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Victims Of The City In Novels Of Zola And Dostoevsky, Marta L. Wilkinson

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "Victims of the City in Novels of Zola and Dostoevsky" Marta Wilkinson argues that urbanity in its nineteenth-century setting functioned as the culpable agent in criminal behavior found in Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment and in several of Zola's Rougon-Macquart novels. Wilkinson an analysis of the novels based on Merlin Coverly's concept of psychogeography which supports the extension of the cityscape as an integral part of the novels' characters. Further, Wilkinson illustrates how in Zola's and Dostoevsky's novels the city reigns triumphant as characters fall victim to disease, drink, or are left with desperate choices: in Dostoevsky's novel …

Contemporary Us-American Satire And Consumerism (Crews, Coupland, Palahniuk), J.C. Lee

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "Contemporary US-American Satire and Consumerism (Crews, Coupland, Palahniuk)" J.C. Lee focuses on contemporary satire's potential (or lack thereof) for change, reform, or rebellion through an investigation of works by Harry Crews, Douglas Coupland, and Chuck Palahniuk, all of which target consumerism. The said writers employ satire not to initiate rebellion or cultural change, but to reflect the problematic role of institutions in modern life and, in turn, the potential, even hope, for personal growth. Lee's analysis of texts by Crews, Coupland, and Palahniuk is intended to question satire's potential as a form of cultural critique and institutional …

Memory, Identity, And Narration: A Book Review Of New Work By Assmann And Conrad And Tilmans, Vree, And Winter, Simona Mitroiu

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

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Defining Industry Expectations And Misconceptions Of Art And Technology Co-Creativity, Vanessa C. Brasfield

Department of Computer Graphics Technology Degree Theses

The primary purpose of this study was to establish whether or not students and industry professionals share the same views about what students should be learning in animation education, what skills are necessary, and whether or not students graduating with a bachelor’s degree would be adequately prepared for an entry level position. To establish where misconceptions lie, surveys were issued to three groups: undergraduate students, post-graduate students, and industry professionals. These surveys were then analyzed using paired t-test for validation and question relevance, and ANOVA models to establish whether or not groups shared viewpoints. These data established significance within the …

Research On The Relationship Between Story And The Popularity Of Animated Movies, Meng Wang

Department of Computer Graphics Technology Degree Theses

Over the past ten years, animated films have become increasingly more important to the movie industry. Their increasing popularity is evident when looking at box office hits like Shrek, Kongfu Panda, and Iceage, to name a few.

No one will deny that some animated movies are more attractive to audiences than others. Previous studies show that a film’s story is the decisive factor that makes a film a success or a flop. The story plays a central role in bringing in an audience and thus determing a film’s critical acclaim and financial success. The story concept ties …

Research On The Relationship Between Story And The Popularity Of Animated Movies, Meng Wang

Purdue Polytechnic Masters Theses

Over the past ten years, animated films have become increasingly more important to the movie industry. Their increasing popularity is evident when looking at box office hits like Shrek, Kongfu Panda, and Iceage, to name a few.

No one will deny that some animated movies are more attractive to audiences than others. Previous studies show that a film’s story is the decisive factor that makes a film a success or a flop. The story plays a central role in bringing in an audience and thus determing a film’s critical acclaim and financial success. The story concept ties …

Una Entrevista Con Mar González, Mayo, 2012, Patricia Hart

School of Languages and Cultures Working Papers

En 2012 en Madrid, Mar González habló de sus comienzos en el mundo del sonido cinematográfico, como meritoria con Antonio Bloch, su labor en la publicidad, y del equilibrio entre familia y trabajo que ha establecido con su marido, Aitor Berengeur, conocido especialista en el sonido cinematográfico. Comenta la profesionalidad con el sonido de algunos actores consagrados como Charo López y Pepe Sancho, y de sus experiencias en el rodaje de Carne trémula, con Pedro Almodóvar.

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In 2012, Mar González spoke about her beginnings in the world of film sound as an intern with Antonio Bloch, about …

Tele-Visioning Terror, Caroline Zekri

Re-visioning Terrorism

This paper is devoted to the relationship between terrorism and media, with a special focus on the theoretical notions of “icon”, “mass” and “distance”. It aims to show how the phenomenon of modern terrorism calls into question the essence of modern democracies and their systems of information, based on the distance between vision and event.

Symbolic Violence As Subtle Virulence: The Philosophy Of Terrorism, Jonathan Beever

Re-visioning Terrorism

Jean Baudrillard’s semiotic analysis of violence leads us to understand the form of violence as three-fold: aggressive, historical, and semiotically virulent. Violence of the third form is the violence endemic to terrorism. If violence has been typically understood as of the first two types, terrorism should be understood as the virulence of simulacra. The conflation of these types of violence explains the failure of militaristic responses to terrorism. This paper will explore Baudrillard’s conception of symbolic violence as the virulence of signs and help us come to terms with the semiotic foundation of terrorism.

Cinema, Systematic Terror, And The Aesthetics Of Passivity, Khatereh Sheibani

Re-visioning Terrorism

My presentation explores the aesthetics of passivity in in Chronicle of a Disappearance (1996) by the Palestinian director Elia Suleiman and Taste of Cherry (1997) by Iranian film-maker Abbas Kiarostami. Both films employ non-actors, unconnected scenes, and disjointed narrative and discontinuous editing. They both employ similar cinematic and narrative techniques as by-products of wide-spread terror executed on social, political, and cultural levels. My presentation investigates the political and social restrictions in the late 1990s in Iran and the West Bank to show that similar forces under the reign of terror resulted in the aesthetics of passivity, muteness, and uncertainty in …

Marco Bellocchio's Buongiorno Notte And The Language Of Terrorists, Cosetta Gaudenzi

Re-visioning Terrorism

This essay investigates Marco Bellocchio’s Buongiorno, notte (2003), a movie which exploits language and soundtrack to fictionalize and revisit the historical 1978 kidnapping and murder of the Christian Democrat President Aldo Moro by the 1970s Italian left terrorist group Brigate Rosse. As I demonstrate, Bellocchio relies greatly on the language and soundtrack of Buongiorno, notte to convey his negative response to the BR’s kidnapping and murder of Moro, as well as to come to terms with his own political and cinematic past.

Arabs In Post- 9/11 Hollywood Films: A Move Towards A More Realistic Depiction?, Ouidyane Elouardaoui

Re-visioning Terrorism

This essay looks at the way a number of post-9/11 Hollywood films attempts to offer an image more reflective of the real Arabs. Contrary to a wide range of Hollywood films that have perpetuated a racially prejudiced image of Arabs, I argue that post-9/11 films, such as Babel (2006), represent Arabs as simple human beings with commonplace problems and identifiable worries. In my paper, I address these questions: how did the events of 9/11 help to change Hollywood’s portrayal of Arabs in contemporary Hollywood cinema? How do these contemporary films attempt to break free from the classical stereotypes about Arabs? …

Terrorism As Communication In Gregor Schnitzler’S Was Tun Wenn’S Brennt (2001) And Leander Scholz’S Rosenfest (2001), Sandra Dillon

Re-visioning Terrorism

This essay explores the connection of terrorism to communication, specifically to illocutionary and perlocutionary acts in Gregor Schnitzler’s Was tun wenn’s brennt and Leander Scholz’s novel Rosenfest. One cannot deny that violence plays an important role in German narratives about terrorism; however, the main focus of the works analyzed here is communication, which the narrative structure, the role of the spectator or reader and the main characters within the novel illustrate.

Forms Of (In)Visibility In Recent Spanish Films On Basque Terrorism, Jaume Martí-Olivella

Re-visioning Terrorism

This essay explores the omnipresence of the subject of (Basque) terrorism in Spanish political discourse and media representations in ways that construct the average citizen as both victim and voyeur of a terrorist subject always already rendered invisible either by its reduction to a legal “bare life”or by its figuration in terms of the unspeakable. My analysis centers on Jaime Rosales’ Bat Buruan/Tiro en la cabeza/Bullet In The Head,2008, arguably the most radical and unsettling of the Spanish cinematic figurations of the terrorist subject to date, where the spectator is forced to occupy such a paradoxical position as both …

Rebels Without A Cause: Youth And Terrorism In Contemporary Italian Film, Simona Bondavalli

Re-visioning Terrorism

This essay explores the representation of Italian terrorists in recent generational films set in the 1960s and 1970s. While they foreground the protagonists’ youth and celebrate it as a historically new condition, these coming-of-age narratives typically present radicalism either in terms of youthful idealism or youthful error, with corresponding nostalgic or revisionist approaches that obscure its ideological basis. An analysis of the selective generational appeal deployed by four recent films through narrative structure, style and casting highlights an alternative reading of the post-ideological approach to the representation of terrorism in the 21st century.

Knights Of Justice: Blockbuster Terrorism In Code Geass: Lelouch Of The Revolution, Aaron Choo, Wilson Koh

Re-visioning Terrorism

Vigilance, Vigilantism, And The Role Of The Citizen In Combating German Terror, 1967-1977, Todd Michael Goehle

Re-visioning Terrorism

By closely analyzing the Charles Bronson vehicle Death Wish -released to German speaking audiences as Ein Mann sieht rot- and the controversies that surrounded its West German debut in November 1974, the essay addresses broader debates about vigilance, Selbstjustiz (vigilante justice), and citizenship during the “Red Years” (1967-1977). Conceptualizing Selbstjustiz as a discursive site, I reveal how Ein Mann sieht rot’s representations of Selbstjustiz negotiated broader German anxieties about Americanization, masculinity, urban crime, the fascist past, state power, media effects and sensationalism, constructions of the citizen and the criminalized or terrorist “other,” and the responsibilities of the citizen in …

文学研究的合法化：一种新实用主义、整体化和经验主义文学与文化研究方法 (Legitimizing The Study Of Literature: A New Pragmatism And The Systemic Approach To Literature And Culture), Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

CLCWeb Library

Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven (斯蒂文·托托西). 文学研究的合法化：一种新实用主义、整体化和经验主义文学与文化研究方法 (Legitimizing the Study of Literature: A New Pragmatism and the Systemic Approach to Literature and Culture). Trans. Ma Jui-ch'i (马瑞琪翻). Peking University Academic Lectures Series 7. Beijing: Peking University Press, 1997. ISBN 7-301-03482-2 217 pages. The book contains texts of invited public lectures at Peking University in 1994, 1995, and 1996 on radical constructivism, culture and literary theory and methodology, women's writing, film and literature, and Canadian and Hungarian modern and contemporary prose. The Peking University Press 1997 print version of the book does not include a Works Cited: in the 2011 pdf version …

Una Entrevista Con Daniel Golstein, Pionero Del Sonido Cinematográfico Español, 2011, Patricia Hart

School of Languages and Cultures Working Papers

Esta entrevista con el renombrado pionero del sonido cinematográfico español es de 2011. Aquí Goldstein narra su larga colaboración con Ricardo Steinberg, y comenta el pasado, presente y futuro del sonido cinematográfico en España. Incluye muchas anécdotas sobre sus colegas profesionales, y también sobre sus colaboraciones con directores como Carlos Saura, Manuel Gutiérez Aragón, Luis García Berlanga, Julio Medem, Alejandro Amenábar, José Luis Cuerda y Adolfo Aristarain. Este proyecto fue subvencionado por la Purdue University, y está dedicado a Antonio Illán y Leopoldo “Polo” González Aledo.

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This is an interview conducted in 2011 with renowned Spanish cinematic sound …

Una Entrevista En Madrid Con El Premiado Mezclador, Marc Orts, 2011, Patricia Hart

School of Languages and Cultures Working Papers

En esta entrevista con Patricia Hart en 2011, el premiado mezclador Marc Orts habla sobre sus comienzos en el mundo del sonido cinematográfico, y de la importancia de adaptarse a todos los proyectos, para que no haya un sonido “Marc Orts.” Habla de los que más le enseñaron—David Calleja y Brad Anderson, por ejemplo. Comenta su trabajo con los directores Pedro Almodóvar, Montxo Armendáriz, Rodrigo Cortés, Guillem Morales, Isabel Coixet, Jaume Balagueró y Paco Arango. También comenta brevemente el efecto del doblaje en el cine español.

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In this interview with Patricia Hart in 2011, Goya-winning mixer Marc Orts …

Una Entrevista Con El Experto De Sonido Cinematográfico, Carlos Faruolo, 2011, Patricia Hart

School of Languages and Cultures Working Papers

Ésta una entrevista con el renombrado pionero y experto argentino/español en el sonido cinematográfico, Carlos Faruolo. Cuenta su llegada de Argentina en los años 70, y da un repaso fascinante de la historia y el presente del diseño sonoro cinematográfico en España. Hay muchas anécotas sobre sus experiencias con directores de la talla de Carlos Saura, Jaime Chávarri, Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón, Vicente Aranda, Pilar Miró y José Luis Cuerda. Cuenta historias sobre su trabajo con guionista/productor Elías Querejeta, y con actores como Antonio Banderas, Luis Tosar, Francisco Rabal, Emilio Gutiérrez Caba, Alicia Hermida y Terence Stamp. Este proyecto fue subvencionado …

Una Entrevista Con El Mezclador De Sonido Cinematográfico, Alfonso Pino En Mayo De 2011, Patricia Hart

School of Languages and Cultures Working Papers

Ésta una entrevista de 2011 con el renombrado pionero en las mezclas de sonido del cine español, Alfonso Pino (nominado 13 veces al Premio Goya, y ganador de 7). Describe su formación profesional y su larga carrera en Estudios EXA durante la dictadura franquista, la Transición y la democracia. Incluye muchas anécdotas sobre sus influencias y sus compañeros, además de historias sobre su trabajo con directores de la talla de Alejandro Amenábar, Aranda, Isabel Coixet, Emilio Martínez-­‐Lázaro, Fernando Trueba e Imanol Uribe. Le entrevista Patricia Hart. Este proyecto fue subvencionado por Purdue University, y está dedicado a Antonio Illán y …

Escultora De Sonido: Una Entrevista Con Fabiola Ordoyo, Barcelona, Mayo, 2011, Patricia Hart

School of Languages and Cultures Working Papers

En esta entrevista de 2011, Fabiola Ordoyo describe su educación y su formación como diseñadora de sonido. Habla de su colaboración con Isabel Coixet—en especial, Mapa de los sonidos de Tokio y La vida secreta de las palabras. También comenta su trabajo con Claudia Llosa, Antonio Chavarrías, Pablo Verger, Mateo Gil y Cesc Gay. Menciona a los mezcladoes a quienes más admira, incluyendo a Marc Orts y David Calleja. Cuenta sus experiencias en su primera película, La playa de los galgos, de Mario Camus, y comenta la labor de actores Sam Shepard, Stephen Rhea, Tim Robbins, Sergi López. …

Una Entrevista Con Ricardo Steinberg, Pionero En El Sonido Cinematográfico Español, 2011, Patricia Hart

School of Languages and Cultures Working Papers

En 2011, Patricia Hart habló con Ricardo Steinberg, pionero en el sonido cinematográfico en España. En la entrevista, Steinberg cuenta con mucho detalle la historia y las prácticas del sonido en el cine en España. Entre sus anécdotas, relata anécdotas sobre directores como Montxo Armendáriz, Carlos Saura, Alejandro Amenábar, José Luis Cuerda, Adolfo Aristarain, Pedro Almodóvar, Gonzalo Súarez, Juan José Jusid, Juan Solanas, Mateo Gil, Michael Haneke, y habla además del productor Emliano Otegui. Este proyecto fue subvencionado por la Purdue University, y está dedicado a Antonio Illán y Leopoldo “Polo” González Aledo.

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Patricia Hart spoke in 2011 …

Una Entrevista Con Oriol Tarragó, Mayo, 2011, Patricia Hart

School of Languages and Cultures Working Papers

En 2011, Patricia Hart habló por Skype con Oriol Tarragó de sus comienzos en mundo del sonido, y de la evolución del diseño de sonido en las últimas décadas en España. Comenta sus experiencias con los directores Guillermo Morales, Kike Maíllo, Guillermo del Toro y Jaume Balagueró. También habla de los experimentos con el sonido 3D y hasta del proyecto 23.1. Describe los trabajos de los que está más orgulloso. Al final considera la cuestión de cuándo se es Diseñador de Sonido, y cuándo se es Montador.

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In 2011 Patricia Hart spoke by Skype with Oriol Tarragó about …

Fabiola Ordoyo Y La Escultura Sonora En Mapa De Los Sonidos De Tokio, De Isabel Coixet, Patricia Hart

School of Languages and Cultures Working Papers

Este artículo plantea una discussion de un possible sonido femenino en las colaboraciones entre la diseñadora Sonora, Fabiola Ordoyo, y la directora Isabel Coixet. Para hacer esta aproximación, el artículo traza con breves pinceladas el papel de la mujer en los comienzos del montaje cinematográfico en Hollywood. También se alude a la crítica norteamericana y británica que reconoce el papel de la mujer en el desarrollo del lenguaje y la gramática del cine modern. Se muestra que ya se ha superado la influencia nefasta de la censura franquista con la correspondiente imposición del doblaje. En este panorama nuevo hay pocas …

Una Entrevista Con El Montador De Sonido James Muñoz En 2011, Patricia Hart

School of Languages and Cultures Working Papers

En esta entrevista con Patricia Hart en 2011, el premiado montador de sonido James Muñoz habla de sus comienzos en el mundo del sonido cinematográfico y de su evolución. Comenta sus colaboraciones con Rodrigo Cortés, Daniel Calparsorro, Javier Fesser, Manuel Huerga, Manuel Gómez Pereira y otros. Da detalles especialmente detallados sobre su trabajo en Buried, que acababa de ser premiado con el Goya semanas antes de la entrevista. Comenta brevemente la influencia del doblaje en el cine español.

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In this interview with Patricia Hart in 2011, award-winning sound editor James Muñoz alks about his beginnings, his work …

Una Entrevista Con Iván Marín, Técnico De Sonido Y "Notario" En El Rodaje Cinematográfico, Patricia Hart

School of Languages and Cultures Working Papers

En 2011, Patricia Hart habló con el técnico de sonido, Iván Marín sobre sus comienzos e influencias, comenzando con el desaparecido ingeniero de sonido, Antonio Illán. Comenta sus experiencias con directores como Fernando Fernán-Gómez, Montxo Armendáriz y Julio Medem, y también relata anécdotas del productor Elías Querejeta. Habla de sus teorías y gustos, y explica por qué un técnico de sonido tiene que ser como “un notario en el rodaje.” Este proyecto fue subvencionado por la Purdue University, y está dedicado a Antonio Illán y Leopoldo “Polo” González Aledo.

English Translation:

In 2011, Patricia Hart spoke with sound technician, Iván …

Una Entrevista Con Sergio Bürmann En Madrid, Mayo, 2011, Patricia Hart

School of Languages and Cultures Working Papers

En esta entrevista de 2011, Bürman habla de su familia, uno de los famosos clans del cine español, junto con los Bardem, los Gutiérrez Caba, los Berenguer, y otros. Habla de su larga colaboración con Ricardo Steinberg y Daniel Goldstein, y de su trayectoria hasta técnico de sonido. Comenta los pioneros como Gilles Ortion, y describe la importancia de los buenos instintos en los microfonistas. Cuenta anécdotas sobre los directores Alejandro Amenábar, Álex de la Iglesia, Achero Mañas, Daniel Monzón, Chumilla Carbajosa, Gonzalo Suárez, Emilio Aragón, Manuel Iborra, Alfonso Albacete, Miguel Bardem, David Menkes, Bigas Luna, José Luis Cuerda, Agustín …

Una Entrevista Con Daniel De Zayas, Patricia Hart

School of Languages and Cultures Working Papers

En esta entrevista de 2011, Daniel de Zayas, que acababa de ser premiado con un Goya por la película Tres días, charló con Patricia Hart en un día calurosísimo en Sevilla durante un descanso en el rodaje de Grupo 7, dirigida por Alberto Rodríguez. Habló de su carrera profesional, su colaboraciones con directores como Julio Medem, Diana Pérez de Guzmán, y de trabajar con actores Imanol Arias, Juan Diego, Antonio Decent y Daniel Brühl. Habla de sus inspiraciones y de sus satisfacciones profesionales.

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In this interview from 2011, Daniel de Zayas, who had just won a …