Attitudes toward imitation: Classical culture and the modern temper

Sullivan, Dale L.

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“…The Greek philosophers debated the role of imitation in the artistic process. Some thought that art was successful if it depicted a unified, single action as a complete whole, seeing the artist as abstracting reality from a close encounter with nature (Sullivan, 1989).…”

Section: Literature Review Theories Of Imitation In Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…According to some scholars of classical rhetoric, imitation facilitates both critical analysis and creative practice in the context of learning. In studying the writings of Cicero, Aristotle, Quintillian, and others, scholars have identified differences of emphasis on the relative value of pedagogical practices of imitation such as memorization, translation, paraphrasing, and modeling (Sullivan, 1989). Modeling was often used as part of pedagogy in the ancient world.…”

Section: Literature Review Theories Of Imitation In Educationmentioning

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The creativity of imitation in remake videos

Hobbs

Friesem

2019

E-Learning and Digital Media

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The Creativity of Imitation in Remake Videos When attending a youth media screening event in Philadelphia in 2013, many attendees were impressed by a short video screened there, entitled "Love Language." The short video depicts a unique relationship that develops between two young people sitting on a park bench through the use of post-it notes. We see the couple flirting and developing an interest in each other over a period of three days as they playfully exchange notes. At the conclusion of the short film, it is revealed that one of the youth is hearing and one is deaf. The charming and sentimental narrative offers an optimistic view of human nature and human relationships and expresses people's ability to communicate and value each other across difference. The video received an audience appreciation award at the youth media screening event hosted at PhillyCam, the city's local access center. But only one week previous to this event, in Providence, Rhode Island, the GiveMe5 festival, a statewide youth media event, featured another youth-produced video, also called "Love Language," featuring different actors and setting, but with an identical plot, structure, and form. This video also received a warm response from the audience. Because the ending credits were cut before the conclusion of the film, the audience could not see that this version included a line at the end that indicated that the productions were in fact a remake of the viral video produced by the Jubilee Project to support the American Society for Deaf Children in November, 2010. A search on "Love Language" on YouTube reveals thousands of short video remakes from around the world featuring the plot and structure of the original. It is difficult to determine why this video attracted so many imitations, but the simple production values and emotionallycompelling narrative may explain its popularity as an object of imitation. We take an interest in the "Love Language" video in order to examine some of the pleasures, paradoxes, and tensions regarding the ethical, aesthetic, and therefore educational values of youth-produced remake videos. Although remakes have been sometimes considered "uninspired copies," the remake genre is a significant part of filmmaking (Koos & Forrest, 2002, p. 3). Film critics of the mid-20 th century considered remaking a purely American practice, a product of standardized filmmaking practices and the monopolization of the world market. In distinguishing between film remakes and adaptations, film scholars considered remakes as films that simply updated an older film in order to maintain its appeal to new audiences, while adaptations made changes to the content and form of the original in a way that transforms it by adding new meaning and value (Koos & Forrest, 2002). In examining Hollywood film remakes, Lenos (2009) observes that film remakes capitalize on familiarity while adapting narrative and filmic tropes to new cultural contexts. Digital remix practices work in similar ways to link together media culture, history and locali...

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Section: Literature Review Theories Of Imitation In Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Literature Review Theories Of Imitation In Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The creativity of imitation in remake videos

Hobbs

Friesem

2019

E-Learning and Digital Media

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“…Herved forsøger jeg at åbne en plads for forskning i skrivepaedagogik, didaktik og eksempeltekster, der ikke er overvejende historisk eller teoretisk, hvilket ofte er tilfaeldet inden for den retoriske tradition (Murphy, 2012;Sullivan, 1989;Terrill, 2011), eller som primaert interesserer sig for transfervaerdi forstået som aflejringer, spejlinger, oftest overfladiske, mellem eksempeltekster og elevers nye tekster (Hertzberg, 2001, s. 97-98 Jeg kan ikke lade vaere med at undre mig over, at disse personer anser sig for vaerdige til at optraede som ungdommens vejledere, som -uden at det er gået op for dem selv, -tager et én gang for alle fastlagt fagligt mønster til model for et skabende arbejde . .…”

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Sagprosaundervisning og situationens kraft: Hvad kan vi lære af Isokrates’ og en dansklærers tilgange og intentioner?

Matthiesen

2017

Sakprosa

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Ifølge flere læremiddelundersøgelser behandles sagprosa og ikke mindst sagprosatekstens indhold og situation stedmoderligt. Derfor undersøger jeg i denne artikel gennem den eksemplariske metode Isokrates’ og dansklæreren Lauras tilgange til og intentioner med især brugen af eksempeltekster i undervisning. Ved at udfolde de to underviseres tilgange og bringe dem i tale, forsøger at jeg at udlede, hvad vi kan lære af begge. De to underviseres tilgange behandles gennem en optik af det stærke kairos-begreb, der foruden tekstinterne aspekter som passende stil og timing også indbefatter selve sagens grundlæggende konflikt. Udfoldelsen af de to underviseres tilgange og intentioner viser, at de begge har demokratisk dannelse og elevens handlekraft som mål. Isokrates ved at sammenkæde eksempelteksters indhold og situation med undervisningssituationen, og Laura ved skabe rammer for inddragelse af elevens erfaring i arbejdet med teksters indhold og situation. Jeg forener hovedpointerne i tilgangene ved at opstille en deweysk syntese ikke helt ulig laboratoriemetoden gennem formuleringen af syv principper, der kan bygge bro mellem eksempelteksters, klassens og elevens tænkning og situation.

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“…As the “rhetorical notion of copying, aping, simulating, and emulating models,” Corbett says, imitation was valued because it was not framed as distinct from invention but rather integral to it (, 243). Thus arose the belief “that an artist becomes great by imitating great artists” (Sullivan , 7‐8). Such notions of imitation challenge the colloquial belief in imitation as a “mere copy” or identical duplication of the original, yet the latter view also persists.…”

Section: Tension Of Imitationmentioning

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Art Controversy in theObamaWhiteHouse: Performing Tensions of Race in the Visual Politics of the Presidency

Finnegan

Mixon

2014

Pres Stud Q

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In 2009, two works by African American artists selected for display in the White House produced controversy among critics of the president. Our analysis explores how media discussion involving a Charles Alston bust of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and an abstract painting by Alma Thomas unearthed cultural tensions involving the practice of imitation, the value of presence, and the role of Black art and artists. Such tensions shaped the debate about the art works chosen by the Obamas and raised the question of how to define and place a Black president in the first year of his first term.

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Attitudes toward imitation: Classical culture and the modern temper

Cited by 23 publications

References 12 publications

The creativity of imitation in remake videos

The creativity of imitation in remake videos

Sagprosaundervisning og situationens kraft: Hvad kan vi lære af Isokrates’ og en dansklærers tilgange og intentioner?

Art Controversy in theObamaWhiteHouse: Performing Tensions of Race in the Visual Politics of the Presidency

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