Silent cinema acted as a bridge between early motion pictures and today’s film industry, playing a transformative role in shaping feminist film history and American society. This article explores ...pioneering American women in the silent film industry who ventured into technology, film culture, marginalized communities, and social movements. Despite the prevalence of racist and sexist propaganda, American silent films were a frontier for innovation, filmmaking, and exploring the New Women concept. This study examines 23 American silent films that have often been overlooked and rarely studied, whereby film analysis generally aligns with established feminist silent film theories. By shedding light on a previously overlooked film directed by May Tully, this study challenges the widespread belief that there existed “no women directors in 1925”. The examination of databases reaffirms American women directors’ contributions to silent films, especially during the early years of the silent film era. The results modify the previous scholarly notion that “influential women directors’ involvement was over by 1925”. Following an initial surge in their active leadership during the early years, influential women directors’ participation was over after 1922, rather than 1925.
Light Fincke, Gary
The Southern quarterly,
04/2014, Letnik:
51, Številka:
3
Journal Article
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"Don't you ever, Ever, forget this," she said, And lived another twelve years Repeating, for ten of them, Thomas Edison's last words, The line he spoke reviving From a coma, "It's very Beautiful over ...there" while She outlived her confidence In a lush eternity She would inhabit, feeling, Like Mina, Edison's wife, That "Over there" was the framed Valley outside the window He faced when he woke, the light Splitting fall foliage something Like the ordinary light Of January, the sun For her funeral failing To spark the noon temperature To zero, and yet, beside Her grave, we squinted and raised Our hands to comfort our eyes In the bright, intrusive light.
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CEKLJ, DOBA, IZUM, KILJ, NUK, ODKLJ, PILJ, PNG, SAZU, SIK, UILJ, UKNU, UL, UM, UPUK
Supported by expert advice and millions in foundation funding, the "Downtown School" aimed to redefine twenty-first-century education by replacing passive rote learning with game-based exploration, ...creating, remixing, and hacking. Crisis inevitably results when plans ignore complex political and economic realities, Sims suggests, but rather than learning from history, reformers simply re-frame the challenge by seeking the next technological miracle. ...he concludes, "their collectively lived fictions are maintained, repaired, and renovated despite round after round of often disappointing setbacks" (p. 11). Anyone holding Sims's book will have at hand—literally—a reminder of how reformers' dreams of using technology's magical power to shape a perfect future tend to persist, even in the face of real-world constraints and ethical concerns.
Political events can shape innovations. The 1973 oil embargo pushed the U.S. lighting industry to develop energy-saving lamps and designs. It led to federal mandates for lighting efficiency ...standards. This article examines changes in lighting system technology during the 1970s and 1980s in their historical context and describes their effect on subsequent public policy. At first, manufacturers introduced novel devices for diverse markets, depending on how much new research was required and whether they expected public demand for efficiency to be temporary or structural. The industry's design practices experienced a contentious cultural shift, in which energy efficiency became the dominant concern rather than a low priority. Post-embargo decisions by producers, conveyors, and consumers combined to shift path dependencies in lighting. They shaped subsequent market and regulatory actions that fed revolutionary changes in lighting in the 2010s.
BACKGROUND: Validation of Food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) is particularly important element, as incorrect information may lead to false associations between dietary factors and diseases. The aim ...of the study was to evaluate the validity of the FFQ used in NESCAV (Nutrition, Environment and Cardiovascular Health) study, by comparing the estimated intakes of fruits and vegetables and of several micro-nutrients with corresponding nutritional biomarkers. METHODS: Relative validity was assessed in a sample of 922 subjects (452 men and 470 women). Comparisons between FFQ-estimates and their corresponding biomarkers were performed through correlation and cross classification into quintiles by using both crude and energy-adjusted FFQ-estimates. Correlations adjusted for confounders were also computed. All analyses were performed separately for men and women. RESULTS: Concerning micro-nutrients, significant correlations were found for vitamin B9, D, E, B12 β-carotene and iodine in both men and women. Energy-adjustment led to an increase of all correlations cited previously. However, after excluding supplement users, correlations for vitamin D were not significant anymore. Concerning fruits and vegetables, all correlations were significant. Vegetables alone and fruits and vegetables correlated better in men (r around 0.2) than in women (r around 0.1). In men, correlation was also better for vegetables alone and fruits and vegetables than fruits alone. CONCLUSION: These data demonstrate that this FFQ is a reasonable tool to assess intakes of fruits and vegetables and of several micro-nutrients. We conclude that our FFQ is suitable to be used in NESCAV study, although protein and vitamin D estimates should be interpreted with caution.
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DOBA, IZUM, KILJ, NUK, PILJ, PNG, SAZU, SIK, UILJ, UKNU, UL, UM, UPUK, VSZLJ
Publishing Unremarkable Results Is Remarkable Yoder-Wise, Patricia S
The Journal of continuing education in nursing,
2018-Dec-01, 2018-12-00, 20181201, Letnik:
49, Številka:
12
Journal Article
The performing arts have been an integral part of the history and culture of society. Access to performance evolved significantly starting in the late 19th century, inextricably tied to developments ...in the conditioning of performance spaces. Overheated theaters had been a concern for centuries, with the cheapest seats often up higher and exposed to even higher temperatures. A theater presented significant challenges for comfort and wellness, given they were often windowless, ornate, and most of all, packed with both performers and audience members. In an era before electric lighting, gas jets were used, often pushing temperatures past 100°F (38°C). Here, Chang discusses a brief history of theater innovations.
The history of endoscopy and minimally invasive surgery is the story of technological advances in illumination, optics, and imaging that allowed operations to be performed within the body. After ...invention of the incandescent bulb by Joseph Swan and Thomas Edison in 1879, the basic design of early cystoscopes remained unchanged during the first half of the 20th century. Three inventions made endoscopy and laparoscopy possible. Invented in the 1950s, the Hopkins glass rod lens system was so elegant and effective—it gave images 80 times better than traditional Galilean optics—that endoscopes of the same design remain in use today. Also, originating in the same decade, fiber optics had in turn two major contributions: Flexible endoscopy and the transfer of light from a high voltage source into the body to illuminate internal structures and organs. Solid-state camera technology, developed in the late 1970s and 1980s, gave images of exceptional detail from a camera chip at the eyepiece of an endoscope. The panorama of advances created by the same technologies—global telecommunications, cellphone cameras, images from interplanetary space probes—reveals endoscopy and laparoscopic surgery as two more examples of today's technological age.
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