1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910461228803321

Autore

Miklitsch Robert <1953->

Titolo

Siren city [[electronic resource] ] : sound and source music in classic American noir / / Robert Miklitsch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, 2011

ISBN

1-283-86428-2

0-8135-5392-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (312 p.)

Disciplina

791.4302/4

Soggetti

Film noir - History and criticism

Motion pictures - Sound effects

Motion picture music - History and criticism

Electronic books.

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

House sound : reverb, offscreen sound, and voice-over narration in early RKO noir -- Sonic effects : sound and fury in Forties noir -- Audio technologies : intercoms and dictaphones, telephones and radios, phonographs and jukeboxes -- Blues in the night : popular and classical instrumental source music -- Singing detectives and bluesmen, black jazzwomen and torch singers -- The big number (side b) : killing them softly -- The big number (a side) : siren city.

Sommario/riassunto

Hailed for its dramatic expressionist visuals, film noir is one of the most prominent genres in Hollywood cinema. Yet, despite the "boom" in sound studies, the role of sonic effects and source music in classic American noir has not received the attention it deserves. Siren City engagingly illustrates how sound tracks in 1940's film noir are often just as compelling as the genre's vaunted graphics. Focusing on a wide range of celebrated and less well known films and offering an introductory discussion of film sound, Robert Miklitsch mobilizes the notion of audiovisuality to investigate period sound technologies such as the radio and jukebox, phonograph and Dictaphone, popular American music such as "hot" black jazz, and "big numbers" featuring iconic performers such as Lauren Bacall, Veronica Lake, and Rita



Hayworth. Siren City resonates with the sounds and source music of classic American noir-gunshots and sirens, swing riffs and canaries. Along with the proverbial private eye and femme fatale, these audiovisuals are central to the noir aesthetic and one important reason the genre reverberates with audiences around the world.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910703815703321

Autore

Williams Henry Shaler <1847-1918, >

Titolo

The correlation of geological faunas : a contribution to Devonian paleontology / / Henry Williams Shaler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, , 1903

Washington : , : Government Printing Office

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (147, III pages, 1 page of plates) : illustrations

Collana

Series C, Systematic geology and paleontology, 61

Bulletin / U.S. Geological Survey ; ; no. 210

Soggetti

Paleontology - Devonian

Devonian Geologic Period

Paleontology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed June 26, 2014).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910512309303321

Titolo

Chaotic Systems with Multistability and Hidden Attractors / / edited by Xiong Wang, Nikolay V. Kuznetsov, Guanrong Chen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2021

ISBN

3-030-75821-4

Edizione

[1st ed. 2021.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (661 pages)

Collana

Emergence, Complexity and Computation, , 2194-7295 ; ; 40

Disciplina

003.857

003.7

Soggetti

Dynamics

Nonlinear theories

Engineering mathematics

System theory

Applied Dynamical Systems

Engineering Mathematics

Complex Systems

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Šil’nikov Theorem -- Chaotic Systems with Stable Equilibria -- Chaotic Systems without Equilibria -- Chaotic Systems with Curves of Equilibria -- Chaotic Systems with Surfaces of Equilibria -- Chaotic Systems with Any Number and Various Types of Equilibria -- Hyperchaotic Systems with Hidden Attractors.

Sommario/riassunto

This book presents a collection of new articles written by world-leading experts and active researchers to present their recent finding and progress in the new area of chaotic systems and dynamics, regarding emerging subjects of unconventional chaotic systems and their complex dynamics.It guide readers directly to the research front of the new scientific studies. This book is unique of its kind in the current literature, presenting broad scientific research topics including multistability and hidden attractors in unconventional chaotic systems, such as chaotic systems without equilibria, with only stable equilibria, with a curve or a surface of equilibria. The book describes many novel



phenomena observed from chaotic systems, such as non-Shilnikov type chaos, coexistence of different types of attractors, and spontaneous symmetry breaking in chaotic systems. The book presents state-of-the-art scientific research progress in the field with both theoretical advances and potential applications. This book is suitable for all researchers and professionals in the areas of nonlinear dynamics and complex systems, including research professionals, physicists, applied mathematicians, computer scientists and, in particular, graduate students in related fields.