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Guido Aristarco: From Lascia o Raddoppia? to Broadcast Media
Get PDFThis paper analyzes various documents from the archive at the library of the Cineteca di Bologna, "Renzo Renzi", which corroborate a professional collaboration between film critic Guido Aristarco and the state-run broadcaster Radiotelevisione Italiana (Rai) for the popular TV show Lascia o raddoppia? in 1956. These materials, including lists of questions about history of cinema, are a resource for recent studies that regard Italian film criticism as a relational system. More precisely, it is yet another in step in the historicization of a high-profile figure like Guido Aristarco and investigates the ways in which Aristarco used broadcast media, which occupied a central position in the media system during this period, as a pace for action within the complex dynamics of modern mass society
The Italian adaptation of Undercover Boss and the Rai's public service remit
Get PDFThis article concerns the Italian adaptation of the multi-national reality television series Undercover Boss (Boss in incognito in Italian translation). The show (2014 – present) is aired in primetime on the Italian public service broadcaster, Radiotelevisione Italiana (Rai), and comprises one of the rare examples of labor thematization in mainstream television. As such, it constitutes an iconic title that makes important contributions to the socio-cultural role of screen storytelling. This essay approaches the TV series as a source and explores how Boss in incognito, like the original format, can provide Italian viewers with a popular narrative not free from ideological implications. Furthermore, it hypothesizes that the broadcasting does not fully correspond to Rai’s public service obligations
L' Istituzione grottesca
Get PDFL’articolo intende analizzare la rappresentazione della scuola all’interno del film Bianca (1984) di Nanni Moretti, rilevandone la componente grottesca, l’immagine attribuita al ruolo dell’insegnante e la descrizione degli ambienti. L’analisi mette in relazione l’opera con il contesto socioculturale dell’Italia degli anni Ottanta, periodo storico in cui il film è uscito. Il tentativo è quello di segnalare, oltre che l’iconicità del film stesso, l’originalità e sintomaticità dell’universo scolastico filtrato dall’autore all’interno delle varie rappresentazioni nella storia del cinema italiano
Forme e narrazioni del lavoro nelle produzioni Rai
Get PDFChe ruolo ha ricoperto il tema del lavoro all’interno dell’”audiovisivo di Stato”? In quali forme, dalle origini del mezzo alla contemporaneità, esso è stato rappresentato e narrativizzato? La tesi intende esplorare il rapporto tra Rai, che da sempre opera per svolgere le funzioni di Servizio pubblico nel settore della comunicazione radiotelevisiva, e il lavoro, un concetto che contiene e manifesta delle difficoltà strutturali di tematizzazione.
Si è tentato di circoscrivere la ricerca ad un corpus relativo esclusivamente all’azienda Rai permettendo così di accantonare, senza per questo tralasciarlo, il cinema (sui cui già esiste non poca bibliografia), di sottolineare le specificità del mezzo televisivo tradizionale, così fondamentali e pervasive per buona parte del Novecento (il palinsesto, la diretta, l’interazione con lo spettatore) e al contempo di concentrarsi in maniera più ravvicinata sul contesto socio-politico (la Rai come autorevole garante e emanazione governativa). Attraverso un approccio storico, si è provato a indicare una genealogia di autori e macrotemi; le metodologie della semiotica e della narratologia consentono di analizzare le strategie discorsive e formali dei singoli testi. Abbracciando un arco di tempo molto vasto, si è cercato infine di riflettere sulla progressiva perdita o meno di centralità nella sfera pubblica contemporanea da parte di un medium tradizionale come la televisione generalista.What role did the topic of work play within the "state audiovisual sector"? In what forms, from the origins of the medium to the contemporary, has it been represented and narrativized? The thesis intends to explore the relationship between Rai, which has always worked to carry out public service functions in the radio and television communication sector, and work, a concept that contains and manifests structural difficulties in thematization.
An attempt was made to limit the research to a corpus relating exclusively to the Rai company, thus allowing us to set aside, without neglecting it, cinema (on which there is already quite a small bibliography), to underline the specificities of the traditional television medium, so fundamental and pervasive for much of the twentieth century (the schedule, the live broadcast, the interaction with the viewer) and at the same time to focus more closely on the socio-political context (Rai as an authoritative guarantor and government emanation). Through a historical approach, we tried to indicate a genealogy of authors and macrothemes; the methodologies of semiotics and narratology allow us to analyze the discursive and formal strategies of individual texts. Embracing a very vast period of time, we finally tried to reflect on the progressive loss or otherwise of centrality in the contemporary public sphere by a traditional medium such as generalist television
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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe 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
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