Face to Face: A Conversation With Vittorio Rossi

2000 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-194
Author(s):  
Gregory J. Reid
Keyword(s):  
Fine Art ◽  
Film Adaptation ◽  
Main Stage ◽  
Television Show ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Denys Arcand ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
Crime Novel ◽  
Italian Origin ◽  
Shoe Store

With productions of nine of his plays behind him (including his translation of Eduardo de Filippo's Filumena for the Stratford Festival in 1997), playwright and actor Vittorio Rossi has become one of Canada's best-known dramatists of Italian origin. He began his writing career by winning the Best New Play Award at the Quebec Drama Festival twice: for "Little Blood Brother" in 1986 and for "Backstreets" in 1987. His first full-length play, The Chain, broke attendance records at Centaur Theatre, English Quebec's main stage. His most acclaimed drama, The Last Adam, won the Canadian Authors Association Literary Award for Drama in 1996. Rossi's career as an actor, in addition to his work in his own plays, has included roles in such films as Snake Eater II: The Drug Buster (1991), Canvas: The Fine Art of Crime (1992), Le Sphinx (1995), Strip Search (1997), Suspicious Minds (1997), and the award-winning Post Mortem (1999); and televison series such as Malarek (1989), Urban Angel (1991), Bonanno: A Godfather's Story (1999) and the number-one-rated television show in Quebec for its three-year run, Omerta (1996, 1997, 1998). I met with Rossi at the Café Via Crescent on Crescent Street in Montreal, December 8, 1999. We discussed the situation of actors in Canada, the process of translation and adaptation, the background of the plays and his reaction to their critical reception, and his work in progress: the film adaptation of a crime novel for Denys Arcand, the scripting of a television series with Luc Dionne (creator of Omerta) and the film adaptation and production of Rossi's own shoe-store drama Scarpone.

scholarly journals COVIDifying Education through the Lens of Award-Winning Educators in a State University in the Philippines

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 42-56
Author(s):  
Joseph B. Quinto
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Practice ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
State University ◽  
Paradigm Shifts ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Descriptive Phenomenology ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Summative Assessments ◽  
Award Winning

Paradigm shifts in the field of education have been an issue in the Philippines since the COVID-19 pandemic struck. To fill this gap, this study sought to highlight the pedagogical practices and teaching experiences of award-winning educators in a State University. The qualitative data extracted from semi-structured interviews were analyzed following a thematic analysis based on descriptive phenomenology. One finding revealed that the educators’ years in service and educational attainments were helpful in their migration from face-to-face to distance education, even though the number of course preparations was a weight on their shoulders. Secondly, the educators conducted their classes through preparation and implementation via fifteen instructional methods, formative and summative assessments, and feedback. On another note, the educators determined six roadblocks in their teaching practice with explanations on how they overcame them. Amidst all these, they mentioned that it is imperative to uphold empathy in the conduct of their classes.

Attending the Tale of

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Thomson
Keyword(s):  
Film Adaptation ◽  
Conventional View ◽  
Direct Address ◽  
Film Version ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
The Grotesque

This chapter examines Tim Burton’sSweeney Todd, a film adaptation of Stephen Sondheim’s award-winning musical thriller. In direct opposition to Sondheim’s opinion that this is the best, mostfilmicfilm version of a stage musical ever made it argues that Burton’s powerful deployment of the visual possibilities of cinemaalters the grand guignol of the stage musical with its direct address to the audience, to create a more attractive and conventional view of the two psychologically introspective protagonists who fail to evoke the grotesque and demonic force of their more convincingly melodramatic stage counterparts. By analysing Burton’s exploitation of the screen presence of Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham-Carter, the chapteridentifies the contradictions resulting from the director’s attempt to position the film within the genre of such classic screen thrillers asPsycho.

scholarly journals COMPUTER MODELING AS THE MAIN STAGE OF ENDODONTIC ROOT NEEDLE REFINEMENT

2021 ◽  
pp. 76-82
Author(s):  
LARISA N. KAZAKOVA ◽  
◽  
OKSANA S TERESHCHUK ◽  
ROMAN S. NEBOGATIKOV ◽  
ALEXANDER V. KULIGIN ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Quality Characteristics ◽  
Permanent Teeth ◽  
Main Stage ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Medical Products ◽  
Root Canals ◽  
Huge Variety ◽  
Language Literature

The issue of high-quality root canal treatment in deciduous and permanent teeth is currently highly relevant. There is a huge variety of tools, devices, and medicines that can be used for working with the root canals. It is often the case that in the dental market medical products of various quality characteristics are being offered for a certain manipulation, leaving consumers face to face with a tough choice of what to buy to obtain good results. According to the English-language literature review, evaluation of the technical characteristics of endodontic needles and the results of their use in practice showed a rather large number of negative aspects, which outlines the need to find the ways of endodontic needle refinement.

scholarly journals Romancing Beale Street

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 178-190
Author(s):  
Robert J. Corber
Keyword(s):  
Black Men ◽  
Black Male ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Black Masculinity ◽  
Film Adaptation ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Television Show ◽  
Black Arts ◽  
Male Characters ◽  
Visual Style

The author reviews Barry Jenkins’s 2018 film adaptation of Baldwin’s novel, If Beale Street Could Talk, finding that Jenkins’s lush, painterly, and dreamlike visual style successfully translates Baldwin’s cadenced prose into cinematic language. But in interpreting the novel as the “perfect fusion” of the anger of Baldwin’s essays and the sensuality of his fiction, Jenkins overlooks the novel’s most significant aspect, its gender politics. Baldwin began working on If Beale Street Could Talk shortly after being interviewed by Black Arts poet Nikki Giovanni for the PBS television show, Soul!. Giovanni’s rejection of Baldwin’s claims that for black men to overcome the injuries of white supremacy they needed to fulfill the breadwinner role prompted him to rethink his understanding of African American manhood and deeply influenced his representation of the novel’s black male characters. The novel aims to disarticulate black masculinity from patriarchy. Jenkins’s misunderstanding of this aspect of the novel surfaces in his treatment of the character of Frank, who in the novel serves as an example of the destructiveness of patriarchal masculinity, and in his rewriting of the novel’s ending.

Entrepreneurship in a Non-Profit Healthcare Organization

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vijaya Narapareddy ◽  
Erica Berte
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Satellite Campus ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
Regional Community ◽  
The Impact

Columbus regional health (CRH), a not-for profit organization located in Columbus, Indiana, evolved from a traditional local hospital to an award-winning regional community health-care provider by embracing the concept of innovation and its systematic implementation. The “A” case includes a detailed account of the innovation journey undertaken by CRH and the impact of the devastating flood in 2008. On the other hand, this second (“B”) case deals with WellConnect, an innovative health-care venture that CRH considered for investment in 2013. This new health-care concept was aimed at providing differentiated health-care services in downtown Columbus, away from CRH's main satellite campus. Students, thus, have the opportunity to step into CRH's President and CEO, Jim Bickel's shoes to decide the feasibility of investing $1.5 million in WellConnect based on a thorough assessment and synthesis of multiyear data provided in the case, including community demographic, income and poverty data, competitor information, and CRH's select financial statistics. This case tested in several undergraduate and graduate courses was received well. A unique aspect of this case is that it can be used in online as well as traditional face-to-face classes.

Hidden in Plain Sight

2020 ◽  
Vol 70 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-244
Author(s):  
Rob Linrothe
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Art History ◽  
Fine Art ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Historical Aspects ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
History Of ◽  
Visual Record

Abstract This is a review article of Janet Gyatso's 2015 award-winning book, Being Human in a Buddhist World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet. The art-historical aspects of the book—mainly confined to the first chapter, “Reading Paintings, Painting the Medical, Medicalizing the State” and based on a perceptive art-historical reading of a set of medical paintings and its copies—had yet to be reviewed by an academically-trained art historian. This review underscores the fine art-historical insights deserving the attention of art historians working in parallel contexts of the often tense relationship between religious and empirical epistemologies. At the same time, the evaluation of certain readings of the visual record lead to suggested revisions in the support they provide to Gyatso's primary argument. In addition, other precedents of depictions “from life” in Tibetan art history are offered to help contextualize claims of originality or uniqueness. Finally, an analysis is presented of less formal, freehand painting versus more formalized, iconometric execution, calibrated with vernacular subject matter versus iconographically predetermined themes. Both of the painting modes and subject types are combined in the painting set analyzed by Gyatso supporting her assessment of the innovation of the artists selected by the patron, Desi Sangyé Gyatso (1653–1705).

scholarly journals Editorial

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Lauren Hall-Lew
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Undergraduate Research ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Television Show ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
Face To Face

Welcome to the first issue of Volume 6 of Lifespans & Styles: Undergraduate Papers in Sociolinguistics. This issue includes three papers that continue the journal’s mission of showcasing excellence in undergraduate research in sociolinguistics. What’s more, even though these papers were all researched prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, all stand as excellent examples of the kind of sociolinguistic research that can be done during a period of lockdown and social distancing: one is an analysis of a television show (Greene), one is an analysis of films and a television serial (Chan), and one is an analysis of a pre-existing linguistic corpus (Titheridge). These add to a number of papers in L&S that exemplify the kind of sociolinguistic research projects that are possible without face-to-face data collection.

The Fine Art of Film Adaptation

1986 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 643 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vernon Young
Keyword(s):  
Fine Art ◽  
Film Adaptation

Face-to-Face

1992 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 11-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Jerger
Keyword(s):  
Face To Face

Supporting the Use of Rudimentary Vocalizations

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 132-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren Zubow ◽  
Richard Hurtig
Keyword(s):  
Rett Syndrome ◽  
Visual Cues ◽  
Acoustic Analysis ◽  
Eye Gaze ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Primary Research ◽  
Multiple Modalities ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Perceptual Judgments ◽  
The Face

Children with Rett Syndrome (RS) are reported to use multiple modalities to communicate although their intentionality is often questioned (Bartolotta, Zipp, Simpkins, & Glazewski, 2011; Hetzroni & Rubin, 2006; Sigafoos et al., 2000; Sigafoos, Woodyatt, Tuckeer, Roberts-Pennell, & Pittendreigh, 2000). This paper will present results of a study analyzing the unconventional vocalizations of a child with RS. The primary research question addresses the ability of familiar and unfamiliar listeners to interpret unconventional vocalizations as “yes” or “no” responses. This paper will also address the acoustic analysis and perceptual judgments of these vocalizations. Pre-recorded isolated vocalizations of “yes” and “no” were presented to 5 listeners (mother, father, 1 unfamiliar, and 2 familiar clinicians) and the listeners were asked to rate the vocalizations as either “yes” or “no.” The ratings were compared to the original identification made by the child's mother during the face-to-face interaction from which the samples were drawn. Findings of this study suggest, in this case, the child's vocalizations were intentional and could be interpreted by familiar and unfamiliar listeners as either “yes” or “no” without contextual or visual cues. The results suggest that communication partners should be trained to attend to eye-gaze and vocalizations to ensure the child's intended choice is accurately understood.

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