1,721,019 research outputs found
Le cinéma, l'américanisme et le robot
No full textWollen Peter. Le cinéma, l'américanisme et le robot. In: Communications, 48, 1988. Vidéo, sous la direction de Raymond Bellour et Anne-Marie Duguet. pp. 7-37
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
Squealing Wheels and Flying Fists
No full text312-314pp
The research field is film history. This commissioned chapter on ‘road movies’ and the human obsession with the car came from Peter Wollen and Joe Kerr for their edited volume on the relationship between people and cars. The volume took a broad approach to this subject and authors were selected who could draw from varying academic disciplines. For example the visual anthropologist Christopher Pinney considered the ‘monstrous’ phenomenon of cultures divided into hierarchies by the possession of not just cars but particular makes and models of cars whilst the art theorist Michael Barwell commented on the experience of motorway monotony. A classic essay on the Citroen by Roland Barthes was also included. For his chapter the researcher focused on the ‘road movie’ within the broader context of obsessing about cars. The themes explored included the development of the genre outside the USA where it has been the subject of particular acclaim and the blurring of the genre with other film types such as the coming together of queer cinema and the road movie in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. The way in which this film crossed the line between cult status and mainstream success is a further aspect of the research. The chapter also explores how the car is frequently employed in film as (literal) vehicle for the expression of aggression. This latter point keyed the title of the chapter evoking the squealing wheels and flying fists of the rapid getaway, the classic exit from a heist
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
Men, motors, markets and women
No full text'See 500 sexy models reveal all.' This Motor Show slogan provides a graphic reminder of the traditional role of women in car culture – as adjuncts rather than drivers. Stephen Bayley’s 1986 essay ‘Sex, Drink and Fast Cars’ typifies 'man's relationship' with his car as being all about power, as it is articulated by designers, stylists, advertising creatives and marketing professionals. For Bayley, a woman in a powerful car is 'at once titillating and de-masculating' and represents 'an overt sexual statement.' [1986, pp. 32-3] The fact that this feeling is mutual is suggested by the female journalist who admitted: ‘...men who are ambivalent about driving are not attractive to me. And it’s not just me.’ [L. Cross, ‘Driving Miss Crazy’, Guardian, February 28 2000] The masculine dominance of car culture is sustained even though increasing numbers of women drive and work as car journalists
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
- …
