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The television work of Alfred Hitchcock
No full textThe thesis uses close textual analysis to study and evaluate the television work of Alfred Hitchcock. The corpus consists of the twenty shows personally directed by Hitchcock, including his appearances before and after those shows. In response to most previous writing, which tends to compare the programmes with Hitchcock’s films (often unfairly) the thesis emphasises them as products of television. Programmes are evaluated on the basis of their perceived success as television- if they harness conditions related to television production and integrate them with narrative themes or to create meaning. Hitchcock is considered to be the major creative force in each programme.
Chapter One provides a variety of important contexts including a brief history of US television of the 1950s, key literature on Hitchcock and analyses of contemporaneous programmes not directed by Hitchcock. The textual analysis chapters (2-8) consider aesthetic or thematic programme aspects. Chapter Two studies the various roles played by Hitchcock’s appearances as series host. Chapter Three considers the impact of censorship on programmes frequently dealing with murder, violence and insanity. Chapter Four analyses Hitchcock’s implementation of varieties of voice-over narration, a common device in short dramatic forms. Chapter Five studies Hitchcock’s use of point-of-view shots, particularly in relation to their role in the delivery of the narrative twist. Chapter Six considers the key Hitchcock theme of detachment from the world. Chapter Seven looks at moments from the programmes which demonstrate how aesthetic is influenced by television production conditions.
Hitchcock created a number of television masterpieces. His achievements in television are in many ways comparable in quality and consistency to his theatrical films. Even when considered in the context of other 1950s US anthology dramas, the Hitchcock-directed programmes are superior on many levels. Elements of his film style were highly suited to television production. Many of his greatest achievements embrace and harness television production conditions in their presentation strategies to create an integration of style and meaning
The new superconducting quadrupole lenses for the transport of particle beams of several 100 GeV at CERN
No full textThe theoretical basis of the design of the quadrupole, and the close constructional tolerances imposed by it, are explained. The superconducting quadrupole is 1m long, with a 5oT/m field gradient in the 9 cm working bore and was successfully tested in Aug. 1972 after 10 months construction: the magnet was excited with 90% of its critical current on the first cooling. The total cryostatic loss with a 6m long transfer line was less than 5W. (3 refs)
The hospital south of the Yarra: a history to celebrate the centenary of Alfred Hospital Melbourne 1871-1971
No full textDeposited with permission of the author. © 1972 Ann M. Mitchell.Although this work was commissioned for the purpose of celebrating Alfred Hospital’s first one hundred years, I have made no effort to cover all of those years. I have set out: 1. To isolate the historical precedents for current hospital procedures and in particular to explore the relationship between Alfred Hospital and the State Government. This task was burdened by the scarcity of early hospital records and of research in related fields of charitable and social welfare - which emphasizes the value of rescuing the hospital’s fast vanishing past from oblivion. 2. By attention to human relationships (that constantly inconsistent element in all institutional affairs) to evoke those unique qualities which distinguish Alfred Hospital from other similar hospitals. 3. To convey what the Alfred meant to the greatest number of people associated with it. 4. To provide a useful source of reference
The design and application of symmetrical multipole fields in cylindrical bores, produced by sector windings of constant current density
No full textThe mathematical calculations involved in the design of windings to produce symmetrical multipole fields in a cylindrical bore are given in detail. It is stated that new types of 2n-pole magnetic-field configurations have been developed for accelerators and radiation transport magnets as used in high-energy particle physics, and an illustrative example is quoted. This is the first superconducting 1 m long 5-T-quadrupole lens together with the correction magnets for the new 800 MeV booster synchrotrons located in Geneva and made for CERN. The production of symmetrical dipole, quadrupole, and sextuple magnetic fields of high accuracy is attained by the use of suitable configurations of sector windings of constant current density in a cylindrical bore. Photographs of significant components illustrate the text. (1 refs)
Report on Explorations in British Columbia: Chiefly in the Basins of the Blackwater, Salmon, and Nechako Rivers & Francois Lake:
No full textby George M. Dawson addressed to Alfred R.C. Selwyn
Report on explorations in British Columbia : chiefly in the basins of the Blackwater, Salmon, and Nechacco Rivers, and on Francois Lake.
No full textby George M. Dawson addressed to Alfred R.C. Selwyn
Conference report about the 1962 session of the International conference on large electric systems (CIGRE) in Paris and the visit to Saclay (Saturne-Department)
No full textQuadrupoles with a 40 X 10 cm field region: a technical and economic comparison of "classical" and Panofsky type lenses
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