1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910967981203321

Titolo

The Daily Show and rhetoric : arguments, issues, and strategies / / edited by Trischa Goodnow

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, : Lexington Books, 2011

ISBN

979-82-16-30340-4

1-283-08468-6

9786613084682

0-7391-5004-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (275 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

KnappTrischa Goodnow

Disciplina

791.45/75

Soggetti

Television programs

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

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Daily Show and Rhetoric-Arguments, Issues, and Strategies; I: The Nature of the Beast; II: Arguments; III: Strategies; IV: Issues; Index; About the Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

The Daily Show and Rhetoric approaches the popular program from a scholarly, rhetorical perspective to uncover the rhetorical nature of the show. Using a variety of rhetorical methods, the book, taken as a whole, concludes that The Daily Show is more that just a show designed to make the audience laugh; it's designed to make the audience think.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911046558503321

Autore

Baker Regina M

Titolo

Applied Time Series Analysis for the Social Sciences : Specification, Estimation, and Inference

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newark : , : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, , 2025

©2026

ISBN

1-119-01047-0

1-119-01049-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (242 pages)

Collana

Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics Series

Disciplina

519.5/5

Soggetti

Time-series analysis

Social sciences - Statistical methods

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Foundations -- Properties of time series : mean and variance stationarity -- Properties of time series : autocorrelation, the autocorrelation function and the partial autocorrelation function -- Examining time series properties : univariate ARIMA estimation and forecasting -- ARIMA intervention models -- ARIMA with non-binary explanatory variables -- OLS and the Gauss-Markov assumptions -- Autoregressive distributed lag models -- Cointegration and error correction -- General-to-specific modeling and the LSE school approach -- Vector autoregression : fundamental concepts -- Vector autoregression : details.

Sommario/riassunto

EXPLORE THIS INDISPENSABLE AND COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO TIME SERIES ANALYSIS FOR STUDENTS AND PRACTITIONERS IN A WIDE VARIETY OF DISCIPLINES Applied Time Series Analysis for the Social Sciences: Specification, Estimation, and Inference delivers an accessible guide to time series analysis that includes both theory and practice.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910964871603321

Titolo

Dance matters : performing India / / editors, Pallabi Chakravorty, Nilanjana Gupta

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Delhi, : Routledge, 2010

ISBN

1-136-51612-3

1-280-66487-8

9786613641809

0-203-15045-7

1-136-51613-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (333 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ChakravortyPallabi

GuptaNilanjana

Disciplina

792.80954

Soggetti

Dance - Social aspects - India

Dance - India

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

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgements; List of Figures; Introduction; I Can the Subaltern Dance?; 1 Dancing Off-stage: Nationalism and its "Minor Practices" in Tamil Nadu; 2 Another Time, Another Space - Does the Dance Remain the Same?; 3 Folk Culture in Front of Serious Challenge: A Case Study on the Tribes of North Bengal; 4 The Problematics of Tradition and Talent in Indian Classical Dance; 5 Dance as Healing: Kolkata Sanved; II Globalization of Indian Dance; 6 The Ownership of Indian Classical Dancing and Its Performance on the Global Stage

7 Negotiating Identity: Dance and Religion in British Hindu Communities8 Local/Global Histories of Bharatnatyam; III Aesthetics Embodied and Embedded; 9 It Matters For Whom You Dance: Audience Participation in Rasa Theory; 10 Manipuri Dance: A Lyrical Manifestation of Devotion; 11 Swayed by Love: Dance in the Vaishnava Temple Imagery of Bengal; 12 Remixed Practice: Bollywood Dance and the Global Indian; IV The Gendered Dancing Body; 13 The Daring Within: Speaking Gender through Navanritya



14 Re-Exporting "Tradition": The Transcultural Practice of Kathak in Kolkata and the Creation of a New Female Body15 The Lords of Dance: Changing Fortunes; V Alternative Histories; 16 The Politics of Memory: The Rise of the Anti-Hero in Kathakali; 17 Guru Surendranath Jena: Subverting the Reconstituted Odissi Canon; 18 Courtesans and Choreographers: The (Re)Placement of Women in the History of Kathak Dance; About the Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This volume presents a multidisciplinary perspective on dance scholarship and practice as they have evolved in India and its diaspora, outlining how dance histories have been written and re-written, how aesthetic and pedagogical conventions have changed and are changing, and how politico-economic shifts have shaped Indian dance and its negotiation with modernity.. Written by eminent and emergent scholars and practitioners of Indian dance, the articles make dance a foundational socio-cultural and aesthetic phenomena that reflects and impacts upon various cultural intercourses -- from art and