Jonathan Slocum
Biographic Data
| ID | 3843252 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathan Slocum |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathan |
| FAMILY NAME | Slocum |
| SIGNATURE | SLOCUM J |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Abolishing Boundaries
Cinema and the Civilizing Process
This essay proposes an alternative critical approach to the "violence" of the World War II combat film. Guiding this approach is the idea of a "civilizing process" that attends both to specific representations in war films and to the institutional role of cinema in socializing and regulating individual behavior. The theoretical grounding here is the sociological work of Norbert Elias, whose major study, The Civilizing Process, was first published…
Telling ghost stories
Telling Ghost Stories: Reflections on History and Hollywood J. David Slocum (bio) History by Hollywood: The Use and Abuse of the American Past. By Robert Brent Toplin. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996. 267 pages. $16.95 (paper). “This story is true.” So begins the trailer advertising Ghosts of Mississippi, the 1996 film directed by Rob Reiner and featuring Alec Baldwin, James Woods, and Whoopi Goldberg. The film portrays the 1963 assass…
Machine Translation Systems
This collection brings together reports on six of the major machine translation projects in Europe, North America and Japan. The book provides a state-of-the-art and future prospects for machine translation and concludes with a machine(-aided) translation bibliography
Cinema and the Civilizing Process
This essay proposes an alternative critical approach to the "violence" of the World War II combat film. Guiding this approach is the idea of a "civilizing process" that attends both to specific representations in war films and to the institutional role of cinema in socializing and regulating individual behavior. The theoretical grounding here is the sociological work of Norbert Elias, whose major study, The Civilizing Process, was first published…
Machine Translation Systems
This collection brings together reports on six of the major machine translation projects in Europe, North America and Japan. The book provides a state-of-the-art and future prospects for machine translation and concludes with a machine(-aided) translation bibliography
Telling ghost stories
Telling Ghost Stories: Reflections on History and Hollywood J. David Slocum (bio) History by Hollywood: The Use and Abuse of the American Past. By Robert Brent Toplin. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996. 267 pages. $16.95 (paper). “This story is true.” So begins the trailer advertising Ghosts of Mississippi, the 1996 film directed by Rob Reiner and featuring Alec Baldwin, James Woods, and Whoopi Goldberg. The film portrays the 1963 assass…
Cinema and the Civilizing Process
This essay proposes an alternative critical approach to the "violence" of the World War II combat film. Guiding this approach is the idea of a "civilizing process" that attends both to specific representations in war films and to the institutional role of cinema in socializing and regulating individual behavior. The theoretical grounding here is the sociological work of Norbert Elias, whose major study, The Civilizing Process, was first published…
Abolishing Boundaries
Art (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Movie theater (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works)