The Intelligent Producer and the Restructuring of MGM

2020 ◽  
pp. 118-144
Author(s):  
Ana Salzberg
Keyword(s):  
Turning Point ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Transitional Era

This chapter considers the impact of the 1933 studio restructuring that effectively demoted Thalberg from head of production to unit producer. In response, Thalberg would set out affirmations of his production ethos in private letters and a public article. In the case of the latter, Thalberg conceives of “the intelligent producer” who spares no creative or monetary expense in crafting entertainment – and in this way, Thalberg constructs an alternative to the Boy Wonder double that had shadowed him since the start of his career. The chapter argues that these personal and public statements present a theoretical turning point at which Thalberg reflected – and expanded – upon established concepts to conceive of a new future for production. The chapter explores how this transitional era played out in Thalberg’s films of the period, looking at Strange Interlude (Leonard, 1932), The Barretts of Wimpole Street (Franklin, 1934), and The Merry Widow (Lubitsch, 1934).

A Musical Technography of John Bischoff

2004 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 75-79
Author(s):  
Douglas Kahn
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Early Development ◽  
Computer Music ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
San Francisco Bay Area ◽  
Experimental Music ◽  
Music Technology ◽  
Electronic Components ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
The Impact

John Bischoff has been part of the formation and growth of electronic and computer music in the San Francisco Bay Area for over three decades. In an interview with the author, he describes his early development as a student of experimental music technology, including the impact of hearing and assisting in the work of David Tudor. Bischoff, like Tudor, explored the unpredictable potentials within electronic components, and he brought this curiosity to bear when he began working on one of the first available micro-computers. He was a key individual at the historical turning point when computer music escaped its institutional restric-tions and began becoming widespread.

scholarly journals Methodology for Measuring the Impact of the Privacy Protection Law on the Use of Big Data

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 62-66
Author(s):  
Oh Ky U-Cheol
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Stock Prices ◽  
Privacy Protection ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Technical Innovation ◽  
Smart Devices ◽  
Ict Revolution ◽  
The Impact

The ICT revolution triggered by the emergence of smart devices, typically represented by the iPhone and the iPad, is migrating into the new domain of ‘big data’ after passing the turning point of ‘SNS Life,’ which is represented by Twitter and FaceBook among others. These developments have brought significant changes in all areas of politics, economy and culture. The stock prices of Apple, Samsung Electronics, FaceBook and Google fluctuate depending on who takes the hegemony in the changes. Meanwhile, such a reform of the ICT sector has generated some new undesirable sideeffects, including online disclosure of personal information, malicious comments, Smishing or other forms of financial scams. As we cannot abandon either big data or privacy protection, it is critical to find a compromise. It seems both evident and selfexplanatory that the use of big data, which is attributable to technical innovation, conflicts with privacy protection based on the idea that individuals should be allowed to determine the disclosure or not of their personal information. Yet, the problem here is that the discussion of countermeasures remains at the level of catching the wind with a net. Therefore, this paper intends to present a framework that can objectively verify what impact the enhanced legal regulation concerning privacy protection has on the use of big data as the first step in exploring a compromise between the use of big data and privacy protection.

A Turning Point in the History of Polish Socialism and its Attitude Towards the Jewish Question

2004 ◽  
pp. 111-129
Author(s):  
Moshe Mishkinsky
Keyword(s):  
Turning Point ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Jewish Question ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Polish Society ◽  
History Of ◽  
Integral Element ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
The Impact

This chapter describes a turning point in the history of Polish Socialism and its attitude towards the Jewish Question. In dealing with the concept of the Jewish Question, the intention is not, as is often the case, to dwell solely upon the legal status of Jews (emancipation) but to view the problems of Jewish existence in their diversity. According to one view, the dependence upon non Jewish society represents an integral element or, even a determinant, in these problems. In the context of Polish–Jewish relations from the historical perspective of the last hundred years, one may discern six aspects of the subject. These include the development of Socialist thought in its different versions as regards the Jews; the influence of the gradual growth and development of the emerging working class in Polish society; the influence of the relatively large involvement of Jews within the Socialist Labour Movement; the impact of the new processes which matured in the last quarter of the 19th century on the life of Eastern European Jewry in general, and on the Polish–Jewish area in particular; the growth alongside each other, but also in conflict, of two political and ideological movements — Polish Socialism and Jewish labour Socialism; and the tension between the Socialist and the national elements which was common to both yet different in its concrete content.

scholarly journals Chinese Investment in Taiwan: A Challenge or an Opportunity for Taiwan?

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chun-yi Lee ◽  
Ming-xi Yin
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Development ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
High Technology ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Framework Agreement ◽  
Chinese Investment ◽  
Technology Industry ◽  
High Technology Industry ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
The Impact

Cross-Strait economic activities are no longer unidirectional. The Taiwanese government opened the doors to Chinese investment in 2009. This paper addresses the following crucial question: What is the impact of Chinese investment on Taiwan's high-technology industrial development? Two further questions immediately follow: Will Chinese investment put Taiwanese industrial development at risk? Will an influx of Chinese investment lead to a turning point for Taiwanese industry? The paper first reviews Chinese investment in Taiwan under the framework of the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) and then explains why we have chosen to focus here on the high-technology industry in Taiwan. It then outlines the main elements of Chinese outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) before seeking to answer the above research questions. Fieldwork for this paper was conducted from December 2014 to March 2016. Interviewees include Chinese investors, along with consultants from a Taiwanese institute created to promote industrial development.

scholarly journals Eugenics and public health in Britain, 1900–40: scenes from provincial life

Urban History ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Welshman
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Birth Control ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
National Level ◽  
Intellectual Life ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Public Health Provision ◽  
Voluntary Sterilization

Historians have attempted to assess the impact of eugenics on public health provision in a number of fields including mental health, birth control, voluntary sterilization and housing. However, most of this work has concentrated on debates at the national level, and we know much less about the ways in which eugenics may have helped shape health services in provincial cities. It has been suggested that Leicester was a city in which eugenicists were particularly prominent, and this article examines the impact of eugenics on three aspects of public health between 1900 and 1940; mental health, birth control and housing. It concludes that while eugenics did have a practical outcome in mental health and birth control, its influence on housing policy was more elusive, and 1935 marked a turning-point after which eugenics was less significant in health policy and intellectual life.

Turbulence in British Politics: The First Two Years of the Major Government

1994 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-200
Author(s):  
Ghiţa Ionescu
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
British Politics ◽  
Information Revolution ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
The World ◽  
Transitional Era

The expression post-globalization was chosen here because it is more comprehensive than the now much more popular ‘post-cold war’. While the latter has the advantage of offering a chronological turning point (the formalities of the end of the 1980s), in reality it is only the ideologico-military effect of a series of simultaneous changes in the world brought about in the last decade by the still ongoing and unpredictable information revolution. These changes affect all information and kinds of communication in the whole world and therefore justify the name of globalization - and for the transitional era which follows, of post-globalization in which we now live.

scholarly journals Imaging-Based Biomarkers: Characterization of Post-Kawasaki Vasculitis in Infants and Hypertension Phenotype in Rat Model

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roch Listz Maurice ◽  
Nagib Dahdah ◽  
Johanne Tremblay
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Properties ◽  
Arterial Wall ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Aortic Wall ◽  
Brown Norway ◽  
Carotid Stiffness ◽  
Old Rats ◽  
The Impact

Background. Investigating the mechanical properties of the arteries is essential in cardiovascular diseases. Recent imaging modalities allow mapping mechanical properties within the arterial wall.Aims. We report the potential ofimaging-based biomarker(ImBioMark) to investigate the effect of aging on the rat. We also present preliminary data with ImBioMark characterizing vascular sequelae of Kawasaki disease (KD) in young humans.Methods. We investigatedin vivothe effect of aging on male Brown Norway (BN) rats' (n=5) carotid stiffness. In a second experiment, the impact of KD on the ascending aorta (AA) was examined in KD children (n=2) aged 13 ± 1.41 years old compared to KD-free children (n=5) aged 13.13 ± 0.18 years old.Results. The stiffness of BN's carotid artery was three times stiffer in the old rats, with a turning point at 40 weeks old (P=0.001). KD had a very significant impact on the AA stiffness with strain estimates of 2.39 ± 0.51% versus 4.24 ± 0.65% in controls (P<0.001).Conclusion. ImBioMark phenotypes hypertension in rat models noninvasivelyin vivowithout resorting to euthanasia. Quantifying aortic wall remodeling is also feasible in humans. Future investigations target human cardiovascular disease.

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