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The Legacy of the Pre-Raphaelites in Audiovisual Media
No full textThe Pre-Raphaelite art seems to be remediated in any kind of cinema genre establishing an engaging relationship with the viewer whose attention is attracted by Millais’s photographic realism, Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s stunning female portraits, William Morris’s gorgeous wallpapers, Burne-Jones’s visionary worlds, and William Waterhouse’s Romantic representation of the femme fatale. Watching a movie imbued with Pre-Raphaelite visual references is a dynamic and unforgettable experience, involving a process of renewing attention to create and follow the relations between words, images, and subtitles. Audiovisual translation specialists are becoming ever more interested in exploring the relevance of gestalt perception theories to audiovisual translation. The range of psycholinguistic, cognitive10, and neurolinguistic studies reveal how the human mind functions while engaged in the process of audiovisual translation. A set of widely shared assumptions pertaining to the assembly and storage of language in the brain and a widening network of conceptual tools – including, among others, notions such as figure/ground alignment, deictic shift theory, cognitive construction, and parabolic projection – are improving our understanding of the processual interplay between verbal and nonverbal semiotics. It is my aim to investigate the legacy of the Pre-Raphaelites from a cognitive perspective in order to attest the pervasive influence of Pre-Raphaelite art on contemporary cinema. Neil LaBute’s Possession (2002), Paul Gay and Diarmuid Lawrence’s Desperate Romantics (2009), Lars von Trier’s Melancholia (2011), and Richard Laxton’s Effie Gray (2014) are only a few examples of how the Pre-Raphaelite mindstyle is still inspiring the contemporary audience
Trespassing Cultural Boudaries in Audiovisual Media: Aboriginal Female Discourse and Cultural Heritage in Maïna
No full textIn the last decade, an interesting cultural phenomenon occurred in Canadian film as a result of the flowering of an indigenous Inuit cinema. In the so-called ‘cinema of minorities’ non-Inuit viewers are taken into a cultural and contextual limbo, where they find themselves positioned in a culture which they can hardly relate to and faced with legends they are not acquainted with. From this perspective, interlingual subtitling can be described as a foreignizing, or overt, type of translation since the foreign nature of the source text is foregrounded. This chapter takes as its starting point the
conceptual metaphor ‘subtitling is cultural heritage’ in order to advance a new reading of subtitling, one which sees this medium as a new audio-visual narrative category which is able to preserve the ethno-cultural diversity in Canada. Such a film with subtitles as Maïna (2013) not only envisions its own detailed blueprints of Inuit communities,
but is also an audio-visual narrative examining the relationship between media and minority cultures. All extra-linguistic geographical and ethnographic references such as limestone totems, string games, stone landmarks, oil lamps, igloos, facial tattoos, and throat songs are presented through a constant interaction between image (still and dynamic), language (speech), sound (sound effects) and music (performed).
I intend to track through these references and look at the issues – the role of subtitling in the preservation of cultural specificity, subtitling strategies for rendering culture-bound terms, etc – which they raise. But my central purpose is to re-read the aforementioned film from a cognitive perspective projecting such a conceptual metaphor as ‘Inuit women are survival women’. I analyse the linguistics of subtitling in order to demonstrate that native femininity may be conceptualized in subtitling and that Inuit oral narratives are reproduced faithfully by audio-visual media. Through such an Inuit movie as Maïna (2013), I suggest, subtitling may be considered an extreme form of foreignization in audio-visual media
Exotic mania
No full textDuring the long eighteenth century, a huge wave of exotic mania led to various social interactions characterised by the refinement of manners and the love of luxury. The term ‘exotic’ was associated with unfamiliar flora and fauna as well as with rare objects exhibited in places of sociability such as gardens, public and private menageries, museums, salons, tea-rooms, theatres, opera houses and many others. If it is true that North America, the Bahamas, Canary Islands, the Indian Ocean islands of Mauritius and Madagascar represented the ideal destinations for explorers in search of natural history discoveries, then it is equally true that the Orient attracted the interest of collectors resulting in the exotic modes of chinoiserie and turquerie
Polar Tourism: Inuit Cultural Heritage in Tourism-Driven Documentaries
No full textThis essay takes as its starting point such a conceptual metaphor as «Polar Tourism
is Cultural and Linguistic Preservation» as exempli!ed by a series of documentaries
on Inuit art and Tourism in order to advance a new reading of Inuit art and naming,
one which sees them as cognitive practices.
Exceptional wildlife sightings, stunning displays of nature, and rare experiences
carefully designed to reveal remote cultures in the most authentic and engaging manner
are the de!ning aspects of polar tourism as envisioned in «Crystal Serenity Northwest
Passage 2017» and «Eskimo Artist: Kenojuak» (1964). I intend to track through
these references and look at the issues —the role of documentaries in the spreading
of Inuit names, naming strategies for inducing tourism etc.— which they raise.
But my central purpose will be to re-read Inuit documentaries from a cognitive
perspective. I will analyse the cognitive map of Nunavut with its place names as a
country unprepared to welcome millions of tourists. Inuit documentaries acquire
a dangerous valence in fostering mass tourism through the lure of Inuit art which
could end in ecological disaster
Characterization of Decoherence-Free Subsystems
No full textIn this paper we compare the notion of decoherence-free subsystems with the structure of the decoherence-free subalgebra for a uniformly continuous quantum Markov semigroup on B(h). We show that the existence of a faithful normal invariant state and the atomicity of the decoherence-free subalgebra induce a decomposition of h that allows us to identify every decoherence-free subsystem
The Shape of Water: Intersezionalità e Disabilità nel Cinema Fantasy
No full textA partire dalla nozione di intersezionalità coniata da Crenshaw, secondo la quale le identità intersezionali subiscono oppressioni multiple, questo contributo intende investigare le diversità di razza, genere, classe e orientamento sessuale nel film The Shape of Water, i cui temi di disabilità e alterità permettono di esplorare l’arte cinematografica di del Toro anche e soprattutto da una prospettiva Crip (o Crip Theory)
A Critical Review Of The Hardiness Scales
No full textINTRODUCTION: The construct of hardiness - structured in the control, commitment and challenge components - is a personality variable that allows individuals to respond effectively to stress demands, to perform better and to stay healthier.
Individuals with high scores on these three factors show less powerlessness and alienation, interpret life events as controllable, interesting and as growth opportunities. Although in the last forty years many scholars had contributed to consolidate the hardiness theoretical framework, a substantial critical issue emerges with regard to the large heterogeneity of the scales used to measure hardiness. OBJECTIVE: The main aim of the study is to conduct a critical review about the evolution of hardiness scales, analyzing how scholars have operationalized and measured hardiness. We took three main steps to locate and identify eligible studies. First, using the search term “hardiness”, we conducted a literature search using PsycInfo, EBSCO and ISI Web of Knowledge. Second, we reviewed the references sections of the identified articles to locate additional studies. Third, we conducted database searches for articles referencing the most adopted hardiness scales. RESULTS: The results of this review show that, while several studies conducted on subjects exposed to high level of stress confirmed that hardiness is an important
personal resource for physical and mental health, excessively heterogeneous tools have been used to measure hardiness. From this point of view, it is possible to identify two main kind of hardiness scale: the indirect measure and the direct measure of hardiness. The indirect measures, proposed by the pioneering studies of Kobasa (1979), Kobasa et al. (1982) and Nowack (1986), are characterized by the attempts to measure hardiness through some not original personality validated scales. For example, to measure the control component of hardiness, Kobasa (1979) used the Internal-External Locus of Control Scale (Rotter et al., 1962), Powerlessness vs Personal Control e Nihilism vs Meaningfulness scale of Alienation Test (Maddi et al., 1978), Achievement and Dominance scale of Personality Research Form (Jackson, 1974) and Leadership Orientation scale of California Life Goals Evaluation Schedules (Hahn, 1966), whereas Nowack (1986) simply used the Locus of Control Scale (Rotter et al., 1962). To measure the commitment component of hardiness, Kobasa (1979) used Alienation Test (Maddi et al., 1978) and Role Consistency Test, adapted by Gergen & Morse (1967) Self-Consistency Test, whereas Nowack (1986) simply
used the Alienation from work scale by Alienation Test (Maddi et al., 1979). The direct measures represent instead the attempt of scholars to construct original and specific scales able to operationalize the three component of hardiness (Maddi & Khoshaba, 2001; Sinclair & Oliver, 2003; Maddi et al., 2006). However, even if these new scales show better internal consistency and validity, the lack of agreement about which scales have to be used to measure hardiness cast doubts about the construct validity of the hardiness subscales
Parco Nazionale del Gran Sasso e Monti della Laga
No full textIl volume monografico affronta il tema del paesaggio del territorioo del Gran Sasso e monti della Laga, come intersezione dei valori naturalistici e ambientali con i valori dovuti alla sedimentazione sul territorio della presenza insediativa e delle attività produttive dell'uomo attrverso i secoli. Gli ambienti naturali. La storia dell'uomo.L'economia e il paesaggio. Immagini e Immaginario del Parco. L'uomo e le tradizioni.Bibliografi
" 'Pensare camminando, camminare pensando': William Michael Rossetti e le mappe cognitive dell’Italia e della Francia"
No full textCovariant Uniformly Continuous Quantum Markov Semigroups
No full textIn this paper we analyze the structure of decoherence-free subalgebra N(T) of a uniformly continuous covariant semigroup with respect to a representation π of a compact group G on h. In particular, we obtain that, when π is irreducible, N(T) is isomorphic to (B(k) ⊗ 1m)d for suitable Hilbert spaces k and m, and an integer d related to the connected components of G. We extend this result when π is reducible and N(T) is atomic by the decomposition of h due to the Peter–Weyl theorem
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