Sundance to Sarajevo [[electronic resource] ] : film festivals and the world they made / / Kenneth Turan

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910449964103321
• Autore: Turan Kenneth
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2003
• ISBN: 1-59734-925-9; 1-282-35740-9; 0-520-93082-7; 9786612357404
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (216 p.)
• Classificazione: AP 42200
• Disciplina: 791.43/079; 791.43
• Soggetti: Film festivals; Performing arts festivals; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: Festivals with Business Agendas -- Part Two: Festivals with Geopolitical Agendas -- Part Three: Festivals with Aesthetic Agendas -- Part Four: The Politics of Festivals
• Sommario/riassunto: Almost every day of the year a film festival takes place somewhere in the world--from sub-Saharan Africa to the Land of the Midnight Sun. Sundance to Sarajevo is a tour of the world's film festivals by an insider whose familiarity with the personalities, places, and culture surrounding the cinema makes him uniquely suited to his role. Kenneth Turan, film critic for the Los Angeles Times, writes about the most unusual as well as the most important film festivals, and the cities in which they occur, with an eye toward the larger picture. His lively narrative emphasizes the cultural, political, and sociological aspects of each event as well as the human stories that influence the various and telling ways the film world and the real world intersect. Of the festivals profiled in detail, Cannes and Sundance are obvious choices as the biggest, brashest, and most influential of the bunch. The others were ; selected for their ability to open a window onto a wider, more diverse world and cinema's place in it. Sometimes, as with Sarajevo and Havana, film is a vehicle for understanding the international political community's most vexing dilemmas. Sometimes, as with Burkina Faso's FESPACO and Pordenone's Giornate del Cinema Muto, it's a chance to examine the very nature of the cinematic experience. But always the stories in this book show us that film means more and touches deeper chords than anyone might have expected. No other book explores so many different festivals in such detail or provides a context beyond the merely cinematic.

Complex Behaviour of Glassy Systems [[electronic resource] ] : Proceedings of the XIV Sitges Conference Sitges, Barcelona, Spain, 10–14 June 1996 / / edited by Miguel Rubi, Conrado Perez-Vicente

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910257402603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 1997
• ISBN: 3-540-69123-5
• Edizione: [1st ed. 1997.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (IX, 470 p. 30 illus., 3 illus. in color.)
• Collana: Lecture Notes in Physics, , 0075-8450 ; ; 492
• Disciplina: 530.4/13
• Soggetti: Condensed matter; Physics; Quantum computers; Spintronics; Quantum theory; Statistical physics; Dynamics; Condensed Matter Physics; Mathematical Methods in Physics; Numerical and Computational Physics, Simulation; Quantum Information Technology, Spintronics; Quantum Physics; Complex Systems
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di contenuto: Entropy, fragility, “landscapes”, and the glass transition -- Computer simulation of models for the structural glass transition -- Microscopic dynamics in glasses in relation to that shown by other complex systems -- Microscopic dynamics of A1C60 compounds -- Dynamics of a supercooled Lennard-Jones system: Qualitative and quantitative tests of mode-coupling theory -- An ideal glass transition in supercooled water? -- Glass transition in the hard sphere system -- Slow dynamics of glassy systems -- Classical and quantum behavior in mean-field glassy systems -- Complexity as the driving force for glassy transitions -- A solvable model of a glass -- On the long times, large length scale behaviour of disordered systems -- Hexatic glass -- Slow dynamics and aging in spin glasses -- Ultrametric structure of finite dimensional spin glasses -- Entropy crisis in a short range spin glass -- Chiral and spin order in XY spin glass -- A metal-insulator transition as a quantum glass problem -- Quantum spin glasses -- Fermionic quantum spin glass transitions -- Polymer winding numbers and quantum mechanics -- Localized flux lines and the bose glass -- Structural studies of magnetic flux line lattices near critical transitions -- Phase diagram, vortex dynamics and dissipation in thin films and superlattices of 1:2:3 superconducting cuprates -- Monte carlo study of a three-dimensional vortex glass model with screening -- Equilibrium phase transitions in Josephson junction arrays -- An experimentally realizable weiss model for disorder-free glassiness -- Randomly charged polymers -- Copolymer melts in disordered media -- Cross-linked polymer chains: Scaling and exact results -- Magnetic properties of geometrically frustrated systems -- Fractal growth with quenched disorder -- Data clustering and the glassy structures of randomness -- A kinetic description of disorder.
• Sommario/riassunto: For the first time this subject, including many systems of interest in Condensed Matter Physics, is treated in an unified way. Complexity emerges as one of the main ingredients dictating the collective behaviour of many systems. Glassy systems constitute one of the most interesting fields of Condensed Matter Physics for which also a considerable amount of experimental data and industial applications have been collected during the last twenty years. Systems exhibiting glassy behaviour are for example: real glasses, spin glasses, vortex flasses in superconductors, protein folding, etc. In this book the reader can see how the present theoretical understanding of these subjects is based on similar techniques and approaches hopefully allowing to develop a unifying structure that underlies the physical mechanism.