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Journal Article
positions (2024) 32 (3): 655–684.
Published: 01 August 2024
...Renren Yang Abstract The article deploys the material metaphor of “flat surface” to read the unexpected cross-modal affinities between amateurish cover design and professional storytelling in Chinese web novels. Canvassing the ways visual and verbal artifacts put into play metaphoric associations...
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Journal Article
positions (2019) 27 (2): 361–396.
Published: 01 May 2019
... consciousness, raising a number of aesthetic, thematic, and ethical issues (e.g., flatness, cinematic truth [ vérité ], “non-Aristotelian” dramaturgy [Brecht]). Among the numerous issues Kawase’s introspective style raises, the author focuses on its nonsubjective grammar and its (latent) critique of the liberal...
Journal Article
positions (2011) 19 (1): 193–215.
Published: 01 February 2011
... Peo-
ple’s Action Party was implementing its second five-year plan and was in the
process of relocating a large proportion of Singapore’s population into HDB
flats.24 If “A Little Ball” is notable for its representation of the bureaucratic...
Journal Article
positions (1999) 7 (2): 573–592.
Published: 01 May 1999
... in Singapore is leg-
endary. More than 85 percent of the population lives in public housing
estates, and 80 percent of these residents hold a ninety-nine-year lease on the
flats in which they live. The constant improvements made to each...
Journal Article
positions (2024) 32 (3): 455–461.
Published: 01 August 2024
... novels in Renren Yang's article. Yang argues that the popularity of amateurish cover designs that render them two-dimensional, or “flat,” is a symptom of China's transition to a post-Fordist cultural economy in which globalization increasingly homogenizes and thereby renders even the most custom-made...
Journal Article
positions (2016) 24 (2): 481–512.
Published: 01 May 2016
...
Jar, from 1958, an oil on canvas approximately 1.5 x 2 feet (fig. 3), and
Bird and Jar, of the same year and slightly smaller size (fig. 4), illustrate the
transition of his surfaces from flat, patchy strokes to a building-up of layers...
Journal Article
positions (2012) 20 (1): 329–344.
Published: 01 February 2012
...
with digital photograph
on archival rag paper
(149.9 x 198.1 cm),
single-channel video
(3 minutes, 94 cm on
vertical flat screen) and
LED text panel...
Journal Article
positions (1996) 4 (3): 417–419.
Published: 01 August 1996
... onion.
Placed on a large flat rock and covered by a series of smaller stones. Edicts
of building for private persons. Remaining principalities long ago divided
off. Under that place which is called the earth wall. Around which extends...
Journal Article
positions (2017) 25 (4): 745–767.
Published: 01 November 2017
...) in the precarious labor market. They
were also all temporary tenants in substandard housing units such as panjiha
(semibasement flat), okt’appang (rooftop room), and kosiwŏn (extremely small
single-room rental), mostly located in the Seoul metropolitan...
Journal Article
positions (2003) 11 (2): 427–441.
Published: 01 May 2003
... edging patterned with stylized “coiled clouds.”
The sloping shoulders, narrow waist, and flat chest of the ideal beauty,
who was to be both petite and slender, would disappear under the weight of
these layers upon layers of clothing. She herself...
Journal Article
positions (2016) 24 (2): 337–341.
Published: 01 May 2016
...-option, crisis, and refrain.
There are claims to make here. Sound, Tausig believes, has proven in his
case study to be “more potent than nationalist sentiment.” This implicit
drive to push critique beyond the crucial but now relatively flat...
Journal Article
positions 11306844.
Published: 07 August 2024
..., the operative terms of the 2020s are neijuan (involution), referring to increased efforts without improved social status (Q. Wang and Ge 2020), and tangping (lying flat), or refusing to participate in the rat race (Sun 2021). And yet the sort of middle-class people whose predecessors were found...
Journal Article
positions (2012) 20 (4): 947–952.
Published: 01 November 2012
... Marker and Wim Wenders. And so she concludes that the
cycle remains intact, however, with important caveats that include the rise of
Japanese popular culture, elite visions of high art pop (flat), and the inability
of the contemporary...
Journal Article
positions (1997) 5 (1): 255–275.
Published: 01 February 1997
... body flat on the ground, and
pulled his foot toward me. He fell. Then he leaped to his feet and grabbed
me with every bit of strength he had. I yelled in Japanese, ‘What have we
done? You wicked, wicked Japanese, how dare you drag us...
Journal Article
positions (2018) 26 (1): 13–33.
Published: 01 February 2018
... version of painting
to the two-dimensionality of the flat canvas meant a diminished interest in
the solidity of objects and a new fascination with their surfaces, which soon
led to a comparable focus on the flat skin of the canvases on which...
Journal Article
positions (2005) 13 (1): 1–8.
Published: 01 February 2005
... of virility ap-
pears feminine.6 Again, the contradictions are completely transparent, even
embarrassingly so. Accounts of the ironies and flat contradictions explicit
in Cheney, Bush, and cronies talking of girlie men are already out...
Journal Article
positions (2015) 23 (1): 121–129.
Published: 01 February 2015
... 2015 122
power of the hateful visual images — could only fall flat in a world where
digitalization makes representation fundamentally contextless. In a situa-
tion in which haptic commitment...
Journal Article
positions (2016) 24 (1): 231–252.
Published: 01 February 2016
... pointed stars
flank letters that read “So Cal,” which is emblazoned like graffiti on the flat,
muscular space beneath his belly button. Jimmy James’s self-presentation
equates sexual representation in the porn industry with masculine power...
Journal Article
positions (1994) 2 (3): 570–602.
Published: 01 August 1994
... that await interpretation, we are presented with flat characters, sheer
surfaces, and narrative discontinuities that resist our every attempt to read
into the characters or the story itself. In this refusal to provide the reader...
Journal Article
positions (2007) 15 (1): 65–90.
Published: 01 February 2007
... and in which we encounter images
of other peoples and cultures. While the film image has the potential to level
cultural difference — following the critique of postmodernism that claims
there is no depth to the flatness of the cinema screen — I argue...
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