Realism as a third film practice

The concept of realism may owe much of its success to its vague definition. This article suggests that it can be useful as a term that covers a central, mainstream film practice in European and other national cinemas, located somewhere in between genre films and art films. The concept refers to a serious kind of film that does not obey classical genre rules, but nevertheless tells its stories in an accessible and often engaging form that, generally speaking, creates a more popular (yet serious) film than the art film. As a film practice, it cuts across well known but often vaguely defined sub-categories, such as social realism and psychological realism. Finally, it is argued that the dichotomy between Hollywood genre films and European art cinema ignores both national variants of basic genres and a tradition of realism as a mainstream film practice

Making fictions sound real - On film sound, perceptual realism and genre

This article examines the role that sound plays in making fictions perceptually real to film audiences, whether these fictions are realist or non-realist in content and narrative form. I will argue that some aspects of film sound practices and the kind of experiences they trigger are related to basic rules of human perception, whereas others are more properly explained in relation to how aesthetic devices, including sound, are used to characterise the fiction and thereby make it perceptually real to its audience. Finally, I will argue that not all genres can be defined by a simple taxonomy of sounds. Apart from an account of the kinds of sounds that typically appear in a specific genre, a genre analysis of sound may also benefit from a functionalist approach that focuses on how sounds can make both realist and non-realist aspects of genres sound real to audiences

Mediernes lyd. En multimodal analysemetode

Der er en voksende mængde af akademiske artikler og bøger om lyd i medier. Særligt filmen er velbeskrevet, men også andre områder er i vækst. Artiklen ser derfor udfordringen i at integrere forståelsen af lyd i den øvrige medieforskning, frem for at fastholde lyden med status af et særligt område. En væsentlig barriere for denne integration er manglen på konkrete redskaber til at analysere lydens rolle og funktion i audiovisuelle medier. Artiklen gør derfor tre ting: 1) Den peger på en række fundamentale træk ved lyd som kræver særlig opmærksomhed, 2) den ser på, hvordan lyden indgår i mere omfattende multimodale sammenhænge og 3) den giver en række anvisninger på, hvordan man med fordel og med præcision til følge kan inddrage det lydlige i analysen af medier

Novel development of heat treatment techniques for seed surface sterilisation

Heat treatment to prevent seed borne diseases, e.g. in the form of hot water or warm humid air, will normally heat up the entire seed. Heat treatment of the seed embryo will always have a negative side-effect on seed vigour and the duration of several minutes are difficult to implement in seed plans treating huge volumes of seed. However, in the case of common bunt in wheat and similar diseases, where the inoculum is transmitted as fungal spores on the surface of the seed, an uniform and efficient surface sterilisation will be sufficient to prevent the transmission of the disease. To test the effect of surface heat sterilisation of seed, an equipment was developed, where seeds were exposed to a combination of steam and ultrasound. The principle is that the ultrasound will create a fluctation of the air molecules in the chamber, and thereby increase the access of the hot steam to the surface of the seed. In this equipment, common bunt in wheat was eliminated after 4 sec. treatment and in spelt after 8 seconds. A 16 times increase of the duration of the treatment did not decrease germination speed of the seed, tested in a cold sand test. This demonstrates that surface transmitted diseases can be controlled efficiently and environmentally friendly by equipment adaptable to commercial seed plans

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Birgitta Frello: Kollektiv identitet – kritiske perspektiver

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Mikkel Rytter & Karen Fog Olwig (eds.): Mobile Bodies, Mobile Souls: Family, Religion and Migration in a Global World

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