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The television work of Alfred Hitchcock
No full textThe thesis uses close textual analysis to study and evaluate the television work of Alfred Hitchcock. The corpus consists of the twenty shows personally directed by Hitchcock, including his appearances before and after those shows. In response to most previous writing, which tends to compare the programmes with Hitchcock’s films (often unfairly) the thesis emphasises them as products of television. Programmes are evaluated on the basis of their perceived success as television- if they harness conditions related to television production and integrate them with narrative themes or to create meaning. Hitchcock is considered to be the major creative force in each programme.
Chapter One provides a variety of important contexts including a brief history of US television of the 1950s, key literature on Hitchcock and analyses of contemporaneous programmes not directed by Hitchcock. The textual analysis chapters (2-8) consider aesthetic or thematic programme aspects. Chapter Two studies the various roles played by Hitchcock’s appearances as series host. Chapter Three considers the impact of censorship on programmes frequently dealing with murder, violence and insanity. Chapter Four analyses Hitchcock’s implementation of varieties of voice-over narration, a common device in short dramatic forms. Chapter Five studies Hitchcock’s use of point-of-view shots, particularly in relation to their role in the delivery of the narrative twist. Chapter Six considers the key Hitchcock theme of detachment from the world. Chapter Seven looks at moments from the programmes which demonstrate how aesthetic is influenced by television production conditions.
Hitchcock created a number of television masterpieces. His achievements in television are in many ways comparable in quality and consistency to his theatrical films. Even when considered in the context of other 1950s US anthology dramas, the Hitchcock-directed programmes are superior on many levels. Elements of his film style were highly suited to television production. Many of his greatest achievements embrace and harness television production conditions in their presentation strategies to create an integration of style and meaning
Alfred Dunn
No full textDeposited with permission of the author. © 1968 John R. HernimanBecause Alfred Dunn’s practising life was of such short duration it has been deemed best to treat each year of his work as a separate chapter, dealing with his undertakings in chronological order, and discussing style, and any changes, as these occurred.
His biography, as such, while being touched on lightly, necessarily has been given second place except in so far as personal happenings which related to his career
Stealing Cars: Technology and Society from the Model T to the Gran Torino
No full textStealing Cars brings together expertise from the history of technology and cultural history as well as city planning and transborder studies to produce a compelling and detailed work that raises questions concerning American priorities and values. Drawing on sources that include interviews, government documents, patents, sociological and psychological studies, magazines, monographs, scholarly periodicals, film, fiction, and digital gaming, Heitmann and Morales tell a story that highlights both human creativity and some of the paradoxes of American life
Brief sketch of the life and labors of Rev. Alexander Bettis [microform]; also an account of the founding and development of the Bettis Accademy /
No full text"Sketch of Prof. Alfred W. Nicholson ... by Prof. John R. Wilson": p. 85-90.Microfilm.Mode of access: Internet
Paradoxical solitude in the life, letters, and poetry of John Keats, 1814-1818
No full textThis thesis proposes two distinct but connected ideas: that John Keats’s idiom of friendship was haunted by “sequestered” longings and that he ultimately valued specific, one-on-one partnerships as a basis for his poetical character. The Introduction places the thesis within its critical context and outlines “paradoxical solitude,” a concept the poet expressed by joining a “kindred spirit” in a wilderness retreat in “O, Solitude.”
I begin by examining the evolving role of solitude in Keats’s literary predecessors (Chapter I). I then trace the development of ideas of creativity and solitude from his 1814-1815 verse, including his first association with a coterie and the influence of Wordsworth (Chapter II). Building on these findings, I explore the poet’s introduction to the Hunt circle in 1816, assessing his relationships with its members and their overstated roles in the production of Poems (Chapter III). I then discuss how Keats regarded the composition of Endymion in 1817 as a poetic “test,” specifically tailored to reinforce his identity as a solitary poet (Chapter IV).
I contend that Keats engaged in a dialogue of independence with Reynolds, adapted the theories of Hazlitt, and restlessly travelled throughout England as a means of rejecting the highly social periods of 1818 (Chapter V). I then consider the creative gains of his northern expedition with Brown in the summer of 1818. I argue that Keats exaggerated his development into a “post-Wordsworthian” poet, positioning himself outside both the coterie’s sphere and the reach of Blackwood’s criticism, and inspiring the theme of Hyperion (Chapter VI).
In closing, I analyze Keats’s advice to Shelley to be a selfish creator of his poetic identity. Only through paradoxical solitude, I argue, was Keats able to construct the poetic identity that led him to compose the poems on which his fame rests in the 1820 volume
Writing the Ghost Writer Back In: Alfred Sloan, Alfred Chandler, John McDonald and the Intellectual Origins of Corporate Strategy
No full textTheorists often presume that popular writers are the translators and not the underlying source of new management ideas. John McDonald, in contrast, was a business journalist whose early interest in game theory was an important catalyst in the development of corporate strategy as an academic discipline. Unfortunately, few scholars remember McDonald's influential role as the ghost-writer for Alfred Sloan's memoir, My Years with General Motors, or McDonald's prescient decision to hire the young business historian, Alfred Chandler, to serve as their research assistant. Not only should management histo rians not judge a book by its cover but neither should they presume that the author actually wrote the book
Portrait of John Browne
No full textJohn Browne (1642-1702), English anatomist, surgeon, and author, by Robert White
National Portrait Gallery, Londonhttps://digitalcommons.rockefeller.edu/alfred-cohn-collection/1011/thumbnail.jp
Landscape-painter as landscape-gardener : the case of Alfred Parsons R.A.
No full textIn 2 vols.Available from British Library Document Supply Centre-DSC:DXN016830 / BLDSC - British Library Document Supply CentreSIGLEGBUnited Kingdo
Stealing Freedom: Auto Theft and Autonomous Individualism in American Film
No full textIn the real world today auto theft is usually about gangs, drugs, and money (Heitmann and Morales 5). However, since 1945, the cinematic representation of auto theft has had more to do with the symbolic meaning cars and driving hold in American culture. In the early twentieth century, the automobile and driving became associated with many of the classic qualities of American identity (March and Collette 107). The roots of that expectation stretch back even further to the role that movement played in the colonization of the continent. The unrestrained capacity to move became equated early in the American cultural imagination with personal reinvention and self-determination (Feldman 13–19). Those who could control their own movement were deemed self-sufficient, independent agents.
Thus, the capacity of movement became linked to political economy. Indeed, mobility came to stand for liberty itself. But, as in early America, the capacity to move freely was frequently denied to those not white or male. The lack of mobility marked African-American slaves and women as unfit for individual liberty and incapable of sovereign selfhood.
The American vision of the mobile, liberal individual was both raced and gendered (Cresswell 147–74)
\"Far-folded mists, and gleaming halls of morn\": translating Alfred Tennyson\'s poetry
No full textEsta dissertação apresenta: um estudo da obra poética do poeta vitoriano Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892); uma reflexão teórica sobre tradução literária, e a tradução integral de 11 poemas e seis fragmentos traduzidos de um longo poema. Este trabalho objetiva empreender uma justa avaliação da poesia de Alfred Tennyson, destacar a importância de traduzi-la, pois as traduções já feitas são escassas, e apresentar, como amostra de variados momentos escriturais do autor, a tradução dos já mencionados poemas.This thesis presents: a study of the poetic work of the Victorian poet Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892); a theoretical reflection on literary translation; and the complete translation of eleven poems, as well as six translated fragments of a long poem. This work aims to carry out a fair evaluation of Alfred Tennyson\'s poetry, highlight the importance of translating it, for the translations already done are scarce, and propose, as a sample of the author\'s writing moments, the translation of the aforementioned poems
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