Existing fi lm scholarship that draws from the fi eld of cognitive science has char-acterized commercial fi lmmakers as practical psychologists, who are experts at shaping our senses and ‘preying (usually in a good sense) on our habits of mind in order to produce experiences’ (Bordwell 2011). A skilled fi lmmaker will elicit emotional responses, draw the viewer’s attention to the appropri…
I forget who first jokingly defined sculpture as something you bump into when you step back to look at a painting. I n any case, like most witticisms, this one contains a germ o f truth: both the general public and scholars pay more attention to painting than to sculpture. There are undoubtedly many reasons for this. We are a society geared to experiencing things on a flat plane rather than in …
This book rebuts these erroneous ideas, but it does not replace them with idealized views of adulthood and old age. Rather, it paints an accurate picture of what it means to grow old today, recognizing that development across adulthood brings growth and opportunities as well as loss and decline. To begin, we consider the life-span perspective, which helps place adult development and aging into…
Exploring the rise of open scholarship in the digital era and its transformational impact on how knowledge is created, shared, and accessed, this open access book offers new insights on the history, development, and future directions of openness in the humanities and identifies key drivers, opportunities, and challenges. The concept of open research is reconfiguring scholarly communication acro…
Why does the history of dogmatism deserve our attention? This open access book analyses uses of the term, following dogmatism from Victorian Britain to Cold War America, examining why it came to be regarded as a vice, and how understandings of its meaning have evolved. Whilst the field of scientific thought is committed to continuous innovation, ideas about dogmatism – with their roots in anc…
It is believed that cheese evolved in the ‘Fertile Crescent’ between the Tigris and Euphratres rivers, in Iraq, some 8000 years ago during the “Agricultural Revolution”, when certain plants and animals were domesticated. Among the earliest animals domesticated were goats and sheep; being small, gregarious and easily herded, these were used to supply meat, milk, hides and wool. Cattle we…
This book analyses the authoring of ethnographic films between 1895 and 2015. It is based on the general argument that the ethnographicness of a film should not be gauged according to whether it is about an exotic culture, but rather by the degree to which it conforms to the norms of ethnographic practice more generally. On these grounds, it considers films made in a broad range of styles, on a…
Snowboarding is addictive! If youre reading this, its highly likely that you're aware of this already and know first-hand how addictive snowboarding can be. You may even be an addict yourself. For many, the addiction to snowboarding begins the first time they slide down a snow-covered hill sideways, linking their first turns. This can occur within hours of picking up a snowboard, or it can take…
Injil hari ini mengajak kita belajar dari Ibu Maria, Bunda Allah, Bunda kita. Dalam kegembiraan menggendong dan memeluk Bayinya, Bunda Maria tetap menyadari bahwa ia sekaligus memeluk dan menggendong misteri amat besar dan agung yang tak mampu ia pahami. Namun, kabar para gembala menunjukkan bahwa misteri yang ia pendam ternyata bukan hanya miliknya, melainkan juga milik orang-orang sederhana, …