Screening Nature

Author : Anat Pick,Guinevere Narraway
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781782382270

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Screening Nature by Anat Pick,Guinevere Narraway Pdf

Environmentalism and ecology are areas of rapid growth in academia and society at large. Screening Nature is the first comprehensive work that groups together the wide range of concerns in the field of cinema and the environment, and what could be termed “posthuman cinema.” It comprises key readings that highlight the centrality of nature and nonhuman animals to the cinematic medium, and to the language and institution of film. The book offers a fresh and timely intervention into contemporary film theory through a focus on the nonhuman environment as principal register in many filmic texts. Screening Nature offers an extensive resource for teachers, undergraduate students, and more advanced scholars on the intersections between the natural world and the worlds of film. It emphasizes the cross-cultural and geographically diverse relevance of the topic of cinema ecology.

Author : Michael D. Clemens
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781771993357

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Screening Nature and Nation by Michael D. Clemens Pdf

The stunning portrayals of the Canadian landscape in the documentaries produced by the National Film Board of Canada, not only influenced cinematic language but shaped our perception of the environment. In the early days of the organization, nature films produced by the NFB supported the Canadian government’s nation-building project and show the state as an active participant in the cultural construction of the land. By the mid-1960s however, films like Cree Hunters of Mistassini and Death of a Legend were asking provocative questions about the state’s vision of nature. Filmmakers like Boyce Richardson and Bill Mason began to centre the experiences of First Nations people, contest the notion that nature should be transformed for economic gain, and challenge the idea that the North is a wild and empty landscape bereft of civilization. Author Michael Clemens describes how films produced by the NFB broadened the ecological imagination of Canadians over time and ultimately inspired an environmental movement.

Author : Anat Pick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : PERFORMING ARTS
ISBN : 1461952492

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Screening Nature by Anat Pick Pdf

Environmentalism and ecology are areas of rapid growth in academia and society at large. "Screening Nature" is the first comprehensive work that groups together the wide range of concerns in the field of cinema and the environment, and what could be termed "posthuman cinema." It comprises key readings that highlight the centrality of nature and nonhuman animals to the cinematic medium, and to the language and institution of film. The book offers a fresh and timely intervention into contemporary film theory through a focus on the nonhuman environment as principal register in many filmic texts. "Screening Nature" offers an extensive resource for teachers, undergraduate students, and more advanced scholars on the intersections between the natural world and the worlds of film. It emphasizes the cross-cultural and geographically diverse relevance of the topic of cinema ecology. Anat Pick lectures in Film Studies at Queen Mary, University of London. Her book "Creaturely Poetics: Animality and Vulnerability in Literature and Film" was published by Columbia University Press (2011). Guinevere Narraway lectures on cinema at the University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia. Her research focus is ecocriticism and moving image culture.

Author : Ramakrishna Seethala,Prabhavathi Fernandes
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 619 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2001-07-24
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780824741440

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Handbook of Drug Screening by Ramakrishna Seethala,Prabhavathi Fernandes Pdf

A presentation of screening techniques, modern technologies, and high-capacity instrumentation for increased productivity in the development and discovery of new drugs, chemical compounds, and targeted delivery of pharmaceuticals. It contains practical applications and examples of strategies in cell-based and cell-free screens as well as homogeneous, fluorescence, chemiluminescence, and radioactive-based technologies.

Author : Andrew L. R. Jackson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000861549

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Nature Law and Policy in Europe by Andrew L. R. Jackson Pdf

This volume considers current and future challenges for nature law and policy in Europe. Following the Fitness Check evaluation of the Birds and Habitats Directives, in 2017 the EU adopted an Action Plan for nature, people and the economy to rapidly improve the Directives’ implementation and accelerate progress towards the EU's biodiversity targets for 2020. More recently, the EU has adopted a Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 and proposed an EU Nature Restoration Law. This book makes a timely contribution by examining the current state of play in light of recent and historical developments, as well as the post-2020 nature law and policy landscape. While evidence suggests that Natura 2000 and the Habitats and Birds Directives have delivered conservation benefits for wildlife in Europe, biodiversity loss continues apace. The book reviews the requirements for an effective international nature conservation system, with reference to the Birds and Habitats Directives. It examines regulatory regimes, current legal issues in the fields of site protection and species protection, the protection of areas outside Natura 2000, recent developments in the EU and the UK, including the implications of Brexit, agriculture and nature conservation, litigation, science and access to justice. Written by leading experts in the field, from a range of stakeholder groups, the volume draws on diverse experiences as well as providing interdisciplinary perspectives. This volume will be essential reading for students, scholars, practitioners, NGOs and policy-makers interested in European environmental policy and law, including for example lawyers, ecologists, environmental scientists, political scientists, natural resource managers, planners and civil servants.

Author : Missy Molloy,Pansy Duncan,Claire Henry
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780197538562

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Screening the Posthuman by Missy Molloy,Pansy Duncan,Claire Henry Pdf

From AI to climate change, recent technological, ecological, cultural, and social transformations have unsettled established assumptions about the relationship between the human and the more-than-human world. Screening the Posthuman addresses a heterogenous body of twenty-first century films that turn to the figure of the "posthuman" as a means of exploring this development. Through close analyses of films as diverse as Kûki ningyô [Air Doll] (dir. Hirokazu Koreeda 2009), Testrol és lélekrol[On Body and Soul] (dir. Ildiko Enyedi 2017) and Nomadland (dir. Chloé Zhao 2020), this wide-ranging volume shows that, while often identified as the remit of science fiction, the "posthuman on screen" crosses filmic genres, national contexts, and industrial settings. In the process, posthuman cinema emphasizes humanity's entanglement in broader biological, technological, and social worlds and exposes new models of subjectivity, politics, community, relationality and desire. In advancing these arguments, Screening the Posthuman draws on scholarship associated with critical posthumanist theory-an ongoing project unified by a decentering of the "human". As the first systematic, full-length application of this body of scholarship to cinema, Screening the Posthuman advocates for a rigorous posthumanist critique that avoids both humanist nostalgia and transhumanist fantasy in its attention to the excitements and anxieties of posthuman existence.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 876 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39015038750884

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Nature by Anonim Pdf

Author : Steven A. Haney,Douglas Bowman,Arijit Chakravarty,Anthony Davies,Caroline Shamu
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780470624562

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An Introduction To High Content Screening by Steven A. Haney,Douglas Bowman,Arijit Chakravarty,Anthony Davies,Caroline Shamu Pdf

Using a collaborative and interdisciplinary author base with experience in the pharmaceutical industry and academia, this book is a practical resource for high content (HC) techniques. • Instructs readers on the fundamentals of high content screening (HCS) techniques • Focuses on practical and widely-used techniques like image processing and multiparametric assays • Breaks down HCS into individual modules for training and connects them at the end • Includes a tutorial chapter that works through sample HCS assays, glossary, and detailed appendices

Author : Rosalind A. Eeles,Christine D. Berg,Jeffrey S. Tobias
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781118991022

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Cancer Prevention and Screening by Rosalind A. Eeles,Christine D. Berg,Jeffrey S. Tobias Pdf

Cancer Prevention and Screening offers physicians and all clinical healthcare professionals a comprehensive, useful source of the latest information on cancer screening and prevention with both a global and a multidisciplinary perspective. Includes background information on epidemiology, cancer prevention, and cancer screening, for quick reference Offers the latest information for clinical application of the most recent techniques in prevention and screening of all major and many lesser cancer types Emphasises the importance of multidisciplinary teamwork in cancer screening Highlights frequent dilemmas and difficulties encountered during cancer screening Provides clear-cut clinical strategies for optimal patient education, communication, and compliance with cancer prevention techniques

Author : Natalie Armstrong,Helen Eborall
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781118234372

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The Sociology of Medical Screening by Natalie Armstrong,Helen Eborall Pdf

The Sociology of Medical Screening: Critical Perspectives, New Directions presents a series of readings that provide an up-to-date overview of the diverse sociological issues relating to population-based medical screening. Features new research data in most of the contributions Includes contributions from eminent sociologists such as David Armstrong, Stefan Timmermans, and Alison Pilnick Represents one of the only collections to specifically address the sociology of medical screening

Author : Heath J. Carney,Bruce S. Hass
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Carcinogenicity testing
ISBN : MINN:31951000151032M

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Review of Short-term Screening Tests for Mutagens, Toxigens, and Carcinogens by Heath J. Carney,Bruce S. Hass Pdf

Author : Thomas H. McConnell
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Page : 841 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-05
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781284219869

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Study Guide for the Nature of Disease by Thomas H. McConnell Pdf

Easy to understand and fun to read, this engaging primer on the etiology and pathogenesis of human disease will help you develop a basic understanding of pathology that will set you on the path to a successful career in the health professions. Punctuated by humor, unique case studies that link pathology to real-world clinical applications, and absorbing tales from the history of medicine, this engaging book focuses on the patient as it guides you through the causes and consequences of common diseases.

Author : Steven A. Haney
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01-18
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780470039991

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High Content Screening by Steven A. Haney Pdf

The authoritative reference on High Content Screening (HCS) in biological and pharmaceutical research, this guide covers: the basics of HCS: examples of HCS used in biological applications and early drug discovery, emphasizing oncology and neuroscience; the use of HCS across the drug development pipeline; and data management, data analysis, and systems biology, with guidelines for using large datasets. With an accompanying CD-ROM, this is the premier reference on HCS for researchers, lab managers, and graduate students.

Author : Francesco Casetti
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781942130888

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Screening Fears by Francesco Casetti Pdf

A historical and theoretical investigation of the unexpected ways screen-based media protect and excite viewers’ fears and anxieties of the world In this brilliant contribution to contemporary media studies, acclaimed theorist Francesco Casetti advances a provocative hypothesis: instead of being prostheses that expand or extend our perceptions, modern screen-based media are in fact apparatuses that shelter and protect us from exposure to the world. Rather than bringing us closer to external reality, dominant forms of visual media function as barriers or enclosures that defend against the apparent threats and dangers that seem increasingly to surround us. Working with an original historical overview that begins with the Phantasmagoria of the late eighteenth century, then the shared interior spaces of the movie theater in the early to mid-twentieth century, and finally the solitary digital milieus of the present, Casetti traces the outlines of the protective “bubbles” that disconnect us from our immediate surroundings. To be provided with a shield of immunity to the hazards and uncertainties of the world while experiencing them at a safe remove might seem a positive development. But, he asks, what if these media, instead of providing invulnerability, ensnare individuals in a suffocating enclosure? What if, in their effort to keep reality under control, they exercise a violence equal to that of the dangers they resist? In a dialectical exercise, and through a vivid range of cultural artifacts, Screening Fears traces the emergence of modern protective media and the way they changed our forms of mediation with the world in which we live.

Author : Thomas Grisso,Gina Vincent,Daniel Seagrave
Publisher : Guilford Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2005-02-24
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1593851324

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Mental Health Screening and Assessment in Juvenile Justice by Thomas Grisso,Gina Vincent,Daniel Seagrave Pdf

It is well known that many children and adolescents entering the juvenile justice system suffer from serious mental disorders. Yet until now, few resources have been available to help mental health and juvenile justice professionals accurately identify the mental health needs of the youths in their care. Filling a crucial gap, this volume offers a practical primer on screening and assessment together with in-depth reviews of over 20 widely used instruments. Comprehensive and timely, it brings together leading experts to provide authoritative guidance in this challenging area of clinical practice. Grounded in extensive research and real world practical experience, this is an indispensable reference for clinical and forensic psychologists, social workers, and psychiatrists, as well as juvenile justice administrators and others who work with youths in the justice system. An informative resource for students, it is an ideal supplemental text for graduate-level courses.