Wimal Dissanayake
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 77700 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Wimal Dissanayake |
| NOMBRES | Wimal |
| APELLIDO | Dissanayake |
| FIRMA | DISSANAYAKE W |
| AFILIACIONES | East–West Center |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 39 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1977 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
News Media in National and International Conflict
Braj Kachru, Jurgen Habermas, and the pragmatics of communication
Language and communication
Communication is the lifeblood of society. An understanding of communication is vital to an understanding of society. Larry Smith and I, in our explorations into language, have been guided by this conviction. Two questions inform our project. First, why is communication important? Second, what are the conditions of its possibility? The phenomenon of miscommunication, which is not often given adequate attention in communication research, is centra…
Monolingualism and linguistic exhibitionism in fiction. Anjali Pandey. 2016. London
Melodrama and Asian Cinema
Bengali cinema
Sharmistha Gooptu, Oxford:, Routledge, 2011, 231 pp., UK£85.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-415-57006-0 Recent literature on the evolution of the Bollywood phenomenon has further marginalised the Regiona
Asian television dramas and Asian theories of communication
Television dramas have become dominant forms of mass entertainment in most regions of the world. They are a vital part of the offering of almost all national television services. The way television
The desire to excavate Asian theories of communication
The last 20 years have seen a great upsurge of interest in investigations into Asian theories of communication. A number of influential scholars have chosen to focus their attention on this field of inquiry. In this article, I seek to explicate my early involvements in the project of excavating Asian theories of communication. My primary focus is on classical Indian concepts of communication and their relevance to us as we aim to widen the discur…
Sri Lanka
The objective of this chapter is to explore the complex interconnections among art, commerce, and cultural modernity in Sri Lankan cinema. My focus of interest is popular cinema. However, in order to examine the nature of popular cinema, one has to relate it to art cinema, which is its constitutive
Reflections on World Englishes
Melodrama and Asian Cinema
Cinema is a dominant force in the lives of many people living in Asia, a continent that has a number of distinguished national film industries. A concept central to much of Asian film production is melodrama. This path-breaking study examines the importance of melodrama in the film traditions of Japan, India, China, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Australia. Exploring with theoretical sophistication the various ways that melodrama operates, the e…
Rethinking Third Cinema
Wong Kar-wai’s Ashes of Time
Ashes of Time, by the internationally acclaimed director Wong Kar-wai, has been considered to be one of the most complex and self-reflexive of Hong Kong films. Loosely based on the stories by renowned martial arts novelist Jin Yong, Wong Kar-wai has created a very different kind of martial arts film, which invites close and sustained study.This book presents the nature and significance of Ashes of Time, and the reasons for its being regarded as a…
Melodrama and Sinhalese Cinema
Melodrama, as a term of cultural re-description, has come to the fore in recent years. Until about two decades ago, it was de-valorised as a term that indexed superficial, ersatz and inferior modes of cinematic entertainment that were characterised by a rhetoric of excess. However, owing to a variety of factors ranging from the influence of postmodernism to the interrogations of feminist scholars, melodramatic films have begun to be subject to a …
Self and Deception
Narratives Of Agency
This multidisciplinary collection underlines the importance of understanding the operations of human agency - defined here as the ability to exert power, specifically in resistance to ideological pressure. In particular, the contributors emphasize the historical and cultural conditions that facilitate the production of agency in an effort to gain a deeper understanding of the cultures of China, India, and Japan. The contributors argue that tradit…
Global/Local
C]apitalism is at the crossroads of all kinds of formations.Always by nature neocapitalism, it invents, for the worst, its eastern face and its western face, and reshapes both.-GillesDeleuze and Felix Guattari, On the Line There are tendencies [in global capitalism] going in opposite directions.On the one hand, there's a tendency toward this international centralization of power.There's also an opposite tendency.All around the world, there's much…
Caliban's Agony
Caliban in Exile: the Outsider in Caribbean Fiction. By Margaret Paul Joseph
Asian Cinema and the American Cultural Imaginary
Self as person in Asian theory and practice
Colonialism and Nationalism in Asian Cinema
Examines the representation of the interlocking discourses of nationhood and history in Asian cinema.
Symposium on Power, Politics, and English
Thinking through Cultures
Introduction: The Astonishment of Anthropology Part 1: Ideal of a Polytheistic Nature 1. Post-Nietzschean Anthropology: The Ideal of Multiple Objective Worlds 2. Cultural Psychology: What Is It? Part 2: Are People the Same Wherever You Go? 3. Does the Concept of the Person Vary Cross-Culturally? with Edmund J. Bourne 4. The Social Construction of the Person: How Is It Possible? with Joan G. Miller 5. Determinations of Meaning: Discourse and Moral…
Sholay, a cultural reading
Study of feature films in India, in particular, the Hindi film Sholay, directed by Ramesh Sippy
Bilingualism and creativity
Towards a decolonized English
English is increasingly being used in South Asian countries like India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka not only for purposes of higher education and national administration but also for creative purposes. The objective of this paper is to investigate briefly how some South Asian novelists who used English as their chosen instrument of communication are seeking, in the memorable phrase of Salman Rushdie, to 'decolonize English' so as to capture the deep s…
Asian Cinema and the American Cultural Imaginary
New Wine in Old Bottles
Journal Article New Wine in Old Bottles: Can Folk Media Convey Modern Messages? Get access Wimal Dissanayake Wimal Dissanayake 1Wimal Dissanayake is Head of the Department of Mass Communication at the University of Sri Lanka Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 27, Issue 2, June 1977, Pages 122–124, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1977.tb01837.x Published: 07 February 2006
Asian television dramas and Asian theories of communication
Television dramas have become dominant forms of mass entertainment in most regions of the world. They are a vital part of the offering of almost all national television services. The way television
The desire to excavate Asian theories of communication
The last 20 years have seen a great upsurge of interest in investigations into Asian theories of communication. A number of influential scholars have chosen to focus their attention on this field of inquiry. In this article, I seek to explicate my early involvements in the project of excavating Asian theories of communication. My primary focus is on classical Indian concepts of communication and their relevance to us as we aim to widen the discur…
Reflections on World Englishes
Symposium on Power, Politics, and English
Self and modernism in Sri Lankan poetry in English
Modernism as a literary credo and cultural practice tends to foreground issues of subjectivity, self-reflectivity, self-doubt, authenticity and alienation, all of which are intimately linked to selfhood. In this paper, the author examines the relationship between self and modernism in the context of Sri Lankan poetry in English and its implication for English writing and cultural authenticity. The dissolution of the unitary self and the problemat…
Self, modernization and national identity
Exotic Other
This paper seeks to point out the power of language and the power of the visual image in determining and constituting thought and imagination, and to demonstrate how this power operates within a certain knowledge system and cultural discourse. This paper focuses attention on Western representations of India in creative literature and film. One could have illustrated this by selecting for analysis works of literature and cinema which do not enjoy …
Understanding the role of the environment in knowledge generation and use
The phenomenology of verbal communication
New Wine in Old Bottles
Journal Article New Wine in Old Bottles: Can Folk Media Convey Modern Messages? Get access Wimal Dissanayake Wimal Dissanayake 1Wimal Dissanayake is Head of the Department of Mass Communication at the University of Sri Lanka Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 27, Issue 2, June 1977, Pages 122–124, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1977.tb01837.x Published: 07 February 2006
The phenomenology of verbal communication
Responses to the decision by
Bhuta Worship
Understanding the role of the environment in knowledge generation and use
Towards a decolonized English
English is increasingly being used in South Asian countries like India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka not only for purposes of higher education and national administration but also for creative purposes. The objective of this paper is to investigate briefly how some South Asian novelists who used English as their chosen instrument of communication are seeking, in the memorable phrase of Salman Rushdie, to 'decolonize English' so as to capture the deep s…
Exotic Other
This paper seeks to point out the power of language and the power of the visual image in determining and constituting thought and imagination, and to demonstrate how this power operates within a certain knowledge system and cultural discourse. This paper focuses attention on Western representations of India in creative literature and film. One could have illustrated this by selecting for analysis works of literature and cinema which do not enjoy …
Richard Wright
The Guiding Image in Indian Culture and Its Implications for Communication
Knowledge Generation, Exchange, and Utilization
Self and modernism in Sri Lankan poetry in English
Modernism as a literary credo and cultural practice tends to foreground issues of subjectivity, self-reflectivity, self-doubt, authenticity and alienation, all of which are intimately linked to selfhood. In this paper, the author examines the relationship between self and modernism in the context of Sri Lankan poetry in English and its implication for English writing and cultural authenticity. The dissolution of the unitary self and the problemat…
Self, modernization and national identity
Fragments for a History of the Human Body
The 48 essays and photographic dossiers in these three volumes examine the history of the human body as a field where life and thought intersect. They show how different cultures at different times have entwined physical capacities and mental mechanisms in order to construct a body adapted to moral ideas or social circumstances the body of a charismatic citizen or a visionary monk a mirror image of the world or a reflection of the spirit.Each vol…
Metaphoric Selves
Sholay, a cultural reading
Study of feature films in India, in particular, the Hindi film Sholay, directed by Ramesh Sippy
Bilingualism and creativity
Symposium on Power, Politics, and English
Thinking through Cultures
Introduction: The Astonishment of Anthropology Part 1: Ideal of a Polytheistic Nature 1. Post-Nietzschean Anthropology: The Ideal of Multiple Objective Worlds 2. Cultural Psychology: What Is It? Part 2: Are People the Same Wherever You Go? 3. Does the Concept of the Person Vary Cross-Culturally? with Edmund J. Bourne 4. The Social Construction of the Person: How Is It Possible? with Joan G. Miller 5. Determinations of Meaning: Discourse and Moral…
Self as person in Asian theory and practice
Colonialism and Nationalism in Asian Cinema
Examines the representation of the interlocking discourses of nationhood and history in Asian cinema.
Narratives Of Agency
This multidisciplinary collection underlines the importance of understanding the operations of human agency - defined here as the ability to exert power, specifically in resistance to ideological pressure. In particular, the contributors emphasize the historical and cultural conditions that facilitate the production of agency in an effort to gain a deeper understanding of the cultures of China, India, and Japan. The contributors argue that tradit…
Global/Local
C]apitalism is at the crossroads of all kinds of formations.Always by nature neocapitalism, it invents, for the worst, its eastern face and its western face, and reshapes both.-GillesDeleuze and Felix Guattari, On the Line There are tendencies [in global capitalism] going in opposite directions.On the one hand, there's a tendency toward this international centralization of power.There's also an opposite tendency.All around the world, there's much…
Caliban's Agony
Caliban in Exile: the Outsider in Caribbean Fiction. By Margaret Paul Joseph
Asian Cinema and the American Cultural Imaginary
Self and Deception
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