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Exceptionalisms and Entanglements: Legacies and Memories of Scandinavian Colonial History
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Feel-Bad Euro Noir : Imagining Europe from its Eastern Edge in the Polish HBO TV series The Border (Wataha)
No full textThis chapter explores the HBO-produced Polish television series The Border (Wataha 2014–2019). The series is examined as an example of what the author terms feel-bad Euro-noir. The analysis delves into the complex use of locations, particularly the Bieszczady Mountains, and the depiction of the Polish-Ukrainian border, which marks the eastern edge of the European Union. These settings are dissected for their layered portrayal, showing how they draw on entrenched stereotypes in Polish cultural imagination whilst also serving as a bleak metaphor for contemporary Europe. The chapter combines an aesthetic, narrative, and cultural analysis of the series’ spatial representation with an account of the political and media-political context in Poland, informed by a 2019 interview with the scriptwriter and showrunner, Artur Kowalewski. The analysis demonstrates how The Border saturates its settings with grim recollections of Europe’s troubled past and unsettling depictions of nature, deliberately avoiding catharsis to create a disquieting, ‘feel-bad’ experience (Lübecker, 2015). Moreover, the chapter investigates how the series’ implied audience expands from a national focus in the first season to a European and transnational scope in the second. This broadening of focus enhances the series’ socio-political relevance, particularly in light of Europe’s current geopolitical challenges
Variations on the Author
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Ciało i miejsce. Obrazy współczesnej Rosji w polskich i szwedzkich filmach dokumentalnych
Full text linkThe article provides a comparative analysis of images of Russia in the contemporary Polish and Swedish documentary films. In both countries, representations of Russia have deeply-rooted political and historical connotations. Over the last decade, there has been a visible shift in Poland towards new ways of talking about Russia in documentaries, largely as a result of a younger generation of artists taking up the subject. Is a similar transformation visible in the work of Swedish documentary filmmakers? In an effort to answer this question, the author of the article points to similarities and differences in the Swedish and Polish documentary films about Russia, and in doing so, moves beyond divisions along national and generational lines.The article provides a comparative analysis of images of Russia in the contemporary Polish and Swedish documentary films. In both countries, representations of Russia have deeply-rooted political and historical connotations. Over the last decade, there has been a visible shift in Poland towards new ways of talking about Russia in documentaries, largely as a result of a younger generation of artists taking up the subject. Is a similar transformation visible in the work of Swedish documentary filmmakers? In an effort to answer this question, the author of the article points to similarities and differences in the Swedish and Polish documentary films about Russia, and in doing so, moves beyond divisions along national and generational lines
Rendering slow ecological crisis in a popular medium: Hyperobjects and Sámi resistance in the Swedish-French TV series Midnight Sun
Full text linkThe article examines the ways in which the slowly evolving and invisible processes of the ongoing ecological crisis can be represented in the format of a contemporary serial television drama. The author argues that despite heavy reliance on spectacular and captivating character-born plots, the long-form storytelling of new television narratives can be well suited to representing the complex and unspectacular temporalities of the ecological crisis. With the Swedish-French Arctic noir TV series Midnight Sun as a case study, the analysis shows how a highly spectacular criminal plot is developed to reveal the invisible temporal action and nonhuman agency of a special kind of waste paradigmatic of the era of the Anthropocene, defined by Timothy Morton as a hyperobject (2013). This idea is established in Midnight Sun not only by placing radioactive waste at the center of the narrative but also by gradually foregrounding its nonhuman agency behind the events. The aim of the analysis is to demonstrate that by both using and reimagining the conventions of the television crime drama (Arctic noir), Midnight Sun translates into quotidian terms the unspectacular and long-term aspects of human-induced ecological destruction, which surpass the individual human scale and evade our cognition. An important strategy adopted in Midnight Sun is bringing together two levels of criticism: ecocritical and postcolonial. The slow ecological violence (R. Nixon, 2011) and nuclear colonialism (G. Schwab, 2020) exerted by the powerful against regions and people who are globally less visible are depicted as a continuation of the history of colonization, and more specifically, the systemic and longstanding ill-treatment of the indigenous Sámi people in Sweden
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