Alistair Fox
Biographic Data
| ID | 3698774 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alistair Fox |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alistair |
| FAMILY NAME | Fox |
| SIGNATURE | FOX A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Otago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Raymond Bellour
This volume offers a succinct and clear account of the evolution of the work of noted French scholar Raymond Bellour (b. 1939) as expressed in his most important publications in the areas of cinema studies and art theory, published over the last four decades of the twentieth century and the first decades of the twenty-first. A film scholar and theorist, his interests ranged across film, literature, art and philosophy The book’s first four chapter…
Spectators, Dispositifs, and the Cinematic Body
Raymond Bellour explains why he returned to a preoccupation with cinema in general, and the spectator in particular, and how he came to write Le Corps du cinéma , emphasizing his interest in the diverse dispositifs represented by Foucault’s Panopticon on one hand, and by the phenomena of panoramas and phantasmagorias on the other. He describes how his discovery of Daniel Stern’s The Interpersonal World of the Infant marked a critical turning poin…
The Formation of a Budding Man Alone
This chapter analyses the earliest of the New Zealand coming-of-age feature films, an adaptation of Ian Cross’s novel The God Boy , to demonstrate how it addresses the destructive impact on a child of the puritanical value-system that had dominated Pākehā (white) society through much of the twentieth century, being particularly strong during the interwar years, and the decade immediately following World War II. The discussion explores how dysfunc…
Parental Abandonment and the Trauma of Loss
This chapter examines Taika Waititi’s hit film Boy as evidence of a shift in Māori filmmaking away from the ideals of the “Fourth Cinema” of the 1980s – that is, a purely indigenous type of representation in terms of content and form – to a new kind that is based on an acceptance of cultural hybridity and an awareness of, and receptivity to, global youth culture. In terms of the coming-of-age experience depicted in the film, the discussion links …
Coming-of-Age Cinema in New Zealand
This book investigates the coming-of-age genre as a significant phenomenon in New Zealand’s national cinema, tracing its development from the 1970s to the present day. A preliminary chapter identifies the characteristics of the coming-of-age film as a genre, tracing its evolution and the influence of the French New Wave and European Art Cinema, and speculating on the role of the genre in the output of national cinemas. Through case studies of fif…
Coming-Of-Age Cinema in New Zealand
Inwardness, insularity, and the Man Alone
Whereas the Man Alone theme in New Zealand literature has generally been seen as the expression of a heroic model of masculinity, this essay argues that it arose from identity‐threatening anxiety induced in men by an encounter with circumstances that negated the security imparted by the subjectification deriving from their originary culture. Writers discussed include Samuel Butler John Mulgan, Maurice Gee, Keri Hulme, and Lloyd Jones. Keywords: M…
In Search of Genuine Equality
It hardly needs stating that as diasporic groups move between countries in search of economic advantage, the increasing proliferation of multiple cultural and ethnic minorities in most modern societies has posed a major challenge to the idea of a homogeneous nation-state. In part, this is the result of greater mobility made possible by technological change in a world that has embraced a globalized economy. It also represents, however, the legacy …
The Symbolic Function of the Operatic Allusions in Witi Ihimaera'sthe Dream Swimmer
At key moments in his novel The Dream Swimmer, Witi Ihimaera embeds operatic quotations from Verdi’s opera Aida. In this appropriation of European high art he constructs a form of hybridity that enlists the affective power of Aida into foregrounding the Maori people’s resistance to the oppressive effects of the colonizing culture that produced the work in the first place. These allusions articulate not only the political and cultural dilemma of M…
Introduction
This introduction to the special issue of Portal on 'Strange Localities: Utopias, Intellectuals, and Identities' identifies the problematical issues in postmodernism and postcolonial theory that are addressed by the essays in the special issue. It then gives an overview of the findings of the essays, and concludes by suggesting that the utopian impulse continues to be expressed in contemporary thought and writing with the aim of bringing utopian …
In Search of the Postmodern Utopia
This essay explores how Ben Okri’s most recent novel, In Arcadia(2002), attempts to reconstruct the possibility of utopia in the face of a fragmentation of identity and destruction of determinate certainties affecting contemporary society in the aftermath of postmodernism. By tracing the intertextual relations existing between this work and earlier works in an intellectual/literary tradition that extends from Theocritus and Virgil through Dante, …
University of Otago, New Zealand, 10 th July 1988
In this paper, Prof. Fox investigates the inspiration that More, the man for all seasons, may have for our epoch. Observing the early post-war development of postmodernism, the author draws a comparison between the intellectual challenges that were experienced in the second half of the 20 th century and those known to More in this writings, his spiritual development and his concerns as a lawyer. The contradictions revealed in More’s life are full…
Interpreting Thomas More's Utopia . John C. Olin Thomas More
Richard III’s Pauline Oath
Richard III and His Early Historians, 1483-1535
The character of Richard III and his reign presents one of the most difficult of historical problems, and a continuity of scholarly disagreements suggests that time may sometimes deliver rather more than truth.Alison Hanham's attempt to lay the ghosts to rest succeeds in several important respects, but will leave many readers unsatisfied in others.Dr. Hanham's stated aim is ambitiously twofold: to investigate and reevaluate the evidence about Ric…
The Paradoxical Design of The Book of Sir Thomas More
Scholars, distracted by the problem of authorship and the state of the manuscript, once assumed that The Book of Sir Thomas More was "unfinished and chaotic."^This was an unexamined assumption that has not withstood the scrutiny of several recent studies which prove conclusively that the play, "despite its apparent disorder, is a coherent theatrical document."^Recent critics, however, understandably con- cerned with offering a corrective to the e…
Thomas More
cause with his fellow theologians while continuing to pursue his own established course in the area for which he was directly responsible" (p.138).Although Estes' argument on this specific point is not totally convincing, it is nevertheless quite clear that Brenz was one of those rare enlightened souls of the sixteenth century in his advocacy of a relatively tolerant response to the threat of the Anabaptists.In a short "Afterword," Estes discusse…
Reassessing the Henrician Age
Two Tudor historians here provide some of the first evidence of the reassessment of this period, a reassessment started by G.R. Elton some 30 years ago. They consider Thomas Cromwell's role in the Reformation; changes in the theory and practice of justice; the functions of the King's Council; the problematic nature of contemporary interpretation of scripture as authority for action; and the intellectual origins and influence of English Humanism
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Richard III and His Early Historians, 1483-1535
The character of Richard III and his reign presents one of the most difficult of historical problems, and a continuity of scholarly disagreements suggests that time may sometimes deliver rather more than truth.Alison Hanham's attempt to lay the ghosts to rest succeeds in several important respects, but will leave many readers unsatisfied in others.Dr. Hanham's stated aim is ambitiously twofold: to investigate and reevaluate the evidence about Ric…
The Paradoxical Design of The Book of Sir Thomas More
Scholars, distracted by the problem of authorship and the state of the manuscript, once assumed that The Book of Sir Thomas More was "unfinished and chaotic."^This was an unexamined assumption that has not withstood the scrutiny of several recent studies which prove conclusively that the play, "despite its apparent disorder, is a coherent theatrical document."^Recent critics, however, understandably con- cerned with offering a corrective to the e…
Thomas More
cause with his fellow theologians while continuing to pursue his own established course in the area for which he was directly responsible" (p.138).Although Estes' argument on this specific point is not totally convincing, it is nevertheless quite clear that Brenz was one of those rare enlightened souls of the sixteenth century in his advocacy of a relatively tolerant response to the threat of the Anabaptists.In a short "Afterword," Estes discusse…
Reassessing the Henrician Age
Two Tudor historians here provide some of the first evidence of the reassessment of this period, a reassessment started by G.R. Elton some 30 years ago. They consider Thomas Cromwell's role in the Reformation; changes in the theory and practice of justice; the functions of the King's Council; the problematic nature of contemporary interpretation of scripture as authority for action; and the intellectual origins and influence of English Humanism
Richard III’s Pauline Oath
Interpreting Thomas More's Utopia . John C. Olin Thomas More
University of Otago, New Zealand, 10 th July 1988
In this paper, Prof. Fox investigates the inspiration that More, the man for all seasons, may have for our epoch. Observing the early post-war development of postmodernism, the author draws a comparison between the intellectual challenges that were experienced in the second half of the 20 th century and those known to More in this writings, his spiritual development and his concerns as a lawyer. The contradictions revealed in More’s life are full…
Introduction
This introduction to the special issue of Portal on 'Strange Localities: Utopias, Intellectuals, and Identities' identifies the problematical issues in postmodernism and postcolonial theory that are addressed by the essays in the special issue. It then gives an overview of the findings of the essays, and concludes by suggesting that the utopian impulse continues to be expressed in contemporary thought and writing with the aim of bringing utopian …
In Search of the Postmodern Utopia
This essay explores how Ben Okri’s most recent novel, In Arcadia(2002), attempts to reconstruct the possibility of utopia in the face of a fragmentation of identity and destruction of determinate certainties affecting contemporary society in the aftermath of postmodernism. By tracing the intertextual relations existing between this work and earlier works in an intellectual/literary tradition that extends from Theocritus and Virgil through Dante, …
The Symbolic Function of the Operatic Allusions in Witi Ihimaera'sthe Dream Swimmer
At key moments in his novel The Dream Swimmer, Witi Ihimaera embeds operatic quotations from Verdi’s opera Aida. In this appropriation of European high art he constructs a form of hybridity that enlists the affective power of Aida into foregrounding the Maori people’s resistance to the oppressive effects of the colonizing culture that produced the work in the first place. These allusions articulate not only the political and cultural dilemma of M…
In Search of Genuine Equality
It hardly needs stating that as diasporic groups move between countries in search of economic advantage, the increasing proliferation of multiple cultural and ethnic minorities in most modern societies has posed a major challenge to the idea of a homogeneous nation-state. In part, this is the result of greater mobility made possible by technological change in a world that has embraced a globalized economy. It also represents, however, the legacy …
Inwardness, insularity, and the Man Alone
Whereas the Man Alone theme in New Zealand literature has generally been seen as the expression of a heroic model of masculinity, this essay argues that it arose from identity‐threatening anxiety induced in men by an encounter with circumstances that negated the security imparted by the subjectification deriving from their originary culture. Writers discussed include Samuel Butler John Mulgan, Maurice Gee, Keri Hulme, and Lloyd Jones. Keywords: M…
Coming-of-Age Cinema in New Zealand
This book investigates the coming-of-age genre as a significant phenomenon in New Zealand’s national cinema, tracing its development from the 1970s to the present day. A preliminary chapter identifies the characteristics of the coming-of-age film as a genre, tracing its evolution and the influence of the French New Wave and European Art Cinema, and speculating on the role of the genre in the output of national cinemas. Through case studies of fif…
Coming-Of-Age Cinema in New Zealand
Raymond Bellour
This volume offers a succinct and clear account of the evolution of the work of noted French scholar Raymond Bellour (b. 1939) as expressed in his most important publications in the areas of cinema studies and art theory, published over the last four decades of the twentieth century and the first decades of the twenty-first. A film scholar and theorist, his interests ranged across film, literature, art and philosophy The book’s first four chapter…
Spectators, Dispositifs, and the Cinematic Body
Raymond Bellour explains why he returned to a preoccupation with cinema in general, and the spectator in particular, and how he came to write Le Corps du cinéma , emphasizing his interest in the diverse dispositifs represented by Foucault’s Panopticon on one hand, and by the phenomena of panoramas and phantasmagorias on the other. He describes how his discovery of Daniel Stern’s The Interpersonal World of the Infant marked a critical turning poin…
The Formation of a Budding Man Alone
This chapter analyses the earliest of the New Zealand coming-of-age feature films, an adaptation of Ian Cross’s novel The God Boy , to demonstrate how it addresses the destructive impact on a child of the puritanical value-system that had dominated Pākehā (white) society through much of the twentieth century, being particularly strong during the interwar years, and the decade immediately following World War II. The discussion explores how dysfunc…
Parental Abandonment and the Trauma of Loss
This chapter examines Taika Waititi’s hit film Boy as evidence of a shift in Māori filmmaking away from the ideals of the “Fourth Cinema” of the 1980s – that is, a purely indigenous type of representation in terms of content and form – to a new kind that is based on an acceptance of cultural hybridity and an awareness of, and receptivity to, global youth culture. In terms of the coming-of-age experience depicted in the film, the discussion links …
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