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Ripensare a "Cani di bancata" di Emma Dante. I travestimenti androgini di Mammasantissima
No full textThe essay reflects on Emma Dante, versatile and unusual artist (theatre manager, actress-author, film and opera director). Her story condenses different and apparently conflicting experiences and knowledges (the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Rome, the teachings of Vacis in Turin, the laboratories with Cesare Ronconi) before the foundation of the Sud Costa Occidentale group in Palermo, in 1990, with its subsequent transformations until today. The result is an irregular figure of "matriarch", in the fruitful vein of the new Sicilian dramaturgy, which takes nourishment from the land of origin but with which she feeds a collective and authorial theatre, both dramatic (indeed tragi-comic) and post-dramatic, with European depth, not without arousing controversy and criticism, being awkward and uncomfortable. The analysis of her performance Cani di bancata (2006) aims to highlight themes and styles connected to a feminism that goes beyond gender (in the strict sense) but is able to become metaphor of a world and a human diversity that involves and disturbs us through an irreverent overloo
Un’altra invenzione sprecata dal teatro italiano: la drammaturgia di Rosso di San Secondo
No full textUn’altra invenzione sprecata dal teatro italiano: la drammaturgia di Rosso di San Secondo
Prendo a prestito dal titolo di un libro meldolesiano l’espressione “invenzione sprecata”, a proposito degli anni Venti (1915-1925) per la situazione italiana, a confermare che una serie di «fondamentali esperienze» furono scoraggiate dal nostro teatro negli anni Trenta-Cinquanta, che si caratterizzano soprattutto come «tempo di normalizzazione». Aggiungo il caso Rosso di San Secondo, autore di una drammaturgia ricca di invenzioni, ovvero di aspetti disturbanti (anche) rispetto al teatro corrente, perché avrebbero richieste soluzioni di contraddittorietà con il sistema o almeno di innovative fuoriuscite – sotto il profilo tecnico – dalla macchina produttiva; il drammaturgo non conobbe soltanto una battuta d’arresto negli anni della normalizzazione, ma è andato sprecato sostanzialmente anche dopo, con l’avvento del Nuovo Teatro, e lo è tuttora, quando tali invenzioni sarebbero realizzabili. Ne indago i motivi ri-analizzando i suoi due capolavori, Marionette, che passione! (1918) e La bella addormentata (1919), e cercando di mostrare anche la relativa inadeguatezza delle loro rare riprese, per concludere con il disegno scenico di una eventuale videoistallazione del secondo testo regalatomi da Fabrizio Crisafulli
Il primo Medioevo di Dario Fo: tra angelastri e diavoli nani. Dal fiabesco alla storia mitizzata
No full textTra la "Storia vera di Piero d’Angera, che alla crociata non c’era"
(dicembre 1960) e "La colpa è sempre del diavolo" (settembre 1965)
corrono 5 anni, l’esperienza troncata di “Canzonissima” e due commedie
di vaglia, "Isabella, tre caravelle e un cacciaballe" e "Settimo:
ruba un po’ meno". Si motivano anzitutto le ragioni della nostra scelta esegetica: da
un lato un testo mai messo in scena da Fo, e pubblicato tardivamente
nel 19972, dall’altro una commedia non particolarmente studiata,
non ritenuta degna dal suo autore d’una edizione tv; eppure – a nostro
avviso – entrambi interessanti per una serie di motivi che fanno
capo a una specie di primogenitura, una prima volta che rimanda poi a Mistero buffo.
Per la prima volta, l’immersione in un Medioevo pseudostorico e pseudofantastico, fiabesco in "La vera
storia," addirittura fantascientifico in "La colpa...," manifesta anche il
rapporto sacro-profano alla maniera di Fo, ossia carnevalizzato e
intriso già di spirito giullaresco. Quanto alle divergenze fra i due testi in esame, l'analisi
diventa un esercizio di immaginazione scenica, su base drammaturgica,
considerando che la drammaturgia dell’attore-autore lombardo
è frutto sempre d’una proiezione o sedimentazione performativa e
consente quindi una ricostruzione dello spettacolo da parte del lettore-
spettatore
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
“Combining the dignity of the monument with public utility and beauty”: monuments to Napoleon in Milan between Republic and Empire
No full textThe representative strategies implemented in Milan during the Napoleonic era included projects for monuments dedicated to the person and deeds of Napoleon Bonaparte, which in a short length of time changed emphasis and meaning in relation to the political events that marked the transition from Republic to Empire. The proposals revisit models and types taken from classical antiquity and pertain to various areas of the city and, in many cases, were intertwined with urban redevelopment projects aimed at “combining the dignity of the monument with public utility and beauty”. This essay examines the numerous projects for permanent monuments (excluding ephemeral monuments erected for public festivals) that were constructed in Milan during the period in which the Lombard city was capital of the Cisalpine Republic, then of the Italian Republic and finally of the Kingdom of Italy
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
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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