02770nam 22003973 450 991014865660332120230808200001.0(CKB)3710000000906916(MiAaPQ)EBC6044057(Au-PeEL)EBL6044057(OCoLC)1014312021(EXLCZ)99371000000090691620210901d2016 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierBy Women Possessed A Life of Eugene O'NeillEast Rutherford :Penguin Publishing Group,2016.©2016.1 online resource (956 pages)0-399-15911-8 0-698-17068-7 "Celebrated for their books on Eugene O'Neill and enjoying access to a trove of previously sealed archival material, the Gelbs deliver their final volume on the stormy life and brilliant oeuvre of this Nobel Prize-winning American playwright. This is a tour through both a magical moment in American theater and the troubled life of a genius. Not a peep show or a celebrity gossip fest, this book is a brilliant investigation of the emotional knots that ensnared one of our most important playwrights. Handsome, charming when he wanted to be, O'Neill was the flame women were drawn to--all, that is, except his mother, who never let him forget he was unwanted. By Women Possessed follows O'Neill through his great successes, the failures he was able to shrug off, and the long eclipse, a twelve-year period in which, despite the Nobel, nothing he wrote was produced. But ahead lay his greatest achievements: The Iceman Cometh and Long Day's Journey into Night. Both were ahead of their time and both received lukewarm receptions. It wasn't until after his death that his widow, the keeper of the flame, began a fierce and successful campaign to restore his reputation. The result is that today, just over 125 years after his birth, O'Neill is a towering presence in the theater, his work--always in performance here and abroad--still electrifying audiences. Perhaps of equal importance, he is the acknowledged father of modern American theater, the man who paved the way for the likes of Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, and a host of others. But, as Williams has said, at a cost: 'O'Neill gave birth to the American theater and died for it'"--Provided by publisher.812.52BIO005000BIO007000BIO000000bisacshGelb Arthur13687Gelb Barbara600903MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910148656603321By Women Possessed2890357UNINA03128nam 22004213 450 991086103880332120240620190733.01-970001-04-6(CKB)4100000003844517(MiAaPQ)EBC6954893(Au-PeEL)EBL6954893(EXLCZ)99410000000384451720220421d2018 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierFrontiers of Multimedia ResearchSan Rafael :Morgan & Claypool Publishers,2018.©2018.1 online resourceACM books ;17.1-970001-06-2 1-970001-05-4 The field of multimedia is unique in offering a rich and dynamic forum for researchers from "traditional" fields to collaborate and develop new solutions and knowledge that transcend the boundaries of individual disciplines. Despite the prolific research activities and outcomes, however, few efforts have been made to develop books that serve as an introduction to the rich spectrum of topics covered by this broad field. A few books are available that either focus on specific subfields or basic background in multimedia. Tutorial-style materials covering the active topics being pursued by the leading researchers at frontiers of the field are currently lacking. In 2015, ACM SIGMM, the special interest group on multimedia, launched a new initiative to address this void by selecting and inviting 12 rising-star speakers from different subfields of multimedia research to deliver plenary tutorial-style talks at the ACM Multimedia conference for 2015. Each speaker discussed the challenges and state-of-the-art developments of their prospective research areas in a general manner to the broad community. The covered topics were comprehensive, including multimedia content understanding, multimodal human-human and human-computer interaction, multimedia social media, and multimedia system architecture and deployment. Following the very positive responses to these talks, the speakers were invited to expand the content covered in their talks into chapters that can be used as reference material for researchers, students, and practitioners. Each chapter discusses the problems, technical challenges, state-of-the-art approaches and performances, open issues, and promising direction for future work. Collectively, the chapters provide an excellent sampling of major topics addressed by the community as a whole. This book, capturing some of the outcomes of such efforts, iswell positioned to fill the aforementioned needs in providing tutorial-style reference materials for frontier topics in multimedia.ACM books.Multimedia systemsResearchMultimedia systemsResearch.Chang Shih Fu1741226MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910861038803321Frontiers of Multimedia Research4167201UNINA