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Remapping Brazilian film culture in the twenty-first century
\"Remapping Brazilian Film Culture makes a significant contribution not only to debates about Brazilian national cinema, but more generally about the development of world cinema in the 21st century. This book charts the key features of Brazilian film culture of the first two decades of the twenty-first century, including: the latest cultural debates within Brazil on film funding and distribution practices; the impact of diversity politics on the Brazilian film industry; the reception and circulation of Brazilian films on the international film festival circuit and the impact on cultural production of the sharp change in political direction at national level experienced post-2016. The principle of \"remapping\" here is based on a need to move on from potentially limiting concepts such as \"the national\", which can serve to unduly ghettoise a cinema, film industry and audience. The book argues that Brazilian film culture should be read as being part of a globally articulated film culture whose internal workings are necessarily distinctive and thus deserving of World Cinema scholars' attention. A blend of industry studies, audience reception and cultural studies, Remapping Brazilian Film Culture is a dynamic volume for students and researchers in film studies, particularly Brazilian, Latin American and World Cinema\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Discrepancy between knowledge and confidence levels toward obstructive sleep apnea
Background
This study aimed to assess the knowledge and attitude toward obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) among pre-doctoral dental faculty and senior dental students to investigate the need for developing a dental sleep medicine curriculum.
Methods
The OSA Knowledge and Attitude survey was administered to potential participants at the University of Maryland School of Dentistry (UMSOD). Descriptive statistics were performed to compare performances in the OSA knowledge test between the dental student and faculty groups. Correlation tests were conducted to examine relationships between the knowledge scores and attitudes toward OSA.
Results
51 seniors and 30 faculty members participated in this study. The mean total score in the knowledge test was 12 out of 18 (67%); there was no significant difference in the mean score between the two groups. Both groups perceived that OSA and identifying patients with OSA were very important or important. While most participants reported that they were not confident in managing OSA or patients on continuous positive airway pressure, negative correlations between the knowledge scores and confidence in managing OSA (
r
s
= -0.3,
p
= 0.012) and the importance of OSA (
r
s
= -0.3,
p
= 0.004) were observed.
Conclusion
Pre-doctoral faculty and seniors at UMSOD exhibited low levels of knowledge and confidence in managing OSA patients, yet both groups recognized the importance of OSA and identifying affected patients. These findings highlight the need for integrating an OSA course into the curriculum and for enhancing faculty training in sleep medicine.
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On cinema
Glauber Rocha is known as the visionary Brazilian director of landmark films, Black God, White Devil, Entranced Earth and Antonio das Mortes. Less well-known outside Brazil is that he was also a brilliant film critic and innovative thinker on world cinema. 'On Cinema' brings together for the first time in the English language a comprehensive selection of Rocha's film writings, revealing for the first time to English-speaking readers the full critical power, inventiveness and vision of a great filmmaker. Rocha's writings, endowed with critical verve and humour, give insights into key moments of film history, as well as the politics of world cinema.
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A Carioca \Belle de jour\: A dama do lotação and Brazilian Sexuality
Even the Left had ceased to look upon him with total horror, since his public criticism in the early seventies of the worst abuses of the dictatorship, and his frequentlyvoiced objections to censorship.3 Also around this time Brazilian cinema was beginning to lose the battle with television, and television's influence (in terms of production values, marketing and actors) over serious national films was becoming increasingly apparent, in an attempt to make the industry more economically viable. Therein traditional notions of morality were built on a lie: the myth of harmonious plantation life and paternal and respectable masters as expounded by influential scholars such as Gilberto Freyre masked centuries of abuse, as well as racial and gender prejudice.
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Editorial
The approaches of the papers are varied, but a significant trait unifies all of them: the historical method, derived in its substance from cultural studies, through which context is appreciated as much as text and cinema is seen as a multidisciplinary medium closely connected with social change.
Journal Article
Life: Life support: For 38 years Brian Cosgrove and Mark Hall have worked as one of Britain's most sucessful animation duos. Here they explain how a vivid dream life and strong camaraderie created the likes of Duckula and Dangermouse
[Brian Cosgrove] I'd drawn Mickey Mouse since I was five years old, but never thought there was much chance to make cartoons in this country, so I trained as a graphic designer and [Mark Hall] as an illustrator. We were at art school in Manchester together until Brian left to do National Service. We really got to know each other when we worked at Granada Television doing title sequences. I produced a pilot film, which became two series of the Magic Ball , with Eric Thompson, Emma's father, writing the scripts. Mark designed the backgrounds, which won awards. He'd work through the night if necessary. Animators often work in pairs to bounce ideas off each other. Brian had a very vivid dreamlife. Chorlton and the Wheelies came from a dream he had about a happiness dragon chasing heads on wheels. Penfold in Dangermouse looked exactly like Brian's brother. I'd pick up gags from my son and his friends, and test things out on the kids.
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