Jeffrey Magee
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- May 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780195090222
- eISBN:
- 9780199871469
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195090222.003.0006
- Subject:
- Music, Popular
After Armstrong's departure from the band in late 1925, his music still represented a musical and social challenge in that his style presented an exciting but perhaps threatening foil to the Paul ...
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After Armstrong's departure from the band in late 1925, his music still represented a musical and social challenge in that his style presented an exciting but perhaps threatening foil to the Paul Whiteman sound. Henderson, with Redman's arrangements, continued to negotiate between the two approaches, reflecting the intersection of the New Orleans and New York traditions. This can be heard in the band's revival of earlier jazz hits such as “Clarinet Marmalade” and “Wang Wang Blues”, and in Henderson's original blues compositions that represented a New York stylization of the raw, earthy southern style. Songs like “‘D’ Natural Blues”, “The Stampede”, “Rocky Mountain Blues”, and “Whiteman's Stomp” exemplify how Henderson's band tailored its music for widely contrasting purposes and continued to absorb Armstrong's legacy.Less
After Armstrong's departure from the band in late 1925, his music still represented a musical and social challenge in that his style presented an exciting but perhaps threatening foil to the Paul Whiteman sound. Henderson, with Redman's arrangements, continued to negotiate between the two approaches, reflecting the intersection of the New Orleans and New York traditions. This can be heard in the band's revival of earlier jazz hits such as “Clarinet Marmalade” and “Wang Wang Blues”, and in Henderson's original blues compositions that represented a New York stylization of the raw, earthy southern style. Songs like “‘D’ Natural Blues”, “The Stampede”, “Rocky Mountain Blues”, and “Whiteman's Stomp” exemplify how Henderson's band tailored its music for widely contrasting purposes and continued to absorb Armstrong's legacy.
Ernest H. Williams
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780195179293
- eISBN:
- 9780199790470
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195179293.003.0008
- Subject:
- Biology, Natural History and Field Guides
This chapter describes the responses of trees to elevational gradients and the characteristics of plants (and one or two animals) that must cope with cold climates on the tops of mountains. The ...
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This chapter describes the responses of trees to elevational gradients and the characteristics of plants (and one or two animals) that must cope with cold climates on the tops of mountains. The higher the mountain, the stronger the environmental differences across the elevational gradient, and the more severe the challenges of life on top. These descriptions focus particularly on what one can see in the Rocky Mountains of the western states and the northeastern mountains of New York and New England.Less
This chapter describes the responses of trees to elevational gradients and the characteristics of plants (and one or two animals) that must cope with cold climates on the tops of mountains. The higher the mountain, the stronger the environmental differences across the elevational gradient, and the more severe the challenges of life on top. These descriptions focus particularly on what one can see in the Rocky Mountains of the western states and the northeastern mountains of New York and New England.
Thomas J. Stohlgren
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780195172331
- eISBN:
- 9780199790395
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195172331.003.0016
- Subject:
- Biology, Plant Sciences and Forestry
Improved sampling designs are needed to detect, monitor, and predict plant migrations and plant diversity changes caused by climate change and other human activities. This chapter provides a ...
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Improved sampling designs are needed to detect, monitor, and predict plant migrations and plant diversity changes caused by climate change and other human activities. This chapter provides a methodology based on multi-scale vegetation plots established across forest ecotones to monitor changing patterns of plant diversity, invasion of non-native plant species, and plant migrations at landscape scales. The methods are applied in the forests of Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.Less
Improved sampling designs are needed to detect, monitor, and predict plant migrations and plant diversity changes caused by climate change and other human activities. This chapter provides a methodology based on multi-scale vegetation plots established across forest ecotones to monitor changing patterns of plant diversity, invasion of non-native plant species, and plant migrations at landscape scales. The methods are applied in the forests of Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.
Robyn Muncy
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691122731
- eISBN:
- 9781400852413
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691122731.003.0009
- Subject:
- Political Science, American Politics
This chapter details events in Josephine Roche's life from 1929 to 1932. As Roche and the miners at Rocky Mountain Fuel (RMF) implemented their “industrial Magna Carta,” they faced two major threats. ...
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This chapter details events in Josephine Roche's life from 1929 to 1932. As Roche and the miners at Rocky Mountain Fuel (RMF) implemented their “industrial Magna Carta,” they faced two major threats. One was the Great Depression. The other was the determination of Roche's competitors to drive her out of business because of her labor policy. When Roche took over RMF, the United States and most of the industrialized world were on the brink of the most profound economic downturn of the twentieth century. That global economic contraction made Roche's competitors the more eager to force her out of the coalfields and made it harder for her to maintain high labor standards. Remarkably, she held on, heralded by progressives as a “prophet of a new and wiser social order.” In the process, she established her place within an emerging political elite that would soon dominate national politics and government. Indeed, her work at RMF was one of many threads tying the Progressive Era to the New Deal.Less
This chapter details events in Josephine Roche's life from 1929 to 1932. As Roche and the miners at Rocky Mountain Fuel (RMF) implemented their “industrial Magna Carta,” they faced two major threats. One was the Great Depression. The other was the determination of Roche's competitors to drive her out of business because of her labor policy. When Roche took over RMF, the United States and most of the industrialized world were on the brink of the most profound economic downturn of the twentieth century. That global economic contraction made Roche's competitors the more eager to force her out of the coalfields and made it harder for her to maintain high labor standards. Remarkably, she held on, heralded by progressives as a “prophet of a new and wiser social order.” In the process, she established her place within an emerging political elite that would soon dominate national politics and government. Indeed, her work at RMF was one of many threads tying the Progressive Era to the New Deal.
Robyn Muncy
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691122731
- eISBN:
- 9781400852413
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691122731.003.0008
- Subject:
- Political Science, American Politics
This chapter details events in Josephine Roche's life from 1927–1928. Orphaned and unemployed in 1927, Roche contemplated her future. Her father's lawyers advised her to sell her stock in the Rocky ...
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This chapter details events in Josephine Roche's life from 1927–1928. Orphaned and unemployed in 1927, Roche contemplated her future. Her father's lawyers advised her to sell her stock in the Rocky Mountain Fuel Company and live off the proceeds. She could then follow the conventions of Denver's elite and devote herself to afternoon bridge or fulfill her sense of social responsibility by funding progressive causes. Neither option appealed. In fact, in this midlife moment of decision, Roche defied every sort of convention. In a blazing exhibition of nerve, she amassed enough shares to become the majority stockholder of her father's coal company, kicked out the sitting management, and transformed the mining operation into a progressive enterprise that welcomed organized labor back to the coalfields of Colorado.Less
This chapter details events in Josephine Roche's life from 1927–1928. Orphaned and unemployed in 1927, Roche contemplated her future. Her father's lawyers advised her to sell her stock in the Rocky Mountain Fuel Company and live off the proceeds. She could then follow the conventions of Denver's elite and devote herself to afternoon bridge or fulfill her sense of social responsibility by funding progressive causes. Neither option appealed. In fact, in this midlife moment of decision, Roche defied every sort of convention. In a blazing exhibition of nerve, she amassed enough shares to become the majority stockholder of her father's coal company, kicked out the sitting management, and transformed the mining operation into a progressive enterprise that welcomed organized labor back to the coalfields of Colorado.
Mark David Spence
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195142433
- eISBN:
- 9780199848812
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195142433.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This chapter discusses Yellowstone's cultural landscape and the people that inhabited the area throughout the historic era. Yellowstone was a landscape that had been shaped by thousands of years of ...
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This chapter discusses Yellowstone's cultural landscape and the people that inhabited the area throughout the historic era. Yellowstone was a landscape that had been shaped by thousands of years of human use and habitation. While small bands of hunters and gatherers made the longest and most persistent use of Yellowstone, larger outlying groups from eastern and western slopes of the Rocky Mountains also exploited the area on a seasonal basis. It also attracted people from distant locales, and indigenous groups traded with the complex horticultural societies that flourished in the Mississippi and upper Rio Grand valleys more than five centuries ago.Less
This chapter discusses Yellowstone's cultural landscape and the people that inhabited the area throughout the historic era. Yellowstone was a landscape that had been shaped by thousands of years of human use and habitation. While small bands of hunters and gatherers made the longest and most persistent use of Yellowstone, larger outlying groups from eastern and western slopes of the Rocky Mountains also exploited the area on a seasonal basis. It also attracted people from distant locales, and indigenous groups traded with the complex horticultural societies that flourished in the Mississippi and upper Rio Grand valleys more than five centuries ago.
Paul Ramaeker
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231169813
- eISBN:
- 9780231850643
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231169813.003.0001
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter studies Sylvester Stallone's first seven films as director. These include: Paradise Alley (1978), Rocky II (1979), Rocky III (1982), Staying Alive (1983), Rocky IV (1985), Rocky Balboa ...
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This chapter studies Sylvester Stallone's first seven films as director. These include: Paradise Alley (1978), Rocky II (1979), Rocky III (1982), Staying Alive (1983), Rocky IV (1985), Rocky Balboa (2006), and Rambo (2008). Stallone's accomplishments with Rocky and Rambo are considerable. He has made significant progress in recovering his stardom by resuscitating his signature roles and in forging an authorial identity. He has also demonstrated a mastery of contemporary Hollywood aesthetics, while extending the strategies of his earlier films, particularly with regard to editing. In this, he continues to offer a distinct variation on prevailing trends. In Paradise Alley, this meant overt colour symbolism alongside a self-conscious mobilisation of classical Hollywood conventions in relation to 1970s genre revisionism. Rocky II, III, and IV saw him develop a form of melodramatic storytelling that is nonetheless classicist, inflected with elements of the backstage musical seen most explicitly in Staying Alive.Less
This chapter studies Sylvester Stallone's first seven films as director. These include: Paradise Alley (1978), Rocky II (1979), Rocky III (1982), Staying Alive (1983), Rocky IV (1985), Rocky Balboa (2006), and Rambo (2008). Stallone's accomplishments with Rocky and Rambo are considerable. He has made significant progress in recovering his stardom by resuscitating his signature roles and in forging an authorial identity. He has also demonstrated a mastery of contemporary Hollywood aesthetics, while extending the strategies of his earlier films, particularly with regard to editing. In this, he continues to offer a distinct variation on prevailing trends. In Paradise Alley, this meant overt colour symbolism alongside a self-conscious mobilisation of classical Hollywood conventions in relation to 1970s genre revisionism. Rocky II, III, and IV saw him develop a form of melodramatic storytelling that is nonetheless classicist, inflected with elements of the backstage musical seen most explicitly in Staying Alive.
Eric Lichtenfeld
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231169813
- eISBN:
- 9780231850643
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231169813.003.0003
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter examines Sylvester Stallone's Rocky franchise, underlining how all six films are underpinned by the title character's quest for recognition, validation, and self. The series often ...
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This chapter examines Sylvester Stallone's Rocky franchise, underlining how all six films are underpinned by the title character's quest for recognition, validation, and self. The series often surrounds Rocky with symbolic representations as shaming devices. In Rocky, the triumphant training sequence is quickly followed by his soulful, even mournful, assessment of his chances and his station. Stallone similarly exploits the disconnection between Rocky and his image in Rocky II. Throughout the series, Stallone martyrs Rocky not only in battle, but also in his preparations for it. Images of training satisfy the expository need to show Rocky building his muscles. Moreover, they suggest that he is preparing his heart, purifying himself through pain. Indeed, Rocky IV concludes by embodying martyrdom and the messianic — two of the franchise's other thematic mainstays, and lenses through which Stallone continually views and magnifies Rocky's self.Less
This chapter examines Sylvester Stallone's Rocky franchise, underlining how all six films are underpinned by the title character's quest for recognition, validation, and self. The series often surrounds Rocky with symbolic representations as shaming devices. In Rocky, the triumphant training sequence is quickly followed by his soulful, even mournful, assessment of his chances and his station. Stallone similarly exploits the disconnection between Rocky and his image in Rocky II. Throughout the series, Stallone martyrs Rocky not only in battle, but also in his preparations for it. Images of training satisfy the expository need to show Rocky building his muscles. Moreover, they suggest that he is preparing his heart, purifying himself through pain. Indeed, Rocky IV concludes by embodying martyrdom and the messianic — two of the franchise's other thematic mainstays, and lenses through which Stallone continually views and magnifies Rocky's self.
Chris Holmlund
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231169813
- eISBN:
- 9780231850643
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231169813.003.0011
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This introductory chapter provides a background of Sylvester Stallone's work as writer, director, and actor, and catalogues his global impact and iconicity. Brought to international attention in 1976 ...
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This introductory chapter provides a background of Sylvester Stallone's work as writer, director, and actor, and catalogues his global impact and iconicity. Brought to international attention in 1976 with Rocky, Stallone became a top star in the 1980s as a result of Rocky III (1982), Rocky IV (1985), and Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985). During that decade, as screenwriter and performer, he helped launch a new kind of ‘hard body’ action hero and re-established traditional values, promoting a rugged, macho individualism that was nevertheless in tune with the times' emphasis on fitness and vigilante defence. Most of his films have provided comfort, cult, and camp entertainment to audiences in theatres, on TV, VHS, DVD, and online due to Stallone-the-star's iconic appeal. Indeed, thirty-five years after his start in film, Stallone's influence remains so great that whether onscreen or behind the scenes, he functions as an ‘auteur’.Less
This introductory chapter provides a background of Sylvester Stallone's work as writer, director, and actor, and catalogues his global impact and iconicity. Brought to international attention in 1976 with Rocky, Stallone became a top star in the 1980s as a result of Rocky III (1982), Rocky IV (1985), and Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985). During that decade, as screenwriter and performer, he helped launch a new kind of ‘hard body’ action hero and re-established traditional values, promoting a rugged, macho individualism that was nevertheless in tune with the times' emphasis on fitness and vigilante defence. Most of his films have provided comfort, cult, and camp entertainment to audiences in theatres, on TV, VHS, DVD, and online due to Stallone-the-star's iconic appeal. Indeed, thirty-five years after his start in film, Stallone's influence remains so great that whether onscreen or behind the scenes, he functions as an ‘auteur’.
George Frison
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520231900
- eISBN:
- 9780520927964
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520231900.001.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, American and Canadian Cultural Anthropology
The North American Great Plains and Rocky Mountains have yielded many artifacts and other clues about the prehistoric people who once lived there, but little is understood about the hunting practices ...
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The North American Great Plains and Rocky Mountains have yielded many artifacts and other clues about the prehistoric people who once lived there, but little is understood about the hunting practices that ensured their survival for thousands of years. This book brings a lifetime of experience from the author as a hunter, rancher, and guide to bear on excavation data from the region relating to hunting, illuminating prehistoric hunting practices in entirely new ways. Sharing intimate knowledge of animal habitats and behavior and familiarity with hunting strategies and techniques, this book argues that this kind of firsthand knowledge is crucial for understanding hunting in the past.Less
The North American Great Plains and Rocky Mountains have yielded many artifacts and other clues about the prehistoric people who once lived there, but little is understood about the hunting practices that ensured their survival for thousands of years. This book brings a lifetime of experience from the author as a hunter, rancher, and guide to bear on excavation data from the region relating to hunting, illuminating prehistoric hunting practices in entirely new ways. Sharing intimate knowledge of animal habitats and behavior and familiarity with hunting strategies and techniques, this book argues that this kind of firsthand knowledge is crucial for understanding hunting in the past.
George C. Frison
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520231900
- eISBN:
- 9780520927964
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520231900.003.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, American and Canadian Cultural Anthropology
This chapter describes the archaeology of the Great Plains. It focuses on the physiographic regions of the Great Plains, Rocky Mountains, Great Basin, Colorado Plateau, and Columbia Plateau which ...
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This chapter describes the archaeology of the Great Plains. It focuses on the physiographic regions of the Great Plains, Rocky Mountains, Great Basin, Colorado Plateau, and Columbia Plateau which yielded information pertinent to prehistoric hunting. These physiographic features provide very different and rapidly changing vegetative cover critical to animal ecology. This chapter explains that the records of the livestock industry over more than a century suggest that prehistoric human survival must have been tested on many occasions.Less
This chapter describes the archaeology of the Great Plains. It focuses on the physiographic regions of the Great Plains, Rocky Mountains, Great Basin, Colorado Plateau, and Columbia Plateau which yielded information pertinent to prehistoric hunting. These physiographic features provide very different and rapidly changing vegetative cover critical to animal ecology. This chapter explains that the records of the livestock industry over more than a century suggest that prehistoric human survival must have been tested on many occasions.
George C. Frison
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520231900
- eISBN:
- 9780520927964
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520231900.003.0006
- Subject:
- Anthropology, American and Canadian Cultural Anthropology
This chapter examines the hunting of mountain sheep in the Rocky Mountains during the prehistoric period. It explains that mountain sheep demonstrate behavioral patterns quite different from those of ...
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This chapter examines the hunting of mountain sheep in the Rocky Mountains during the prehistoric period. It explains that mountain sheep demonstrate behavioral patterns quite different from those of deer or pronghorn, and hunting strategies that are successful with sheep will not necessarily be effective for other animals. It mentions that a constant threat to mountain sheep populations is their inability to adapt successfully to the presence of humans and to build up immunity to parasites and diseases introduced by domestic sheep.Less
This chapter examines the hunting of mountain sheep in the Rocky Mountains during the prehistoric period. It explains that mountain sheep demonstrate behavioral patterns quite different from those of deer or pronghorn, and hunting strategies that are successful with sheep will not necessarily be effective for other animals. It mentions that a constant threat to mountain sheep populations is their inability to adapt successfully to the presence of humans and to build up immunity to parasites and diseases introduced by domestic sheep.
George C. Frison
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520231900
- eISBN:
- 9780520927964
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520231900.003.0007
- Subject:
- Anthropology, American and Canadian Cultural Anthropology
This chapter investigates the hunting of deer, elk, and other creatures in Rocky Mountains during the prehistoric period. It describes the remains of mule deer and Rocky Mountain elk in ...
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This chapter investigates the hunting of deer, elk, and other creatures in Rocky Mountains during the prehistoric period. It describes the remains of mule deer and Rocky Mountain elk in archaeological remains and discusses the behavioral patterns of other animals including small mammals, birds, and black and grizzly bears. It also explains the hunting strategies for these animals.Less
This chapter investigates the hunting of deer, elk, and other creatures in Rocky Mountains during the prehistoric period. It describes the remains of mule deer and Rocky Mountain elk in archaeological remains and discusses the behavioral patterns of other animals including small mammals, birds, and black and grizzly bears. It also explains the hunting strategies for these animals.
George C. Frison
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520231900
- eISBN:
- 9780520927964
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520231900.003.0008
- Subject:
- Anthropology, American and Canadian Cultural Anthropology
This chapter describes tools and weaponry used by the prehistoric hunter. The weaponry used for more than 11,000 years of hunting on the plains, in the Rocky Mountains and in parts of adjacent areas ...
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This chapter describes tools and weaponry used by the prehistoric hunter. The weaponry used for more than 11,000 years of hunting on the plains, in the Rocky Mountains and in parts of adjacent areas varies to some extent but still conforms to a single design and purpose: a stone, metal, bone or antler projectile with a sharp tip is propelled with enough force to penetrate and deliver a mortal wound. This chapter suggests that whatever the hunter's choice of weapon care and regular practice in its use are critically important determinants of hunting success because the delivery by the hunter of a projectile to produce a lethal wound is a final and crucial act in a hunting episode.Less
This chapter describes tools and weaponry used by the prehistoric hunter. The weaponry used for more than 11,000 years of hunting on the plains, in the Rocky Mountains and in parts of adjacent areas varies to some extent but still conforms to a single design and purpose: a stone, metal, bone or antler projectile with a sharp tip is propelled with enough force to penetrate and deliver a mortal wound. This chapter suggests that whatever the hunter's choice of weapon care and regular practice in its use are critically important determinants of hunting success because the delivery by the hunter of a projectile to produce a lethal wound is a final and crucial act in a hunting episode.
George C. Frison
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520231900
- eISBN:
- 9780520927964
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520231900.003.0009
- Subject:
- Anthropology, American and Canadian Cultural Anthropology
This concluding chapter sums up the key findings of this study on prehistoric hunting in the North American Great Plains and Rocky Mountains. The plains and mountains together truly provided a home ...
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This concluding chapter sums up the key findings of this study on prehistoric hunting in the North American Great Plains and Rocky Mountains. The plains and mountains together truly provided a home for the large mammals and their prehistoric human predators, but many differences in archaeological materials recovered from the plains and those found in the mountains remain unexplained and are waiting to be resolved. This chapter also suggests that there is a delicate balance between preservation and loss of evidence of prehistoric human hunting.Less
This concluding chapter sums up the key findings of this study on prehistoric hunting in the North American Great Plains and Rocky Mountains. The plains and mountains together truly provided a home for the large mammals and their prehistoric human predators, but many differences in archaeological materials recovered from the plains and those found in the mountains remain unexplained and are waiting to be resolved. This chapter also suggests that there is a delicate balance between preservation and loss of evidence of prehistoric human hunting.
Chuck Tryon
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- May 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781474451369
- eISBN:
- 9781474490641
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474451369.003.0010
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter describes Creed as a sequel-reboot which functions as a politically ambivalent, but textually reverent, reboot of the Rocky franchise (1976–90). It asserts that Creed is a film that at ...
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This chapter describes Creed as a sequel-reboot which functions as a politically ambivalent, but textually reverent, reboot of the Rocky franchise (1976–90). It asserts that Creed is a film that at one and the same time celebrates the franchise’s deployment of the tropes of the boxing picture and male melodrama, while also updating the racial and sexual politics of the series. Developing ideas on the way film reboots mediate the tension between familiarity and novelty, the chapter demonstrates how Creed rewrites aspects of the original Rocky films so as to create a new political narrative, one that explicitly challenges stereotypes of African-American athletes.Less
This chapter describes Creed as a sequel-reboot which functions as a politically ambivalent, but textually reverent, reboot of the Rocky franchise (1976–90). It asserts that Creed is a film that at one and the same time celebrates the franchise’s deployment of the tropes of the boxing picture and male melodrama, while also updating the racial and sexual politics of the series. Developing ideas on the way film reboots mediate the tension between familiarity and novelty, the chapter demonstrates how Creed rewrites aspects of the original Rocky films so as to create a new political narrative, one that explicitly challenges stereotypes of African-American athletes.
Yvonne Tasker
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231169813
- eISBN:
- 9780231850643
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231169813.003.0010
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter examines the issue of ageing in relation to the revival of the characters of Rocky in Rocky Balboa (2006) and John Rambo in Rambo (2008). Action cinema has long been coupled with the ...
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This chapter examines the issue of ageing in relation to the revival of the characters of Rocky in Rocky Balboa (2006) and John Rambo in Rambo (2008). Action cinema has long been coupled with the staging of seemingly impossible or improbable stunts and forms of spectacle, an important factor of which is the built male body. In this context, successfully reviving both the Rocky and Rambo characters has involved the management of ideas about ageing. In Rocky Balboa, Stallone offers a nuanced nostalgia, acknowledging the physical changes and personal loss of ageing alongside a celebration of the defining determination of the iconic boxer. Rambo serves as the inverse or counterpoint to that more reflective mode, a re-presentation as much as a re-working of one of the two film heroes that have defined Stallone's career. Rocky Balboa is explicitly a film about ageing and loss, while in Rambo, Stallone's age is barely alluded to.Less
This chapter examines the issue of ageing in relation to the revival of the characters of Rocky in Rocky Balboa (2006) and John Rambo in Rambo (2008). Action cinema has long been coupled with the staging of seemingly impossible or improbable stunts and forms of spectacle, an important factor of which is the built male body. In this context, successfully reviving both the Rocky and Rambo characters has involved the management of ideas about ageing. In Rocky Balboa, Stallone offers a nuanced nostalgia, acknowledging the physical changes and personal loss of ageing alongside a celebration of the defining determination of the iconic boxer. Rambo serves as the inverse or counterpoint to that more reflective mode, a re-presentation as much as a re-working of one of the two film heroes that have defined Stallone's career. Rocky Balboa is explicitly a film about ageing and loss, while in Rambo, Stallone's age is barely alluded to.
Anthony Barnosky (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520240827
- eISBN:
- 9780520930858
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520240827.001.0001
- Subject:
- Biology, Evolutionary Biology / Genetics
This book chronicles the discovery and analysis of animal fossils found in one of the most important paleontological sites in the world: Porcupine Cave, located at an elevation of 9,500 feet in the ...
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This book chronicles the discovery and analysis of animal fossils found in one of the most important paleontological sites in the world: Porcupine Cave, located at an elevation of 9,500 feet in the Colorado Rocky Mountains. With tens of thousands of identified specimens, this site has become the key source of information on the fauna of North America's higher elevations between approximately 1 million and 600,000 years ago, a period that saw the advance and retreat of glaciers numerous times. Until now, little has been understood about how this dramatic climate change affected life during the middle Pleistocene. In addition to presenting data from Porcupine Cave, this study also presents analysis on what the data from the site show about the evolutionary and ecological adjustments that occurred in this period, shedding light on how one of the world's most pressing environmental concerns—global climate change—can influence life on earth.Less
This book chronicles the discovery and analysis of animal fossils found in one of the most important paleontological sites in the world: Porcupine Cave, located at an elevation of 9,500 feet in the Colorado Rocky Mountains. With tens of thousands of identified specimens, this site has become the key source of information on the fauna of North America's higher elevations between approximately 1 million and 600,000 years ago, a period that saw the advance and retreat of glaciers numerous times. Until now, little has been understood about how this dramatic climate change affected life during the middle Pleistocene. In addition to presenting data from Porcupine Cave, this study also presents analysis on what the data from the site show about the evolutionary and ecological adjustments that occurred in this period, shedding light on how one of the world's most pressing environmental concerns—global climate change—can influence life on earth.
David J. Cooper
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520240827
- eISBN:
- 9780520930858
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520240827.003.0003
- Subject:
- Biology, Evolutionary Biology / Genetics
South Park is one of the four large intermountain basins that characterize the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. This chapter discusses the landscape, climate, flora, and vegetation of South Park, which ...
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South Park is one of the four large intermountain basins that characterize the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. This chapter discusses the landscape, climate, flora, and vegetation of South Park, which features large regional variation in elevation and an assortment of bedrock types. Well-developed alpine tundra occurs on the highest mountains, and tundra plants are highly specific to substrate chemistry, with different plant species and distinctive plant communities occurring on acid and alkaline soils. Numerous forest types, dominated by evergreen and deciduous trees, occur on mountain slopes. The floor of South Park supports four principal natural environments: (1) grasslands on dry terraces, slopes, and hills with deep water tables; (2) streams and their floodplains; (3) wetlands fed by groundwater; and (4) salt flats.Less
South Park is one of the four large intermountain basins that characterize the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. This chapter discusses the landscape, climate, flora, and vegetation of South Park, which features large regional variation in elevation and an assortment of bedrock types. Well-developed alpine tundra occurs on the highest mountains, and tundra plants are highly specific to substrate chemistry, with different plant species and distinctive plant communities occurring on acid and alkaline soils. Numerous forest types, dominated by evergreen and deciduous trees, occur on mountain slopes. The floor of South Park supports four principal natural environments: (1) grasslands on dry terraces, slopes, and hills with deep water tables; (2) streams and their floodplains; (3) wetlands fed by groundwater; and (4) salt flats.
Cynthia Carey, Paul Stephen Corn, Mark S. Jones, Lauren J. Livo, Erin Muths, and Charles W. Carey
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520235922
- eISBN:
- 9780520929432
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520235922.003.0031
- Subject:
- Biology, Animal Biology
Boreal toads (Bufo b. boreas) are widely distributed over much of the mountainous western United States, but extensive population declines occurred in the Southern Rocky Mountains in the late 1970s ...
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Boreal toads (Bufo b. boreas) are widely distributed over much of the mountainous western United States, but extensive population declines occurred in the Southern Rocky Mountains in the late 1970s through early 1980s. Recovery efforts to protect the few remaining populations began in 1995. Many aspects of the life history of these toads, such as clutch size, size at maturity, and wet egg mass, mirror those of low altitude, temperate Bufo. However, environmental factors in the montane environment of these toads, such as short growing seasons and cold nighttime summer temperatures, force changes in other life history characteristics that restrict the ability of boreal toads to recover their original geographic distribution or population sizes. Breeding starts one to three months later than in lowland Bufo in temperate climates, and boreal toads are forced into hibernation one to three months sooner than lowland counterparts. Population recruitment is limited by many factors, including the mortality of larvae that fail to complete metamorphosis before onset of freezing temperatures in fall.Less
Boreal toads (Bufo b. boreas) are widely distributed over much of the mountainous western United States, but extensive population declines occurred in the Southern Rocky Mountains in the late 1970s through early 1980s. Recovery efforts to protect the few remaining populations began in 1995. Many aspects of the life history of these toads, such as clutch size, size at maturity, and wet egg mass, mirror those of low altitude, temperate Bufo. However, environmental factors in the montane environment of these toads, such as short growing seasons and cold nighttime summer temperatures, force changes in other life history characteristics that restrict the ability of boreal toads to recover their original geographic distribution or population sizes. Breeding starts one to three months later than in lowland Bufo in temperate climates, and boreal toads are forced into hibernation one to three months sooner than lowland counterparts. Population recruitment is limited by many factors, including the mortality of larvae that fail to complete metamorphosis before onset of freezing temperatures in fall.
