Militarism and Memorializing at the Pro Football Hall of Fame     

Michael L. Butterworth 《传播与批判/文化研究》2013,10(3):241-258

More than ever, entertainment industries work in concert with the US armed forces in the rhetorical production of militarism. This is especially the case in sport, where leagues such as the National Football League routinely make war imagery and military personnel a focal point of football culture. One such iteration of this relationship is the “Pro Football and the American Spirit” exhibit that is part of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Understood as an example of public memory, this exhibit reveals sport's capacity to normalize war and reduce the available models of citizenship in the United States.  相似文献   

Aphasia and a Legacy of Violence: Disabling and Enabling Knowledge of the Past in Poland     

Jolanta A. Drzewiecka 《传播与批判/文化研究》2013,10(4):362-381

Neighbors ignited a fierce debate in the Polish press over the remembrance of a WWII pogrom of Jewish Poles by gentile Poles. There were three different responses crafted by media commentators to recuperate the nation. I argue that the debate demonstrated an aphasic structural disorder that rendered knowledge of the past violence and its victims unrecognisable and its implications incomprehensible. My psychoanalytic reading shows that misrecognition of that knowledge to protect the fiction of the Polish gentile Self was the fundamental dynamic in the media commentaries. I examine the aphasic mechanisms of misrecognition and metonymy for insights into how ignorance is repeatedly legitimated and disregard is diffused and how the Self dependency on the Other is barred from recognition. I explicate how aphasia shapes memory and responses to a national rupture and subsequent recuperation.  相似文献   

Pranking rhetoric: “culture jamming” as media activism     

Christine Harold 《Critical Studies in Media Communication》2013,30(3):189-211

This essay explores the practice of “culture jamming” as a strategy of rhetorical protest. Specifically, “pranksters” deploy the tools of the mass media and marketing in order to take advantage of the resources and venues they afford. Through the concept of “pranking,” this essay suggests that the most promising forms of media activism may resist less through negation and opposition than by playfully appropriating commercial rhetoric both by folding it over on itself and exaggerating its tropes.  相似文献   

“You Don't Play,You Volunteer”: Narrative Public Memory Construction in Medal of Honor: Rising Sun     

Aaron Hess 《Critical Studies in Media Communication》2013,30(4):339-356

Narrative and ludological analysis suggests that Electronic Arts’ Medal of Honor: Rising Sun constructs a narrative of World War II that selectively retells history and constructs an Orientalist representation of the Japanese Empire. The gaming environment exists as an interactive museum that immerses gamers into history so that they experience warfare in their homes. Combining newsreels, fictional letters from home, and interviews with veterans of the “Good War,” Medal of Honor: Rising Sun retells a history that omits details of Japanese internment or atomic weapons. The intertwined themes of personal revenge for the loss of a family member and historical revenge for the attack on Pearl Harbor guide gamers through an “educational” experience of the war. Finally, its failure to simulate violence means that Medal of Honor: Rising Sun invites a critical blindness to commemorating war.  相似文献   

Holocaust Perversions: The Stalags Pulp Fiction and the Eichmann Trial     

Amit Pinchevski 《Critical Studies in Media Communication》2013,30(5):387-407

The Stalags, an Israeli pulp fiction series whose advent coincided with the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem, portrayed sadomasochistic scenarios between SS female guards and Allied soldiers in POW camps. Written in Hebrew by native Israelis, these cheap pocketbooks were enormously popular with Israeli teenagers, many of whom were children of Holocaust survivors. We posit the Stalags (a) as a fictional counterpart of the trial, complementing the legal procedure with feats of the imagination, and (b) as a text upon which the Israeli young generation negotiated issues of power and identity.  相似文献   

Memory training program for older adults     

Pai-Lin Lee  Hui-Hsiang Chang  Chih Kun Huang  Wen-Chen Cheng  Pi-Yu Lee  Hui-Chen Chao 《Educational gerontology》2013,39(10):614-626

ABSTRACT

Objective: Memory loss affects a large proportion of older adults. Research indicates a positive association between memory training and better memory performance as people age. However, studies on specific memory training using an experimental design are limited. This study explored whether memory training has improved memory performance in a group of older adults.

Method: A convenience sample of 48 participants was recruited from two communities. Disregarding dropouts, this left 23 experimental (mean age = 65.4 ± 6.0, range = 56–80) and 19 control participants (mean age = 64.5 ± 4.9, range: 57–72). The intervention consisted of 60-min classes held on a weekly basis continuing for 8 weeks. The class session was held after a 1-h exercise class and before a 1-h session of cognitive games. The pre–post objective memory performances, including associative, list, text, place, grocery learning, and transfer-effect of daily event memory (ecology validity), were examined to determine whether the intervention was effective.

Results: Intragroup: With Wilcoxon test, the findings showed that the intervention of both the list and place learning had significant differences for the experimental group, but not for the control group. Intergroup: The main effects were found for the associative and text learning. The mixed design ANOVA indicated that there is an interaction (time x group) on the dependent variable of the place learning test. Daily events memory: We found within group that the pre–post differences were significant for the experimental group but not for the control group.

Conclusion: The study showed that memory training can help older adults to ameliorate memory loss problems and these findings deserve more attention.  相似文献   

提升聋生“内存”四法     

Zhang Qin 《南京特教学院学报》2008,(3)

聋生学习和运用所学语言文字来记叙事情、表达思想都存在一个共同的现象:说话缺乏中心,思想表达不清,作文无从下手。教师如何改善聋生现状,提高他们的语言表达能力,值得聋教育工作者进行探讨。笔者认为,应从提高聋生的语言积累入手,扩大聋生的阅读范围,丰富聋生的词汇量,加强聋生的语言实践,从根本上提升聋生的"内存"。  相似文献   

一种内存管理策略的研究和实现     

魏天光  魏东琦 《人天科学研究》2009,(3)

针对一种需要动态维护拓扑信息的GIS叠加分析算法,有针对性地提出相应的内存管理策略。实践表明能有效提高算法实现层面的效率。  相似文献   

《纪念刘和珍君》和《为了忘却的纪念》比较     

王淑萍 《洛阳师范学院学报》2000,19(3):127-130

鲁迅《纪念刘和珍君》和《为了忘却的纪念》两篇杂文 ,主题思想和写作方法大体相同 ;但因为纪念对象和写作时间的具体差异 ,受作者思想发展的阶段性影响 ,各自表现出来的认识结论有所不同。在表达手法上 ,前者以叙事为主 ,抒情淋漓酣畅 ,风格激越 ;后者以抒情为主 ,表达曲折含蓄。把握这些区别 ,对合理设置教学目标、实施教学计划 ,有非常重要的意义  相似文献   

武术套路图示教学法的尝试与阐释   总被引：6，自引：1，他引：5  

温佐惠 《武汉体育学院学报》2000,34(3):67-70

武术套路技术教学具有可行性、实效性。与传统的教学法相比,有利于激发学生学习的积极性,能有效地培养学生的独立性和创造性,有助于发挥学生的主体作用和教师的主导作用。  相似文献