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Emigrazione, maternità ed emancipazione ne Il valore della donna è il suo silenzio
Get PDFThis paper aims at analyzing Gertrud Pinkus’s docu-fiction Il valore della donna è il suo silenzio (1980), a Swiss and German coproduction, its genesis, and its circulation amongst Italian migrant women in Switzerland. Pinkus’s film is one of the few works of the twentieth century that deals with Italian emigration from a gendered perspective. It tells the story of a woman who emigrates from the South of Italy to the city of Frankfurt. The analysis of the film focuses on the family life of the female protagonist and her motherhood; the analysis of its circulation builds on the political aspect of its reception. The author supports this analysis with a methodology taken from so-called new film history, with an historical contextualization and reference to gender studies
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Konferenzbericht: Exploring the transnational in film studies [international conference organised by the Film Institute of the University of Zurich from the 7-9th of June 2017]
Get PDF[…] Some of the speakers at the conference addressed the topic of migration in film, but most of them dealt with the circulation and distribution of films, aesthetics, genres beyond national borders, or with the analysis of mechanisms of the international coproduction and funding of films.
[…] The conference achieved its aim of becoming one of the first events to encourage the exchange of ideas about the “transnational” in film studies in the German-speaking world, but at the same time, it left many issues unresolved
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