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Film and Domestic Space: Architectures, Representations, Dispositif, edited by Stefano Baschiera and Miriam De Rosa Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020, pp. 256
No full textBEYOND GREENWASHED PROTOCOLS: THE RECONVERSION OF EXISTING MODES OF REPRESENTATION AS A NEW POSSIBLE APPROACH TO THE CUTBACK OF THE DOCUMENTARY FILM'S ENVIRONMENTAL FOOTPRINT
No full textIn the last two decades, with climate change and its negative consequences becoming increasingly visible, we have witnessed a flourishing of documentary films focusing on environmental issues. Looking at these productions from an ecomaterialist perspective, the essay first underlines how, surprisingly, they have a substantial environmental footprint that is at odds with their contents. Indeed, for a documentary to be deemed sustainable it is often considered sufficient that it addresses environmental issues or encourages eco-friendly practices, even if, in order to do so, ecosystems and environments that are already in a condition of fragility are 'invaded'. The essay then suggests that moving forward, for nonfiction films that do not harm their host location to start seeing the light, environmentally sustainable modes of documentary representation should start being identified. More precisely, it is argued that 'reconverting' practices that already are part of contemporary documentary filmmaking at an environmental end could be a first step in this direction. In particular, the essay underscores how archival and crowdsourced materials and animated segments could be employed to reduce the travel-related carbon emissions of documentary productions
Carbon: The unauthorised biography (2021) and the route towards an environmentally ethical eco-documentary
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
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