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Uccellacci e uccellini : what makes an ideo-comic fable?
No full textThe present article analyses Pasolini’s definition of Uccellacci e uccellini as 'ideo-comic fable'. The film has always been considered as an eccentric parenthesis in Pasolini’s work, and the ‘ideo-comic fable’ as a bizarre, short lived, experiment. In fact Uccellacci e uccellini is the only film of its kind, but a detailed analysis of each element of Pasolini’s neologism will show how rooted into Pasolini’s artistic practice they all are: if political ideology has always been at the heart of Pasolini’s work, the film shows a new direction, in which the director’s Marxism crosses Christianity; it will be shown how Pasolini has always been surprisingly familiar with the comic genre, and finally a record will be traced of Pasolini’s competence and use of fables. Such a comprehensive examination will unearth many of Pasolini’s sources and its dialogue with other artists and intellectuals; finally, it aims at contributing a new approach to the critical analysis of the film, and at opening original insights into some other famous or less known works by the author
Uccellacci e uccellini : anatomia d'un film
No full textThis study focuses on Pier Paolo Pasolini's film Uccellacci e uccellini (1966). It is a film that narrates the wanderings of a working-class father and son around Rome on the day of the funeral of Palmiro Togliatti, leader of the Italian Communist Party. Along the road they meet some extraordinary characters, first of all a talking crow. Onto this simple narrative structure, however, the director overlays a number of allegories and metaphors, questioning the audience about the destiny of Italian society at a time of deep and dramatic political and social change. The present work reads Pasolini's film through a detailed comparison with the earlier and later works by the author, including his poetry, narrative, essays and films; using a broad critical literature (including a large collection of paper and magazine cuttings) the film is examined both in term of its compositional features and authorial poetics and in its reception amongst the public and critics. The thesis argues that Uccellacci e uccellini marks a turning point in Pasolini's cinematography and that it can be used to summarise and exemplify the development of Pasolini's thought and poetic. As a result, given the author's definition of Uccellacci e uccellini as a "film of poetry" and following his passion for contradiction, the analysis is more literary than cinematographic: as for a poem, the study takes into account the structure and the metaphors and attempts an interpretation based on a complex intertextuality.This study focuses on Pier Paolo Pasolini's film Uccellacci e uccellini (1966). It is a film that narrates the wanderings of a working-class father and son around Rome on the day of the funeral of Palmiro Togliatti, leader of the Italian Communist Party. Along the road they meet some extraordinary characters, first of all a talking crow. Onto this simple narrative structure, however, the director overlays a number of allegories and metaphors, questioning the audience about the destiny of Italian society at a time of deep and dramatic political and social change. The present work reads Pasolini's film through a detailed comparison with the earlier and later works by the author, including his poetry, narrative, essays and films; using a broad critical literature (including a large collection of paper and magazine cuttings) the film is examined both in term of its compositional features and authorial poetics and in its reception amongst the public and critics. The thesis argues that Uccellacci e uccellini marks a turning point in Pasolini's cinematography and that it can be used to summarise and exemplify the development of Pasolini's thought and poetic. As a result, given the author's definition of Uccellacci e uccellini as a "film of poetry" and following his passion for contradiction, the analysis is more literary than cinematographic: as for a poem, the study takes into account the structure and the metaphors and attempts an interpretation based on a complex intertextuality
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
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
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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe 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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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