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A Letter from Ray Bradbury (with Mort Castle)
No full textIn a writing career over 75 years, Ray Bradbury became the literary papa of many of today\u27s finest writers. This presentation by local author (and former CMHS teacher!) Mort Castle celebrates the powerful Bradbury influence in literature and on readers throughout the world.
The Crete Public Library is participating in GSU\u27s Big Read of Bradbury\u27s Fahrenheit 451. This is just one of several events influenced by the book. For more information, call the library at 708-672-8017 or register online
The sliprails, Castle Hill, 1915 [picture] /
No full textTitle from inscription on facing page.; In her: Sydney to Brisbane.; (ANL)R5036; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an3725541
The sawmill, Castle Hill, 1915 [picture] /
No full textTitle from inscription on facing page.; In her: Sydney to Brisbane
Emilio Ghione and the Mask of Za La Mort
No full textThis study aims to examine the cultural impact of Emilio Ghione's Za La Mort films (1914-1924) on Italian culture. These films constitute a significant Italian combination of several early cinema genres and sub-genres, such as the apache film, the traces of which have almost entirely disappeared. More broadly, the changing interpretations of Za La Mort figure allow us to understand wider shifts in Italian and European popular culture.
The first chapter of the study considers the wealth of influences from European popular culture that Emilio Ghione merged into the apache films, such as the apache sub-culture in Paris. The second chapter of the study then reconstructs the Za La Mort filmography, most of which has now been lost, from film viewings and archival documents. The third chapter considers Emilio Ghione's Za La Mort novels and theatrical productions in the years 1922-1930, and Ghione's attempts to make Za La Mort a more Fascist and nationalistic figure. The fourth chapter considers the enduring figure of Za La Mort in Italian popular culture, especially in Raffaele Matarazzo's Fumeria D'Oppio and a 1940's fumetti series. The fifth chapter considers the audience reception of the Za La Mort films from the limited remaining evidence and, positioning the series between the Cinema of Attractions of the 1900s and the Classical Cinema of the mid-1920's, analyses how the Za La Mort films were constructed to please a predominantly working class audience that valued spectacular thrills and great acting performances over narrative consistency and stable characterisation.
This research re-establishes the importance of one of Italian cinema's most important film-makers of the silent period, and his enduring importance as a popular cultural figure in Italy
Ethics and ethnography – an experiential account
No full textIn this article, the authors discuss an ethical dilemma faced by the first author during the fieldwork of an ethnographic study of expertise in anesthesia. The example, written from the perspective of the first author, addresses a number of ethical issues commonly faced, namely, the researcher-researched relationship, anonymity and confidentiality, privacy, and exploitation. She deliberates on the influences that guided her decision and in doing so highlights some of the elements that combine to shape the data. The authors argue that this process of shaping the data is a symbiotic one in which the researcher and the community being studied construct the data together
Vladimir Jankélévitch – “Penser la mort?”
No full textThe article aims at reviewing Vladimir Jankélévitch’s book entitled “Penser la mort?” which is the only book of this author available in Polish translation. In the first part of the text the author tries to describe the views of Jankélévitch and emphasize their importance for the contemporary phi-losophy. Jankélévitch turns out to be a typical representative of the so-called philosophie de l’esprit . This classification is the starting point for further reflection and allows to look in the right way at the statements contained in the reviewed book. In the second part the author tries to polemicize with some thesies of Jankélévitch (relating to the problems of birth and death, the definition of religion and many different problems in the fields of philosophical anthropology and bioethics). The point of the text is (according to “Penser la mort?”) that the philosophical investigations of Jankélévitch seem to be not considered enough
La Mort de l'auteur
No full textContributeurs et contributrices : Étienne Bergeron (UQAM), Romain Bionda (FNS/UNIL), Laure Depretto (Académie française), Jean-Louis Jeannelle (Rouen) et Gibson Ncube (Stellenbosch).International audienceCe dossier critique d'Acta fabula accompagne et prolonge, sous le même titre, le numéro 22 de la revue Fabula-LhT. Il rend compte d'ouvrages accordant une place centrale à la mort réelle d'un auteur ou de plusieurs. Une attention particulière a été portée aux questions soulevées dans ce domaine par l'épidémie du sida, en écho à l'acticle sur Les Idoles (2018) de Christophe Honoré et à l'entretien avec Elisabeth Lebovici à propos de son livre Ce que le sida m'a fait. Art et activisme à la fin du XXe siècle (2017), tous deux parus dans le sommaire lié de Fabula-LhT. Les ouvrages concernés sont: AIDS in French Culture: Social Ills, Literary Cures (2001) et The Nearness of Others: Searching for Tact and Contact in the Age of HIV (2014) de David Caron, ainsi que Facing It. AIDS Diaries and the Death of the Author (2001) de Ross Chambers. Les trois autres livres recensés prennent la forme: d'un essai sur l'« affective understanding of the reader's relation to the author » et plus particulièrement sur la relation du lecteur à la mort réelle de l'auteur (Jane Gallop, The Deaths of the Author. Reading and Writing in Time, 2011), d'un recueil de «dernières lettres» exerçant une fascination méritant attention et réflexion (Dernières lettres, dir. Sylvie Crinquand, 2008) et enfin d'un ouvrage d'histoire et de théorie littéraire sur les fictions dont le narrateur est mort (Frédéric Weinmann, «Je suis mort.» Essai sur la narration autothanatographique, 2018)
“The ‘Ars vivendi’ of Laura Mañà’s Morir en San Hilario/To Die in San Hilario (2005)”
No full textOver the past decade Spanish-Language Cinema has established itself beside Spanish and Latin American Cinema, and Morir en San Hilario is a good example of these new flexible collaborations rather than a strict transnational co-production. Billed as a comedy, the film could also be described as a variation on the road film, a circular journey to Utopia, a Spanish village/pueblo film, and a twenty-first-century ‘Ars moriendi’ developing the topos of ‘Homo viator’. This is not a frequent combination to be found on cinema screens and Laura Mañà’s gamble was to integrate these ingredients and create a fable to reflect on life and death. She does this through comedy, exaggerations, parody and a narrative style identified as magic realism. Her originality, however, overlaps with the lasting legacy of the fifteenth-century Castilian soldier-poet, Jorge Manrique (c.1440-1479) and his ‘Stanzas written upon the death of his father’, a landmark of Spanish Literature.Peer reviewe
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Team defense in criminal cases /
No full textAndrea D. Lyon is a criminal defense attorney, a death penalty expert, an author, and a professor. She resides in Chicago, Illinois. Mort Smith is a Criminal Defense and Civil Rights Investigative Specialist. He is the former Chief Homicide Investigator for the Murder Task Force Unit of the Cook County Illinois, Public Defender's office and former Chief Investigator for Illinois Capital Resource Center of the Office of the State Appellate Defender. He is co-founder of the Criminal Defense Investigation Certification Program at the DePaul College of Continuing & Professional Education, and a me
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