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Kevin Smith and His X-World
No full textAutor podejmuje się próby opisu specyficznego świata filmów Kevina Smitha - reżysera często określanego mianem króla kina generacji X. Pitrus zauważa, że swego rodzaju mistrzem dla Smitha był Richard Linklater, autor głośnego filmu Slacker (1991). Jednak w przeciwieństwie do Linklatera, który zaczął poszukiwać także innych tematów, Smith zachował niemal całkowitą konsekwencję i poświęcił się krytycznej obserwacji życia swoich rówieśników. Przegląd fabuł i tematyki filmów pozwala Pitrusowi stwierdzić, że wśród amerykańskich reżyserów niezależnych Kevin Smith w najbardziej konsekwentny sposób odwołuje się do nieco już zapomnianej strategii "złego smaku". Smith poszukuje rozwiązań pozwalających mu dokonać radykalnej, a jednocześnie brikolażowej dekonstrukcji popkultury. Nie tylko sięga po „oswojone” matryce kultury dominującej, by wypełnić je zaskakującą treścią, ale także w sposób programowy szokuje wulgarnością i skatologicznym humorem.Pitrus describes the world presented in films of Kevin Smith - the director often called the king of Generation X. Pitrus notes that Smith's master and inspiration was Richard Linklater, the author of the famous film Slacker (1991). However, in contrast to Linklater, who searched for other themes, Smith consequently observes and shows the life of his contemporaries and peers. Following the analysis of storylines and themes present in films, Pitrus concludes that among American independent directors Kevin Smith most consequently refers to somewhat forgotten strategy of “bad taste”. Smith looks for means which would help him to carry out a radical deconstruction of pop culture. He not only reaches for tamed matrix of dominant culture which he fills with surprising meaning, but in a methodical way shocks with vulgarity and humour
Stoke on Trent College: Interview with Kevin Smith
No full textStoke on Trent College: Thought leadership interview with Kevin Smith, principa
Underwater Gliders by Dr. Kevin Smith [video]
No full textNPS PhysicsNPS Physics Research ProjectsUnderwater glider research is currently underway in the physics department at the naval postgraduate in Monterey Ca. Dr. Kevin Smith is a specialist in underwater acoustics and sonar systems. He and his team are currently focused on autonomous underwater gliders and developing systems capable of detecting parameters in the ocean and listening for various sources of sound
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An Evening with Kevin Smith: The Art of Comics
No full textRecording of a lecture given by director Kevin Smith in Winspear Hall at the Murchison Performing Arts Center presented by the Greater Denton Arts Council. This lecture was presented in conjunction with the exhibition "Heroes in the Making: The Art of Comic Production" held at the Patterson-Appleton Arts Center in Denton, Texas
Breakout Session: Getting Moral Rights Right. Presented by Kevin Smith, Dean of Libraries, University of Kansas.
Full text linkThis brief piece records the breakout session Getting Moral Rights Right by Kevin Smith from the 2017 Kraemer Copyright Conference
Fandom and beyond: online community, culture and Kevin Smith fandom
No full textFan studies literature has frequently been pervaded by the prevailing assumptions of what constitutes “fans” and their associated activities: fan art or fantext, cosplay, conjecture, activism – the things that fans supposedly do by definition –are those to which scholarly attention has most been paid. Yet the assumption that fandom can be defined by such explicit practices can be dangerous because of the subjective nature of respective fan cultures. Presenting a fan culture that questions the “assumed” nature of fandom and fan practices, this thesis is an examination of the fans of filmmaker and comedian Kevin Smith, investigating the ways in which community members negotiate and categorise their fandom and relationships with both each other and a communicative, media-literate producer.
Since 1995, the View Askew Message Board has provided a dialogical, communicative platform for fans of Kevin Smith to define themselves as a collective group – or more frequently – a community. Through autoethnographic discussion, as well as qualitative research conducted both
online and in person, this examination of users of the Board considers the nature of audience-producer relations, the intersection between on- and offline fannish and communal practices, and the extent to which the identity of “Kevin Smith fan” can be attributed within alternate contexts of fan productivity and (non) communal practice.
Contextualised by ongoing scholar-fan debate (Hills 2002; Gray et al. 2011), this thesis interrogates notions of fan practice, community, and classification, proposing further methodological and ethical considerations of the research of both explicit and implicit “fannish” practices. Through a netnographic framework (Kozinets 2010), this thesis is able to present a participatory approach to the study of online cultures, looking at how producer and fans simultaneously inhabit and inform the same cultural sphere, and how such
practices help to inform a community’s perception of their own fan culture
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
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