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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
The hospital south of the Yarra: a history to celebrate the centenary of Alfred Hospital Melbourne 1871-1971
No full textDeposited with permission of the author. © 1972 Ann M. Mitchell.Although this work was commissioned for the purpose of celebrating Alfred Hospital’s first one hundred years, I have made no effort to cover all of those years. I have set out: 1. To isolate the historical precedents for current hospital procedures and in particular to explore the relationship between Alfred Hospital and the State Government. This task was burdened by the scarcity of early hospital records and of research in related fields of charitable and social welfare - which emphasizes the value of rescuing the hospital’s fast vanishing past from oblivion. 2. By attention to human relationships (that constantly inconsistent element in all institutional affairs) to evoke those unique qualities which distinguish Alfred Hospital from other similar hospitals. 3. To convey what the Alfred meant to the greatest number of people associated with it. 4. To provide a useful source of reference
Report on Explorations in British Columbia: Chiefly in the Basins of the Blackwater, Salmon, and Nechako Rivers & Francois Lake:
No full textby George M. Dawson addressed to Alfred R.C. Selwyn
Report on explorations in British Columbia : chiefly in the basins of the Blackwater, Salmon, and Nechacco Rivers, and on Francois Lake.
No full textby George M. Dawson addressed to Alfred R.C. Selwyn
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
A History of HABS and HAER in Oregon 1933-1983; a program in observance of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Historic American Building Survey.
No full textTypescript of a two-part presentation commemorating a half-century of documenting Oregon's architectural heritage through the Historic American Building Survey.
Consists of "Part I, The American Institute of Architects and the Historic American Buildings Survey in Oregon 1930-1940," by Elisabeth Walton Potter, Oregon State Historic Preservation Office, Salem, Oregon, and "Part II, Historic American Buildings Survey and the Historic American Engineer Record to the Present Day," by Alfred M. Staehli, A. I. A., Portland, Oregon.
Digitized from a copy provided with permission to publish by author Elisabeth Walton Potter, member of the Marion Dean Ross / Pacific Northwest Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians.National Park Service, the Historic Preservation League of Oregon, the Oregon Committee for the Humanities, the American Institute of Architect
Artists' earnings and copyright: a review of British and German music industry data in the context of digital technologies
No full textDigital technologies are often said (1) to enable a qualitatively new engagement with already
existing cultural materials (for example through sampling and adaptation), and (2) to offer a
new disintermediated distribution channel to the creator. From a review of secondary data on
music artists’ earnings and seven in-depth interviews, it appears that both ambitions have
remained, until now, largely unfulfilled. The paper discusses to what extent the structure of
copyright law is to blame, and sets out a research agenda
PARATEXTUALITY OF M. PRODANOVYCH`S NOVEL “COLLECTION”: AUTHOR`S CONCEPT, HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXT
No full textAt the present stage of comparative research, a solid theoretical and methodological basis for the
phenomenon of intertextual relations has been developed, which allows for a differentiated approach and
maximum response to the diversity of intertextual phenomena. Special attention is paid to various forms
and genres of intertextual relations, and in particular paratextuality. According to its definitive qualities,
it is obviously prone to heterogeneous figurative combinations and modifications, in particular, with discourses for which the primary definitive criterion is semiotic-sign morphology. The modifications made
possible by this format, of course, are relevant in highlighting the diverse experience of literary poetics.
From the perspective of this combinatorial tendency, the work of Mileta Prodanovich ‒ a contemporary
Serbian artist, art critic, writer, winner of national and international awards in the field of literature, attracts more and more research attention. One of the iconic works of the artist is the novel “Collection”. The
work is a response to current events in the field of culture ‒ both its modern conceptualization and special phenomena that shape today`s national and world cultural paradigm. In the scientific discourse a significant experience of understanding the poetics of Serbian great prose has been formed, as evidenced by
published during the 20th and early 21st century works of domestic and foreign scientists. Accordingly, the
expression in the work of M. Prodanovich “Collection” of the modification of paratextuality, realized in interaction with other manifestations of intertextuality, is relevant. The aim of this article is to focus on the
figurative content of the paratextual component of the work in relation to poetics in accordance with other strategies of comparative studies, to determine the priorities of formal, semantic and contextual dimensions, the historical and cultural fate of the reality. The research is based on the productivity of comparative-historical and genetic-typological methods in combination with structural analysis and cultural-semiotic approach. The figurative content of the paratextual components of M. Prodanovich`s novel “Collection”, realized in the format of the title and a number of epigraphs, testifies to the existing threshold function, diversified by the original author’s improvisation. In its formal implementation it is necessary to distinguish a kind of complementary combination with figurative solutions that meet the definitive requirements of intertextuality, in particular allusions, as well as ekphrasis. The figurative actualization of the phenomenon of the ancient silverware collection Sevso plays a decisive role in the pronounced configuration.
There are two supplementary lines in the system of complementary combination at the level of meaningmaking. The historical and cultural dimension of the reality, whose allusive and referential power proved
to be decisive for the poetics of the novel, reveals in the work semantic reflexes related to such a prospective line as the humanization of the aesthetic. At the same time, the allusive actualization of the real context of this reality highlights a powerful semantic and meaningful plan. It should highlight the situation in
which, because of unworthy violations of civilizational conventions derived from ethical norms, beautiful
works of art, as the top embodiment of beauty, full of good inspiration, can’t fulfill its noble mission, provided by the essence of art: to bring good and joy to people. In the general sense-making, the trajectory
of the postulation of the idea of the aspiration of humanity is announced by the semantic projection from
the paratextual position in the figurative world of the “Collection”. Thus, in accordance with the contextual prospectus and the author`s concept, a set of priorities essential for the meaning of the novel is consolidated. They define the contours of the need for responsiveness and justice, and it turns out that the desire for good and humanity is potentiated
Beyond ‘Needy’ Individuals: Conceptualizing Information Behavior
No full textUnderstanding information users and their behavior is a question of central importance for information
research and practice. The paper challenges several aspects of existing approaches to understanding information behavior, including: the focus on individual cognition at the expense of social and affective factors; the construction of information users as defined by their areas of ignorance and uncertainty, rather than their expertise; and the focus on purposive rather than non-purposive information behavior. It argues that only by addressing these weaknesses and developing new research strategies and theoretical frameworks which focus attention on the social processes and relationships which underpin users’ information behavior can we hope to develop a truly holistic understanding of the relationship between people and information. The paper uses the author’s study of information behavior researcher’s constructions of an author (Brenda Dervin) to illustrate how a social constructivist approach can both build on existing approaches to information behavior research and address some of their weaknesses. It argues that social constructivist approaches provide a theoretical lens through which information researchers can gain a clearer picture of information users not as ‘needy’ individuals to be ‘helped’, but as social beings, experts in their own life-worlds
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