239 research outputs found
Cycling UK: Marlon Moncrieffe on the Black British cycling community
No full textDr Marlon Moncrieffe, an academic and former elite level racing cyclist, is the author of Black Champions in Cycling. He shares his opinions and research on the history of Black competitive cyclists in the UK
Cycling UK: Marlon Moncrieffe on the Black British cycling community
No full textDr Marlon Moncrieffe, an academic and former elite level racing cyclist, is the author of Black Champions in Cycling. He shares his opinions and research on the history of Black competitive cyclists in the UK
An Interview with Marlon L. Fick
No full textA conversation with a Fellow for the National Endowment for the Arts in Writing for the United States as well as Mexico (ConaCulta), Marlon L. Fick. Fick is the author of several books, including translations, volumes of poetry, and short fiction. He is the author of two forthcoming novels from Jaded Ibis Press - the two novels are part of a trilogy with the third underway. The novels, The Nowhere Man and Rhapsody in a Circle, are written against a backdrop of twentieth-century political turmoil in third world countries: The Congo (then Zaire), Nicaragua, Mexico, and Pakistan. Although at the heart of both novels lies questions of identity, the potentially futile quest for the soul, the theme of individuality and freedom eventually collides with politics. Fick believes we are prisoners of the body politic. The author does not like to speak of the novel as history, except to assert that 'history is a poor word for something for which we have yet to find a better word'
Marlon Unas Esugerra interview
No full textBio: Marlon Unas Esguerra is a second generation Filipino American, born and raised in Chicago. Marlon currently resides in Woodside, Queens, and is a Special Ed teacher at Queens Vocational & Technical High School. In 1998, he co-founded the panAsian spoken word ensemble, I Was Born with Two Tongues/, which has since performed in over 300 colleges and venues across the country. The Tongues\u27 pioneering performance work and critically-acclaimed debut CD, Broken Speak (AsianImprov Records), sparked a new generation of APIA voices. He is also the co-founder of the Asian American Artists Collective-Chicago, YAWP! Young Asians with Power!, Undocumented Sons, and the National APIA Spoken Word & Poetry Summit. Marlon is the author of four chapbooks: Goodnight Nobody, Thirty-one Dollars Per Hour, When the Blood Leaves You, and, When the Filipinos Arrive in Wicker Park. He is currently completing his first manuscript of poetry entitled, homestay. His work has been published in Monsoon, Screaming Monkeys, Pinoy Poetics, Columbia Poetry Review, MiPo Magazine, Crab Orchard Review, South Loop Review, and Indiana Review. Marlon is a three-time Chicago poetry slam champion and has performed on Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry on HBO. His digital media work has shown nationally and internationally, with most recent exhibitions in Perth, Tokyo, and Ho Chi Minh City. Marlon\u27s most recent awards include a Michener Teaching Fellowship, the Wallace Douglas Award for Excellence in Teaching, a Columbia Award for Scholarship, and two Eileen Lannan Poetry Prizes from the Academy of American Poets. He is a proud Kundiman, VONA, and NYC Teaching Fellow. In 2002, Chicago Public Radio compared Marlon\u27s work to Carl Sandburg\u27s, naming him a, Next Voice of 21st Century Chicago. An avid runner, Marlon is currently fundraising for Team for Kids while on his quest to run 100 marathons, completing at least one in each state and one on every continent.
Bio from the 2009 Jackson Heights Poetry Festiva
Public bodies, private moments : method acting and American cinema in the 1950s
No full textThe thesis deals with two central issues:
a) the construction of a framework for the study of film acting which places
performance in a cultural context
b) the cultural significance of Method acting during the 1950s with specific
reference to American cinema of the period
The first chapter considers the ways in which the voice and body in film acting are made
meaningful in the context of beliefs about acting and personal identity. The chapter also
proposes ways for situating the practical activity of film acting in a context of cultural
production.
The remaining chapters study the cultural significance of Method acting through
separate analyses of the Method technique, style, representation of gender, and image of
star performance. Readings of the Method technique and style are placed in the context of
a `culture of personality', in which the significance of the Method was produced in the
ways that acting signified beliefs about personal identity. The discussion of the Method
style is then developed in the analysis of the ways in which the style was used in film
melodramas to represent the gendered anxieties of the rebel hero. Finally, Marlon
Brando's image and performances are studied for how the actor personified the meaning
of the Method. Together, technique, style, gender representation, and stardom, are
studied as various aspects of what is called the Method discourse
Whispering-gallery mode composite sensors for on-chip dynamic temperature monitoring
No full textWhispering-gallery mode temperature microsensors have been demonstrated to have extremely high accuracy. Previous experiments have been limited to indirect sensor heating by externally heating the local environment. In this paper, we coated PDMS films directly onto an electrical resistive wire as sensors, allowing on-chip dynamic temperature measurement. The effects of sensor size are discussed and verified through an expansion of the current theory of WGM resonance shifts to include composite materials. Finally, the WGM sensor’s measurements are compared to the same measurements recorded by a thermocouple, demonstrating the great advantages of WGM sensors for on-chip real temperature monitoring.Peer reviewe
Interview with Marlon James
No full textMarlon James is the author of three novels, most recently A Brief History of Seven Killings, which won the coveted Man Booker Prize in 2015. He is also the writer behind John Crow’s Devil, published 2005, and The Book of Night Women, published 2009. Since 2007, James has been a professor of creative writing at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He has also written for numerous publications, including The New York Times. During his visit to Butler University as part of the Vivian S. Delbrook Visiting Writers Series, James took the time to speak with Manuscripts staff member Julian Wyllie
Silencio y secreto en las memorias de la medicina tradicional miskitu
No full textEste artículo examina las disputas entre las memorias de la medicina tradicional miskitu, la medicina convencional y las doctrinas religiosas introducidas en la Moskitia nicaragüense desde el siglo xix. A partir de un enfoque etnográfico que combina observación participante, entrevistas en profundidad y experiencias personales del autor, se analizan los procesos de silenciamiento, estigmatización y marginación de los saberes curativos indígenas. Basado en los marcos teóricos de Elizabeth Jelin y Michael Pollak sobre memoria social, el estudio revela cómo estos conocimientos han sobrevivido mediante transmisión oral, prácticas clandestinas y resistencias cotidianas. En contextos donde la medicina hegemónica ha mostrado limitaciones ‒como durante la pandemia de covid-19 o frente a enfermedades espirituales‒, la medicina tradicional ha resurgido con fuerza para reconfigurarse como un sistema alternativo de sanación y cosmovisión. El artículo aporta al debate sobre la legitimidad de los saberes indígenas mediante la propuesta de un diálogo intercultural que reconozca su vigencia en contextos poscoloniales
Marlon Brando: The "young rebel" and the "godfather" : The figures of an actor-author
No full textOrientador: Marcelo Ramos LazzarattoDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de ArtesResumo: Essa dissertação teve como objetivo estudar os procedimentos técnicos que envolvem o trabalho a interpretação para cinema. Para isso, tivemos como objeto de pesquisa a filmografia do ator Marlon Brando (1924 ¿ 2004), com enfoque nos filmes "Uma Rua Chamada Pecado" (Elia Kazan, 1951), "Sindicato de Ladrões" (Elia Kazan, 1954), "A Face Oculta" (Marlon Brando, 1961), "O Grande Motim" (Lewis Milestone, 1962), "O Poderoso Chefão" (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972) e "Apocalipse Now" (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979). Verificamos, ao longo desses filmes, os procedimentos de construção de cena e personagens apoiados nos escritos de Stella Adler (2002) e Constantin Stanislavski (2001) sobre o trabalho do ator, com enfoque nas ações físicas no uso da imaginação e observação. Além disso, analisamos os temas e personagens recorrentes na filmografia de Brando identificando uma padronização de seu aparecimento na tela. Tal padrão está intimamente ligado à própria personalidade do ator e chega em duas figuras essenciais: o "jovem rebelde", presente nos filmes dos anos 1950 e caracterizado por sua postura contra o sistema vigente e o "padrinho", consolidado nas obras da década de 1970, marcado por sua relação de mentor de um personagem ou grupo de personagens. Para investigarmos essa padronização, utilizamos o conceito de ator-autor proposto por Patrick McGuiligan (1975) e desenvolvido por Luc Moullet (1993) e Pedro Maciel Guimarães (2012), com o qual se analisa a filmografia de um ator em busca de aspectos formais e temáticos que o possam nomeá-lo como co-autor de um filmeAbstract: This dissertation aim was studying the technical procedures of acting in cinema. In order to do this, we took as research material the filmography of the actor Marlon Brando (1924 ¿ 2004), focusing in the films "A Streetcar Named Desire" (Elia Kazan, 1951), "On The Waterfront" (Elia Kazan, 1954), "One-Eyed Jacks" (Marlon Brando, 1961), "Moutiny on the Bouty" (Lewis Milestone, 1962), "The Godfather" (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972) and "Apocalipse Now" (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979). Through those movies, we verified the procedures of creating a scene and a character supported by the writings of Stella Adler (2002) and Constantin Stanislavski (2001) on acting, focusing on physical actions, imagination and observation. Furthermore, we analysed the recurrent themes and characters on Brando¿s filmography investigating a pattern in his appearance on screen which is linked with the personality of the actor himself. Thus, we find two essential figures, the "young rebel", in the movies of the 1950s and characterized by his position against the hegemonic system, and the "godfather", consolidated in the 1970s, characterized by his relation as a mentor of a character or a group of characters. To investigate this standardization, we used the concept of the actor-author, proposed by Patrick McGuiligan (1975) and further developed by Luc Moullet (1993) and Pedro Maciel Guimarães (2012), in which one analyses an actor¿s filmography searching thematic and formal aspects that can categorize the actor as a co-author of a filmMestradoTeatro, Dança e PerformanceMestre em Artes da Cen
BBC Sport Black History Month:Marshall 'Major' Taylor - the black cycling pioneer
No full textFor Black History Month 2021, academic and author Dr Marlon Moncrieffe tells the story of Marshall 'Major' Taylor, an American professional cyclist who rose to the top of his sport winning the one mile sprint event at the 1899 World Track Championships. But his career was plagued by the racism he suffered
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