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Real solids and radiations, by A. E. Hughes, D. Pooley
No full textEpelboin Yves. Real solids and radiations, by A. E. Hughes, D. Pooley. In: Bulletin de la Société française de Minéralogie et de Cristallographie, volume 99, 4, 1976. p. 256
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
The Singing Voice in Contemporary Cinema
No full textWhile the function of spoken voice in cinema has been explored by theorists such as Chion (1999), the role of singing in cinema has received less discussion and theorization. Where examination has taken place, it has focused on particular singing contexts, vocal techniques, gender concepts or vocal/repertoire types.1 This volume offers a diverse and inclusive discussion of the use of singing in cinema. Singing is a highly effective form of verbal and non-verbal2 communication and can instantaneously convey narrative, context and emotion. Singing therefore involves a range of expressive capabilities. Research identifies that vocal parameters (such as loudness and dynamics) expressed through singing may correlate with emotional states including sadness, tenderness, anger and joy (see Scherer et al., 2017). Expressive singing may also be revered for its commemorative, transcendent and/or musical capabilities, or even scorned for a lack of technical prowess. Either way, singing almost invariably elicits attention, reaction and, sometimes, empathy. As such, the deliberate inclusion of singing provides a range of creative possibilities in film.
Songs and their performance by singers are core elements of Western and international music cultures and have been prominent in cinema (see Dyer, 2012) since the introduction of synchsound recording and playback technologies. Inducted into the American National Film Registry for its significance,3 The Jazz Singer (Alan Crosland, 1927) marked Hollywood's en tree into the synchronous sounding4 of voice and song.5 Described as "less [of] a talking picture than a singing picture" (Taylor, 2009: 8), this adaptation of a Broadway play6 featured one of the leading entertainers of the time, Al Jolson. Containing several of Jolson's well known songs,7 the film provided a compilation of his then familiar and popular 1920s melodies in a "proto-jukebox" format (Goldmark, 2017: 768). While the most striking and negative aspect of the film for contemporary audiences is no doubt Jolson's performance in "black face" (wearing theatrical "blackface" make-up), The Jazz Singer signaled the naissance of cinematic singing and the screen musical, as well as Hollywood's growing reliance on celebrity capital
Before #MeToo: Hearing Vulnerability
No full textThe chapter begins by examining recent discussions in popular music studies and cultural movements that have called out inappropriate but entrenched behaviours associated with contemporary music, singing and/or singers. The analysis of each filmic narrative informs a particular music industry context - such as vocal artistry, artistic control, song creation - in which hypocrisy, institutional norms and gender issues are exposed and/or questioned. Within these contexts, and extending well beyond its acoustic properties or embodied expression, "singing" is often situated as the protagonist in ways that seek to contextualize or consider its potential com modification and manipulation. Such mistreatment extends to the related multiplicity of detrimental industry practices and, for some singers, the ensuing complications. Our discussion concludes by outlining the collective and recurrent themes that identify and reveal - and hear - vulnerabilit
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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe 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
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