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Disegnare l’indicibile. La rappresentazione dell’attacco di panico in tre fumetti italiani contemporanei
Full text linkWithin the medical dictionary, panic is defined as a "sense of severe anxiety," and the panic attack is described as a manifestation of uncontrollable anxiety or a spike of fear. When it occurs, it can lead to irrational behavior, along with a range of physical symptoms.For these reasons, panic is identified in many cases as an emotion that is difficult to describe effectivelyandmetaphors are used to describe it. Strategies to represent it through media can also be disparate and resort to medium-specific tools. Among the attempts, is the comics medium: as both narrative and visual, the language of comics lends itself to telling an episode with a strong emotional factor that deeply engages the body of the person who experiences it. Turning to contemporary Italian production, three comics have been identifiedthat deal with the representation of the panic attack, an analysis of which will be proposed, going on to discuss what graphic and stylistic strategies the medium has at its disposal to tell it, with particular attention to the representation of bodies and their gestures, as well as their manipulation through drawing and the effect of embodiment that can be elicited.All’interno del dizionario medico, il panico è definito come “senso di forte ansia”, e l’attacco di panico viene descritto comeuna manifestazione di ansia incontrollabile o un picco di paura. Quando si manifesta, può portare a comportamenti irrazionali, insieme a una serie di sintomi fisici.Per queste ragioni, ilpanico viene identificato in molticasi come un’emozione difficile da raccontare efficacementeeper descriverlo si ricorre a metafore e similitudini. Anche le modalità di rappresentazione attraverso i media possono essere disparate e fare ricorso a strategiemedium specific. Tra i tentativisvolti in questo senso,figura il medium fumetto: in quantosia narrativo che visuale, il linguaggio dei comicssi presta per raccontare un episodio con un forte fattore emotivo che coinvolge profondamente il corpo di chi lo sperimenta.Rivolgendoci alla produzione italiana contemporanea, sono stati individuati tre testi a fumetti che affrontano la rappresentazione dell’attacco di panico, di cui verrà proposta un’analisi, andando a discutere di quali strategie grafiche e stilistiche il medium dispone per raccontarlo, con particolare attenzione alla rappresentazione dei corpiealla loro gestualità,come anche alla loro manipolazione attraverso il disegno e all’effetto di embodimentche può essere suscitato
Lived and abandoned spaces: Invisibilities in comparison
No full textThe paper aims to propose a close reading of three non-serial comics, published in Italy after 2019, with a focus on the representation of spaces and the specific invisibilities they convey and communicate. The texts selected for the analysis are Malibuby Eliana Albertini, Padovalandby Miguel Vila, and 24/7by Nova, as all three texts tell a story that takes place in a marginal environment such as the Italian province.The paper will begin by defining the theoretical framework of reference, based on the geocritical perspective to literary texts (Tanca, Peterle) and the notion of hauntologyproposed by Jacques Derrida and reworked by Mark Fisher. The analysis will begin by considering some general aspects of the representation of the province in the three comics, identifying the main features of that environment considered as a space-time.The paper will then proceed to a comparison between commercialspace and abandoned space: the ways in which these are represented will be analyzed, emphasizing the presences-absences that haunt the spaces, according to the hauntologicalperspective.These two typologies were chosen because they are exemplary, both within history and in the imaginary: non-placethe former (Augé)andcharacterized by a system of rules, heterotopiathe latter(Foucault), a place with a history and devoid of a regulating authority.From the analysisit will be possible to define some of their peculiar characteristics: the commercial space will emerge as an environmentthat seeks to impose a precise temporality that is always the same; on the other hand, the abandoned place will be opposite but still in a dialectical relationship with the former, as it is unregulated and capable of hosting a temporality different from that of the rest of the provincial environment. These presences will be related to the question of visibility: the commercial space willemerge as overseer, endowed with a gaze, while the abandoned place is itself invisibilized and thus capable of hiding those who pass through it from the gaze of the province.This analysis finds its ideal field of study in the comics medium for several reasons: the invisible is an integral part of the grammar of comics (McCloud, Rey) and by its very nature it is forced to carefully select what it includes in its spaces (panels and pages) (Barbieri) leaving ample space for what it excludes, which remains invisible but nonetheless present; on the other hand, comics, as a visual medium, represent the story in a space, more or less mimetic with respect to what we call reality. This characteristic allows us to relate the representations, to map places both physical and belonging to the imaginary (Peterle) and to propose an analysis that is also a comparison of the different forms of invisibility related to the places of our imaginary, lived and visible, abandoned and invisible, and the possibilities that comics offer to tell them
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
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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe 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
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