... music, the playing ofthe emotions ofthe different scenes.14 Emotions change, and so too can the tone ofthe scene In the Odessa Steps sequence, the death ofthe young mother on the steps and the ... close-up ofthe lower half of his face, the corners ofthe smile These shots I cut in with other and varied material—shots of a brook, swollen with the rapid flow of spring, ofthe play of sunlight ... methods they should be mindful of their own safety and the safety of others, including parties for whom they have a professional responsibility To the fullest extent ofthe law, neither the Publisher...
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... to the inclusion of hedge funds in their portfolios in spite ofthe evidence to the contrary, it represented acceptable performance Most ofthe hedge fund industry, including the managers themselves, ... popularly believed The media focus on the profits ofthe top managers has obscured the absence of wealthy clients Although the industry performed well in the 1990s, it was small and there weren’t ... worth the expense to develop their own investment staff, so they often farm it out FOFs charge less than hedge funds, although of course their fees are on top of those charged by the hedge funds themselves...
... to the inclusion of hedge funds in their portfolios in spite ofthe evidence to the contrary, it represented acceptable performance Most ofthe hedge fund industry, including the managers themselves, ... popularly believed The media focus on the profits ofthe top managers has obscured the absence of wealthy clients Although the industry performed well in the 1990s, it was small and there weren’t ... worth the expense to develop their own investment staff, so they often farm it out FOFs charge less than hedge funds, although of course their fees are on top of those charged by the hedge funds themselves...
... America— "the climate, the soil, the length ofthe day, the wants ofthe people, the habit and form ofthe government"—in short, to make the present facts of American life as important a source of inspiration ... them to the material of personality On the other hand, their ability to shape themselves to the needs of their audiences reflected a new kind of public, consensual process in the creation ofthe ... Antecedents of American Silent Film 21 Houdini, Keaton, and the Rise ofthe Body 43 Hart, Fairbanks, and the Vitalization of Landscape 71 Griffith, Gish, and the Narrative ofthe Face 107 The Birth of the...
... brothers, one peaceful and the other warlike, oppose each other as they vie for leadership of their tribe During the 1930s and 1940s, the B westerns were often more in tune to the plight of Native ... during the Reconstruction period American Empire is a vivid panorama ofthe Texas frontier country, which captures the flavor ofthe Old West if not the precise letter ofthe times There is lots of ... members ofthe cavalry Together they hope to hold off a series of Indian attacks while battling the elements and each other Coproduced by Calhoun and helmed by Ray Nazarro, thefilm is based on the...
... women from the East and from the West, we see that Asians are often portrayed as being either enraptured or suspicious of their Western counterparts This is an underlining theme in the play, and ... similar to the original play, right up to the surrendering of Song's character What subsequently follows, however, is a complete turning ofthe tables To make matters even worse, the object of his ... instead of what is actually occurring, we begin to enter into a very dangerous area When we begin to act on these illusions, however, we only add to the problem In the play M Butterfly there were...
... most of what is called art film is designed to suppress awareness ofthe presentational aspects ofthefilm while promoting the narrative The units offilm are the act, the sequence, the scene, the ... to gather visual information In other words, the rhythm of shot sequences in film is designed to drive the rhythm of attention and information uptake in the viewer Perhaps the success of these ... up to near thefilm s end was analyzed as Shot The autocorrelation ofthe length of a Shot with itself (Lag 0) is always 1.0; autocorrelations ofthe length of Shot with the lengths of Shots (Lag...
... the lessons ofthe limitations of U.S power and the complex mixture of good and evil involved in almost all historical undertakings On the other hand, Rambo and the other Stallone-Norris meathead ... presents the Other, the Enemy, "Them," as the embodiment of evil, and "Us," the good guys, as the incarnation of virtue, heroism, goodness, innocence, etc Rambo appropriates stereotypes ofthe evil ... critical contrast to the oppression of people of color found in the scenes of everyday and prison life in thefilm And the transformation of life in the musical numbers of Pennies From Heaven...
... close to the average ofthe length and the diameter from the TEM data (~7 nm) The underestimation of crystal size by the Debye–Scherrer formula is likely due to additional broadening ofthe XRD ... superposition of all three processes [3] The negative TA signals arise from only the filling of newly available states as a result ofthe CISE Expounding on the photophysics further, consider the cases of ... deviating from the CISE picture This deviation can be explained by the relaxation ofthe confinement effect in the QRs Because the axial dimension ofthe QRs is greater than the Bohr radius, the exciton...
... which means the decline of crystallinity The Zn2q ions in the IZO thin films seem to increase the energy barrier for the diffusion of atoms in the film, and hence disturb the rearrangement of atoms ... than the change of n values The differences of n values in UV or IR range may be due to the variation of dielectric functions ofthe films depending upon the deposition parameters The change of ... known to be higher than that of In2O3 film (ns1.6–2.0 in visible range) w30–32x Moreover, the increase ofthe Zn in the films might raise the degree of disorder in the films and produce more optical...
... about the nature of motherhood and family in the popular sphere” (94) Central to the plot of this television show is the depiction of a single mother who became a teenage mother at the age of 16 ... restrictions of mothering options as a consequence ofthe imposition of this ideology Davidson argues thefilm portrays a vision of motherhood that encourages the exclusion of women from the public ... involvement with a body of a murdered woman The vignettes are titled, in order, The Stranger,” The Sister,” The Wife,” The Mother,” and The Dead Girl.” At the beginning ofthe film, a middle-aged...
... varying amounts of protein in the solution and the possible adsorption ofthe venom on the glass vessel as well as at the surface ofthefilm It must be remembered that the values ofthe venom concentration ... in the presence of 0-5 % NaF ACTION OF SNAKE VENOMS ON SURFACE FILMS 439 (ii) Effect of 8urface concentration8 of lecithin The rate of attack of a lecithin film is considerably diminished as the ... 180 None ofthe venoms has any.effect on a unimolecular filmof cholesterol or of protein, and they cause no hydrolysis of tripalmitin, triolein, cerebron or sphingomyelin The action ofthe venom...
... above, the LUMO ofthe dye needs to be higher than the conduction band ofthe semiconductor and the HOMO ofthe dye lower than the Fermi level ofthe redox mediator as shown in Figure2-1 Thirdly, the ... spectrum ofthe illuminating sunlight, the redox properties ofthe dye and the efficiencies ofthe charge injection process and collection ofthe electron in the semiconductor electrode Likewise, the ... Introduction the cause of this loss of photocurrent was the one ofthe motivations for the present study Regarding the advantage of Au nanoparticles improving the photocatalytic performance of TiO222,25,26...
... History ofFilm as Film Nasional Film nasional provides a narrative about the history offilm in Indonesia The history offilm is intimately tied to the history ofthe Indonesian nation, in that film ... modes of pop culture As the first major study ofthe Indonesian film industry since 1998, this thesis asks: How did filmmaking and thefilm industry revitalize? What are the consequences offilm ... Two retraces the history offilm in Indonesia and argues that the dominant narrative of that history is that offilm nasional Film nasional describes film in the normative terms of national cinema...
... regional films as these films are produced in India The theoretical framework has been narrowed down to queer theory and feminist film theory to focus on how the depiction of lesbianism in the films ... terms ofthe distribution of these films, transnational Indian film producers and directors “have employed the networks of distribution that circulate Indian films” (Desai, 42) The films then, ... Analysis ofthe Bollywood and regional films: Girlfriend and The Journey/Sancharram 54 Chapter Three: Discussion ofthe seven films 72 Conclusion 105 List of works cited 110 Films 119 List of other...
... aesthetic character in contrast to that of painting The aesthetic qualities of photography reside in its revelation ofthe real.”28 At the level of aesthetic value at least, the appearance ofthe ... to the interpretations offered by Currie and Carroll of Bazin’s position II Bazin devotes the first half ofthe essay to an account ofthe evolution ofthe plastic arts through the invention of ... photographs are related to reality in the process of their production, and in part by the nature ofthe need The need is to preserve the object itself The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism from...
... about the cognitivists’ critique of other domains of modern film theory? One ofthe dominant reasons the cognitivists criticize modern film theory is the behaviorism implicit in its account of subject ... the behavior of others, the words they utter, and the uses to which they put words.37 The epistemologists’ assumptions of immediate access to the thoughts in one’s own mind and the power ofthe ... to offer a way of subsuming film under a general theory of signification?’’ The short answer to whether linguistics subsumes film under a general theory of signification is yes To think of film...