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Interview with Russell T Davies
Get PDFInterview with Russell T Davies, Writer and Executive Producer of BBC’s Dr Who and Torchwood
An Interview with Russell T. Davies
No full textRussell T Davies was the creator, and sole writer, of Queer as Folk. This television program became a phenomenon on its first broadcast on Channel 4 in the UK in 1999; indeed, it was 'seminal', according to queer magazine Attitude, in its frank portrayal of a queer community that included recreational drug use, intergenerational sex, and a complex amorality which did not offer any obvious solutions to questions of queer politics and representation. It quickly became a central part of the queer mediasphere - in its cover story on the program, Gay Times claimed that the program was so important because it played this complex queer world as 'just so goddam normal'. It also became a part of wider public debate in the UK about the Labour government's plans to equalise the age of consent for queer and straight sex. \ud
In other markets, none of Australia's terrestrial channels would play the program, fearing its representation of a fifteen year old man having gay sex would be seen as child pornography. When it was eventually shown by Pay TV providers Foxtel, a separate channel had to be created solely for the program, in order to ensure no children would accidentally see this tale of queer community. In America, the program was retooled in a US version, which is now the highest rating program on the Showtime channel, and has 'shaken up the way we're portrayed in the media', according to queer magazine Out. In the USA, it has expanded from the two short mini-series shown in the UK to become a full-blown drama series that has already broadcast more than forty episodes.\ud
This discussion of Queer as Folk is based on the UK version of the program. Characters were renamed for the US version
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
Storms and Teacups:Russell T Davies, the epic and the everyday
No full textThroughout his television career, screenwriter and producer Russell T Davies has explored potential relationships between the spectacular intensity of epic storytelling and the intricate patterns of everyday life. This investment results in a synthesis of contrasting scales and dramatic tones as the extraordinary and grandiose become fused with the modest and familiar. Years and Years (2019) encapsulates Davies’ approach, as the cataclysmic events of an alternative near-future are given shape and meaning within the domestic context of a family’s commonplace existence. Emphasis is frequently placed upon slight, nuanced aesthetic features which come to express and encapsulate global tensions and traumas. This chapter explores the ways in which Davies builds up layers of meaning and significance through his evocation of the everyday in the epic, and the epic in the everyday. The discussion moves through earlier examples of Davies’ television work, tracing complementary and contrasting patterns across earlier programmes The Second Coming (2003) and his rebooted Doctor Who (2005– ). Attending to moments from the span of Davies’ career in this way reveals thematic coherence in his writing and, consequently, gestures towards a wider sense of his status as a television author. More specifically, however, Davies’ ability to consistently find dramatic potential in the balance between the epic and the everyday might also reveal his especially acute understanding of television itself, which is always small and domestic but also vast and unbound. In this way, Davies’ stories reveal and reinforce aspects of the medium, shaping narrative fiction to the television experience
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
Miscellaneous and fugitive pieces. ... [electronic resource].
No full textEdited by Thomas Davies, and including works by Samuel Johnson."In 1773 he [Thomas Davies] audaciously published 'Miscellaneous and fugitive pieces' in two volumes, and advertised them as 'by the author of the Rambler.' Johnson's writings, which he had appropriated without authority, formed the bulk of this collection." - DNB.Vol.1, 2 are undated; vol.3 is dated 1774, and bears the imprint: "Printed for T. Davies; and Carnan and Newbery".Electronic reproduction.English Short Title Catalog,Reproduction of original from British Library
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
Félix Oswald et T. Davies Price, An Introduction to the study of Terra sigillata, treated from a chronological standpoint, 1920
No full textJullian Camille. Félix Oswald et T. Davies Price, An Introduction to the study of Terra sigillata, treated from a chronological standpoint, 1920. In: Revue des Études Anciennes. Tome 26, 1924, n°1. p. 89
A Midsummer Night's Dream Transcript : Guide
No full textThis post-production script of Russell T Davies' A Midsummer Night's Dream includes music, lighting, and camera cues, offering a comprehensive overview of the BBC TV adaptation. This post-production script of Russell T Davies' A Midsummer Night's Dream includes music, lighting, and camera cues, offering a comprehensive overview of the BBC TV adaptation. Description based on online resource; title from title screen (Digital Theatre+, viewed August 24, 2022
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