Sharp Cut: Harold Pinter\u27s Screenplays and the Artistic Process

Best known as one of the most important playwrights of the twentieth century, Harold Pinter has also written many highly regarded screenplays, including Academy Award-nominated screenplays for The French Lieutenant’s Woman and Betrayal , collaborations with English director Joseph Losey, and an unproduced script for the remake of Stanley Kubrick’s 1962 adaptation of Lolita . In this definitive study of Pinter’s screenplays, Steven H. Gale compares the scripts with their sources and the resulting films, analyzes their stages of development, and shows how Pinter creates unique works of art by extracting the essence from his source and rendering it in cinematic terms. Gale introduces each film, traces the events that led to the script’s writing, examines critical reaction to the film, and provides an extensive bibliography, appendices, and an index. A highly significant book both for Pinter studies and for the neglected analysis of the genre of film scripts. . . . This pioneering work will be a model for subsequent studies of film scripts. -- Choice To say that [Steven Gale] is a master of the scholarship on Harold Pinter is an understatement….I have seldom agreed so much with an author’s interpretations of a film artist as I do with [Gale’s]….This is a landmark in scholarship about the adaptation of fiction and drama to film by an author who know his subject (in both senses of the word) inside out. In particular he documents the collaboration of Harold Printer with film director Joseph Losey, which is one of the most celebrated creative associations of a writer and director in cinema history. -- Gene D. Phillips Such a volume was refreshing to read and gave me faith in scholarship—again. -- Peter C. Rollins Named a Choice 2003 Academic Title.https://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_english_language_and_literature_british_isles/1006/thumbnail.jp

Annual report of Smithsonian Institution, 1886, pt. 1

Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution. 1 July. HMD 170 (pts. 1 and 2), 49-2, v11-12, 1749p. [2498-2499] Year ending 30 June 1886; research related to the American Indian

Bowdoin Orient v.134, no.1-24 (2004-2005)

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History of Psychology

Openly licensed anthology focused on the theme of the History of Psychology. Contains: The Mind and the Brain by Alfred Binet; Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners by Sigmund Freud; The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James; The Principles of Psychology, Volume 2 (of 2) by William James; Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology by C. G. Jung; Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay; The Psychology of Arithmetic by Edward L. Thorndike

Reading and mathematics intervention programmes with parents of nursery children in disadvantaged areas : a psychological and methodological study

Theoretical models of early educational attainment are explored and the limitations of some current theories are discussed. Many of the more important intervention progres aimed at helping disadvantaged pre-school children in Britain and the United States are reviewed and alternative interpretations of some of their findings are proposed. A progre of intervention, based on the parents of 159 nursery children at inner city primary schools, has been carried out for the study and is described here in detail. Various methodological issues are examined in relation to the study's goal of improving the reading or mathematical attainment of these children, when assessed near the end of reception class. The nature of the intervention prograe, which has taken the form of eight fortnightly meetings for each of 25 groups of parents, is set out in full. New forms of quantitative indices are developed to define the nomological validities of the individual variables and of the multivariate evaluation models. The study also reports the practical development of a new form of non-stochastic ridge regression, named V-ridge in recognition of the imerican statistician (ED. Vinod) who created the original algorithm; it is shown here that this method offers regression coefficients which are far more stable across samples, and often more credible, than are the equivalent ordinary least squarei coefficients. Ten path analysis models based on the study data yield a wealth of insights. The models show, inter alia: major differences in the contribution of home environments to the educational attainment of advantaged and disadvantaged children; the importance of the nursery school experience for disadvantaged children; the significant though modest contributions of the parent intervention prograame to the outcomes of reading competence and mathematical concepts, but not to the outcome of mathematical nwneracy; and the stronger integration of cognitive and academic characteristics in advantaged children than in their disadvantaged peers. The major conclusion is that a nursery class programne of parent guidance, structured and focused on the presentation of practical activities enabling parents to foster children's early reading and early mathematical development within the home, is effective and should be a regular feature of nursery education in disadvantaged areas

The Music Sound

A guide for music: compositions, events, forms, genres, groups, history, industry, instruments, language, live music, musicians, songs, musicology, techniques, terminology , theory, music video. Music is a human activity which involves structured and audible sounds, which is used for artistic or aesthetic, entertainment, or ceremonial purposes. The traditional or classical European aspects of music often listed are those elements given primacy in European-influenced classical music: melody, harmony, rhythm, tone color/timbre, and form. A more comprehensive list is given by stating the aspects of sound: pitch, timbre, loudness, and duration. Common terms used to discuss particular pieces include melody, which is a succession of notes heard as some sort of unit; chord, which is a simultaneity of notes heard as some sort of unit; chord progression, which is a succession of chords (simultaneity succession); harmony, which is the relationship between two or more pitches; counterpoint, which is the simultaneity and organization of different melodies; and rhythm, which is the organization of the durational aspects of music