1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910376213703321

Autore

Hartmanis Juris

Titolo

Proceedings of the 18th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Place of publication not identified], : Association for Computing Machinery, 1986

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (461 p.;)

Collana

ACM Conferences

Soggetti

Information Technology - Computer Science (Hardware & Networks)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910968454803321

Titolo

Film and risk / / edited by Mette Hjort

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Detroit, : Wayne State University Press, 2012

ISBN

9780814336113

0814336116

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

ix, 311 p. : ill

Collana

Contemporary approaches to film and media series

Altri autori (Persone)

HjortMette

Disciplina

384/.80681

Soggetti

Motion pictures - Production and direction

Motion picture industry - Economic aspects

Motion picture industry - Finance

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: the film phenomenon and how risk pervades it / Mette Hjort -- Flamboyant risk taking: why some filmmakers embrace



avoidable and excessive risks / Mette Hjort -- True stories of risk inadvertence / Trevor Ponech -- Spectatorship and risk / Paisley Livingston -- Stunt workers and spectacle: ethnography of physical risk in Hollywood and Hong Kong / Sylvia J. Martin -- The canary in the Gemeinschaft? disability, film, and the Jewish Question / Faye Ginsburg -- Accented filmmaking and risk taking in the age of postcolonial militancy, terrorism, globalization, wars, oppression, and occupation / Hamid Naficy -- Multinational casts and epistemic risk: the case of Pan-Asian cinema / Jinhee Choi -- The financial and economic risks of film production / Michael Pokorny and John Sedgwick -- Motion picture finance and risk in the United States / Bill Grantham -- Encouraging artistic risk taking through film policy: the case of new Danish screen / Eva Novrup Redvall -- After the decisive moment: moving beyond photojournalism's high-risk mode / Michelle L. Woodward -- Chance and change / Rod Stoneman -- Film and the environment: risk offscreen / Richard Maxwell and Toby Miller.

Sommario/riassunto

An interdisciplinary collection exploring the many ways risk plays a role in film.

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910965505903321

Titolo

Tolkien studies . Volume IV / / edited by Douglas A. Anderson, Michael D.C. Drout, Verlyn Flieger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Morgantown, : West Virginia University Press, 2007

ISBN

1-938228-52-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (370 p.)

Collana

Tolkien studies, , 1547-3155 ; ; v. 4

Altri autori (Persone)

AndersonDouglas A

DroutMichael D. C. <1968->

FliegerVerlyn

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.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Editors Introduction""; ""Notes on Submissions""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Conventions and



Abbreviations""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Tolkienian Linguistics""; ""First Stage Readers and Correspondents""; ""First Interlude Decoders""; ""Second Stage Journals and Books""; ""Second Interlude The Languages of Tolkien's Middle-earth""; ""Third Stage Conceptionists and Unifists""; ""Third InterludeCourses, Columns, and Lexicons""; ""Fourth Interlude VT, Myself, and I""; ""Fifth Interlude Elves in Cyberspace""; ""Fourth Stage Scholars and Speakers

or, Elvish and Neo-Elvish""""Sixth Interlude A Gateway to Sindarin""; ""Conclusion Fifty Years On and Onward""; ""Notes""; ""Works Cited""; ""Recommended Additional Reading""; ""Primary works""; ""Secondary works""; ""Web Sites""; ""Conference""; ""Carl F. Hostetter: A Checklist""; ""Texts by J.R.R. Tolkien as Edited or Co-Edited by Carl F. Hostetter""; ""Critical Work on Tolkien by Carl F. Hostetter""; ""Tolkien-Related Books, Periodicals or Forums Editor or Co-Edited by Carl F. Hostetter""; ""Tolkien's Celtic type of legends""; ""1. Tolkien's Celtic Library""

""2. Time-travel Stories and the Blending of Celtic and Anglo-Saxon Traditions""""3. The Continuing Fascination of the Arthurian Legend""; ""4. Middle-English, French and Celtic: The Lay of Leithian""; ""5. Merging Traditions""; ""Notes""; ""Works Cited""; ""Greek and Latin Amatory Motifs in Ãowyns' Portrayal""; ""1. Tolkien's portrait of Ã'owyn""; ""2. Greek and Latin amatory motifs: analysis and sources""; ""2.1. Florida-puella (the beloved seen as a flower)""; ""2.2. (bitter-sweet love)""; ""2.3 Dura puella (flinty girl)""

""2.4 Hiemps amoris (the winter of love) and ver erat (it was spring?)""""3. De rosis nascentibus as original inspiration for Ã'owyn's portrait""; ""4. Purpose and meaning of the amatory motifs in Ã'owyn's portrait""; ""Notes""; ""Works Cited""; ""The Curious Incident of the Dream at the Barrow""; ""Notes""; ""Works Cited""; ""J.R.R. Tolkien's Medieval Scholarship and its Significance""; ""Word Studies""; ""Dialect Studies""; ""Editions and Translations""; ""Middle English""; ""Old English""; ""Literary Criticism""; ""Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics?""

""The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth, Beorhthelm's Son?""""Sir Gawain and the Green Knight?""; ""Essays, Reviews and Meta-Scholarship?""; ""Conclusions""; ""Notes""; ""Works Cited""; ""Appendices""; ""J.R.R. Tolkien's Medieval Scholarship Publications in Chronological Order""; ""Posthumous Publications""; ""J.R.R. Tolkien's Medieval Scholarship Publications by Medieval Text""; ""Old English""; ""Middle English""; ""J.R.R. Tolkien's Medieval Scholarship Publications Arranged by Type""; ""Word Studies""; ""Dialect Studies""; ""Editions and Translations""; ""Literary Criticism""

""Essays, Reviews and Meta-Criticism""

Sommario/riassunto

Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review presents the growing body of critical commentary and scholarship on both J. R. R. Tolkien's voluminous fiction and his academic work in literary and linguistic fields.