Uncanny bodies [[electronic resource] ] : the coming of sound film and the origins of the horror genre / / Robert Spadoni

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910782160903321
• Autore: Spadoni Robert <1964->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2007
• ISBN: 0-520-94070-9; 1-281-38562-X; 9786611385620; 1-4356-5365-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (204 p.)
• Disciplina: 791.43/6164
• Soggetti: Horror films - United States - History and criticism; Sound motion pictures - History and criticism
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-177) and index.; Includes filmography: p. 179-181.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. The Uncanny Body of Early Sound Film -- 2. Ludicrous Objects, Textualized Responses -- 3. The Mystery of Dracula -- 4. Dracula as Uncanny Theater -- 5 Frankenstein and the Vats of Hollywood -- CONCLUSION -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Films Cited -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In 1931 Universal Pictures released Dracula and Frankenstein, two films that inaugurated the horror genre in Hollywood cinema. These films appeared directly on the heels of Hollywood's transition to sound film. Uncanny Bodies argues that the coming of sound inspired more in these massively influential horror movies than screams, creaking doors, and howling wolves. A close examination of the historical reception of films of the transition period reveals that sound films could seem to their earliest viewers unreal and ghostly. By comparing this audience impression to the first sound horror films, Robert Spadoni makes a case for understanding film viewing as a force that can powerfully shape both the minutest aspects of individual films and the broadest sweep of film production trends, and for seeing aftereffects of the temporary weirdness of sound film deeply etched in the basic character ; of one of our most enduring film genres.

Field-Programmable Logic and Applications. From FPGAs to Computing Paradigm : 8th International Workshop, FPL'98 Tallinn, Estonia, August 31 - September 3, 1998 Proceedings / / edited by Reiner W. Hartenstein, Andres Keevallik

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910143489103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 1998
• ISBN: 3-540-68066-7
• Edizione: [1st ed. 1998.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XIII, 539 p.)
• Collana: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, , 1611-3349 ; ; 1482
• Disciplina: 621.395
• Soggetti: Computer systems; Software engineering; Artificial intelligence; Logic design; Computer arithmetic and logic units; Computer hardware description languages; Computer System Implementation; Software Engineering; Artificial Intelligence; Logic Design; Arithmetic and Logic Structures; Register-Transfer-Level Implementation
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di contenuto: New CAD framework extends simulation of dynamically reconfigurable logic -- Pebble: A language for parametrised and reconfigurable hardware design -- Integrated development environment for logic synthesis based on dynamically reconfigurable FPGAs -- Designing for Xilinx XC6200 FPGAs -- Perspectives of reconfigurable computing in ; research, industry and education -- Field-programmable logic: Catalyst for new computing paradigms -- Run-time management of dynamically reconfigurable designs -- Acceleration of satisfiability algorithms by reconfigurable hardware -- An optimized design flow for fast FPGA-based rapid prototyping -- A knowledge-based system for prototyping on FPGAs -- JVX — A rapid prototyping system based on Java and FPGAs -- Prototyping new ILP architectures using FPGAs -- CAD system for ASM and FSM synthesis -- Fast floorplanning for FPGAs -- SRAM-based FPGAs: A fault model for the configurable logic modules -- Reconfigurable hardware as shared resource in multipurpose computers -- Reconfigurable computer array: The bridge between high speed sensors and low speed computing -- A reconfigurable engine for real-time video processing -- An FPGA implementation of a magnetic bearing controller for mechatronic applications -- Exploiting contemporary memory techniques in reconfigurable accelerators -- Self modifying circuitry — A platform for tractable virtual circuitry -- REACT: Reactive environment for runtime reconfiguration -- Evaluation of the XC6200-series architecture for cryptographic applications -- An FPGA-based object recognition machine -- PCI-SCI protocol translations: Applying microprogramming concepts to FPGAs -- Instruction-level parallelism for reconfigurable computing -- A hardware/software co-design environment for reconfigurable logic systems -- Mapping loops ontoreconfigurable architectures -- Speed optimization of the ALR circuit using an FPGA with embedded RAM: A design experience -- High-level synthesis for dynamically reconfigurable hardware/software systems -- Dynamic specialisation of XC6200 FPGAs by partial evaluation -- WebScope: A circuit debug tool -- Computing Goldbach partitions using pseudo-random bit generator operators on an FPGA systolic array -- Solving boolean satisfiability with dynamic hardware configurations -- Modular exponent realization on FPGAs -- Cost effective 2×2 inner product processors -- A field-programmable gate-array system for evolutionary computation -- A transmutable telecom system -- A survey of reconfigurable computing architectures -- A novel field programmable gate array architecture for high speed arithmetic processing -- Accelerating DTP with reconfigurable computing engines -- Hardware mapping of a parallel algorithm for matrix-vector multiplication overlapping communications and computations -- An interactive datasheet for the xilinx XC6200 -- Fast adaptive image processing in FPGAs using stack filters -- Increasing microprocessor performance with tightly-coupled reconfigurable logic arrays -- A high-performance computing module for a low earth orbit satellite using reconfigurable logic -- Maestro-link: A high performance interconnect for PC cluster -- A hardware implementation of Constraint Satisfaction Problem based on new reconfigurante LSI architecture -- A hardware operating system for dynamic reconfiguration of FPGAs -- High speed low level image processing on FPGAs using distributed arithmetic -- A flexible implementation of high-performance FIR filters on Xilinx FPGAs -- Implementing processor arrays on FPGAs -- Reconfigurable hardware — A study in codesign -- Statechart-based HW/SW-codesign of amulti-FPGA-board and a microprocessor -- Simulation of ATM switches using dynamically reconfigurable FPGA's -- Fast prototyping using system emulators -- Space-efficient mapping of 2D-DCT onto dynamically configurable coarse-grained architectures -- XILINX4000 architecture — Driven synthesis for speed -- The PLD-implementation of Boolean function characterized by minimum delay -- Reconfigurable PCI-BUS interface (RPCI) -- Programmable prototyping system for image processing -- A co-simulation concept for an efficient analysis of ; complex logic designs -- Programming and implementation of reconfigurable routers -- Virtual instruments based on reconfigurable logic -- The >S<puter: Introducing a novel concept for dispatching instructions using reconfigurable hardware -- A 6200 model and editor based on object technology -- Interfacing hardware and software -- Generating layouts for self-implementing modules.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Field-Programmable Logics and Applications, FPL '98, held in Tallinn, Estonia, in August/September 1998. The 39 revised full papers presented were carefully selected for inclusion in the book from a total of 86 submissions. Also included are 30 refereed high-quality posters. The papers are organized in topical sections on design methods, general aspects, prototyping and simulation, development methods, accelerators, system architectures, hardware/software codesign, system development, algorithms on FPGAs, and applications.