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The Australian letter, England, ca. 1860 [picture] /
No full textTitle from label on verso.; Inscriptions: "No. 114. The Australian Letter. A Study from Life. Photographed and Published by Frank M. Good, London"--On label on verso.; Condition: Soiled, spotting, stained, scratched.; "A wonderfully composed and lit tableau, set in an English rustic house, where one of the daughters reads aloud a letter from a loved one in the colonies"--Information from acquisitions documentation.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn5057635; Purchased from the Hobart Book Fair, 12-13 February 2011
De dysenteriae curatione & praeservatione
No full textquam ... ad diem 6. Decembris, M D CC XLIII. pro summis in medicina honoribus & privilegiis doctoralibus rite capessendis eruditorum examini submittit Bonifacius Iosephus Antonius Good, Ragazensis HelvetusDiss. med. Basel, 174
Variations on the Author
No full text“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
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