scholarly journals The Evolution of Polish War Feature Films (1940-1980)

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4.38) ◽  
pp. 474
Author(s):  
Elena Shatova
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
World War ◽  
Feature Film ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Feature Films ◽  
Spiritual Culture ◽  
Verification Methods ◽  
Sociocultural Processes

Introduction. The relevance of this study is explained by the rapid social and political homogenization of Europe; the “disclosure” of many documents indicative of sociocultural changes in Eastern Europe; an increasing chronological gap between the research subject and its researcher that enables to use scientific verification methods instead of ideologically “correct” paradigms.Methods. The methodological basis of this article is the principles of systematicity and objectivity. While conducting this research, the author also used genetic, typological, comparative, hermeneutic and semiotic methods.Results. Throughout the postwar history, Polish filmmakers were bringing stories about World War II to the silver screen. The concept of a war feature film also changed depending on the postwar development of Poland.Discussion. The necessary conditions for studying the evolution of Polish war feature films based on systematicity and objectivity are as follows: the analysis of the Polish sociocultural postwar development (periodization with distinguishing essential characteristics of each period); the determination of main trends in the development of spiritual culture as a part of sociocultural processes; the analysis of the state-party politics in the sphere of culture, art and cinema.Conclusion. Throughout the postwar development, Polish filmmakers were addressing the topic of war. Their attitude to war changed depending on the country’s socio-cultural development and the evolution of its spiritual culture. For instance, war feature films were the most prominent trend in the development of the Polish cinema in the second half of the 1940s and the first half of the 1950s. Between 1956 and 1960, the Polish Film School was established and was characterized by a high interest in war-related films (alongside other topics and problems represented in the cinema of that time). In the 1970s, war feature films were still relevant but gave way to flicks about modern times. In the 1980s, this topic “withdrew into the shadows” not only in cinematography but also in other artistic spheres. It was mostly used in films to better interpret other topics.  

Quantitative XRF Analysis of Trace Barium in Porcelains by Source Excitation

1985 ◽  
Vol 39 (6) ◽  
pp. 1040-1042 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. T. Yap ◽  
S. M. Tang
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Quantitative Determination ◽  
World War ◽  
Addition Method ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Xrf Analysis ◽  
Calibration Curves ◽  
Source Excitation

Quantitative determination of barium in Chinese porcelains from the seventeenth century to modern times together with some modern non-Chinese porcelains was made with the use of calibration curves obtained by the addition method. All Chinese porcelains from K'ang Hsi (Kangxi, 1662–1722) up to World War II were found to have a barium content between 100 ppm and 130 ppm. For those made after World War II, the barium content varies from 60 ppm to 7000 ppm, and only a few pieces are in the range from 100 ppm to 130 ppm, making it possible to identify most of the modern fake reproductions.

The Formation of a Budding Man Alone: The God Boy (Murray Reece, 1976)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alistair Fox
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Coming Of Age ◽  
World War ◽  
Value System ◽  
Feature Films ◽  
The Family

This chapter analyses the earliest of the New Zealand coming-of-age feature films, an adaptation of Ian Cross’s novel The God Boy, to demonstrate how it addresses the destructive impact on a child of the puritanical value-system that had dominated Pākehā (white) society through much of the twentieth century, being particularly strong during the interwar years, and the decade immediately following World War II. The discussion explores how dysfunction within the family and repressive religious beliefs eventuate in pressures that cause Jimmy, the protagonist, to act out transgressively, and then to turn inwards to seek refuge in the form of self-containment that makes him a prototype of the Man Alone figure that is ubiquitous in New Zealand fiction.

The Role of War in Modern Inflation

1977 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Earl J. Hamilton
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
World War ◽  
Price Inflation ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Paper Currency ◽  
Deficit Financing ◽  
Early Modern Times

Wars in early modern times, although frequent, generated little price inflation because of their limited demands on real resources. The invention of paper currency and the resort to deficit financing to pay for wars changed that situation. In recent centuries wars have been the principal causes of inflation, although since World War II programs of social welfare unmatched by offsetting taxation have also fueled inflationary flames.

scholarly journals Greenscape as Screenscape - The Cinematic Urban Garden

2008 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-85
Author(s):  
Nina Gerlach
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
The Political ◽  
World War ◽  
Philosophical Discourse ◽  
Urban Garden ◽  
Feature Films ◽  
Being There ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship between city and garden appears in many feature films in order to visualize narrative dualisms. In particular, the character of the border - as a fundamental medial characteristic of gardens - determines the meaning of the represented space. According to the Western representation of ideal places and the historically-developed antagonism of city and garden, the border defines the latter as the diametrically opposed utopian antithesis to urban life. This antagonism is used, for example, in The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970) in the political context of World War II, or as in Being There (1979), embedded in a philosophical discourse centered on Voltaire and Sartre.

The Great Depression

2009 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-121
Author(s):  
Alan Brinkley
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Great Depression ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
The United States ◽  
World War ◽  
Social Instability ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
The Great Depression

The Great Depression of the 1930s was the most catastrophic economic crisis of modern times. Although it began in the United States, it swept quickly through most of the industrial world and created untold misery to millions of people. It also created political and social instability and contributed significantly to the coming of World War II. Although the Depression has received enormous attention from historians, economists, and many others, there is still no consensus on the two major questions that the crisis raises.

Conflict Resolution as a State Mechanism in Modern Times

2020 ◽  
pp. 31-55
Author(s):  
Sadhan Kumar Dey ◽  
Alice Dey
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Control Mechanisms ◽  
Individual State ◽  
World War ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Present Decade ◽  
Sustained Effort ◽  
The Individual

The post-industrialized world, which covers the period from the post-World War II to the present decade, has seen different types of real-life conflicts across the professional world. The present chapter is a sustained effort to analyse the post-industrialised conflicts in the light of application of state mechanism to resolve such conflicts in national as well as in international arenas. The term “state mechanism” has been used in a broader sense so that it may cover the control mechanism of the individual state and international control mechanisms of the United Nations.

scholarly journals Correlation between the lenghts of the long bones of the forearm and the fibula with body height in our population

2012 ◽  
Vol 69 (5) ◽  
pp. 394-398 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadica Marinkovic ◽  
Jasenka Vasic-Vilic
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Body Height ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Skeletal Remains ◽  
Long Bones ◽  
World War ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Bone Length ◽  
The World

Background/Aim. The task of a forensic examiner during exhumation of skeletal remains is to calculate antemortem height of a person whose skeletal remains were found. Anthropological investigations which provided formulae for calculating ante-mortem body height date back from XIX or from the first half of XX centuries. The most commonly used formulae are those of Trotter- Gleser, which were used to investigate skeletal remains from the World War II. Those investigations were conducted on skeletal remains of various ages and degrees of decay. Our experience with exhumation have shown that the present formulae do not deliver reliable values of antemortem height. The aim of this study was to investigate if there is a correlation of the length of long bones of leg and forearm with body height within our population and to establish the formulae for calculating ante-mortem body height within our population based on the obtained values. Methods. The lengths of ulna, radius, fibula and tibia were determined precisely by measuring bones on living individuals using a digital X-ray system. The height of individuals whose bones were measured was determined using an anthropometer. Results. The highest degree of correlation between bone length and body height was found for tibia in males (r = 0.859, p < 0.005) and ulna in females (r = 0.679, p < 0.05). We calculated the regression formulae for determination of ante-mortem body height that differ from the current body height formulae. Conclusion. In our population the length of long bones of the forearm and the leg are characterized by various degree of correlation with body height. The formulae that we set, make less distinction between the measured and the calculated body height as compared with the Trotter-Gleser formulae. We do hope that their implementation will facilitate identification of sceletal remains in our population.

Moroccan Jews in Modern Times

2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-17
Author(s):  
Norman A. Stillman
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
North America ◽  
Jewish Community ◽  
Ashkenazi Jewish ◽  
World War ◽  
Arab Nationalism ◽  
Islamic World ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
School Network

Until the mid twentieth century, Moroccan Jewry constituted the largest non-Ashkenazi Jewish community and had more than double the population of any other Jewish community in the Islamic world. Under the influence of the Alliance Israélite Universelle school network, French colonialism, the experience of World War II and the innate tensions between Zionism and Arab nationalism, the Jews of Morocco underwent a variety of transformations and ultimately the dissolution of the community as a result of the mass exodus to Israel, France and North America.

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