Charles R Acland
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 565331 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Charles R Acland |
| PRENOMES | Charles R |
| SOBRENOME | Acland |
| ASSINATURA | ACLAND C R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Concordia University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1989 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
The Longest Revolution, or Notes on Stuart Hall, Antonio Gramsci, and Authoritarian Populism
This article examines contemporary right-wing populist movements and argues that a dominant concept describing such movements – “authoritarian populism” – does not provide the analytical advantage that it might. The current usage of that term privileges populism as primarily authoritarian. In contrast, Stuart Hall’s development of the concept in the 1970s proposed that “authoritarian populism” was a way of explaining political conjunctures. As in…
Crawley Films and Canada’s Audiovisual Infrastructure for Resource Extraction
La compagnie Crawley Films, située à Ottawa, a été le principal producteur privé de films industriels et éducatifs au Canada entre 1939 et 1982. Alors que l’historiographie s’est penchée sur les œuvres éducatives et sur les incursions dans le domaine du long métrage de la compagnie, cet essai examine ses films commandités portant sur l’extraction des ressources naturelles. Pendant des décennies, Crawley Films a fourni aux réseaux audiovisuels du …
Hollywood's Culture of Scientific and Technical Achievement
This article offers a brief historical analysis of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Scientific and Technical Awards to show how changing notions of achievement in this arena helped shape the American movie business. This examination reveals the shifts and settlements in what the film industry, and its related technological apparatus, was imagined to be. Especially notable is the way these awards acknowledged specialized technology…
The dead-end of ad-hocracy
Since the 1960s ‘ad-hocracy’, an approach to organizations that values provisionality and is especially advantaged by new technological systems, has been understood as a ‘radical’ challenge to the rigidity of bureaucratic institutions. This essay argues that commonsense championing of the temporary, the anti-institutional, and the flexible in corporate, political, educational, and daily life established the conditions that preordained the disastr…
Youth, Murder, Spectacle
In this book, Charles R. Acland examines the culture that has produced both our heightened state of awareness and the bedrock reality of youth violence in the United States. Beginning with a critique of statistical evidence of youth violence, Acland compares and juxtaposes a variety of popular cultural representations of what has come to be a perceived crisis of American youth. After examining the dominant paradigms for scholarly research into yo…
American AV
This article demonstrates how the influential scholar Edgar Dale, alongside a generation of educational technologists, helped build an essential place for AV materials and pedagogical methods in the American classroom. It also shows that, for decades, the Payne Fund philanthropy supported multimedia research agendas that shaped ideas about teaching and technology, far beyond involvement in their famed studies on motion pictures and children in th…
Never Too Cool for School
New Conformism Redux”
To assess future priorities for cultural studies, this essay returns to the later writings of Raymond Williams, in particular his concerns about “new conformism.” It is argued that today we face comparable analytical challenges in which the pressures of institutionalization, and a strain of ahistoricism, have produced a “weak materialism” in contemporary cultural critique. The essay recommends a flexible and context-driven navigation of the curre…
The End Of James Cameron's Quiet Years
In the years between his blockbuster films Titanic (1997) and Avatar (2009), James Cameron was an active documentary producer and director. Where many saw these years as a retreat from the mainstream of the film industry, this chapter argues that this period helped solidify his relationship with scientific discovery and the development of cinema technology. Expedition: Bismarck (2002), Ghosts of the Abyss (2003), and Aliens of the Deep (2005) are…
Useful Cinema
Curtains, carts and the mobile screen
One hundred-and-ten years after the first cinema showmen presented actualities in fairgrounds, eighty years after the 16 mm gauge helped film burst free of the darkened movie house, and sixty years after regularized television broadcasts began to animate living rooms, we continue to hear the plaintive cry of the cinema-mourner, railing against the degradation of the magic of films and cinemagoing that has resulted from the ubiquity of moving imag…
Harold Innis, Cultural Policy, and Residual Media
Harold Innis resides as a defining figure for the disciplinary coherence of communication studies, economic history and cultural history in Canada. And yet, he remains largely unknown abroad. This paper reassesses his contributions to cultural policy studies through an examination of Innis’s historical argument about technology, knowledge and power. Whereas he has been understood typically as a rigid technological determinist, this paper argues t…
Getting Warmer? Some Reactions to Fahrenheit 9/11
Harold Innis in the New Century
Contributors include Charles R. Acland, Alison Beale (Simon Fraser), Jody Berland (York), James Bickerton (St Francis Xavier), William J. Buxton, James Carey (Columbia), Ray Charron (Concordia), Cheryl Dahl (University College of the Fraser Valley), Michael Dorland (Carleton), Kevin Dowler (York), Donald Fisher (UBC), Sarah Fortin (McGill), Alain-G. Gagnon (McGill), Jane Jenson (Montreal), Heather Menzies (Carleton), Richard Noble (Winnipeg), Dan…
Cinemagoing and the Rise of the Megaplex
Cinemagoing and the Rise of the Megaplex
Harold Innis in the New Century
Imaxtechnology and the Tourist Gaze
IMAX grew out of the large and multiple screen film experiments produced for Expo '67 in Montreal. Since then, it has become the most successful large format cinema technology. IMAX is a multiple articulation of technological system, corporate entity and cinema practice. This article shows how IMAX is reintroducing a technologically mediated form of ‘tourist gaze’, as elaborated by John Urry, into the context of the institutions of museums and th…
Imax in canadian cinema
the last post-industrial resource, acceleration exceeds accumulation . . . Paul Virilio (1987, 180) The guiding myth, then, inspiring the invention of cinema, is ... an integral realism, a recreation of the world in its own image, and image unburdened by the freedom of interpretation of the artist or the irreversibility of time . . . Every new development added to the cinema must, paradoxically, take it nearer and nearer to its origins. In short,…
Youth, Murder, Spectacle
Youth * Youth in Crisis * The Wreckage of Body, Mind, and Morals: On Youth, Deviance, and Visibility Murder * News and Sensations: On Images of Crime * Tall, Dark, and Lethal: The Discourses of Sexual Transgression in the Preppy Murder * The Subject in Crime: Confessions as a Site of Self-Evidence Spectacle * Crisis and Display: The Nature of Evidence on the Daytime Television Talk Show * The Body by the River: Youth Movies and the Adult Gaze * T…
Tall, Dark, and Lethal
Cut 'n' Mix
This is a book about the music of the Caribbean from calypso and ska through to Reggae and Caribbean club culture
Curtains, carts and the mobile screen
One hundred-and-ten years after the first cinema showmen presented actualities in fairgrounds, eighty years after the 16 mm gauge helped film burst free of the darkened movie house, and sixty years after regularized television broadcasts began to animate living rooms, we continue to hear the plaintive cry of the cinema-mourner, railing against the degradation of the magic of films and cinemagoing that has resulted from the ubiquity of moving imag…
Harold Innis in the New Century
Contributors include Charles R. Acland, Alison Beale (Simon Fraser), Jody Berland (York), James Bickerton (St Francis Xavier), William J. Buxton, James Carey (Columbia), Ray Charron (Concordia), Cheryl Dahl (University College of the Fraser Valley), Michael Dorland (Carleton), Kevin Dowler (York), Donald Fisher (UBC), Sarah Fortin (McGill), Alain-G. Gagnon (McGill), Jane Jenson (Montreal), Heather Menzies (Carleton), Richard Noble (Winnipeg), Dan…
Harold Innis, Cultural Policy, and Residual Media
Harold Innis resides as a defining figure for the disciplinary coherence of communication studies, economic history and cultural history in Canada. And yet, he remains largely unknown abroad. This paper reassesses his contributions to cultural policy studies through an examination of Innis’s historical argument about technology, knowledge and power. Whereas he has been understood typically as a rigid technological determinist, this paper argues t…
Getting Warmer? Some Reactions to Fahrenheit 9/11
Youth, Murder, Spectacle
Youth * Youth in Crisis * The Wreckage of Body, Mind, and Morals: On Youth, Deviance, and Visibility Murder * News and Sensations: On Images of Crime * Tall, Dark, and Lethal: The Discourses of Sexual Transgression in the Preppy Murder * The Subject in Crime: Confessions as a Site of Self-Evidence Spectacle * Crisis and Display: The Nature of Evidence on the Daytime Television Talk Show * The Body by the River: Youth Movies and the Adult Gaze * T…
American AV
This article demonstrates how the influential scholar Edgar Dale, alongside a generation of educational technologists, helped build an essential place for AV materials and pedagogical methods in the American classroom. It also shows that, for decades, the Payne Fund philanthropy supported multimedia research agendas that shaped ideas about teaching and technology, far beyond involvement in their famed studies on motion pictures and children in th…
New Conformism Redux”
To assess future priorities for cultural studies, this essay returns to the later writings of Raymond Williams, in particular his concerns about “new conformism.” It is argued that today we face comparable analytical challenges in which the pressures of institutionalization, and a strain of ahistoricism, have produced a “weak materialism” in contemporary cultural critique. The essay recommends a flexible and context-driven navigation of the curre…
Cut 'n' Mix
This is a book about the music of the Caribbean from calypso and ska through to Reggae and Caribbean club culture
Tall, Dark, and Lethal
Imax in canadian cinema
the last post-industrial resource, acceleration exceeds accumulation . . . Paul Virilio (1987, 180) The guiding myth, then, inspiring the invention of cinema, is ... an integral realism, a recreation of the world in its own image, and image unburdened by the freedom of interpretation of the artist or the irreversibility of time . . . Every new development added to the cinema must, paradoxically, take it nearer and nearer to its origins. In short,…
Youth, Murder, Spectacle
Youth * Youth in Crisis * The Wreckage of Body, Mind, and Morals: On Youth, Deviance, and Visibility Murder * News and Sensations: On Images of Crime * Tall, Dark, and Lethal: The Discourses of Sexual Transgression in the Preppy Murder * The Subject in Crime: Confessions as a Site of Self-Evidence Spectacle * Crisis and Display: The Nature of Evidence on the Daytime Television Talk Show * The Body by the River: Youth Movies and the Adult Gaze * T…
Imaxtechnology and the Tourist Gaze
IMAX grew out of the large and multiple screen film experiments produced for Expo '67 in Montreal. Since then, it has become the most successful large format cinema technology. IMAX is a multiple articulation of technological system, corporate entity and cinema practice. This article shows how IMAX is reintroducing a technologically mediated form of ‘tourist gaze’, as elaborated by John Urry, into the context of the institutions of museums and th…
Harold Innis in the New Century
Cinemagoing and the Rise of the Megaplex
Cinemagoing and the Rise of the Megaplex
Harold Innis in the New Century
Contributors include Charles R. Acland, Alison Beale (Simon Fraser), Jody Berland (York), James Bickerton (St Francis Xavier), William J. Buxton, James Carey (Columbia), Ray Charron (Concordia), Cheryl Dahl (University College of the Fraser Valley), Michael Dorland (Carleton), Kevin Dowler (York), Donald Fisher (UBC), Sarah Fortin (McGill), Alain-G. Gagnon (McGill), Jane Jenson (Montreal), Heather Menzies (Carleton), Richard Noble (Winnipeg), Dan…
Getting Warmer? Some Reactions to Fahrenheit 9/11
Harold Innis, Cultural Policy, and Residual Media
Harold Innis resides as a defining figure for the disciplinary coherence of communication studies, economic history and cultural history in Canada. And yet, he remains largely unknown abroad. This paper reassesses his contributions to cultural policy studies through an examination of Innis’s historical argument about technology, knowledge and power. Whereas he has been understood typically as a rigid technological determinist, this paper argues t…
Curtains, carts and the mobile screen
One hundred-and-ten years after the first cinema showmen presented actualities in fairgrounds, eighty years after the 16 mm gauge helped film burst free of the darkened movie house, and sixty years after regularized television broadcasts began to animate living rooms, we continue to hear the plaintive cry of the cinema-mourner, railing against the degradation of the magic of films and cinemagoing that has resulted from the ubiquity of moving imag…
Useful Cinema
The End Of James Cameron's Quiet Years
In the years between his blockbuster films Titanic (1997) and Avatar (2009), James Cameron was an active documentary producer and director. Where many saw these years as a retreat from the mainstream of the film industry, this chapter argues that this period helped solidify his relationship with scientific discovery and the development of cinema technology. Expedition: Bismarck (2002), Ghosts of the Abyss (2003), and Aliens of the Deep (2005) are…
New Conformism Redux”
To assess future priorities for cultural studies, this essay returns to the later writings of Raymond Williams, in particular his concerns about “new conformism.” It is argued that today we face comparable analytical challenges in which the pressures of institutionalization, and a strain of ahistoricism, have produced a “weak materialism” in contemporary cultural critique. The essay recommends a flexible and context-driven navigation of the curre…
Never Too Cool for School
American AV
This article demonstrates how the influential scholar Edgar Dale, alongside a generation of educational technologists, helped build an essential place for AV materials and pedagogical methods in the American classroom. It also shows that, for decades, the Payne Fund philanthropy supported multimedia research agendas that shaped ideas about teaching and technology, far beyond involvement in their famed studies on motion pictures and children in th…
Youth, Murder, Spectacle
In this book, Charles R. Acland examines the culture that has produced both our heightened state of awareness and the bedrock reality of youth violence in the United States. Beginning with a critique of statistical evidence of youth violence, Acland compares and juxtaposes a variety of popular cultural representations of what has come to be a perceived crisis of American youth. After examining the dominant paradigms for scholarly research into yo…
The dead-end of ad-hocracy
Since the 1960s ‘ad-hocracy’, an approach to organizations that values provisionality and is especially advantaged by new technological systems, has been understood as a ‘radical’ challenge to the rigidity of bureaucratic institutions. This essay argues that commonsense championing of the temporary, the anti-institutional, and the flexible in corporate, political, educational, and daily life established the conditions that preordained the disastr…
Crawley Films and Canada’s Audiovisual Infrastructure for Resource Extraction
La compagnie Crawley Films, située à Ottawa, a été le principal producteur privé de films industriels et éducatifs au Canada entre 1939 et 1982. Alors que l’historiographie s’est penchée sur les œuvres éducatives et sur les incursions dans le domaine du long métrage de la compagnie, cet essai examine ses films commandités portant sur l’extraction des ressources naturelles. Pendant des décennies, Crawley Films a fourni aux réseaux audiovisuels du …
Hollywood's Culture of Scientific and Technical Achievement
This article offers a brief historical analysis of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Scientific and Technical Awards to show how changing notions of achievement in this arena helped shape the American movie business. This examination reveals the shifts and settlements in what the film industry, and its related technological apparatus, was imagined to be. Especially notable is the way these awards acknowledged specialized technology…
The Longest Revolution, or Notes on Stuart Hall, Antonio Gramsci, and Authoritarian Populism
This article examines contemporary right-wing populist movements and argues that a dominant concept describing such movements – “authoritarian populism” – does not provide the analytical advantage that it might. The current usage of that term privileges populism as primarily authoritarian. In contrast, Stuart Hall’s development of the concept in the 1970s proposed that “authoritarian populism” was a way of explaining political conjunctures. As in…
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