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Beyond MAD: The Works of Harvey Kurtzman
No full textHarvey Kurtzman was an American cartoonist and editor. He is most famous for writing and editing the parodic comic book MAD from 1952 until 1956 and writing the “Little Annie Fanny†strips for Playboy magazine from 1962 to 1988. Kurtzman is known for his satirical display of popular culture, social critique, and his meticulous work methodologies through satirical engagement. Kurtzman critiqued, denounced and ridiculed cultural figures, politicians, and out of control consumerism. This essay will explore Kurtzman’s work through published examples and interviews. I will explore his early works, his work with MAD and several publications following his tenure with EC comics. In particular, in October of 2016, previously unpublished works for TRUMP magazine became available. TRUMP: The Complete Collection, contains never-before-seen art, including the surviving contents of the third issue. TRUMP was a satire magazine that Kurtzman created for Hugh Hefner, after leaving MAD magazine in 1956. TRUMP was expected to be a success but for financial reasons, Hefner cancelled the publication while the third issue was in production. Throughout his career, Kurtzman regularly expressed his desire for full editorial control over his work. Although his work as a writer and illustrator is widely seen as successful, his work as an editor shows varying degrees of success. This thesis aims to examine the relationship of success versus editorial control in Kurtzman’s work. In short, I intend to show that, to Kurtzman’s dismay, his work was more successful when he was unburdened with the task of editorial control. | 32 page
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe 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
Os atributos da fotografia em revistas culturais no Brasil: um estudo de Bravo!, Cult e Rolling Stone Brasil
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Jornalismo, Florianópolis, 2014.O estudo propõe uma reflexão sobre os atributos estéticos da imagem fotográfica em três revistas culturais publicadas no Brasil. Partindo das características inerentes ao processo produtivo do jornalismo cultural, no qual recursos criativos, críticos e de divulgação são utilizados com maior amplitude, recorre-se à estética da fotografia, um conceito trabalhado pelo francês François Soulages, como método de investigação. Teoricamente, a pesquisa fundamenta-se em três eixos: o do Jornalismo Cultural, evidenciando, também, características do jornalismo de revista; o da Fotografia e o da Estética. Considerando o jornalismo cultural contemporâneo um continuum formado por cultura, estilo de vida e consumo, onde é função do jornalista mediar a relação entre os bens simbólicos culturais e o público, a pesquisa orienta-se por dois objetivos: (1) identificar os atributos da imagem fotográfica em revistas de cultura no Brasil e (2) verificar de que modo tais atributos permitem visualizar e refletir sobre a configuração de uma estética da fotografia no âmbito do jornalismo cultural. Compõe o objeto empírico do estudo proposto o conteúdo jornalístico das revistas Bravo!, Cult e Rolling Stone Brasil, centralizado nas edições publicadas em 2012.Abstract : The present study proposes a reflection on the aesthetic attributes of photographic images as displayed in three cultural magazines published in Brazil. Beginning with the inherent characteristics of the cultural journalism production process, in which creative, critical and publicity resources are most strongly represented, the study then incorporates the aesthetics of photography, as employed by french author François Soulages as an investigation method. Three theoretical axes represent the foundation of the research presented: Cultural Journalism, which shares characteristics with magazine journalism; Photography, and Aesthetics. Considering cultural journalism as a continuum shaped by culture, lifestyle, and consumption, in which the role of the journalist is to mediate the relationship between symbolic representations of culture and the public, this study has the following objectives: (1) to identify the attributes of photographic imagery in Brazilian cultural magazines, and (2) to evaluate the role of those attributes in the conception of, and reflection on, the structure of the aesthetics of photography within cultural journalism. The empirical data of this study is the journalistic content of the magazines Bravo!, Cult, and Rolling Stone Brasil, comprising the editions published in 2012
Author, publisher and bookseller : a tripartite synergy in Nigerian book industry
No full textThis work is about the roles of Author, Publisher and Bookseller in Book development in
Nigeria. The paper started by delving into the history of Book Publishing in Nigeria after
which it proceeded by defining who an author, a publisher, and a bookseller is and
expatiated on the indispensable roles of these key actors in Nigerian Book Industry and in
the emerging Information Society. Furthermore, the various constraints to book
development were identified while the paper advised on how the Book Industry can be
further promoted in Nigeria. However, the paper concluded and made recommendations
on how the Book sector can help in enhancing scholarship in the country
Harvey Kurtzman and the Influence of Mad Magazine
No full textThis is a chapter in a significant new collection of essays which will be a key reference in the field of comics studies. The chapter came about through an invitation from the editors Jan Baetens, Hugo Frey and Stephen E. Tabachnick to explore the impact on Harvey Kurtzman, with a specific emphasis on the development of the graphic novel as a form. This is the first attempt to do so in an academic context.
From the publisher's website:
The Cambridge History of the Graphic Novel provides the complete history of the graphic novel from its origins in the nineteenth century to its rise and startling success in the twentieth and twenty-first century. It includes original discussion on the current state of the graphic novel and analyzes how American, European, Middle Eastern, and Japanese renditions have shaped the field. Thirty-five leading scholars and historians unpack both forgotten trajectories as well as the famous key episodes, and explain how comics transitioned from being marketed as children's entertainment. Essays address the masters of the form, including Art Spiegelman, Alan Moore, and Marjane Satrapi, and reflect on their publishing history as well as their social and political effects. This ambitious history offers an extensive, detailed and expansive scholarly account of the graphic novel, and will be a key resource for scholars and students
[Report to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author #2]
No full textReport to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author. The report contains a list of officers who gave depositions to the United States Attorney
[Report to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author #1]
No full textReport to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author. The report contains a list of officers who gave depositions to the United States Attorney
Mining e-mail content for author identification forensics
No full textWe describe an investigation into e-mail content mining for author identification, or authorship attribution, for the purpose of forensic investigation. We focus our discussion on the ability to discriminate between authors for the case of both aggregated e-mail topics as well as across different email topics. An extended set of e-mail document features including structural characteristics and linguistic patterns were derived and, together with a Support Vector Machine learning algorithm, were used for mining the e-mail content. Experiments using a number of e-mail documents generated by different authors on a set of topics gave promising results for both aggregated and multi-topic author categorisation
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