Catalogue Search | MBRL
Are you sure you want to remove the book from the shelf?
{{itemTitle}}
1,624
result(s) for
"Orr, John"
Sort by:
The demons of modernity
Ingmar Bergman's films had a very broad and rich relationship with the rest of European cinema, contrary to the myth that Bergman was a peripheral figure, culturally and aesthetically isolated from the rest of Europe. This book contends that he should be put at the very center of European film history by chronologically comparing Bergman's relationship to key European directors such as Carl Theodor Dreyer, Jean-Luc Godard, Michelangelo Antonioni, and Andrei Tarkovsky, and also looks at Bergman's critical relationship to key movements in film history such as the French New Wave. In so doing, it demonstrates how Ingmar Bergman's films illustrate the demonic struggle in modernity between faith and secularity through \"his intense preoccupation with the malaise of intimacy.\"
eBook
Cień transcendencji. Dreyer – Bergman – Tarkowski
Tekst jest rozdziałem z książki zmarłego w 2010 r. brytyjskiego badacza filmu Johna Orra pt. The Demons of Modernity. Ingmar Bergman and European Cinema, która jest interesującym przykładem zastosowania metody komparatystycznej w filmoznawstwie i rozpatruje twórczość Bergmana w szerszym kontekście autorskiego kina europejskiego. Omawiany tekst zestawia jego filmy (Goście wieczerzy Pańskiej, Tam, gdzie rosną poziomki, Siódma pieczęć, Persona) z twórczością Carla Theodora Dreyera i Andrieja Tarkowskiego pod kątem postawy światopoglądowej, przede wszystkim w aspekcie religijnym. Orr przenikliwie analizuje podobieństwa i różnice, zarówno na poziomie idei, jak i formy dzieła filmowego, motywów, konstrukcji postaci i relacji czasoprzestrzennych. Takie ujęcie pozwoliło badaczowi dostrzec rozmaite tropy interpretacyjne, które dotychczas były niezauważone lub niedocenione. Tekst The Shadow of Transcendence: Dreyer – Bergman – Tarkovsky jest II rozdziałem z książki Johna Orra The Demons of Modernity: Ingmar Bergman and European Cinema, Berghahn Books, New York – Oxford 2014. © John Orr and Berghahn Books Inc. Ze względu na ograniczenia praw autorskich artykuł jest dostępny tylko w wydaniu papierowym. (Materiał nierecenzowany).
Journal Article
New Oceania : modernisms and modernities in the Pacific
For so long figured in European discourses as the antithesis of modernity, the Pacific Islands have remained all but absent from the modernist studies' critical map. Yet, as the chapters of 'New Oceania: Modernisms and Modernities in the Pacific' collectively show, Pacific artists and writers have been as creatively engaged in the construction and representation of modernity as any of their global counterparts. In the second half of the twentieth century, driving a still ongoing process of decolonisation, Pacific Islanders forged an extraordinary cultural and artistic movement. Integrating Indigenous aesthetics, forms, and techniques with a range of other influences--realist novels, avant-garde poetry, anti-colonial discourse, biblical verse, Indian mythology, American television, Bollywood film--Pacific artists developed new creative registers to express the complexity of the region's transnational modernities. 'New Oceania' presents the first sustained account of the modernist dimensions of this period, while presenting timely reflections on the ideological and methodological limitations of the global modernism rubric. Breaking new critical ground, it brings together scholars from a range of backgrounds to demonstrate the relevance of modernism for Pacific scholars, and the relevance of Pacific literature for modernist scholars.
Book
On the primitive ideals of nest algebras
We show that Ringrose's diagonal ideals are primitive ideals in a nest algebra (subject to the continuum hypothesis). This answers an old question of Lance and provides for the first time concrete descriptions of enough primitive ideals to obtain the Jacobson radical as their intersection. Separately, we provide a standard form for all left ideals of a nest algebra, which leads to insights into the maximal left ideals. In the case of atomic nest algebras, we show how primitive ideals can be categorized by their behaviour on the diagonal and provide concrete examples of all types.
Journal Article
Fourier Series Approximation of Vertical Walking Force-Time History through Frequentist and Bayesian Inference
The increased ambition of architects coupled with advancements in structural materials, as well as the rapidly increasing pressure on civil engineering sector to reduce embodied carbon, have resulted in longer spans and more slender pedestrian structures. These structures often have one or more low natural frequencies in the range of human walking accompanied with low modal masses and damping ratios. Thus, they are prone to excessive and often resonant vibrations that may compromise the serviceability limit state. Principally the uncertainty in prediction of the vibration serviceability limit state mainly originates from unreliable estimates of pedestrian loading. The key rationale behind this situation is the limited mathematical characterisation featuring in current design codes and guidelines pertinent to pedestrian-induced loading. The Fourier approximation is typically used to describe individual walking forces. Historically, such models are based on limited experimental data and deterministic mathematical descriptions. Current industry used load models featured in design codes and guidelines have been shown to incorporate inherent bias through limited intra-subject variation and poor correlation with real walking loads. This paper presents an improved Fourier model of vertical walking force across multiple harmonics, presented in a Bayesian and Frequentist statistical parameterisation. They are derived using the most comprehensive dataset to date, comprising of over ten hours of continuous vertical walking force signals. Dissimilar to previous Fourier models, the proposed models attempt to encapsulate the surround energy leakage around harmonic integers with a singular value. The proposed models provide consistently lower force amplitudes than any previous model and is shown to be more representative of real walking. The proposed model provides a closer approximation of a structural acceleration than any other similar Fourier-based model. The proposed model provides further evidence to combine the so called high and low frequency load models.
Journal Article
A New Class of Maximal Triangular Algebras
Triangular algebras, and maximal triangular algebras in particular, have been objects of interest for over 50 years. Rich families of examples have been studied in the context of many w*- and C*-algebras, but there remains a dearth of concrete examples in $B({\\cal H})$. In previous work, we described a family of maximal triangular algebras of finite multiplicity. Here, we investigate a related family of maximal triangular algebras with infinite multiplicity, and unearth a new asymptotic structure exhibited by these algebras.
Journal Article
Development of calcium phosphate cement for the augmentation of traumatically fractured porcine specimens using vertebroplasty
The study aim was to develop and apply an experimental technique to determine the biomechanical effect of polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) and calcium phosphate (CaP) cement on the stiffness and strength of augmented vertebrae following traumatic fracture. Twelve burst type fractures were generated in porcine three-vertebra segments. The specimens were randomly split into two groups (n=6), imaged using microCT and tested under axial loading. The two groups of fractured specimens underwent a vertebroplasty procedure, one group was augmented with CaP cement designed and developed at Queen's University Belfast. The other group was augmented with PMMA cement (WHW Plastics, Hull, UK). The specimens were imaged and re-tested . An intact single vertebra specimen group (n=12) was also imaged and tested under axial loading. A significant decrease (p<0.01) was found between the stiffness of the fractured and intact groups, demonstrating that the fractures generated were sufficiently severe, to adversely affect mechanical behaviour. Significant increase (p<0.01) in failure load was found for the specimen group augmented with the PMMA cement compared to the pre-augmentation group, conversely, no significant increase (p<0.01) was found in the failure load of the specimens augmented with CaP cement, this is attributed to the significantly (p<0.05) lower volume of CaP cement that was successfully injected into the fracture, compared to the PMMA cement. The effect of the percentage of cement fracture fill, cement modulus on the specimen stiffness and ultimate failure load could be investigated further by using the methods developed within this study to test a more injectable CaP cement.
Journal Article
Romantics and Modernists in British Cinema
In a fresh and invigorating look at British cinema that considers film as an art form among other arts, John Orr takes a critical look at the intriguing relationship between romanticism and modernism that has been much neglected in the study of UK cinema and downplayed in the development of Western cinema. Encompassing a broad selection of films, film-makers and debates, this book brings a fresh perspective to how scholars might understand and interrogate the major traditions that have shaped British cinema history. Covering the period between 1929 and the present, this book examines outstanding directors such as Alfred Hitchcock, David Lean, Carol Reed, Nicholas Roeg, Terence Davies and Bill Douglas, and articulates two genres vital to British cinema - the fugitive film and the trauma film - which bridge the gap between romantic and modern forms. Two detailed chapters also assess the powerful impact of major expatriate directors like Losey, Antonioni, Polanski, Kubrick and Skolimowski on modernism in the 1960s and 1970s. Detailed critical readings explore Blackmail, The Lady Vanishes, Black Narcissus, Odd Man Out, The Passionate Friends, The Innocents, Lawrence of Arabia, The Servant, Blow-Up, A Clockwork Orange, Don't Look Now, The Wicker Man, Moonlighting, the Bill Douglas trilogy and The Long Day Closes. The book concludes with an analysis of the persistence of romantic and modernist forms in the 21st century in two recent prize-winning features, Control and Hunger.
eBook