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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"hitchcock"”.
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Notions of the Gothic in the films of Alfred Hitchcock.
The films of Alfred Hitchcock were made within the confines of the commercial film industries in Britain and the USA and related to popular cultural traditions such as the thriller and the spy story. However, many of the films possess characteristics associated with 'high' culture. Part of the …
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The Representation of Disability in the Music of Alfred Hitchcock Films
Several of Alfred Hitchcock’s movies feature characters with disabilities. Often, these characters are protagonists, and Hitchcock systematically manipulates his audiences to identify with these characters through the editing process, sound effects, and music. This dissertation will analyze the …
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An analysis of the legislative debate on the Federal Reserve Act of 1913.
… advocates of both the Owen Amendments and the Hitchcock Report debated in the United States Senate. A study was made of the specific economic, social, and political forces of 1913 which produced the issues in the debate. It was found that the senators agreed on two basic propositions: (1) the …
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"Indigenous" -- "Vernacular" : negotiating an American history for modernism through the lens of the architectural exhibition
… and society. Conversely, Henry-Russell Hitchcock utilized "vernacular" in his 1934 exhibition at Yale University, The Urban Vernacular of the Thirties, Forties, and Fifties: American Cities Before the Civil War, to establish a formal continuity between Greek Revival antebellum urban …
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An optimal withdrawal policy for spent nuclear fuel from on-site storage
… through, 1) a dynamic programming approach, 2) a Hitchcock problem to be solved similarly to a minimum-cost-flow problem, and 3) a linear program definable as a Transportation problem. In the model analyses, the dynamic programming formulation proved to be computationally infeasible. The analyses …
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A review of techniques in transportation research
… along with methods for their solution,. The Hitchcock distribution problem is discussed and a sample problem solved using three different methods. The usefulness of graph theory in studying transportation problems is pointed out. Examples are then given of its use in a maximal network flow …
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Beyond horror: or, exploring the connections between E.A. Poe's writtings and A. Hitchcock's cinema
… konkrétních dílech Edgara Allana Poea a Alfreda Hitchcocka. Tato práce se pak zejména snaží ukázat, že existuje jednolitá trajektorie vývoje hororu v širokém časovém rozmezí, a dále se snaží prokázat spojení hororu a přirozené lidské psychologie, stejně jako vymezit hranice hororu za účelem …
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Architecture and Film
… in his Kimbell Art Museum. Similarly, Alfred Hitchcock, renowned filmmaker, utilizes light to distinguish the characters of his movies to create remarkable and sometimes horrifying scenes. This thesis aims to capture the cinematic movement of these elements in the building design. The …
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NAVIGATING THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT: READING BERENICE ABBOTT’S CHANGING NEW YORK
… theories of Lewis Mumford and Henry-Russell Hitchcock. Abbott appropriated both Mumford and Hitchcock’s theories on the linear trajectory of architecture, selecting and composing her imagery to fashion for the viewer a decipherable sense of the built city. Within my thesis I sought to link …
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Some observations on the population dynamics of the Australian soldier fly Inopus Rubriceps Macquart (Diptera: Stratiomyidae)
… in Queensland for some time (Saunders 1963 and Hitchcock 1970). I. rubriceps has been known in New Zealand since the early 1940’s (Muggeridge 1944), but it was not until the late 1960’s that the N.Z. Department of Agriculture, under considerable pressure from the farming community, finally …
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Cortometraje Cactus
… en El Padrino 1, 2 y 3, desde Chaplin hasta Hitchcock, alquilando film tras film en la ya fenecida tienda de videos VHS, “Blockbuster”.
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The jungle in the clearing : space, form and democracy in America, 1940-1949
… Sigfried Giedion, Lewis Mumford, Henry-Russell Hitchcock, and Philip Johnson. Centering on the city, this debate recast monumentality in terms more progressive than commemorative; it posited open-ended architectural and urban strategies that offered a non-restrictive yet sympathetic public …
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Religion, the SPCK and the Westminster workhouses : 're-enchanting' the eighteenth-century workhouse
… developed throughout the eighteenth century. Tim Hitchcock argued in 1992 that the SPCK, an Anglican reforming society, was largely responsible for the parochial workhouse movement in the early eighteenth century, viewing these institutions as a tool through which to reform society by instilling …
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Examining Treatment Effects for Single-Case ABAB Designs through Sensitivity Analyses
… visual analysis processes (Kratochwill, Hitchcock, Horner, Levin, Odom, Rindskopf, & Shadish, 2010). The comparisons presented here are based on nine, single-case studies that meet WWC design standards. All studies examined intervention impacts on behavioral outcomes. UnGraph digitizing …
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Of Books and Fire: Approaching the Alchemy of Carl Gustav Jung
… thinkers, in particular, Ethan Allen Hitchcock and Herbert Silberer. Finally, it yields an evaluation of Jung’s alchemical conceptions within the context of his own experiences and writings. Although not supportive of the application of Jung’s findings in the study of Western …
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The English wing spinet of the 17th and 18th centuries: with special reference to the extant Haward spinets indtroducing newly discovered evidence for Samuel Pepys' Haward spinet and Queen Anne's Haward spinet
… spinet’s major makers, Stephen Keene and Thomas Hitchcock, of the middle years and earlier. This study examines in detail the heretofore under-researched surviving spinets of the earliest maker, Charles Haward, and compares his instruments to some of those of the two other early shops of Stephen …
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Freshwater inflows to estuaries : organic carbon and microbial food webs in south-east Australia
Freshwater inflows (FWI) play a crucial role in maintaining estuarine processes and productivity. River regulation and extraction have greatly reduced FWI to estuaries. Little attention has been paid to the role FWI has in delivering organic carbon to estuaries. The aim of this thesis was to define …
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