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Terrorists And Tyrants: Middle Eastern And North African (Mena) Actors In Prime Time Television, Nancy Wang Yuen, Christina Chin, Meera Deo, Faustina Ducros, Jenny Jong-Hwa Lee, Noriko Milman Jan 2018

Terrorists And Tyrants: Middle Eastern And North African (Mena) Actors In Prime Time Television, Nancy Wang Yuen, Christina Chin, Meera Deo, Faustina Ducros, Jenny Jong-Hwa Lee, Noriko Milman

Faculty Publications, Sociology

No abstract provided.


Sounds Of Fear And Wonder: Music In Cult Tv, Paul Kauppila Jul 2017

Sounds Of Fear And Wonder: Music In Cult Tv, Paul Kauppila

Faculty and Staff Publications

A review of Sounds of Fear and Wonder: Music in Cult TV. Janet K. Halfyard, 2016, New York: I.B. Tauris pp. xi + 215, illus., figures and tables, acknowledgements, notes, works cited, TV and filmography, index (no price given)


Marked Woman (1937) And The Dialectics Of Art Deco In The Classical Gangster Genre, Drew Todd Jan 2012

Marked Woman (1937) And The Dialectics Of Art Deco In The Classical Gangster Genre, Drew Todd

Drew Todd

In this article, I analyse the function of Art Deco designs in the 1930s gangster genre and, in particular, Warner Brothers' Marked Woman (Bacon, 1937). Like many gangster films of the period, it associates high-style Art Deco with excess and the criminal underworld. My findings, however, reveal a tension between the film's moralist stance and its visual excess. Compelling visual signifiers of leisure, style and social mobility, the modern designs are free to circumvent the film's critical message and reinforce American capitalist ideologies. My analyses underscore Art Deco as an emblematic style of commercial modernity. Marked Woman and other gangster …


Marked Woman (1937) And The Dialectics Of Art Deco In The Classical Gangster Genre, Drew Todd Jan 2012

Marked Woman (1937) And The Dialectics Of Art Deco In The Classical Gangster Genre, Drew Todd

Faculty Publications

In this article, I analyse the function of Art Deco designs in the 1930s gangster genre and, in particular, Warner Brothers' Marked Woman (Bacon, 1937). Like many gangster films of the period, it associates high-style Art Deco with excess and the criminal underworld. My findings, however, reveal a tension between the film's moralist stance and its visual excess. Compelling visual signifiers of leisure, style and social mobility, the modern designs are free to circumvent the film's critical message and reinforce American capitalist ideologies. My analyses underscore Art Deco as an emblematic style of commercial modernity. Marked Woman and other gangster …


Teaching Tv Production In A Digital World (Book Review), Paul Kauppila Jul 2003

Teaching Tv Production In A Digital World (Book Review), Paul Kauppila

Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.


Gamma And Dynamic Range Needs For An Hdtv Electronic Cinematography System, Harry Mathias Sep 1987

Gamma And Dynamic Range Needs For An Hdtv Electronic Cinematography System, Harry Mathias

Faculty Publications

A cinematographer's perspective regarding gamma and contrast manipulation in video and film is given. In film, a selective exposure can be used; the negative characteristic is the cinematographer's creative tool. The use of film as a video medium is considered, both negative and positive transfer. Contrast reproduction in the video medium is explained, and film and video gammas are compared. Also compared with the film gamma is the gamma obtained with an HDTV camera. Future trends are sketched, and current HDTV specifications are compared with the characteristics of film. Predictability and consistency of results, that is, the final image on …


Gamma And Dynamic Range Needs For An Hdtv Electronic Cinematography System, Harry Mathias Sep 1987

Gamma And Dynamic Range Needs For An Hdtv Electronic Cinematography System, Harry Mathias

Harry Mathias

A cinematographer's perspective regarding gamma and contrast manipulation in video and film is given. In film, a selective exposure can be used; the negative characteristic is the cinematographer's creative tool. The use of film as a video medium is considered, both negative and positive transfer. Contrast reproduction in the video medium is explained, and film and video gammas are compared. Also compared with the film gamma is the gamma obtained with an HDTV camera. Future trends are sketched, and current HDTV specifications are compared with the characteristics of film. Predictability and consistency of results, that is, the final image on …


A Proven Method Of Establishing Exposure Indexes For Video Cameras, Harry Mathias Oct 1985

A Proven Method Of Establishing Exposure Indexes For Video Cameras, Harry Mathias

Faculty Publications

This article discusses a production-tested method for determining exposure indexes for video cameras. Also discussed are exposure control methods, camera sensitivity, waveform monitors, lighting, and other factors. The importance of this procedure in practical production situations is described.


A Proven Method Of Establishing Exposure Indexes For Video Cameras, Harry Mathias Oct 1985

A Proven Method Of Establishing Exposure Indexes For Video Cameras, Harry Mathias

Harry Mathias

This article discusses a production-tested method for determining exposure indexes for video cameras. Also discussed are exposure control methods, camera sensitivity, waveform monitors, lighting, and other factors. The importance of this procedure in practical production situations is described.


Point Of View: Image Quality From A Non-Engineering Viewpoint, Harry Mathias Aug 1984

Point Of View: Image Quality From A Non-Engineering Viewpoint, Harry Mathias

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Point Of View: Image Quality From A Non-Engineering Viewpoint, Harry Mathias Aug 1984

Point Of View: Image Quality From A Non-Engineering Viewpoint, Harry Mathias

Harry Mathias

No abstract provided.