aura
Overview page. Subjects: Literary Theory and Cultural Studies — Media Studies.
According to Benjamin (1936), the distinctive singularity of an original work of art, the potency of which he attributed to its authenticity, presence, uniqueness, and historical context....
auteur theory
Overview page. Subjects: Media Studies — Literary Theory and Cultural Studies.
A perspective on cinema in which the director is seen as the author of a film, which is seen as an artwork reflecting their distinctive personality, vision, point of view, and aesthetic...
Bruce, George Robert (1909–2002), poet, critic, and radio and television producer
in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
March 2009; p ublished online January 2006 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Literary Studies (Poetry and Poets); Television; Radio; Literature; Literary Theory and Cultural Studies. 1465 words.
Bruce, George Robert (1909–2002), poet, critic, and radio and television producer, was born on 10 March 1909 at 2 Victoria Street, Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, the first son and eldest of...
Censorship and Literature
in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature
P ublished online December 2016 .
Article. Subjects: Media Studies; Literary Theory and Cultural Studies. 11128 words.
Insofar as literature is defined negatively, by what it is not, censorship has had a determining role in its historical constitution. Contemporary scholarship emphasizes the dynamic...
cinéma vérité
Overview page. Subjects: Literary Theory and Cultural Studies — Media Studies.
[French ‘cinema truth’]
Style of documentary film-making, developed in the 1960s by Jean Rouch (1917–2004), a French film-maker and anthropologist, featuring ordinary people...
culture industry
Overview page. Subjects: Literary Theory and Cultural Studies — Media Studies.
discursive formation
Overview page. Subjects: Media Studies — Literary Theory and Cultural Studies.
For Foucault, ‘the general enunciative principle that governs a group of verbal performances’. The term is also used to refer to the particular discourse governed by this principle, in...
discursive practice
Overview page. Subjects: Literary Theory and Cultural Studies — Media Studies.
Foucault's term for communicative practices based on rules that define and construct their referents. See also constitutive models; compare signifying practice.
everyday life
Overview page. Subjects: Literary Theory and Cultural Studies — Media Studies.
See also lived experience.
Fadiman, Clifton
in American National Biography Online
P ublished online April 2001 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Literature; Publishing; Radio; Literary Theory and Cultural Studies. 1284 words.
Fadiman, Clifton (15 May 1904–20 June 1999), literary critic, anthologist, and radio personality, was born Clifton Paul Fadiman in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants...
