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dc.contributor.convenorDavid Ellison and Ian Woodward
dc.contributor.authorMay, Anthony
dc.contributor.editorDavid Ellison and Ian Woodward
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T11:36:12Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T11:36:12Z
dc.date.issued2005
dc.date.modified2009-10-13T21:50:17Z
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/2443
dc.description.abstractThis paper is concerned to examine the question of the idiomatic in the contemporary cosmopolitan world. In accepting cosmopolitanism as the increased traffic in all things across previously more firm borders, the key to that traffic has been the translation of value within those interactions. The idiomatic, however, is precisely that which is untranslatable or, as Derrida held, singular, proper, inimitable. More particularly, idiom is used here not as a way of fixing meaning within a changing culture but as something which relays meaning within a group of users. In this sense, then, idiom can be considered, for the examiner, as the evidence of the existence, past or present, of a culture rather than an utterance of that culture. This difference forces a shift of address in the cultural critic. Examples for this examination will be drawn from the circulation of twenty and twenty-first century mass entertainments, particularly film and music and their interlocked institutions. It is anticipated that the benefit of construing idiom in this way and applying that understanding to the global circulation of entertainment will be to assist in picturing the historical utility of popular entertainments in the contemporary world.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherCentre for Public Culture and Ideas
dc.publisher.placeBrisbane
dc.publisher.urihttps://www.griffith.edu.au/
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofconferencenameSites of Cosmopolitanism : Citizenship, Aesthetics, Culture
dc.relation.ispartofconferencetitleSites of Cosmopolitanism : Citizenship, Aesthetics, Culture
dc.relation.ispartofdatefrom2005-07-06
dc.relation.ispartofdateto2005-07-08
dc.relation.ispartoflocationBrisbane
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode420304
dc.titleThe Cosmopolitan Voice: Blockbusters and Hits in the Contemporary World
dc.typeConference output
dc.type.descriptionE1 - Conferences
dc.type.codeE - Conference Publications
gro.facultyArts, Education & Law Group, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences
gro.rights.copyright© The Author(s) 2005 Griffith University. It is posted here with permission of the copyright owner for your personal use only. No further distributions permitted.
gro.date.issued2005
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorMay, Anthony


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