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Foundations for Reimagination
No full textNEEN. is a first-generation American screenwriter and director from sunny South Florida. In her narrative work, she loves to explore historical fiction, mystical realism, fantasy, and futurism. She is interested in unearthing and preserving stories about the global South, Black lore, joy, and freedom of expression in her documentary work. Her character-driven work is rooted in her love for Black heroes, real and imagined, the nuanced worlds in which they live, and a desire to see them adequately represented, cherished, and lauded in film and television
Catharsis
No full textRory Randle, a Black Mississippian artist, unpacks her familial trauma, and ancestral baggage through her latest body of work. From welding and woodwork to cyanotypes and ceramics, Randle uses several mediums to work through the complexities of feelings that are often heavy to deal with. This body of work differs from her previous kitschy pieces that featured pastries and desserts.
She feels as though it has stretched her as an artist to grow inwardly and outwardly enduring her time in her program. I intend to document how she works through her family’s “stuff” under the looming deadline of graduation.
NEEN. is a documentarian and narrative filmmaker deeply moved by whimsy, joy, justice, and the supernatural. She aims to tell stories of and about Black folk across the diaspora that evoke those elements to uplift, educate, and inspire
Twurt Chamberlain / Country Punk Black
No full textProduced by NEEN. and Dr. Christopher C. Fisher
Directed and Edited by NEEN.
Country Punk Black chronicles the musical journey of Twurt Chamberlain, a genre-bending singer-songwriter from Lexington, Mississippi, to uncover how his lived experiences have influenced his evolving sound. Backed by a soundtrack of Twurt’s unique blend of hip-hop, blues, and rock and roll, the film also delves into his aspirations and inspirations.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/ms_creates_music/1000/thumbnail.jp
Dos Aguas: Where the River Meets the Sea
No full textCrystal is a children’s mental health practitioner whose faith in African traditional religions gives her the guidance and strength necessary to withstand the emotional weight of her profession. DOS AGUAS: Where the River Meets the Sea delves into her candid reflection on the connection between her work and spiritual practice while visually venturing with her on her visits to a waterfall in Norcross, Georgia, and a patch of raw beach in Pensacola, Florida. There, she gives offerings to Yemoja and Ośun, the divine archetypes that reflect her life’s mission and her sense of self.
NEEN. is a first-generation American screenwriter and director who hails from sunny South Florida. In her narrative work, she loves to explore historical fiction, mystical realism, fantasy, and futurism. In her documentary work she is interested in unearthing and preserving stories about the global South, Black lore, joy and freedom of expression. Her character-driven work is rooted in her love for Black heroes real and imagined, the nuanced worlds in which they live, and a desire to see them adequately represented, cherished, and lauded in film and television
Blackne
No full textBLACKNE was created out of a deep need to respond to, question, and critically unpack my frustrations with problematic practices such as digital blackface and cultural appropriation. Creating it gave me room to process my anger constructively. Though the motivation for the project was steeped in rage, it was my goal to educate myself just as much as I sought to educate others. In doing so the project became a creative catharsis that provided an experimental place of pride, play, and understanding. I chose to focus on the financial aspect because it bolstered the narrative in objectivity and is a vital part of why these issues persist. To me, it is also the most insidious part of the issue as it distills the black human experience into a product for financial gains that the black community does not benefit from at large. Striking the right balance between experimentation and heavy historical facts to make clear the cycle of racial exploitation was a challenge. Still, I wanted the film to celebrate Black expression, existence, and persistence – Black being.
NEEN. is a documentarian and narrative filmmaker deeply moved by whimsy, joy, justice, and the supernatural. She aims to tell stories of and about Black folk across the diaspora that evoke those elements to uplift, educate, and inspire
Labour-market in a border-area; searching for jobs and the influence of borders
Get PDFAt the moment borders, border-related problems, and the process of tearing down borders are very much in the centre of interest. Especially in Europe a lot of scientific work is done with regard to borders of countries, to determine their role in the ongoing integration process. In this respect border-regions are considered to be able to play a catalytic role. The borderland economies on both sides of a national border in this view have to be changed into one transborder economy. Initiatives to encourage cross-border integration however are not always successful. To our opinion, one of the main reasons lies in the fact that the border has many faces. The effect of a border differs, depending on the type of interaction (e.g. economic, social-cultural or institutional) and the nature of the region it defines. This paper tries to formulate a conceptual framework, within which the different properties of borders and border-regions are taken into account. Next this model is applied to the regional labour-market in the Nijmegen-Arnhem border-area in the eastern part of the Netherlands. The most important questions to be answered are: - Are there effects stemming from the fact the regional labour-market in the Arnhem-Nijmegen is part of a (peripheral) borderland economy? - What are the effects of the border with regard to the interaction of the region Arnhem-Nijmegen with the neighbouring region in Germany? - Is a part of the "natural" labour-market cut off by the national border, or put in other words, what would happen if the Dutch-German border would disappear completely? Keywords: Borders, Regional labour-markets, Transition
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
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