Jay Leyda
Biographic Data
| ID | 560731 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jay Leyda |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jay |
| FAMILY NAME | Leyda |
| SIGNATURE | LEYDA J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Norwegian University of Science and Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4473-0334 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1948 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Aromantic Comedy
This article outlines a theory of aromantic and asexual film aesthetics exemplified in a reading of the surrogacy comedy Together Together (dir. Nikole Beckwith, US, 2021). Contextualizing this analysis within the long genre history of the romantic comedy, the article argues that this film constitutes a challenge to the presiding atmosphere of compulsory sexuality in contemporary culture by focalizing a platonic intergenerational friendship, high…
Pop/Poetry
In its meticulous, freewheeling adaptation of the life and work of celebrated poet Emily Dickinson, the television series Dickinson (Apple TV+, 2019–2021) manifests a twenty-first-century disruption of high and low culture afforded by digital media, including streaming video and music platforms. This article argues that the fanciful series models a mixed-media, multimodal aesthetic form that invites a diverse range of viewers to find pleasure in …
Anthroposcreens
Anthroposcreens frames the 'climate unconscious' as a reading strategy for film and television productions during the Anthropocene. Drawing attention to the affects of climate change and the broader environmental damage of the Anthropocene, this study mobilizes its frame in concert with other tools from cultural and film studies-such as debates over Black representation-to provide readings of the underlying environmental themes in Black American …
Post-air-conditioning futures and the climate unconscious
A taken-for-granted benefit of living in the belly of American late capitalism is the convenience and comfort of an air-conditioned environment. My essay title is meant to conjure an image of one of the more banal and quotidian absences in a possible climate-changed future, in which some of those aspects of what passes for modern life can no longer be assumed. I want to call attention to what this technology has meant for everyday life in the USA…
Television in/of the banal Anthropocene
Querying ‘Karen’
The (often memetic) figure of the white female ‘Karen’ has surged to prominence of late, moving from social media vernacular into broader usage at exactly the moment when twin crises of public health and racial social justice have fomented momentous change and uncertainty in American life. The angry ‘Karen’ is invoked to indicate her manipulation of her racial power, but she is equally significant, we suggest, for her positioning within a pre-exi…
Climate Change in Literature, Television and Film from Norway
Environmental and climatic change has become a frequent motif in contemporary Norwegian literature, television and film, and Norway has the worldwide first organization of writers committed to climate action (The Norwegian Writers’ Climate Campaign, founded in 2013). In this article, we argue that Norwegian climate change fiction and related works draw on elements that relate to specific national and/or Nordic cultural, societal and historical as…
Hook and Eye
In her voiceover narration during episode 5, “Faithful,” The Handmaid’s Tale’s main character Offred (Elisabeth Moss) recalls a poem she once read: “You fit into me like a hook into an eye. / A fish hook. / An open eye.”1 The poem’s first line reads like a declaration of love, using a simile to compare the design of a hook-and-eye closure to the compatibility of lover and speaker; we can read it as a sexual metaphor or, more figuratively, signali…
Financial Times
Arrested Development occupies an important place in twenty-first-century American television culture, both because of its peculiar positioning as a “before” and “after” snapshot of the housing crisis, and because its experimental revival (Netflix’s first) occasioned a similar set of obstacles to those that plagued the original series. As a representation of and an instance of the financialization of domestic space, this series about the failures …
American Mobilities
American Mobilities investigates representations of mobility - social, economic, geographic - in American film and literature during the Depression, WWII, and the early Cold War. With an emphasis on the dual meaning of "domestic," referring to both the family home and the nation, this study traces the important trope of mobility that runs through the "American" century. Juxtaposing canonical fiction with popular, and low-budget independent films …
This Complicated, Colossal Failure”
The character of Creighton Bernette on the HBO series Treme, in his excesses and abjection, embodies post-Katrina New Orleans in crucial ways: physical and emotional excesses become ways to distance his character from viewers, in ways analogous to the othering of the city and its inhabitants in post-Katrina media and public discourses
The Laws of Occupation and Commercial Law Reform in Occupied Territories
Since the publication of the widely quoted book by Eyal Benvenisti on The International Law of Occupation, there seems to be a generally accepted premise that Article 64 of the IV Geneva Convention is applicable to all types of laws (including commercial laws) and that, therefore, its legal regime replaced Article 43 of the 1907 Hague Regulations. With all due respect, this article argues that such approach is wrongfully grounded. Furthermore, al…
An Interview with Jhumpa Lahiri
Journal Article An Interview with Jhumpa Lahiri Get access Julia Leyda Julia Leyda Sophia University, Japan [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 5, Issue 1, January 2011, Pages 66–83, https://doi.org/10.1093/cwwrit/vpq006 Published: 01 January 2011 Article history Received: 25 November 2009 Revision received: 07 May 2010 Accepted: 07 May 2010 Published: …
Geographies of American Studies
A paradoxically conservative aspect of recent moves to "international-ize" the practice of American studies has been the way in which this turn toward the international has taken the national for granted. At the very moment that Americanists have been striving to disentangle disciplinary subject matter from the constraints of a static and border-oriented view of world space, calls to internationalize disciplinary practice have been reifying natio…
Towards a critical geography of American Studies
Our argument in this article is based on the premise that 'geography' refers not simply to location within a spatial frame but also to geographical knowledge as it is variously produced, taken for granted, contested, and negotiated. As taken-for-granted geographical knowledge is central to the discipline of American Studies not only in the framing of its subject matter but also in the spatialization of its disciplinary practices, we propose the d…
"Notes for a Film of "Capital
October 13, 1927. . . To extend the line (and to explicate it, step by step) of dialectical development in my work. Let us recall: 1. STRIKE. The order-educational and methodological film on the methods and processes of class and of underground work. Whence-serial film structure and detachment from a specific place (in the project there's a whole series of escapes, prison life, rebellion, body-searches, etc.). 2. POTEMKIN. I'm emphasizing, just a…
Dianying
Toward a New Film History
My aim is to describe what one group of graduate students at New York University will be doing this year to improve or correct our present state of film history. It seems obvious that the best student minds are being encouraged to work in criticism and analysis, where the research materials can be limited and controlled. One of our intentions in increasing the emphasis on problems of film history is to deepen and broaden present critical work. Th…
Meyerhold's Bio-Mechanic Exercises (A Photographic Series)
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Dianying
Rakhmaninov
The Years and Hours of Emily Dickinson
Kino
This history of the turbulent destiny of Kino (film in Russian) documents the artistic development of the Russian and Soviet cinema and traces its growth from 1896 to the death of Sergei Eisenstein in 1948. The new Postscript surveys the directions taken by Soviet cinema since the end of World War II. Beginning with the Lumiere filming of the coronation of Tsar Nicholas II, Jay Leyda links Russia's pre-Revolutionary past with its Communist presen…
The Poems of Emily Dickinson
Sergei Rachmaninov
Kino
This history of the turbulent destiny of Kino (film in Russian) documents the artistic development of the Russian and Soviet cinema and traces its growth from 1896 to the death of Sergei Eisenstein in 1948. The new Postscript surveys the directions taken by Soviet cinema since the end of World War II. Beginning with the Lumiere filming of the coronation of Tsar Nicholas II, Jay Leyda links Russia's pre-Revolutionary past with its Communist presen…
Querying ‘Karen’
The (often memetic) figure of the white female ‘Karen’ has surged to prominence of late, moving from social media vernacular into broader usage at exactly the moment when twin crises of public health and racial social justice have fomented momentous change and uncertainty in American life. The angry ‘Karen’ is invoked to indicate her manipulation of her racial power, but she is equally significant, we suggest, for her positioning within a pre-exi…
Anthroposcreens
Anthroposcreens frames the 'climate unconscious' as a reading strategy for film and television productions during the Anthropocene. Drawing attention to the affects of climate change and the broader environmental damage of the Anthropocene, this study mobilizes its frame in concert with other tools from cultural and film studies-such as debates over Black representation-to provide readings of the underlying environmental themes in Black American …
Geographies of American Studies
A paradoxically conservative aspect of recent moves to "international-ize" the practice of American studies has been the way in which this turn toward the international has taken the national for granted. At the very moment that Americanists have been striving to disentangle disciplinary subject matter from the constraints of a static and border-oriented view of world space, calls to internationalize disciplinary practice have been reifying natio…
Television in/of the banal Anthropocene
This Complicated, Colossal Failure”
The character of Creighton Bernette on the HBO series Treme, in his excesses and abjection, embodies post-Katrina New Orleans in crucial ways: physical and emotional excesses become ways to distance his character from viewers, in ways analogous to the othering of the city and its inhabitants in post-Katrina media and public discourses
An Interview with Jhumpa Lahiri
Journal Article An Interview with Jhumpa Lahiri Get access Julia Leyda Julia Leyda Sophia University, Japan [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 5, Issue 1, January 2011, Pages 66–83, https://doi.org/10.1093/cwwrit/vpq006 Published: 01 January 2011 Article history Received: 25 November 2009 Revision received: 07 May 2010 Accepted: 07 May 2010 Published: …
Towards a critical geography of American Studies
Our argument in this article is based on the premise that 'geography' refers not simply to location within a spatial frame but also to geographical knowledge as it is variously produced, taken for granted, contested, and negotiated. As taken-for-granted geographical knowledge is central to the discipline of American Studies not only in the framing of its subject matter but also in the spatialization of its disciplinary practices, we propose the d…
"Notes for a Film of "Capital
October 13, 1927. . . To extend the line (and to explicate it, step by step) of dialectical development in my work. Let us recall: 1. STRIKE. The order-educational and methodological film on the methods and processes of class and of underground work. Whence-serial film structure and detachment from a specific place (in the project there's a whole series of escapes, prison life, rebellion, body-searches, etc.). 2. POTEMKIN. I'm emphasizing, just a…
Sergei Rachmaninoff; A Lifetime in Music
Dimitri Shostakovich
The Complete Stories of Herman Melville
The Melville Log
The Melville Log, A Documentary Life of Herman Melville, 1819-91
Another Friendly Critic for Melville
Emily Dickinson-A Revelation
The Poems of Emily Dickinson
Sergei Rachmaninov
Sergei Rachmaninoff; A Lifetime in Music
The Years and Hours of Emily Dickinson
Kino
This history of the turbulent destiny of Kino (film in Russian) documents the artistic development of the Russian and Soviet cinema and traces its growth from 1896 to the death of Sergei Eisenstein in 1948. The new Postscript surveys the directions taken by Soviet cinema since the end of World War II. Beginning with the Lumiere filming of the coronation of Tsar Nicholas II, Jay Leyda links Russia's pre-Revolutionary past with its Communist presen…
Rakhmaninov
Meyerhold's Bio-Mechanic Exercises (A Photographic Series)
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Dianying
Toward a New Film History
My aim is to describe what one group of graduate students at New York University will be doing this year to improve or correct our present state of film history. It seems obvious that the best student minds are being encouraged to work in criticism and analysis, where the research materials can be limited and controlled. One of our intentions in increasing the emphasis on problems of film history is to deepen and broaden present critical work. Th…
Dianying
"Notes for a Film of "Capital
October 13, 1927. . . To extend the line (and to explicate it, step by step) of dialectical development in my work. Let us recall: 1. STRIKE. The order-educational and methodological film on the methods and processes of class and of underground work. Whence-serial film structure and detachment from a specific place (in the project there's a whole series of escapes, prison life, rebellion, body-searches, etc.). 2. POTEMKIN. I'm emphasizing, just a…
Towards a critical geography of American Studies
Our argument in this article is based on the premise that 'geography' refers not simply to location within a spatial frame but also to geographical knowledge as it is variously produced, taken for granted, contested, and negotiated. As taken-for-granted geographical knowledge is central to the discipline of American Studies not only in the framing of its subject matter but also in the spatialization of its disciplinary practices, we propose the d…
Geographies of American Studies
A paradoxically conservative aspect of recent moves to "international-ize" the practice of American studies has been the way in which this turn toward the international has taken the national for granted. At the very moment that Americanists have been striving to disentangle disciplinary subject matter from the constraints of a static and border-oriented view of world space, calls to internationalize disciplinary practice have been reifying natio…
An Interview with Jhumpa Lahiri
Journal Article An Interview with Jhumpa Lahiri Get access Julia Leyda Julia Leyda Sophia University, Japan [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 5, Issue 1, January 2011, Pages 66–83, https://doi.org/10.1093/cwwrit/vpq006 Published: 01 January 2011 Article history Received: 25 November 2009 Revision received: 07 May 2010 Accepted: 07 May 2010 Published: …
This Complicated, Colossal Failure”
The character of Creighton Bernette on the HBO series Treme, in his excesses and abjection, embodies post-Katrina New Orleans in crucial ways: physical and emotional excesses become ways to distance his character from viewers, in ways analogous to the othering of the city and its inhabitants in post-Katrina media and public discourses
The Laws of Occupation and Commercial Law Reform in Occupied Territories
Since the publication of the widely quoted book by Eyal Benvenisti on The International Law of Occupation, there seems to be a generally accepted premise that Article 64 of the IV Geneva Convention is applicable to all types of laws (including commercial laws) and that, therefore, its legal regime replaced Article 43 of the 1907 Hague Regulations. With all due respect, this article argues that such approach is wrongfully grounded. Furthermore, al…
American Mobilities
American Mobilities investigates representations of mobility - social, economic, geographic - in American film and literature during the Depression, WWII, and the early Cold War. With an emphasis on the dual meaning of "domestic," referring to both the family home and the nation, this study traces the important trope of mobility that runs through the "American" century. Juxtaposing canonical fiction with popular, and low-budget independent films …
Financial Times
Arrested Development occupies an important place in twenty-first-century American television culture, both because of its peculiar positioning as a “before” and “after” snapshot of the housing crisis, and because its experimental revival (Netflix’s first) occasioned a similar set of obstacles to those that plagued the original series. As a representation of and an instance of the financialization of domestic space, this series about the failures …
Hook and Eye
In her voiceover narration during episode 5, “Faithful,” The Handmaid’s Tale’s main character Offred (Elisabeth Moss) recalls a poem she once read: “You fit into me like a hook into an eye. / A fish hook. / An open eye.”1 The poem’s first line reads like a declaration of love, using a simile to compare the design of a hook-and-eye closure to the compatibility of lover and speaker; we can read it as a sexual metaphor or, more figuratively, signali…
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