Sheila J Nayar
Biographic Data
| ID | 640091 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sheila J Nayar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sheila J |
| FAMILY NAME | Nayar |
| SIGNATURE | NAYAR S J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Greensboro College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2577-4224 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
McLuhan’s Techno-Sensorium City: Coming to Our Senses in a Programmed Environment, Jaqueline McLeod Rogers (2020)
Review of: McLuhan’s Techno-Sensorium City: Coming to Our Senses in a Programmed Environment , Jaqueline McLeod Rogers (2020) Washington, DC: Lexington Books, 192 pp., ISBN-13 978-1-79360-524-5, h/bk, USD 95.00
The Enslaved Narrative: White Overseers and the Ambiguity of the Story-Told Self in Early African-American Autobiography
While the classic American slave narratives, like those by Frederick Douglass, attract much attention and are given wide institutional currency, the earlier narratives—indeed, the progenitors of one of the most American of literary genres—receive comparatively scant attention. This article addresses those incipient narratives (for example, by Pomp, Venture, and Grimes), demonstrating how they inadvertently expose the challenges inherent in bringi…
Bollywood Religious Comedy: An Inaugural Humor -neutics
This media review explores the nascent genre of religious comedy in mainstream Indian film (also known as Bollywood). Focusing on two recent hits, OMG! (2012) and PK (2014), the review investigates what conventions or unspoken rules license laughter "at" religion in successful iterations of the genre, as well as how such films navigate India's cultural landscape, which is sensorily alive with multiple religions. Some of the more idiosyncratically…
Primary issues with secondary orality
This article examines two of Walter Ong’s signature concepts in culture and communication theory: secondary orality and residual orality. The author argues that these two concepts, as deployed today by many scholars in discussions of electronic and digital media, are highly problematic. Stemming from the author’s study of a particular region and contingent of humankind that was not on Ong’s cultural radar, the article attempts to demonstrate why …
A good man is impossible to find: Brokeback Mountain as heteronormative tragedy
This paper analyzes the 2005 film Brokeback Mountain in the light of the heterosexual female viewers who responded so favorably to the film. It speculates that the contemporaneous media mainstreaming of the uncloseted homosexual resulted in a parallel need for a psychosocial reconfiguring of the heterosexual; and that it was in this odd and anxious space that, for these viewers, the film’s potency may have subconsciously resided. In effect, the f…
Reconfiguring the "Genuinely" Religious Film: The Oral Contours of the Overabundant Epic
Journal Article Reconfiguring the “Genuinely” Religious Film: The Oral Contours of the Overabundant Epic Get access Sheila J. Nayar Sheila J. Nayar E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 78, Issue 1, March 2010, Pages 100–128, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfp086 Published: 03 February 2010
Seeing voices: Oral pragmatics and the silent cinema
This article suggests that we have perhaps too willingly dichotomized silent and sound cinema. Historically and conceptually cleaving these two forms based on the presence (or absence) of the voice may have aided in obfuscating other narrative pressures that traverse, complicate, and in some sense call into question the insuperability of the silent–sound barrier. One of these pressures entails narrative and performative norms that are fundamental…
Thou Art Inexcusable”: Deflected Disgrace in the Old French Fabliaux
This essay proposes that, during the thirteenth century, shame (honte) was the driving force of the Old French fabliaux. A need to rebalance spousal or communal relations via a calculated management, meting out, or, in some cases, judicious deflection of public shame was central, if not centrifugal, to the potency and comic seduction of the majority of the tales. Often it was through a careful and consistent averting of public shame that the fabl…
Shakespeare in the Cinema: Ocular Proof
Dreams, Dharma , and Mrs. Doubtfire: Exploring Hindi Popular Cinema via Its “Chutneyed” Western Scripts
The author introduces the popular films of Bombay—or of Bollywood, as it is familiarly known—via that industry's odd but practical proclivity for reworking Western film scripts. The article assesses several recent Hindi film socials (i.e., romance and family dramas) adapted from Western storylines to highlight the differing expectations and values at work and at play within the Hindi film (particularly as regards family and gender roles), and to …
Cinematically speaking: The impact of orality on Indian popular film
Drawing from the conceptual studies of oral tradition, this paper extends previous analysts’ tracings of the “oral residue” that unconsciously marks literature into the realm of visual media, positing that there are very clear characteristics of oral performance and orally‐transmitted narratives ("the oral epics") operating within, and indeed formatively shaping, the popular cinema of India. These include not only broad psychodynamic characterist…
The Values of Fantasy: Indian Popular Cinema through Western Scripts
The Values of Fantasy: Indian Popular Cinema through Western Scripts
Thou Art Inexcusable”: Deflected Disgrace in the Old French Fabliaux
This essay proposes that, during the thirteenth century, shame (honte) was the driving force of the Old French fabliaux. A need to rebalance spousal or communal relations via a calculated management, meting out, or, in some cases, judicious deflection of public shame was central, if not centrifugal, to the potency and comic seduction of the majority of the tales. Often it was through a careful and consistent averting of public shame that the fabl…
Primary issues with secondary orality
This article examines two of Walter Ong’s signature concepts in culture and communication theory: secondary orality and residual orality. The author argues that these two concepts, as deployed today by many scholars in discussions of electronic and digital media, are highly problematic. Stemming from the author’s study of a particular region and contingent of humankind that was not on Ong’s cultural radar, the article attempts to demonstrate why …
Cinematically speaking: The impact of orality on Indian popular film
Drawing from the conceptual studies of oral tradition, this paper extends previous analysts’ tracings of the “oral residue” that unconsciously marks literature into the realm of visual media, positing that there are very clear characteristics of oral performance and orally‐transmitted narratives ("the oral epics") operating within, and indeed formatively shaping, the popular cinema of India. These include not only broad psychodynamic characterist…
The Values of Fantasy: Indian Popular Cinema through Western Scripts
Cinematically speaking: The impact of orality on Indian popular film
Drawing from the conceptual studies of oral tradition, this paper extends previous analysts’ tracings of the “oral residue” that unconsciously marks literature into the realm of visual media, positing that there are very clear characteristics of oral performance and orally‐transmitted narratives ("the oral epics") operating within, and indeed formatively shaping, the popular cinema of India. These include not only broad psychodynamic characterist…
Shakespeare in the Cinema: Ocular Proof
Dreams, Dharma , and Mrs. Doubtfire: Exploring Hindi Popular Cinema via Its “Chutneyed” Western Scripts
The author introduces the popular films of Bombay—or of Bollywood, as it is familiarly known—via that industry's odd but practical proclivity for reworking Western film scripts. The article assesses several recent Hindi film socials (i.e., romance and family dramas) adapted from Western storylines to highlight the differing expectations and values at work and at play within the Hindi film (particularly as regards family and gender roles), and to …
Seeing voices: Oral pragmatics and the silent cinema
This article suggests that we have perhaps too willingly dichotomized silent and sound cinema. Historically and conceptually cleaving these two forms based on the presence (or absence) of the voice may have aided in obfuscating other narrative pressures that traverse, complicate, and in some sense call into question the insuperability of the silent–sound barrier. One of these pressures entails narrative and performative norms that are fundamental…
Thou Art Inexcusable”: Deflected Disgrace in the Old French Fabliaux
This essay proposes that, during the thirteenth century, shame (honte) was the driving force of the Old French fabliaux. A need to rebalance spousal or communal relations via a calculated management, meting out, or, in some cases, judicious deflection of public shame was central, if not centrifugal, to the potency and comic seduction of the majority of the tales. Often it was through a careful and consistent averting of public shame that the fabl…
Reconfiguring the "Genuinely" Religious Film: The Oral Contours of the Overabundant Epic
Journal Article Reconfiguring the “Genuinely” Religious Film: The Oral Contours of the Overabundant Epic Get access Sheila J. Nayar Sheila J. Nayar E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 78, Issue 1, March 2010, Pages 100–128, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfp086 Published: 03 February 2010
A good man is impossible to find: Brokeback Mountain as heteronormative tragedy
This paper analyzes the 2005 film Brokeback Mountain in the light of the heterosexual female viewers who responded so favorably to the film. It speculates that the contemporaneous media mainstreaming of the uncloseted homosexual resulted in a parallel need for a psychosocial reconfiguring of the heterosexual; and that it was in this odd and anxious space that, for these viewers, the film’s potency may have subconsciously resided. In effect, the f…
Primary issues with secondary orality
This article examines two of Walter Ong’s signature concepts in culture and communication theory: secondary orality and residual orality. The author argues that these two concepts, as deployed today by many scholars in discussions of electronic and digital media, are highly problematic. Stemming from the author’s study of a particular region and contingent of humankind that was not on Ong’s cultural radar, the article attempts to demonstrate why …
Bollywood Religious Comedy: An Inaugural Humor -neutics
This media review explores the nascent genre of religious comedy in mainstream Indian film (also known as Bollywood). Focusing on two recent hits, OMG! (2012) and PK (2014), the review investigates what conventions or unspoken rules license laughter "at" religion in successful iterations of the genre, as well as how such films navigate India's cultural landscape, which is sensorily alive with multiple religions. Some of the more idiosyncratically…
The Enslaved Narrative: White Overseers and the Ambiguity of the Story-Told Self in Early African-American Autobiography
While the classic American slave narratives, like those by Frederick Douglass, attract much attention and are given wide institutional currency, the earlier narratives—indeed, the progenitors of one of the most American of literary genres—receive comparatively scant attention. This article addresses those incipient narratives (for example, by Pomp, Venture, and Grimes), demonstrating how they inadvertently expose the challenges inherent in bringi…
McLuhan’s Techno-Sensorium City: Coming to Our Senses in a Programmed Environment, Jaqueline McLeod Rogers (2020)
Review of: McLuhan’s Techno-Sensorium City: Coming to Our Senses in a Programmed Environment , Jaqueline McLeod Rogers (2020) Washington, DC: Lexington Books, 192 pp., ISBN-13 978-1-79360-524-5, h/bk, USD 95.00
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