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Showing 1 to 20 of 140 for “"Actuality"”.
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Reassembling documentary: from actuality to virtuality
… media, "Reassembling Documentary: From Actuality to Virtuality" takes up episodic documentaries and non-fiction films broken into distinctly conceptualized parts, in order to examine how the evolution of technologies transform documentary film and media's relationship to the audiovisual …
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Transient Constellations: Adorno, Benjamin, and the Actuality of Idealism
… this mosaic, I pose questions regarding the actuality of philosophy, considering how thought might open itself towards a fuller spectrum of experience, while nonetheless remaining systematic, creating new (inter)disciplinary models of philosophy which tarry with the para-philosophical domains …
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To create live treatments of actuality : an investigation of the emerging field of live documentary practice
Keywords: documentary, interactive, live, liveness, ephemerality, interactivity, theater, performance, television, televisuality, database, data, live data, real time Abstract: The field of documentary is undergoing a transformation as it collides with digital technologies. A new arena of …
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The Conception of Irony with Continual Reference to Kierkegaard: An Examination of Ironic Play in Fear and Trembling
… who lived ironically in the space between actuality and ideality. This thesis considers how Abraham also lived in ironic space and why ironic space is a prerequisite for faith. Unlike Socrates, Abraham did not stop with irony, but used irony to open ironic space in which a knight of faith …
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An examination of the emotional impact of the insertion of documentary footage into trauma cinema
… In general, previous work in Film Studies links actuality in feature films to greater emotional affect but does so epidermically. In other words, it fails to examine how footage which is real and not staged affects the emotional dynamics of the narratives in which it is inserted. The focus of …
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Introducing a relational approach to the study of emotions in project teams: The case of a public–non-profit partnership programme
… a fifteen-month period, this study unravels the ‘actuality’ of programme work at both collective and individual levels. At the collective level, the results from the thematic analysis of data highlight emotions during the ever-changing flux of events as the team ceaselessly engage in sense-making …
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Japanese imperialism and the Indian Nationalist Movement: A study of the political and psychological impact of possible invasion and actual occupation, 1939-1945
… the leading nationalists is contrasted with the actuality of the years of occupation tolerated by the Islanders.
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Perceptions of Childhood Abuse and Life Stress: Contributors to Increase in Binge Eating Behavior
… data, and thus failed to separate the effects of actuality versus perception of childhood abuse. Thus, the current study examined how perceptions of childhood abuse and life stress affect binge eating behavior among university students.</p> <p>Participants for the current study included 173 …
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Marx at 200 – Inquiries into the Measurement of Profitability and its Determinants: The US Economy, 1950-2016
… economists have confirmed the empirical actuality of the ‘law of the tendency of the rate of profit to fall’. While the present thesis contributes to the burgeoning body of empirical literature that has substantiated Marx’s law, it differs from many of them in the underlying …
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Quality of life amidst the lights of Las Vegas
… quantifiable measurements, not qualitative. In actuality, the whole concept of quality of life is a subjective valuation of a myriad of issues by individuals. The purpose of this thesis, based on the testing of a model, is to identify these subjective quality of life variables and determine …
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Becoming Otherwise: Politics, Metaphysics and Power in Judith Butler and Alfred North Whitehead
… particularly as a becoming material, so that actuality is a becoming materiality. This is also a relational becoming of feeling, becoming as a process of intensive feeling that can never be finalized for itself, always suffering its own continual downfall. Finally, but without finality, …
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Permanence and poetics: a monument to individual achievement, Washington, D.C.
… being lost to a historical view of man. Thus the actuality which gives meaning, significance, and value to man's existence - the poetics; and the actuality that transcends man over time - the eternal, are slowly being dissolved in a solution of neglect, opinion, and apathy. Architecture is the …
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Rivals in the sky : the developmental relationship between the airship and the airplane.
… ended the long reign of the rigid airship. In actuality, realistic prospects for the widespread use of the airship ceased in 1918 with the end of the First World War. Airplanes and seaplanes quickly moved from experimental models to commercial and military dominance. While the two systems of …
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Portmanteau
… is about making meaning without being bound by actuality. My hybrid animals are whimsical and funny but I create them for a serious reason. I want people to look at them and see that they are precious, and from there, to realize that all animals, all creation, is precious. Man was not intended …
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Governing Visions of the Real. The New Zealand National Film Unit, Griersonian Documentary & State Publicity
… It variously arranged, interpreted and evaluated actuality, hence encoding a certain 'vision' for popular audiences about what is and should be real. At the same time, the investments in and purposes of film production were rendered transparent and the films evaded controversy, heterogeneity, …
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Kinetic Demonstrations
… as a reconciliatory act between potentiality and actuality. Drawing in question of perception. Drawing as a precursor to model making and photography.
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Particle filter based tracking in a detection sparse discrete event simulation environment
… of observability and becomes fully detected. In actuality, even extremely uncertain or incomplete detections and counter-detections of opposing entities can provide enough data for entities to make reasonably intelligent decisions on the virtual battlefield. Recent developments in commercial …
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Storytelling, Myth, and the Dreams Therein: A Critical Analysis of the Intertextuality of Christianity, Capitalism, and Americanism
… of illusion, and/or various ‘realities’, over actuality, much American violence takes place both within and without the nation’s borders. I demonstrate the harmful but seldom examined paradoxes produced and sustained by treating American values as sacrosanct in American life and in individual …
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Science, law and the administration of justice in Irish criminal process: expectations, role and disconnect
… disconnect between expectations and the actuality of forensic science in Ireland.
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