Playful Frames

Author : Steven Rybin
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1978815964
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Playful Frames written by Steven Rybin and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-13 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A widescreen frame in cinema beckons the eye to playfully, creatively roam. Such technology also gives inventive filmmakers room to disrupt and redirect audience expectations, surprising viewers through the use of a wider, more expansive screen. Playful Frames: Styles of Widescreen Cinema studies the poetics of the auteur-driven widescreen image, offering nimble, expansive analyses of the work of four distinctive filmmakers – Jean Negulesco, Blake Edwards, Robert Altman, and John Carpenter – who creatively inhabited the nooks and crannies of widescreen moviemaking during the final decades of the twentieth century. Exploring the relationship between aspect ratio and subject matter, Playful Frames shows how directors make puckish use of widescreen technology. All four of these distinctive filmmakers reimagined popular genres (such as melodrama, slapstick comedy, film noir, science fiction, and horror cinema) through their use of the wide frame, and each brings a range of intermedial interests (painting, performance, and music) to their use of the widescreen image. This study looks specifically at the technological underpinnings, aesthetic shapes, and interpretive implications of these four directors’ creative use of widescreen, offering a way to reconsider the way wide imagery still has the potential to amaze and move us today.

Author : Vally Lytra
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027291780
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Play Frames and Social Identities written by Vally Lytra and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2007-11-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a sociolinguistic study of children’s talk and how they interact with one another and their teachers in multilingual, multicultural and multiethnic schools. It is based on tape recordings and ethnographic observations of majority Greek and minority Turkish-speaking children at an Athens primary school. It offers the reader a unique look into the ways in which children draw upon their rich interactional histories and share, transform and recontextualize linguistic and other semiotic resources in circulation to construct play frames and explore, adopt, resist available as well as novel social roles and identities. Drawing on ethnographically informed approaches to discourse, the book shows the ways in which verbal phenomena such as teasing, joking, language play, music making and chanting can provide a productive locus for the study of the negotiation of social identities and roles at school. This book will be of interest to scholars, researchers and students of sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, cultural studies, and multicultural education. It will also be of interest to anthropologists and sociologists.

Author : Harald Warmelink
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135040249
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Online Gaming and Playful Organization written by Harald Warmelink and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-03 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Online Gaming and Playful Organization explores the cultural impact of gaming on organizations. While gaming is typically a form of entertainment, this book argues that gaming communities can function as a useful analogue for work organizations because both are comprised of diverse members who must communicate and collaborate to solve complex problems. By examining the impact of gaming beyond its own context, this book argues that one can apply numerous lessons from the virtual world of online games to the “real” world of businesses, schools, and other professional communities. Most notably, it articulates the concept of playful organizations, defined as organizations in which the ability to play has become so institutionalized that it is spontaneous, creative, and enjoyable. Based on original research, Online Gaming and Playful Organization establishes an interdisciplinary framework for further conceptual and empirical investigation into this topic, with the dual goals of a better understanding of the role of online games and virtual worlds, and of the possible structural and cultural transformation of public and private organizations.

Author : Jaan Valsiner
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 038795922X
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dynamic Process Methodology in the Social and Developmental Sciences written by Jaan Valsiner and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-07-09 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All psychological processes—like biological and social ones—are dynamic. Phenomena of nature, society, and the human psyche are context bound, constantly changing, and variable. This feature of reality is often not recognized in the social sciences where we operate with averaged data and with homogeneous stereotypes, and consider our consistency to be the cornerstone of rational being. Yet we are all inconsistent in our actions within a day, or from, one day to the next, and much of such inconsistency is of positive value for our survival and development. Our inconsistent behaviors and thoughts may appear chaotic, yet there is generality within this highly variable dynamic. The task of scientific methodologies—qualitative and quantitative—is to find out what that generality is. It is the aim of this handbook to bring into one framework various directions of construction of methodology of the dynamic processes that exist in the social sciences at the beginning of the 21st century. This handbook is set up to bring together pertinent methodological scholarship from all over the world, and equally from the quantitative and qualitative orientations to methodology. In addition to consolidating the pertinent knowledge base for the purposes of its further growth, this book serves the major educational role of bringing practitioners—students, researchers, and professionals interested in applications—the state of the art know-how about how to think about extracting evidence from single cases, and about the formal mathematical-statistical tools to use for these purposes.

Author : Marie-Cécile Bertau
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 1623960398
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dialogic Formations written by Marie-Cécile Bertau and published by IAP. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume understands itself as an invitation to follow a fundamental shift in perspective, away from the self-contained ‘I’ of Western conventions, and towards a relational self, where development and change are contingent on otherness. In the framework of ‘Dialogical Self Theory’ (Hermans & Hermans-Konopka, 2010; Hermans & Gieser, 2012), it is precisely the forms of interaction and exchange with others and with the world that determine the course of the self’s development. The volume hence addresses dialogical processes in human interaction from a psychological perspective, bringing together previously separate theoretical traditions about the ‘self’ and about ‘dialogue’ within the innovative framework of Dialogical Self Theory. The book is devoted to developmental questions, and so broaches one of the more difficult and challenging topics for models of a pluralist self: the question of how the dynamics of multiplicity emerge and change over time. This question is explored by addressing ontogenetic questions, directed at the emergence of the dialogical self in early infancy, as well as microgenetic questions, addressed to later developmental dynamics in adulthood. Additionally, development and change in a range of culture-specific settings and practices is also examined, including the practices of mothering, of migration and cross-cultural assimilation, and of ‘doing psychotherapy’.

Author : Janet Cotterill
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780826478733
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language Across Boundaries written by Janet Cotterill and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2005-11-17 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language across Boundaries is a selection of papers from the millennium conference of the British Association of Applied Linguistics. The thirteen papers are written by applied linguists, from Britain, mainland Europe, the USA, Australia and Singapore, working in a variety of sub-disciplines of the field. The 'boundaries' of the title have been widely interpreted and the book reflects a spectrum of research, ranging from work on the linguistic repercussions of individual and group identity boundaries to work dealing with ways of crossing national and cultural boundaries through language learning and language mediation in the form of translation. Included in the volumes are the plenary papers given by Jennifer Coates, well known for her work on language and gender, on the expression of alternative masculinities; and by Bencie Woll, holder of the first chair of Sign Language and Deaf Studies in the UK, on the insights to be gained from sign language in exploring language, culture and identity.

Author : James Robson
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783823362203
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Humour, Obscenity and Aristophanes written by James Robson and published by Gunter Narr Verlag. This book was released on 2006 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : J. Normann Jørgensen
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527553434
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love Ya Hate Ya written by J. Normann Jørgensen and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-22 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume shows the formidable range of variation in youth language. Youth language is analyzed as a phenomenon in negotiations of identities and social relations. The contributions particularly concentrate on youth language in late modern urban societies. This is an area of study which has been gaining increasing attention in sociolinguistics over the past few years. One observation that is almost inevitable is that there is a string of similarities to be found between youths in quite different circumstances, ranging from university students in Argentina, to juvenile delinquents in Greece and to skaters in Greenland. A wide range of language situations are covered, from Danish, Cypriot Greek, Turkish, to Spanish, Greenlandic, Norwegian, Catalan, and of course English. The articles in this anthology document and analyze linguistic youth styles and behaviors as well as attitudes. In their totality they present a picture of youth language as functional, socially valuable, and flexible, with a special emphasis on identity negotiations.

Author : Judit Vari
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004468919
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Playful Trajectories and Experimentations written by Judit Vari and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-08-16 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The principal aim of this book is to discuss the role of video games in socialization of children and young people. The development of video games is a sign of and a factor in the democratization of modern societies.

Author : Cornelia Ilie
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118611101
Total Pages : 1675 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The International Encyclopedia of Language and Social Interaction, 3 Volume Set written by Cornelia Ilie and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-06-08 with total page 1675 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The International Encyclopedia of Language and Social Interaction is an invaluable reference work featuring contributions from leading global scholars, available both online and as a three-volume print set. The definitive international reference work on a topic of major and increasing importance, in a new series of sub-disciplinary international encyclopedias Provides state-of-the-art research for scholars in a highly interactive and accessible format, available both online and as a three-volume print set Covers key research topics in the field with contributions from a team of experienced, global editors Successfully brings into a single source, explication of all of the fascinating and ground-breaking Language and Social Interaction work developing globally and across subjects Part of The Wiley Blackwell-ICA International Encyclopedias of Communication series, published in conjunction with the International Communication Association. Online version available at Wiley Online Library