1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910140527203321

Autore

Melnyk George

Titolo

Film and the city : the urban imaginary in Canadian cinema / / George Melnyk

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athabasca University Press, 2014

©2014

Edmonton [Alberta.] : , : AU Press, , [2014]

Beaconsfield, Quebec : , : Canadian Electronic Library, , 2014

ISBN

1-927356-61-X

1-927356-60-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (320 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

791.43

Soggetti

Motion pictures - Canada - History

City and town life in motion pictures

Cities and towns in motion pictures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-292) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : The Urban Imaginary in Canadian Cinema -- The City of Faith : Navigating Piety in Arcand's Jésus de Montréal (1989) -- The City of Dreams : The Sexual Self in Lauzon's Léolo (1992) -- The Generderd City : Feminism in Rozema's Desperanto (1991), Pool's Rispondetemi (1991), and Villeneuve's Maelström (2000) -- The City Made Flesh : The Embodied Other in Lepage's Le Confessionnal (1995) and Egoyan's Exotica (1994) -- The Diasporic City : Postcolonialism, Hybridity, and Transnationality in Virgo's Rude (1995) and Mehta's Bollywood/Hollywood (2001) -- The City of Transgressive Desires : Melodramatic Absurdity in Maddin's The Saddest Music in the World (2003) and My Winnipeg (2007) -- The City of Eternal Youth : Capitalism, Consumerism, and Generation in Burns's waydowntown (2000) and Radiant City (2006) -- The City of Disfunction : Race and Relations in Vancouver from Shum's Double Happiness (1994) to Sweeney's Last Wedding (2001) and McDonald's The Love Crimes of Gillian Guess (2004) -- Conclusion : National Identity and the Urban Imagination.



Sommario/riassunto

Most Canadians are city dwellers, a fact often unacknowledged by twentieth-century Canadian films, with their preference for themes of wilderness survival or rural life. Modernist Canadian films tend to support what film scholar Jim Leach calls "the nationalist-realist project," a documentary style that emphasizes the exoticism and mythos of the land. Over the past several decades, however, the hegemony of Anglo-centrism has been challenged by francophone and First Nations perspectives and the character of cities altered by a continued influx of immigrants and the development of cities as economic and technological centers. No longer primarily defined through the lens of rural nostalgia, Canadian urban identity is instead polyphonic, diverse, constructed through multiple discourses and mediums, an exchange rather than a strict orientation. Taking on the urban as setting and subject, filmmakers are ideally poised to create and reflect multiple versions of a single city. Examining fourteen Canadian films produced from 1989 to 2007, including Denys Arcand's Je?sus de Montre?al (1989), Jean-Claude Lauzon's Le?olo (1992), Mina Shum's Double Happiness (1994), Cle?ment Virgo's Rude (1995), and Guy Maddin's My Winnipeg (2007), Film and the City is the first comprehensive study of Canadian film and "urbanity"--the totality of urban culture and life. Drawing on film and urban studies and building upon issues of identity formation in Canadian studies, Melnyk considers how filmmakers, films, and urban audiences experience, represent, and interpret urban spatiality, visuality, and orality. In this way, Film and the City argues that Canadian narrative film of the postmodern period has aided in articulating a new national identity.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911020247703321

Autore

Shapiro Moshe

Titolo

Quantum control of molecular processes / / Moshe Shapiro, Paul Brumer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Weinheim, : Wiley-VCH, c2012

ISBN

9783527639724

3527639721

9783527639700

3527639705

9783527639717

3527639713

Edizione

[2nd, rev. and enl. ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1078 p.)

Classificazione

530

5307

UH 5680

VE 5650

Altri autori (Persone)

BrumerPaul

ShapiroMoshe

Disciplina

535/.15

Soggetti

Quantum optics

Coherence (Optics)

Molecular dynamics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First ed. published as: Principles of the quantum control of molecular processes. Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley-Interscience, c2003.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 513-535) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title page; Related Titles; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Preface to the Second Edition; Preface to the First Edition; Chapter 1: Preliminaries of the Interaction of Light with Matter; Chapter 2: Weak-Field Photodissociation; 2.1 Photoexcitation of a Molecule with a Pulse of Light; 2.2 State Preparation During the Pulse; 2.3 Photodissociation; 2.A Appendix: Molecular State Lifetime in Photodissociation; Chapter 3: Weak-Field Coherent Control; 3.1 Traditional Excitation; 3.2 Photodissociation from a Superposition State; 3.3 The Principle of Coherent Control

3.4 Interference between3.5 Polarization Control of Differential Cross



Sections; 3.6 Pump-Dump Control: Few Level Excitation; 3.A Appendix: Mode-Selective Chemistry; Chapter 4: Control of Intramolecular Dynamics; 4.1 Intramolecular Dynamics; Chapter 5: Optimal Control Theory; 5.1 Pump-Dump Excitation with Many Levels: the Tannor-Rice Scheme; 5.2 Optimal Control Theory; Chapter 6: Decoherence and Its Effects on Control; 6.1 Decoherence; 6.2 Sample Computational Results on Decoherence; 6.3 Environmental Effects on Control: Some Theorems; 6.4 Decoherence and Control

6.5 Countering Partially Coherent Laser Effects in Pump-Dump Control6.6 Countering CW Laser Jitter; Chapter 7: Case Studies in Coherent Control; 7.1 Two-Photon vs. Two-Photon Control; 7.2 Control over the Refractive Index; 7.3 The Molecular Phase in the Presence of Resonances; 7.4 Control of Chaotic Dynamics; Chapter 8: Coherent Control of Bimolecular Processes; 8.1 Fixed Energy Scattering: Entangled Initial States; 8.2 Time Domain: Fast Timed Collisions; Chapter 9: The Interaction of Light with Matter: a Closer Look; 9.1 Classical Electrodynamics of a Pulse of Light

9.2 The Dynamics of Quantized Particles and Classical Light FieldsChapter 10: Coherent Control with Quantum Light; 10.1 The Quantization of the Electromagnetic Field; 10.2 Quantum Light and Quantum Interference; 10.3 Quantum Field Control of Entanglement; 10.4 Control of Entanglement in Quantum Field Chiral Separation; Chapter 11: Coherent Control beyond the Weak-Field Regime: Bound States and Resonances; 11.1 Adiabatic Population Transfer; 11.2 An Analytic Solution of the Nondegenerate Quantum Control Problem; 11.3 The Degenerate Quantum Control Problem

11.4 Adiabatic Encoding and Decoding of Quantum Information11.5 Multistate Piecewise Adiabatic Passage; 11.6 Electromagnetically Induced Transparency; Chapter 12: Photodissociation Beyond the Weak-Field Regime; 12.1 One-Photon Dissociation with Laser Pulses; 12.2 Computational Examples; Chapter 13: Coherent Control Beyond the Weak-Field Regime: the Continuum; 13.1 Control over Population Transfer to the Continuum by Two-Photon Processes; 13.2 Pulsed Incoherent Interference Control; 13.3 Resonantly Enhanced Photoassociation; 13.4 Laser Catalysis

Chapter 14: Coherent Control of the Synthesis and Purification of Chiral Molecules

Sommario/riassunto

Written by two of the world's leading researchers in the field, this is a systematic introduction to the fundamental principles of coherent control, and to the underlying physics and chemistry.This fully updated second edition is enhanced by 80% and covers the latest techniques and applications, including nanostructures, attosecond processes, optical control of chirality, and weak and strong field quantum control. Developments and challenges in decoherence-sensitive condensed phase control as well as in bimolecular control are clearly described.Indispensable for atomic, molecular and c



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910137557703321

Titolo

The Medical post

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, : Maclean-Hunter

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Classificazione

cci1icc

Disciplina

610/.9714

Soggetti

Medicine - Québec (Province) - Periodicals

Medicine

Periodical

Periodicals.

Québec

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico