Jan Wahl
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780813136189
- eISBN:
- 9780813141176
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813136189.001.0001
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
Regarded by many filmmakers and critics as one of the greatest directors in cinema history, Carl Theodor Dreyer (1889-1968) achieved worldwide acclaim after the debut of his masterpiece, The Passion ...
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Regarded by many filmmakers and critics as one of the greatest directors in cinema history, Carl Theodor Dreyer (1889-1968) achieved worldwide acclaim after the debut of his masterpiece, The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928). Named the most influential film of all time at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival, the classic film and its legendary director still exert strong influence even today. In 1955, Jan Wahl, an American student, had the extraordinary opportunity at the age of twenty to spend a unique and unforgettable summer with Dreyer as the director filmed Ordet or The Word (1955). Carl Theodor Dreyer and Ordet: My Summer with the Danish Filmmaker is a captivating account of Wahl's time with the director, based on Wahl's daily journal accounts and transcriptions of his conversations with Dreyer. Offering a glimpse into the filmmaker's world, Wahl fashions a portrait of Dreyer as a man, mentor, friend, and director. Wahl's unique and charming account is supplemented by exquisite photos of the filming and by selections from Dreyer's papers, including his notes on film style, his introduction for the actors before the filming of Ordet, and a visionary lecture he delivered at Edinburgh. Carl Theodor Dreyer and Ordet details one student's remarkable experiences with a legendary director and the unlikely bond formed over a summer.Less
Regarded by many filmmakers and critics as one of the greatest directors in cinema history, Carl Theodor Dreyer (1889-1968) achieved worldwide acclaim after the debut of his masterpiece, The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928). Named the most influential film of all time at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival, the classic film and its legendary director still exert strong influence even today. In 1955, Jan Wahl, an American student, had the extraordinary opportunity at the age of twenty to spend a unique and unforgettable summer with Dreyer as the director filmed Ordet or The Word (1955). Carl Theodor Dreyer and Ordet: My Summer with the Danish Filmmaker is a captivating account of Wahl's time with the director, based on Wahl's daily journal accounts and transcriptions of his conversations with Dreyer. Offering a glimpse into the filmmaker's world, Wahl fashions a portrait of Dreyer as a man, mentor, friend, and director. Wahl's unique and charming account is supplemented by exquisite photos of the filming and by selections from Dreyer's papers, including his notes on film style, his introduction for the actors before the filming of Ordet, and a visionary lecture he delivered at Edinburgh. Carl Theodor Dreyer and Ordet details one student's remarkable experiences with a legendary director and the unlikely bond formed over a summer.
Dean Speer
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780813034386
- eISBN:
- 9780813046280
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813034386.001.0001
- Subject:
- Music, Dance
This book provides a look into the careers and teaching philosophies of eighteen of the world's most respected ballet masters, principals, and artistic directors. The author sat down with prominent ...
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This book provides a look into the careers and teaching philosophies of eighteen of the world's most respected ballet masters, principals, and artistic directors. The author sat down with prominent ballet pedagogues and asked each a standard set of questions, including “What do we mean when we say someone has beautiful technique?” and “How did you become a dancer?” Featuring such artists as Peter Boal (Artistic Director of the Pacific Northwest Ballet) and Bene Arnold (first Ballet Mistress of the San Francisco Ballet), this volume offers insights into the nature of both performance and artistic instruction. The author's approach reveals convergences among these world-class talents, despite their varying pedagogical backgrounds and divisions.Less
This book provides a look into the careers and teaching philosophies of eighteen of the world's most respected ballet masters, principals, and artistic directors. The author sat down with prominent ballet pedagogues and asked each a standard set of questions, including “What do we mean when we say someone has beautiful technique?” and “How did you become a dancer?” Featuring such artists as Peter Boal (Artistic Director of the Pacific Northwest Ballet) and Bene Arnold (first Ballet Mistress of the San Francisco Ballet), this volume offers insights into the nature of both performance and artistic instruction. The author's approach reveals convergences among these world-class talents, despite their varying pedagogical backgrounds and divisions.
David Colander and Craig Freedman
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780691179209
- eISBN:
- 9780691184050
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691179209.003.0005
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Business History
This chapter begins by differentiating between the views of economic theory of the interwar Chicago Economics Department and the postwar Chicago School. The interwar department was highly skeptical ...
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This chapter begins by differentiating between the views of economic theory of the interwar Chicago Economics Department and the postwar Chicago School. The interwar department was highly skeptical of the direct relevance of all theory for policy. In contrast, the succeeding Chicago School lost much of that skepticism. Indeed, in the tumultuous postwar period, the older Chicago tradition mutated into a distinctive and formidable strategic approach, one nurtured under the critical eyes of Milton Friedman, George Stigler, and Aaron Director. Their meticulously hewn fabrication would eventually engulf and define the department. In a series of ever more distinguishable departures, this postwar generation of Chicago nurtured economists found themselves breaking with the older tradition that had defined the department during its more formative years.Less
This chapter begins by differentiating between the views of economic theory of the interwar Chicago Economics Department and the postwar Chicago School. The interwar department was highly skeptical of the direct relevance of all theory for policy. In contrast, the succeeding Chicago School lost much of that skepticism. Indeed, in the tumultuous postwar period, the older Chicago tradition mutated into a distinctive and formidable strategic approach, one nurtured under the critical eyes of Milton Friedman, George Stigler, and Aaron Director. Their meticulously hewn fabrication would eventually engulf and define the department. In a series of ever more distinguishable departures, this postwar generation of Chicago nurtured economists found themselves breaking with the older tradition that had defined the department during its more formative years.
David L. Faigman
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- January 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195341270
- eISBN:
- 9780199866878
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195341270.003.0001
- Subject:
- Law, Constitutional and Administrative Law
This chapter provides an introduction to the pivotal role facts play in both the interpretation and application of the Constitution. It considers two basic areas of the Supreme Court's modern ...
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This chapter provides an introduction to the pivotal role facts play in both the interpretation and application of the Constitution. It considers two basic areas of the Supreme Court's modern jurisprudence. These two areas concern the profound issue of defining “human life”, with the first concerned with its start and the second its end. In Roe v. Wade and its progeny, the Court avoided the question of when human life begins and instead identified when “meaningful life” begins, which it established at “viability” (i.e., the time when a fetus could survive on its own). In Cruzan v. Director, Mo. Dept. of Health, in contrast, the Court avoided the question of the meaning of “meaningful life,” and opted to uncritically accept the State's definition of when human life ended. These examples well illustrate how facts are an integral component of defining and applying the Constitution “to the various crises of human affairs”.Less
This chapter provides an introduction to the pivotal role facts play in both the interpretation and application of the Constitution. It considers two basic areas of the Supreme Court's modern jurisprudence. These two areas concern the profound issue of defining “human life”, with the first concerned with its start and the second its end. In Roe v. Wade and its progeny, the Court avoided the question of when human life begins and instead identified when “meaningful life” begins, which it established at “viability” (i.e., the time when a fetus could survive on its own). In Cruzan v. Director, Mo. Dept. of Health, in contrast, the Court avoided the question of the meaning of “meaningful life,” and opted to uncritically accept the State's definition of when human life ended. These examples well illustrate how facts are an integral component of defining and applying the Constitution “to the various crises of human affairs”.
Daniel Kremer
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780813165967
- eISBN:
- 9780813166742
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813165967.003.0013
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
Furie helms one last major studio production, the Rodney Dangerfield vehicle Ladybugs (1992) before deciding to spend the rest of his career making direct-to-video action pictures in Canada, as a ...
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Furie helms one last major studio production, the Rodney Dangerfield vehicle Ladybugs (1992) before deciding to spend the rest of his career making direct-to-video action pictures in Canada, as a sort of retirement gesture. Though signs of his earlier mastery emerge in Hollow Point (1996) and In Her Defense (1999), he returns to form with two films in the early 2000s: the post–Vietnam War drama Going Back (2001), which wraps up the Vietnam trilogy he started with The Boys in Company C and Purple Hearts, and Global Heresy (2002), a deceivingly light comedy starring Peter O’Toole, Joan Plowright, and Alicia Silverstone. Furie’s third-born son Jonathan commits suicide in July 2009, and in the midst of mourning his loss, he receives word that the Director’s Guild of Canada is honoring him with a Lifetime Achievement Award. There, he gives a heartwarming, free-form speech that encapsulates a lengthy and mostly happy career.Less
Furie helms one last major studio production, the Rodney Dangerfield vehicle Ladybugs (1992) before deciding to spend the rest of his career making direct-to-video action pictures in Canada, as a sort of retirement gesture. Though signs of his earlier mastery emerge in Hollow Point (1996) and In Her Defense (1999), he returns to form with two films in the early 2000s: the post–Vietnam War drama Going Back (2001), which wraps up the Vietnam trilogy he started with The Boys in Company C and Purple Hearts, and Global Heresy (2002), a deceivingly light comedy starring Peter O’Toole, Joan Plowright, and Alicia Silverstone. Furie’s third-born son Jonathan commits suicide in July 2009, and in the midst of mourning his loss, he receives word that the Director’s Guild of Canada is honoring him with a Lifetime Achievement Award. There, he gives a heartwarming, free-form speech that encapsulates a lengthy and mostly happy career.
Wendie Ellen Schneider
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780300125665
- eISBN:
- 9780300216554
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300125665.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter investigates the midcentury turn to perjury prosecutions as the main guarantor of testimonial veracity, and the prosecution of perjurers over the ensuing decades, revealing how a ...
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This chapter investigates the midcentury turn to perjury prosecutions as the main guarantor of testimonial veracity, and the prosecution of perjurers over the ensuing decades, revealing how a ubiquitous offense came to be thought of as a lower-class crime and how prosecution came to be limited to offenders in a narrow range of cases. The chapter surveys perjury prosecutions in England and Wales from 1835 to 1900, using sampling of local newspapers, to determine what types of lies and what types of liars were punished. It also looks at law reformers’ high hopes for perjury prosecutions and the limitations that ultimately dashed those hopes, transforming perjury prosecutions into a marginal phenomenon.Less
This chapter investigates the midcentury turn to perjury prosecutions as the main guarantor of testimonial veracity, and the prosecution of perjurers over the ensuing decades, revealing how a ubiquitous offense came to be thought of as a lower-class crime and how prosecution came to be limited to offenders in a narrow range of cases. The chapter surveys perjury prosecutions in England and Wales from 1835 to 1900, using sampling of local newspapers, to determine what types of lies and what types of liars were punished. It also looks at law reformers’ high hopes for perjury prosecutions and the limitations that ultimately dashed those hopes, transforming perjury prosecutions into a marginal phenomenon.
Christopher M.D. Wilkie
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199606467
- eISBN:
- 9780191731648
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199606467.003.0003
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Macro- and Monetary Economics
As soon as SDRs were instituted, the Bretton Woods arrangements began to unravel. While some observers noted that SDRs could not save the Bretton Woods system and were therefore doomed to ...
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As soon as SDRs were instituted, the Bretton Woods arrangements began to unravel. While some observers noted that SDRs could not save the Bretton Woods system and were therefore doomed to irrelevance, others—in both the private and public sector—noted that they could serve a useful role, including in the provision of much‐needed liquidity to developing countries. The experience of a nascent and successful private market in SDRs is also an important but hitherto neglected attribute.Less
As soon as SDRs were instituted, the Bretton Woods arrangements began to unravel. While some observers noted that SDRs could not save the Bretton Woods system and were therefore doomed to irrelevance, others—in both the private and public sector—noted that they could serve a useful role, including in the provision of much‐needed liquidity to developing countries. The experience of a nascent and successful private market in SDRs is also an important but hitherto neglected attribute.
Leif Jonsson
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199639724
- eISBN:
- 9780191738661
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199639724.003.0010
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Organization Studies
The Municipality Director in Sweden is appointed to a civil servant management function that links municipal politics and administration. The evidence from four studies conducted from 1999 to 2009 is ...
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The Municipality Director in Sweden is appointed to a civil servant management function that links municipal politics and administration. The evidence from four studies conducted from 1999 to 2009 is used to describe and analyse this governmental function. The four studies increase our understanding of the Municipality Director function by examining its content, its power resources, and its context. The four studies had different aims, took different scientific approaches, and used different theoretical supports. However, their findings are complementary. The analysis and comparison of these studies point to an important issue in social scientific research – namely the difficulty in balancing, on the one hand, a critical, basic approach that uses theoretical conceptualizations with, on the other hand, an open and sensitive interest in identifying social conditions using empirical materials.Less
The Municipality Director in Sweden is appointed to a civil servant management function that links municipal politics and administration. The evidence from four studies conducted from 1999 to 2009 is used to describe and analyse this governmental function. The four studies increase our understanding of the Municipality Director function by examining its content, its power resources, and its context. The four studies had different aims, took different scientific approaches, and used different theoretical supports. However, their findings are complementary. The analysis and comparison of these studies point to an important issue in social scientific research – namely the difficulty in balancing, on the one hand, a critical, basic approach that uses theoretical conceptualizations with, on the other hand, an open and sensitive interest in identifying social conditions using empirical materials.
Michael Riordan, Lillian Hoddeson, and Adrienne W. Kolb
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780226294797
- eISBN:
- 9780226305837
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226305837.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
The effort to design the SSC began at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in 1984, directed by Cornell accelerator physicist Maury Tigner. For five years the Central Design Group worked there with many ...
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The effort to design the SSC began at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in 1984, directed by Cornell accelerator physicist Maury Tigner. For five years the Central Design Group worked there with many other physicists to develop a conceptual design for the project and supervise superconducting magnet R&D. The SSC’s multibillion-dollar cost (in the $3-6 billion range) led to Congressional opposition in an era of growing federal deficits. Nevertheless, Reagan endorsed the SSC project in 1987, and the DOE began a national site-selection process that April. But problems in developing the superconducting dipole magnets led to increasing concern. The DOE tabled a laboratory management proposal offered by Universities Research Association (URA) and instead sought proposals from others for an SSC laboratory management-and-operating contractor. As the only bidder, URA was awarded the contract, after it had selected Harvard University physicist Roy Schwitters over Tigner to be the first SSC Laboratory Director.Less
The effort to design the SSC began at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in 1984, directed by Cornell accelerator physicist Maury Tigner. For five years the Central Design Group worked there with many other physicists to develop a conceptual design for the project and supervise superconducting magnet R&D. The SSC’s multibillion-dollar cost (in the $3-6 billion range) led to Congressional opposition in an era of growing federal deficits. Nevertheless, Reagan endorsed the SSC project in 1987, and the DOE began a national site-selection process that April. But problems in developing the superconducting dipole magnets led to increasing concern. The DOE tabled a laboratory management proposal offered by Universities Research Association (URA) and instead sought proposals from others for an SSC laboratory management-and-operating contractor. As the only bidder, URA was awarded the contract, after it had selected Harvard University physicist Roy Schwitters over Tigner to be the first SSC Laboratory Director.
J. W. F. Allison
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780198298656
- eISBN:
- 9780191710735
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198298656.003.0010
- Subject:
- Law, Comparative Law, Legal History
The French investigative procedural tradition developed around Roman–Canonical procedure. This chapter describes its development and that of the Conseil d'Etat's expressly inquisitorial judicial ...
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The French investigative procedural tradition developed around Roman–Canonical procedure. This chapter describes its development and that of the Conseil d'Etat's expressly inquisitorial judicial procedures. It shows how the various developed procedures of the Conseil d'Etat enable it to address the complex repercussions of judicial intervention in polycentric administrative disputes. The chapter contrasts the English adversarial tradition, the origins and development of which it explains. With reference to the Factortame litigation and leading cases on liability, estoppel, and proportionality, it shows how adversarial procedures have handicapped English courts in administrative disputes. It describes the Order 53 procedural reforms to the peculiarly restrictive prerogative remedies, their culmination in the Application for Judicial Review, the attempt in O'Reilly v Mackman to prevent circumvention of its technical safeguards, the extent of the consequent criticism, and Lord Woolf's further proposal for a Director of Civil Proceedings. By not addressing the need for inquisitorial procedures, it argues, the reforms have failed to entrench an English distinction between public and private law, which is thus not in convergence with the French.Less
The French investigative procedural tradition developed around Roman–Canonical procedure. This chapter describes its development and that of the Conseil d'Etat's expressly inquisitorial judicial procedures. It shows how the various developed procedures of the Conseil d'Etat enable it to address the complex repercussions of judicial intervention in polycentric administrative disputes. The chapter contrasts the English adversarial tradition, the origins and development of which it explains. With reference to the Factortame litigation and leading cases on liability, estoppel, and proportionality, it shows how adversarial procedures have handicapped English courts in administrative disputes. It describes the Order 53 procedural reforms to the peculiarly restrictive prerogative remedies, their culmination in the Application for Judicial Review, the attempt in O'Reilly v Mackman to prevent circumvention of its technical safeguards, the extent of the consequent criticism, and Lord Woolf's further proposal for a Director of Civil Proceedings. By not addressing the need for inquisitorial procedures, it argues, the reforms have failed to entrench an English distinction between public and private law, which is thus not in convergence with the French.
David Clark
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- November 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198569695
- eISBN:
- 9780191730559
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198569695.003.0003
- Subject:
- Palliative Care, Palliative Medicine Research
This chapter focuses on the expansion of the St. Christopher's Hospice, founded by Cicely Saunders. The opening of the hospice marked the culmination of Saunders's vocation, but it also marked the ...
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This chapter focuses on the expansion of the St. Christopher's Hospice, founded by Cicely Saunders. The opening of the hospice marked the culmination of Saunders's vocation, but it also marked the beginning of its true purpose. After its opening, its principles and ideas were challenged, its policies were refined and developed, and its credibility had to be earned. Above all, the hospice was put to the test as a vehicle and source of inspiration in Britain and all around the world. From the official opening of the hospice in 1967, to 1985, Saunders served as the hospice's Medical Director. She juggled her time with daily clinical work and organizational responsibilities, including financial duties. Saunders also travelled, lecturing and writing her insights on palliative care to inspire people. In this period, a growing recognition was developing for the movement she had founded and for her worldwide contribution to the care of the dying. Summing up Saunders' success were various awards and honours, including a rewarding personal life that eventually led to marriage. In addition to discussing the successes and expansion of the hospice, the chapter also discusses the personal convictions of Saunders. She placed emphasis on personhood; on the need for a group that would address psychological, spiritual, and bereavement needs; and on the right to die, wherein she firmly stood against euthanasia.Less
This chapter focuses on the expansion of the St. Christopher's Hospice, founded by Cicely Saunders. The opening of the hospice marked the culmination of Saunders's vocation, but it also marked the beginning of its true purpose. After its opening, its principles and ideas were challenged, its policies were refined and developed, and its credibility had to be earned. Above all, the hospice was put to the test as a vehicle and source of inspiration in Britain and all around the world. From the official opening of the hospice in 1967, to 1985, Saunders served as the hospice's Medical Director. She juggled her time with daily clinical work and organizational responsibilities, including financial duties. Saunders also travelled, lecturing and writing her insights on palliative care to inspire people. In this period, a growing recognition was developing for the movement she had founded and for her worldwide contribution to the care of the dying. Summing up Saunders' success were various awards and honours, including a rewarding personal life that eventually led to marriage. In addition to discussing the successes and expansion of the hospice, the chapter also discusses the personal convictions of Saunders. She placed emphasis on personhood; on the need for a group that would address psychological, spiritual, and bereavement needs; and on the right to die, wherein she firmly stood against euthanasia.
Dean Speer
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780813034386
- eISBN:
- 9780813046280
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813034386.003.0011
- Subject:
- Music, Dance
This chapter describes the career and teaching philosophy of David Moroni, Founding Director of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School, Professional Division, who defines technique as the means by which ...
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This chapter describes the career and teaching philosophy of David Moroni, Founding Director of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School, Professional Division, who defines technique as the means by which dancers acquire movement in the classical idiom—the mechanics of dance, its vocabulary. It is a vehicle through which dancers develop the body to express the music and the emotions through dance.Less
This chapter describes the career and teaching philosophy of David Moroni, Founding Director of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School, Professional Division, who defines technique as the means by which dancers acquire movement in the classical idiom—the mechanics of dance, its vocabulary. It is a vehicle through which dancers develop the body to express the music and the emotions through dance.
Dean Speer
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780813034386
- eISBN:
- 9780813046280
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813034386.003.0012
- Subject:
- Music, Dance
This chapter describes the career and teaching philosophy of Dennis Nahat, Artistic Director of Ballet San Jose in California, who defines technique as the ability to transcribe the unseen—something ...
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This chapter describes the career and teaching philosophy of Dennis Nahat, Artistic Director of Ballet San Jose in California, who defines technique as the ability to transcribe the unseen—something that is out of reach, out of the norm—without words. An invisible thing and a natural thing, it comes with many years of understanding one's own body.Less
This chapter describes the career and teaching philosophy of Dennis Nahat, Artistic Director of Ballet San Jose in California, who defines technique as the ability to transcribe the unseen—something that is out of reach, out of the norm—without words. An invisible thing and a natural thing, it comes with many years of understanding one's own body.
Dean Speer
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780813034386
- eISBN:
- 9780813046280
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813034386.003.0014
- Subject:
- Music, Dance
This chapter describes the career and teaching philosophy of Francia Russell, who was a soloist with the New York City Ballet and Co-artistic Director of Pacific Northwest Ballet (PNB). She is now ...
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This chapter describes the career and teaching philosophy of Francia Russell, who was a soloist with the New York City Ballet and Co-artistic Director of Pacific Northwest Ballet (PNB). She is now staging Balanchine ballets all over the world and guest-teaching, including at PNB. Russell defines technique as not just a matter of learning steps, but also about shaping the body, the instrument, creating sculpture with the body, shaping what we call “line.” Technique can only be understood gradually, and a good teacher presents the information in an intelligent sequence, based on experience, that will result in a fine end-product.Less
This chapter describes the career and teaching philosophy of Francia Russell, who was a soloist with the New York City Ballet and Co-artistic Director of Pacific Northwest Ballet (PNB). She is now staging Balanchine ballets all over the world and guest-teaching, including at PNB. Russell defines technique as not just a matter of learning steps, but also about shaping the body, the instrument, creating sculpture with the body, shaping what we call “line.” Technique can only be understood gradually, and a good teacher presents the information in an intelligent sequence, based on experience, that will result in a fine end-product.
Dean Speer
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780813034386
- eISBN:
- 9780813046280
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813034386.003.0015
- Subject:
- Music, Dance
This chapter describes the career and teaching philosophy of Martin Schläpfer. Schläpfer was Artistic Director of ballet-mainz and, as of 2009, Artistic Director of the ballet at Deutsche Oper am ...
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This chapter describes the career and teaching philosophy of Martin Schläpfer. Schläpfer was Artistic Director of ballet-mainz and, as of 2009, Artistic Director of the ballet at Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf-Duisburg. He defines technique as control over body, mind, and emotion—the blending of the three. It means sensing and knowing how to make the interrelation of the aforementioned three units happen at a desired moment.Less
This chapter describes the career and teaching philosophy of Martin Schläpfer. Schläpfer was Artistic Director of ballet-mainz and, as of 2009, Artistic Director of the ballet at Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf-Duisburg. He defines technique as control over body, mind, and emotion—the blending of the three. It means sensing and knowing how to make the interrelation of the aforementioned three units happen at a desired moment.
Gilbert C. Din
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780813037523
- eISBN:
- 9780813042145
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813037523.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, Military History
Captain Tomás Portell became commandant at Fort San Marcos in 1798, which continued in a decrepit condition and with insufficient soldiers. Spain was at war again with Great Britain, which brought ...
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Captain Tomás Portell became commandant at Fort San Marcos in 1798, which continued in a decrepit condition and with insufficient soldiers. Spain was at war again with Great Britain, which brought its privateers and warships to the Gulf Coast, and hindered sending Spanish supplies to Pensacola and Apalache. Marking the new United States–Spanish boundary upset the Natives. Spain used its Mississippi River gunboats on the Gulf Coast to protect small supply vessels, guard Fort San Marcos, and try to seize Bowles. Folch, Bouligny, and Casa-Calvo disputed the assistance Apalache needed. Bowles, meanwhile, returned to the Gulf Coast determined to create his state of Muskogee, losing most of his weapons and gifts when his ship sank off the Gulf Coast. He assumed the title of Director General and attracted Seminoles and some Lower Creeks to his cause through promising to bring in more goods. Upper Creeks, however, resisted him and incipient warfare began. Casa-Calvo sent an expedition to capture Bowles. Folch disputed many of Casa-Calvo's orders.Less
Captain Tomás Portell became commandant at Fort San Marcos in 1798, which continued in a decrepit condition and with insufficient soldiers. Spain was at war again with Great Britain, which brought its privateers and warships to the Gulf Coast, and hindered sending Spanish supplies to Pensacola and Apalache. Marking the new United States–Spanish boundary upset the Natives. Spain used its Mississippi River gunboats on the Gulf Coast to protect small supply vessels, guard Fort San Marcos, and try to seize Bowles. Folch, Bouligny, and Casa-Calvo disputed the assistance Apalache needed. Bowles, meanwhile, returned to the Gulf Coast determined to create his state of Muskogee, losing most of his weapons and gifts when his ship sank off the Gulf Coast. He assumed the title of Director General and attracted Seminoles and some Lower Creeks to his cause through promising to bring in more goods. Upper Creeks, however, resisted him and incipient warfare began. Casa-Calvo sent an expedition to capture Bowles. Folch disputed many of Casa-Calvo's orders.
Peter Hutchings
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780748693528
- eISBN:
- 9781474421997
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748693528.003.0006
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
In 2007 the writer/critic Tim Lucas published Mario Bava: All the Colors of the Dark. This massive tome, glossily produced, extensively illustrated, and over 1,100 pages long, has since been ...
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In 2007 the writer/critic Tim Lucas published Mario Bava: All the Colors of the Dark. This massive tome, glossily produced, extensively illustrated, and over 1,100 pages long, has since been described, with some justification, as ‘one of the most impressive books ever to have been written about any director’ (Williams, 2011: 162). The end result of over thirty years’ research, Mario Bava: All the Colors of the Dark has served to underline, reinforce and possibly clinch once and for all Mario Bava’s status as a major figure not merely in Italian horror cinema but in world horror as well. However, such status has been bestowed entirely retrospectively, for during his directorial career – which ran from 1960 through to the mid-1970s – Bava, while a respected figure in the Italian film industry, received little critical attention and was not generally known to the film-going public, either in his native Italy or elsewhere.Less
In 2007 the writer/critic Tim Lucas published Mario Bava: All the Colors of the Dark. This massive tome, glossily produced, extensively illustrated, and over 1,100 pages long, has since been described, with some justification, as ‘one of the most impressive books ever to have been written about any director’ (Williams, 2011: 162). The end result of over thirty years’ research, Mario Bava: All the Colors of the Dark has served to underline, reinforce and possibly clinch once and for all Mario Bava’s status as a major figure not merely in Italian horror cinema but in world horror as well. However, such status has been bestowed entirely retrospectively, for during his directorial career – which ran from 1960 through to the mid-1970s – Bava, while a respected figure in the Italian film industry, received little critical attention and was not generally known to the film-going public, either in his native Italy or elsewhere.
Nick Dawson
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813125381
- eISBN:
- 9780813135267
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813125381.003.0019
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter examines Hal Ashby's directorial job for the film Being There. It describes Ashby's directorial approach to the film, his relationship with the cast and the cast's opinion about his ...
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This chapter examines Hal Ashby's directorial job for the film Being There. It describes Ashby's directorial approach to the film, his relationship with the cast and the cast's opinion about his style and work attitude. This chapter explains that while Ashby was shooting Being There, United Artists had been enthusiastically publicizing Coming Home in the buildup to awards season. The film won several Academy Awards including Best Director for Ashby.Less
This chapter examines Hal Ashby's directorial job for the film Being There. It describes Ashby's directorial approach to the film, his relationship with the cast and the cast's opinion about his style and work attitude. This chapter explains that while Ashby was shooting Being There, United Artists had been enthusiastically publicizing Coming Home in the buildup to awards season. The film won several Academy Awards including Best Director for Ashby.
Julian Petley
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748625383
- eISBN:
- 9780748670871
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748625383.003.0005
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter discusses an interview with James Ferman. John Trevelyan has close relations with many British film-makers, frequently advising them on censorship matters before and even during ...
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This chapter discusses an interview with James Ferman. John Trevelyan has close relations with many British film-makers, frequently advising them on censorship matters before and even during production. Ferman puts the public first, and is more concerned with basically moral questions than was Trevelyan. The Video Recordings Act requires that virtually all videos currently on the market be classified within the next three years. Despite the fact that there have been no prosecutions of British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) certificated films for many years, Ferman is keen to discount suggestions of a ‘gentleman's agreement’ between the Board and the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP). The DPP has to consider who is likely to view videos taken into the home. Ferman is equally determined to reject the suggestion that the ‘video nasties’ affair (and the Video Recordings Act) was greatly facilitated by a new crusading spirit in the DPP's office.Less
This chapter discusses an interview with James Ferman. John Trevelyan has close relations with many British film-makers, frequently advising them on censorship matters before and even during production. Ferman puts the public first, and is more concerned with basically moral questions than was Trevelyan. The Video Recordings Act requires that virtually all videos currently on the market be classified within the next three years. Despite the fact that there have been no prosecutions of British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) certificated films for many years, Ferman is keen to discount suggestions of a ‘gentleman's agreement’ between the Board and the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP). The DPP has to consider who is likely to view videos taken into the home. Ferman is equally determined to reject the suggestion that the ‘video nasties’ affair (and the Video Recordings Act) was greatly facilitated by a new crusading spirit in the DPP's office.
Christine Cornea
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748624652
- eISBN:
- 9780748671106
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748624652.003.0003
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter describes a range of films that appeared in the 1960s. It then addresses the ‘new art’ films that appeared in the late 1960s throughout the 1970s. The 1960s was a time when science ...
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This chapter describes a range of films that appeared in the 1960s. It then addresses the ‘new art’ films that appeared in the late 1960s throughout the 1970s. The 1960s was a time when science fiction and science fact became remarkably intertwined, sometimes blurred, particularly within the context of an American national preoccupation with the story of the Space Race. The first ‘golden age’ of the science fiction film is frequently placed in the 1950s, with a second ‘golden age’ typically dated from the late 1970s and early 1980s. An interest in drugs became a defining feature of the ‘new art’ science fiction films. Examples of the American ‘new art’ science fiction films are then considered. The chapter also investigates a couple of British films, Zardoz and The Quatermass Conclusion. These British films also show the counter-culture as a feminine threat. An interview with Director Ken Russell is finally presented.Less
This chapter describes a range of films that appeared in the 1960s. It then addresses the ‘new art’ films that appeared in the late 1960s throughout the 1970s. The 1960s was a time when science fiction and science fact became remarkably intertwined, sometimes blurred, particularly within the context of an American national preoccupation with the story of the Space Race. The first ‘golden age’ of the science fiction film is frequently placed in the 1950s, with a second ‘golden age’ typically dated from the late 1970s and early 1980s. An interest in drugs became a defining feature of the ‘new art’ science fiction films. Examples of the American ‘new art’ science fiction films are then considered. The chapter also investigates a couple of British films, Zardoz and The Quatermass Conclusion. These British films also show the counter-culture as a feminine threat. An interview with Director Ken Russell is finally presented.
