGESTANI – A PROMINENT SPIRITUAL FIGURE OF IRAN OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY." Herald of the G. Tsadasa Institute of Language, Literature and Art, no. 26 (June 4, 2021): 25–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.31029/vestiyali26/5.
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The article provides a biographical sketch of Sheikh Abdulkadyr Dagestani (1900–1962), who, by the will of fate, ended up in Iran in the 1930s. The name of the scientist and educator Abdulkadyr Dagestani remained unopened until today. The research was carried out with the use of biographical information given in the book of the Iranian writer Khadi Khormali «Dagestani muhajirs», written on the basis of real facts from the life of Abdulkadyr and his brothers from the village Nizhnee Mulebki of the Republic of Dagestan in Iran, as well as Iranian documentary materials from Internet resources. Abdulkadyr Dagestani made a great contribution to the culture of Iran with his spiritual and educational activities. The Iranians attribute the Dagestani muhajir Abdulkadyr Dagestani to the outstanding spiritual leaders of Iran.
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Linke, Gabriele M. "Documenting Diaspora: Multiperspectivity in Sandhya Suri's Auto/Biographical Film "I for India"." European Journal of Life Writing 3 (November 3, 2014): VC55—VC74. http://dx.doi.org/10.5463/ejlw.3.109.
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Yash Pal Suri, a young Indian doctor, went to the UK in 1965 to complete his medical training. He equipped himself and his family back in India with a camera, tape recorder etc. so that they could film episodes of their lives and exchange 'cine-letters,' which they did for about 40 years. In 2005, Suri's daughter, Sandhya Suri, created a 70-minute documentary from her family's filmed stories and other sources, selecting and arranging the various scenes and voices recorded and combining them with clips from historical TV programmes as well as interviews and short scenes filmed between 2003 and 2005 in India and England. She re-constructs her transnational family's life story as embedded it in a complex set of factors and influences. Sandhya' documentary is, on various levels, both biographical (hers of her family, and family members talking about each other) and autobiographical (her presence in the film and family members talking about themselves), and these perspectives are deeply entangled. By emphasising her family's failed attempt to re-settle in India, she complicates the story of cultural integration. The result is a reconstruction of this diasporic life narrative from various angles and along the various axes of diasporic relations, especially those with home (India) and the host society, describing the position of the diasporic subject as in-between and continuously shifting. This article was submitted on June 1st, 2014 and published on November 2nd, 2014.
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Safronova, Elena. "F. M. Dostoevsky’s Siberian Text: Problems and Perspectives." Неизвестный Достоевский 7, no. 3 (September 2020): 54–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.15393/j10.art.2020.4922.
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The review article is devoted to the analysis of studies of the Siberian period of F. M. Dostoevsky’s life and work. The main trends in the study of the author’s Siberian text are described. The entire variety of sources may be subdivided into four groups: memoirs and epistolary testimonies; journalism, biographical novels, essays, novellas, etc.; biographical studies; interpretations of Siberian works. One of the main issues is the problem of their reliability. Close to the memoir fraud remain biographical novels, biographical chronicles, documentary novels are close to being memoir falsifications, and so they often contain factual errors or free interpretation of events. They sometimes include home-grown myths about Dostoevsky's stay in Siberia, that were created by local residents. Some of these myths have already been exposed by the scientific approach. The article analyzes the biographical research of V. N. Zakharov, M. M. Gromyko, N. I. Levchenko, V. S. Vainerman, A. S. Shadrina, E. D. Trukhan, V. F. Grishaev and others. These studies are peculiar in that they are usually localized and represent research not into the Siberian text as a whole, but into its constituent parts: those related to Omsk, Kuznetsk, Tobolsk, Barnaul or Semipalatinsk. The article describes both fairly well-known and new biographical materials that have been published recently and significantly enriched the understanding of the Siberian period of the writer's biography and work, and provides an overview of interpretations of Dostoevsky's Siberian works. The paper identifies problems and outlines the perspectives of studying the Siberian text, and determines the archival collections where new documents about Dostoevsky and his environment can be discovered.
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Nikoriak, Nataliia, and Aliona Matiychak. "Literary Specifics of Biographical Film Story: On the Issue of Genre Heredity." Pitannâ lìteraturoznavstva, no. 104 (December 27, 2021): 28–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.31861/pytlit2021.104.028.
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The genre heredity concept is articulated on the analysis example of I. Drach’s screen version of the biographical film story “I’m coming to you” (1970), dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Lesya Ukrainka. The film is marked by innovative approach of I. Drach as a scriptwriter to the image of the poetess. Contrary to the tradition of documentary film to interpret her biography in a certain matrix key (as a fighter and revolutionary), Drach tried to identify Lesya Ukrainka primarily as a private individual, as the woman who knew how to sacrifice herself for the sake of love. Without aiming to show in detail the entire biography of the poetess, the author of the film story chose only a small fragment of her life – four years 1897–1901. In terms of biopic genre heredity, the article observes how this biographical film presents possible ways of processing and contamination of available documentary material (letters, memoirs, reminiscences of contemporaries) and integral creation by Lesya Ukrainka (her poetry, translations, renditions). Hence, the biopic on the basis of multi-genre text material appears as a kind of intertextual plexus. At the same time, the film pays much attention to the feelings, thoughts, creative impulses and state of mind of the heroine. By analogy with the poetics of literary writing, the form of the poetess’ inner monologue was chosen in accordance with the portrait film genre. It is clear that through the prism of Lesya’s life and creative experience the personal attitude of the poet I. Drach emerges towards understanding and reproducing the figure of creative personality in art: the author’ vision logically leads to those biographical episodes that in the existential sense appear the most significant.
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Zakryzhevskaia, Elena. "Biographical features of Vladislav Khodasevich in Gulliver’s chronicle." Literary Fact, no. 15 (2020): 342–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.22455/2541-8297-2020-15-342-351.
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The main source of information about Vladislav Khodasevich’s life is his memoirs, which he published as separate essays on the pages of émigré outlets. The article discusses several cases when biographical information appears in the chronicle of Soviet literature, which the critic published together with Nina Berberova in the newspaper “Vozrozhdenie” (1927 – 1939) under the common pseudonym Gulliver. In addition to documentary evidence of work on the chronicle, as well as the existence of an ideological community of pseudonymous notes and authorized publications, Khodasevich’s authorship can be established when biographical details of the chronicler’s life are interwoven in the notes. Until now, such cases have been considered as supporting material for the attribution of certain chronicle issues. The article highlights notes that are of independent value for studying both Khodasevich’s work and his biography, which allows us to significantly correct the traditional approach to such a material. The most interesting and voluminous examples from the entire corps of “Literary Chronicle” are used for research. The thematic scatter is quite large: from the reception of plans for 1935 on the redevelopment of Moscow streets to references to Khodasevich’s unpublished poetic legacy
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Andrews, Hannah. "BBC4 Biopics: Lessons in Trashy Respectability." Journal of British Cinema and Television 13, no. 3 (July 2016): 409–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2016.0327.
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Between its launch in March 2002 and 2013, BBC4, the BBC's niche arts and culture digital channel, broadcast a cycle of biographical dramas, largely about the unhappy personal lives of British cultural and political icons of the twentieth century. Alongside stylish continental European drama imports, world cinema and documentary programmes, biopics became a key marker of the BBC4 brand and its dominant home-grown dramatic output. In scholarly work on television biopics to date, the genre has been seen as akin to tabloid newspapers, conceived as a trashy cultural form that reduces the importance and seriousness of biographical narrative. However, in recent years biographical drama has been used by upmarket television brands like HBO, Showtime or, indeed, the BBC as a mark of distinction and respectability. This article analyses this dynamic in relation to BBC biopics, exploring how a specific dramatic genre is used to reinforce the brand image of a niche digital channel. It focuses not only on the benefits of such material for attracting both within and beyond the channel's intended demographic, but also on certain of the ethical and legal challenges intrinsic to a genre that exploits the personal stories of real people.
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Kusek, Robert. "Scholar – Fictionist – Memoirist: David Lodge’s Documentary (Self-)Biography in Quite a Good Time to be Born: 1935–1975." Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 51, no. 1 (March 1, 2016): 115–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/stap-2016-0005.
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Abstract Over the last decade or so, David Lodge has become not only a reader but also an avid practitioner of “fact-based writing” - be it the biographical novel (The Master of 2004 and A Man of Parts 2011), the autobiographical novel (Deaf Sentence of 2008), the biographical essay (Lives in Writing of 2014) and - finally - a proper autobiography (Quite a Good Time to Be Born of 2015). The aim of this paper is to analyse Lodge’s recent turn to life narratives and, in particular, his autobiographical story of 2015; and, consequently, to address the following questions: Does Lodge’s memoir offer “an experiment in autobiography” (to quote H.G. Wells, one of Lodge’s favourites), or remain a conventional life story immune to the tenets of contemporary life writing? Is it the work of a (self- )historian, or a novelist? Does it belong to the “regime of truth,” or is it the product of memory? Finally, is it, indeed, a memoir (as its subtitle claims), or a specimen of self-biography? The paper will show special interest in the work’s generic characteristics and will offer an attempt to locate Quite a Good Time to Be Born on the map of contemporary life writing practices.
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Flis, Leonora. "The blending of fact and fiction in three American documentary (crime) narratives." Acta Neophilologica 43, no. 1-2 (December 31, 2010): 69–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/an.43.1-2.69-82.
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The article focuses on narratives that can best be classified as documentary novels. Such narratives can frequently depict deviant crimes. The selected texts are taken from three different decades, as the study intends to determine if/how the perception of crime and, consequently, its depiction in verbal narratives change through time, and moreover, to examine the attitudes of different writers towards facts (empirical reality) that they depict. Truman Capotećs In Cold Blood (1965), Norman Mailer's The Executioner's Song (1979), and John Berendt's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story (1994) are all instances of crime narratives that blur and thus problematize the (often thin) line between fact and fiction, and, as a result, raise issues that concern genre theory. These texts embody characteristics of journalistic, historical, (auto)biographical, and fictional accounts, and continually oscillate on the scale of factuality or fictionality.
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Gasparyan, Naira. "T.E. Lawrence’s Idea on How to Solve the Armenian Question." Armenian Folia Anglistika 10, no. 1-2 (12) (October 15, 2014): 171–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.46991/afa/2014.10.1-2.171.
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T.E. Lawrence’s specific perception of the Turks and of the Armenians is analyzed within the frames of this particular research article. T.E. Lawrence’s biographical-documentary novel The Seven Pillars of Wisdom and his famous interview given to the American journalist and editor Lincoln Steffens have been the material of our cultural and linguostylistic study. An attempt is made to establish the true image of the Young Turks and the Armenians who were killed by the Turks because of their national identity. Lawrence depicts Turkish atrocities with some highlighted negative emotion.
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Reis, Rosemeire. "Diálogos entre Questões de Pesquisa que Orientam a Teoria da Relação com o Saber de Bernard Charlot e a Pesquisa Biográfica em Educação de Christine Delory-Momberger." Revista Internacional Educon 2, no. 3 (December 31, 2021): e21023003. http://dx.doi.org/10.47764/e21023003.
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This article aims to present research questions and theoretical assumptions that underlie Bernard Charlot's theory of the relationship with knowledge and Christine Delory- Momberger's biographical research in education. To do so, it resorts to documentary analysis of books and articles by the authors. The configuration of theoretical and methodological fields of research with their specificities is identified, but also the points of dialogue concerning their research questions and, in particular by the reciprocal theoretical and epistemological interest in studying the construction of individuals as singular and social, from socio-anthropological approaches.
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Bonesso, Amandine. "Marie de l’Incarnation d’après Jean-Daniel Lafond : l’amour d’une sainte contre la barbarie actuelle." Dialogues francophones 21, no. 1 (December 1, 2015): 185–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/difra-2015-0009.
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Abstract The contribution examines the documentary Folle de Dieu (2008) and the play Marie de l'Incarnation ou La déraison d'amour (2009), Jean-Daniel Lafond’s adaptations of Marie de l’Incarnation’s (1599-1672) autobiographical texts. The study demonstrates that the two works, the last in a long biographical tradition, construe the nun’s life as a humanitarian model through the theme of love. In this manner, the film-maker encourages the current society not to give way to the bellicose violence of the last century and to rethink the future as a possible happiness.
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Antsyferova, Olga. "Rethinking the biographical canon: Silences and gaps in Colm Tóibín’s "The Master"." Beyond Philology An International Journal of Linguistics, Literary Studies and English Language Teaching, no. 16/2 (June 20, 2019): 7–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.26881/bp.2019.2.01.
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Over the last number of decades, the biographical canon has become the focus of scholarly attention for several reasons: revision of the essential concepts of (self)-identity, keen interest in liminal literary forms, searches for new forms of assessment of the artist’s creative output and new interpretive methodologies. Biofiction as a genre encompassing both documentary and fictional elements represents not only the biographical subject proper but also the author’s subjective orientation. The case study of a recent biofiction about Henry James (“The Master” by the Irish gay writer Colm Tóibín) suggests that silence as a semiotic practice and cognitive failure plays an important role in this particular example of the numerous biographies of James and functions not to uncover the sites of suppression of a presumably gay protagonist but acquires a universal, ontological meaning, signifying the fatal solitude of the artist, which is very close to the main credo of James’ own writing.
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Francis, Marc. "Smoke and Mirrors: The Bio-Con Documentary in the Age of Trump." Film Quarterly 74, no. 1 (2020): 69–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/fq.2020.74.1.69.
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Noting that popular film and television have answered the Trump era's mass erosion of truth and justice with narratives about powerful deceivers and sophists, Film Quarterly Assistant Editor Marc Francis argues that no fiction has yet to offer as cohesive and relevant a response to these times as the what he terms the “bio-con” (biographical con) documentary. The bio-con documentary zeroes in on one notorious figure—a fraud—the unveiling of whose scheme occupies multiple national news cycles and is therefore ready-made for an extended investigation. Citing well-known examples such as Fyre Fraud (Jenner Furst and Julia Willoughby Nason, 2019), The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley (Alex Gibney, 2019), Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes (Alexis Bloom, 2018), Where's My Roy Cohn? (Matt Tyrnauer, 2019), Francis probes these films for what insights they can offer about what is politically at stake in a postdemocracy United States and the connection between falsity and fascism.
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Dvinyatina, Tatiana M., and Sergey N. Morozov. "Ivan Bunin on the Way to Palestine (1889–1903)." Literary Fact, no. 24 (2022): 54–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.22455/2541-8297-2022-24-54-63.
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Journeys to the Middle East occupied a special place in the life and works of Ivan Bunin. His journey to Palestine in the spring of 1907 was of central importance to him. However, this journey had a long pre-history in Bunin's life. This article tracks the development of Bunin’s idea of distant voyages, the significance of the Crimea and Odessa in his life and perception of the world. From there began routes to distant lands, and the first for Bunin was his journey to Constantinople in the spring of 1903. The materials of the research includes biographical and documentary evidences.
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Gryakalova, N. Ju. "Who was the Addressee of A. A. Blok’s Poem «To a Spanish Lady»?" Russkaya literatura 4 (2020): 82–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.31860/0131-6095-2020-4-82-91.
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The article discusses the addressee of A. A. Blok’ poem, arguing against the suggestion that it is addressed to Kazarose (B. G. Shensheva), a «small genre» actress. The analysis of the documentary and biographical data, and of the historical and cultural context (in particular, of the «Spanish theme» in the repertoire of the Terioki Entreprise), suggests an alternative version: the implicit addressee of the poem is L. D. Blok. The text itself is considered as a «heraldic construction» («mise en abyme» technique), with a reference to Vs. Meyerhold’s pantomime "The Lovers" as the decoder of the communicative situation.
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Hooper, Carole. "The unsaintly behaviour of Mary Mackillop: her early teaching career at Portland." History of Education Review 47, no. 2 (October 1, 2018): 186–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/her-10-2017-0019.
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Purpose Mary Mackillop, the only Australian to have been declared a “saint” by the Roman Catholic Church, co-founded the Institute of the Sisters of St Joseph, a religious congregation established primarily to educate the poor. Prior to this, she taught at a Common School in Portland. While she was there, the headmaster was dismissed. The purpose of this paper is to examine the extent to which the narrative accounts of the dismissal, as provided in the biographies of Mary, are supported by the documentary evidence. Contemporary records of the Board of Education indicate that Mary played a more active role in the dismissal than that suggested by her biographers. Design/methodology/approach Documentary evidence, particularly the records of the Board of Education, has been used to challenge the biographical accounts of Mary Mackillop’s involvement in an incident that occurred while she was a teacher at the Portland Common School. Findings It appears that the biographers, by omitting to consider the evidence available in the records of the Board of Education, have down-played Mary Mackillop’s involvement in the events that led to the dismissal of the head teacher at Portland. Originality/value This paper uses documentary evidence to challenge the account of the Portand incident, as provided in the biographies of Mary Mackillop.
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Panyukova, T. V. "Publishing Activity of F.M. Dostoevsky: Business Books of A.G. Dostoevskaya as a Source." Язык и текст 8, no. 3 (2021): 19–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.17759/langt.2021080303.
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The complex of materials related to the publishing activities of F.M. Dostoevsky includes several business notebooks of A.G. Dostoevskaya, preserved in her archive and dedicated to sales accounting, as well as containing records of subscribers' addresses. 7 similar documents were systematized and described, as well as 6 additional sources adjacent to them for the dissemination of "A Writer`s Diary". The work on the preparation for publication of two similar books by subscribers allowed us to identify the possibilities of their use in textual or biographical research: to disclose the names (initials) of the writer's correspondents; clarification (correction) or determination of the dating of the letter; scientific commentary of the epistolary and the compilation of biographical information about correspondents; attribution of anonymous addressees. In general, an appeal to such an optional documentary source as A.G. Dostoevsky's notebooks. Dostoevsky with the lists of subscribers of "A Writer`s Diary" and its use in combination with other materials and sources can be very fruitful and lead to interesting, reliable results in the textual study of the late journalism of F.M. Dostoevsky.
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Quílez Esteve, Laia, and José Carlos Rueda Laffond. "Narratives of memory in commemorative Spanish documentaries about the democratic transition: Adolfo Suárez. Mi historia and Bucarest, la memoria perdida." Memory Studies 12, no. 2 (April 19, 2017): 198–212. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1750698017703806.
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This article analyses different narratives of memory used in commemorative Spanish documentaries. It first considers the state of the question of the relationship between documentary, history and memory and then examines television productions made in democratic Spain that have advocated either a hegemonic memory of the transition or a counter-memory of the recent past. The second part of the text focuses on two biographical documentaries: Bucarest, la memoria perdida, about the Communist leader Jordi Solé Tura, and Adolfo Suárez. Mi historia, which centres on the figure of the former prime minister. The article interprets these documentaries as narratives of memory that evoke the democratic transition in different ways.
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van den Brandt, Nella. "Religion-in-the-Making: Media, Culture and Art/Activism as Producing Religion from the Critical Perspectives of Gender and Sexuality." Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture 8, no. 3 (December 13, 2019): 408–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/21659214-00803005.
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This article contributes to the study of media, religion and culture from the perspective of gender and sexuality. It argues that media and culture need to be considered as locations in which ‘other stories’ about religion, gender and sexuality are potentially being produced. It shows that various types of media and visual artefacts have different modes of ‘making’ religion. It coins ‘religion-in-the-making’ and uses this concept to focus on two cultural productions that construct/convey ‘other’ religious narratives starting from female and queer bodies: the Belgian fictional movie Le Tout Nouveau Testament and the Al Jazeera biographical documentary Hip-Hop Hijabis.
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Gajewska, Agnieszka. "Perwersje archiwum." Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka, no. 35 (November 5, 2019): 39–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/pspsl.2019.35.3.
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Perversions of the archive In the article, the author discusses the problematic status of an archival document,taking into account the concepts of perverse historiography and the methodological indicators of the apartheid archive. Documents stored in IPN (Institute of National Remembrance) have been used to show the challenges faced by the people investigating the documents stored there and attempting to unify the material found in the archive. The analysis of Autor Solaris, a 2016 biographical documentary film about Stanisław Lem, is preceded by reflections on the involvement of the archive researchers in politics and their reproductions of clichés and stereotypes about the past, which the author sees as directly leading to blurring and erasing of the victims’ testimonies. In doing so, the author uses critical analyses of the pornographic aspects of the presentation of mass murder victims. Relating to a concept proposed by one of the critics indicating that using archival sources in modern art leads to a mass amnesia, the author points to the dangers of using Nazi propaganda films in contemporary documentary film.
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Matiychak, Aliona, and Nataliia Nikoriak. "“Iris” (2001) by Richard Eyre: Film Reception Specificity of the Writer’s Biography." Pitannâ lìteraturoznavstva, no. 105 (October 28, 2022): 94–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.31861/pytlit2022.105.094.
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The article analyses the film reception issues of I. Murdoch’s biography in epistemological and historiographical perspectives. Due to the productive interaction of different types of biographical works, the mechanism of presentation / perception / cognition is mainly realized through references and reflection as an individual ability to supplement the “truth” of factual biographical material with other relations such as “interpretability”, “realizability” that form the so-called cognitive complex related to the perception peculiarities of biopic both as a separate genre and in the context of other biographical genres: memoirs, literary biography, etc. In the global context of biopics about writers, the film “Iris” (2001), directed by Richard Eyre, is perceived quite ambiguously. This receptive „ambiguity” is explained by the fact that R. Eyre deviates to some extent from the established canons of the biopic genre, building his plot on the contrast of two planes of relations between famous intellectuals – Bayley and Murdoch – as young, talented, charismatic, open-minded in her relationships Iris and as an elderly woman suffering from an incurable disease. Since it is almost impossible to cover her life in all its manifestations and activities in one perspective, the director resorts to intermedial dimensions and techniques of presenting biographical material. Relying on the documentary basis and memoirs of Murdoch’s husband John Bayley (“Elegy of Iris” and “Iris and Her Friends”), due to chronotopic shifts, television biography in the biopic, excerpts from Murdoch’s lectures, emphasizing her quotes scattered in the film, R. Eyre frames his model of Murdoch’s biography. This strategy allowed him, albeit fragmentarily, to show one of the world's smartest women in various guises: as a writer, as a philosopher and as an ordinary person, recreating the happiest and the most tragic fragments of her life, especially during the progression of Alzheimer’s disease.
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Sarıtaş, Davut. "What Messages a Documentary and Biographical Film Give About the Nature of Science to Prospective Science Teachers?" International Journal of Progressive Education 16, no. 2 (April 2, 2020): 262–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.29329/ijpe.2020.241.18.
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Nikoriak, Nataliia. "“CineSkovoroda”: Cinematic Update of the Biography." Pitannâ lìteraturoznavstva, no. 106 (December 30, 2022): 7–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.31861/pytlit2022.106.007.
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The article concerns the relevance of the issue of genre heredity between literature and cinema. The cinematography actively turned to the genre of biography even in the first decades of its development, in the era of the silents. It did not disappear from the view of cinematographers throughout the 20th century. Recently, this genre has been activated both in cinema and on television, which increased the interest of researchers. Hence, the receptive problematics of the Ukrainian philosopher, theologian, poet and teacher Hryhorii Skovoroda’s biography (1722–1794) is analysed in the cinematographic discourse. It was noticed that the figure of the outstanding philosopher did not attract the proper attention of cinematographers either in Soviet period (only one feature film and one documentary film were shot) or in the time of Ukraine’s Independence. However, even those few films only partially represent the “Ukrainian Socrates” to the viewer. It is stated that documentary production, in contrast to the feature films, is represented by a number of films about Hryhorii Skovoroda, which, of course, differ in their quality and creative potential. However, having an aesthetic and cognitive value, they all present a certain way of processing biographical material (letters, memories, stories of contemporaries), his writings and creative works (philosophical, literary, musical works) and perform an important function of popularizing this outstanding personality and his creative heritage. It is concluded that the cinematographic actualization of the philosopher’s biography and works in recent decades is due to the new historical situation, to the desire to perceive his legacy in a new light, to debunk the existing biographical myths. Skovoroda’s philosophical ideas not only remain relevant in the 21st century, but also appear as markers of Ukrainian identity in the modern reality.
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Nekrasova, Irina V. "“Personal geography” as an auto-document (Based on the material of the modern Russian prose)." Izvestiya of Saratov University. Philology. Journalism 22, no. 4 (November 23, 2022): 463–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.18500/1817-7115-2022-22-4-463-466.
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The article deals with the concepts of auto-document (ego-document), the combination of the artistic and documentary, “personal geography”, which are relevant for the current stage of the literary process. The main purpose of this study is to show, using the example of the latest works of Russian prose, the importance of geographical addresses (understood as spatial landmarks) for the movement of the plot, as well as being a meaning-generating component not only of documentary, but also of artistic texts themselves. As an object of analysis, collections are used that have united different authors within the framework of a common problem, and works of long form, in particular, the novel by E. Chizhova “The City written from memory”. All these texts are related in terms of using a single-subject narrative, in which the author and the hero are conceptualized (often he is also a biographical author) and practically inseparable. At the same time, the destinies and stories of the characters are built within the framework of the movement of their “personal” geography, and specific addresses become not only and not so much a documentary component, as a moment that promotes the plot. Against the background of authentic coordinates and routes, the behavior of the characters and their perception of the surrounding world change. Personal stories in the collection “To live in St. Petersburg” are determined by individual routes, a powerful literary and general cultural context, within which the fate of the character is predetermined by specific addresses and coordinates. The article draws a conclusion about the formation of a noticeable author’s strategy, using which the interpenetration of documentary and artistic principles in literary texts is determined precisely by “personal geography”.
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Nicolardi, Federica. "Vocabulary and practices of manumission in a fragment of the Life of Philonides (P. Herc. 1044)." Journal of Juristic Papyrology, no. 51 (January 8, 2022): 67–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.36389/uw.jjurp.51.2021.pp.67-81.
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The biographical work on Philonides of Laodikeia on the Sea in Syria (P. Herc. 1044+1715+1746) is not merely a source of information about the life of the philosopher, it also bears witness to both well-known and lesser-known aspects of Hellenistic history and civilization, not to mention the fact that it is an extremely rare and precious example of Hellenistic biography. This paper presents a new edition of a passage of the text in which references to vocabulary and procedures of Greek manumission can be detected, which suggest a parallel with papyrological and epigraphic documentary sources. This parallelism allows, in turn, to understand better the text of the papyrus and to supplement a technical term referring to relatives’ consent to the manumission of slaves.
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Tavares, Pedro Vilas-Boas. "D. António de S. José de Castro. Reconstrução liberal de uma biografia." Via Spiritus: Revista de História da Espiritualidade e do Sentimento Religioso, no. 28 (2021): 291–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.21747/0873-1233/spi28v3.
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Based on the documentary elements used by him in the biographical sketch of this personality, so decisive in the success of the Portuguese anti-Napoleonic resistance, the author proposes to emphasize, with some concrete examples, how much the historical profile of this antisitis remained, for reasons of mere sectarian politics , surgically at the mercy of its systematic disfigurement by the followers of the radical liberal sector, committed and naturally opposed to any attempt at reformist evolution and illustrated by the institutional legality in force. A replica and reflection – after all – of what, in terms of historical memory, was intended with king John VI, a statesman only late and still incompletely rescued from the incomprehension and injustice of the assessments to which he was voted.
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Iakovleva, Svetlana A. "West-European Engraving in Siberian Collection: the Problems of Attribution (on the Basis of Yudin’s Collection)." Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences 15, no. 1 (January 2022): 23–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.17516/1997-1370-0885.
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The paper is devoted to the study of Siberian bibliophile G. V. Yudin’s West-European graphic arts collection, which is owned by the Krasnoyarsk Regional Local Lore Museum. There is an objective need to give additional information on the attribution of auteur, reproductive and book engravings in art and documentary research. The authors address the authorship attribution through art analysis using stylistic and biographical factors. The article also responds to the problem of relevant translation of proper nouns (artists, engravers, printers, publishers) and texts on graphics. The study presents the results of literary translation of engraving texts (legends, book illustrations, caricatures). The translation is based on the knowledge of characters’ language, intentions of the author and reflects the unity of visual artwork and the literary source
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Bilbrough, Paola. "Opening Gates and Windows." Departures in Critical Qualitative Research 3, no. 3 (2014): 298–313. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/dcqr.2014.3.3.298.
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In this essay I discuss the ethical and aesthetic issues involved in making a short auto/biographical documentary, Separation, about an improvised parenting relationship I had with a young Sudanese-Australian man. I contextualize my discussion through reference to representations of Sudanese-Australians in the media, and the tendency towards reductive allegorical representations. I propose that a poetic approach offers a possible way forward in representing aspects of life stories involving shared privacies and/or sensitive cultural material. This suggests important scholarly consideration of an ethics that is specific to visual representation or video/film methods. Such a consideration is applicable both to contexts in which the central concern is an art product or event, and in which the primary concern is research.
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Bağcı, Şükrü Erhan. "Migration and Participation in Adult Education: The Matthew Effect on Immigrants." Adult Education Quarterly 69, no. 4 (May 7, 2019): 271–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0741713619848108.
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The Matthew Effect has been one of the best known principles in adult education, implying that the ones who have more formal education at earlier phases of life participate more in education in adulthood. This qualitative research explores how the Matthew Effect works under migration, focusing on the experiences of the Turkish immigrants in Germany. The documentary analyses of the narrative interviews in the study reveal that the Matthew Effect among immigrants works depending on the formation of the immigrant habitus. The factors to mediate the making of the immigrant habitus are social and cultural capital, gender, the hysteresis effect, and affections such as expectations from the host society, biographical regrets, and the sense of belonging to the collective identity of the immigrants.
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Hill, John. "‘Blurring the lines between fact and fiction’: Ken Russell, the BBC and ‘Television Biography’." Journal of British Cinema and Television 12, no. 4 (October 2015): 452–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2015.0280.
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Working for the BBC arts programmes Monitor and Omnibus during the 1960s, Ken Russell was responsible for a series of biographical films based on the lives of painters and composers. Tracing the development of Russell's work from Prokofiev (1961) and Elgar (1962) through to Bela Bartok (1964) and The Debussy Film (1965), the article examines how Russell's incorporation of elements of drama into the arts documentary generated arguments, both within the BBC and beyond, about the legitimacy of mixing ‘fact’ and ‘fiction’ in such works. These debates focused, in particular, on the use of ‘dramatic reconstruction’ and subjective ‘interpretation’ and the ‘fairness’ of the films’ treatment of the artists and composers with which they dealt. As a result of its unusually explicit representations of sex and violence, Russell's film about the composer Richard Strauss, Dance of the Seven Veils (1970), took these arguments to a new level. Through an examination of the responses that the film generated, the article concludes that, due to the degree to which the programme departed from BBC norms of documentary practice and the related values of ‘impartiality’ and ‘good taste’, it became a work that tested the very limits of what the BBC then considered it possible to transmit.
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Dvinyatina, Tatiana M., and Sergey N. Morozov. "Ivan Bunin's 1907 Palestine Journey: Chronicle and Context." Literary Fact, no. 24 (2022): 64–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.22455/2541-8297-2022-24-64-94.
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This article develops the theme expounded in the authors’ research published above. It contains a detailed reconstruction of the chronicle of Ivan Bunin’s main pilgrimage through Palestine in April –May 1907. Using all available documentary evidences, the authors of the article make an attempt to reveal the concrete texture of the days when Bunin and Vera Muromtseva spent on their “first distant voyage and honeymoon, which was at the same time a pilgrimage to the Holy Land of Our Lord Jesus Christ” (“The Rose of Jericho”). The article also shows how the immediate impressions of that journey are reflected in Bunin's works and what traces it left in his artistic and personal outlook. The research differs from many studies on the Oriental theme in Ivan Bunin's oeuvres by being primarily biographical and factual in nature.
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Ouyang, Yuxin. "Warm and Realistic, Romantic Yet Cruel ——On the Master of Cinema Giuseppe Tornatore." Learning & Education 10, no. 2 (September 16, 2021): 114. http://dx.doi.org/10.18282/l-e.v10i2.2296.
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The famous director Giuseppe Tornatore was born in beautiful Sicily, Italy, and has a high reputation among international film directors as the inheritor of Italian neorealism. His Time Trilogy is the foundation of his position in the film industry, Cinema Paradiso, The Beautiful Legend of Sicily, and The Legend of 1900, all of which have a strong romantic style. With his warm and realistic approach, Tonatore’s romantic yet cruel stories have touched countless audiences. In a sense, every work of a writer or a director has autobiographical overtones in it. Many of his works are strongly biographical, and the documentary style in his films is his way of asserting himself. This article will take his films as an entry point to explore the artistic approach and ideological qualities of Tonatore’s cinema.
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Strasdin, Kate. "Fashioning Alexandra: A Royal Approach to Style 1863–1910." Costume 47, no. 2 (June 1, 2013): 180–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/0590887613z.00000000023.
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For some sixty years Alexandra, Princess of Wales (1844–1925), later Queen Consort, lived at the heart of the British monarchy. Feted by her public and peers, she negotiated a careful and successful sartorial path through the many civic and social commitments of her long career. Her style was admired and copied by women, sometimes entering mainstream fashion, although her clothing choices were often informed by other considerations. This article explores Alexandra’s fashionability and how factors, such as her attitude to money and a need to mask physical imperfections also influenced the way she dressed. An examination of Alexandra’s surviving clothing and related documentary evidence can reveal not only what lay behind the creation of Alexandra’s regal, fashioned body but also cast new light on her biographical story.
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Martseniuk, R. "PAVLOVSKYY P. F.: STROKES FOR THE PORTRAIT OF A REPRESSED LIBRARIAN (BASED ON MATERIALS FROM THE ARCHIVE-INVESTIGATION CASE)." Bulletin of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. History, no. 146 (2020): 40–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/1728-2640.2020.146.7.
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The purpose of the study is the presentation and introduction into scientific usage of archive-investigating case of the senior librarian, the head of the newspaper fund of the National Library of Ukraine, later the library of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR Pavlovskyy Petro Fedorovich (1889–1937). The case is now in the Branch State Archive of the Security Service of Ukraine. The article provides an analysis of the materials found and the systematization of information in an attempt to recreate the biography of one of the library staff repressed by the Soviet government. The research methodology consists in the application of research methods of sources to search and analyze the documentary historical sources, as well as in use of a problem-chronological approach to historical research, which allows not only to highlight certain biographical moments, but also to highlight events that were associated with the history of one of the largest libraries of Ukraine, while pointing to the activities of the Soviet punitive and repressive system in relation to the cultural heritage of the past. The scientific novelty is a practical significance in expanding the biography of P. F. Pavlovskyy with previously unknown data, as well as the enrichment of the personalistic history of Ukrainian librarianship in Kiev and in the whole Ukraine. In conclusion, this course of a biographical study can attract not only a wider range of archival documents, including those which are currently stored in the Branch State Archive of the Security Service of Ukraine, but also the return of a forgotten national history; can supplement and fill in some gaps in past studies particulary in biographical studies. Thus, the article reconstructs the biography of librarian P. F. Pavlovsky based on the archive-investigation case.
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De Sario, Beppe. "Narrazioni transnazionali: rappresentazione e racconto nei movimenti alterglobalisti, tra traduzione culturale e attivazione della protesta." PARTECIPAZIONE E CONFLITTO, no. 2 (March 2009): 135–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.3280/paco2009-002006.
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- The article focuses on the role of representations (particularly visual and medial representations), of storytelling (biographical, memory of activism, training to global activism), of personal experience (travels, experience included in counter-summits and protests) and more generally examines cultural practices in the building of basis of mutual recognition and identity for people involved in the networks of alterglobal movements. Representations, narratives and experience have a decisive role in the developing of a globalization from below, giving a sort of cultural ground to communication and organizational networks. In this sense, the "activist experience" acts as a device of mediation and cultural translation in the emerging alterglobal movements, becoming a fundamental dimension of movements which should be considered "transnational" not only on the level of organization, agenda setting, activation of protest, but also at level of subjectivity. The article develops in three parts. In the first part, it's the analysis of representations of alterglobal movements in Genoa (counter-summit and protests against G8 summit) emerging from audiovisual products and documentary films. The second one focuses on biographical stories of activists about learning and training to experience activism in the new environment of protest taking place in Genoa. The third part summarizes concepts and theoretical approaches about a culturalist perspective in the study of alterglobal movements. Keywords: alterglobal movements, transnational subjectivity, cultural experience, representations, narratives. 174
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Golovko, Vyacheslav M. "Book series “Life of remarkable people” in the creative biography of the Russian enlightener Ya. V. Abramov." Vestnik slavianskikh kul’tur [Bulletin of Slavic Cultures] 59 (2021): 62–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.37816/2073-9567-2021-59-62-76.
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The paper discusses the role of the ideologist of cultural movement in the reformist populism of the 1880s – 1890s, enlightener and writer Ya. V. Abramov in the context of creation of the book series “Life of remarkable people. Biographical library of F. Pavlenkovˮ. Its educational concept and democratic character are largely determined by Abramov’s social and worldview intentions — ideological inspirer of so-called “going to the people”, “going to great cultural work”, who saw the goals of such work in releasing “constrained forces and abilities of the Russian folk spirit”, supporting the “mental activity of the Russian people”, in promoting its “generation of new forms of life”. The author suggests a hypothesis, according to which the ideological genesis of the series is contained in Abramov’s short story “The Philistine Thinker” (1881), where the idea on the educational significance of the biographies of prominent people, “benefactors of mankind” was first expressed. The paper traces affinity between updating the genre of popular scientific biographies of “great people” and the educational tasks of Abramov and Pavlenkov and highlights the role of “instructive biographies” of Abramov in creating the genre type of documentary and fiction books that synthesize the qualities of “contextual biography” and “biography of the hermeneutic model”. The classic exemplarity of Abramov’s books is determined by the genre-conditioning and structure-forming function of the concept of personality; a synthesis of artistry and journalism, documentary and imagery; principles of artistic typing when working with documentary material; actualization of genre dominants (biography-life description, biography-research, biography-portrait, etc.); the poetics of narrative, objectivizing the aesthetic nature of author's subjectivity.