‘The Artist is the Hero of the Story’: Harold Pinter's Moonlight as a Case Study in Reception

2013 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 209-219
Author(s):  
Harry Derbyshire
Keyword(s):  
Striking Difference ◽  
Cultural Products ◽  
Harold Pinter ◽  
The Public ◽  
Competing Interests ◽  
Mixed Response ◽  
King's College ◽  
Verbatim Theatre ◽  
The University

The first major posthumous London revival of a play by Harold Pinter was Moonlight at the Donmar Warehouse in April 2011. There was a striking difference between the critical reception of this production and the way the play had been greeted on its 1993 premiere, when Moonlight – then framed as Pinter's return after fifteen fallow years and a number of increasingly controversial political interventions – prompted an extremely mixed response. In 2011, by contrast, the critical community was more or less united. This progression can be seen to illustrate more than just the benefits of hindsight, and in this article Harry Derbyshire considers responses to Moonlight in 1993 and 2011 as a means of illuminating the range of competing interests that underlie the journalistic and academic infrastructure within which the merits of cultural products are assessed. He also considers the emotional investment commentators often have in the triumphs and reversals of those they follow on the public and cultural stage. Harry Derbyshire's doctorate, on ‘Harold Pinter: Production, Reception, Reputation 1984–1999’, is from King's College London, and he currently lectures in Drama and English at the University of Greenwich. Publications include articles on Roy Williams, on human rights and verbatim theatre, and on the Reminiscence Theatre Archive of Pam Schweitzer, recently acquired by Greenwich.

scholarly journals Resource Exchange: A Case Study

1982 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Nelson ◽  
Edward M. Bennett ◽  
James Dudeck ◽  
Richard V. Mason
Keyword(s):  
Public School ◽  
School Board ◽  
Service Organizations ◽  
Resource Exchange ◽  
The Public ◽  
Exchange Program ◽  
The University ◽  
Training Opportunities ◽  
And Training

This paper describes a resource exchange program between two human service organizations: a public school board and a university. This case study illustrates the utility of the concept of resource exchange as a response to pressures for the effective management of limited human resources. With an emphasis on mutual goals, needs, and strengths, the resource exchange program expanded resources available to both organizations. For the public school board, new services in the form of primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention programs were developed. For the university, research and training opportunities were created. Finally, the fragmentation between and within the organizations was reduced in correspondence with their increased mutual interdependence.

Care, Values and an Uncaring Media

2004 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 439-446 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
The Public ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The University

Evidence of ‘dissemination’ is now seen as part of research delivery by grant-giving bodies such as the ESRC and Joseph Rowntree Foundation. Drawing on the growing body of research into media sources (Manning 2001, Davis, 2000) and relating it to debates on the public sphere (Habermas 1989), the paper will ask what (if anything) researchers have to gain from involvement with the mass media and whether specialised help can assist in bringing social policy research from the margins into the mainstream of media discourse. It will look in particular at the special difficulties of disseminating ‘fuzzy’ qualitative research findings which do not lend themselves to obviously eye-catching headlines. The paper will draw on an ESRC funded experiment at the University of Leeds as a case study with which to explore these issues.

Universities as Promoters of Intergenerational Learning: A Case Study on Public Consultation

2020 ◽  
Vol 133 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-118
Author(s):  
Malgorzata Dzimińska
Keyword(s):  
Experiential Learning ◽  
Public Consultation ◽  
Knowledge Development ◽  
Teaching Methodology ◽  
Ageing Population ◽  
Intergenerational Learning ◽  
The Public ◽  
The University ◽  
Global Population

Universities are challenged by the growing proportion of older people in the global population. This is forcing academic institutions to reconsider how they should respond to an ageing population with regard to their teaching methodology, research, and community engagement. Intergenerational learning is one of the strategies applied by universities to promote knowledge development by involving younger and older generations in the process so that they can purposefully learn together and learn from each other. Public consultation is an engagement promoting solutions that can offer an opportunity for experiential learning taking place among representatives of the various generational. The article analyzes a case study of public consultation as organized by the University of Łódź as part of the European CONCISE project. The presented case study is an example of how the application of the public consultation method might promote intergenerational learning.

Source Theatre Company and the Mandate of the NEA: a Case Study

1995 ◽  
Vol 11 (42) ◽  
pp. 128-134
Author(s):  
Mary C. Resing
Keyword(s):  
Public Funding ◽  
The United States ◽  
National Endowment ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
The Public ◽  
Chapel Hill ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Theatre Company ◽  
The University

The controversy in the United States surrounding the funding of ‘offensive‐ and ‘pornographic‐ works by the National Endowment of the Arts (NEA) has centered on whether or not the organization should espouse a morally conservative outlook in regard to the public funding of artistic works. However, the NEA arguably already pursues conservative policies rooted in its vision of the form, function, and outlook of the arts it exists to serve. The appointment of the actress Jane Alexander as chair of the NEA may have indicated that the organization would become more liberal in its moral stance, but the question remains: can government-supported art be anything but conservative? The following is a case study of one theatre's relationship to the NEA in the context of the Washington, DC, theatre community. The author, Mary C. Resing, is a former business manager of New Playwrights' Theatre in Washington, DC, and a former grant writer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is currently working on her dissertation on the actress-manager Vera Kommissarzhevskaia.

scholarly journals Indagación biográfica, photovoice y escritura reflexiva en el practicum de futuros docentes

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ángela Saiz Linares ◽  
Noelia Ceballos López
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Educational Practice ◽  
Shared Knowledge ◽  
Teaching Performance ◽  
Collaborative Reflection ◽  
Critical Dialogue ◽  
The Public ◽  
The University ◽  
Formación Docente

Presentamos un estudio de caso evaluativo sobre una propuesta formativa en los Grados de Educación Infantil y Primaria de la Universidad de Cantabria (España) articulado sobre asuntos pedagógicos que los estudiantes deben seleccionar y confrontar reflexivamente. Esta propuesta formativa se sustenta en las posibilidades formativas de la escritura reflexiva, la exploración biográfica y la metodología de Photovoice. Los instrumentos de recogida de información son: los seminarios, los diarios de investigación y de prácticas y las fotografías tomadas por los alumnos. Llevamos a cabo un análisis de contenido que evidencia el potencial de la propuesta formativa para registrar aquellos asuntos que son relevantes en su desempeño docente, destacando su grado de heterogeneidad; promover el diálogo crítico y el conocimiento compartido a través de la negociación de significados y sentido de las imágenes realizadas; analizar y reorientar la acción y el pensamiento docente; situar en el espacio público asuntos que son relevantes en la práctica educativa. Concluimos reflexionando sobre la virtualidad de las imágenes pedagógicas tomadas por los propios estudiantes y la deliberación colaborativa para convertirse en palancas de formación docente. We present an evaluative case study on a training proposal in the Degrees of Teaching of the University of Cantabria (Spain) that is articulated on dilemmatic situations that the students must confront reflectively. This formative proposal is based on the formative possibilities of writing, biographical exploration and the methodology of Photovoice. The instruments for gathering information are: the seminars, the student diaries and the photographs taken by the students. We carry out a content analysis that demonstrates the potential of the training proposal to record those issues that are relevant to their teaching performance; promote critical dialogue and shared knowledge through the negotiation of meanings of the images made; analyze and reorient teaching action and thinking; place in the public space issues that are relevant in educational practice. In this way, images and collaborative reflection become powerful levers of teacher training.

scholarly journals Beyond Virtual Replicas: 3D Modeling and Maltese Prehistoric Architecture

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Filippo Stanco ◽  
Davide Tanasi
Keyword(s):  
3D Models ◽  
The Public ◽  
Virtual Archaeology ◽  
The Past ◽  
Innovative Methodology ◽  
Virtual Reconstruction ◽  
Scientific Results ◽  
Visual Description ◽  
The University

In the past decade, computer graphics have become strategic for the development of projects aimed at the interpretation of archaeological evidence and the dissemination of scientific results to the public. Among all the solutions available, the use of 3D models is particularly relevant for the reconstruction of poorly preserved sites and monuments destroyed by natural causes or human actions. These digital replicas are, at the same time, a virtual environment that can be used as a tool for the interpretative hypotheses of archaeologists and as an effective medium for a visual description of the cultural heritage. In this paper, the innovative methodology and aims and outcomes of a virtual reconstruction of the Borg in-Nadur megalithic temple, carried out by Archeomatica Project of the University of Catania, are offered as a case study for a virtual archaeology of prehistoric Malta.

scholarly journals The Maker and the Tool: Charles Parker, Documentary Performance, and the Search for a Popular Culture

2003 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Watt
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
New South ◽  
Common People ◽  
Labour Movement ◽  
South Wales ◽  
The Common ◽  
Multi Media ◽  
Verbatim Theatre ◽  
The University

Charles Parker's BBC Radio Ballads of the late 1950s and early 1960s, acknowledged by Derek Paget in NTQ 12 (November 1987) as a formative influence on the emergence of what he called ‘Verbatim Theatre’, have been given a new lease of life following their recent release by Topic Records; but his theatrical experiments in multi-media documentary, which he envisaged as a model for ‘engendering direct creativity in the common people’, remain largely unknown. The most ambitious of these – The Maker and the Tool, staged as part of the Centre 42 festivals of 1961–62 – is exemplary of the impulse to recreate a popular culture which preoccupied many of those involved in the Centre 42 venture. David Watt, who teaches Drama at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales, began researching these experiments with work on a case study of Banner Theatre of Actuality, the company Parker co-founded in 1973, for Workers' Playtime: Theatre and the Labour Movement since 1970, co-authored with Alan Filewod. This led to further research in the Charles Parker Archive at Birmingham Central Library, and the author is grateful to the Charles Parker Archive Trust and the staff of the Birmingham City Archives (particularly Fiona Tait) for the opportunity to explore its holdings and draw on them for this article.

scholarly journals Gestão de resíduos sólidos no restaurante universitário da Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco: diagnóstico e análise à luz da agenda ambiental na administração pública

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 1260
Author(s):  
Manuela Medeiros Gonçalves ◽  
José De Lima Albuquerque
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Continuous Improvement ◽  
Waste Reduction ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
The Public ◽  
Final Destination ◽  
Food Planning ◽  
The University

The amount of solid waste produced by the University Restaurant of the Federal Rural University of Pernambuco is quite high. Roughly 3.5k meals are served daily. A number which requires proper strategies for waste reduction. The research main goal was to run a diagnosis and an analysis on the management of the main waste generated at the University Restaurant: generation, collection and final destination on the perspective of the Public Administration’s Environmental Agenda. The data collection was conducted through documental research and direct observation with the intention of identifying the management stages of the main solid waste generated. The methodology used was a case study with a qualitative investigative approach. The results showed a lack of efficiency on the management of the main produced waste and that would require further attention to A3P’s variable that outlines the management of generated waste and the related legislation. Besides, it is noted that and adjustment of the food planning at the restaurant with the intention to reduce the disparity between the planned and the consumed amount of food. The results of this research, as well as the recommendations for future studies, will be forwarded to the managers of the restaurant so the necessary actions can be taken in order to ensure the continuous improvement of its waste management.

Altmetric scores: short-term popularity or long-term scientific importance

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 314-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edith Starbuck ◽  
Sharon Purtee
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Community ◽  
Research Output ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Public ◽  
Obesity And Diabetes ◽  
Subject Areas ◽  
The University

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to report on a three-year case study of the extent with which altmetrics compare to traditional metrics in certain subject areas for selected departments at the University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine (COM). Design/methodology/approachA three-year analysis of peer-reviewed papers and invited editorials from 2009 to 2013 written by tenure-track faculty from 20 COM departments was done to explore what subject areas received the highest altmetric scores. Research output was searched in PubMed; articles were quantified by subject area, times cited in Scopus, and its altmetric score over each of three successive years. FindingsThe topics of the highest scored altmetric papers (n = 40) sample focused on stroke, obesity, and diabetes for all three years. Analysis of high initial altmetric scores over the course of the three years shifted from a possible predictor of future impact in the second year to no indicator of long-term interest in the scientific community as the public interest waned over time. Research limitations/implicationsThe authors used Scopus Times Cited and Altmetrics.com to gather data. Originality/valueInitially assessed a total of 3,678 unique publications and worked with the 40 highest altmetric scores in subsequent years. Data showed that subjects of interest to the public receive the highest altmetric scores and the topic areas did not change over the course of the study. These initially high altmetric scores do not indicate long-term interest by the scientific community.

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