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The Doctor, The Doll and The Devil: Phantasmagoria in Offenbach\u27s Les Contes D\u27hoffmann
No full textJacques Offenbach\u27s opera Les contes d\u27Hoffmann was premiered posthumously in 1881 and is, besides his operettas, the composer\u27s most popular work. Its libretto is based on several tales by the German Romantic author E. T. A. Hoffmann. This paper explores the fantasy and horror elements of the opera, placing special emphasis on the characters of the four villains , as well as the episodes of the mechanical doll Olympia and the singer Antonia. The villains of acts 2-4 appear as the devil-like alter egos of the elderly Conseiller Lindorf from the prologue. Olympia, on the other hand, is an automaton (and thus, a 19th century predecessor of AI) that Hoffmann falls in love with, and Antonia a young woman of ill health, chased to death by the diabolical Docteur Miracle, who evokes, in an ombra scene, her dead mother\u27s voice prompting her to sing
How Often Did He Ring? The (Many) Film Versions Of James M. Cain’s The Postman Always Rings Twice
No full textThe American James M. Cain (1892-1977) was among those authors who not only wrote best-selling novels, but gained even more popularity from the film versions of their works. Other such writers include Ian Fleming, inventor of James Bond, and, more recently, J. K. Rowling, who created the Harry Potter series. Through his books, Cain inspired such cinema classics as Visconti’s Ossessione (1943), Wilder’s Double Indemnity (1944) and Curtiz’s Mildred Pierce (1945), as well as the Mario Lanza film Serenade (1956).
Cain’s first novel, The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934), was adapted for the screen no less than seven times, in six languages ranging from English, French and Italian to Hungarian, German and Malaysian. This paper is the first to compare all versions, placing special emphasis on the two main characters’ first encounter as well as on the films’ endings, while also providing a glimpse of several other cinematic works inspired by Cain’s Postman story
Integrating Elocution into Foreign Language Instruction: Enhancing Phonetic Awareness and Vocal Expression in the Language Classroom
No full textElocution, or speech training, constitutes an integral component of the education of actors, as well as of television and radio presenters and professional speakers. It encompasses a range of skills, including breathing techniques, modulation of the average speaking pitch, standard pronunciation of the given language, clear and precise enunciation, effective voice projection and the use of vocal variety. Elocution is traditionally taught in drama schools and forms part of rhetorical education. To a considerably lesser extent, it features in the curricula of foreign language instruction. Nevertheless, such courses ‒ particularly at the tertiary level ‒ should, in addition to addressing core linguistic aspects such as grammar, lexis and idiomatic expression, cultivate learners’ phonetic proficiency and the vocal competencies inherent to the target language. The present paper examines the potential for integrating elocution into foreign language instruction. Particular emphasis is placed on the use of speech exercises, accent enhancement and the establishment of an appropriate articulatory basis, as well as on the study of intonation and prosody ‒ specifically, the contrast between stress-timed and syllable-timed languages ‒ and on phonetic and phonological phenomena such as the distinction between free and contextsensitive allophones, and the weakening of sounds, exemplified by the schwa in English
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
Architecture and Cinema: Images of Vienna in International Thriller and Action Films, from 1949 to the
No full textThis paper examines the role of architecture and the display of urban spaces in international thriller, suspense and action films shot in Vienna from post-WWII to the 21st century. Special emphasis is placed on the portrayal of different parts of the city and architectural styles, particularly the contrast between (sometimes) “decaying” historical neighbourhoods and their modern(ist) counterparts, as well as between urban and suburban locations.
The films under analysis here include Carol Reed’s classic The Third Man (1949), the French cold-war thriller Avec la peau des autres (1966), excerpts from the James Bond and Mission: Impossible series, as well as Liliana Cavani’s scandal-arousing 1974 exploitation thriller The Night Porter
Love\u27s the meaning of the universe : On Franz Werfel\u27s German Translation of Verdi\u27s Opera Simon Boccanegra
Full text linkThe German Verdi renaissance movement of the 1920s and 1930s is closely linked to the Austrian writer and poet Franz Werfel. At the beginning of the 20th century, most of the composer\u27s earlier works had sunk into oblivion, with only a handful of his operas, such as Rigoletto and Aida, being regularly performed. Particularly in German-speaking countries, Verdi\u27s operatic works were overshadowed by Wagner\u27s musical dramas, and often disparagingly referred to as organ grinder\u27s music . Werfel, who since his youth had been an ardent admirer of Verdi, started championing the composer\u27s cause in the 1920s by publishing a biographical novel, as well as a German edition of Verdi\u27s letters. Furthermore, and most importantly, he translated three of the composer\u27s lesser- known operas, thus inaugurating the Verdi renaissance on German and, subsequently, international stages. This paper examines the translation of Simon Boccanegra, the second opera in Werfel\u27s triad, which premiered in Vienna in 1930
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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