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Integrated reporting and the malleable disclosure of intellectual capital
No full textThe rise of integrated reporting (IR) represents a new opportunity for intellectual capital (IC) disclosure because IR recognizes human, intellectual and social and relationship capitals among the six capitals that contribute to portray the process of value creation. By undertaking quantitative analyses, prior research has investigated the tone and amount of IC disclosure in integrated reports. However, no prior research has approached the IC disclosure in such reports from a qualitative stance. In seeking to address this gap, we explore how an early IR adopter from the Oil and Gas industry provides information about IC in its integrated reports. We particularly investigate how the locus, object and level of detail of IC disclosure evolve along the integrated reports 2012-2017. The study primarily draws on close reading of the integrated reports and is complemented with semi-structured interviews to representatives of the departments involved in the IR process. The findings of the qualitative analysis show that, over the six integrated reports, the locus of IC disclosure shifts from the business model to a descriptive table designed to the purpose. The findings also highlight that, while the object of IC disclosure remains stable, the level of detail evolves over the years towards a more and more narrative form. The paper contributes to extant literature by empirically supporting the idea that IR represents a new hope for IC disclosure and extending the conception that an effective IC disclosure needs more descriptive information than indicators to the innovative IR context
Scoring the Space Terror: Music in Science Fiction Cinema during the Italian Economic Miracle
No full textScience fiction became a fashionable ingredient in Italian culture during the 1960s. Once the country entered the economic boom, or “miracle” (c. 1958–1963), the times were ripe for a new cultural sensibility about science’s promises (and threats) to grow. Italian cinema was highly affected by this phenomenon. Rather than developing into a neatly defined genre, sci-fi elements were incorporated into existing genres triggering a variety of configurations in both auteur and popular cinema. In such processes of cross-genre syncretism, music and sound exerted a key role. Our article examines how sound contributed, both from a production and a dramaturgical standpoint, to shaping a highly diversified, “vernacular” sci-fi imagery in Italian cinema. Our analyses include examples from autochthone domestic sci-fi B-movies as well as from comedy and auteur cinema, over a timeframe spanning 1958 to 1965
L’evoluzione del ruolo del CFO nell’impresa moderna, in NUOVE FRONTIERE DEL REPORTING AZIENDALE. La comunicazione agli stakeholders tra vincoli normativi e attese informative, a cura di Silvano Corbella, Luciano Marchi, Francesca Rossignoli. Franco Angeli, ISBN 9788891786876
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Danijela Kulezic-Wilson, The Musicality of Narrative Film, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015
No full textLa musicalità del cinema è un tema dibattuto fin dalle origini della settima arte. A livello ermeneutico-interpretativo, l’incontro tra i due media avviene essenzialmente sul terreno della metafora: il "musicale" fa sovente capolino nel linguaggio del cinema a vari livelli di produzione e ricezione, specialmente quando gli addetti ai lavori – siano essi registi, sound designer, compositori o critici – lo scelgono per descrivere le ragioni meno immediate di alcune opzioni espressive. La teoria audiovisiva non si è tirata indietro quando si è trattato di utilizzare in campo cinematografico nozioni esplicative di origine musicale: si va dal classico contrappunto audiovisivo di Sergej Éjzenštejn,ripreso e discusso in moltissime sedi, al “musicalismo” - termine spregiativo con cui Noël Burch stigmatizzò l’«insistenza nevrotica a rintracciare valori astratti, quasi musicali nel cinema mainstream» - all’analogia tra musica e cinema cui David Bordwell dedicò un saggio seminale, fino al più recente concetto di musical multimedia in Nicholas Cook, che rappresenta uno snodo metodologico influente sugli studi più recenti, compreso il volume qui in oggetto
Representing the Musical Identity of Southern Italy Through Cinema. Nino Rota’s Film Scores as a Case Study
No full textThe representation of the South is a major subject in Italian cinema. Already cent¬ral during the Neorealism, it became inescapable once the long-lived questione meri-dionale (the southern issue) exploded in the cultural discourse after the so-called “eco-nomic miracle” (1958-1963). The narratives of the socio-cultural gap between an in-creasingly industrial North and a still underdeveloped South—populated by corruption and organized crime—led Italian cinema of the 1960s and 1970s to address the subject through a whole range of genres, including documentary, cine-inquiry, melodrama, gangster and the newborn commedia all'italiana.
In my paper I illustrate the crucial role of film music in articulating the cultural di-chotomies implied in the southern issue (e.g. familiarity/otherness, primitiveness/decad¬ence, superstition/religion, honor/dishonor etc.) with special attention to the category of the grotesque. Drawing on the audio-visual analysis of a representative selection of cues, I argue how prominent composers, such as Nino Rota, Ennio Morricone, Egisto Macchi, Luis Bacalov and Piero Piccioni, exhibited a relatively codified vocabulary of musical procedures that profoundly emblematized this season of Italian cinema in the international scene and would be influential for ensuing generations of Italian and Italian-American filmmakers. By combining the vernacular stylization of melodic and rhythmic profiles, the insistence on timbres that were (sometimes inappropriately) considered as regional marks (e.g. the Jew’s harp for Sicily), the recourse to operatic devices, and a deft use of sound postproduction, music manages to merge traits of irony, sarcasm, ugliness, comedy, with epical and tragic tones, in a powerful grotesque portrait of the southern, and ultimately overall, Italian character
Exudative Discoid and Lichenoid Chronic Dermatosis (Sulzberger‐Garbe): A Fictional Disease?
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