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"Having undergone profound material, aesthetic, and institutional transformations since the arrival of digital technologies, photography and film frequently intersect in the processes of convergence (the shared technological basis of diverse media in digital code) and remediation (the mutual reshaping of old and new media). However, the foundational relations between film and photography have a long history extending well back into the nineteenth century. This history includes many acclaimed practitioners who have worked in both media, such as Albert Kahn, Helen Levitt, Agnès Varda, Chris Marker, Robert Frank, Wim Wenders, Abbas Kiarostami, and Fiona Tan, but it also involves a range of intermedial forms that combine elements of both media, such as the film still, the film photonovel, and the photofilm. These hybrid forms were long neglected critically because they were considered marginal forms of paratextuality or deviations from medium specificity-the idea that a medium must be deployed according to its own specific capacities compared to other media"--
Trauma Cinema focuses on a new breed of documentary films and videos that adopt catastrophe as their subject matter and trauma as their aesthetic. Incorporating oral testimony, home-movie footage, and documentary reenactment, these documentaries express the havoc trauma wreaks on history and memory. Janet Walker uses incest and the Holocaust as a double thematic focus and fiction films as a point of comparison. Her astute and original examination considers the Hollywood classic Kings Row and the television movie Sybil in relation to vanguard nonfiction works, including Errol Morris's Mr. Death, Lynn Hershman's video diaries, and the chilling genealogy of incest, Just, Melvin. Both incest and...
This paper examines the continuing effects of COVID-19 and exposure to weather extremes on income, dietary, and migration outcomes in rural Guatemala. We rely on a comprehensive longitudinal survey of 1,612 smallholder farmers collected over three survey rounds in 2019, 2020, and 2021. We find improvements in incomes, food security, and dietary diversity in 2021 relative to 2020, but with levels still below pre-pandemic ones in 2019. We also find a substantial increase in the intention to emigrate that was not observed in the onset of the pandemic. In terms of the channels mediating the variations in dietary diversity and migration intentions, income shocks seem to have played a role, in con...
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1. The book deals with English Optional Subject for the GIC Lecturer 2. The guide is divided into 2 sections 3. Chapterwise theory designed as per prescribed syllabus 4. More than 2000 MCQs are provided for quick revision 5. 5 Practice Sets are given for practice Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission has recently released a notification for the recruitment of Subjectwise lecturers in the Government Inter College of State. The candidates will be selected through the process of written exam (Pre & Main) & Interview. The all new edition of “GIC Lecturer (Male/Female) Preliminary Exam 2021 - English” that is designed for the candidates who are going to appear for the upcoming exam. The book is divided into 2 sections namely Literature and Language providing the theory as per the latest syllabus in a Chapterwise manner. With more than 2000 MCQs are provided for the quick revision of the concepts and Chapters. Ample numbers of questions are given in each chapter for practice and 5 Practice Sets are provided to get insights of the papers. TOC Language, Literature, 5 Practice Sets