Home on the Range

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan K. Rode
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Specific Production ◽  
Walt Disney ◽  
Production Code ◽  
Will Rogers ◽  
San Fernando

Curtiz and Bess purchased a huge estate in the San Fernando Valley.The hillside Tudor house would expand to include a pair of Curtiz’s lesser passions, a polo field and a skeet range. Curtiz became addicted to polo, playing with Zanuck, Walt Disney, Will Rogers, and other Hollywood luminaries. Curtiz directed the daring pre-Code film Mandalay with Kay Francis starring as a prostitute. This film also beganthe strife between Wallis and Curtiz. Curtiz directed the picture as he saw fit, and Wallis peppered him with memos telling him he was shooting too much footage or providing specific production guidance that Curtiz ignored.Hollywood’s pre-Code films generated so much controversy that the studios were forced to appoint Joseph Breen to administer the Production Code in July 1934. Breen zealously censored films, so thatWarners and the other studios were forced to adjust the content of pictures. Curtiz began his relationship with James Cagney with Jimmy the Gent (1933). Cagney respected Curtiz’s abilities but didn’t like his treatment of actors. Curtiz’s films of this period, most notably British Agent and Black Fury, raised his profile; he was poised to direct a major picture that would create one of Warner Bros.’ biggest stars.

scholarly journals A.R. MENGS TRA ROMA E MADRID: LE INQUIETUDINI DEL PITTORE FILOSOFO SULL’ISTITUZIONE ACCADEMICA NELLA SECONDA METÀ DEL XVIII SECOLO.

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-50
Author(s):  
Noemi Cinelli
Keyword(s):  
18Th Century ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
The Other ◽  
Art Theory ◽  
Entire Life ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
San Fernando

It is difficult to frame Anton Raphael Mengs in a specific stylistic movement nowadays that the chronological divisions and the consequent definitions of the art of the Enlightenment are going to be more and more controversial. Because of his eclectic and cosmopolitan activity, his ideas about Ideal Beauty spread across the countries affected by the apprehensions and hopes related to the 18th century. The bohemian painter dedicated his entire life to the study of ancient art; his marble collection of the statues from the great Italian collections interested the artists coming to the Eternal City, and he consecrates esthetic models of different epochs. Mengs never get away from these models – Ancient Greece, Raffaello Sanzio, Tiziano Vecellio, Antonio Correggio. His presence in Spain was favored by propitious circumstances: the coronation of an erudite, educate king, lover of Fine Arts, Charles III of Spain, a king so intimately close to the painter to guarantee him his protection in the difficult relation between Mengs and the San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid. The relation between the Institution and the Bohemian get complicated because of the different ideas about the organization of the academy and the education of the students. Because of the little original sources, several matters have not been resolved, for example the issue about the false ancient fresco of Jupiter and Ganymede, or the controversy about the Peña case, that brought to the final breakup between the artist and the consiliarios in San Fernando Institution. Mengs focused his attention in an even worse matter about the direction of the academy: concretely, which competences had to have the consiliarios and which the teachers. When Mengs asked to be accepted in the academy, he undoubtedly thought that the Institution was structured as the other great one in which he took part in Italy, San Luca National Academy in Rome. Within Mengs’ proposals to raise the level of the Academy in Madrid there was the institution of anatomy and surgery teachings, which intent was to revolutionize the concept of painters and sculptors. In spite of the difficulties that the first painter of Charles III had during his stay in San Fernando, his acting had a fundamental role in developing the Art Theory and particularly in the European artists’ training.

scholarly journals Mulan and Moana: Embedded Coloniality and the Search for Authenticity in Disney Animated Film

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (11) ◽  
pp. 230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Anjirbag
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural ◽  
The Other ◽  
Film Production ◽  
Global Media ◽  
Global Culture ◽  
Culturally Specific ◽  
Walt Disney ◽  
Film Representation ◽  
Animated Film ◽  
Literature And Film

As the consciousness of coloniality, diversity, and the necessity of not only token depictions of otherness but accurate representations of diversity in literature and film has grown, there has been a shift in the processes of adaptation and appropriation used by major film production companies and how they approach representing the other. One clear example of this is the comparison of the depiction of diverse, cross-cultural womanhood between Walt Disney Animation Studio’s Mulan (1998) and Moana (2016). This paper will use a cross-period approach to explore the ways in which a global media conglomerate has and has not shifted its approach to appropriation of the multicultural as other and the implications for representational diversity in the context of globalization and a projected global culture. In one case, a cultural historical tale was decontextualized and reframed, while in the other, cultural actors had a degree of input in the film representation. By examining culturally specific criticisms and scenes from each film, I will explore how the legacy of coloniality can still be seen embedded in the framing of each film, despite the studio’s stated intentions towards diversity and multiculturalism.

Agriculture in the Days of the Early California Padres

1948 ◽  
Vol 4 (03) ◽  
pp. 325-344
Author(s):  
Edith Webb
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Direction ◽  
The Other ◽  
Mountainous Region ◽  
Dominican Order ◽  
Central Belt ◽  
San Fernando ◽  
The City ◽  
Made In

The study of agriculture, as it was practiced by the early California Padres, should begin in the rough, mountainous region of the Sierra Gorda of Mexico. There, in 1744, Franciscan missionaries began the work of evangelizing the Indians of the central belt of that region. Fathers of the Dominican Order had already established missions along one side of this range, while others of the Augustinian Order were laboring among the Indians of the other side, leaving the middle strip untouched. The Reverend Father Fr. Pedro Pérez de Mezquía, Superior of the recently founded College of San Fernando in the City of Mexico, had accompanied the Franciscan Padres to aid them in the founding of five missions. From his experience in the missions in Texas whither he had gone with Fr. Margil, Fr. Mezquía had formulated a set of rules and regulations for both the spiritual direction and the temporal government of the Indians of the region. Unfortunately the climate of the Sierra Gorda did not agree with most of those first Padres. Some became ill and were obliged to retire to the College, others died, making frequent changes of missionaries necessary. Few stayed long enough to acquire a knowledge of the language of the Pame people, consequently little progress was made in the conversion of those Indians.

scholarly journals Evaluation of the Pseudostatic Analyses of Earth Dams Using FE Simulation and Observed Earthquake-Induced Deformations: Case Studies of Upper San Fernando and Kitayama Dams

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tohid Akhlaghi ◽  
Ali Nikkar
Keyword(s):  
Fe Simulation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Finite Element Models ◽  
Inertial Forces ◽  
Earth Dams ◽  
Complex Dynamic ◽  
Dynamic Analyses ◽  
San Fernando ◽  
Material Tests

Evaluation of the accuracy of the pseudostatic approach is governed by the accuracy with which the simple pseudostatic inertial forces represent the complex dynamic inertial forces that actually exist in an earthquake. In this study, the Upper San Fernando and Kitayama earth dams, which have been designed using the pseudostatic approach and damaged during the 1971 San Fernando and 1995 Kobe earthquakes, were investigated and analyzed. The finite element models of the dams were prepared based on the detailed available data and results of in situ and laboratory material tests. Dynamic analyses were conducted to simulate the earthquake-induced deformations of the dams using the computer program Plaxis code. Then the pseudostatic seismic coefficient used in the design and analyses of the dams were compared with the seismic coefficients obtained from dynamic analyses of the simulated model as well as the other available proposed pseudostatic correlations. Based on the comparisons made, the accuracy and reliability of the pseudostatic seismic coefficients are evaluated and discussed.

The Will Rogers Illusion in Judgments About Social Groups

1993 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
David M. Messick ◽  
Arlene G. Asuncion
Keyword(s):  
Social Groups ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Stereotypes ◽  
Will Rogers ◽  
The Will ◽  
The Mean ◽  
The Way

Subjects' judgments of the mean of 12 scores were influenced by the way in which the scores were dichotomized. The estimated mean was higher when the three highest scores formed one group (e.g., payments for women) and the nine lowest formed the other (e.g., payments for men) than when the nine highest were one group and the three lowest the other. We call this phenomenon the Will Rogers Illusion (WRI). The WRI occurred only when estimates of the subgroup means were made prior to the estimates of the mean of the whole group. When the latter mean was judged first, the WRI was reversed. These and other data indicate that the means of subgroups can influence judgments of group means, a finding that is relevant to research on social stereotypes.

Why Teach About Congress

1984 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. 12-14
Author(s):  
Roger Davidson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Mark Twain ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
United States Congress ◽  
Love Affair ◽  
Will Rogers ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The U.S

Political scientists' long-standing love affair with the United States Congress no doubt baffles people outside the profession. By the same token, the popularity of courses on Congress is not fully understood. Articles and monographs on the subject pour out at a phenomenal rate, and students receive unique benefits from courses on the subject year after year. Still the question is posed: Why so much attention to the U.S. Congress?Much of the puzzlement arises from Congress's persistent image problem. The other branches of government have nothing quite like the comic image of Senator Snort, the florid and incompetent windbag, or Congressman Bob Forehead, the bland and media-driven founder of the "JFK Look-Alike Caucus." Pundits and humorists — from Mark Twain and Will Rogers to Johnny Carson, from Thomas Nast to Garry Trudeau — find Congress an inexhaustible source of raw material. Running down Congress, it seems, is a leading national pastime.

Agriculture in the Days of the Early California Padres

1948 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 325-344
Author(s):  
Edith Webb
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Direction ◽  
The Other ◽  
Mountainous Region ◽  
Dominican Order ◽  
Central Belt ◽  
San Fernando ◽  
The City ◽  
Made In

The study of agriculture, as it was practiced by the early California Padres, should begin in the rough, mountainous region of the Sierra Gorda of Mexico. There, in 1744, Franciscan missionaries began the work of evangelizing the Indians of the central belt of that region. Fathers of the Dominican Order had already established missions along one side of this range, while others of the Augustinian Order were laboring among the Indians of the other side, leaving the middle strip untouched.The Reverend Father Fr. Pedro Pérez de Mezquía, Superior of the recently founded College of San Fernando in the City of Mexico, had accompanied the Franciscan Padres to aid them in the founding of five missions. From his experience in the missions in Texas whither he had gone with Fr. Margil, Fr. Mezquía had formulated a set of rules and regulations for both the spiritual direction and the temporal government of the Indians of the region. Unfortunately the climate of the Sierra Gorda did not agree with most of those first Padres. Some became ill and were obliged to retire to the College, others died, making frequent changes of missionaries necessary. Few stayed long enough to acquire a knowledge of the language of the Pame people, consequently little progress was made in the conversion of those Indians.

scholarly journals Self-parodical consequences of operatic parody

New Sound ◽  
2013 ◽  
pp. 110-116
Author(s):  
Dragana Jeremić-Molnar
Keyword(s):  
American Culture ◽  
The Other ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Critical Response ◽  
Walt Disney ◽  
Philip Glass ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Failed Attempt ◽  
To Come ◽  
The One

With rare exceptions, the critical response to the opera The Perfect American, whose protagonist is Walt Disney, was lukewarm. For the most part, the critics blamed its modest result on Rudy Wurlitzer's libretto, described as incoherent, dramatically limited and lame, even boring. The input of the composer Philip Glass, the most distinguished name in the artistic team that created The Perfect American, received higher marks, but even those who praised some of his compositional solutions (and especially his trade skills) unanimously concluded that the music nevertheless had not reached a high enough level to compensate for the deficiencies in the libretto. In the interpretations available so far, the opera was generally understood to be a (failed) attempt at depicting Disney as an insufficiently talented person with an idea, who built his empire by shamelessly appropriating the merits of those who, thanks to their talents, were able to carry out his idea. The author in this text wants to show that the opera can be perceived in quite a different way: as an allegory of contemporary American culture, torn between its cosmopolitism and humanistic openness, on the one hand, and provincialism and parochial rigidity, on the other; this duality is encapsulated in Disney's character per se, hiding behind a porous façade of perfection. The text reads that Glass's music did not succeed in supporting this dimension of Wurlitzer's libretto, thus inadvertently adding a self-parodical layer to its parodical content. Since the composer failed to come to grips with the dramatic challenges he was facing, the music constantly circled in a hiatus between bold avant-garde pretensions and hackneyed forms of minimalist mannerism.

scholarly journals Excelencia e innovación en las tecnologías de la comunicación y de la imagen: Reconstrucción de un debate entre Wiesing, Levinson, Crowther y Seel / Excellence and Innovation in Communication Technology: Reconstruction of a Debate between Wiesing, Levinson, Crowther y Seel

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Ortiz de Landázuri
Keyword(s):  
Communication Technology ◽  
The Other ◽  
Contemporary Debate ◽  
National Geographic ◽  
Walt Disney ◽  
Number Of Factors ◽  
Virtual Images

ABSTRACTThe criteria of excellence and innovation concerning the technologies of the communication that see affected by a big number of factors, but at the end there is one that prevails on all the other: The quality of the images used, as it occurs with National Geographic and Walt Disney, two companies of communication that have been leaders concerning the fixation of the standard criteria of excellence and innovation. In this context reconstructs the contemporary debate between Wiesing, Levinson, Crowther and Seel about the criteria of excellence and innovation used concerning the assessment of the quality of the mediated virtual images by part of the technologies of the communication, taking into account his four genetic dimensions, to know: retroductive, symbolic, contextual and strictly scenic.RESUMENLos criterios de excelencia e innovación a la hora de valorar las tecnologías de la comunicación se ven afectados por un gran número de factores, pero al final hay uno que prima sobre todos los demás: la calidad de la imágenes utilizadas, como sucede con National Geographic y Walt Disney, dos empresas de comunicación que han sido determinantes a la hora de fijar los criterios estándar de excelencia e innovación. En este contexto se reconstruye el debate contemporáneo entre Wiesing, Levinson, Crowther y Seel acerca de los criterios de excelencia e innovación usados a la hora de valorar la calidad de las imágenes virtuales mediáticas por parte de las tecnologías de la comunicación, teniendo en cuenta su cuádruple dimensión genético-retroductiva, simbólica, contextual y estrictamente escénica.

scholarly journals Conductivity Measurement for Control of a Biogas Plant

2018 ◽  
Vol 66 (5) ◽  
pp. 1151-1156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Klein ◽  
Vlastimil Slaný ◽  
Eva Krčálová
Keyword(s):  
Biogas Production ◽  
Control Variable ◽  
Conductivity Measurement ◽  
Electrical Energy ◽  
The Other ◽  
Specific Production ◽  
Green Electricity ◽  
Production Methods ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Biogas Plants

Nowadays in these modern times, when the majority of technologies are dependent on electrical energy, it is necessary to build new sources of energy ecologically and still improve their efficiency. One of the branches, which can contribute to ecology, is biogas plants. When biogas production methods are properly applied in them, these biogas plants have two advantages. One of them is the disposal of biowaste, the other is the production of green electricity in cogeneration units. In this article, steps which will enable better control of biogas transformations are listed. Therefore, they will contribute to the eco biogas production. The innovative approach involves adding new control variable. This variable can be shown in advance of the reaction, as evidenced by the charts. Results for evaluation were measured in the bioreactor during 20 experiments. Most (14) experiments were identical with residues from wine. The residue measurement was performed on three experiments in the remaining biomaterials. The course of production of methane always copied progress conductivity. This fact is evident from the graphs on Figs. 2–4. The methods used for data processing were: removal creeping values, statistic methods (median, average) and interpolation. It can be concluded from the results that the conductivity of digestate predicts specific production of biogas.

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