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Félix Morlion e Roberto Rossellini
No full textFélix Morlion e Roberto Rossellini” (in collaborazione con Tomaso Subini), in Attraverso lo schermo. Cinema e cultura cattolica in Italia, vol. 2, a cura di Ruggero Eugeni e Dario Viganò, Roma, Ente dello Spettacolo, 2006, pp. 257-286. Seconda parte di E. Dagrada: "L’uomo di cinema e il regista Rossellini", pp. 271-286. Prima parte di T. Subini, Félix Andries Morlion, uomo di cinema", pp. 257-271
The Failed Project of a Catholic Neorealism. On Giulio Andreotti, Félix Morlion and Roberto Rossellini
No full textThis chapter examines the relationship between Giulio Andreotti and Father Félix Morlion, their involvement with the neorealist Roberto Rossellini and their ultimate failure to develop a ‘Catholic neorealism.’ Andreotti was undersecretary to the presidency of the Council of Ministers responsible for government intervention in film industry between 1947 and 1953, whose policy was closely linked to the Vatican’s interests. Father Morlion was a Belgian Dominican whose anti-Communist activity encouraged an ideological use of cinema. Andreotti assigned Morlion a key role in his policy aimed at moralizing neorealism, going as far as defending the Dominican’s action despite the disappointment of the pope himself. 1 Rossellini became involved with their aspirations for a Catholic neorealism, in spite of being considered scandalous by the Catholic Church due to his public love affairs, when they offered him a way to succeed in a changed political environment. Upon the recommendation of Morlion, and with the help of Andreotti’s institutional support, Rossellini directed two films on the occasion of the Holy Year in 1950. These two films-Stromboli, terra di Dio (Stromboli) and Francesco giullare di Dio (The Flowers of St. Francis)-were intended to establish a Catholic neorealism in its own right. Such a Catholic neorealism would meet with the approval of the Catholic Church and the Christian Democratic Party and offer an alternative to the neorealism Rossellini had helped develop. Furthermore, the Catholic critic Gian Luigi Rondi actively collaborated with the project by supporting the films with his reviews
A Triple Alliance for a Catholic Neorealism. Roberto Rossellini according to Félix Morlion, Giulio Andreotti and Gian Luigi Rondi
No full textIn second Post War Italy, the most relevant cultural phenomen is neorealistic cinema, politically near to the left and thus contrasted by catholic environments. But when father Félix A. Morlion witnesses to Paisà and neo-realism triumph, during the 1947 Festival Mondial du Film et des Beaux Arts in Brussels, he understands that the “new Italian cinematic school” cannot be longer ignored by catholics, and that Rossellini is too important to leave him to comunists. So, defying ecclesiastical hierarchies (especially relentless against neorealism starting form 1948), he applies himself to promote a cultural policy turned to subtract neorealism praise to the monopoly of marxist criticism. Rossellini was the one who had made neorealism famous in the world. He was also the one who had officlally started it in 1945, with Roma città aperta. Moreover, he was not a communist; rather, he was hold by many as near to Christian Democratic Party. And starting from 1949 he would make movies starring Ingrid Bergman, a famous film star appreciated all over the world, who represented an opportunity, not only for Rossellini: actually, she represented a guarantee of visibility and popularity at general public, larger than the one already obtained by Roma città aperta and Paisà. Therefore, Morlion aims at doing Rossellini the “pioneer of catholic neorealism”, correcting the other one which did not seem christian enough. And, to do so, he allies himself with Giulio Andreotti and with Gian Luigi Rondi in the making and promoting catholic neorealistic films, notably directed by Rossellini. According to the Dominican intentions, this should have been a sort of “triple alliance”, in which he would write (he kept for himself the role of “religious councilor”, actually a sort of ghost screenwriter), Andreotti would “produce” (since he would help with contacts and financing) and Rondi would review, using his influence and his widespread presence as a film critic in many film journals and newspapers
MeSH term explosion and author rank improve expert recommendations
No full textInformation overload is an often-cited phenomenon that reduces the productivity, efficiency and efficacy of scientists. One challenge for scientists is to find appropriate collaborators in their research. The literature describes various solutions to the problem of expertise location, but most current approaches do not appear to be very suitable for expert recommendations in biomedical research. In this study, we present the development and initial evaluation of a vector space model-based algorithm to calculate researcher similarity using four inputs: 1) MeSH terms of publications; 2) MeSH terms and author rank; 3) exploded MeSH terms; and 4) exploded MeSH terms and author rank. We developed and evaluated the algorithm using a data set of 17,525 authors and their 22,542 papers. On average, our algorithms correctly predicted 2.5 of the top 5/10 coauthors of individual scientists. Exploded MeSH and author rank outperformed all other algorithms in accuracy, followed closely by MeSH and author rank. Our results show that the accuracy of MeSH term-based matching can be enhanced with other metadata such as author rank
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
"Closing the R&D Gap, Evaluating the Sources of R&D Spending"
No full textBoth spending and tax policies have been implemented in the United States with the goal of stimulating private sector research and development (R&D). Karier questions whether current R&D policy, especially the research and experimentation tax credit, can contribute to closing the gap between nondefense expenditures on R&D in the United States and such expenditures in other countries, such as Japan and Germany. He also explores possible changes to our current R&D policy to make it more effective.
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
Scholarly Communication and Publishing Lunch and Learn Talk #11: The ULS Open Access Author Fee Fund
No full textAt the May 2014 talk, you will learn about the ULS Open Access Author Fee Fund--what it is, why we do it, how it works, and how the program is going so far
The R&D Tax Incentives
No full textThis article sets out some background information and reflections of the author on the R&D tax incentive schemes included in the Common Corporate Tax Base (CCTB) Proposal. In particular the author analyzes the stimulus to private R&D through ad hoc tax incentives included in the CCTB Proposal and dives into the actual provisions included in the Proposal highlighting the most relevant issues connected with their design and interpretation. Moreover, the author explores the interaction between the CCTB Proposal and the granting by Member States of domestic R&D tax incentives
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