Nostalgia de la luz, de Patricio Guzmán: el cine como máquina del tiempo

Resumen: En su último documental, Nostalgia de la luz (2010), el cineasta chileno Patricio Guzmán va más allá de la concepción de filmes anteriores en los que utilizaba la  memoria como tema y motor de los relatos. Ya no se trata solamente de un uso de la memoria como mecanismo para revisitar el pasado, entender el presente y construir el  futuro. Ahora el cine como artificio que posibilita metáforas y abre caminos para un viaje por el tiempo se presenta como una máquina de indagación y sondeo, capaz de intervenir sobre los anclajes materiales de la memoria. En este documental, Guzmán incorpora toda la trayectoria de sus filmes anteriores y redobla la apuesta: el cine permite transitar diferentes temporalidades, y en lugar de utilizar los objetos o el paisaje solamente como  metáforas y disparadores de memoria, interviene sobre ellos y los pone en diálogo con esas temporalidades para darles un significado.   Palabras Clave: memoria, Nostalgia de la luz, cine, tiempo, objetos, paisaje, Patricio Guzmán. Abstract: In his last documentary, Nostalgia for the Light (2010), Chilean filmmaker Patricio Guzmán goes beyond the notions of some of his previous films in which he used memory both as a topic and a motor of his narratives. Memory is not just a mechanism that allows the film to revisit the past, understand the present and build the future. More than that, now cinema is an artifice that enables the use of metaphors, opens up paths that lead towards a travel through time and presents itself as a machine of inquiry and exploration, able to intervene on the material anchors of memory. In this documentary, Guzmán incorporates the trajectory of his previous films and doubles down his bet: his cinema is able to go through different temporalities and, instead of having the objects and landscapes be just metaphors or memory triggers, it intervenes on them and lets them engage in a dialogue with those temporalities in order to reach new meanings.   Key Words: memory, Nostalgia for the Light, cinema, time, objects, landscapes, Patricio Guzmán

SEM Studies In Microelectronics

A review of the Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) is presented with attention given to its applications in the field of Microelectronics

What are AACSB-Accredited Business Schools Doing to Close the Loop?

As higher education enters into an era of increased accountability, the need to demonstrate evidence of student learning has become more important. The practice of documenting evidence of student learning and systematic evaluation of the learning process has been adopted by discipline specific accrediting bodies. The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) is an accrediting agency and an association of institutions devoted to the advancement of business education. The purpose of this qualitative dissertation was to examine what two AACSB-accredited Colleges of Business are doing to close the loop using a case study approach. Interviews with multiple administrators and business faculty, as well as key assessment documents, were analyzed. The assessment process was compared at both Colleges of Business from their learning goals to the actions taken to improve student learning. Interviewees (N=16) at both colleges identified how the assessment process improved learning through the systematic approach of measuring student performance.;Faculty felt that the process should be faculty driven, but acknowledged that having leaders who embraced assessment helped move the process along. The college got faculty to buy into the process by setting clear expectations. Resistance to assessment was attributed to the time that was required to conduct the process and a lack of understanding of assessment. Areas that both colleges struggled with were including external constituents into the assessment process and publicizing assessment results. Recommendations for successful assessment practices and for future research are made

The History and Process of the Development of the Modern Flute

The flute has gone through many phases of development starting from its early form to the modern model which is played today. Though many important flute makers, composers and musicians were part of this process, Johann Joachim Quantz and Theobald Boehm were the two major contributors to the flute’s technological developments. The flute started as a simple tube with holes to which keys were progressively added by Quantz. Boehm completely redesigned the flute to enable the performer to cover more holes than the human hand fingers alone are capable. Although the work of Quantz and Boehm took time to become accepted, the developments have become an integral part of what is now known as the modern flute