Introduction To Film And Media Studies (FMST 01) Syllabus

Introduction To Film And Media Studies course description: The invention of cinema at the end of the 19th century and the rapid developments of digital technologies most noticeable in our increased use of social networking tools on mini-screens mark a period in which communications technology shaped and shape our world and moving images evolved from the photographic to the digital. This course explores the specificity, history, and function of media forms, focusing on the language of cinema and the critical repertoire of film/media theories. As an art, a text, a technology, a commercial product, a psychological experience, and a social practice, cinema presents fascinating contradictions for study. This lecture/discussion course, intended as a general introduction and as the first credit towards a minor or a major in Film and Media Studies, has two basic goals. First, it will develop skills in film analysis. You will become fluent in the vocabulary of film form and learn to construct an argument about what a film\u27s sounds and images mean and how it structures and achieves its meanings. Second, it will provide an introduction to the theories, methods, and concerns of film and media studies as a discipline, preparing you for further work in the field. The course will emphasize specific aspects of film style and narrative form through analysis of scenes from the films screened each week and from a range of outside examples. Each week will introduce historical, cultural and theoretical topics relevant to the films shown while focusing on the films\u27 self-reflexivity of their medium, and considering the politics of image-making from the postwar period to today

Spectres of Dada: from Man Ray to Marker and Godard

An analysis of early Dada experimental practice in photography and film with reference to Roland Barthes's <i>Camera lucida</i> and Derrida's theory of spectrality. The chapter considers the legacy of Dada experiments with still and moving images in the work of post-war filmmakers such as Chris Marker and Jean-Luc Godard

Space-based geoengineering: challenges and requirements

The prospect of engineering the Earth's climate (geoengineering) raises a multitude of issues associated with climatology, engineering on macroscopic scales, and indeed the ethics of such ventures. Depending on personal views, such large-scale engineering is either an obvious necessity for the deep future, or yet another example of human conceit. In this article a simple climate model will be used to estimate requirements for engineering the Earth's climate, principally using space-based geoengineering. Active cooling of the climate to mitigate anthropogenic climate change due to a doubling of the carbon dioxide concentration in the Earth's atmosphere is considered. This representative scenario will allow the scale of the engineering challenge to be determined. It will be argued that simple occulting discs at the interior Lagrange point may represent a less complex solution than concepts for highly engineered refracting discs proposed recently. While engineering on macroscopic scales can appear formidable, emerging capabilities may allow such ventures to be seriously considered in the long term. This article is not an exhaustive review of geoengineering, but aims to provide a foretaste of the future opportunities, challenges, and requirements for space-based geoengineering ventures

Assessing Financial Reporting Quality of Early Stage Private Companies

There are a variety of widely accepted methods that are used in order to evaluate the financial positioning of companies that are traded on stock exchanges. However, these methods that are common in the public markets do not suffice for assessing companies that are privately held. Attempting to devise an intrinsic value using anticipated cash flows is ineffective given that most companies are pre-revenue. Deriving a value based off of assets held is also inaccurate given that a young company will be in the process of capitalizing itself and more of its assets cannot be represented on a balance sheet, compared to public companies. Furthermore, the sheer lack of raw data provided by the companies in some cases can also contribute to pitfalls in valuation attempts. In addition, the lack of reliability of private companies’ financial information makes the valuation of these companies difficult. This study aims to develop a framework to assess the financial reporting quality of these early stage private companies

Analisis Kesesuaian (Three Angle Fit) antara Program, Manajemen dan Anggota dalam Meningkatkan Partisipasi Anggota pada Koperasi Pengemudi Taksi (Kopsi) Pekanbaru

Conformity (Three Angel Fit) between program management and members explained the quality level of participation of members of a cooperative. The purpose of this study was to determine the suitability (Three Angle Fit) between programs, management and members in improving the participation of members in the Cooperative Taxi driver (Kopsi) Pekanbaru. The data analysis technique used is quantitative descriptive method. The survey results revealed there is conformance (Three angle fit) program, the management and members in improving partiisipasi cooperative members on taxi drivers. With the average percentage of Three angle fit (three conformity) in this study was 94.7% including the appropriate category and yield enough percentage of member participation in cooperative taxi drivers (Kopsi) already is high that the average total amount that is equal to 96 , 1%

Optimized Method for Iranian Road Signs Detection and recognition system

Road sign recognition is one of the core technologies in Intelligent Transport Systems. In the current study, a robust and real-time method is presented to identify and detect the roads speed signs in road image in different situations. In our proposed method, first, the connected components are created in the main image using the edge detection and mathematical morphology and the location of the road signs extracted by the geometric and color data; then the letters are segmented and recognized by Multiclass Support Vector Machine (SVMs) classifiers. Regarding that the geometric and color features ate properly used in detection the location of the road signs, so it is not sensitive to the distance and noise and has higher speed and efficiency. In the result part, the proposed approach is applied on Iranian road speed sign database and the detection and recognition accuracy rate achieved 98.66% and 100% respectively

An 'imagined geography': ideology, urban space and protest in the creation of Barcelona's 'Chinatown', c.1835-1936.

Henri Lefebvre famously seized upon the duality of the modern city: how for some it is a space of play and liberation, and for others a centre for power and repression. This article explores this duality through an analysis of the changing historical geography of Barcelona's Raval district, an inner-city working-class community and the birthplace of Catalan industrialization. From the 1920s onwards, elite groups and social commentators defined the Raval as Barcelona's “Chinatown”, an imagined geography that continues to influence historical representations of the area. Through a social history of the Raval, it is argued that the “Chinatown” myth served specific political ends, that it formed part of a cultural project to impose a slum myth on Barcelona's most important and most rebellious working class district. The article concludes with an analysis of how this “moral geography” culminated in far-reaching plans for the moral and physical reordering of the Raval for the benefit of urban elites