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Commento di Giovanni Gozzini a Un’età contro la storia. Saggio sulla rivoluzione del XXI secolo
Full text linkGiovanni Gozzini nel suo commento al saggio di Giuseppe Carlo Marino su globalizzazione e crisi del “pensare storico” inquadra i cambiamenti nelle dinamiche economiche e sociali dell’ultimo trentennio in un più ampio mutamento del rapporto fra l’uomo e la realtà globalizzata del nuovo secolo. Gli eventi storici ricordati e i cambiamenti avvenuti sono organicamente relazionati così con le recenti evoluzioni del paradigma dello sviluppo economico e del dibattito culturale dei nostri giorni.In his comment to Giuseppe Carlo Marino’s essay about the globalization and crisis of “historical thought”, Giovanni Gozzini sets the changes in the social and economic dynamics in the last thirty years as a large alteration of the relationship between man and globalized reality of the new century. The mentioned historical events are systematically related with the latest evolutions of the economic model and the nowadays cultural debate
Commento di Giovanni Gozzini a Un’età contro la storia. Saggio sulla rivoluzione del XXI secolo
No full textIn his comment to Giuseppe Carlo Marino’s essay about the globalization and crisis of “historical thought”, Giovanni Gozzini sets the changes in the social and economic dynamics in the last thirty years as a large alteration of the relationship between man and globalized reality of the new century. The mentioned historical events are systematically related with the latest evolutions of the economic model and the nowadays cultural debate
Cinema e Storia 2020 - La guerra delle immagini nel XXI secolo. Cinema, televisione, web
No full textA quasi vent’anni dall’attentato terroristico dell’11 settembre 2001 la tendenziale mediatizzazione degli eventi di guerra ha imposto una urgente riflessione sul valore testimoniale delle immagini. Questo numero di «Cinema e Storia», pertanto, intende riflettere sui rinnovati regimi di rappresentazione della guerra (cinematografica, seriale, videoludica) facendo il punto su una serie di dibattiti teorici nati intorno ai nuovi mediascapes digitalizzati e convergenti. I saggi qui raccolti si interrogano innanzitutto sulla contemporanea riconfigurazione delle guerre del passato, soffermandosi poi sul post-11 settembre e sui nuovi scenari della guerra globale al terrore tra cinema e nuovi media, per riflettere infine sui regimi di visione in era postmediale che sfruttano le potenzialità dei portable device e dei droni a pilotaggio remoto. Come di consueto, il numero monografico vuole adottare un approccio apertamente interdisciplinare (spaziando dalla storiografia contemporanea all’estetica, dai film studies ai media studies, dall’iconologia critica ai cultural studies) per fornire un contributo utile all’urgente riflessione sui profondi mutamenti esperienziali avvenuti nell’odierna cultura visuale
Odessa and its wheat trade in the long 19th century, 1794-1905
No full textThe chapter traces the history of grain trade from the port of Odessa. It opens with a discussion of the city’s foundation and of the broader shifting political and military realities of the Black Sea in the 19th century. The chapter then delves into an analysis of the different phases which characterized grain trade from Odessa. It focuses on agricultural production, trade, and land, as well as maritime transport, but also on the broader local and regional social, technological, architectural, military, and political conditions which affected the economy and were equally shaped by its developments. This discussion is carried out within a broader chronicle of European and global grain market developments in the 19th century. The aim is to produce a narrative that gives a full account of the significantly different phases of Odessa’s grain trade and of how economic, social, and political realities intertwined in shaping them
Grain merchants and famines in late Renaissance: Giovanni Maria Mersi, Tommaso Barana and the provisioning of Padua and Vicenza (1572-1616)
No full textThe chapter will focus on the grain trade and victualling systems in the early modern period through the careers of two merchants who played a leading role in supplying the cities of late 16th-century Veneto. Giovanni Maria Mersi from Padua was involved in the supply of several cities at the same time, Vicenza as well as Padua, and, as farmer involved in town’s duties, such as in meat, salt and others, he had big interests in other sectors of the food trades. Simone Barana, who cooperated with Mersi to solve the supply problems of the Vicenza countryside, left us a probate with a list of his stocks that is particularly useful for understanding the work of a grain merchant in early modern times. To put the case of these two merchants in context, the victualling policies and the regulation on grain trade in the Venetian Mainland will be taken in account with the aim of showing how a complex set of rules was subject to selective application and the frequent activation of the victualling s..
Competition among Wheat Exchanges: New York, Paris, London, and the Global Development of Futures Trading (1870s-1914)
No full textOne of the main outcomes of the new global wheat market was, aside from new commercial networks, elevators, and information technologies, futures trading. Futures created a new dimension for the speculative actors in the wheat market and became a factor of importance in the global price setting for grain, a kind of barometer for the global wheat market. While we have a clear chronology of the creation of this tool in Chicago, its diffusion is often believed to have been automatic and, at the same time, other exchanges are considered less effective in creating a real futures market. Thanks to the access to new archive sources, this chapter contends the idea of a “spread” from Chicago to the rest of the world, arguing for a pluri-center source of futures trading. Moreover, it discusses the meaning of speculation and of effectiveness in futures markets, analyzing the role of financial institutions in attracting, supporting, and creating new formalized futures markets. The main output is that, in the largest financial centers of the late 19th century, such as London, New York, and Paris, futures emerged autonomously from Chicago. Moreover, these exchanges were not able to attract speculation from outside the strict “wheat world”, hampering the access of global finance to these markets
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
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