COCTEAU THE FILMMAKER: AN ARTISTIC CONCEPTION AT THE CROSSROADS OF LITERATURE AND VISUAL ARTS

LE CINÉASTE COCTEAU : UNE CONCEPTION ARTISTIQUE AU CARREFOUR DE LA LITTÉRATURE ET DES ARTS VISUELS

Author(s): Irina Armianu / Language(s): French / Issue: 2/2010

Keywords: Jean Cocteau; visual arts; literature and cinema; poetical intuition.

A poet and a movie director, Jean Cocteau brilliantly manifested surrealist inspiration in his poetry, in the performative art of his theatrical representation, and in his cinematography. His work is the best example to follow when asking how much the new art of cinematography inherited from other artistic expressions, especially from literature. This study seeks to provide new and interdisciplinary inside into precisely those ways in which film is intimately related to literature.This article recognizes cinema as a longstanding art and analyzes its technique, inspired by other arts. As with literary texts, cinema must attend to narrative creation, to the construction of plot and to the unfolding of character. As in theatre it involves declamation and the art of decorations. As in dance performance it relies on music, sound and animation. There are ways in which cinematography, through special effects, finds its own path and provides a means to express poetical intuition. In this, Cocteau has been recognized as one of the most creative directors of all time.

WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY SAMUEL BECKETT THE PROBLEM OF INTERPRETATION IN BECKETT’S OWN STAGE ADAPTATION OF ENDGAME

WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY SAMUEL BECKETT THE PROBLEM OF INTERPRETATION IN BECKETT’S OWN STAGE ADAPTATION OF ENDGAME

Author(s): Imola Márton / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2010

Keywords: Samuel Beckett; Endgame; directing; interpretation.

Throughout his career as a playwright, Samuel Beckett has always expected the performance not to fill up the text with spare meaning, but to be as close as possible to the composing elements of the text. The present article aims at demonstrating the assumption that the actor’s presence on stage inhibits the director from staging a play without interpretation. This hypothesis will be sustained by the questioning of the San Quentin Drama Workshop’s performance of Endgame, which was directed by Beckett himself in 1980. According to Beckett’s idea that a theatre performance is defined by the space and the characters, a first comparative analysis of the written text’s space with the one on the stage, will be followed by that of the play’s characters and those who are brought into being by the actors of the San Quentin Drama Workshop.

THE DRAMATIC PLAY AND THE PSYCHODRAMA SESSION

THE DRAMATIC PLAY AND THE PSYCHODRAMA SESSION

Author(s): Miklós Bács / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2010

Keywords: psychodrama; dramatic play; dramatherapy; role; dramatic audience.

The present article attempts to give a complex analytical image of psychodrama, from the point of its birth (the essential contribution of J.L. Moreno’s revolutionary ideas in the theatrical field) to the theory and practice of dramatherapy during the XXth century. Underlining the differences and meeting points between psychodrama, drama, therapeutic theatre and life, the study follows the motivation of the play in the theatrical art and in the group therapy and the role casting as a creative and as at therapeutic act, taking into consideration at each step that psychodrama is a very delicate, complex thing and an extremely significant action. The characters of the drama and of the psychodrama session, the techniques and procedures used in drama and psychodrama, the dramatic and the psychodramatic “playground” (the stage, common territory in drama and psychodrama, on which the events unfold), their setting and lighting, the dramatic reality (surplus reality) and the verbal discourse in drama performance and psychodrama session, are some of the elements on which the analysis focuses its attention.

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REVIEWS

Author(s): Irina Iacob,Andreea Duda,Andrada Vaidoş / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 2/2010

FESTIVALUL INTERNAȚIONAL INTERFERENȚE – TEATRUL MAGHIAR DE STAT CLUJ WOYZECK OU L’ÉBAUCHE DU VERTIGE PREA FIDELUL SFÂRŞIT DE PARTIDĂ IVONA, PRINCIPESA BURGUNDIEI: UN ADEVĂRAT CIRCULUS VITIOSUS HEY, GIRL!: ALUNECÂND ÎNSPRE FEMINITATE

THE MASK AND THE ACTOR: ION SAVA’S VISION WITHIN A EUROPEAN THEATRICAL HERITAGE

THE MASK AND THE ACTOR: ION SAVA’S VISION WITHIN A EUROPEAN THEATRICAL HERITAGE

Author(s): Elena Butuşină / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2010

Keywords: Sava; mask; acting; directing; Macbeth.

This article deals with Ion Sava’s belief in the dynamic potential of the mask, as shown by his own direction of the performance “Macbeth with Masks”. Considering this turning point of the Romanian theatrical life to be a pretext, the article then analyses the artistic background of the Romanian director, with an emphasis on his early interest for caricature and on his readings of Artaud, Craig or Meyerhold. His option for the mask as an artistic device actually stands for a deeper concern with the right manner to stylise and to touch the essence of the creative impulse of both the modern actor and the modern director.

BETWEEN ARTAUD AND HESSE: BAUDELAIRE, FORERUNNER OF A MODERN THEATRICAL AESTHETICS

ENTRE ARTAUD ET HESSE : BAUDELAIRE, PRÉCURSEUR D’UNE ESTHÉTIQUE THÉÂTRALE MODERNE

Author(s): Ioan Pop-Curșeu / Language(s): French / Issue: 2/2010

Keywords: hyperbole; theatricality; madness; magic theatre; mask; modernity.

This paper shows that Baudelaire had a great importance for the evolution of modern ideas concerning the art of theatre. In some fragments of his writings, Baudelaire imagines a hyperbolical show, which should be able to combine pantomime, symbolical masks, magical tricks, suggestive music and painting, as well as the most powerful resources of verbal language. By these ideas, Baudelaire anticipates the views of Antonin Artaud (Le Théâtre et son double) and Hermann Hesse (Der Steppenwolf) on what they call a magical theatre, with an entrance open only for mad people. The paper is based on a comparative interpretation of Baudelaire, Artaud, Hesse, and on a very pertinent interdisciplinary approach, meant to recreate the dialogue between theatre and other arts at the very beginning of our modernity.

Corporate Social Responsibility for Sustainability

Corporate Social Responsibility for Sustainability

Author(s): Wojciech Przychodzeń,Justyna Przychodzeń / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2014

Keywords: corporate sustainability; sustainable development; corporate social responsibility; environmental management

Corporate Social Responsibility for Sustainability Streszczenie Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to is to provide insights on implementing corporate social responsibility for sustainability (CSRS) concept and show how it differs from basic corporate social responsibility (CSR). Methodology: The paper discusses major issues with references to existing literature and real business cases from S&P500 consumer discretionary sector. Findings: The main fi nding of this paper is that CSRS could provide the company with a competitive advantage as a growing number of consumers become more sustainable conscious. It could also help to overcome the increasing consumers’ skepticism towards corporate social responsibility practices. Finally, it can also be seen as a step forward in defi ning what types of corporate activities are associated with desirable social and environmental gains. Research limitations: Our sample was restricted to the U.S. fi rms from the consumer discretionary sector. Therefore, conclusions should not be generalized to other markets. Our study is based on the analysis of environmental and social responsibility statements and assumes that they accurately represent corporate commitment in majority of the cases. Practical implications: CSRS offers corporations the opportunity to use their unique skills, culture, values, resources, and management capabilities to lead social progress by making sustainability part of its internal corporate logic. Originality: The paper raises the importance of the different conditions necessary for making sustainable development concept an important part of corporate strategy

Determinants of selection of the moment of starting running own business

Analiza determinant wybory momentu rozpoczęcia własnej działalności gospodarczej

Author(s): Marek Kunasz / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 2/2014

Keywords: przedsiębiorczość; własna firma; samozatrudnienie; aktywność gospodarcza

Cel: Autor przedstawia wyniki badań nad determinantami wyboru momentu rozpoczęcia własnej działalności gospodarczej. Metodologia: W pracy zastosowano metodę badań kwestionariuszowych (częściowych). Przeprowadzono je na losowo dobranej grupie 604 studentów studiów stacjonarnych w Polsce. Badania stanowią kontynuację realizowanych począwszy od 2003 roku w Uniwersytecie Szczecińskim badań przedsiębiorczości studentów studiów stacjonarnych SES. Dane pozyskane w prezentowanych badaniach porównywano w pracy ze zgromadzonym w poprzednich edycjach badań materiałem międzynarodowym, pozyskanym wśród studentów litewskich, łotewskich, rosyjskich, ukraińskich i węgierskich. Wnioski: Wyniki przeprowadzonego badania pozwalają na pozytywne zweryfikowanie hipotezy, iż rzeczywista skłonność jednostek do założenia własnej firmy ujawnia się zazwyczaj po kilku latach kariery zawodowej. Tłumaczy to znaczną dysproporcję między odsetkiem osób deklarujących chęć otworzenia własnej firmy a rzeczywistym odsetkiem samozatrudnionych w populacji pracujących. Preferencje w tym zakresie mają wpływ na kształtowanie się poziomu stopy samozatrudnienia w danym kraju. Praktyczne implikacje: Materiał zgromadzony w pracy może by użyteczny dla adekwatnych służb publicznych zajmujących się wspieraniem rozwoju przedsiębiorczości obywateli. Oryginalność: Wyniki prezentowanych badań stanowią próbę uzupełnienia luki występującej w literaturze przedmiotu z zakresu przedsiębiorczości. Brakuje bowiem publikacji koncentrujących się na kwestiach czynników determinujących wybór momentu rozpoczęcia własnej działalności gospodarczej.

Ignored Aspects of Islamic Banking and Finance

Ignored Aspects of Islamic Banking and Finance

Author(s): Seyed Hadi Arabi / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2014

Keywords: Islamic Banking; ignored aspects of IBF; aspects of Islamicity of IBF

Purpose: In the past several decades of Islamic banking and fi nance (IBF) activity in many countries, notable literature on this topic has been produced all over the world. By analyzing this IBF literature, this study investigates and highlights some ignored aspects of IBF activities. Methodology: Academic IBF literature includes defending the plausibility of IBF as a part of Islamic economics; theoretical analysis regarding some advantages of IBF compared with conventional systems, suggesting some methods for performing IBF; and concentration on introducing fi nancial instruments and innovations in Islamic financial markets. After reviewing them, they are classifi ed as high ranking journal papers and graduate dissertations that were written on Islamic economics in I.R. Iran during the past three decades. Then they are analyzed via analytical methods and descriptive statistics to investigate the ignored aspects of IBF. Findings: Through this systemic study of Islamic banking, real and not skeletal adaptation of Islamic contracts, Islamic goals of Islamic economy, Islamic and ethical values, and justice and poverty reduction are some of the more important neglected aspects in IBF activities. Research Implications: Focusing on these areas in future research could improve the performance of IBF as part of the Islamic economic system and guide IBF activities to the real nature of Islam (Islamicity). Originality: Besides reviewing and classifying the academic literature on IBF, the study is unique in focusing on the neglected aspects of IBF because it is very important and infl uential to distinguish IBF from non-IBF activities.

How Objective Are Subjective Measures of Organizational Innovativeness, Really?

How Objective Are Subjective Measures of Organizational Innovativeness, Really?

Author(s): Patrycja Klimas / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2014

Keywords: measures of innovativeness; organizational innovativeness; objective measures; subjective measures

Purpose: This paper aims to match subjective and objective measures of organizational innovativeness and test correlative relationship between the two. Methodology: The research adopts a quantitative approach, and applies correlation analysis to identify interdependencies. The study has been done in the aviation industry, as organizational innovativeness has so far been described especially in high-tech industries – however it has not been investigated within aviation industry yet. Findings: The results show that the discussions over reliability of research based on subjective measurements techniques are not unfounded. The evidence suggests that subjective measures are not correlated with objective measures, and the outcomes of third-party investigations differ considerably. Therefore decisions about measurements techniques should be deliberate, thought out, theoretically grounded and justifi ed. In general, methodological recommendations provided by this paper could be boiled down to the ascertainment that accurate and reliable assessment of organizational innovativeness should use a set of objective measures addressing all stages of the innovation process. Originality: It should be noted that this study was restricted to only one industry and prone to some common bias. The aviation industry sample was relatively small and purposefully selected, disallowing conclusive statements made outside of this empirical setting. However despite the limitations this paper provides some significant contribution to evaluation and research on innovativeness. It compares two approaches to measurement and empirically proves which approach is more suitable in case of such a highly innovation-intensive sector like aviation. Moreover, it introduces a new in Polish research tool for subjective assessment of organizational innovativeness namely the questionnaire developed by Wang and Ahmed (2004).

Systematization and measurement of perceived changes in consumer’s self-image due to the usage of service brands

Systematyzacja i pomiar postrzeganych zmian w obrazie siebie konsumentów pod wpływem korzystania z marek usług

Author(s): Justyna Filipowska,Aleksandra Maciejowska,Magdalena Kolańska,Oleg Gorbaniuk,Aleksandra Kisiel / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 2/2014

Keywords: usługi, wizerunek marki; obraz siebie; wizerunek konsumenta;

Cel: Celami przeprowadzonych badań były (1) usystematyzowanie postrzeganych przez konsumentów pozytywnych i negatywnych zmian w obrazie siebie z tytułu korzystania z marek usług oraz (2) opracowanie wielowymiarowego narzędzia do pomiaru tych zmian. Metodologia: Aby osiągnąć powyższe cele, zrealizowano badania jakościowe oraz ilościowe. Badania jakościowe,prowadzone metodą indywidualnego wywiadu, objęły próbę 318 osób w wieku od 13 do 82 roku życia (M = 37,64, SD = 16,69; 47,2% kobiet). W efekcie skompletowano zbiór pozytywnych i negatywnych zmian w obrazie siebie jako konsumentów wskutek korzystania z usług różnych marek, które zostały poddane szczegółowej kategoryzacji. Opierając się na wynikach kategoryzacji, opracowano kwestionariusz, którego skale miały postać dyferencjału semantycznego. Badania ilościowe przeprowadzone zostały na próbie 378 osób w wieku od 15 do 78 lat (M = 34,62; SD = 13,42; 53,6% kobiet). Wnioski: Analiza wyników badań umożliwiła identyfikację dziewięciu wymiarów postrzeganych zmian w obrazie siebie pod wpływem korzystania z marek usług. Na podstawie uzyskanych wyników opracowano kwestionariusz do wielowymiarowego pomiaru zmian w obrazie siebie o bardzo dobrych wskaźnikach psychometrycznych z uwagi na rzetelność pomiaru i trafność przewidywania preferencji marek usług. Praktyczne implikacje: Opracowano nowatorskie wielowymiarowe narzędzie do praktycznego zastosowania w zarządzaniu marką usług. Zidentyfi kowane wymiary postrzeganych zmian obrazu siebie konsumentów marek stanowią praktyczną wskazówkę, czym należy się kierować w komunikacji marketingowej. Oryginalność: Wyniki badań i opracowane skale przełamują wieloletni impas w teorii i metodologii badań relacji Ja–marka.

Economic Imagination and Support For Parliamentary Democracy In Poland

Economic Imagination and Support For Parliamentary Democracy In Poland

Author(s): Krzysztof Zagórski,Andrzej K. Koźmiński / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2014

Keywords: economic imagination; attitudes; interventionism; democracy; free market; liberalism

Purpose: The article introduces a concept of the economic imagination, describes economic public attitudes and discusses the character of the contemporary economic imagination of Poles. Methodology: Representative survey conducted on the stratifi ed random sample of 1022 adult respondents by means of CAPI (computer assisted personal interview). Statistical analysis of data. Findings: The features perceived by public as economically benefi cial to the entire economy, particular enterprises and individuals have been ranked by the representative survey and statistically grouped into more general clusters. Those considered as good for the economy are grouped into such factors as “investment and competition”, “statism (etatism)” and “progressive taxation”. The features considered as benefi cial for the enterprises are grouped into “human, social and economic capital”, “law obedience and good social relations” and “limited free market”. Personal characteristics perceived as benefi cial for individual’s economic success are grouped into “honesty, perseverance and good social relations”, “skills and diligence” and “nepotism and instrumentalism”. Intensity as well as determinants of such general value loaded convictions, and their impact on acceptance of democracy have been revealed as well. The implications: Economic imagination has to be analysed as an important factor of socio-economic system’s legitimization. Originality: Distinction and empirical defi nition of economic attitudinal syndromes at three different levels: macro-economic, enterprise and individual constitute a novelty in socio-economic research. Discussion of their determinants and wider implications constitute a new contribution to the theory of social legitimization.

Studying Post-Socialism in Slovenia: the State of the Art

Studying Post-Socialism in Slovenia: the State of the Art

Author(s): Tanja Petrović / Language(s): English / Issue: 17/2014

Keywords: history of ethnology (1989-2014); Slovenia; research; institutions; post-socialism;

Conundrums of Ethnological and Anthropological Research in Bosnia-Herzegovina

Conundrums of Ethnological and Anthropological Research in Bosnia-Herzegovina

Author(s): Larisa Kurtović / Language(s): English / Issue: 17/2014

Keywords: history of ethnology (1989-2014); Bosnia and Herzegovina; research; institutions;

Against All Odds: Auto-Reflexive Reconstructions of the Development of Ethnology and Anthropology as Academic Disciplines in the Republic of Macedonia

Against All Odds: Auto-Reflexive Reconstructions of the Development of Ethnology and Anthropology as Academic Disciplines in the Republic of Macedonia

Author(s): Ilina Jakimovska,Ljupčo Risteski / Language(s): English / Issue: 17/2014

Keywords: history of ethnology (1989-2014); Rep. of Macedonia; research; institutions;

The Culture and Education Policies and the Cultural Sciences in Turkey

The Culture and Education Policies and the Cultural Sciences in Turkey

Author(s): Asker Kartarı / Language(s): English / Issue: 17/2014

Keywords: history of ethnology (1989-2014); Turkey; research; institutions; cultural sciences;

Studying and Teaching Anthropology in Moldova after 1991: Legacies, Opportunities, and Deadlocks

Studying and Teaching Anthropology in Moldova after 1991: Legacies, Opportunities, and Deadlocks

Author(s): Ludmila D. Cojocaru / Language(s): English / Issue: 17/2014

Keywords: history of ethnology (1989-2014); Moldova; research; institutions; anthropology;

This paper aims at analysing the conditions of developing anthropology in the Republic of Moldova. After a general overview of the pre-1989 situation, the paper will portray the redefinition of the field since the 1990s with a focus on paradigm shifts and the building of new institutional structures. It will also consider the relationship between articulating new research topics, establishing new partnerships, and institutionalising the discipline. My assessment of its development in post-Soviet Moldova will point out the most evident issues inherited from the Soviet period and will identify opportunities of and impediments to the development of anthropology in the country since 1991.

The Ethnological Sciences in Greece Since the Late 1980s: The View from Folklore and Social Anthropology

The Ethnological Sciences in Greece Since the Late 1980s: The View from Folklore and Social Anthropology

Author(s): Jutta Lauth Bacas,Vassiliki Chryssanthopoulou / Language(s): English / Issue: 17/2014

Keywords: history of ethnology (1989-2014); Greece; research; institutions; folklore studies; social anthropology;

Between Status Quo and Change. The State of Post-Communist Albanian Ethnology

Between Status Quo and Change. The State of Post-Communist Albanian Ethnology

Author(s): Armanda Hysa Kodra / Language(s): English / Issue: 17/2014

Keywords: history of ethnology (1989-2014); Albania; research; institutions;

A Contribution to the Study of the Development of Ethnology and Anthropology in Post-Socialist Serbia

A Contribution to the Study of the Development of Ethnology and Anthropology in Post-Socialist Serbia

Author(s): Saša Nedeljković / Language(s): English / Issue: 17/2014

Keywords: history of ethnology (1989-2014); Serbia; research; institutions; anthropology;

The paper represents an attempt to analyse the development of the discipline of ethnology/anthropology in Serbia in the post-socialist period. Based on certain measurable criteria, changes in the conceptions of ethnology and anthropology within the key institutions are analysed. These changes were mostly pertaining to relations between institutions, but also interpersonal relationships within the institutions themselves. For the purpose of contextualization of the studied processes, I have used discourses of identity and power.