bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Uygulamalı Bilim Eğitimi Kursuna Katılan Fen Bilimleri Öğretmenlerinin Araştırma-Sorgulamaya Dayalı Öğretime Göre Öğretim Tercihlerinin Değerlendirilmesi
Authors: ŞAHİNGÖZ Selçuk , COBERN William W.
Published: April 2018

Bu araştırmada, uygulamalı bilim eğitimine yönelik hizmet içi
eğitime katılan fen bilimleri öğretmenlerinin araştırma-sorgulamaya dayalı
öğretim göz önünde bulundurularak öğretim yaklaşımı tercihleriyle ilgili
görüşlerinin nedenleriyle birlikte ortaya konulması amaçlanmıştır. Araştırmanın
örneklemini, Ege Bölgesi’nde yer alan 7 farklı ilden 21 fen bilimleri öğretmeni
oluşturmaktadır. Araştırmada elde edilen veriler nicel ve nitel araştırma
yöntemlerinin birlikte kullanıldığı karma yönteme göre değerlendirilmiştir.
Öğretmenlerin öğretim yaklaşımı eğilimleri kursun başında uygulanan POSTT-TR
ölçeğinin değerlendirilmesi ile belirlenmiştir. Daha sonra görüşmeler
düzenlenerek öğretmenlerin öğretim yaklaşımı tercihlerine yönelik daha
ayrıntılı bilgiye sahip olunmuştur. Bulgular kursa katılan öğretmenlerin araştırmacı-sorgulayıcı
öğretim yaklaşımını doğrudan öğretim yaklaşımına oranla daha çok tercih
ettiklerini göstermektedir. Ancak, öğretmenlerin sınıf içi uygulamalarda
çeşitli nedenlerle araştırmacı-sorgulayıcı öğretim yaklaşımını yeterince
kullanamadıkları saptanmıştır. Bu durumun ortaya çıkmasını sağlayan nedenlerin
başında öğrencilerin merkezi ortaöğretim kurumları yerleştirme sınavına
hazırlanma sürecinden kaynaklanan zaman sınırlılığı ve araç-gereç eksikliği yer
almaktadır. Öğretmenler uygulamalı bilim eğitimi kursunun sonunda iyi bir ön
hazırlık ve seçilen etkili aktivite ya da etkinliklerle araştırma-sorgulamaya
dayalı öğretimden daha çok faydalanabileceklerini anlamışlardır. Ayrıca,
öğretmenlerin araştırma ve sorgulamaya dayalı öğretimle ilgili teorik
bilgilerini farklı fen konularında uygulayarak pekiştirmeleri gerektiği sonucuna
ulaşılmıştır.
El valor del cuestionamiento crítico de la comunidad de investigación en la organización de la educación
Authors: Reyes Cárdenas Paniel Osberto
Published: April 2018

Este escrito presenta el valor de la teoría del cuestionamiento filosófico como una herramienta para ser sensibles a los distintos contextos educativos: el saber elaborar preguntas relevantes es una herramienta indispensable para encontrar soluciones adecuadas en el camino de la investigación y de la organización educativa, especialmente de cara a los complejos problemas actuales y los nuevos contextos en los que la educación busca tener una identidad y autocontrol eficaz. En este escrito propongo una interpretación particular del ‘equilibrio reflexivo’ propuesto por John Rawls (1971) desde un paradigma del pragmatismo americano clásico, en el que la investigación se entiende como el proceso auto-controlado de descubrimiento e interacción con la realidad. Algunos ejemplos desde la matemática de vectores servirán para ilustrar nuestro caso, en particular el uso singular que hago del equilibrio reflexivo.
Arsenic and amputations in Cambodia
Authors: Gollogly James G. , Gascoigne Adam C. , Holmes Colinda , Kamp Erin M. , Jenni Kayla , Vath Say Bon
Published: April 2018

Background: Elevated levels of arsenic in drinking water in Cambodia were first identified in 1999. The first cases of suspected arsenicosis were identified by the WHO in 2002, and the first laboratory confirmed cases were found in 2006. Objective: Present three patients with ulcerating tumors of the legs who came from two different districts in Cambodia. Results: Cutaneous lesions characteristic of chronic arsenicosis were exhibited, and squamous cell carcinomas requiring amputation had developed. The clinical features of chronic arsenicosis and its surgical management were examined, in addition to its impact in Cambodia and current preventive strategies Conclusion: There will be an increased incidence of these problems in the future. Medical practitioners in the Mekong River Basin should be aware of them, so as to recognize them early, and treat them appropriately.
Sleep-disordered breathing and self-reported general health status in Thai patients
Authors: Hirunwiwatkul Prakobkiat , Mahattanasakul Patnarin
Published: April 2018

Background: Sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) has been a rapidly increasing health problem in Thai. Its effect on quality of life of Thai patients has not been adequately addressed. Objective: Determine the relationship between SDB and self-reported general health status in Thai patients. Materials and methods: A descriptive and cross-sectional study was used. Two hundred and sixtyeight patients (195 men and 73 women, age: 16-82 years) are recruited from King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital between January 2006 and December 2007. A health profile was obtained by self-administered questionnaire. SDB severity was assessed using an attended single-night comprehensive polysomnography. Results: SDB was not directly associated with the general health status. Presence of excessive daytime sleepiness, which was the major symptom of obstructive sleep apnea, was associated with a decrease in all domains of Short Form 36. Age, sex, and body mass index were also related to a lower physical function. Hypertension and excessive daytime sleepiness were associated with the severity of SDB. Conclusion: SDB is indirectly related to a lower general health status, and this relationship is of clinical significance.
Thai version of the Minnesota Living with Heart Failure Questionnaire: psychometric testing using a longitudinal design
Authors: Tangsatitkiat Wiwat , Sakthong Phantipa
Published: April 2018

Background: The Minnesota Living with Heart Failure Questionnaire (MLHFQ) is the most widely used diseasespecific instrument for heart failure (HF). However, a Thai version of the MLHFQ has not been available yet. Objective: Test the psychometric properties of the Thai version of the MLHFQ in terms of practicality, reliability, validity, and responsiveness, using a longitudinal design. Methods: One hundred eighty HF outpatients (mean age: 65±12 years; 58% male) were interviewed at Phramongkutklao Hospital, Bangkok between December 2008 and August 2009. Practicality was assessed with interview-times. Reliability was evaluated using Cronbach’s α and intraclass correlation coefficients (ICCs). Validity was tested with correlations between the MLHFQ scores and the SF-36 scores, confirmatory factor analysis, and known-groups validity. Responsiveness was observed with effect sizes (ES) and minimal clinically important differences (MCID). Results: The averaged interview-time was approximately five minutes. The Cronbach’s α and ICCs of the MLHFQ were 0.86-0.93 and 0.84-0.88, respectively. The MLHFQ scores were moderately correlated with the Short Form-36 Health Survey (SF-36) scores, and discriminated the patients with different classes by New York Heart Association. The average ES were medium, ranging from 0.2 to 0.5. The MCID ranged from 1.4 to 14.5 for improved patients and from -1.4 to -12.7 for worsened patients. Conclusion: The Thai version of the MLHFQ showed acceptable psychometric properties. It can be used as a disease-specific instrument to measure health-related quality of life of Thai patients with HF.
Reconstruction of the 217-Year (1791–2007) Wrocław Air Temperature and Precipitation Series
Authors: Bryś Krystyna , Bryś Tadeusz
Published: April 2018

The authors present the results of a climatologic reconstruction of the 217-year series (1791-2007) of monthly average values of air temperature and monthly totals of precipitation in Wrocław (Breslau). The reconstruction is based on verified measurement (or observation) data from the Breslau-Sternwarte Observatory (1791-1930), which were completed (1931-2007) by reconstructing values calculated from measurement data from other meteorological stations in Wrocław. Only the data for 1945 were estimated from the values of Polish (Cracow, Gniezno, Puławy) and foreign (Berlin, Prague) stations. The problem of restoring the homogeneity of the available initial data was taken into consideration because there were changes in location and observation times. The data were verified by comparing the measured values, among others of temperature, with the data from the nearest as well as other meteorological stations in Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, de Bilt. In relation to this, the problem of special and temporal anisotropy of relations between the values of analysed stations was discussed.
Cross Cultural Rhetoric Awareness of Undergraduate Thesis Introduction Section Written by Acehnese EFL Students
Authors: Usman Bustami , Rizkanisa Novalia , Samad Iskandar Abdul , Muslem Asnawi
Published: April 2018

Abstract: This study investigated cross cultural rhetoric awareness of introduction section by Acehnese EFL students. This study aimed at describing the rhetorical pattern and determine the cross cultural rhetoric awareness by looking at the rhetorical pattern in Introduction section. A qualitative method and content analysis were used in this study which analyzed the Introduction section. The data of this research was English undergraduate thesis written by ten Acehnese students as the documentation was applied as the instrument. The data were collected from two Islamic institutes in Aceh. The research was conducted by using documentation analysis. The result of the analysis demonstrated that the English writings by Acehnese students maintained the inductive style and the idea of the paragraph is circular. However, the use of markers is enough to be considered. The conclusion led to the rhetorical pattern of the Acehnese students which is in oriented style. Indeed, the implication of the finding showed that the studentsâ€™ cross cultural rhetoric awareness toward English writing convention, especially in academic writing, is low
Fragments Over Experimental Film: Liminal Zones of Cinema, Art and Theory
Authors: Šuvaković Miško
Published: April 2018

In what follows, I will point to theorization of concept of the experimental film. My main thesis is that experimental art is based on the project, research practice, innovation and open transgressive or subversive artworks. Art focused on subversion of institutional power features as a singular event performed within a particular social relationship, as a critical actionist, engaged, or activist practice. Transgression – literally – refers to: infraction, violation of a law or an order, while in geological terms it implies penetration and expansion of the sea over the mainland. The notion of transgression relates to excess, overrunning or, more precisely, departing the familiar for the unknown, control for freedom. Experimental art was created in different disciplines such as experimental music, experimental film, experimental theater, etc. John Cage’s concept of ‘experimental music’ has been the starting point for new experimental art and artistic practices since 1950. Experimental film (experimental, new, avant-garde or neo-avant-garde cinema) has featured since the Second World War. The concept and term describe a range of filmmaking styles which are generally quite different from, and often opposed to, the practices of mainstream commercial and documentary filmmaking and entertainment-oriented cinematography. In the second and third part of the essay, I will present an analysis of the experimental films of the artists the OHO group and Neša Paripović.
 
Article received: December 2, 2017; Article accepted: December 18, 2017; Published online: April 15, 2018; Original scholarly paper
 
How to cite this article: Šuvaković, Miško. "Fragments Over Experimental Film: Liminal Zones of Cinema, Art and Theory." AM Journal of Art and Media Studies no 15 (2018): 1–10. doi: 10.25038/am.v0i15.225
Experimental (Structural Film) as the Concept of Film Innovation (Mihovil Pansini and Geff)
Authors: Kružić Dragana
Published: April 2018

This paper concerns the historical presentation of avant-garde streams and the interpretation of their general characteristics. Emphasis has been placed on the neo-avant-garde art practice, especially European and American neo-avant-garde film, with the aim of carrying out a theoretical platform for the analysis and interpretation of the structural film by Yugoslav film experimentalist Mihovil Pansini. Its aim is also to understand and interpret the events that caused the establishment of world’s first experimental film festival, the GEFF (Genre Film Festival). The idea of film innovation, as a film experiment, was at that time much more feasible in democratically open Western societies than under the conditions that governed the hermetically strict environment of the socialist realism of postwar Yugoslavia. The paper will attempt to prove that the phenomenon of Yugoslavian amateur cinema clubs as such was an ideal and perhaps only possible solution for the realization of innovative, radically subversive and experimental film ideas.
 
Article received: December 30, 2017; Article accepted: January 10, 2018; Published online: Aprul 15, 2018; Original scholarly paper
 
How to cite this article: Kružić, Dragana. "Experimental (Structural Film) as the Concept of Film Innovation (Mihovil Pansini and Geff)." AM Journal of Art and Media Studies 15 (2018): 11–22. doi: 10.25038/am.v0i15.226
The Kino-Eye Montage Procedure as a Formal Experiment
Authors: Latifić Amra
Published: April 2018

This text presents an analysis of the relationship between Kino-Eye, the Russian montage technique that was most clearly demonstrated by Dziga Vertov in his 1929 film The Man with a Movie Camera, and Russian Formalist theory, which underwent an intensive period of development during the 1920s. Russian Formalism, established primarily as a theory of literature, was likewise applied in film and the visual arts. A dominant characteristic of Soviet film authors and theorists from the avant-garde period was a preoccupation with linguistic aspects and an understanding of film itself in terms of language. Transposing Viktor Shklovsky’s notion of defamiliarization [остранение, ostranenie] to the visual experience of Vertov’s film contributes to an additional understanding of the usage of unconventional camera angles, diagonal camera positions, as well as to the interpreting of the Kino-Eye montage procedure. The experimental montage procedure of Kino-Eye is posited as an attempt to decode the world through the lens of a film camera, while understanding this procedure is linked to the impact of Shklovsky and Russian Formalism on Russian 1920s cinema.
 
Article received: December 15, 2017; Article accepted: December 30, 2017; Published online: April 15, 2018; Original scholarly paper
 
How to cite this article: Latifić, Amra. "The Kino-Eye Montage Procedure as a Formal Experiment." AM Journal of Art and Media Studies 15 (2018): 23–33. doi: 10.25038/am.v0i15.227
Interweaving Realities: Spoken Language and Moving Images in the Sonne halt!, Experimental Film by Ferry Radax
Authors: Bešlagić Luka
Published: April 2018

This paper analyses the experimental film Sonne halt! by Ferry Radax, an Austrian filmmaker renowned for his unconventional approach to cinematic practice. Filmed and edited between the end of the 1950s and early 1960s, the film at first may appear to be a belated homage to the previous European experiments in avant-garde cinema, already carried out a few decades earlier. However, since there have been no great ‘historical avant-garde’ movements in Vienna in the period between the two world wars – according to the novel argument made by Klaus Kastberger – it was already the middle of the 20th century when the ‘original’ avant-garde strategies were finally acknowledged in Austria, and simultaneously appropriated by the ‘neo-avant-garde’. In this peculiar historico-cultural context Sonne halt!, in its fragmentary non-narrative structure which resembles Dadaist or Surrealist playfulness and openness, innovatively and radically interweaved two disparate film registers: moving image and spoken language. Various sentences arbitrarily enounced throughout the film – which have their origin in Konrad Bayer’s unfinished experimental, pseudo-autobiographical, montage novel der sechste sinn – do not constitute dialogues or narration of a traditional movie script but rather a random collection of fictional and philosophical statements. At certain moments there is a lack of rapport between moving image and speech – an experimental attempt by Ferry Radax to challenge one of the most common principles of sound and narrative cinema. By deconstructing Sonne halt! to its linguistic and cinematic aspects, this article particularly focuses on the role of verbal commentaries within the film.   Article received: December 28, 2017; Article accepted: January 10, 2018; Published online: April 15, 2018; Original scholarly paper   How to cite this article: Bešlagić, Luka. "Interweaving Realities: Spoken Language and Moving Images in the Sonne halt!, Experimental Film by Ferry Radax." AM Journal of Art and Media Studies 15 (2018): 35–45. doi: 10.25038/am.v0i15.228
Brazilian Video Art in the Early Days: from Experimental Video to Mainstream Television
Authors: De Lima-Lopes Rodrigo Esteves
Published: April 2018

This article examines Brazilian video art in its early days, between 1973 and the end of the 1980s. This choice of topic is due to the historic importance of these artists: it covers the first experimental video productions in Brazil until their relative vulgarisation and assimilation by the mass media, especially television. I intend to discuss how Brazilian video art – which initially sought, inspired by ideological and technical issues, to disengage from the language of commercial media – became an element of aesthetic renewal in mainstream TV.
 
Article received: December 15, 2017; Article accepted: December 30, 2017; Published online: April 15, 2018; Original scholarly paper
 
How to cite this article: Rodrigo Esteves de Lima-Lopes. "Brazilian Video Art in the Early Days: from Experimental Video to Mainstream Television."AM Journal of Art and Media Studies 15 (2018): 47–58. doi: 10.25038/am.v0i15.229
Emperor Tomato Ketchup: Some Reflections on Carnality and Politics
Authors: Došen Ana
Published: April 2018

Terayama Shuji is one of the most prominent Japanese avant-garde artists of the 20th century. This paper explores Terayama’s experimental film Emperor Tomato Ketchup (1971), dealing with children’s rebellion against (masculine) authority. With an apparent lack of conventional narrative, this 16mm tinted black and white feature, shot in documentary style, was filmed in public without permission, demonstrating the guerilla tactics of Terayama’s experimental approach. Reflecting the turbulent times of Japan’s 1960s, when the quest for reinvention of national identity was compellingly engaged both right and left, Emperor Tomato Ketchup illustrates a dystopian Japan where the brutal revolution of ‘innocent’ and immature takes place. The focus of this paper is on the notion of carnality and politics of postwar Japan, as film’s transgressive graphic content of pre-pubescent children’s sexual encounter with women can still be perceived as radical.
 
Article received: December 26, 2017; Article accepted: January 10, 2018; Published online: April 15, 2018; Original scholarly paper
 
How to cite this article: Došen, Ana. "Emperor Tomato Ketchup: Some Reflections on Carnality and Politics." AM Journal of Art and Media Studies 15 (2018): 59–66. doi: 10.25038/am.v0i15.230
Listening to the ‘Multi-Voiced’ Feminist Film: Aspects of Voice-over, Female Stardom, and Audio-Visual Pleasure in Stephanie Beroes’ The Dream Screen (1986)
Authors: Ogrodnik Ben
Published: April 2018

Experimental film literature often neglects the important role played by sound design as a key aspect within feminist film practice. Indeed, the utilization of audio techniques, such as voice-over, polyphony, and sonic collage, can powerfully challenge the scopophilic fetishism placed upon images of women. In order to expand the scholarly conversation, I focus on an exemplary found-footage film, The Dream Screen, 1986, by Stephanie Beroes. The 45-minute, 16mm film presents appropriated and re-edited footage of LuLu (Louise Brooks) from G. W. Pabst’s silent film Pandora’s Box. As we see Lulu in familiar scenarios from the original film, the audience also bears witness to a rich tapestry of quotations on the soundtrack, all spoken by different women. These quotations span 1970s feminist theory, Greek mythology, R&B song lyrics, personal diary entries, and Brooks’ own autobiography, giving new meaning and depth to Lulu’s character. I argue that Beroes’ mobilization of these disparate voices and discourses seeks to ‘undo’ (to borrow William Wees’ term) the misogyny of Pabst’s original depiction of femininity. In turn, her film refashions Lulu/Louise Brooks into a punk-feminist icon of resistance, while pointing to ways that women artists might recover images and sounds from and of their own experience.   Article received: December 28, 2017; Article accepted: January 10, 2018; Published online: April 15, 2018; Original scholarly paper   How to cite this article: Ogrodnik, Ben. "Listening to the ‘Multi-Voiced’ Feminist Film: Aspects of Voice-over, Female Stardom, and Audio-Visual Pleasure in Stephanie Beroes’ The Dream Screen (1986)." AM Journal of Art and Media Studies 15 (2018): 67–82. doi: 10.25038/am.v0i15.231
The Effect of the Handheld Camera on Narration and Ocularization in the Dogme 95 Film
Authors: Pandža Kristian
Published: April 2018

This paper aims, based on the method of case study, to investigate how the handheld camera affects narration and ocularization in the Dogme 95 film. The Dogme 95 (hereafter ‘Dogme’) film is a relatively recent filmmaking movement, which has its own set of strict rules – one of which requires shooting the film with a handheld camera. Regardless of the fact that the utilization of a handheld camera causes specific and recognizable image and movement aesthetics, which can be described as a specific handheld camera style, it is also an indispensable theoretical fact that it very much ‘speaks’ through narration, in particular through focalization and ocularization, which is also theoretically confirmed by theoreticians of the Dogme film. The two most representative, and most prominent films of the Dogme filmmaking movement are Idiots [Idioterne] by Lars von Trier and The Celebration [Festen] by Thomas Vinterberg. The Dogme movement, famous for its inescapable and apparent pseudo-documentary filming style – which enables one to ask the question what is here and how is the reality of reality here – raises additional questions, but also provides answers through thoroughly studying the way in which the handheld camera narrates audiovisually and how narration flows in the two aforementioned films. Additionally, it asks whether there is a difference in narration and ocularization, or if it is disabled, and how the handheld camera becomes the narrator, in symbiosis with the character.

 

Article received: December 28, 2017; Article accepted: January 10, 2018; Published online: April 15, 2018; Original scholarly paper

 

How to cite this article: Pandža, Kristian. "The Effect of the Handheld Camera on Narration and Ocularization in the Dogme 95 Film." AM Journal of Art and Media Studies 15 (2018): 83–92. doi: 10.25038/am.v0i15.232
The Imaginary and the Dead Media in the Works of the Kosmoplovci Collective
Authors: Sekulić Aleksandra
Published: April 2018

Drawing from a movement which aimed to re-activate the practices of the emancipation of cultural production established in Yugoslav cine-amateurism: Low-Fi Video (1997–2003), the Kosmoplovci Collective, established in 2001, developed various interdisciplinary experiments, contesting the elements of the media framework of production. In a specific osmosis of practices stemming from the computer demo scene, video, alternative comics, electronic music and design, Kosmoplovci contributed to the contemporary explorations of the media-archaeological art, which uses archival work and historical materials related to the shifts of media paradigms. The videos, computer demos and online interactive projects of Kosmoplovci produced in the beginning of the 2000s can be seen as the projections, emulations or anticipations of the imaginary or dead media, or even a future excavation and re-invention of media (Void, Selfaware, X21, Artificial Detection). The treatment of media machines in the tension of their imagined untimely existence, as in the description of imaginary media by Siegfried Zielinsky, and the imagined future recovery from their deep death which is another form of their dislocation, destabilizes the fixed positions of the elements of contemporary media art production: the camera, the internet, but also the parallel relation of the image and the sound. The practice of this overall destabilization of fixed elements of the media system puts the Kosmoplovci Collective in the line of continuity of the experiments of radical amateurism.
 
Article received: December 28, 2017; Article accepted: January 10, 2018; Published online: April 15, 2018; Original scholarly paper
 
How to cite this article: Sekulić, Aleksandra. "The Imaginary and the Dead Media in the Works of the Kosmoplovci Collective." AM Journal of Art and Media Studies 15 (2018): 93–102. doi: 10.25038/am.v0i15.233
Movement-Image in Experimental Archive Cinema
Authors: Prostran Boško
Published: April 2018

In this paper, by applying three-mode division of image-movement by Gilles Deleuze to three case studies from the artistic practice of experimental archive cinema, I will attempt to point to three modes of reading/watching archive documentary film images, by which I tend to recognize also three different instances of reading/watching certain historical events, represented by images in these films. The three films, which I analyze following these guidelines, are Frammenti elettrici [Electric Fragments], by Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci-Lucchi, 2001–2005; Блокада [The Block], by Sergei Loznitsa, 2006; and Respite, by Harun Farocki, 2005.
 
Article received: December 28, 2017; Article accepted: January 10, 2018; Published online: April 15, 2018; Original scholarly paper
 
How to cite this article: Prostran, Boško: " Movement-Image in Experimental Archive Cinema." AM Journal of Art and Media Studies 15 (2018): 103–111. doi: 10.25038/am.v0i15.234
“Bringing the Unseen out of the Shadows”: in Pursuit of Ciné-Trance and Film-Performance in Ben Russell’s the quarry (2002) and TRYPPS #7 (BADLANDS) (2010)
Authors: Boczkowska Kornelia
Published: April 2018

This paper aims to present the ways in which Ben Russell’s films, the quarry and TRYPPS #7 (BADLANDS), tend to draw on conventions traditionally associated with ciné-trance (TRYPPS #7), as developed by Jean Rouch, and film-performance (TRYPPS #7 and the quarry). While both pictures invoke the presence of the sublime, the quarry transforms the featured landscape into an image-object and hence fails to represent the lived experience and instead provides the audience with a spectacle or a sensation simultaneously engaging them in the performance on their own terms. Meanwhile, TRYPPS #7’s reliance on ciné-trance becomes more evident in its attempt to expose the hypnotic and deceptive capabilities of moving-image media, which do not only distort the spectator’s rational sense of space and perspective, but also connote the phenomenon of possession itself through featuring the protagonist’s narcotic trance. To achieve the desired effect, Russell creates an atmosphere of sublimity and transcendence by means of structural and avant-garde film’s devices that transcend the realist–narrative paradigm of anthropological filmmaking, including static and kinetic montage, multiple perspectives, hand-held and rotating camera movements, intimate long takes or fixed shots of extended duration.
Article received: December 28, 2017; Article accepted: January 10, 2018; Published online: April 15, 2018; Original scholarly paper
 
How to cite this article: Boczkowska, Kornelia. "'Bringing the Unseen out of the Shadows': in Pursuit of Ciné-Trance and Film-Performance in Ben Russell’s the quarry (2002) and TRYPPS #7 (BADLANDS) (2010)." AM Journal of Art and Media Studies 15 (2018): 113–126. doi: 10.25038/am.v0i15.235
Film-Letter: the Beginning, Exchanging and Narration in Jonas Mekas and José Luis Guerín’s Correspondence
Authors: Lee Ming-Yu
Published: April 2018

In 2011, Jonas Mekas and José Luis Guerín finished their collective film project, Correspondence: Jonas Mekas – J. L. Guerín, a series of ‘film-letters’ between the two contemporary filmmakers. The film starts with Guerín (Letter to Jonas Mekas no. I), and ends, also with Guerín (Letter to Jonas Mekas no. 5). The film includes nine film-letters between the two. The film is interesting, as it is not only a project across time and space – it took three years to complete, and the correspondences sent and received from numerous locations across the globe – but is also that rarest of filmmaking, so close to diary film and first-person cinema, yet with something different waiting to be discovered.
In this paper I shall discuss the following characteristics in the film correspondence between Guerín and Mekas, in order to give a clearer picture of what exactly is a film-letter:
1) When is the (real) beginning of film-letters?
2) The continuity and exchange of the filmed subjects and themes.
3) The narration: the use of images plus voice-overs in film-letters.
4) The question of audience.
 
Article received: December 30, 2017; Article accepted: January 10, 2018; Published online: April 15, 2018; Original scholarly paper
 
How to cite this article: Lee, Ming-Yu. "Film-Letter: the Beginning, Exchanging and Narration in Jonas Mekas and José Luis Guerín’s Correspondence." AM Journal of Art and Media Studies 15 (2018): 127–134. doi: 10.25038/am.v0i15.236
From Art Gallery to Movie Theatre: Spectatorship in Julian Rosefeldt’s Manifesto
Authors: Ljungbäck Hugo
Published: April 2018

Experimental films have historically had a contested and marginalized position within film exhibition. With his Manifesto (2015), which has been exhibited both as a video installation in art galleries and as a feature film in movie theatres, Julian Rosefeldt collapsed the barriers between these exhibition spaces. By performing a comparative analysis of Manifesto in both forms, this article outlines the way spectators behave differently in the theatre and the gallery, the different demands the work makes on the viewer in each venue, and the difficulties of transforming the work from one form to another. By asking what is lost and what is gained, this article explores how the text, form, and venue function differently, to reveal underlying assumptions about spectatorship.
 
Article received: December 31, 2017; Article accepted: January 10, 2018; Published online: April 15, 2018; Original scholarly paper
 
How to cite this article: Ljungbäck, Hugo. "From Art Gallery to Movie Theatre: Spectatorship in Julian Rosefeldt’s Manifesto." AM Journal of Art and Media Studies 15 (2018): 135–146. doi: 10.25038/am.v0i15.237
Seeing Blackness: Found Footage and the Archive as Modes of Investigation in the Hanging of Marie-Josèphe Angélique
Authors: Arroyo Victor
Published: April 2018

Marie-Josèphe Angélique was a black slave in New France (Montreal, Canada) tried for setting a fire, burning down much of what is now known as Old Montreal. She was brutally tortured and hanged, her body eventually burned to ash in 1734. Over the last years, there has been an increased national interest in the figure of Marie-Josèphe Angélique, however, scholars and authorities have not come to an agreement about her hanging. Some speculate that the authorities, under pressure from an enraged population seeking a scapegoat, took the easy way out and condemned Angélique. Others believe that Angélique was determined to undermine the slave system and started the fire as revenge against her owner. I decided to explore these racial anxieties through my experimental documentary Anna O and the Case of Displaced Memory (2017), in which I used the hanging of Marie-Josèphe Angélique as an entry point to explore the relationship between the constitution of a racialized self, racial representation and the construction of collective memory, employing found footage as a mode of inquiry and aesthetic exploration into notions of appropriation, documentation and intertextuality.
 
Article received: December 28, 2017; Article accepted: January 10, 2018; Published online: April 15, 2018; Original scholarly paper
 
How to cite this article: Arroyo, Victor. "Seeing Blackness: Found Footage and the Archive as Modes of Investigation in the Hanging of Marie-Josèphe Angélique." AM Journal of Art and Media Studies 15 (2018): 147–158. doi: 10.25038/am.v0i15.238
The Global/Local Power of the Inhotim Institute: Contemporary Art, the Environment and Private Museums in Brazil
Authors: De Castro Maurício Barros
Published: April 2018

At the end of the 1940s, three important private museums emerged in Brazil’s two biggest metropolises, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, establishing a circuit that would prove essential to the consolidation and internationalization of modern and contemporary Brazilian art. During this period, entrepreneurs and collectors created the Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro (MAM–RJ, in 1948), the Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP, in 1948) and the Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo (MAM–SP, in 1947). As an heir to this tradition, but adopting a radically new proposal, the Inhotim Institute emerged approximatley sixty years later, in 2004. Located in the state of Minas Gerais, Inhotim harbors a museum complex with a series of pavilions and galleries with works of art and sculptures displayed in the open air, in a rural ambience that also contains a vast botanical collection of rare species. Like the private museums founded in Brazil in the 1940s, Inhotim’s creation was directly linked to the trajectory of entrepreneurs and collectors. The institution was created by businessman Bernardo Paz to hold the collection started by himself in the 1980s and that now runs to more than 450 works by Brazilian and international artists, making it one of the world’s most important collections of contemporary art. This paper discusses the tradition of private museums in Brazil and Inhotim’s impact on the contemporary art scene in the country and globally.   Article received: December 28, 2017; Article accepted: January 10, 2018; Published online: April 15, 2018; Original scholarly paper   How to cite this article: Barros de Castro, Maurício. "The Global/Local Power of the Inhotim Institute: Contemporary Art, the Environment and Private Museums in Brazil." AM Journal of Art and Media Studies 15 (2018): 161–172. doi: 10.25038/am.v0i15.239
Creative Documentary Today: Challenges and Opportunities for Directors and Producers
Authors: Mirković Željko
Published: April 2018

In today’s creative documentary, a director often decides to simultaneously assume the role of producer. This new situation has its own advantages and disadvantages. On the one hand, it gives the director/producer more freedom in story development and in leading a project. In addition, he or she is able to work more flexibly with the film budget and has a chance to change the direction of the project while following the storyline without fear that a producer will refuse such ideas. This position gives the director/producer room to work with smaller budgets and to claim the entire profit in the end. On the other hand, he or she must be prepared to work within a high-risk situation and assume complete responsibility.
The new digital economy has opened opportunities to identify the most innovative ways to integrate digital platforms into the phases of story development, direction, promotion, and distribution of documentaries, thus allowing filmmakers to identify their niche audiences, build new value with it and find the right ways for monetization and revenue increase.
 
Article received: December 30, 2017; Article accepted: January 10, 2018; Published online: April 15, 2018; Preliminary report – Short Communications
 
How to cite this article: Mirković, Željko: "Creative Documentary Today: Challenges and Opportunities for Directors and Producers." AM Journal of Art and Media Studies15 (2018): 173–184. doi: 10.25038/am.v0i15.240
Self Assessment of the Social Influence of Young People and Their Attitudes Towards Change
Authors: Radošević Tanja , Bulatović Goran , Bulatović Ljiljana
Published: April 2018

This paper examines the attitudes of young people in Serbia, according to the possibilities for their own social activism and participation in social change in which Serbia is already deeply involved, i.e. it examines social and personal values of young people and their correlation to their readiness to adopt to change. Young people are chosen precisely because they will be custom holders of these changes, i.e. their driving force. Serbian youth is burdened with many problems: unsatisfied with their own financial situation, they struggle to include themselves in the labor market, they are extending their education and rely financially on their parents. Our research has shown that young people do not believe enough in the strength of their own influence in society, and that they were visibly disappointed in institutions of society as a whole. Hypothesis One (H1) of this research – that there is a statistically significant correlation between attitudes towards change and social and personal values of young people in Serbia – has been confirmed, while Hypothesis Two (H2) of this research – that there is a statistically significant difference in the attitudes of young people towards social values, our society, and changes within it, depending on socio-demographic characteristics of the respondents – has been partially confirmed.
 
Article received: December 30, 2017; Article accepted: January 10, 2018; Published online: April 15, 2018; Original scholarly paper
 
How to cite this article: Radošević, Tanja, Goran Bulatović, Ljiljana Bulatović. "Self Assessment of the Social Influence of Young People and Their Attitudes Towards Change." AM Journal of Art and Media Studies 15 (2018): 185–200. doi: 10.25038/am.v0i15.241
Postcinema, Motion Perception and Glitch Movies
Authors: Betancourt Michael
Published: April 2018

Artist Porfolio

How to cite this article: Betancourt, Michael. "Postcinema, Motion Perception and Glitch Movies." AM Journal of Art and Media Studies 15 (2018): 202–208. doi: 10.25038/am.v0i15.242
“Outside the Box” – Another View on Modern and Contemporary Art.” Book Review: Nikola Dedić, Između dela i predmeta: Majkl Frid i Stenli Kavel između moderne i savremene umetnosti, Beograd: Fakultet za medije i komunikacije, 2017.
Authors: Mojsilović Jelisaveta
Published: April 2018

Book Review

How to cite this article: Mojsilović, Jelisaveta. "'Outside the Box” – Another View on Modern and Contemporary Art.' Book Review: Nikola Dedić, Između dela i predmeta: Majkl Frid i Stenli Kavel između moderne i savremene umetnosti, Beograd: Fakultet za medije i komunikacije, 2017." AM Journal of Art and Media Studies 15 (2018): 211–213. doi: 10.25038/am.v0i15.243
Book Review: Peter Tschmuck, The Economics of Music, Newcastle upon Tyne: Agenda Publishing, 2017.
Authors: Maglov Marija
Published: April 2018

How to cite this article: Maglov, Marija. "Book Review: Peter Tschmuck, The Economics of Music, Newcastle upon Tyne: Agenda Publishing, 2017." AM Journal of Art and Media Studies 15 (2018): 215–217. doi: 10.25038/am.v0i15.24
Book Review: Robin L. Murray and Joseph K. Heumann, Monstrous Nature: Environment and Horror on the Big Screen, Lincoln, London: University of Nebraska Press, 2016.
Authors: Prorokova Tatiana
Published: April 2018

Book Review

How to cite this article: Prorokova, Tatiana. "Book Review: Robin L. Murray and Joseph K. Heumann, Monstrous Nature: Environment and Horror on the Big Screen, Lincoln, London: University of Nebraska Press, 2016." AM Journal of Art and Media Studies 15 (2018): 219–221. doi: 10.25038/am.v0i15.245
Physical Impairments in Adults With Ankle Osteoarthritis: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Authors: Al-Mahrouqi Munira Mohammed , MacDonald David Allan , Vicenzino Bill , Smith Michelle Dawn
Published: April 2018

Study Design

Systematic review with meta-analysis.

Background

Lower-limb osteoarthritis (OA) is associated with pain and reduced function. Most research focuses on hip and knee OA- related impairments; consequently, impairments that characterize ankle OA are not well understood.

Objective

To systematically review available evidence of physical impairments in individuals with ankle OA.

Methods

A comprehensive search of electronic databases was conducted from their inception to July 2017. Studies were screened using predefined inclusion/exclusion criteria. Studies that compared physical measures (excluding gait) between individuals with ankle OA and healthy controls or the unaffected ankle were included. Two reviewers rated studies for quality. Meta-analyses with random effects were conducted when appropriate.

Results

Of 4565 identified studies (563 participants), 8 satisfied the inclusion criteria and 3 studies were included in meta-analyses. All studies evaluated a range of impairments at end-stage OA, and exhibited poor reporting of missing data, assessor blinding, and measurement validity. Meta-analyses revealed large impairments of ankle sagittal plane motion and strength. Evidence from single studies indicated large deficits of ankle frontal plane motion and strength, talar translation and rotation on arthrometry, balance, and electromyography of ankle joint muscles. There were also abnormal bony alignments and greater fatty infiltrate in all calf muscle compartments.

Conclusion

The results of this literature review suggest significant ankle motion, strength, and functional impairments in individuals with ankle OA. The strength of the conclusions is limited, due to the small number and methodological limitations of published studies.

Level of Evidence

Symptom prevalence, level 1a. J Orthop Sports Phys Ther 2018;48(6):449–459. Epub 7 Apr 2018. doi:10.2519/jospt.2018.7569
Optimal Screening for Prediction of Referral and Outcome (OSPRO) for Musculoskeletal Pain Conditions: Results From the Validation Cohort
Authors: George Steven Z. , Beneciuk Jason M. , Lentz Trevor A. , Wu Samuel S. , Dai Yunfeng , Bialosky Joel E. , Zeppieri Giorgio
Published: April 2018

Study Design

Observational, prospective cohort.

Background

Musculoskeletal pain is a common reason to seek health care, and earlier nonpharmacological treatment and enhancement of personalized care options are 2 high-priority areas. Validating concise assessment tools is an important step toward establishing better care pathways.

Objectives

To determine the predictive validity of Optimal Screening for Prediction of Referral and Outcome (OSPRO) tools for individuals with neck, low back, shoulder, or knee pain.

Methods

A convenience sample (n = 440) was gathered by Orthopaedic Physical Therapy-Investigator Network clinics (n = 9). Participants completed demographic, clinical, and comorbidity questionnaires and the OSPRO tools, and were followed for 12-month outcomes in pain intensity, region-specific disability, quality of life, and comorbidity change. Analyses predicted these 12-month outcomes with models that included the OSPRO review-of-systems (OSPRO-ROS) and yellow flag (OSPRO-YF) tools and planned covariates (accounting for comorbidities and established demographic and clinical factors).

Results

The 10-item OSPRO-YF tool (baseline and 4-week change score) consistently added to predictive models for 12-month pain intensity, region-specific disability, and quality of life. The 10-item OSPRO-ROS tool added to a predictive model for quality of life (mental summary score), and 13 additional items of the OSPRO-ROS+ tool added to prediction of 12-month comorbidity change. Other consistent predictors included age, race, income, previous episode of pain in same region, comorbidity number, and baseline measure for the outcome of interest.

Conclusion

The OSPRO-ROS and OSPRO-YF tools statistically improved prediction of multiple 12-month outcomes. The additional variance explained was small, and future research is necessary to determine whether these tools can be used as measurement adjuncts to improve management of musculoskeletal pain. J Orthop Sports Phys Ther 2018;48(6):460–475. Epub 7 Apr 2018. doi:10.2519/jospt.2018.7811
The added effect of cabergoline to metformin on serum hormones and rate and regularity of menstruation in women with Polycystic ovary syndrome
Authors: Matrood Rana Hatem , Abdulhussain Alaq Saeed
Published: April 2018

Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is an important cause of menstrual irregularities and infertility in women. Management approaches are variable and share in common the objectives of improving menstrual irregularities, hormonal disturbances, associated clinical features, and fertility. Cabergoline has been suggested to be effective in reducing some adverse effect associated with PCOS; however, sufficient controversy existed that permitted the conduction of the current study.   This study was aimed to evaluate the effect of adding Cabergoline to the standard mode of treatment (metformin) in a cohort of women with PCOS, on serum hormone levels, BMI, and menstrual irregularities. The present case-control study included 100 women diagnosed as having a polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) according to clinical, ultrasonic and hormonal bases. They were divided into two groups; the first group included 50 PCOS women received metformin treatment for 4 months’ duration and served as control group whereas the second group included 50 PCOS women who were given cabergoline in addition to metformin for 4 months’ duration and served as a study group. Both types of treatment, with or without cabergoline, resulted in highly significant reduction in mean weight in both groups (P<0.001), highly significant reduction in mean serum prolactin in both groups (P<0.001), highly significant reduction in mean serum testosterone in both groups (P<0.001) and highly significant reduction in mean serum DHEAS in both groups (P<0.001); however cabergoline was more effective in reducing mean serum prolactin, 10.20 ±1.92 ng/ml versus 32.20 ±1.79 ng/ml (P<0.001) and improved menstrual irregularities more efficiently. Addition of cabergoline lowers serum prolactin more significantly than metformin alone has improved menstrual irregularity more significantly. 

Keywords: Cabergoline; PCOS; Metformin; Menstruation
地铁越江隧道工程盾构区间施工技术及方案设计探究
Authors: 张 敏
Published: April 2018

随着隧道施工技术经验的积累以及机械设备的发展，地铁越江隧道工程施工成了一种可能，但是在具体的施工中需要根据实际工程条件，制定出切实可行的施工技术方案，从而保证施工的顺利进行。论文介绍了地铁越江隧道工程盾构区间施工技术及方案设计，并结合工程实例，对主要施工技术、施工方案以及技术保证措施进行了分析。
关于土地管理信息化建设的研究
Authors: 王 增彬
Published: April 2018

国民经济的持续有效发展，推动了城市化建设进程，随着建筑用地的需求日渐增多，土地管理难度不断加大。土地管理在较长一段时期内，因为信息更新速度慢，技术落后，导致其工作效率得不到有效提高，不能够顺应时代发展潮流。由此，越来越多的人意识到信息化建设的关键作用，并积极探索有效方式改善这一情况。论文首先对土地管理信息化建设的必要性以及可行性进行分析，然后就现阶段表现出来的问题进行论述，最后结合实际提出了几点建议。