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Eric Dienstfrey deposited Synch Holes and Patchwork in Early Feature-Film Scores on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months ago
The aesthetics of early feature-film scores were shaped by narrational problems introduced by multi-reel features and their longer durations. Using The Patchwork Girl of Oz, I show how stylistic devices like silences and musical pun- ctuation were used to address the coherence and pacing of multi-reel storytelling.
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Allison Means changed their profile picture on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months ago
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Marcelo Vitores's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months ago
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Eric Dienstfrey deposited Tape Recording Hollywood: The Inaudibility of New Film Sound Technology on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months ago
This article details the historical factors that shaped Hollywood’s adoption of magnetic recording during the late 1940s and early 1950s. It draws upon economic theories of technological change, archival correspondence, technical records, analyses of postproduction workflows, and delineations of the structural constraints that limited how the f…[Read more]
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Eric Dienstfrey's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months ago
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Eric Dienstfrey deposited Monocentrism, or Soundtracks in Space on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months ago
This chapter investigates how the introduction of stereo complicated Hollywood’s vococentric practices. It also reveals how sound technicians developed mixing techniques that preserved the salience of dialogue in multi-channel soundscapes. The author refers to such techniques as monocentrism and illustrates monocentric norms by analyzing the c…[Read more]
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Jamie Callison's profile was updated on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months ago
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Jeffrey Shoulson's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months ago
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Ian Willis deposited Camden Historical Society, 60 years of local history, 1957-2017 on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months ago
In 2017 the Camden Historical Society celebrated its 60th anniversary. An anniversary address was given by society president Dr Ian Willis at the Camden Library Museum complex on the 24 July, Founded in 1957, the aim of the society has been to tell the Camden story and the local identities and events that are part of it.
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Rita Singer deposited Thomas Richards (1800-1877): A Bibliography in Progress on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months ago
The following is a collection of identified fictional and non–fictional writing by Thomas Richards (1800-1877). Originally from Dolgellau, the young medical practitioner Richards published a considerable number of antiquarian and critical essays, editorials, travel writing, short stories and poetry in literary periodicals in England, Scotland a…[Read more]
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Christine M E H's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months ago
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Sam Orsulak's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months ago
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Lin Shu.” The Chaucer Encyclopedia Edited by Richard Newhauser (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2023), pp. 1085-1086 in the group
The Renaissance Society of America on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoAlexa Alice Joubin’s entry expands the global scope of The Chaucer Encyclopedia (4 vols). This entry, in Volume 3, examines the work by the Chinese translator Lin Shu’s (1852-1924). Lin translated and rewrote several key stories from the Canterbury Tales. Joubin argues that Lin’s works exemplify early twentieth-century Chinese imaginaries of medie…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Lin Shu.” The Chaucer Encyclopedia Edited by Richard Newhauser (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2023), pp. 1085-1086 in the group
LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months agoAlexa Alice Joubin’s entry expands the global scope of The Chaucer Encyclopedia (4 vols). This entry, in Volume 3, examines the work by the Chinese translator Lin Shu’s (1852-1924). Lin translated and rewrote several key stories from the Canterbury Tales. Joubin argues that Lin’s works exemplify early twentieth-century Chinese imaginaries of medie…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Lin Shu.” The Chaucer Encyclopedia Edited by Richard Newhauser (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2023), pp. 1085-1086 in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months agoAlexa Alice Joubin’s entry expands the global scope of The Chaucer Encyclopedia (4 vols). This entry, in Volume 3, examines the work by the Chinese translator Lin Shu’s (1852-1924). Lin translated and rewrote several key stories from the Canterbury Tales. Joubin argues that Lin’s works exemplify early twentieth-century Chinese imaginaries of medie…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Lin Shu.” The Chaucer Encyclopedia Edited by Richard Newhauser (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2023), pp. 1085-1086 in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months agoAlexa Alice Joubin’s entry expands the global scope of The Chaucer Encyclopedia (4 vols). This entry, in Volume 3, examines the work by the Chinese translator Lin Shu’s (1852-1924). Lin translated and rewrote several key stories from the Canterbury Tales. Joubin argues that Lin’s works exemplify early twentieth-century Chinese imaginaries of medie…[Read more]
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Steven Schroeder deposited a tiny circle tessellated | poems and fragments, 2004-2013, volume one in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months agoa tiny circle tessellated is the first of a series of collections that draw on material from notebooks I kept between 2004 and 2013. I returned to that material in 2021 with Basho and haibun in mind, as well as the prosimetrum tradition that flourished in medieval Europe. Both play off a tension between poetry and prose, and, looking back, that is…[Read more]
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Rita Singer deposited “Everything Remains the Same”: Julio Camba Travelling Spain in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoIn the first decades of the twentieth century, the Madrid-based Galician journalist Julio Camba (1882–1962) acquired long-lasting fame as a travel writer thanks to his foreign chronicles published in the Spanish press and subsequently compiled in a series of volumes. La rana viajera [The Travelling Frog] (1920), however, gathers some of the p…[Read more]
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