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Cultural Dynamics in African cinemas of the 21st century : agents, formats, genres
No full textDepuis les années 2000, le cinéma africain est marqué par de
nombreuses évolutions nouvelles avec un impact considérable
sur son positionnement dans le paysage cinématographique in-
ternational, notamment concernant sa présence dans les festi-
vals, mais aussi aux niveaux de la production et de la distribution.
Ces dynamiques culturelles sont au centre de l’intérêt de cet
ouvrage qui est le fruit d’une rencontre de chercheurs africains
et européens pour explorer ces nouvelles tendances du cinéma
africain principalement selon trois perspectives : le rôle des ci-
néastes comme agents dans les dynamiques culturelles, les
genres, formats et formes esthétiques émergents, et l’influence
des grands réseaux de production cinématographique (popu-
laire) en Afrique subsaharienne.Since the turn of the century, African cinema has been marked by a
number of new evolutions that have a considerable impact on its
position in the international cinematographic landscape, e.g. its pre-
sence in festivals, but also in terms of production and distribution of
films. These new cultural dynamics are the main focus of this book
which is the fruit of the cooperation between scholars from Africa
and Europe. They explore these new tendencies in African cinema
particularly along three perspectives: filmmakers as agents of cul-
tural dynamics, evolutions in emerging formats, genres and new es-
thetic forms, and the influences of the big networks of (popular)
productions in Sub-Saharan Africa
Quaseilhas: A Performative and Transmedial Memory
Get PDFQuaseilhas (“Almost Islands”), a theater play written by Afro-Brazilian author Diego Araújo, premiered at Barbalho Fort, Salvador da Bahia (Brazil), in April 2018. The set consists of a three-room wooden shed placed in the courtyard of a historic castle in Salvador da Bahia, designed to contribute to the entanglement of various memories inscribed in time and space: as the spectators can only attend the play in one room at a time, they have only limited access to the overall events of the play which moreover is transmitted in an unknown language, namely Yorúbà. The shed also refers to the stilts built close to the shore, where the majority of the population is of Afro descent. Araújo borrows features from the alárinjótheatrical form, which blends performance, song, dance, projections of clips, and music, drawing the spectators into a vortex of a polyphonous and intermedial process of remembering fragments of the Middle Passage, slavery, and the difficult living conditions of socially marginalized communities. In its aesthetic, the play also refers to Afrofuturism, highlighting how the memory of the past should be the basis for reimagining the future
Cultural Dynamics in African cinemas of the 21st century : agents, formats, genres
Get PDFDepuis les années 2000, le cinéma africain est marqué par de
nombreuses évolutions nouvelles avec un impact considérable
sur son positionnement dans le paysage cinématographique in-
ternational, notamment concernant sa présence dans les festi-
vals, mais aussi aux niveaux de la production et de la distribution.
Ces dynamiques culturelles sont au centre de l’intérêt de cet
ouvrage qui est le fruit d’une rencontre de chercheurs africains
et européens pour explorer ces nouvelles tendances du cinéma
africain principalement selon trois perspectives : le rôle des ci-
néastes comme agents dans les dynamiques culturelles, les
genres, formats et formes esthétiques émergents, et l’influence
des grands réseaux de production cinématographique (popu-
laire) en Afrique subsaharienne.Since the turn of the century, African cinema has been marked by a
number of new evolutions that have a considerable impact on its
position in the international cinematographic landscape, e.g. its pre-
sence in festivals, but also in terms of production and distribution of
films. These new cultural dynamics are the main focus of this book
which is the fruit of the cooperation between scholars from Africa
and Europe. They explore these new tendencies in African cinema
particularly along three perspectives: filmmakers as agents of cul-
tural dynamics, evolutions in emerging formats, genres and new es-
thetic forms, and the influences of the big networks of (popular)
productions in Sub-Saharan Africa
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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