Visions from Finis Terræ

Visions from Finis Terræ
Author: Pablo Arriarán
Publisher: Marick Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN:

Literary Nonfiction. Latin American Studies. This book is a compilation of speeches and presentations made during the period July 2006 to May 2008 by Chilean officials, scholars, politicians, lawyers, scientists, and writers, among others, who have visited the United States. The articles reference a wide variety of subjects ranging from politics and economies, including both regional and international dimensions, to issues that are relevant to Chile's development in the present time.

Fields of Vision

Fields of Vision
Author: Leslie Devereaux
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 379
Release: 2023-04-28
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0520914708

Filmed images dominate our time, from the movies and TV that entertain us to the news and documentary that inform us and shape our cultural vocabulary. Crossing disciplinary boundaries, Fields of Vision is a path-breaking collection that inquires into the power (and limits) of film and photography to make sense of ourselves and others. As critics, social scientists, filmmakers, and literary scholars, the contributors converge on the issues of representation and the construction of visual meaning across cultures. From the dismembered bodies of horror film to the exotic bodies of ethnographic film and the gorgeous bodies of romantic cinema, Fields of Vision moves through eras, genres, and societies. Always asking how images work to produce meaning, the essays address the way the "real" on film creates fantasy, news, as well as "science," and considers this problematic process as cultural boundaries are crossed. One essay discusses the effects of Hollywood's high-capital, world-wide commercial hegemony on local and non-Western cinemas, while another explores the response of indigenous people in central Australia to the forces of mass media and video. Other essays uncover the work of the unconscious in cinema, the shaping of "female spectatorship" by the "women's film" genre of the 1920s, and the effects of the personal and subjective in documentary films and the photographs of war reportage. In illuminating dark, elided, or wilfully neglected areas of representation, these essays uncover new fields of vision. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1995. Filmed images dominate our time, from the movies and TV that entertain us to the news and documentary that inform us and shape our cultural vocabulary. Crossing disciplinary boundaries, Fields of Vision is a path-breaking collection that inquires i

Visions and Visionaries in Contemporary Austrian Literature and Film

Visions and Visionaries in Contemporary Austrian Literature and Film
Author: Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger
Publisher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2004
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780820461564

Visions and Visionaries is an apt title for this volume of essays on contemporary Austrian literature and film, because this collection offers insightful discussions of a gallery of significant authors and cultural figures. It also investigates important issues of style and genre, and portrays questions of Austrian identity and culture in rich contexts of recent literary and multi-media developments, cross-cultural interactions, and historical forces. This book encompasses relevant trends and notions from the past - especially the complexities of lingering effects of the Nazi era - along with issues of the future - in particular the present and anticipated interactions of culture and cyberspace. The essays are enhanced by poems by Evelyn Schlag and Gerhard Kofler.

Peripheral Visions/global Sounds

Peripheral Visions/global Sounds
Author: José F. Colmeiro
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2017
Genre: History
ISBN: 1786940302

This book examines contemporary audio/visual production in Galicia as privileged channels through which modern Galician cultural identities have been imagined, constructed and consumed, both at home and abroad.

Peripheral Visions / Global Sounds

Peripheral Visions / Global Sounds
Author: José Colmeiro
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2017-06-23
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 178694815X

Galician audio/visual culture has experienced an unprecedented period of growth following the process of political and cultural devolution in post-Franco Spain. This creative explosion has occurred in a productive dialogue with global currents and with considerable projection beyond the geopolitical boundaries of the nation and the state, but these seismic changes are only beginning to be the subject of attention of cultural and media studies. This book examines contemporary audio/visual production in Galicia as privileged channels through which modern Galician cultural identities have been imagined, constructed and consumed, both at home and abroad. The cultural redefinition of Galicia in the global age is explored through different media texts (popular music, cinema, video) which cross established boundaries and deterritorialise new border zones where tradition and modernity dissolve, generating creative tensions between the urban and the rural, the local and the global, the real and the imagined. The book aims for the deperipheralization and deterritorialization of the Galician cultural map by overcoming long-established hegemonic exclusions, whether based on language, discipline, genre, gender, origins, or territorial demarcation, while aiming to disjoint the center/periphery dichotomy that has relegated Galician culture to the margins. In essence, it is an attempt to resituate Galicia and Galician studies out of the periphery and open them to the world.

Atlantic Visions

Atlantic Visions
Author: John de Courcy Ireland
Publisher: Boole Press
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1989
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Computer Vision: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications

Computer Vision: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Author: Management Association, Information Resources
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 2494
Release: 2018-02-02
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1522552057

The fields of computer vision and image processing are constantly evolving as new research and applications in these areas emerge. Staying abreast of the most up-to-date developments in this field is necessary in order to promote further research and apply these developments in real-world settings. Computer Vision: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications is an innovative reference source for the latest academic material on development of computers for gaining understanding about videos and digital images. Highlighting a range of topics, such as computational models, machine learning, and image processing, this multi-volume book is ideally designed for academicians, technology professionals, students, and researchers interested in uncovering the latest innovations in the field.

Contemporary U.S.-Latin American Relations

Contemporary U.S.-Latin American Relations
Author: Jorge I. Domínguez
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2016-03-02
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317552814

Drawing on the research and experience of fifteen internationally recognized Latin America scholars, this insightful text presents an overview of inter-American relations during the first two decades of the twenty-first century. This unique collection identifies broad changes in the international system that have had significant effects in the Western Hemisphere, including issues of politics and economics, the securitization of U.S. foreign policy, balancing U.S. primacy, the wider impact of the world beyond the Americas, especially the rise of China, and the complexities of relationships between neighbors. The second edition of Contemporary U.S.-Latin American Relations focuses on U.S. neighbors near and far —Mexico, Cuba, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru, and Venezuela. Each chapter addresses a country’s relations with the United States, and each considers themes that are unique to that country’s bilateral relations as well as those themes that are more general to the relations of Latin America as a whole. The book also features new chapters on transnational criminal violence, the Latino diasporas in the United States, and U.S.-Latin American migration. This cohesive and accessible volume is required reading for Latin American politics students and scholars alike.

Innovations in Computational Intelligence and Computer Vision

Innovations in Computational Intelligence and Computer Vision
Author: Manoj Kumar Sharma
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 623
Release: 2020-09-21
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9811560676

This book presents high-quality, peer-reviewed papers from the International Conference on “Innovations in Computational Intelligence and Computer Vision (ICICV 2020),” hosted by Manipal University Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, on January 17–19, 2020. Offering a collection of innovative ideas from researchers, scientists, academics, industry professionals and students, the book covers a variety of topics, such as artificial intelligence and computer vision, image processing and video analysis, applications and services of artificial intelligence and computer vision, interdisciplinary areas combining artificial intelligence and computer vision, and other innovative practices.

Latin American Investment Protections

Latin American Investment Protections
Author: Jonathan C. Hamilton
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Total Pages: 647
Release: 2012-05-10
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9004202498

This volume provides a unique country-by-country discussion of legal protections and dispute resolution/arbitration relating to foreign investment in Latin America.