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Robert Altman, Quintet
No full textMaria Roger. Robert Altman, Quintet. In: Raison présente, n°51, Juillet – Août – Septembre 1979. La raison est elle totalitaire ? pp. 105-106
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No Apparent Reason
No full textThis paper discusses five works the author created and the thought process that went into the creation of these works. Helen Altman discusses the fascination with temporary or process pieces and the use of commonplace materials to depict a message
The world of Robert Altman : Auteur, Innovator and Iconoclast
No full textFilmmaker Ron Mann’s recent documentary Altman (2014), features interviews with various notable filmmakers and actors who worked with Robert Altman over the years. Mann said that people who come to see his documentary “just to see Bob’s films” then he has done his job. Mann also more poignantly said that
“Altman was America’s greatest filmmaker and that his work matters more than ever now because it stands in contrast to all the sequels that Hollywood makes to sell lunch boxes”. (Gilbey, 2015)1
This quote encapsulates what Robert Altman stood for as a film director in that it illustrates his innovative approaches to filmmaking, his maverick tendencies and individuality. His vision, creativity and independence are a testament to his influential legacy which continues to inspire film makers today. Author keywords: Altman, film noir, satire, anti-western, ensemble, mystery, Hollywood and Studio Syste
Posthumous Queer: Hemingway Among Others
No full textChallenges the common assumption that posthumous texts introducing unconventional sexual themes like The Garden of Eden have more authority than previously published works by the same author. Altman concludes that it is a mistake to use the novel’s manuscript to debunk earlier Hemingway scholarship regarding gender and sexuality
Supplementary_Table_S1_1 – Supplemental material for Severe Acute Localized Reactions Following Intra-Articular Hyaluronic Acid Injections in Knee Osteoarthritis
No full textSupplemental material, Supplementary_Table_S1_1 for Severe Acute Localized Reactions Following Intra-Articular Hyaluronic Acid Injections in Knee Osteoarthritis by Kevin L. Ong, Maria Runa, Zhimin Xiao, Wilson Ngai, Edmund Lau and Roy D. Altman in CARTILAGE</p
Estratégias de fragmentação no cinema contemporâneo: Short Cuts: Cenas da Vida, de Robert Altman, e Elefante, de Gus Van Sant
No full textContemporary cinema has often shown films whose structure is remarkably broken, discontinuous and dispersive. We observe in this kind of cinema the subtraction or even the deactivation of the narrative flow, its linearity, which promotes new kinds of experience. Thereby, we present a brief analysis of two American films – Short Cuts (Robert Altman, 1993) and Elephant (Gus Van Sant, 2003) – trying to indicate trough the film's scripture some examples of these strategies of fragmentation, noticing, as well, the different senses that this initiative can promote.O cinema contemporâneo tem exibido, com considerável frequência, obras cuja estrutura narrativa se revela quebrada, descontínua e dispersa. Observa-se, nesse tipo de cinema, a subtração ou a desativação do fluxo narrativo, da linearidade narrativa, o que vem a promover novas formas de experiência fílmica. Nesse sentido, apresentamos uma breve análise de duas produções norte-americanas – Short Cuts: cenas da vida (Robert Altman, 1993) e Elefante (Gus Van Sant, 2003) – a fim de apontar, na escritura desses filmes, exemplos de estratégias de fragmentação e os diferentes sentidos que tal iniciativa possibilita construir
Beyond closing the gap: valuing diversity in Indigenous Australia
No full textIn his Apology speech the Prime Minister attempted to balance the symbolic with the practical while emphasising that ‘business as usual’ is not working. Ultimately though, the \u27Closing the Gap\u27 approach is business as usual that fails to value Indigenous difference and fails to accommodate Indigenous aspirations in all their diversity. Unless we get beyond CTG, the next phase in Indigenous policy making and program investments is as ‘destined to fail’ as previous approaches. This paper advocates for the pendulum to swing back, to accommodate and value diversity and difference rather than just statistical equality. In doing so, the author provides some reflexive comment as an academic on these policy swings. In 2005, Tim Rowse and Jon Altman wrote a piece on Indigenous policy that contrasted the contending approaches of economics and anthropology to Indigenous affairs policy: the first emphasising equality of socioeconomic outcomes, the second the facilitation of choice and self-determination. The former implies integration, the latter adherence to different and diverse life worlds. Over time, the author has used economics and official statistics to highlight socioeconomic disadvantage and neglect, while at the same time using anthropology to critique any approach that uses mainstream social indicators that only reflect the dominant society’s social norms. This paper will continue in the same vein using a dual disciplinary approach. However, without being over-reflexive, as an anthropologist of development he is clearly uncomfortable with the current dominance of the \u27Closing the Gap\u27 framework. This paper was presented at the Centre for Public Policy\u27s \u27Values & Public Policy\u27 conference in February 2009. Jon Altman is Professor and the inaugural Director of the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research established in 1990. He is currently researching Indigenous development and economic hybridity as ARC Australian Professorial Fellow. 
Time to organize the bioinformatics resourceome
No full textThe initial steps toward a bioinformatics resourceome are
clear. First, an overall ontology with the high-level concepts
(algorithms, databases, organizations, papers, people, etc.)
must be created, with a set of standard attributes and a
standard set of relations between these concepts (e.g., people
publish papers, papers describe algorithms or databases,
organizations house people, etc.). The initial ontology should
be compact and built for distributed collaborative extension.
Second, a mechanism for people to extend this ontology with
subconcepts in order to describe their own resources should
be designed. The precise location of a tool within a taxonomy
is not critical—the author will place it somewhere based on
the location of similar/competing resources or based on a
best-informed guess. Others may create links to the resource
from other appropriate locations in the taxonomy in order to
ensure that competing interpretations of the appropriate
conceptual location for the resource are accommodated.
Third, the formats for the ontologies and the resource
descriptions should be published so enterprising software
engineers can create interfaces for surfing, searching, and
viewing the resources. The resulting distributed system of
resource descriptions would be extensible, robust, and useful
to the entire biomedical research community
Encyclopedia of African American heritage
No full textOffers a wealth of information on both African and African American history, politics, culture, people, and places. Entries describe the rich tapestry woven by Africans, from those who remained on their ancestral continent, to those who were forced to leave their homes, and to the great strides being made by African Americans today. New to this edition are entries on affirmative action, criminal justice, labor, and property rights. This edition also contains an expanded art programs with 52 new b&w photos and 6 new maps. Altman is author of two books for young readers on the Black American experience
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