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The television work of Alfred Hitchcock
Get PDFThe 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
Alfred Kazin
No full textMedium: Lithograph.Print Image Size: 12 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches.Print Edition: 4.Alternate Medium: Lithograph.Ink(s): black.Support: wove paper.Bust-length portrait of the author Alfred Kazin
George Alfred Townsend birthplace marker
No full textThis negative shows the historical marker for George Alfred Townsend's birthplace (S-72). Townsend was a journalist, war correspondent, poet, and author
George Alfred Townsend birthplace marker
No full textThis negative shows the historical marker for George Alfred Townsend's birthplace (S-72). Townsend was a journalist, war correspondent, poet, and author
\"Far-folded mists, and gleaming halls of morn\": translating Alfred Tennyson\'s poetry
No full textEsta dissertação apresenta: um estudo da obra poética do poeta vitoriano Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892); uma reflexão teórica sobre tradução literária, e a tradução integral de 11 poemas e seis fragmentos traduzidos de um longo poema. Este trabalho objetiva empreender uma justa avaliação da poesia de Alfred Tennyson, destacar a importância de traduzi-la, pois as traduções já feitas são escassas, e apresentar, como amostra de variados momentos escriturais do autor, a tradução dos já mencionados poemas.This thesis presents: a study of the poetic work of the Victorian poet Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892); a theoretical reflection on literary translation; and the complete translation of eleven poems, as well as six translated fragments of a long poem. This work aims to carry out a fair evaluation of Alfred Tennyson\'s poetry, highlight the importance of translating it, for the translations already done are scarce, and propose, as a sample of the author\'s writing moments, the translation of the aforementioned poems
Hazardous Continuation Backward in Time in Nonlinear Parabolic Equations, and an Experiment in Deblurring Nonlinearly Blurred Imagery
No full textIdentifying sources of ground water pollution, and deblurring nanoscale imagery as well as astronomical galaxy images, are two important applications involving numerical computation of parabolic equations backward in time. Surprisingly, very little is known about backward continuation in nonlinear parabolic equations. In this paper, an iterative procedure originating in spectroscopy in the 1930's, is adapted into a useful tool for solving a wide class of 2D nonlinear backward parabolic equations. In addition, previously unsuspected difficulties are uncovered that may preclude useful backward continuation in parabolic equations deviating too strongly from the linear, autonomous, self adjoint, canonical model. This paper explores backward continuation in selected 2D nonlinear equations, by creating fictitious blurred images obtained by using several sharp images as initial data in these equations, and capturing the corresponding solutions at some positive time T. Successful backward continuation from t = T to t = 0, would recover the original sharp image. Visual recognition provides meaningful evaluation of the degree of success or failure in the reconstructed solutions. Instructive examples are developed, illustrating the unexpected influence of certain types of nonlinearities. Visually and statistically indistinguishable blurred images are presented, with vastly different deblurring results. These examples indicate that how an image is nonlinearly blurred is critical, in addition to the amount of blur. The equations studied represent nonlinear generalizations of Brownian motion, and the blurred images may be interpreted as visually expressing the results of novel stochastic processes
High-tech capital formation and labor composition in U.S. manufacturing industries : an exploratory analysis
Get PDFIncludes bibliographical references (p. 37-39).Supported by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Office of Productivity and Technology, Division of Productivity Research. First author supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.Ernst R. Berndt, Catherine J. Morrison, Larry S. Rosenblum
Correspondence; author(s) include Alfred Deakin, King O'Malley; recipient(s) include Alfred Deakin
No full textCorrespondence; author(s) include Alfred Deakin, Sir George Turner; recipient(s) include Alfred Deakin
No full textCorrespondence; author(s) include Alfred Deakin, W. Wilson; recipient(s) include Alfred Deakin
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