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Women and New Hollywood
The 1970s has often been hailed as a great moment for American
film, as a generation of \"New Hollywood\" directors like Scorsese,
Coppola, and Altman offered idiosyncratic visions of what movies
could be. Yet the auteurist discourse hailing these directors as
the sole authors of their films has obscured the important creative
roles women played in the 1970s American film industry. Women
and New Hollywood revises our understanding of this important
era in American film by examining the contributions that women made
not only as directors, but also as screenwriters, editors, actors,
producers, and critics. Including essays on film history, film
texts, and the decade's film theory and criticism, this collection
showcases the rich and varied cinematic products of women's
creative labor, as well as the considerable barriers they faced. It
considers both women working within and beyond the Hollywood film
industry, reconceptualizing New Hollywood by bringing it into
dialogue with other American cinemas of the 1970s. By valuing the
many forms of creative labor involved in film production, this
collection offers exciting alternatives to the auteurist model and
new ways of appreciating the themes and aesthetics of 1970s
American film.
eBook
Emissions of anaerobically produced methane by trees
Recent studies indicate that plants may be a previously overlooked but significant source of atmospheric CH4, though there is considerable disagreement on the mechanism of production. Our work sought to verify that woody deciduous trees grown under inundated conditions had the capacity for transporting CH4 from an anaerobic subsurface to the atmosphere and to consider if such a source could be important globally. Here, we report results from a greenhouse mesocosm study that indicate significant emissions of anaerobically produced CH4 transmitted to the atmosphere through broadleaf riparian tree species grown under flooded conditions. Using a leaf area normalized mean emission rate (0.7 ± 0.3 μg cm−2 hr−1), results were scaled globally for flooded forest regions and estimated to be 60 ± 20 Tg year−1, ∼10% of the global CH4 source. The carbon isotopic composition of CH4 emitted was found to be significantly enriched compared with expectations (δ13C ∼ −54‰) and provided an important isotopic constraint on the global source which coincides with the mean of the globally scaled greenhouse‐based estimate.
Journal Article
The Comedy of Redevelopment
Times Square was radically redeveloped in the 1990s, becoming a key site of neoliberal urbanism, and this \"new\" Times Square has featured frequently in the romantic comedy. This article reads three Times Square romcoms—Enchanted (Kevin Lima, 2007), Friends with Benefits (Will Gluck, 2011), and New Year's Eve (Garry Marshall, 2011)—against the history of Times Square's redevelopment, arguing that they both rely on and repress Times Square's history and that the new Times Square's presence in the romcom is a product of the genre's investment in real estate: its predilection for both property development narratives and redeveloped or gentrified spaces.
Journal Article
The Comedy of Redevelopment: Romantic Comedy, Real Estate, and the \New\ Times Square
Times Square was radically redeveloped in the 1990s, becoming a key site of neoliberal urbanism, and this \"new\" Times Square has featured frequently in the romantic comedy. This article reads three Times Square romcoms- Enchanted (Kevin Lima, 2007), Friends with Benefits (Will Gluck, 2011), and New Year's Eve (Garry Marshall, 2011)-against the history of Times Square's redevelopment, arguing that they both rely on and repress Times Square's history and that the new Times Square's presence in the romcom is a product of the genre's investment in real estate: its predilection for both property development narratives and redeveloped or gentrified spaces.
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Introduction
Gwen Verdon is watching the Oscars ceremony on television. Her estranged husband, Bob Fosse, has won the Best Director award for Cabaret (1972). During his speech, after thanking the film’s stars, studio head, and songwriters, he thanks “a dear friend of mind by the name of Gwen Verdon.” As Fosse moves on to the film’s producer, their daughter, Nicole, asks her mother, “Why didn’t he thank me?” to which Gwen replies, “Because you didn’t help direct his movie, darling.” This scene takes place in the fourth episode of Fosse/Verdon (FX, 2019) and encapsulates both the show’s concern with Fosse’s neglect
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Rapid Identification of Sequences for Orphan Enzymes to Power Accurate Protein Annotation
The power of genome sequencing depends on the ability to understand what those genes and their proteins products actually do. The automated methods used to assign functions to putative proteins in newly sequenced organisms are limited by the size of our library of proteins with both known function and sequence. Unfortunately this library grows slowly, lagging well behind the rapid increase in novel protein sequences produced by modern genome sequencing methods. One potential source for rapidly expanding this functional library is the \"back catalog\" of enzymology--\"orphan enzymes,\" those enzymes that have been characterized and yet lack any associated sequence. There are hundreds of orphan enzymes in the Enzyme Commission (EC) database alone. In this study, we demonstrate how this orphan enzyme \"back catalog\" is a fertile source for rapidly advancing the state of protein annotation. Starting from three orphan enzyme samples, we applied mass-spectrometry based analysis and computational methods (including sequence similarity networks, sequence and structural alignments, and operon context analysis) to rapidly identify the specific sequence for each orphan while avoiding the most time- and labor-intensive aspects of typical sequence identifications. We then used these three new sequences to more accurately predict the catalytic function of 385 previously uncharacterized or misannotated proteins. We expect that this kind of rapid sequence identification could be efficiently applied on a larger scale to make enzymology's \"back catalog\" another powerful tool to drive accurate genome annotation.
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