1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911143040403321

Autore

Maule Rosanna

Titolo

Beyond auteurism : new directions in authorial film practices in France, Italy and Spain since the 1980s / / Rosanna Maule

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bristol, UK ; ; Chicago, USA, : Intellect, c2008

ISBN

9786611786045

1841502049 (hbk.)

9781281786043

1281786047

9781841502557

1841502553

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

294 p. : ill., ports. ; ; 24 cm

Disciplina

791.430233

Soggetti

Motion pictures - Europe

Auteur theory (Motion pictures)

Motion pictures - Production and direction - France

Motion pictures - Production and direction - Italy

Motion pictures - Production and direction - Spain

Motion picture producers and directors - Europe

Cinematography - Europe

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

Front Cover; Preliminary Pages; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One: The 'Death of Cinema' and the Institutionalization of the Author; Chapter 1: The Film Author and the Survival of European Cinema; Chapter 2: The Middle Generation: Maurice Pialat, Gianni Amelio, and Víctor Erice; Chapter 3: The Difficult Legacy of the Nouvelle Vague: Olivier Assayas and French Film Authors at the End of Auteurism; Part Two: The Film Author in the New Audio-visual System

Chapter 4: For an Impure Cinema: Gabriele Salvatores and the Hybrid Nature of Film Authorship in Contemporary Italian Cinema Chapter 5: A Different Type of Cinephilia: Alejandro Amenábar and the New



Generation of Spanish Film Authors; Chapter 6: Made in Europa: Luc Besson and the Question of Cultural Exception in Post-auteur France; Part Three: The Female Author in the Era of Post-feminism; Chapter 7: Auteurism and Women's Cinema in France, Italy and Spain; Chapter 8: Female Authors and Gendered Identity in Film: Claire Denis's Post-subjective Representation

Chapter 9: Feminine Matters: Francesca Archibugi and the Reconfiguration of Women in the Private Sphere Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

Beyond Auteurism is a comprehensive study of nine film authors from France, Italy and Spain who since the 1980's have blurred the boundaries between art-house and mainstream, and national and transnational film production. Maule examines how the individuals have maintained a dialectical relationship with the authorial tradition of the national cinema to which each belongs. In considering this tradition, Maule seeks to illustrate that the film author is not only the most important symbol of European cinema's cultural tradition and commitment, but is also a crucial part of Europe's efforts to...

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911144450203321

Autore

Ross Sheldon M

Titolo

Simulation / / Sheldon M. Ross

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Boston, : Elsevier Academic Press, c2006

ISBN

9786612540158

9781282540156

1282540157

9780080517223

0080517226

Edizione

[4th ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 recurso en línea (313 p.)

Collana

Statistical Modeling and Decision Science

Disciplina

519.2

Soggetti

Random variables

Probabilities

Computer simulation

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

Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright page; Table of Contents; Preface; Overview; New to This Edition; Chapter Descriptions; Thanks; 1. Introduction; Exercises; 2. Elements of Probability; 2.1  Sample Space and Events; 2.2  Axioms of Probability; 2.3  Conditional Probability and Independence; 2.4  Random Variables; 2.5  Expectation; 2.6  Variance; 2.7  Chebyshev's Inequality and the Laws of Large Numbers; 2.8  Some Discrete Random Variables; Binomial Random Variables; Poisson Random Variables; Geometric Random Variables; The Negative Binomial Random Variable; Hypergeometric Random Variables

2.9  Continuous Random Variables Uniformly Distributed Random Variables; Normal Random Variables; Exponential Random Variables; The Poisson Process and Gamma Random Variables; The Nonhomogeneous Poisson Process; 2.10  Conditional Expectation and Conditional Variance; The Conditional Variance Formula; Exercises; References; 3. Random Numbers; Introduction; 3.1  Pseudorandom Number Generation; 3.2  Using Random Numbers to Evaluate Integrals; Exercises; References; 4. Generating Discrete Random Variables; 4.1  The Inverse Transform Method; 4.2  Generating a Poisson Random Variable

4.3  Generating Binomial Random Variables 4.4  The Acceptance-Rejection Technique; 4.5  The Composition Approach; 4.6  Generating Random Vectors; Exercises; 5. Generating Continuous Random Variables; Introduction; 5.1  The Inverse Transform Algorithm; 5.2  The Rejection Method; 5.3  The Polar Method for Generating Normal Random Variables; 5.4  Generating a Poisson Process; 5.5  Generating a Nonhomogeneous Poisson Process; Exercises; References; 6. The Discrete Event Simulation Approach; Introduction; 6.1  Simulation via Discrete Events; 6.2  A Single-Server Queueing System

6.3  A Queueing System with Two Servers in Series 6.4  A Queueing System with Two Parallel Servers; 6.5  An Inventory Model; 6.6  An Insurance Risk Model; 6.7  A Repair Problem; 6.8  Exercising a Stock Option; 6.9  Verification of the Simulation Model; Exercises; References; 7. Statistical Analysis of Simulated Data; Introduction; 7.1  The Sample Mean and Sample Variance; 7.2  Interval Estimates of a Population Mean; 7.3  The Bootstrapping Technique for Estimating Mean Square Errors; Exercises; References; 8. Variance Reduction Techniques; Introduction; 8.1  The Use of Antithetic Variables

8.2  The Use of Control Variates 8.3  Variance Reduction by Conditioning; Estimating the Expected Number of Renewals by Time t; 8.4  Stratified Sampling; 8.5  Applications of Stratified Sampling; Analyzing Systems Having Poisson Arrivals; Computing Multidimensional Integrals of Monotone Functions; Compound Random Vectors; 8.6  Importance Sampling; 8.7  Using Common Random Numbers; 8.8  Evaluating an Exotic Option; 8.9  Estimating Functions of Random Permutations and Random Subsets; Random Permutations; Random Subsets

8.10  Appendix: Verification of Antithetic Variable Approach When Estimating the Expected Value of Monotone Functions

Sommario/riassunto

Ross's Simulation, Fourth Edition introduces aspiring and practicing actuaries, engineers, computer scientists and others to the practical aspects of constructing computerized simulation studies to analyze and interpret real phenomena. Readers learn to apply results of these analyses to problems in a wide variety of fields to obtain effective, accurate solutions and make predictions about future outcomes. This text explains how a computer can be used to generate random



numbers, and how to use these random numbers to generate the behavior of a stochastic model over time. It presents