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Post 1990s Dance Theatre and (the idea of) the Neutral
No full textPhDThe thesis focuses on the concept of neutrality in the works of contemporary
European (post 1990s) choreographers. While broad ideas around neutrality are
considered, the thesis primarily engages with Roland Barthes’ definition of
neutrality as a structural term: 'every inflection that, dodging or baffling the
paradigmatic, oppositional structure of meaning, aims at the suspension of the
conflictual basis of discourse'. I argue that the minimalist work of Judson
Church, New York City, is anticipating the interest in the neutral that will more
strongly formulate itself in dance theatre after the 1990s. In the first chapter on
Jérôme Bel, the concept of neutrality is introduced as a general idea, together with
its inherent problem. The 'problem' is not that this or that element that Bel
chooses cannot be perceived as neutral, but that neutral or stage zero can never be
neutral enough. The second chapter, dedicated to the work of Thomas Lehmen,
explores the idea of 'neutralization' in relation to the notion of the self in
Lehmen's performance, where 'It is not I or you who lives: 'one' (une vie) lives in
us' (P. Hallward). In the third chapter I argue that in Raimund Hoghe’s
performances, love is conceived essentially as a balance between narcissism and
pure object-love – as a neutral state. The fourth chapter, on Croatia’s BADco.,
gravitates around the ways in which group processes function, arguing that the
idea of the neutral is located in the ‘invisible hand’ of emergence. The thesis shifts
academic performance analysis towards a more concept-based approach,
unpicking and/or constructing timeless, abstract and broad concepts and ideas that
the work of these choreographers resonates with
Naracije straha
No full textIl volume presenta i risultati della ricerca condotta all'interno del progetto Narrating Fear: From Archival Records to a New Orality finanziato dal Fondo croato per la ricerca scientifica. Contiene l'Introduzione scritta dalle curatrici, in cui si spiegano i criteri, le metodologie, i principali campi disciplinari coinvolti e i risultati presentati nel volume; seguono 14 contributi divisi in tre sezioni. I lavori raccolti nel volume appartengono ai campi di ricerca antropologica, storica, letteraria, folcloristica e storico-artistica. Trattano il ruolo del linguaggio e della narrazione nella formazione, trasmissione e risoluzione dell'emozione umana della paura
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No full textIntroduzione, ad opera di Natka Badurina, Una Bauer, Renata Jambrešić Kirin e Jelena Marković, al volume "Naracije straha". Nell'Introduzione si spiegano gli obiettivi del progetto editoriale e i riferimenti teorici, metodologici e disciplinari delle ricerche prese in esame (lo studio della paura nell'ambito dell'antropologia, etnologia, linguistica, storia, storia dell'arte, psicologia). Si presentano infine i lavori inclusi nel volume
Encountering Fear: Introductory Remarks
No full textFear is an elementary, archetypal human emotion, yet it is also the current diagnosis of our time. Of all the emotions analysed in the social sciences and humanities over the last several decades within the framework of the affective turn, fear has been the most prominent, precisely because it seems to have been the principal attribute of the human condition since the end of the short 20th century onwards. Responding to the specific challenges posed by the growing pertinence of fear in contemporary life both locally and globally, but also
by delving into its historical manifestations and cultural changes, the authors in this edited volume approach chronotopes of fear from the perspectives of anthropology, ethnology, folklore studies, theatre studies, art history, history, and memory studies. The editors have completed Encountering Fear in the midst of the global COVID-19 pandemic, fully aware that life will never be disentangled from natural and social threats, yet convinced that narrating, analysing, and better understanding fear may lead to constructive changes in the consciousness of both individuals and society
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
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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