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New Punk Cinema is the first book to examine a new breed of film that is indebted to the punk spirit of experimentation, do-it-yourself ethos, and an uneasy, often defiant relationship with the mainstream. An array of established and emerging scholars trace and map the contours of new punk cinema, from its roots in neorealism and the French New Wave, to its flowering in the work of Lars von Trier and the Dogma 95 movement. Subsequent chapters explore the potentially democratic and even anarchic forces of digital filmmaking, the influences of hypertext and other new media, the increased role of the viewer in arranging and manipulating the chronology of a film, and the role of new punk cinema in plotting a course beyond the postmodern. The book examines a range of films, including The Blair Witch Project, Time Code, Run Lola Run, Memento, The Celebration, Gummo, and Requiem for a Dream.New Punk Cinema is ideal for classroom use at the undergraduate and graduate levels, as well as for film scholars interested in fresh approaches to the emergence of this vital new turn in cinema.Features* Offers a comprehensive examination of the term 'new punk' cinema.* Provides several new approaches for the study of digital cinema.* Includes close analysis of several key new punk films and directors.

New Punk Cinema is the first book to examine a new breed of film that is indebted to the punk spirit of experimentation, do-it-yourself ethos, and an uneasy, often defiant relationship with the mainstream. An array of established and emerging scholars trace and map the contours of new punk cinema, from its roots in neorealism and the French New Wave, to its flowering in the work of Lars von Trier and the Dogma 95 movement. Subsequent chapters explore the potentially democratic and even anarchic forces of digital filmmaking, the influences of hypertext and other new media, the increased role of the viewer in arranging and manipulating the chronology of a film, and the role of new punk cinema in plotting a course beyond the postmodern. The book examines a range of films, including The Blair Witch Project, Time Code, Run Lola Run, Memento, The Celebration, Gummo, and Requiem for a Dream. New Punk Cinema is ideal for classroom use at the undergraduate and graduate levels, as well as for film scholars interested in fresh approaches to the emergence of this vital new turn in cinema.

We begin by scrutinizing a recent proposal that presents an alternate description of the half-filled Landau level in terms of massless Dirac fermions. In Chapter 2, we examine the possibility of pairing of these Dirac fermions by numerically solving the coupled Eliashberg equations unlike a related previous calculation (Wang and Chakravarty, 2016). In addition, vertex corrections are calculated to be zero from the Ward identity. We find that pairing is possible in non-zero angular momentum channels; only differences are minor numerical shifts. As before, the pairing leads to the gapped Pfaffian and anti-Pfaffian states. However, in our approximation scheme, pairing is not possible in the putative particle–hole symmetric state for l = 0 angular momentum. The specific heat at low temperatures of a system of massless Dirac fermions interacting with a transverse gauge field, expected to be relevant for the half-filled Landau level, is calculated. Using the Luttinger formula, it is found to be ∝ T ln T in the leading low temperature limit, due to the exchange of transverse gauge bosons. The result agrees with the corresponding one in the nonrelativistic composite fermion theory of Halperin, Lee and Read of the half-filled Landau level.The rest of the thesis concerns the cuprate high-Tc superconductors (\"cuprates''). Conventional wisdom says that beyond the superconducting \"dome'' in cuprates, the material behaves as a Fermi liquid. However, this picture does not help explain the disappearance of the superconducting order parameter, and there are some anomalous measurements that cannot be explained by a Fermi liquid phase. It was proposed by Kopp, Ghosal, and Chakravarty that there is a ferromagnetic phase at zero temperature beyond the superconducting dome, and that fluctuations of the ferromagnetic order parameter compete with the superconducting order parameter and work to suppress the superconducting transition temperature [KGC07]. In Chapter 3 we summarize the experimental evidence for ferromagnetic fluctuations in the overdoped cuprates, and present several calculations supporting the existence of a ferromagnetic ground state in the 2D single-band Hubbard model, which model is thought to provide an adequate description of the cuprate superconductors.Another region of interest in the cuprate phase diagram is the pseudogap phase. It is unclear which of a host of competing order parameters is responsible for the behavior in this phase, such as the recent observation of an anomalous thermal Hall conductance in the cuprate La2-xSrxCuO4 [GLB19]. One promising candidate is the d-density wave state. In Chapter 4, we investigate the effect that density wave states have on the localized spins of a square lattice. We derive the effective Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interaction from first principles and study its effects on both ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic backgrounds. We find that topologically nontrivial density wave states can induce stable DM interactions among the localized spins of the lattice when an external magnetic field is present. Furthermore, these density wave-induced DM vectors point along the external magnetic field's direction--implying that they break time-reversal and spin rotation symmetries in the same manner. Due to these symmetry considerations alone we find that the underlying magnon excitations cannot induce any thermal Hall effect. Utilizing a Holstein-Primakoff substitution about a mean-field ground state expansion we calculate the topological density wave corrections to magnetic ground state energy, spin canting angles, and the dispersion of the magnons for both the ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic cases.

This chapter asks questions about the relation between sequels and digital media that, in its database structure, highlights and transforms the process of rearranging time to tell stories, a process that, always fundamental to cinema, was often concealed. Rather than unfold in a linear, analytical fashion, the chapter borrows from our contemporary understanding of the archive in the digital era, where information seems never to disappear, but remains stored in vast databases. As Jacques Derrida has reminded us, the “archivization produces as much as it records the event” (17), and this chapter is the product of a certain slant of

A recent proposal argues that an alternate description of the half-filled Landau level is a theory of massless Dirac fermions. We examine the possibility of pairing of these Dirac fermions by numerically solving the {\\em coupled} Eliashberg equations unlike our previous calculation [Wang and Chakravarty, Phys. Rev. B {\\bf 94}, 165138 (2016)]. In addition, vertex corrections are calculated to be zero from the Ward identity. We find that pairing is possible in non-zero angular momentum channels; the only differences are minor numerical shifts. As before, the pairing leads to the gapped Pfaffian and anti-Pfaffian states. However, in our approximation scheme, pairing is not possible in the putative particle-hole symmetric state for \\(\\ell=0\\) angular momentum. The specific heat at low temperatures of a system of massless Dirac fermions interacting with a transverse gauge field, expected to be relevant for the half-filled Landau level, is calculated. Using the Luttinger formula, it is found be \\(\\propto T\\ln T\\) in the leading low temperature limit, due to the exchange of transverse gauge bosons. The result agrees with the corresponding one in the nonrelativistic composite fermion theory of Halperin, Lee and Read of the half-filled Landau level.