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Experimentation, Documentation, Censorship: A Joris Ivens’ Industrial Film and the Italian National Broadcasting Television
No full textAround the period of the Italian ‘economic miracle’ (1958-63) documentary and television films became fields of deliberate audio-visual experimentation. A number of industrial films were commissioned to some prominent authors of filmmaking (directors, composers, scriptwriters and graphic artists) in order to legitimate the economic, social and cultural functions played by the companies they referred to. The massive introduction of electroacoustic and avant-garde as well as vernacular folk music idioms is one of the most interesting elements in this scenario. Whereas the first two were often used as sonic extensions of the innovative technological processes illustrated by the films (chemical, mechanical, electronic machinery etc.), the latter functioned as signals of the (especially southern) Italian ancestral rural identities.
All these features can be tracked in the most controversial industrial film of the early 1960s: L’Italia non è un paese povero (1960), a three-part documentary commissioned to Dutch director Joris Ivens by the administrator of the Italian national energy company (ENI) Enrico Mattei, murdered in 1962, to be broadcasted on the Italian national television (RAI). The film was planned to illustrate Mattei’s ambitious economic and industrial vision, through opposing the poverty of some Italian regions to the prosperous future promised by the discovery of oil and gas fields. Mattei’s resorting to a celebrated foreign filmmaker whose radical views were broadly known is at the basis of the censorship affairs that afflicted the film before its broadcasting, which eventually led Ivens to abandon the project. Our paper will point out how Ivens’ experimental ideas about image and sound recording, the TV target of the film and the number of personalities involved in it (Alberto Moravia, the Taviani brothers, Tinto Brass, Valentino Orsini, and composer Gino Marinuzzi jr.) configured the film as an extraordinary sounding board for the complex representational issues underlying Italian economic transformation
La Villa Médicis. Volume 4. Le collezioni del cardinale Ferdinando. I dipinti e le sculture.
No full textCatalogo di tutte le sculture antiche e dei dipinti della collezione del cardinale Ferdinando de'Medici collocati nella Villa Medici a Roma tra il XVI e il XVIII secolo, con descrizione dei loro spostamenti, delle accessioni e della dispersione, condotto sulla base di un ampio corredo di documenti d'archivio, inventari e testimonianze, in buona parte inedite
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
3D asymptotic model for CFRP reinforced masonry walls
No full textThis work proposes a study for CFRP (Carbon Fibre reinforced polymers) symmetric and not symmetric reinforced masonry walls
subject to in plane and out of plane actions in the elastic range. Masonry, CFRP reinforcement and reinforced masonry have been
identified with a standard elastic continuum by means of a homogenisation method in several perturbative parameters. A numerical 3D homogenised model has been compared with this analytical model. If the size of the thickness is comparable with the dimension of the elementary periodic cell, the asymptotic model allows the identification of the 3D solid with a 2D Love - Kirchhoff’s plate, in which the anisotropy is connected with the arrangement of blocks. An extensive numerical analysis has been carried out to
investigate the capacity of the homogenisation method – by comparison with other models existing in the literature [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], to grasp the effect of CFRP reinforcement in the behaviour of the masonry
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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