1,334 research outputs found
In Memoriam: Dr. Alfred Robert Roberts, Academy Co-founder; Dr. Alfred Robert Roberts, Academy Co-founder
No full textAl Roberts was born in Paterson, NJ, on April 20, 1929 and died on May 6, 2007 at the age of 77. He joined the U.S. Army and served in Korea, Germany, and Denmark. He married Susan Curtis on August 31, 1952, in Heidelberg, Germany. They were married for 54 years. They served as short-term missionaries in the Belgian Congo from 1962 until 1964. He obtained a Ph.D. in Accounting from the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, and taught at the University of Missouri in Columbia and later at Georgia State University in Atlanta. Dr. Roberts was a key member in the formation of the Academy of Accounting Historians and was voted a life member. He loved to learn and to teach, whether it was learning about hawks from his neighbor or discussing accounting theory with his friends and colleagues or discussing the fair tax with the local libertarian chapter or discussing anything with anybody at any place. He took care of everyone and made everyone feel special
The television work of Alfred Hitchcock
No full textThe thesis uses close textual analysis to study and evaluate the television work of Alfred Hitchcock. The corpus consists of the twenty shows personally directed by Hitchcock, including his appearances before and after those shows. In response to most previous writing, which tends to compare the programmes with Hitchcock’s films (often unfairly) the thesis emphasises them as products of television. Programmes are evaluated on the basis of their perceived success as television- if they harness conditions related to television production and integrate them with narrative themes or to create meaning. Hitchcock is considered to be the major creative force in each programme.
Chapter One provides a variety of important contexts including a brief history of US television of the 1950s, key literature on Hitchcock and analyses of contemporaneous programmes not directed by Hitchcock. The textual analysis chapters (2-8) consider aesthetic or thematic programme aspects. Chapter Two studies the various roles played by Hitchcock’s appearances as series host. Chapter Three considers the impact of censorship on programmes frequently dealing with murder, violence and insanity. Chapter Four analyses Hitchcock’s implementation of varieties of voice-over narration, a common device in short dramatic forms. Chapter Five studies Hitchcock’s use of point-of-view shots, particularly in relation to their role in the delivery of the narrative twist. Chapter Six considers the key Hitchcock theme of detachment from the world. Chapter Seven looks at moments from the programmes which demonstrate how aesthetic is influenced by television production conditions.
Hitchcock created a number of television masterpieces. His achievements in television are in many ways comparable in quality and consistency to his theatrical films. Even when considered in the context of other 1950s US anthology dramas, the Hitchcock-directed programmes are superior on many levels. Elements of his film style were highly suited to television production. Many of his greatest achievements embrace and harness television production conditions in their presentation strategies to create an integration of style and meaning
Goodridge Roberts : Une exposition rétrospective = Goodridge Roberts : A Retrospective Exhibition
No full textBorcoman situates Roberts' work; Ayre provides a biographical sketch of the painter; and Pinsky elaborates on formal and thematic elements in the artist's work. Includes a reprinted statement by Roberts. Biographical notes. Circa 60 bibl. ref
Recommended from our members
[Oral History Interview with Robert Prince Jr.]
No full textInterview with Robert Prince Jr., doctor who helped fight for safe, legal abortions. Prince discusses his upbringing and family history, his time in college and in the Korean war, and his time being a black doctor before integration
Recommended from our members
[Oral History Interview with Robert Thomas]
No full textInterview with Robert Thomas, a lawyer who worked on a desegregation case in Dallas Independent School District. Thomas discusses his upbringing, education, law practice, and prominent desegregation cases he worked on during his career
The excretion of inulin and phenol red in the fresh-water turtle, Pseudemys elegans, 1968
No full textMontgomery on the income tax
No full textRobert Heister Montgomery (1872-1953), accountant, lawyer, educator, and author was one of the recognized, outstanding leaders of the accounting profession for the four decades from about 1910 to 1950. He was one of the founding partners of Lybrand, Ross Bros. and Montgomery, which is currently known as Coopers and Lybrand
Tracts written by the honourable Robert Boyle
No full textBoyle, Robert. Tracts written by the honourable Robert Boyle: containing new experiments touching the relation betwixt flame and air: and about explosions: an hydrostatical discourse occasion\u27d by some objections of Dr. Henry More against some explications of new experiments made by the author of these tracts: to which is annex\u27t, an Hydrostatical letter, dilucidating an experiment about a way of weighing water in water. London, 1672
Photo by Lubosh Stepanekhttps://digitalcommons.rockefeller.edu/alfred-cohn-collection/1016/thumbnail.jp
Robert Carlton Brown papers
No full textAmerican author, journalist, publisher, and collector Robert Carlton Brown (1886-1959) was born in Chicago. Brown wrote pulp fiction, non-fiction, cookbooks, avant-garde publications, and experimented with a book of visual poetry; he also contributed pieces to various magazines and newspapers in New York City and established journals in Rio de Janeiro, Mexico City, and London. Popular works of Brown's include the novel What Happened to Mary? (1913), an adaptation of which became one of the first successful motion pictures. He was involved with an informal poetry group with avant-garde and modernist writers and artists like William Carlos Williams, Alfred Kreymbourg, and Man Ray in 1913 and 1914. The group put forth a publication entitled Glebe in 1913 and later the influential poetry journal Others. In 1929, he and his wife temporarily settled in France where they became involved in the expatriate literary community in Paris. While there, he also established Roving Eye Press to promote a reading machine that he invented. Brown published a book of verse to be used with the machine, Readies for Bob Brown's Machine (1931), which included contributions from Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, James T. Farrell, Kay Boyle, Paul Bowles, Kreymborg, Eugene Jolas, and Robert McAlmon. This collection includes correspondence, clippings, visual poetry, photographs, and ephemera. The collection is unprocessed
Klatsassan: A True Story of Colonial and Missionary Life:
No full textby R.C. Lundin Brown.As published in the Peoples magazine, London, 1872. Also includes two articles from The British Colonist newspaper: August 30, 1872 and June 13, 1864; the second by Alfred Waddington. Extract from The people's magazine, v. IX, n.s., no. L-LIII., 1872
- …
