1,260 research outputs found
Portrait of Rolf Edberg
No full textThis is a portrait of Rolf Edberg, Swedish author and environmental activist, in 1970
Geschichten von Onkel Remus
No full textForty-four stories and an afterword, with perhaps a dozen indifferent black-and-white line sketches and perhaps a dozen good colored pictures, generally a full page in size. The afterword goes out of its way twice to mention that the successors of the white masters still repress the Blacks today. It opens with a great quotation from Uncle Remus: if these stories were nothing but fun, the stuff of laughter, he would not have troubled himself with them. The binding and covers of this book are curiously flexible.Language note: GermanJoel Chandler Harris and Rolf F. Mülle
Quando as fileiras se reduzem... Rolf Meyersohn (1926-2022)
No full textThe text pays tribute to Rolf Meyersohn, an important author in the sociological study of leisure between the 1950s and 1970s. His great contribution was to analyze leisure as a social challenge and not as a permanent promise.El texto rinde homenaje a Rolf Meyersohn, un autor importante en el estudio sociológico del ocio entre las décadas de 1950 y 1970. Su gran aportación fue analizar el ocio como un reto social y no como una promesa permanente.O texto faz uma homenagem a Rolf Meyersohn, importante autor no estudo sociológico do lazer entres as décadas de 1950 a 1970. Sua grande contribuição foi analisar o lazer como um desafio social e não como uma promessa permanente
Chas. White, author of Story of Australian bushranging ; Dr. Pechey, present at Keightly episode ... [picture] /
No full textIncludes portrait of Captain Starlight from: Robbery under arms / by Rolf Boldrewood.; Exhibited: "Bushrangers and Bandits", National Museum of Australia, June 2002 - June 2003.; Exhibited: "In the Line of Duty: Policing in Australia 1788 - 2006", Old Parliament House, August 2006 - February 2007. AuCNL. Portraits and inscriptions (top L to R): Chas. White author of Story of Australian bushranging; Dr. Pechey present at Keightly episode; Hipkiss gave Ben Hall first death wound at Billabong 5th May -65; Ver. Rev. Dr. Gibney heroic rescue at Glenrowen [Glenrowan]; Superintnt Hare author of Last of the bushrangers; Ben Hall; Lowry; Starlight; T. Clarke; Rutherford; Martin Cash Tasmanian outlaw after sentence lived a respected farmer; Const. Bracken escaped from Kellys Glenrowen [Glenrowan]; Insr Stephenson daring capture & shooting of Lowry; McKinley [McKinlay?], Burns & Day daring shooting & capture of Angel & Thurston; J. Hawthorne now a squatter Wee Waa daring capture of Dunne
Bedingungen und Chancen der Transformation des deutschen Kammerwesens
No full textSack D. Bedingungen und Chancen der Transformation des deutschen Kammerwesens. In: Schmidt-Trenz H-J, Stober R, eds. Brauchen wir eine Wirtschaftskammer?. Jahrbuch Recht und Ökonomik des Dritten Sektors 2007/2008. Baden-Baden: Nomos; 2008: 151-170
Aural auteur : sound in the films of Rolf de Heer
No full textAn interpretative methodology for understanding meaning in cinema since the 1950s, auteur analysis is an approach to film studies in which an individual, usually the director, is studied as the author of her or his films. The principal argument of this thesis is that proponents of auteurism have privileged examination of the visual components in a film-maker’s body of work, neglecting the potentially significant role played by sound. \ud
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The thesis seeks to address this problematic imbalance by interrogating the creative use of sound in the films written and directed by Rolf de Heer, asking the question, “Does his use of sound make Rolf de Heer an aural auteur?” In so far as the term ‘aural’ encompasses everything in the film that is heard by the audience, the analysis seeks to discover if de Heer has, as Peter Wollen suggests of the auteur and her or his directing of the visual components (1968, 1972 and 1998), unconsciously left a detectable aural signature on his films.\ud
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The thesis delivers an innovative outcome by demonstrating that auteur analysis that goes beyond the mise-en-scène (i.e. visuals) is productive and worthwhile as an interpretive response to film. De Heer’s use of the aural point of view and binaural sound recording, his interest in providing a ‘voice’ for marginalised people, his self-penned song lyrics, his close and early collaboration with composer Graham Tardif and sound designer Jim Currie, his ‘hands-on’ approach to sound recording and sound editing and his predilection for making films about sound are all shown to be examples of de Heer’s aural auteurism.\ud
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As well as the three published (or accepted for publication) interviews with de Heer, Tardif and Currie, the dissertation consists of seven papers refereed and published (or accepted for publication) in journals and international conference proceedings, a literature review and a unifying essay. The papers presented are close textual analyses of de Heer’s films which, when considered as a whole, support the thesis’ overall argument and serve as a comprehensive auteur analysis, the first such sustained study of his work, and the first with an emphasis on the aural
The contextual database of the generations and gender program in Bulgaria: conceptual framework and an overview of the Bulgarian context concerning the central database topics
No full textThis paper outlines the concept and content of the Contextual Database of the international Generations and Gender Program and gives an overview of the context of demographic behavior in Bulgaria. The Contextual Database provides an instrument that together with the Generations and Gender Survey allows studying how differences in context shape demographic processes. The database offers the opportunity to analyze in a comparative way the interaction between the micro and macro dimension. Bulgaria is among the first countries fielding the Generations and Gender Survey and that is engaged in contextual data collection within this comparative framework. While both micro- and contextual data for Bulgaria will become available in the course of the year 2005, we present in this paper a text contribution that provides an overview of the Bulgarian context and introduces the list of variables that make up the database.Bulgaria, data collection
The Mediterranean Metaphor in Early Geopolitical Writings
No full textThe article focuses on the view of the Mediterranean in early geopolitical writings. Through this lens, it looks at the space metaphors and imaginative geographies that defined the core meanings of the Middle Sea over the last 200 years. The author discusses the role that the Enlightenment philosophy of history had in the shaping of classical geography. Moving on similar grounds, early geopolitical writers believed in the ‘force of history’ as a
generator of spatial order. They used episodes of the Mediterranean past as a parable for
the spatial articulation of contact, conflict and power in the overall ‘process of cvivilization’, and transformed the Middle Sea into a metaphor for the universal mission of Europe
L’allegoria dell’Occidente
No full textThe unsigned polychrome print Les mortels sont égaux, most probably engraved in 1791, may be considered one of the numerous pieces of visual and textual propaganda disseminated during the days of the French Revolution. This paper argues that the print nevertheless stands out for an unequaled capacity to condense the core meanings of secularized eschatology and the West’s self-attributed apostolate, in a single allegory. The iconological analysis focuses on the divinized figures of Nature and Reason, and the attributes of the white man and the black man that the image contains. The author also focuses on the analysis of the text placed under the image, in particular on Voltaire’s distich, which gave the image its title
Engineers in Western Europe: Ascent - and Decline? : A Profession Torn Between Technology and Economy, 1850-1990, with Outlooks to the Present
No full textIn his book, pending between history and sociology, on engineers in thirteen countries of the western part of Europe, Professor Rolf Torstendahl approaches the development from around 1850 up to the present situation from different angles.- One examines the educational patterns and the author shows how widely different types of formation of engineers existed in Britain, France and Germany in the early period. They were paradigmatic for other countries. Differences remain but patterns have gradually become similar.- From another angle the author makes professional organisations of engineers a main object of study, and they vary from alumni associations to powerful lobby organisations.- A third approach in the book is to examine engineers versus sociological theories of professionalism on the one hand and theories of managerialism on the other. In the last chapter the author also discusses topics like technocracy and the responsibility of engineers. </p
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