1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910465844803321

Autore

Marshall P. David

Titolo

Celebrity and power : fame in contemporary culture / / P. David Marshall

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, Minnesota : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-4529-4968-9

1-4529-4401-6

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (344 p.)

Disciplina

306/.0973

Soggetti

Celebrities - United States - History - 21st century

Fame - Social aspects - United States

Celebrities - History - 21st century

Fame - Social aspects

Popular culture - United States - History - 21st century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

"With a New Introduction."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: Contents -- Introduction to the Second Edition. Celebrity in the Digital Era: A New Public Intimacy -- Celebrity and Power: Fame in Contemporary Culture -- Preface -- Part I -- 1. Tracing the Meaning of the Public Individuals -- 2. Conceptualizing the Collective: The Mob, the Crowd, the Mass, and the Audience -- 3. Tools for the Analysis of the Celebrity as a Form of Cultural Power -- Part II -- 4. The Cinematic Apparatus and the Construction of the Film Celebrity -- 5. Television's Construction of the Celebrity -- 6. The Meanings of the Popular Music Celebrity: The Construction of Distinctive Authenticity -- 7. The System of Celebrity -- Part III -- The Embodiment of Affect in Political Culture -- Conclusion: Forms of Power/Forms of Public Subjectivity -- Coda: George, Celebrities, and the Shift in Political/Popular Culture -- Notes -- Index.



Sommario/riassunto

" Simultaneously celebrated and denigrated, celebrities represent not only the embodiment of success, but also the ultimate construction of false value. Celebrity and Power questions the impulse to become embroiled with the construction and collapse of the famous, exploring the concept of the new public intimacy: a product of social media in which celebrities from Lady Gaga to Barack Obama are expected to continuously campaign for audiences in new ways. In a new Introduction for this edition, P. David Marshall investigates the viewing public's desire to associate with celebrity and addresses the explosion of instant access to celebrity culture, bringing famous people and their admirers closer than ever before. "--

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910789871903321

Autore

Eshel Gidon <1958->

Titolo

Spatiotemporal data analysis / / Gidon Eshel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton : , : Princeton University Press, , [2012]

©2012

ISBN

1-4008-4063-5

Edizione

[Course Book]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (336 p.)

Classificazione

SCI019000MAT002050

Disciplina

519.5/36

Soggetti

Spatial analysis (Statistics)

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part 1. Foundations -- One. Introduction and Motivation -- Two. Notation and Basic Operations -- Three. Matrix Properties, Fundamental Spaces, Orthogonality -- Four. Introduction to Eigenanalysis -- Five. The Algebraic Operation of SVD -- Part 2. Methods of Data Analysis -- Six. The Gray World of Practical Data Analysis: An Introduction to Part 2 -- Seven. Statistics in Deterministic Sciences: An Introduction -- Eight. Autocorrelation -- Nine. Regression and Least Squares -- Ten. The Fundamental Theorem of Linear Algebra -- Eleven. Empirical Orthogonal Functions -- Twelve. The SVD Analysis of Two Fields -- Thirteen. Suggested Homework -- Index



Sommario/riassunto

"A severe thunderstorm morphs into a tornado that cuts a swath of destruction through Oklahoma. How do we study the storm's mutation into a deadly twister? Avian flu cases are reported in China. How do we characterize the spread of the flu, potentially preventing an epidemic? The way to answer important questions like these is to analyze the spatial and temporal characteristics--origin, rates, and frequencies--of these phenomena. This comprehensive text introduces advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and researchers to the statistical and algebraic methods used to analyze spatiotemporal data in a range of fields, including climate science, geophysics, ecology, astrophysics, and medicine. Gidon Eshel begins with a concise yet detailed primer on linear algebra, providing readers with the mathematical foundations needed for data analysis. He then fully explains the theory and methods for analyzing spatiotemporal data, guiding readers from the basics to the most advanced applications. This self-contained, practical guide to the analysis of multidimensional data sets features a wealth of real-world examples as well as sample homework exercises and suggested exams"--