Questa tesi è un’esplorazione dei rapporti tra il segno teatrale e il segno cinematografico attraverso la prospettiva degli sceneggiatori e della sceneggiatura nel cinema hollywoodiano classico. Presenta problematiche che riguardano la sceneggiatura come pratica, forma d’arte, oggetto di discussione, mezzo di espressione e risultato di una messa in campo di propositi, valori e significati. / This doctoral thesis is an analysis of the relationships between the "theatrical sign" and the "cinematographic sign" from the perspective of screenwriters and of Classic Hollywood screenwriting. It introduces issues related to screenwriting as practical activity, form of art, subject of discussion, system of communication, and as the result of a negotiation of aims, values and meanings.

Ces dernières années, la découverte de fraudes scientifiques majeures a créé des ondes de choc dans la communauté scientifique. Le nombre annuel de rétractations a considérablement augmenté, et la plupart sont dues à des cas de fraude. Bien qu’il soit généralement pris pour acquis que tous les coauteurs sont affectés par ces rétractations, l’objectif de cette étude est de vérifier cette présupposition empiriquement. Nous avons recensé toutes les rétractations du domaine biomédical (443) de 1996 à 2006 dans PubMed et mesuré, à l’aide du Web of Science (WOS), la productivité, l’impact et les pratiques de collaboration des coauteurs (1 818) sur une période de cinq ans avant et après la rétractation. Nos résultats montrent que les rétractations ont des conséquences sur la carrière des coauteurs, surtout au niveau du nombre de publications des années subséquentes. Cet impact est plus grand dans les cas de fraude, et pour les premiers auteurs. / Over the last few years, major cases of scientific fraud shocked the scientific community, and the number of retractions each year increased considerably. Scientific misconduct accounts for approximately more than half of those retractions. It is assumed that co-authors of retracted papers are affected by their colleagues’ misconduct, and the aim of this study is to provide empirical evidence of how researchers’ careers are affected by a retraction. We retrieved all (443) publications retracted from 1996 to 2006 from PubMed, signed by 1818 authors. Using the Web of Science (WOS), we measured the productivity, impact and collaboration of each of those authors for a period of five years before and after the retraction. Our results show that retractions affect the career of co-authors, mostly in terms of scientific output. This impact is felt more strongly in cases of fraud and for first authors.

In the spring of 2010, I worked with four street youths from Durban to create a short fictional film based on their lives. There were two main components to this project: first, a series of drama workshops and second, the film-making process. The filmmaking process consisted of the participants improvising scenes based on their street lives that I captured on film. This project engaged with Theatre for Development and Participatory Video practices. The young man who initiated this project did so because he wanted to change people’s perceptions of youths who lived on the streets. Additionally, he wanted to change his own perceptions of himself. The film provided baseline data regarding how the participants viewed themselves and their lives on the streets. Analysis of interviews conducted after the completion of the project, when compared with the baseline data, demonstrated social impacts that occurred as a result of making the film. This data was coded and interpreted using François Matarasso’s (1997) positive criteria for the social impact of participating in arts projects as well as corresponding negative categories that I generated. The film, once coded, demonstrated that the participants felt negatively about their lives on the streets, with many examples emerging from the categories Lack of Social Cohesion and Lack of Agency. In contrast, the interviews revealed positive social impacts across all categories, but especially in relation to Personal Development, Local Image and Identity, and Community Empowerment and Self-Determination (Matarasso 1997). The participants reported that they felt differently about themselves as a result of the project. They also said that there had been a change in the way some people treated them. Findings revealed that the film project resulted in positive social impacts on the street youth participants. As a result of the film, they engaged in critical thinking and reflection related to Paulo Freire’s (1970) notion of praxis. They also wished for changes in their lives and in some cases enacted change. It was significant that social impacts and change extended to youths in difficult circumstances. In conclusion, this research proved that participating in the film project broadened and enriched the lives of the participants. Problems arose in terms of sustainability. Further projects and research are needed to establish the possible impacts from longterm and sustainable arts projects on youths from the streets. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2011.

An interpretative methodology for understanding meaning in cinema since the 1950s, auteur analysis is an approach to film studies in which an individual, usually the director, is studied as the author of her or his films. The principal argument of this thesis is that proponents of auteurism have privileged examination of the visual components in a film-maker’s body of work, neglecting the potentially significant role played by sound. The thesis seeks to address this problematic imbalance by interrogating the creative use of sound in the films written and directed by Rolf de Heer, asking the question, “Does his use of sound make Rolf de Heer an aural auteur?” In so far as the term ‘aural’ encompasses everything in the film that is heard by the audience, the analysis seeks to discover if de Heer has, as Peter Wollen suggests of the auteur and her or his directing of the visual components (1968, 1972 and 1998), unconsciously left a detectable aural signature on his films. The thesis delivers an innovative outcome by demonstrating that auteur analysis that goes beyond the mise-en-scène (i.e. visuals) is productive and worthwhile as an interpretive response to film. De Heer’s use of the aural point of view and binaural sound recording, his interest in providing a ‘voice’ for marginalised people, his self-penned song lyrics, his close and early collaboration with composer Graham Tardif and sound designer Jim Currie, his ‘hands-on’ approach to sound recording and sound editing and his predilection for making films about sound are all shown to be examples of de Heer’s aural auteurism. As well as the three published (or accepted for publication) interviews with de Heer, Tardif and Currie, the dissertation consists of seven papers refereed and published (or accepted for publication) in journals and international conference proceedings, a literature review and a unifying essay. The papers presented are close textual analyses of de Heer’s films which, when considered as a whole, support the thesis’ overall argument and serve as a comprehensive auteur analysis, the first such sustained study of his work, and the first with an emphasis on the aural.

This classroom-based study provides insights into the nature of collaborative writing in a Malaysian tertiary ESL setting. It tracked the collaborative writing processes of three case study groups over one semester and elicited students' reflections on their collaborative experience. The study focussed on three case study groups formed by nine undergraduates who were enrolled in an academic writing course in a large public university in Malaysia. The individuals volunteered to be involved in the study and they self-selected their group members. Multiple research instruments were used for data collection. The primary data was comprised of audio and video-recordings of the case studies' collaborative writing sessions over three writing tasks. Interviews, journal entries, and a questionnaire supplemented the primary data. The use of various techniques ensured that data collection was sufficiently covered in breadth and in depth. Results showed that the collaborative writing process was a complex phenomenon. The nature of collaboration is influenced by group composition, role flexibility, and task complexity. The findings reveal that familiarity with group members is crucial for group cohesion; it provided a safe and comfortable working environment. Flexibility in role-taking also helped the groups to carry out their collaboration effectively. Leader, contributor, and gate-keeper roles were interchangeable across groups and across tasks except for the scribe role. It was found that as tasks increased in complexity, conflict also intensified. During negotiations and resolutions of conflicts, the students had considered cultural issues, such as sensitivity to face and group harmony. Other affective factors such as cooperation, willingness to share, team spirit, and tolerance aided the collaboration while apathy and domineering behaviour were detrimental. These multiple factors, which differed from one case study to another, shaped the distinctiveness of each group. Nonetheless, findings from the students' transcripts and personal reflections revealed that group collaboration changed and became more positive over time. This study provides a revised definition of collaborative writing. The three case study groups shared some common features, such as mutual interactions, sharing of expertise, conflict, and use of colloquial sentence particles. However, there were other features which were peculiar to each group, namely, self-questioning talk, use of local language, creative use of language, and humour. These features not only mediated the writing processes, but also expanded the students' knowledge construction and language acquisition. Based on the analyses, a number of implications have been drawn regarding the use of collaborative writing in the classroom. The study culminates with several recommendations for future research.

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The aim of the present study was to investigate how the impermanence of contract work affects working lives, self-perceptions and the career strategies of Swedish screenwriters of finding and keeping work. Furthermore, it also explored how screenwriters experience their abilities to exercise authorial leverage over media content. Introducing the concept of “career authoring” to cover different aspects of the professional lives of screenwriters such as managing a career, establishing authorship and contractual negotiations, the study was able to embrace various mind-sets and strategies for career success. Combining ethnographical studies and textual analyses the study was able to ascertain that the contingency of the Swedish film and television industries necessitates strategies to cultivate reputations, industrial visibility, consciously receive writing credits and conform to a traditional division of labour. Moreover, the study illuminated the importance of contractual negotiations for career success in terms of both retaining and wavering rights to their work. Strategies for exercise increased authorial leverage were not only confined to the script, but extended beyond the page, where the latter  accentuated processes of reconfiguring traditional conceptions of screenwriters’ abilities to influence media content.

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Submitted by FABIO ORSI MESCHINI (fabiomeschini@gmail.com) on 2018-05-31T21:16:24Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Fabio Meschini Dissertação Versão final UNESP 2018.pdf: 3468832 bytes, checksum: c6fbbe8bc06b59cd4ebc3dbc37a0bf37 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Telma Jaqueline Dias Silveira null (telmasbl@marilia.unesp.br) on 2018-06-04T20:16:06Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 meschini_fo_me_mar.pdf: 3468832 bytes, checksum: c6fbbe8bc06b59cd4ebc3dbc37a0bf37 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-06-04T20:16:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 meschini_fo_me_mar.pdf: 3468832 bytes, checksum: c6fbbe8bc06b59cd4ebc3dbc37a0bf37 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-05-21 / Não recebi financiamento / Objetivou-se analisar a produção e a coautoria latinoamericana e caribenha em Estudos Métricos da Informação na base Scopus no período de 2011 a 2015, contextualizando as políticas científicas e tecnológicas da região. Mais especificamente propõe-se destacar os pesquisadores, países, instituições e periódicos mais produtivos; classificar as temáticas mais trabalhadas segundo proposta de Glänzel (2003) que versa sobre três grupos-alvo (G1 - Bibliometria para profissionais da bibliometria; G2 - Bibliometria aplicada às disciplinas científicas e G3 - Bibliometria para a política científica e gestão); verificar o impacto da produção por meio do número de citações e citantes e relacionar os países e autores mais produtivos em Estudos métricos sob a perspectiva da análise de redes de coautorias. Como resultados, destaca-se o Brasil como o país mais produtivo e consequentemente os pesquisadores brasileiros destacam-se com uma representação de 67% entre os mais produtivos e os mesmos são predominantemente oriundos de universidades. Quanto às coautorias, tem-se um baixo número entre os países e pesquisadores da América Latina e Caribe e até mesmo com os demais do mundo, uma vez que grande parte destas coautorias ocorreu no âmbito interno dos próprios países. Como conclusões, observa-se que há uma necessidade de ampliação de pesquisas a serem realizadas em cooperação no âmbito desta região em Estudos Métricos da Informação, objetivando propiciar um papel de destaque na ciência, almejando a tão merecida representatividade desta região na ciência internacional. / The aim of this research was to analyze the Latin American and Caribbean production and co-authorship in Metric Information Studies at the Scopus base from 2011 to 2015, contextualizing the region's scientific and technological policies. More specifically, it is proposed to highlight the most productive researchers, countries, institutions and periodicals; (G1 - Bibliometrics applied to scientific disciplines and G3 - Bibliometrics for scientific policy and management); to verify the impact of production through the number of citations, the citers and to relate the most productive countries and authors in Metric Studies from the perspective of analysis of co-authorship networks. As a result, Brazil stands out as the most productive country and consequently Brazilian researchers stand out with a representation of 67% among the most productive ones, whose majority is predominantly from universities. As for co-authorships, there is a low number of countries and researchers in Latin America and the Caribbean and even with the rest of the world, since a large part of these co-authorships took place within the countries themselves. As conclusions, it is observed that there is a need to expand research to be carried out in cooperation within this region in Metrics Studies of Information, aiming to provide a prominent role in science and focus on the deserved representativeness of this region in the international science.

Nesta dissertação realizou-se o estudo das redes de colaboração científica formadas a partir de um grupo de pesquisadores ligados ao Programa de Pós-Graduação em Geociências da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (PPGGeo/UFRGS), com base na abordagem teórico-metodológica conhecida como análise de redes sociais (ARS), dialogando com alguns conceitos oriundos da Teoria da Prática de Pierre Bourdieu, focando a identificação, caracterização e evolução estrutural das redes de co-autoria científica. A análise de redes sociais nesse contexto pode contribuir significativamente enquanto geradora de subsídios para a gestão de ciência e tecnologia na área, ressaltando o importante papel dos pesquisadores vinculados ao PPGGeo/UFRGS na ampliação da capacidade de produção e comunicação do conhecimento científico na área e/ou na região sul. Além disso, esta pesquisa em particular contribui para o campo da Sociologia com a exploração da perspectiva teórico-metodológica da ARS no contexto da análise das redes de colaboração científica. Buscou-se responder a seguinte questão de pesquisa: quais são os elementos que influenciam a evolução estrutural das redes sociais de co-autoria científica entre os pesquisadores vinculados ao PPGGeo/UFRGS no período de 1998-2006? Para respondê-la, foram construídas três redes de co-autoria com base nos dados oriundos dos Cadernos de Indicadores da CAPES referentes aos intervalos de 1998-2000, 2001-2003 e 2004-2006. Foram utilizados os softwares NVIVO e UCINET. Assumiu-se que o grupo dos docentes fosse dominante nas redes de co-autoria e foram considerados como atributos os números de vínculos dos docentes às linhas, projetos e grupos de pesquisa. Como hipótese, colocou-se que quanto maior fosse o número de vínculos a diferentes grupos de pesquisa, mais privilegiada seria a posição do ator na rede e essa posição tenderia a ser mantida ao longo dos anos. Os resultados obtidos caracterizaram a estrutura das redes, comparando-as com foco em sua conectividade e centralidade. A rede de 1998-2000 contou com 524 atores e 11.296 laços; a rede de 2001-2003 apresentou 576 atores e 14.674 laços, enquanto a rede de 2004-2006 apresentou 741 atores e 14.188 laços. Verificou-se que o conjunto dos atores centrais/dominantes nas redes é formado majoritariamente pelos docentes e, em geral, esse conjunto tende a se manter em destaque ao longo dos anos; verificou-se também que há uma reincidência de parcerias na produção do conhecimento científico nas três redes, culminando em uma reprodução social da estrutura da rede de co-autoria. A hipótese do estudo foi refutada, indicando que embora exista uma correlação positiva e significante entre os três atributos e as medidas de centralidade, que representam a estrutura da rede, o grau de correlação entre o atributo "grupos de pesquisa" e as medidas de centralidade não obteve destaque em relação à correlação entre os atributos "linhas de pesquisa", "projetos de pesquisa" e as medidas de centralidade em nenhum dos períodos analisados. Concluiu-se que todos os atributos analisados (grupos, linhas e projetos de pesquisa) influenciam na evolução estrutural das redes sociais de co-autoria científica do PPGGeo/UFRGS no período de 1998 a 2006, mas as linhas e projetos possuem maior influência do que os grupos de pesquisa. / In this dissertation it was studied the scientific collaboration networks formed from a group of researchers linked to the Programa de Pós-Graduação em Geociências da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (PPGGeo/UFRGS), based on a theoretical and methodological approach known as social network analysis (SNA), considering some concepts from the Pierre Bourdieu's Theory of Practice, and focusing on the identification, characterization and the structural evolution of scientific co-authorship networks. The analysis of social networks in this context can contribute significantly as a generator of data for the science and technology management in the area, emphasizing the important role of the researchers related to PPGGeo/UFRGS in the expansion of production and communication of the scientific knowledge capacity in the area and/or in the southern region. Furthermore, this research in particular contributes to the field of Sociology with the exploration of the theoretical and methodological perspective of SNA in the analysis of scientific collaboration networks. It was sought to answer the following research question: what are the factors that influence the structural development of the social networks of scientific co-authorship among researchers linked to the PPGGeo/UFRGS in the period from 1998-2006? To answer it, we built three coauthorship networks based on data from the CAPES' Cadernos de Indicadores related to the intervals 1998-2000, 2001-2003 and 2004-2006. It was used the software NVIVO and UCINET. It was assumed that the group of professors was dominant in the co-authorship networks and the attributes considered in the research were the numbers of links of the professors to the research lines, projects and groups. As hypothesis, it was said that the greater the number of links to different research groups, the more privileged would be the actor's position in the network and this position tended to be maintained over the years. The results characterized the structure of the networks, comparing them, focusing on their connectivity and centrality. The network of 1998-2000 had 524 actors and 11.296 links; the network of 2001-2003 had 576 actors and 14.674 links, while the network of 2004-2006 had 741 actors and 14.188 links. It was found that the central/dominant group of actors in the networks is formed mainly by professors and, in general, this group tends to remain in the central/dominant positions over the years; it was also found that there are partnerships recurrences in the scientific knowledge production in the three networks, culminating in a social reproduction of the co-authorship network structure. The hypothesis of the study was rejected, indicating that although there is a positive and significant correlation between the three attributes and the measures of centrality, which represent the structure of the network, the degree of correlation between the attribute "research groups" and the measures of centrality received less emphasis in relation to the correlation between the attributes "research lines", "research projects" and the measures of centrality in all the periods analyzed. It was concluded that all the examined attributes (research groups, projects and lines) influence on the structural development of the social networks of scientific co-authorship of the PPGGeo/UFRGS in the period from 1998 to 2006, but the research lines and projects have more influence than the research groups.