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3 days ago · Roland Barthes was an early adopter of Substack, and his short blog posts published every month during 1954-56 by Les Lettres nouvelle are collected in Mythologies.In ‘Soap-powders and detergents’, inspired by the first World Detergent Conference in Paris, 1954, Barthes provides a contrasting “psycho-analysis of purifying liquids (chlorinated, for example) with that of soap-powders (Lux ...
1 day ago · This work extends across early theoretical efforts to understand the relationship of photography and the photograph to the pain of representation in modernity, including the historical work of Susan Sontag (1979, 2003), Roland Barthes , Walter Benjamin and contemporary studies by Ariealla Azoulay and others.
1 day ago · He provides a clear account of photography's historical development and insights from thinkers like Roland Barthes and Susan Sontag. The book's core is Clarke's groundbreaking examination of key subjects—landscape, the city, portraiture, the body, and reportage—analyzing exemplary images in their cultural and ideological contexts.
2 days ago · The paper compares Umberto Eco's book Apocalypse postponed, with Roland Barthes' Mythologies, with reference to the notion of myth. He identifies two elements of originality in Eco's reflection: the tendency of mass culture to re-propose collective myths, in contrast with the individualism of bourgeois culture; the conflict between the ahistorical dimension of myth and the need for markets to ...
3 days ago · The aim of this study is to identify changes in ideology on character and the plot in the adaptation of the fairy tale Little Snow White by Brothers Grimm. The research data consists of narrative texts from the fairy tale and visual scenes from the movie adaptation. The data are analyzed with comparative approach and Barthes' semiotics theory.
1 day ago · Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom. Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom ( Italian: Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma ), billed on-screen as Pasolini's 120 Days of Sodom on English-language prints [3] and commonly referred to as simply Salò ( Italian: [saˈlɔ] ), is a 1975 political drama art horror film directed and co-written by Pier Paolo Pasolini.
3 days ago · This week, we explore Pleasures by way of French literary critic and philosopher Roland Barthes (1915–1980). A few weeks ago, I wrote about Susan Sontag’s Likes and Dislikes — which are something of a Pleasure List. Sontag was a devoted fan of the late
