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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Spielberg"”.
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La tolerancia en el cineasta Steven Spielberg.
… el papel de un cineasta en concreto, Steven Alan Spielberg, quien, a través del cine como medio de expresión, cree necesario el transmitir al espectador la importancia de la puesta en práctica de los valores universales; con el fin de que sirva para la edificación del ser humano dentro de las …
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Hombres de Steven Spielberg: un análisis de la representación de masculinidades en los textos fílmicos "Duel", "Jaws", "Jurassic Park", "The Lost World: Jurassic Park" y "War of the Worlds"
… en cinco textos fílmicos dirigidos por Steven Spielberg, comenzando por el primero en ser estrenado profesionalmente en el cine, y siguiendo con aquéllos que tienen un mayor grado de continuidad con respecto al mismo. El corpus lo forman Duel, Jaws, Jurassic Park, The Lost World: Jurassic Park …
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Research into the impact of digital technology on contemporary Hollywood cinema
Since Jurassic Park (dir. Steven Spielberg), released in 1993, the use of computer generated images, or COl, in mainstream Hollywood cinema has become a dominant tool in contemporary flimmaking. Until now the impact of CGI has been scarcely written about, mostly confined to small sections of …
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Cortometraje Cactus
… de 1997 y se estrenaba Jurassic Park 2. Steven Spielberg era el rey del blockbuster norteamericano y los cines se llenaban masivamente de gente que iba a ver su más reciente película. Mi madre, cinéfila empedernida sin ni siquiera ser conciente de ello, también era parte de esa masa fiel. Al ser …
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Relating Thompson's group V to graphs of groups and Hecke algebras
… by tree automorphisms. Brownlowe, Mundey, Pask, Spielberg and Thomas constructed a $C^*$-algebra for a graph of groups, writtten $C^*(\mathcal{G})$, which bears many similarities to the $C^*$-algebra of a directed graph $G$. Inspired by the fact that directed graph $C^*$-algebras $C^*(G)$ have …
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Sowing the Seed: Oberlin Female Missionary Teachers of Southern Blacks, 1863-1875
<p>The American Missionary Association (AMA) proved to be the largest and most enduring of the benevolent societies which sponsored teachers in the South. Local affiliates of the society were organized throughout the East and Midwest to raise funds, gather donations, and enlist teachers. Many of …
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The Bridges of Madison County and Iowa: Production, Reception, and Place
… adaptation was made by Clint Eastwood and Steven Spielberg, and Bridges-related tourism changed the nature of Winterset's economy and community. What can we learn about American culture from the unexpected, record-setting sales success of The Bridges of Madison County, situated as it was on the …
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The ante-tempus narrative : fictions of medicine and prevention
… Let Me Go (Ishiguro 2005), and Minority Report (Spielberg 2002) as speculative diagnoses of contemporary society and as dramatisations of the preventative drive operating in non-fictional social contexts. In addition to sf scholars and novelists, I thus engage in a dialogue with theorists and …
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Moderation by depression and anxiety of connectivity among brain areas associated with motivation
… & Dissertations (ID: 1) No. of bitstreams: 2 Spielberg_Jeffrey.doc: 4472320 bytes, checksum: 229a3e5aa0ffd8fe1002845775de939f (MD5) Spielberg_Jeffrey.pdf: 1791109 bytes, checksum: 59621b4e2e467451d29cc1207964c865 (MD5)
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Co-Optimization and Co-Learning Methods for Automated Design of Rigid and Soft Robots
Nature demonstrates an incredible diversity, capability, and complexity of life, with organisms that can robustly run, jump, and swim. Compared with their biological brethren, robotic "life" lacks rich dexterity or economy of motion, and their plainly simple designs indicate room for improvement. …
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Anger Induction and Ambient Interventions: Effects on Cardiovascular Activity and Frontal EEG Asymmetry
… (threat) on a simulated driving route. STAXI-2 (Spielberg, 1999) was used to measure anger states and motivation was measured by Confidence and Perceived Control Scale from Dundee Stress State Questionnaire (Matthews & Desmond, 1998). Psychophysiological variables included: blood pressure (BP), …
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Great Expectations: The Role of Myth in 1980s Films with Child Heroes
This study performed a mythic analysis on three films with child heroes including E.T.—the Extra-Terrestrial, Stand by Me, and The Goonies. Several unifying themes were extracted and then compared with the dominant values of Reagan America to determine if these films provided a unique cultural …
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Maskless photopatterning of cells in microfluidic devices/
Upon examining current methods for printing and patterning of live biological cells, there is a need for a method capable of printing with the resolution of single biological cells to organize them into complex structures. In order to fill this need, building upon previous design of a dynamic …
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The Hidden Roots of Neoliberal Success in Agrarian Transformation: State Engagement, Farmer Professionalization, and Technological Interdependence in the Senegal River Valley
Recent scholarship celebrates irrigated rice in the Senegal River Valley (SRV) as a success story. This is remarkable considering the SRV’s history of agrarian transformation, which critics characterize as incoherent, erratic, and self-destructive. How did this turnaround happen? How did good seeds …