Franco di Chiera, a director, writer and producer expresses his views on issues about the cultura... more Franco di Chiera, a director, writer and producer expresses his views on issues about the cultural representation on the Australian cinema screen. He feels that terminologies like non-English speaking background, indigenous, ethnic and refugees should be used to represent the cultural origin.
I publish the essay "Toni Morrison's Beloved" which I wrote in 1995 with the wish that it might c... more I publish the essay "Toni Morrison's Beloved" which I wrote in 1995 with the wish that it might contribute to the study of the body of work on Toni Morrisson. I have just learnt of her passing and can only feel gratitude for her legacy.
I'm also grateful for the opportunity I had to read Toni Morrison's novels, to have studied them and to have have been able to write this essay on the novel Beloved, which I completed in fulfillment of the unit of study on Women, Literature, Feminist Theory during Honours year at the Toorak Campus of Deakin University, Australia. Along with the essay on the play by Jack Davis, No Sugar, also written while completing Honours and awarded the Austing and Valerie Asche Essay Prize in Contemporary Australian Society and Culture in 1996, it talks about 'resistance' and 'power'.
Clay (1965), Mad Max (1979) and Samson and Delilah (2009) are three films produced in different p... more Clay (1965), Mad Max (1979) and Samson and Delilah (2009) are three films produced in different periods of Australian film history that offer narratives of encounter, escape and survival. In the films, the narratives permeate through the Australian landscape: desert, bushland and urban periphery, and emerge as language, having met with silence. In Clay (1965), directed by Giorgio Mangiamele, a fugitive enters an artists' colony in the Victorian bushland. In this landscape he encounters emotions that demand a new language and finds that he must reassess his identity. Clay contributed to the presence of Australian cinema in an international context through its participation at the Cannes International Film Festival in 1965. The protagonists of Samson and Delilah (2009), directed by Warwick Thornton, are settlement dwellers in central Australia. With their unlikely names, Samson and Delilah sit on a cultural threshold. Without speech, they set out to traverse urban and natural landscapes and reach a space free from the colonial legacy. Winning in the Un Certain Regard category at Cannes International Film Festival, the film avoided a potentially marginal status within Australia. In Mad Max (1979), directed by George Miller, a man named Max is projected into a foreign, apocalyptic landscape. Armed with revenge for the loss of his wife and child, he wants to reclaim the road, which has become a place of terror. The first in a series, Mad Max is shot around Melbourne, and its cult status has allowed it to transcend national boundaries.
Paper written in 1995. Recipient of the Austin and Valerie Asche Essay Prize in Contemporary Aust... more Paper written in 1995. Recipient of the Austin and Valerie Asche Essay Prize in Contemporary Australian Society, 1996.
A conversation on what we long for and resist in the city of our dreams., from Borges, to Agamben... more A conversation on what we long for and resist in the city of our dreams., from Borges, to Agamben and Calvino.
What can the interplay of water, infrastructure and stories contribute to transition strategies f... more What can the interplay of water, infrastructure and stories contribute to transition strategies for a low-carbon, resilient city? This paper presents thinking behind the project "Acqua, Luce, Ortigia: The Culture of Water Environments." Workshops explored stories related to water sites within the city to inform the design of eco-innovative ideas for cultural and urban interventions that build resilience, define routes and infrastructure with the potential to create a contemporary narrative of place, and invent communication strategies utilising different media. The project culminated in a walk along the water sites in Ortygia as part of the UN World Water Day 2014 and the Waterwheel Symposium. NB AT PAGE 403 OF THE SECTION CARE&DARE OF THE BOOK WATER VIEWS
Writing in the first half of the 20th Century, Vitaliano Brancati examined Sicilian bourgeios soc... more Writing in the first half of the 20th Century, Vitaliano Brancati examined Sicilian bourgeios society during the era of Fascism, exposing an ethos of masculinity based on the exercise of power. Brancati was a writer of novels, screenplays and articles.
Spaces & Flows International Journal of Urban and Extra-Urban Studies, Jun 2014
In a sustainable city there has been careful attention to the movement and presence of people wit... more In a sustainable city there has been careful attention to the movement and presence of people within the spaces of the built environment as well as to the consciousness they lend. In the quest for sustainability, the balance between community and the space inhabited is acknowledged in order to achieve the desired transformation and to restore meaning to living in a place. Taking the Italian expression “mente locale,” this article argues that place takes on meaning when the awareness of space is activated. Awareness that localises perception, imagination, and memory informs the process of envisioning, and it creates the potential for resilience (that meets climate change demands). Relating space to cultural and urban characteristics allows resilience to be imagined within a city. This article is informed by critical discussions and sets the premises for further research. http://ijf.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.203/prod.183
"Do you know HW?" is a critique that attempts to place the issue of "masculinity" at the heart of... more "Do you know HW?" is a critique that attempts to place the issue of "masculinity" at the heart of a contemporary scandal.
Franco di Chiera, a director, writer and producer expresses his views on issues about the cultura... more Franco di Chiera, a director, writer and producer expresses his views on issues about the cultural representation on the Australian cinema screen. He feels that terminologies like non-English speaking background, indigenous, ethnic and refugees should be used to represent the cultural origin.
I publish the essay "Toni Morrison's Beloved" which I wrote in 1995 with the wish that it might c... more I publish the essay "Toni Morrison's Beloved" which I wrote in 1995 with the wish that it might contribute to the study of the body of work on Toni Morrisson. I have just learnt of her passing and can only feel gratitude for her legacy.
I'm also grateful for the opportunity I had to read Toni Morrison's novels, to have studied them and to have have been able to write this essay on the novel Beloved, which I completed in fulfillment of the unit of study on Women, Literature, Feminist Theory during Honours year at the Toorak Campus of Deakin University, Australia. Along with the essay on the play by Jack Davis, No Sugar, also written while completing Honours and awarded the Austing and Valerie Asche Essay Prize in Contemporary Australian Society and Culture in 1996, it talks about 'resistance' and 'power'.
Clay (1965), Mad Max (1979) and Samson and Delilah (2009) are three films produced in different p... more Clay (1965), Mad Max (1979) and Samson and Delilah (2009) are three films produced in different periods of Australian film history that offer narratives of encounter, escape and survival. In the films, the narratives permeate through the Australian landscape: desert, bushland and urban periphery, and emerge as language, having met with silence. In Clay (1965), directed by Giorgio Mangiamele, a fugitive enters an artists' colony in the Victorian bushland. In this landscape he encounters emotions that demand a new language and finds that he must reassess his identity. Clay contributed to the presence of Australian cinema in an international context through its participation at the Cannes International Film Festival in 1965. The protagonists of Samson and Delilah (2009), directed by Warwick Thornton, are settlement dwellers in central Australia. With their unlikely names, Samson and Delilah sit on a cultural threshold. Without speech, they set out to traverse urban and natural landscapes and reach a space free from the colonial legacy. Winning in the Un Certain Regard category at Cannes International Film Festival, the film avoided a potentially marginal status within Australia. In Mad Max (1979), directed by George Miller, a man named Max is projected into a foreign, apocalyptic landscape. Armed with revenge for the loss of his wife and child, he wants to reclaim the road, which has become a place of terror. The first in a series, Mad Max is shot around Melbourne, and its cult status has allowed it to transcend national boundaries.
Paper written in 1995. Recipient of the Austin and Valerie Asche Essay Prize in Contemporary Aust... more Paper written in 1995. Recipient of the Austin and Valerie Asche Essay Prize in Contemporary Australian Society, 1996.
A conversation on what we long for and resist in the city of our dreams., from Borges, to Agamben... more A conversation on what we long for and resist in the city of our dreams., from Borges, to Agamben and Calvino.
What can the interplay of water, infrastructure and stories contribute to transition strategies f... more What can the interplay of water, infrastructure and stories contribute to transition strategies for a low-carbon, resilient city? This paper presents thinking behind the project "Acqua, Luce, Ortigia: The Culture of Water Environments." Workshops explored stories related to water sites within the city to inform the design of eco-innovative ideas for cultural and urban interventions that build resilience, define routes and infrastructure with the potential to create a contemporary narrative of place, and invent communication strategies utilising different media. The project culminated in a walk along the water sites in Ortygia as part of the UN World Water Day 2014 and the Waterwheel Symposium. NB AT PAGE 403 OF THE SECTION CARE&DARE OF THE BOOK WATER VIEWS
Writing in the first half of the 20th Century, Vitaliano Brancati examined Sicilian bourgeios soc... more Writing in the first half of the 20th Century, Vitaliano Brancati examined Sicilian bourgeios society during the era of Fascism, exposing an ethos of masculinity based on the exercise of power. Brancati was a writer of novels, screenplays and articles.
Spaces & Flows International Journal of Urban and Extra-Urban Studies, Jun 2014
In a sustainable city there has been careful attention to the movement and presence of people wit... more In a sustainable city there has been careful attention to the movement and presence of people within the spaces of the built environment as well as to the consciousness they lend. In the quest for sustainability, the balance between community and the space inhabited is acknowledged in order to achieve the desired transformation and to restore meaning to living in a place. Taking the Italian expression “mente locale,” this article argues that place takes on meaning when the awareness of space is activated. Awareness that localises perception, imagination, and memory informs the process of envisioning, and it creates the potential for resilience (that meets climate change demands). Relating space to cultural and urban characteristics allows resilience to be imagined within a city. This article is informed by critical discussions and sets the premises for further research. http://ijf.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.203/prod.183
"Do you know HW?" is a critique that attempts to place the issue of "masculinity" at the heart of... more "Do you know HW?" is a critique that attempts to place the issue of "masculinity" at the heart of a contemporary scandal.
As people, who could be neighbours in a city, stream on live television, stories about the migran... more As people, who could be neighbours in a city, stream on live television, stories about the migrant, refugee or asylum seeker surface, and one might ask: Where are they going?
The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already h... more The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many: accept the inferno and become such a part of it that you can no longer see it. The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of the inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space. (Italo Calvino)
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I'm also grateful for the opportunity I had to read Toni Morrison's novels, to have studied them and to have have been able to write this essay on the novel Beloved, which I completed in fulfillment of the unit of study on Women, Literature, Feminist Theory during Honours year at the Toorak Campus of Deakin University, Australia. Along with the essay on the play by Jack Davis, No Sugar, also written while completing Honours and awarded the Austing and Valerie Asche Essay Prize in Contemporary Australian Society and Culture in 1996, it talks about 'resistance' and 'power'.
Silvana Tuccio, 1 September 2019
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I'm also grateful for the opportunity I had to read Toni Morrison's novels, to have studied them and to have have been able to write this essay on the novel Beloved, which I completed in fulfillment of the unit of study on Women, Literature, Feminist Theory during Honours year at the Toorak Campus of Deakin University, Australia. Along with the essay on the play by Jack Davis, No Sugar, also written while completing Honours and awarded the Austing and Valerie Asche Essay Prize in Contemporary Australian Society and Culture in 1996, it talks about 'resistance' and 'power'.
Silvana Tuccio, 1 September 2019
www.silvanatuccio.blogspot.com
www.silvanatuccio.com