scholarly journals THE CURRENT SITUATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF CHINESE MYTHOLOGICAL ANIMATED FILMS IN THE CONTEXT OF NATIONAL CULTURAL REVIVAL

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
XIN XU
Keyword(s):  
Current Situation ◽  
Cultural Revival ◽  
Animated Films ◽  
Foreign Influence ◽  
Animated Film ◽  
The Status ◽  
Monkey King

Abstract. In the context of national cultural confidence mythological animated films have become an important issue in animated film types. Put the three films “Monkey King Hero is Back”, “White Snake”, and “Ne Zha: I am destiny “into the status and development of domestic animated mythology films. It is necessary to deal with IP images in artistic films, innovative mythological subjects, constructing new stories, and audiences of all ages. Therefore, we must start with tell good stories, enlightening values, expanding overseas communication, and so on, so as to improve animation creation and domestic and foreign influence.

The Computer-Animated Film

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Holliday
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Film Industry ◽  
Genre Theory ◽  
Film Genre ◽  
Popular Cinema ◽  
Animated Films ◽  
Animated Film ◽  
The Status ◽  
Computer Generated Imagery ◽  
Film Style

The Computer-Animated Film: Industry, Style and Genre is the first academic work to examine the genre identity of the computer-animated film, a global phenomenon of popular cinema that first emerged in the mid-1990s at the intersection of feature-length animated cinema and Computer-Generated Imagery (CGI). Widely credited for the revival of feature-length animated filmmaking within contemporary Hollywood, computer-animated films are today produced within a variety of national contexts and traditions. Covering thirty years of computer-animated film history, and analysing over 200 different examples, The Computer-Animated Film: Industry, Style and Genre argues that this international body of work constitutes a unique genre of mainstream cinema. It applies, for the very first time, genre theory to the landscape of contemporary digital animation, and identifies how computer-animated films can be distinguished in generic terms. This book therefore asks fundamental questions about the evolution of film genre theory within both animation and new media contexts. Informed by wider technological discourses and the status of animation as an industrial art form, The Computer-Animated Film: Industry, Style and Genre not only theorises computer-animated films through their formal properties, but connects elements of film style to animation practice and the computer-animated film’s unique production contexts.

scholarly journals Standardization in biobanking – between cooperation and competition

2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (6) ◽  
pp. 317-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bettina Meinung ◽  
Dunja Martin ◽  
Uwe Zimmermann
Keyword(s):  
Active Participation ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Conformity Assessment ◽  
International Context ◽  
Cooperation And Competition ◽  
The Status ◽  
Performance Monitor ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Assessment Standard ◽  
A Performance

Abstract This article presents the current situation of German biobanks and shows future fields of action in the European and international context on the basis of upcoming legal and normative challenges. It gives an overview of the development of the international biobank standard ISO 20387 and the commitment of German biobank experts in the ISO committee TC276. Less attention than the biobank standard per se has so far been paid to the basic mechanisms by which standards are developed and the potential of their application and accreditation. In this sense, this article deals with the motivation for active participation in standardization projects. We discuss the status of ISO 20387 as a conformity assessment standard and the consequence of accreditation as a performance monitor.

Plébániai lét – ma

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-53
Author(s):  
Csaba Török
Keyword(s):  
Current Situation ◽  
Great Flexibility ◽  
Pope Francis ◽  
Catholic Clergy ◽  
The Status

„The parish is not an outdated institution; precisely because it possesses great flexibility, it can assume quite different contours depending on the openness and missionary creativity of the pastor and the community“ (Evangelii gaudium 28). The words of Pope Francis give us an actual and imminent inspiration to explore the status of the being-in-parish and the being-a-parish experience of the catholic clergy and faithful. We try to identify the basic elements of the biblical understanding of παροικία, to analyze the current situation and develop some possible principles for the (re)forming of parochial existence, highlighting the main challenges of this ancient and till always newly thinkable and realizable institution.

Uses of content analysis in economic sciences: An overview of the current situation and prospects

2021 ◽  
pp. 79-95
Author(s):  
A. N. Oleinik
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Economic Information ◽  
The Status ◽  
On Line ◽  
The Creation

The article discusses the status of quantitative and qualitative data in economic sciences, as well as methods for transforming data into information and knowledge. Particular attention is devoted to content analysis as a set of methods for aggregating, processing and analyzing qualitative data; its forms (qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods) and uses by economists. Content analysis appears to be particularly suitable for non-orthodox economists because of their refusal to consider price as the only source of economic information. The content analysis of metadata of articles indexed in Web of Science and eLibrary suggests that Russian economists still have insufficient familiarity with the principles of content analysis and their applications to research compared with their Western counterparts. It is argued that the creation of on-line platforms for content analysis and on-line banks of qualitative data may become a trigger for changing this situation.

scholarly journals Literary works in Azerbaijani animation: symbolism and semantics

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ф. Мир-Багирзаде
Keyword(s):  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Foreign Literature ◽  
Animated Films ◽  
Comparative Historical Analysis ◽  
Animated Film

При помощи сравнительно-исторического анализа автор исследует азербайджанские мультипликационные фильмы, экранизирующие произведения как отечественной, так и зарубежной литературы. В процессе создания каждого рисованного мультфильма советской эпохи принимали участие профессиональные режиссеры, сценаристы, художники-постановщики, снимавшие анимационные фильмы по произведениям азербайджанских писателей-классиков, среди которых – Низами Гянджеви, Мухаммед Физули, Сеид Азим Ширвани, Мирза Алекпер Сабир, Джалил Мамедкулизаде, Абдулла Шаиг, Сулейман Сами Ахундов, Али Керим, Расул Рза. К числу азербайджанских мультфильмов, снятых по произведениям зарубежной литературы, относится экранизация «Звездных дневников Ийона Тихого» и анимационный фильм по мотивам японских хайку. Азербайджанские мультфильмы по мотивам литературных произведений, вошедшие в золотой фонд киноискусства Азербайджана, отличаются специфическим творческим методом. Using a comparative historical analysis, the author explores Azerbaijani cartoon films that screen works of both domestic and foreign literature. In the process of creating each Soviet-era drawn cartoon, professional directors, screenwriters, and production designers took part in making animated films based on the works of Azerbaijani classic writers, such as Nizami Ganjavi, Mohammad Fuzuli, Seyid Azim Shirvani, Mirza Alakbar Sabir, Jalil Mammadguluzadeh, Abdulla Shaig, Suleyman Sani Akhundov, Ali Kerim, Rasul Rza. Azerbaijani cartoons based on works of foreign literature include the adaptation of «Ijon Tichy’s Star Diaries» and an animated film based on Japanese haiku. Azerbaijani cartoons based on literary works included in the Golden Fund of cinema art of Azerbaijan are distinguished by a specific creative method.

Satisfying a Spirit of Adventure

2018 ◽  
pp. 224-231
Author(s):  
Christopher Holliday
Keyword(s):  
Adult Child ◽  
Genre Analysis ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Childhood Experience ◽  
Cultural Experience ◽  
Future Opportunity ◽  
Animated Films ◽  
Animated Film ◽  
Adolescents And Adults ◽  
Children's Films

The conclusion reflects on the meaningfulness of genre analysis as paving the way for more rigorously formalist approaches to computer-animated films, but also as a way of positioning industry, technology and textuality in relation to each other. The conclusion also argues that the features of the computer-animated film identified in the book engage with discourses of juvenile behaviour to stretch the terms of the adult/child distinction, with many computer-animated films demonstrating a notable fascination with the vicissitudes and values of the childhood experience. The narratives of computer-animated films invite a specific consideration of what it means to be a child within contemporary culture. I challenge directly Judith Halberstam’s notion that certain children’s films appeal to the “disorderly child” and instead look to the fuzzy distinction between adolescents and adults engendered in portmanteau terms pertaining to cultural categories such as “kidult,” “manchild” and “adultescents.” The child/adult distinction is thus not fixed or ‘frozen,’ but flowing, and the conclusion identifies how computer-animated films offer future opportunity to examine how, as a genre, they mobilise questions about the cultural experience and significance of childhood, at the same time as their narratives redefine adulthood.

Monsters, Synch: A Taxonomy of the Star Voice

2018 ◽  
pp. 144-164
Author(s):  
Christopher Holliday
Keyword(s):  
Film Performance ◽  
Structural Importance ◽  
Animated Films ◽  
Animated Film ◽  
Character Design ◽  
Multi Media ◽  
Sound Technology ◽  
Film Sound

This chapter proposes that the ascription of star speech (as a dynamic sound form) to the computer-animated film’s puppet performers contributes to the effect and impact of their many screen performances. This chapter takes the star voice to be a unique instrument of performance that lies at the cornerstone of computer-animated film acting, and begins by implicating the potency of the star voice within wider industrial discourses. These include local dubbing practices, sound technology, and the multiplication of star sound across a range of consumer and multi-media products. The formal and structural importance of the star voice to computer-animated film performance is illustrated through the work of prominent film sound theorist Michel Chion and his work on synchresis, a neologism produced out of the combination of “synchronism” and “synthesis”. By extending Chion’s account, this chapter uses descriptors derived from synchresis to outline three prominent synchretic unions operating at the level of character design. A significant innovation here is the development of a taxonomy of the star voice as it is inscribed formally into computer-animated films—anthropomorphic, autobiographic and acousmatic synchresis—which give new precision to the analysis of star voices in animation.

Pixar, Performance and Puppets

2018 ◽  
pp. 127-143
Author(s):  
Christopher Holliday
Keyword(s):  
Dominant Mode ◽  
Skeletal Structure ◽  
Live Performance ◽  
Film Genre ◽  
Counter Narrative ◽  
Animated Films ◽  
Animated Film ◽  
Sliding Scale ◽  
Performance Setting ◽  
Opening Up

As a way of remedying the wider absence of computer-animated film acting within scholarship on film and animated performance, this chapter makes a significant assertion that, in its production, the computer-animated film genre actually cross-pollinates stop-frame techniques with those associated with marionette theatre as part of its style of performance. In the workable geometry of its virtual bodies (skeletal structure, anatomical coherency, joint segmentation and armature), computer-animated films evoke the wealth of string marionettes (as well as rod or hand puppets) moved within a live performance setting. Such puppet-like forms of acting holds the computer-animated film distinct from performances in popular Hollywood cinema achieved through stop-motion frame-by-frame techniques and traditional hand-drawn methods. However, this analysis not only supports the central concept that puppetry has become a more significant concern of the computer-animated film than in other animated media, but also provides a counter-narrative to scholarship that affords generality to motion-capture as the dominant mode of cyber or virtual puppetry. Puppetry can be understood, I argue, as an altogether more inclusive category, and this chapter promotes puppetry as opening up performance in computer-animated films and revealing the sliding scale of puppet processes involved in its creation of acting.

Bahraini Women Engineers

2018 ◽  
pp. 1581-1604
Author(s):  
Adel Ismail Al-Alawi ◽  
Shurooq Husamaddin ◽  
Fatema Khaled Mejeran ◽  
Fatema Kadhem Madan
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Women Engineers ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Status

The purpose of this chapter is to investigate the current situation of women engineers in the Kingdom of Bahrain in the public and private sectors, discussing some factors that affect women's access to leading positions, and looking for ways to increase the status of Bahraini women leading in this sector, which will consequently contribute to reinforcing their role in this extremely important sector. The research is approached through a quantitative and qualitative study conducted in the public and private engineering field. Two forms of questionnaires, printed and electronic, were distributed among 120 women engineers; responses were received from 57 of them. In general, the results show that although engineering women are very successful in their career and are effectively contributing to the engineering sector in the Kingdom of Bahrain, many issues need to be addressed in order to support them in reaching higher leading positions.

Pastoral Carers in the Hospital Context

2001 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Barletta ◽  
Michael Thomsen
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Pastoral Care ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
Clinical Setting ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Recovery Rates ◽  
Quality Research ◽  
The Status ◽  
And Training

Pastoral care in hospitals has developed considerably since the middle of last century, when it was almost the exclusive domain of the ordained minister, who typically made sacramental visits along with some theologically considered words of comfort. With the beginning of this century, professionally trained lay pastoral carers now at least balance the numbers of visiting clergy, if not exceed their presence. The emerging research appears to support the efforts of these pastoral carers, in their diverse roles and functions, as they increase patient recovery rates. Yet despite the apparent positive impact they make in the clinical setting, many continue to struggle to gain the status, identity and visibility they desire within the hospital structure. The article provides an overview of the current situation relative to pastoral care, and argues that quality research, consultancy, and training are imperative if it is to thrive and be considered an integral part of health care system.

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