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Towards The History Of Hungarians In Alberta, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven & Totosy de Zepetnek, Steven

No abstract provided.

History Of Clcweb: Comparative Literature And Culture, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven & Totosy de Zepetnek, Steven

No abstract provided.

Revenge Of The Fanboy: Convergence Culture And The Politics Of Incorporation, Suzanne Scott

Suzanne Scott

Dissertation

Security Gate 26.11, John Kim, Anthony Tran, Vasily Trubetskloy

John Kim

No abstract provided.

River Rising, May 2011. A Photo Essay. Part I., Doreen Piano

Doreen M Piano

In May 2011, the Mississippi River rose to unprecedented heights, threatening a worst-case scenario of massive flooding throughout metropolitan New Orleans and other outlying regions

Interview With Dylan Brown, Creative Director For Pixar Canada, James Plath

James Plath

Core Elements Of Exemplary Academic Integrity Policy In Australian Higher Education, Tracey Bretag, Saadia Mahmud, Margaret Wallace, Ruth Walker, Colin James, Margaret Green, Julianne East, Ursula Mcgowan, Lee Partridge

Ruth Walker

No abstract provided.

Human Rights In Camera, Sharon Sliwinski

Sharon Sliwinski

Salmon Aquaculture, Cuisine And Cultural Disruption In Chiloe, Philip Hayward

Professor Philip Hayward

La Isla Grande de Chiloe, located off the southern coast of Chile, is the second largest island on the Pacific coast of South America.1 2002 census figures identified the population of the island and its smaller outliers (henceforth referred to collectively as Chiloe as close to 155,000,2 representing approximately 1% of Chile’s overall population. An undeveloped regional ‘backwater’ for most of the 19th and 20th centuries, Chiloe has risen to play an increasingly prominent role in the national economy since the establishment of commercial salmon aquaculture in the region in the early 1980s. This article examines the environmental, social and …

Regarding India, Conversations With Artists. Video Interview Website, Kathryn Myers

Kathryn Myers

Regarding India is series of video interviews with contemporary artists living and working in India. Reflective of a dynamic and diverse contemporary art scene the interviews engage aspects of Indian history, society, culture and current events through the creative work, experiences, and insights of artists. The series is ongoing and will eventually include over sixty interviews.

Marking Machinima: A Case Study In Assessing Student Use Of A Web 2.0 Technology, Graham Barwell, Christopher Moore, Ruth Walker

Ruth Walker

No abstract provided.

Response 1 To 'Jesse James: From Hero To Villain In The Eyes Of One' By Amanda Sheridan, Thomas Burkdall

Thomas Burkdall

No abstract provided.

Acafandom And Beyond (Part Ii) On Confessions Of An Aca-Fan: The Official Weblog Of Henry Jenkins, Suzanne Scott

Suzanne Scott

The Official Weblog of Henry Jenkins, Guest Blogger with Will Brooker, Melissa A. Click, and Sangita Shresthova

Acafandom And Beyond (Part 1) On Confessions Of An Aca-Fan: The Official Weblog Of Henry Jenkins, Suzanne Scott

Suzanne Scott

The Official Weblog of Henry Jenkins, Guest blogger with Will Brooker, Melissa A. Click, and Sangita Shresthova

Marking Time In The Barry Mckenzie Films' Music, Rebecca Coyle, Michael Hannan

Dr Rebecca Coyle

This article examines aspects of the music of the Barry McKenzie films directed by Bruce Beresford (The adventures of Barry McKenzie, 1972, and Barry McKenzie holds his own, 1974), with particular regard to the ways in which the music places the films in a set of historical contexts. First, the music composed by former advertising songwriter Peter Best, reflects a particular approach to film music associated with the revival of the Australian film industry. Second, performance numbers in each film can be heard in the context of collections of sea shanties and bush ballads. The bawdy nature of the songs …

James Plath Interview With Director Michael Moore, James Plath

James Plath

Thwack! Hearing The Motion In Animation, Rebecca Coyle

Dr Rebecca Coyle

No abstract provided.

'Now You Blokes Own The Place': Representations Of Japanese Culture In Recent Australian Cinema, Rebecca Coyle

Dr Rebecca Coyle

No abstract provided.

Inside Out: Representations Of Women And Work On Popular Television, Liz Linden, Jen Kennedy

Liz Linden

Inside Out: Pregnant Actresses Playing Nonpregnant Characters, a video montage by artist Liz Linden, was originally exhibited in combination with the video Outside In : Fictional Commercials for Real Products at Art in General in New York in Hay 2009. Both videos use appropriated television clips to point to the formal and ideological mechanisms ~that structure our relationship to materials and content that we are confronted with on an almost daily basis, but which are often overlooked or dismissed as benign or banal. Displayed side-by-side on TV monitors, a reference to the videos' source material, together Inside Out and Outside …

Digita Technologies And Educational Integrity, Ruth Walker, Christophre Moore

Ruth Walker

No abstract provided.

Technofetishism And The Uncanny Desires Of Asfr (Alt. Sex. Fetish. Robots), Allison De Fren

Allison De Fren

This essay interrogates the visual landscape of technofetishism, particularly in relation to the machine woman, using as a springboard a little-known internet community of technosexuals who collectively refer to their fetish for artificial bodies as A.S.F.R. (alt.sex.fetish.robots). Although A.S.F.R. was made possible by the advent of virtual communities, its fetishistic interests have historical antecedents that were documented in the early literature of sexology. Against their classifications of similar fetishistic practices as variations of necrophilia, as well as subsequent Freudian interpretations of fetishism as grounded in castration anxiety, this essay argues that A.S.F.R. is less about technology in general, or the …

The Anatomical Gaze In Tomorrow's Eve, Allison De Fren

Allison De Fren

In the sf novel "L'Eve future" [Tomorrow's Eve, 1886] by Philippe Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, the female body is dissected repeatedly: a female android is technologically disassembled, a living woman is poetically blazoned, and a dead woman is cinematically deconstructed. This article explores the novel's central thematic of dissection, tracing its rhetorical and visual coding to the anatomy theater of the Renaissance, and in particular to the work of Andreas Vesalius, to whom the scientist-anatomist Thomas Edison (a character in the novel) is explicitly compared. Within the anatomy theater, the medical investigation of the body was conducted within a highly …

Showing Some Fight: Kemira’S Challenge To Industrial Relations, Rebecca Coyle, Lisa Milner

Dr Rebecca Coyle

Inspired by the ‘Work Choices’ policies initiated by the Coalition-led Australian Federal Government in 2006, this paper offers a historical overview of Australian documentaries associated with industrial relations. Our paper will case study the 1984 film Kemira: Diary Of A Strike (dir. Tom Zubrycki) documenting the 1982 BHP sacking of 400 miners, and the 16-day occupation of the Kemira pit by 31 miners. As a government-funded, union-sanctioned and award-winning film, Kemira holds a particular place in Australian documentary genre. We will outline how the perspective of the film, which focused attention on the miners' families, was conveyed via the diegesis, …

Repackaging Fan Culture: The Regifting Economy Of Ancillary Content Models, Suzanne Scott

Suzanne Scott

No abstract provided.

Ethically Notable Videogames: Moral Dilemmas And Gameplay, Jose Zagal

Jose P Zagal

In what ways can we use games to make moral demands of players and encouraging them to reflect on ethical issues? In this article we propose an ethically notable game as one that provides opportunities for encouraging ethical reasoning and reflection. Our analysis of the videogames Ultima IV, Manhunt, and Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn highlights the central role that moral dilemmas can play towards creating ethically notable games. We discuss the different ways that these are implemented, such as placing players in situations in which their understanding of an ethical system is challenged, or by creating moral tension between the …

Broadcast Announcing Worktext: A Media Performance Guide, Mary Beadle, Alan Stephenson, David Reese

Mary E. Beadle

The Broadcast Announcing Worktext provides you with the skills, techniques, and procedures necessary to enter this highly competitive field of broadcast performance. In addition to the principles of good performance, this book addresses the importance of audience and how to communicate effectively to various groups. Television and radio studio environments, announcer specializations and responsibilities, and developing a broadcast delivery style are just a few of the many topics covered.

Factual information is presented in brief, easy-to-digest modules and is enhanced with self-study questions and projects. The self-study provides an immediate check on what you learn, and the projects allow for …

Peer Assessment Of Oral Presentations Using Clickers: The Student Experience, Graham Barwell, Ruth Walker

Ruth Walker

No abstract provided.

Exploring The Wild Kingdom, Bernard Mccoy, Bruce Mitchell, Carol Cornsilk

Bernard R. McCoy

McCoy was producer, co-writer and researcher with co-writer/researcher Carol Cornsilk, videographer/editor Bruce Mitchell, narration Rick Alloway.

The documentary explored the rich history and broad impact of “Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom,” the most popular wildlife program in television history and the program’s Nebraska-born creator Don Meier.

Production support: NET Nebraska. The documentary, involved extensive film archival retrieval, three production trips to Illinois, one to Colorado and one to New York over a three year period.

'There Was Nothing To Say And Nobody Said It': Silence, Disconnection And Interruptions Of Gertrude Stein's Writing Voice During World War Ii, Ruth Walker

Ruth Walker

No abstract provided.

Rounds, Levels, And Waves: The Early Evolution Of Gameplay Segmentation, Jose Zagal, Clara Fernandez-Vara, Michael Mateas

Jose P Zagal

This article explores the early evolution of the structure and management of gameplay in videogames. We introduce the notion of gameplay segmentation to capture the role that design elements like level, boss, and wave play in videogames, and identify three modes of segmentation. Temporal segmentation limits, synchronizes and/or coordinates player activity over time. Spatial segmentation breaks the game’s virtual space into sub-locations. Challenge segmentation presents the player with a sequence of self-contained challenges. We describe each mode, and additional sub-modes, by analyzing vintage arcade games. Our analyses illustrate how these games represent a “primordial soup” in which many current game …