Between the Lines

2021 ◽  
pp. 73-102
Author(s):  
Luci Marzola
Keyword(s):  
Motion Picture ◽  
Silent Period ◽  
Primary Case ◽  
Technical Work ◽  
Center Stage ◽  
Special Knowledge ◽  
American Society

The film technicians who used and managed the technology within the Hollywood studios themselves, such as cameramen and electricians, take center stage in this chapter, focusing on how the technical work of motion picture production was understood, managed, and promoted within the new “factory” system of Hollywood. The primary case study here is the cameramen, who used their organization, the American Society of Cinematographers, and its publication, American Cinematographer, to establish their status as the chief technicians in motion picture production in the silent period, often by resisting unionization and by touting their special knowledge of the tools of the trade. The cinematographers positioned themselves as “engineers” within the studio, a position that the incursion of trained sound engineers into Hollywood challenged.

scholarly journals E-Democracy from the Perspective of Local Elected Members

2011 ◽  
pp. 296-312
Author(s):  
Zahid Parvez
Keyword(s):  
Recent Literature ◽  
Structuration Theory ◽  
Research Direction ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Primary Case ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Democratic Culture ◽  
Case Study Data

Although efforts for developing e-democracy have been underway for over a decade, recent literature indicates that its uptake by citizens and Elected Members (EMs) is still very low. This paper explores the underlying reasons for why this is so from the perspective of local EMs in the context of UK local authorities. It draws on findings reported in earlier works supplemented with primary case study data. Findings are interpreted through the lens of Giddens structuration theory, which assists in drawing out issues related to three dimensions of human agency: communication of meaning, exercising power and sanctioning behaviour. The paper abstracts categories of agency from the findings and uses these to formulate eight propositions for creating an e-friendly democratic culture and enhancing EMs uptake of e-democracy. These propositions provide an indication for future e-democracy research direction.

scholarly journals A STUDY ON THE ASPECTS OF EUROCENTRISM AND DIFFUSIONISM REPRESENTED IN FOREIGNERS’ TRAVEL RECORDS ON KOREA IN EARLY 1900s

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 117-126
Author(s):  
Kang Sok CHO
Keyword(s):  
Motion Picture ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Jack London ◽  
The Political ◽  
Motion Picture Film ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
The World ◽  
Close Observation ◽  
American Society ◽  
Made In

This paper deals with three different perspectives appeared in foreign visitors’ records on Korea in 1900s. Jack London was a writer who wrote novels highly critical of American society based on progressivism. However, when his progressive perspective was adopted to report the political situation of Korea in 1904, he revealed a typical perspective of orientalism. He regarded Korea and ways of living in Korea as disgusting and ‘uncivilized.’Compared with Jack London’s perspective, French poet Georges Ducrocq’s book was rather favorable. He visited Korea in 1901 and he showed affectionate attitude toward Korea and its people. However, his travel report, Pauvre et Douce Coree, can be defined as representing aesthetic orientalism. He tried to make all the ‘Korean things’ seem beautiful and nice, but it is true that this kind of view can also conceal something concrete and specific. This perspective at once beautifies Korea and also conceals the reality about Korea.E. Burton Holmes was a traveler and he often used his ‘motion-picture’ machine to record things he witnessed while travelling around worldwide countries. So, his report (travelogue) and motion picture film on Korea written and made in 1901 was based on close observation and rather objective point of view. Nonetheless, he couldn’t avoid the perspective of the colonizer’s model of the world, in other words, geographical diffusionism of western culture.

Enforcing Heterosexuality: Adapting Lillian Hellman’s ‘The Children’s Hour’ for the screen

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Will Glass
Keyword(s):  
Motion Picture ◽  
Single Female ◽  
Female Teachers ◽  
Queer People ◽  
Production Code ◽  
The 1960S

The Motion Picture Production Code of 1930 banned homosexuality from the screen. This paper uses two films as a case study of the Code's impact on Hollywood's depiction of homosexuality. Both These Three (1936) and The Children's Hour (1961) were adaptations of Lillian Hellman's play in which two single female teachers have their lives ruined by a lie that the women were lesbians. With the first the Code's impact was pervasive. The PCA dictated that the accusations of lesbianism be omitted. By the 1960s, the PCA was relaxing its ban so a film could be made that retained the play's lesbian content. This paper argues that the Production Code was Hollywood's means of enforcing heterosexuality and that, even in the era when the Code's influence was waning, the necessity of maintaining heterosexuality as society's norm still governed how movies (mis)represented the lives of queer people.

The Internet's Impact on the Law and Economics Of the US's Motion Picture Industry

2011 ◽  
pp. 563-579
Author(s):  
Stanford L. Levin ◽  
John B. Meisel ◽  
Timothy S. Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Business Model ◽  
Motion Picture ◽  
Law And Economics ◽  
Music Industry ◽  
Internet Access ◽  
Motion Picture Industry ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Broadband Internet ◽  
New Business

This chapter describes the far-reaching effects of broadband Internet access on the motion picture industry. It first provides a summary of the effects on the industry’s business model: the Internet (particularly when combined with broadband connections) provides a new window for the movie studios to utilize in releasing their product. It next examines the ways that legal, political, and cultural environments are already influencing the industry’s search for a new business model to replace the old. Finally, we draw on lessons from the music industry to predict how the industry will ultimately incorporate broadband technology into a new business model. The authors believe that the motion picture industry provides an excellent case study of broadband’s effects on a mature industry.

scholarly journals Designing Control Points in UAV-Photogrammetry Mapping Using GNSS Concept to Produce Land Use Map (Case Study: Ciwidey Village, Bandung Regency, Indonesia)

2019 ◽  
Vol 94 ◽  
pp. 01020
Author(s):  
Sadikin Hendriatiningsih ◽  
Asep Y. Saptari ◽  
Sudarman ◽  
Ratri Widyastuti ◽  
Putri Rahmadani
Keyword(s):  
Observation Time ◽  
Baseline Length ◽  
Control Points ◽  
Quality Of Control ◽  
Field Situation ◽  
American Society ◽  
Time Accuracy ◽  
And Control

Production of orhtophoto maps from UAV-photogrammetry method depend on aerial data and control points that are measured by GNSS method. Quality control of orhtophoto maps need comparison coordinate from Check Points and orthophoto maps coordinate to calculate the Root Mean Square Error (RMSE). So that, quality of control points is important in aerial data processing. In this research, baseline length, observation time, measurement method, and area characteristics will be discussed based on the GNSS concept to fulfill the accuracy standard of control points from the American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS). The shorter baseline length, and the loner observation time, accuracy should be increase significantly, but it depends on the field situation and the accuracy required for the user. After all, the result of this research is to obtain control points design based on GNSS concept in Ciwidey Village, Bandung Regency

scholarly journals Municipal surveillance regulation and algorithmic accountability

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 205395171986849 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meg Young ◽  
Michael Katell ◽  
P. M. Krafft
Keyword(s):  
Assessment Tools ◽  
Government Employees ◽  
Primary Case ◽  
Law And Policy ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Community Stakeholders ◽  
Risk Assessment Tools ◽  
Algorithmic Accountability ◽  
Types Of Information

A wave of recent scholarship has warned about the potential for discriminatory harms of algorithmic systems, spurring an interest in algorithmic accountability and regulation. Meanwhile, parallel concerns about surveillance practices have already led to multiple successful regulatory efforts of surveillance technologies—many of which have algorithmic components. Here, we examine municipal surveillance regulation as offering lessons for algorithmic oversight. Taking the 2017 Seattle Surveillance Ordinance as our primary case study and surveying efforts across five other cities, we describe the features of existing surveillance regulation; including procedures for describing surveillance technologies in detail, requirements for public engagement, and processes for establishing acceptable uses. Although the Seattle Surveillance Ordinance was not intended to address algorithmic accountability, we find these considerations to be relevant to the law’s aim of surfacing disparate impacts of systems in use. We also find that in notable cases government employees did not identify regulated algorithmic surveillance technologies as reliant on algorithmic or machine learning systems, highlighting definitional gaps that could hinder future efforts toward algorithmic regulation. We argue that (i) finer-grained distinctions between types of information systems in the language of law and policy, and (ii) risk assessment tools integrated into their implementation would strengthen future regulatory efforts by rendering underlying algorithmic components more legible and accountable to political and community stakeholders.

Resource Exchange in the Production and Distribution of a Motion Picture

1990 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-51
Author(s):  
Elizabeth C. Hirschman
Keyword(s):  
Production Process ◽  
Motion Picture ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Resource Exchange ◽  
Production And Distribution

An independently produced motion picture was used as a case study of the resource exchange pattern underlying project-based aesthetic production systems. Several exploratory propositions resulted concerning 1) sources of processual conflict, 2) the nature of resource criticality during the production process, 3) the timing of returns on invested resources, and 4) the commercialization of aesthetic products.

scholarly journals Evangelizing White Americans: Sacrifice, Race, and a Korean Mission Movement in America

Open Theology ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Kim
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
White Americans ◽  
American Imperialism ◽  
American Missionaries ◽  
Racial Hierarchy ◽  
White American ◽  
American Society ◽  
Korean Missionaries ◽  
Mission Movement

AbstractThis paper examines the phenomena of non-western missionaries evangelizing in the West through a case study of a Korean mission movement in the United States. It discusses how Korean missionaries of color were able to evangelize white Americans in the late 1970s and have had some success in crossracial evangelism. It argues that Korean missionaries practiced a theology of sacrifice to evangelize white Americans. They practically embraced suffering, self-denial, and service and specialized in sacrifice to evangelize Americans. An important part of this theology, however, included uplifting and privileging white converts. Given their long history with white-American missionaries and American imperialism, Korean evangelicals were privy to a white-dominant racial hierarchy in American society. This affected those whom the missionaries in my study viewed to be the “real Americans” and the “ideal native” converts in America. It also shaped how they sought to evangelize and draw the white population into their congregations.

‘He can be whatever you want him to be’: Identity and intimacy in the masked performance of Ghost

Popular Music ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-192
Author(s):  
Catherine Hoad
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metal ◽  
Popular Music ◽  
Music Performance ◽  
Musical Performance ◽  
Primary Case

AbstractUsing Swedish metal band Ghost as a primary case study, this article examines how anonymous bands mediate their identity through the use of masks. The isolation of the band members’ ‘real’ identities from their musical performance complicates traditional modes of ‘knowing’ the performer, but in turn enables the formation of a multitude of connectivities, as audiences utilise masked bodies as sites upon which to project their desires and fantasies. Such projections are integral to the ways in which masking allows performers to mobilise and sustain their connections to audiences, who themselves become complicit in the maintenance of anonymity. This article thus considers how masks might challenge established notions of popular music performance, celebrity and authenticity, particularly within heavy metal contexts, and investigates how masks, rather than de-identifying a performer, can invite intimate connections among musicians and audiences.

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