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LATINOAMERICAN TV NOVELS AS A CULTURAL, MEDIA AND IMAGE PHENOMENON

15. October 2018./in Cultures of Rhythms and Spectacle /by Kcs21blAA

At the beginning of the twentieth century the era of progressive technological development has started and the new concept of “real” emerged, but the real events become the basis for the upgrade of the media industry. Technological revolution in the twentieth century led to the expansion of mass communication, radio, film, print, television, internet and other means of media that became available in every household. Latin American TV novels based on realistic narratives combine in a characteristic way the world of reality and fantasy supporting the system of social, ideological and political values. They become globally popular genre of television distribution outside the framework of Latin American countries. The global phenomenon of Latin American TV novels is processed in this work by critical analysis with special emphasis on their media, cultural and social aspects.

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RITUALS AND PUBLIC EVENTS AS THE CONNECTION BETWEEN CHAOTIC AND MYTHOLOGICAL-DRAMATIC IN MODERN SOCIETY

15. October 2018./in Cultures of Rhythms and Spectacle /by Kcs21blAA

In the past, rituals, ceremonies, festivals, spectacles, social dramas and mythological symbolism were strenghtening social connections between members of the same clan, tribe or community. In the same time, they were preparing people to solve problems of survival, how to change social regulations and laws in evitable social development.

Deeper symbolism of this “journey” of the man through time and space with his rituals and public events represent the moving from Chaos to Logos. Rhytm of social activities and human consciousness needs harmonising and control of constant changes of thoughts and emotions. Social dramatising, public events, also secret rituals and ceremonies are moderating the consequences of this transfer from archaic and mythical man to “new” rational and logical member of social order.

The concept of game and playing helps people and society to meet the problems of traditional and modern rules and regulations. Two basic kinds of rituals and public events are relevant – events-that-model and events-that-represent; these extend social communications and connections between the individuals, and improve or destruct old and new structures of society and political system.

The ancient principles of ritualization, mythological symbolism or techniques of magical, religious and social control also live in the modern world, tied to positioning of power and one`s place in the hierarchy of the community. Mythological and ritual symbolism today can be a very strong manipulator and controller of the mass and groups, but also can facilitate the change of unnatural or inequitable social relationship. Modern social and political experience can be enriched and improved with the mythological symbolism and ritual interpretations, it can help us to overcome our perception of contradiction between the rational and irrational world in ourselves and around us.

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RITUAL AND DANCE MEMORY IN ORAL CULTURE

15. October 2018./in Cultures of Rhythms and Spectacle /by Kcs21blAA

It is not by chance that individual art forms appear in specific time periods. Art satisfies certain human needs but is also connived with the dominant technologies which determine their time. Marshall McLuhan approaches the phenomenon of art from the point of view of deliberating human extensions and their influence on the human experience. The artistic (in this case, dance) is deliberated on the level of understanding technologies that are and are not available to Man.

Dance is seen in the context of its importance for the understanding of preliterate civilizations. This is a context in which it is more crucial to understand the advancement of the preliterate human spirit than possible outlines of the artistic in the dances of early civilizations.

The hypnotic quality of contemporary mass media also has its sources in the hypnotic roots of seduction by dance of the dances dating from the time of preliterate civilizations. Hence the connection between the seduction dances and hypnotism of contemporary mass media and their technological roots of which McLuhan writes. Deliberation on dance once again raises the question of correctness of the path of human civilization based on the directions of technologies. Therefore the deliberation on dance requires distance and deflection for the thought which does not wish to be imprisoned.