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Is London Real? The Actual/Virtual/Fantastic City from Blow-Up to Bandersnatch
No full textWhile London has frequently served as the location for films across cinematic history, the city itself has sometimes been seen to construct space as a meta-location, a place that reveals itself as it inhabits a reality that is not always there and, perhaps, one that suggests itself as existing only in the imaginations of characters and often only as a fabricated, fabulous creation of the world of the film itself. This chapter focuses primarily on two films that bookend and best describe the phenomenon of London as an uncanny, disrupted filmic site – a city whose reality accepts an ontological position as a performative film set: Antonioni’s 1966 Blow-Up and Blake’s 2018 Black Mirror: Bandersnatch. Both films conceptualize this slippage of reality that is embodied in the filmic geography of London with a specific emphasis on the characters’ individual agency that further positions cinematic London as a creation sustained primarily by the human mind. While Blow-Up, as a product of “Swinging London,” emphasizes a London that is a proactive element in the narrative, Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, a 21st-century experimental, interactive Netflix release, shows the powerful presence of London realized through the diverging story threads and extra-diegetically through complex paratextual constructions
Comment on “Seismic Velocity Variations at Different Depths Reveal the Dynamic Evolution Associated With the 2018 Kilauea Eruption” by Liu et al.
Get PDFLiu et al. (2022, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL093691) used Rayleigh waves extracted from the cross-correlation of ambient noise recorded by two stations to monitor the seismic velocity variations associated with the 2018 Kı̄lauea eruption. However, their study ignored the fact that the tremors on the Island of Hawai\u27i were dominated by a source at the Kı̄lauea summit before the eruption. Close inspection of the waveforms of the station pair PAUD-STCD shows a simple, mistakenly identified wave traveling direction in Liu et al. (2022, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL093691). A correct wave traveling direction agrees with the noise source model, where the dominant tremor source should be at the Kı̄lauea summit. Because of the drastic change in the tremor source after the eruption, the cross-correlation of the tremor records may reflect predominantly changes in the source rather than in the medium properties between the two stations
New Insights into the Mesozoic Large-scale Intra-plate Magmatism and Mineralization in South China from Seismic Tomography
No full textA great amount of new S-wave data has been combined to image the mantle structure down to lower mantle depth near the southeastern margin of Eurasia and understand the tectonics in South China since the Mesozoic. Our results reveal a large-scale structure beneath the South China Sea, with a prominent, broad low-velocity feature of at least 1500-km wide in and below the mantle transition zone (MTZ) and a pronounced low-velocity feature of nearly 500-km wide in the lowermost mantle. Together these features may represent the head-and-tail of an upwelling mantle plume that has interacted with and deformed by the subducting plates in the region. The Andaman–Sumatra plate is seen subducting steeply without stagnation in the MTZ over the large-scale low-velocity structure, suggesting that the upwelling mantle may have exerted significant influence on the overlying plate tectonics. Our results suggest a long-term extensional regime near the southeastern margin of Eurasia, which may help to understand the formation of the large-scale intra-plate magmatism and mineralization with accumulation of huge amount of rare metal elements in South China during the Mesozoic, and the continental breakup, the southeastward extrusion of Indochina, and the opening of the South China Sea during the Cenozoic
Sharing Pride Through Curriculum Materials Collections: The Evolution of LGBTQIA+ Representation in Picture Books
Get PDFUnderstanding the changing landscape of LGBTQIA+ representation and its discoverability in popular collection development resources prepares curriculum materials librarians to develop inclusive collections and to support and advocate for the needs of preservice educators and the diverse audiences they serve. This paper maps how LGBTQIA+ representation in children’s picture books has evolved from 2008 to the present and to determine the scope of LGBTQIA+ visibility in professional book reviews. We did this by examining two subsamples from different four-year periods: 2008-2012 and 2018-2022. Our research found that recently published picture books with LGBTQIA+ representation have made substantial progress in depicting a wide range of gender identities and sexual orientations and introducing young readers to diverse stories about the LGBTQIA+ community. Additionally, the increased use of queer terminology in professional reviews has made LGBTQIA+ picture books more visible, although there are still limitations in representation in professional reviews. However, despite these positive findings, challenges still remain in the inadequate representation of some LGBTQIA+ identitie
Intercultural film literacy education against cultural mis-representation: Finnish visual art teachers’ perspectives
Get PDFCultural misrepresentation simplifies cultures and their minorities, promotes racism, nationalism and eventually weakens democracies by spreading false information through audio-visual media. Intercultural film literacy education combines intercultural education and film literacy and uses a film as a starting point to discuss the cultural context, to analyse cultural representation and to evaluate how the culture is portrayed from a stylistic and formal point of view. The current study builds upon the previous research that linked intercultural education and film literacy to discuss how visual art teachers understand and practice intercultural film literacy education towards critical analyses of cultural representation in audio-visual media. The research data includes eight semi-structured interviews with Finnish visual art teachers, which were analysed using a thematic approach. The findings reveal the need to broaden the concept of intercultural education to include LGBTQ+ people and focus on their experiences. At the same time, the findings highlight the importance of critical thinking to combat cultural misrepresentation, as well as the broader view of film literacy, which includes video-based social media. Finally, the results reveal a lack of cultural representation in an already limited number of teaching materials.
The research data includes eight semi-structured interviews with Finnish visual art teachers, which were analysed using a thematic approach. The findings reveal the need to broaden the concept of intercultural education to include LGBTQ+ people and focus on their experiences. At the same time, the findings highlight the importance of critical thinking to combat cultural misrepresentation, as well as the broader view of film literacy, which includes video-based social media. Finally, the results reveal a lack of cultural representation in an already limited number of teaching materials