1.

Record Nr.

UNICAMPANIASUN0065632

Titolo

Calculus of variations and nonlinear partial differential equations : lectures given at the C.I.M.E. summer school held in Cetraro, Italy, June 27-July 2, 2005 / Luigi Ambrosio ... [et al.] ; with a historical overview by Elvira Mascolo ; editors: Bernard Dacorogna, Paolo Marcellini

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin [etc.], : Springer, c2008

ISBN

978-35-407-5913-3

Descrizione fisica

XI, 196 p. ; 24 cm.

Soggetti

35-XX - Partial differential equations [MSC 2020]

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910452122003321

Autore

Conley Tom

Titolo

Film hieroglyphs [[electronic resource] ] : ruptures in classical cinema / / Tom Conley, with a new Introduction

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2006

ISBN

0-8166-9927-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (300 p.)

Disciplina

791.4309

Soggetti

Motion picture plays - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1991.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-241) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Hieroglyphs Then and Now; Introduction; 1. The Filmic Icon: Boudu sauvé des eaux; 2. The Law of the Letter: Scarlet Street; 3. Dummies Revived: Manpower; 4. The Nether Eye: Objective, Burma!; 5. Facts and Figures of History: Paisan; 6. The



Human Alphabet: La bête humaine; 7. Decoding Film Noir: The Killers, High Sierra, and White Heat; Epilogue; Appendix; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

At a time when traditional film theory privileged the purely visual, Film Hieroglyphs introduced a new way of watching film-examining the ways in which writing bears on cinema. Author Tom Conley gives special consideration to the points (ruptures) at which story, image, and writing appear to be at odds with one another. Conley hypothesizes that major directors-Renoir, Lang, Walsh, Rossellini-tend unconsciously to meld history and ideology. Graphic elements are seen as simultaneously foreign and integral to the field of the image. From these contradictions hieroglyphs emerge that mark a design