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Loving the aliens : outsiders, foreigners and uprooted characters in short and experimental British films
No full textThis thesis studies seven films shot in London in the 1950s by foreign-born directors. The Italian Lorenza Mazzetti, the Hungarian Robert Vas, the Egyptian Nazli Nour and the English (but Indian-born) Lindsay Anderson developed, through these works, their personal view on ‘otherness’.
Lorenza Mazzetti’s K (1953) and Together (1956) are variations on the character of the outsider, directed with an experimental style and influenced by existentialism.
Alone With the Monsters (1958), by Nazli Nour, sees an outcast being judged and laughed at by monstrous people – that are all in her head.
Robert Vas’ Refuge England (1959), narrates a refugee’s first impact with the city of London, his search for a place to stay and his attempts to decipher the English language and society.
Lindsay Anderson’s O Dreamland (1953) and Every Day Except Christmas (1957) define Anderson’s aesthetic and political stance, which will be fully developed in The White Bus (1967), en experimental, surreal and Brechtian tale in which a young Girl is alienated in an urban context to which she does not belong.Questa tesi analizza sette film girati a Londra negli anni ’50 da registi di provenienza straniera. L’italiana Lorenza Mazzetti, l’ungherese Robert Vas, l’egiziana Nazli Nour e l’inglese (ma dai natali indiani) Lindsay Anderson hanno elaborato, attraverso le loro opere, una visione personale dell’alterità.
K (1953) e Together, di Lorenza Mazzetti, sono due variazioni sul tema dell’outsider, realizzate con stile sperimentale e con toni esistenzialisti.
Alone With the Monsters (1958), di Nazli Nour, vede un’anziana emarginata venire giudicata e derisa da gente mostruosa – che vive, però, nella sua testa.
Refuge England (1959), di Robert Vas, ricostruisce l’arrivo di un rifugiato a Londra, il suo primo impatto con la città, la ricerca di un posto in cui stare, e i tentativi di decifrare la lingua e la società inglesi.
Di Lindsay Anderson, O Dreamland (1953) e Every Day Except Christmas (1957) definiscono l’impianto estetico e politico, che verrà poi sviluppato in The White Bus (1967), un racconto sperimentale, surreale e Brechtiano in cui una giovane ragazza si ritrova aliena in un contesto urbano al quale non appartiene
Author and Authority. John Gielgud's Prospero in Peter Greenway's "Prospero's Books"
No full textIn 1991, film director Peter Greenaway turned William Shakespeare’s "The Tempest" into an experimental and visually daring film called "Prospero’s Books", starring John Gielgud as Prospero. Shot on 35mm film and edited making extensive use of electronic image processing, "Prospero’s Books" is a technologically advanced phantasmagoria that reveals the multiple aspects of Shakespeare's meta-masque. In the film, Gielgud voices all the characters, thus turning "The Tempest" into a creative act that unravels inside Prospero’s own mind. This way, "Prospero’s Books" questions the roles of the author, the actor and the director, taking "The Tempest" as a pre-text to a meta-linguistic meditation
Author and Authority. John Gielgud's Prospero in Peter Greenway's "Prospero's Books"
No full textIn 1991, film director Peter Greenaway turned William Shakespeare’s "The Tempest" into an experimental and visually daring film called "Prospero’s Books", starring John Gielgud as Prospero. Shot on 35mm film and edited making extensive use of electronic image processing, "Prospero’s Books" is a technologically advanced phantasmagoria that reveals the multiple aspects of Shakespeare's meta-masque. In the film, Gielgud voices all the characters, thus turning "The Tempest" into a creative act that unravels inside Prospero’s own mind. This way, "Prospero’s Books" questions the roles of the author, the actor and the director, taking "The Tempest" as a pre-text to a meta-linguistic meditation
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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