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الصحفي الأديب أنتوني شديد : شهادة شخصية وإضاءة نقدية / Journalist and Writer Anthony Shadid: Personal Testimony and Critical Insights
No full text[This homage to the late journalist and writer Anthony Shadid (1968-2012) highlights his importance as a literary figure. Weaving Shadid\u27s words, his work, and the author\u27s own interactions with him, the article promotes a more profound appreciation of creative nonfiction. Narrating a final conversation with Shadid and drawing on an interview with his editor George Hodgman, the article brings out elements that elevate his two final books—House of Stone and Night Draws Near—to the status of literature. تهدف هذه الشهادة إلى الوفاء بذكرى الصحفي والكاتب الراحل أنتوﻧﻲ شديد ، عبر تسليط الضوء على أهميته بوصفه ﺃﺩﻳﺒﺎً . تناقش المقالة ضرورة وجود تقدير أعمق للونٍ أدبي لم يلق الاهتمام الذي يستحق ، وهو السرد الخبري الإبداعي creative nonfiction ، وذلك عبر نسج كلمات وكتابات أنتوﻧﻲ شديد ، ولقاءات شخصية معه ، نحو هذا المبتغى . فبين ذكرى آخر لقاء جمع الكاتب بأنتوني شديد ، ومقابلة مع محرر كتبه ، تستعرض المقالة العوامل التي أسهمت في رفع كتابيّ أنتوني شديد الأخيرين إلى مصاف الأدب .
The Cinema of Muhammad Malas, Visions of a Syrian Auteur
Get PDFThis book provides an in-depth and intimate study of the cinema of Muhammad Malas. One of the well-known auteurs of Arab and Syrian cinema, Malas’s distinctive cinematic project has always confronted the social and political issues of his time. From feature films Dreams of the City, The Night, Bab al Maqam (Passion), and Ladder to Damascus to documentaries such as The Dream and Aleppo: Maqamat of Pleasure, Malas’s films challenge and explore Arab culture and history. Archival images run through the chapters of this book which combines insightful interviews with excerpts from Malas’s literary works and critical explorations of his cinematic style and thematic concerns. The book concludes with Malas’s own words, sharing the treatment of his film project Cinema al-Dunya
The Cinema of Memory
Get PDFRecognized as gems of Arab film history, Ahlam al-Medina (Dreams of the City), 1984, and Al Layl (The Night), 1992, reveal the distinctive cinematic voice of Muhammad Malas. Both films are quasi-autobiographical journeys that poetically interrogate his memories of Syria, from a coming-of-age story set in Damascus in the 1950s to a poetic meditation on the loss of his ancestral home, the city of Quneitra. This latter film calls on the indexicality and punctum of photography to reflect on the failures of Arab nationalism and limits of memory. Malas deftly blurs the lines between realism and fiction, past and present, and truth and history as characters confront Palestine, Arab Nationalism, patriarchy, and Syrian democracy
Collaborations and Documentary
Get PDFIn this, second of three transcripts from an interview with Malas, he discusses his filmic collaborations with a range of filmmakers from the well-known Egyptian auteur, Youssef Chahine, to many important figures in the history of Syrian cinema. He discusses his efforts with Omar Amiralay and Ossama Mohammed, to forge an independent cinema club in the mid-seventies that cultivated knowledge and access to a world film culture in Syria in response to the silencing of cinema by the government. Malas also discusses his important documentaries Aleppo: Maqamat of Pleasure and The Dream, and shares reflections on his relationship with fellow filmmaker and editor Qays Al-Zubaidi who worked on many of his films
Behind the Scenes and Films in the Making
Get PDFThis chapter presents the following primary documents to provide historical images from 1950s Syria as well as behind-the-scenes images from Malas\u27s feature films Dreams of the City (1984) and The Night (1992)
Going 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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