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Politicising stardom: Jane Fonda, IPC Films and Hollywood, 1977-1982
No full textPhDThis thesis is an empirical analysis of Jane Fonda’s films, stardom, and political activism during the most commercially successful period of her career. At the outset, Fonda’s early stardom is situated in relation to contemporaneous moral and political ideologies in the United States and how she functioned as both an agent and symbol of these ideologies. Her anti-war activism in the early-1970s constituted the apex of Fonda’s radicalisation and the nadir of her popular appeal; a central question of this thesis, therefore, is how her stardom was rehabilitated for the American mainstream to the point of becoming Hollywood’s most bankable actress.
As the star and producer of IPC Films, Fonda developed political projects using commercial formats, namely Coming Home (1978), The China Syndrome (1979), Nine to Five (1980), and Rollover (1981). The final IPC film, On Golden Pond (1981), signalled an ideological breach in this political strategy by favouring a familial spectacle, and duly outperformed its predecessors significantly. The first and last chapters of this work provide historical parameters for IPC in Fonda’s career, while the remaining chapters are structured by the conceptual and political aspects of each IPC project. Julia (1977) is discussed as an IPC prototype through its dramatisation of political consciousness. Coming Home, The China Syndrome, Nine to Five, and Rollover all exhibit this motif whereas On Golden Pond employs melodramatic nostalgia. Often discussed reductively as a star symbolising change, this thesis instead uses archival and published sources to analyse Fonda’s individual agency in historical context, as well as the cultural and political impact of her stardom. The IPC enterprise provided cinematic apparatus for Fonda’s political recuperation within the American mainstream, which, more broadly, harboured significance for the nation’s conservative resurgence at the end of the 1970s
Antonio Fonda Savio
No full textRitratto caricaturale di Antonio Fonda Savio. (Descrizione sintetica dell'opera: Ritratto: Antonio Fonda Savio.)Autore presuntoinchiostro su cartoncinoIn basso a sinistra: Za/ 1947Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici (Via del Lazzaretto Vecchio 8, Trieste
Antonio Fonda Savio
No full textRitratto maschile a mezzobusto di Antonio Fonda Savio seduto e rivolto di tre quarti verso sinistra. (Descrizione sintetica dell'opera: Ritratti: Antonio Fonda Savio)olio su telaDipartimento di Studi Umanistici (Via del Lazzaretto Vecchio 8, Trieste
Ritratto di un Fonda
No full textTrattasi del ritratto di un esponente maschile della famiglia Fonda. Si ritiene possa trattarsi di un medico, come lasciano pensare i due volumi appoggiati sul tavolo a sinistra recanti l’etichetta “Medicina I” e “Medicina 2”, chiamato molto probabilmente Giorgio (uno dei fogli appoggiati sul tavolo, apparentemente una busta di piccole dimensioni, reca la scritta “Al Benemerito/Medico di Dr.Giorgio Fonda/Pirano”). Vicino al margine sinistro, all'altezza del tavolo si scorge una scritta che ci permette di attribuire e datare l’opera: "De Castro 1846 Trieste". Gli abiti del personaggio e le suppellettili (calamaio, piuma d’oca, orologio da taschino…) permettono di confermare la datazione del ritratto. Su uno dei fogli appoggiati sul tavolo si legge "Al Benemerito Medico Dr.Giorgio Fonda, Pirano"; del foglio più a sinistra si legge solo la parte terminale: "Triest". Per ciò che concerne l'attribuzione, il solo cognome non ci permette di sapere se possa trattarsi di Andrea De Castro (Pirano o Trieste, 1806-Trieste 1884), di Luigi De Castro (Trieste, 1803-post 1837) o di Tommaso De Castro (Pirano 1788 -Trieste 1854). Il fatto che Andrea fosse miniaturista e ritrattista, specializzato in acquerello, fa propendere per quest'ultimo. Una più attenta indagine stilistica potrebbe in futuro confermare l'attribuzione. (Descrizione sintetica dell'opera: Ritratti: Giorgio Fonda. Mobilia: sedia; tavolo. Oggetti: calamaio; piuma d'oca; orologio da taschino; libri; carta da lettere; libri.)Autore presuntoacquerello su cartaIn basso a sinistra: De Castro 1846 TriesteDipartimento di Studi Umanistici (Via del Lazzaretto Vecchio 8, Trieste
Vista da casa Fonda di Santa Lucia di Pirano
No full textLa famiglia Fonda, originaria di Pirano, dovette possedere una casa in località Santa Lucia (odierna Lucija) da cui fu eseguito questo acquerello. La propaggine di terra visibile sullo sfondo è Portorose, sulla sinistra sono visibili anche le saline ivi esistenti. In basso a destra è presente l'iscrizione: B. Schiavuzzi/Campo?in 1941. Sul retro è presente un?etichetta che dichiara: ?BERNARDO SCHIAVUZZI/VISTA DA CASA FONDA/DI SANTA LUCIA/DI PIRANO?. L'autore Bernardo Schiavuzzi, per ragioni cronologiche, non va confuso con il suo piﾗ celebre omonimo (Pirano, 1 marzo 1849-Pola, 27 aprile 1929) che studiﾕ medicina a Graz, esercitﾕ la professione di dottore a Pirano, Parenzo e Pola, si interessﾕ all?arte e all?archeologia e diresse a lungo il museo Archeologico di Pola. (Descrizione sintetica dell'opera: Costruzioni: casa. Mare: Adriatico. Paesaggio: colli; saline; promontorio; costa. Veduta: Portorose. Vegetazione: erba; arbusti; alberi.)Etichetta sul retro: BERNARDO SCHIAVUZZI/ VISTA DA CASA FONDA/ DI SANTA LUCIA/ DI PIRANOacquerello su cartoncinoIn basso a destra: B. Schiavuzzi/ Campo…in 1941Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici (Via del Lazzaretto Vecchio 8, Trieste
Mucilaginous agglomerations in the Gulf of Trieste (Northern Adriatic Sea): analysis of the micro-zooplankton populations in the period June-August 1989
No full textSEASONAL AND INTER-ANNUAL VARIABILITY OF MESOZOOPLANKTON BIOMASS IN THE NORTHERN ADRIATIC SEA (GULF OF TRIESTE).
No full textThis paper reports the rate of change of mesozooplankton biomass on seasonal, inter-annual and decadal
time scale in the Gulf of Trieste (NE Mediterranean, Northern Adriatic). We measured variability in
mesozooplankton dry weight (mg DW m−3), organic carbon and nitrogen contents of the DW in relation to
mesozooplankton taxonomic structure and some environmental parameters. The study is based on data
obtained from mesozooplankton samples collected monthly by a vertical WP2 net (200 μm) from January
1986 to September 2005 at one monitoring station, a coastal site in the Gulf of Trieste. We considered
mesozooplankton DW in relation to copepods, phytoplankton taxonomic structure, water temperature and
North Atlantic Oscillation. For further analyses we counted also on data for DW for the period 1972–1980,
monthly data for organic carbon (mg C m−3) and nitrogen contents (mg N m−3) of the DW for the period
1991–2005, determined by a CHN Elemental Analyzer.We explored statistically our high temporal resolution
time series data picking out the main features: seasonal components and trends. Mesozooplankton DW
ranged from only 1 mg m−3 (January 1977) to 95 mg m−3 (March 1990) in the coastal ecosystem of the
Northern Adriatic during the period 1972–2005. The annual cycle of the DW was found to be bimodal with
maximum in late winter–spring and a weaker one in late summer. Maximum DW were regularly recorded
when Copepods prevailed the mesozooplankton community structure. Similarly, high organic carbon and
nitrogen contents were detected when copepods dominated, although wide-ranging on a seasonal scale.
Irregular intra- and inter-annual fluctuations were typical mostly during the 1990s. Mesozooplankton DW
sharply shifted since 2001–2002 to the level exceeding the observed one during the regime of the 1980s. Our
results indicate substantial changes in the seasonal timing of mesozooplankton DW, which together with
decadal inter-annual fluctuations match significantly with shifts in copepods, phytoplankton taxonomic
structure, temperature and NAO index. The discussed zooplankton descriptors (DW, C and N contents and
C:N ratio) being to a certain degree predictive of phyto- and mesozooplankton composition, in essence
might foretell the phenological response of plankton communities to environmental changes in the coastal
ecosystem, including climate change
Long-Term Copepod Dynamic in the Gulf of Trieste (Northern Adriatic Sea). Recent Changes and Trends
No full textCluster and time series analyses were applied to a 1970–1999 data set of zooplankton
collected from the Gulf of Trieste (Northern Adriatic Sea). Two time periods were compared:
1970–1980 and 1986–1999. Associations of copepod species were identified and an attempt was
made to reveal their long-term dynamics and significant patterns over the study period. Two main
groups with 2 and 3 subgroups each were identified. We observed a seasonal alternation of the 2
main groups, albeit with remarkably different patterns during the 2 periods. Time-series analyses
suggested recent changes in the periodicity of the associations. The long-term annual mean copepod
abundance showed an increase in the late 1990s in comparison to the 1970s; however, this increase
was not constant. Small-sized copepods increased in the second period, indicative of changes in the
phytoplankton size spectrum. Shifts in the 1990s appeared to be related to climate change in the
Northern Hemisphere that appeared abruptly after 1987. Climate change is thus recognized as the
most important factor (more so than anthropogenic change) affecting inter-annual and inter-decadal
variability of plankton dynamics. The strong signal recorded in the zooplankton community seems to
reflect this, identifying the Gulf of Trieste as one of the most sensitive areas in the Mediterranean
Multiple periodic solutions of scalar second order differential equations
No full textWe prove multiplicity of periodic solutions for a scalar second order differential equation with an asymmetric nonlinearity, thus generalizing previous results by Lazer and McKenna (1987) [1] and Del Pino, Manasevich and Murua (1992) [2]. The main improvement lies in the fact that we do not require any differentiability condition on the nonlinearity. The proof is based on the use of the Poincaré–Birkhoff Fixed Point Theorem
Existence and uniqueness of solutions for semilinear equations involving anti-selfadjoint operators
No full textWe consider the problem of the existence and uniqueness of solutions to a semilinear equation in a Hilbert space, of the type Lu = Nu, where the linear operator L is assumed to be anti-selfadjoint, and the nonlinear part N is controlled by two bounded selfadjoint operators A and B. As an example of application, we study the existence and uniqueness of periodic solutions for a system of transport equations. Precisely, we look for solutions which are periodic in each of their variables, the periods being determined by the forcing term
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