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The Terror of Childness in Modern Horror Cinema
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Bohlmann, Markus P. J., and Sean Moreland, editors. Monstrous Children and Childish Monsters: Essays on Cinema’s Holy Terrors. McFarland, 2015.
DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2017.001
Allegories of Passion: Ta’ziyeh and the Allegorical Moment in Shahram Mokri’s Fish and Cat
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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
Pamela Karimi. Alternative Iran: Contemporary Art and Critical Spatial Practice
Full text linkThis book makes a valuable contribution to scholarship on Iranian visual culture through vivid descriptions of the practice of artists living and working under the Islamic Republic. Karimi argues that artists function through what she calls “loose covertness,” in which categories such as sanctioned and unsanctioned or private and public cannot be neatly defined. Instead, the alternative art Karimi describes uses loose covertness for an interstitial existence not easily identified as being al..
Kaveh Askari. Relaying Cinema in Midcentury Iran: Material Cultures in Transit
Full text linkThis book offers a fascinating intervention in scholarship on Iranian cinema by illustrating the importance of distribution in the development of Iran’s pre-revolutionary film industry. Askari uses a dual understanding of the ‘relay’ to analyse the production and reception of film in Iran from the 1920s through the 1960s: both in the sense of a relay point extending the range of a signal and in terms of a relay race, in which each teammate hands a baton off to the next one to continue the ra..
Manijeh Moradian. This Flame Within: Iranian Revolutionaries in the United States
Full text linkThis book provides a compelling look at the political activity of Iranian students studying at American universities in the years between the 1953 coup against Mohammad Mossadeq and the 1979 revolution, with a particular focus on the Iranian Student Association (ISA). Moradian argues that the journey of a number of members of the ISA from bourgeois backgrounds to revolutionary politics demonstrates the complexities of diasporic identity and its potential to facilitate engagement with politic..
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
Speculative Surveillance: Fantasy and Foucault in Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad.
Full text linkColson Whitehead’s fantastical depiction of the nineteenth century United States in The Underground Railroad (2016) uses tools of specu- lative fiction to demonstrate very real applications of Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish (1975). As much as Whitehead calls attention to societal truths unearthed by Foucault, the novel also highlights what Paul Gilroy refers to as a blindspot in Foucault’s chronicling of human development: the failure to adequately account for racism. Whitehead fills this gap with his imaginative vision, in which protagonist Cora travels a US where escaped slaves (such as Cora herself) can flee plantation owners via the literal railroad of the novel’s title: a train car- rying people to ostensible freedom. As Cora rides across the country, she sees elements of the “carceral archipelago” Foucault describes, suggesting that so-called “free states” have more in common with plantations than she initially thinks. Such elements stand out most in Whitehead’s South Carolina, in which blacks and whites live alongside one another. The novel quickly dispels illusions of harmony when Cora works as a living taxidermal model in the Museum of Wonders, where her and several other black women perform humiliating recreations of plantation life for white audiences. The state’s medical system for people of color involves sterilizing women and treating syphilis with sugar water. These institutions reflect a Foucauldian view of society. Like Foucault, Whitehead depicts medical treatment as an essential apparatus for state control of marginalized subjects. The Museum of Wonders evokes Tony Bennett’s suggestion that the “exhibitionary complex” of museums in Victorian England fulfilled functions similar to what Foucault ascribes to prisons. I argue that Whitehead’s use of fantasy demonstrates understandings of surveillance described by Foucault while also adapting them to account for the particularities of American racism
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