scholarly journals Puzzle Plots in TV Serials: The Challenges for Enigma-Driven Storytelling in Long-Running Formats

Panoptikum ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 144-157
Author(s):  
Matthias Brütsch
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Feature Film ◽  
Running Time ◽  
The Core ◽  
Lack Of Knowledge

The article conducts a comparative analysis of a feature film (Open your Eyes) and two TV serials (Westworld and Dark) in order to find out how well the narrative complexity characteristic of puzzle plots may work in long-running formats. Given the core constituents of the puzzle effect ‒ disorientation, confusion, and lack of knowledge ‒ the biggest challenge for its viability in a TV serial is the extra-long running time. Both Westworld and Dark prevent audience frustration by already providing partial resolutions before the season ends, and by establishing supplementary attractions of a more classical and easy-to-grasp nature, such as future-oriented suspense-questions, or entertaining intrigues and machinations involving the whole cast of protagonists. Even in the larger structure of the TV serial, puzzle elements may, then, play an important role. However, spectators’ capacities to unravel convoluted plotlines have their limits, and the final revelation of what really happened may only satisfy if the entanglements are not overly construed. Due to these high demands, puzzle plots in TV serials will likely remain a niche phenomenon.

scholarly journals Duma i uprzedzenie jak historia romantyczna. O adaptacji powieści Jane Austen w reżyserii Joe Wrighta

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roksana Pilawska
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Jane Austen ◽  
Film Adaptation ◽  
Pride And Prejudice ◽  
Feature Film ◽  
Research Material ◽  
New Form ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Audiovisual Presentation

Pilawska Roksana, Duma i uprzedzenie jak historia romantyczna. O adaptacji powieści Jane Austen w reżyserii Joe Wrighta [Dirty (un)Romantic story. An Analysis of Aesthetic Aspects in the Film Adaptation of Pride and Prejudice Directed by Joe Wright]. „Przestrzenie Teorii” 32. Poznań 2019, Adam Mickiewicz University Press, pp. 417–431. ISSN 1644-6763. DOI 10.14746/pt.2019.32.23. The aim of my study is to attempt a comparative analysis of the two most famous film adaptations of the bestselling novel by Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice. As research material, I chose the mini-series produced by the BBC in 1995, which was part of the then popular trend of heritage films (heritage cinema) and the feature film from 2005, directed by Joe Wright, which, in the opinion of film experts, was a completely new form of audiovisual presentation of Austen’s work. In the article, I focus only on interpreting the aesthetic aspects of both productions, which would indicate similarities and differences, thus showing numerous shifts of emphasis in the aesthetic layer of the newer version.

Status of Physical Education for Handicapped Students: A Comparative Analysis of Teachers in 1980 and 1988

1991 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincent J. Melograno ◽  
E. Michael Loovis
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Physical Education ◽  
Functional Ability ◽  
Motor Behavior ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Physical Education Teachers ◽  
The Status ◽  
Multidisciplinary Staff ◽  
Better Than ◽  
Lack Of Knowledge

Results of comprehensive surveys (1980 and 1988) were compared relative to physical education for handicapped students. A direct, self-report methodology was used. Statewide (Ohio) samples of 241 (1980) and 242 (1988) physical education teachers participated. Data indicated that the status of physical education for handicapped students had remained the same. By 1988, only 14% of the teachers had contributed to a multidisciplinary staff for developing IEPs. Teachers’ lack of knowledge of PL 94-142 was revealed in both years, and interest in teaching handicapped students was no better than “neutral/mixed” (1988). A majority of teachers in 1980 and 1988 indicated a general need for assistance in motor behavior assessments. By 1988 a majority of teachers (51%) had not received encouragement/support from their administration. In both years, over 75% believed that handicapped students are excluded from participation in physical education due to “nature of handicap” and “functional ability.” Overall, results in 1980 were reaffirmed in 1988. Teachers lacked the ability to provide appropriate physical education for handicapped students.

Verfassungsablösung

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Friederike Eggert
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Constitutional Theory ◽  
The Core ◽  
The People ◽  
Legal Understanding

In her work, the author examines the question of how democratic constitutional states can give themselves new constitutions. On the basis of a comparative analysis of constitutional practice, the author develops constitutional replacement as a sui generis institute of constitutional theory. The core of the question is in which constitutional cases and under which legal and theoretical conditions the replacement of the current constitution would be permissible. The author justifies constitutional replacement based on a democratic-legal understanding of the pouvoir constituant, the "constitution-replacing power". In this concept, the constituent sovereignty of the people becomes a right of the people to replace its constitution.

THE COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF SOMATIC PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS WITH КЬИЛ / ГОЛОВА / HEAD IN THE LEZGIN, RUSSIAN AND ENGLISH LANGUAGES

2020 ◽  
Vol 76 (4) ◽  
pp. 24-29
Author(s):  
FATIMA B. VERDIKHANOVA ◽  
◽  
GULNARA SH. PAVLOVA ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Contrastive Analysis ◽  
Core Component ◽  
The Core ◽  
Semantic Fields

The object of the contrastive analysis in this article is the group of Lezgin, Russian and English phraseological (somatic) units with the component кьил/голова/head. The analysis aims at identifying the universal and specific issues in their contentits characteristic semantic fields, correlation of the general phraseological value with the core component, structural and grammatical features. In the process of the study we have used the method of comparative analysis of Lezgin, Russian and English phraseological units selected by us from foreign and domestic lexicographic sources. As the result of the analysis we have found that there was a similarity in structure, imagery and stylistic coloration of phraseological units. The peculiar characteristics of the studied languages in phraseological units were carried out. This work can serve as a material for further research in the field of phraseology whether the question of education plays an important role in the life of society.

Qualitative Comparative Analysis: Discovering Core Combinations of Conditions in Political Decision Making

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benoît Rihoux
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Comparative Analysis ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Political Decision ◽  
New Techniques ◽  
The Core ◽  
Minimization Algorithms ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
Political Decision Making

Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) was launched in the late 1980s by Charles Ragin, as a research approach bridging case-oriented and variable-oriented perspectives. It conceives cases as complex combinations of attributes (i.e. configurations), is designed to process multiple cases, and enables one to identify, through minimization algorithms, the core equifinal combinations of conditions leading to an outcome of interest. It systematizes the analysis in terms of necessity and sufficiency, models social reality in terms of set-theoretic relations, and provides powerful logical tools for complexity reduction. It initially came along with one technique, crisp-set QCA (csQCA), requiring dichotomized coding of data. As it has expanded, the QCA field has been enriched by new techniques such as multi-value QCA (mvQCA) and especially fuzzy-set QCA (fsQCA), both of which enable finer-grained calibration. It has also developed further with diverse extensions and more advanced designs, including mixed- and multimethod designs in which QCA is sequenced with focused case studies or with statistical analyses. QCA’s emphasis on causal complexity makes it very fit to address various types of objects and research questions touching upon political decision making—and indeed QCA has been applied in multiple related social scientific fields. While QCA can be exploited in different ways, it is most frequently used for theory evaluation purposes, with a streamlined protocol including a sequence of core operations and good practices. Several reliable software options are also available to implement the core of the QCA procedure. However, given QCA’s case-based foundation, much researcher input is still required at different stages. As it has further developed, QCA has been subject to fierce criticism, especially from a mainstream statistical perspective. This has stimulated further innovations and refinements, in particular in terms of parameters of fit and robustness tests which also correspond to the growth of QCA applications in larger-n designs. Altogether the field has diversified and broadened, and different users may exploit QCA in various ways, from smaller-n case-oriented uses to larger-n more analytic uses, and following different epistemological positions regarding causal claims. This broader field can therefore be labeled as that of both “Configurational Comparative Methods” (CCMs) and “Set-Theoretic Methods” (STMs).

Ritual Architecture in Prehistoric Complex Hunter-Gatherer Communities: A Potential Example from Keatley Creek, on the Canadian Plateau

2010 ◽  
Vol 75 (3) ◽  
pp. 599-625 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesse Morin
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Social Inequality ◽  
Study Region ◽  
The Core ◽  
History Of ◽  
Site Cluster ◽  
Ritual Architecture ◽  
And Training

A comparative analysis of housepit structures at the Keatley Creek site on the Canadian Plateau indicates that the ones on the periphery of the site cluster as a group, distinct from the domestic housepits in the core of the site. Comparison of the material attributes from a sample of peripheral structures with expectations of various nondomestic structures for the study region suggests that these structures were used as feasting or meeting-houses and not domestic residences. These peripheral structures originate during the Plateau horizon (2400–1200 B.P.) occupation of the site and were also used during the late Kamloops horizon (400–200 B.P.). It is argued here that understanding the history of these structures as loci of restricted ritual knowledge and training can contribute much to our interpretations of the bases and origins of social inequality in Keatley Creek, and other transegalitarian communities.

Static Analysis and Optimization of the Slide’s Structure of Slider-Crank Type Cluster well Pumping Unit(SCTCWPU)

2013 ◽  
Vol 694-697 ◽  
pp. 284-287
Author(s):  
Wen Sun ◽  
San Min Wang ◽  
Tao Ren ◽  
Wen Tao Qu
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Static Analysis ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Friction And Wear ◽  
Main Mechanism ◽  
The Core ◽  
Pumping Unit ◽  
Major Factors ◽  
Core Problem ◽  
Crank Mechanism

Centric slider-crank mechanism forms the main mechanism of slider-crank type cluster well pumping unit(SCTCWPU). The friction and wear is the core problem of (SCTCWPU). The pressure of the slide upon the rail is one of the major factors of the friction and wear between the roller and rail.This paper presents the static analysis and optimization of the structure of the slide. In addition,a comparative analysis of the two types of the slide’s structure is made on the basis of actual working conditions.

Survey 16; Privatization and the Rhetoric of Planning Practice

1989 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 449-462 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Dear
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Performance Assessment ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Cumulative Effect ◽  
Physical Planning ◽  
Planning Practice ◽  
The Core ◽  
Planning Profession ◽  
Privatization Process

In this paper the privatization of the planning profession is examined. The analysis proceeds with an exploration of how planners represent their profession through text and speech. Three kinds of rhetoric dominate discussion: a rhetoric of instrumentalism, which is concerned with reestablishing physical planning at the core of the discipline; a rhetoric of negotiation, which often loses sight of why negotiation was initiated in the first place; and a rhetoric of performance assessment, which is content with a planning which achieves its sponsors' goals. None of these concentrations is intrinsically wrong, but their cumulative effect has been to permit a commodification of the functions of planning, which has subsequently facilitated the privatization process. Other elements of planning, not susceptible to commodification, have been dropped from the discourse. One such loss has been the rhetoric of reform, which has traditionally connected planning with its progressive roots and political action. Also absent is a rhetoric of theory, which would permit comparative analysis of the meanings of a postmodern planning.

scholarly journals Poetyka etiudy Klary Kochańskiej Lokatorki

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (30) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marek Hendrykowski
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Feature Film

The article provides a comparative analysis of the style and composition of Klara Kochańska’s student short feature film Lodgers. (produced by the Polish Nation Filmschool in Łódź in 2015) as an example of film narrative practices typical of the academic exercises of students today.

scholarly journals DYNAMICS AND VARIABILITY IN INCOME FROM FARMING IN FARMS OPERATING IN METROPOLITAN AREAS IN POLAND

2019 ◽  
Vol XXI (4) ◽  
pp. 571-578 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomasz Wojewodzic ◽  
Wojciech Sroka ◽  
Jarosław Mikołajczyk
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Metropolitan Area ◽  
Metropolitan Areas ◽  
Average Rate ◽  
Agricultural Activity ◽  
Average Value ◽  
The Core ◽  
Big City ◽  
Estimate Rate ◽  
Lower Silesia

The aim of the paper was to indicate differences in income from agricultural activity earned by farm owners located in different zones under the influence of a big city. The study covered entities from six voivodships: Lower Silesia, Lubelskie, Lesser Poland, Masovia, Pomerania and Greater Poland. The database of the Polish FADN system was the source of data presented in the analysis. The outer and inner metropolitan zone have been distinguished as well as the group of objects located outside metropolitan areas. For the distinguished groups, a comparative analysis was carried out. Research pinpointed that in the inner metropolitan area zone, there was evidently a considerably higher income from a farm on one unit of own work and the estimate rate of wage for an hour of hired work. The average value of these categories was diminishing in subsequent zones along with moving away from the core of metropolitan areas. Apart from that, in all the three researched groups of farms, the average rate of wage of own work was higher than the rate of wage of hired work. This means that farm owners also take wages from management and the incurred economy risk. The height of these wages is subjected to considerable fluctuation that result from e.g., observed economic fluctuations in agriculture.

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