Social Justice Documentary: Designing for Impact

Explores current methodologies for assessing social issue documentary films by combining strategic design and evaluation of multiplatform outreach and impact, including documentaries' role in network- and field-building. Includes six case studies

Opposite polarity programs regulate asymmetric subsidiary cell divisions in grasses.

Grass stomata recruit lateral subsidiary cells (SCs), which are key to the unique stomatal morphology and the efficient plant-atmosphere gas exchange in grasses. Subsidiary mother cells (SMCs) strongly polarise before an asymmetric division forms a SC. Yet apart from a proximal polarity module that includes PANGLOSS1 (PAN1) and guides nuclear migration, little is known regarding the developmental processes that form SCs. Here, we used comparative transcriptomics of developing wild-type and SC-less bdmute leaves in the genetic model grass Brachypodium distachyon to identify novel factors involved in SC formation. This approach revealed BdPOLAR, which forms a novel, distal polarity domain in SMCs that is opposite to the proximal PAN1 domain. Both polarity domains are required for the formative SC division yet exhibit various roles in guiding pre-mitotic nuclear migration and SMC division plane orientation, respectively. Nonetheless, the domains are linked as the proximal domain controls polarisation of the distal domain. In summary, we identified two opposing polarity domains that coordinate the SC division, a process crucial for grass stomatal physiology

Narration cinématographique et narration historique. La (sub)version de l'histoire

Cinematographic and historical narratives: the (sub)version of history, Barbara Abrash, Daniel Walkowitz. Barbara Abrash and Daniel Walkowitz trace their intellectual route as committed historians and filmmakers. Each of their four films marks a stage in their determination to recognize in filmed narratives the power to criticize and contest the academic historical narratives.Abrash Barbara, Walkowitz Daniel. Narration cinématographique et narration historique. La (sub)version de l'histoire. In: Vingtième Siècle, revue d'histoire, n°46, avril-juin 1995. Cinéma, le temps de l'histoire. pp. 14-24