1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910784171503321

Autore

Gormley Paul

Titolo

The new-brutality film [[electronic resource] ] : race and affect in contemporary Hollywood cinema / / Paul Gormley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bristol, UK, : Intellect, 2005

ISBN

1-280-47699-0

9786610476992

1-84150-926-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (222 p.)

Disciplina

791.43655

791.436552

Soggetti

Motion pictures - Social aspects - California - Los Angeles

Violence in motion pictures

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. 195-202) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter One - Naïve Imitations: Falling Down, the Crisis of the Action-Image and Cynical Realism; Chapter Two - Gangsters and Gangstas: Boyz N the Hood, and the Dangerous Black Body; Chapter Three - Gangsters and Gangstas Part Two: Menace II Society and the Cinema of Rage 1; Chapter Four - Miming Blackness: Reservoir Dogs and 'American Africanism'; Chapter Five - Trashing Whiteness: Pulp Fiction, Se7en, Strange Days and Articulating Affect; Conclusion; Bibliography; Filmography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The 1990's saw the emergence of a new kind of American cinema, which this book calls the "new brutality film." Violence and race have been at the heart of Hollywood cinema since its birth, but the new brutality film was the first kind of popular American cinema to begin making this relationship explicit. The rise of this cinema coincided with the rebirth of a long neglected strand of film theory, which seeks to unravel the complex relations of affect between the screen and the viewer. This book analyses and connects both of these developments, arguing that films like Falling Down, Reservoir Dogs,



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910299710703321

Autore

Atakan Barış

Titolo

Molecular Communications and Nanonetworks : From Nature To Practical Systems / / by Barış Atakan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Springer New York : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014

ISBN

1-4939-0739-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (196 p.)

Disciplina

004.6

620

620.5

621.382

Soggetti

Electrical engineering

Computer organization

Nanotechnology

Communications Engineering, Networks

Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks

Nanotechnology and Microengineering

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

Molecular Communication Among Nanomachines -- Passive Molecular Communication Through Absorbers -- Passive Molecular Communication Through Ligand-Receptor Binding -- Active Molecular Communication.

Sommario/riassunto

In this book, the concepts of molecular communications and nanonetworks are introduced. Throughout the book, the existing molecular communication paradigms are categorized into two main groups. The first group includes the Passive Molecular Communication (PMC) paradigms in which molecules freely diffuse to transfer information from a transmitter to a receiver. The second group includes the Active Molecular Communication (AMC) paradigms in which molecules are carried or guided by some mediators such as molecular motors, gap junction channels and bacteria. In the book, after briefly discussing why molecular communication is needed for the



sophisticated nano and biotechnology applications, the existing molecular communication systems are first presented. Then, the principles of diffusion phenomena and molecular reception with absorbers and the ligand-receptor binding mechanism are introduced. Based on these principles, the communication theories and techniques are given for the PMC. Then, the physical dynamics of molecular motors, calcium (Ca2+) signaling (with gap junction channels), cell-to-cell adhesion, motile behavior of bacteria are reviewed and based on these dynamics the AMC paradigms are discussed from the viewpoint of the communication theory.