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The Representation of Japanese in American World War II Movies
No full textThe thesis can be divided into three main parts – Chapter 2 is giving a basis for
detailed analysis by defining the term ‘Cinematic Orientalism’ and also giving a brief overview of the role of Orientalism in American society and moviemaking through relevant
examples of earlier made movie classics; the main emphasis is put on three cultic characters
of American movies, namely the figure of Fu Manchu, Charlie Chan and Mr. Moto. Chapter 3
is closely connected to the previous chapter, as it is dealing with the role of history in
American film industry and how authentically filmmakers handle historical facts and how
they reshape certain things in order to fulfill social expectations. The following two chapters
are dealing with the depiction of Asian characters in American films, especially the ones that
adapt the events of World War II military confrontations between the United States and Japan.
In Chapter 4 the main focus is on the deteriorated demonic image of the Japanese, which
shows the cruel, ruthless and brutal representation of the inscrutable Oriental. This negative
depiction is put into contrast with the humanized picture of Asians, created several decades
later by the Americans, in Chapter 5. Through this contrasting analysis we can have a full
picture of the representation of Japanese in American war movies from the 1940s till
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„Ha Isten velünk, ki ellenünk...” : Nádasdy Tamás magánélete négy megközelítésben, levéltári források alapján
No full textGoing Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe 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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