bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Assessment of organizational readiness for participatory occupational safety, health and well-being programs
Authors: Robertson Michelle M. , Tubbs Diana , Henning Robert A. , Nobrega Suzanne , Calvo Alec , Murphy Lauren A.
Published: August 2021

BACKGROUND: Organizational readiness for change measures were reviewed to develop an assessment tool for guiding implementation of an occupational safety and health program based on Total Worker Health (TWH) principles. Considerable conceptual ambiguity in the theoretical and empirical peer-reviewed literature was revealed. OBJECTIVE: Develop and validate an assessment tool that organizations can use to prepare for implementation of a participatory TWH program. METHODS: Inclusion criteria identified 29 relevant publications. Analysis revealed eight key organizational characteristics and predictors of successful organizational change. A conceptual framework was created that subject matter experts used to generate prospective survey items. Items were revised after pretesting with 10 cognitive interviews with upper-level management and pilot-tested in five healthcare organizations. Reliability of the domain subscales were tested based on Cronbach’s α. RESULTS: The Organizational Readiness Tool (ORT) showed adequate psychometric properties and specificity in these eight domains: 1) Current safety/health/well-being programs; 2) Current organizational approaches to safety/health/well-being; 3) Resources available for safety/health/well-being; 4) Resources and readiness for change initiatives to improve safety/health/well-being; 5) Resources and readiness for use of teams in programmatic initiatives; 6) Teamwork; 7) Resources and readiness for employee participation; and 8) Management communication about safety/health/well-being. Acceptable ranges of internal consistency statistics for the domain subscales were observed. CONCLUSIONS: A conceptual model of organizational readiness for change guided development of the Organizational Readiness Tool (ORT), a survey instrument designed to provide actionable guidance for implementing a participatory TWH program. Initial internal consistency was demonstrated following administration at multiple organizations prior to implementation of a participatory Total Worker Health® program.
Measures of Risk for Sepsis and Mortality in Severe Burned Patients with Stress Induced Hyperglycemia.
Authors: Aleksi Albana , Belba Monika
Published: August 2021

Background; Hyperglycemia as a medical condition due to diabetes or other underlying conditions like Stress-Induced Hyperglycemia and sepsis as a life-threatening medical condition are two of the challenges faced during burn treatment.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the risk for sepsis and mortality for the patients with critical hyperglycemic values during the disease.

Material and Methods; This is an observational retrospective cohort study conducted in the Service of Burns of the University Hospital Centre “Mother Teresa” in Tirana (UHCT), Albania from 1st January 2010 to 31st December 2014. Patients were categorized as having euglycemia (mean BG values ranging from 80-120 mg/dl), moderate hyper Sepsis was defined according to the ABA Consensus Panel Publication for Infection and Sepsis glycemia (mean BG values <180 mg/dl) or critical hyperglycemia (mean BG values ≥180 mg/dl). to evaluate the impact of the presence of critical hyperglycemia during the disease in sepsis and mortality, we performed Relative risk, Odds ratio

Results; Those who had overall hyperglycemia (Moderate and Critical) had 2.6 times the risk for sepsis compared to those who were in the euglycemia group. Analyzing the risk of mortality in patients with overall hyperglycemia during the disease, we observed that the chance of a bad outcome was 2.7 times more likely to occur if the patient had hyperglycemia (RR=2.7).

Conclusions: Glucose values on admission, as one of the derangement features of burn shock, are prognostic factors in critical hyperglycemia during burn disease and have a close relationship with other outcomes (sepsis and mortality).
The Complex Femoral injuries after Hippopotamus Bite.
Authors: Kovalenko Fedor , Vassiliu Pantelis , Degiannis Konstantinos , Doll Dietrich
Published: August 2021

Introduction. Attacks by large animals, which lead to a critical patient condition, have not been systematically and statistically analyzed in the previous literature. Some papers about animal attacks are case reports and address fatal cases. Hippopotamus bite injury is a major trauma associated with complications.

Case report. In 2018, an American woman celebrating her 37th birthday in Zimbabwe embarked on a river rafting trip. After the hippopotamus bite, the patient had extensive soft tissue injuries and a comminuted fracture of the right femur. It was undertaken extensive multiple wound debridement and the femur was nailed as the site of entrance of the nail was away from the soft tissue injuries.

Conclusion. Usually, hippopotami avoid contact with people. Similar to many wild animals, hippopotami can attack in anticipation of danger, especially when protecting their offspring. In the present case, the inflicted injury is severe and has a combined character.
Endotracheal Intubations in Emergency Department: A Clinical Audit at a Tertiary Health Centre in South India
Authors: SM Linu , Sivam Roopasree , Paul Nikhil , George Mathen P , Babu Suresh
Published: August 2021

Background: Endotracheal intubation in the emergency department is challenging. Hence, regular audits can help us improve our critical airway management skills. Our study aimed to evaluate the practice of endotracheal intubations performed in the emergency department.

Materials and Methods: A retrospective cross-sectional study was conducted among the patients intubated in our teaching hospital's emergency department. The study period was from November 1, 2019, to August 31, 2020. We analyzed first attempt success rates, drug use, indication, and complications.

Results: We analysed 90 endotracheal intubations, out of which 70(77.8%) were performed by emergency physicians and 20(22.2%) by anaesthetists. The first attempt success rate was 81.11% (n=73) and had significant differences between the both departments. (p value= 0.003,  χ2= 7.48). More patients had medical indications compared to trauma for intubation (n=88 vs n=32) among which respiratory failure (n=25, 27.78%) was the most common indication. Rapid Sequence Intubation( RSI) adherence was 82.22% (n=74). Lignocaine (n=16, 19.75%), etomidate (n=35, 43.2%) and succinylcholine (n=65, 80.25%) were the commonly used drugs for premedication, induction and as relaxants respectively. 17(18.89%) out of 90 intubation had complications. Desaturation (n=10, 11.11%), bradycardia (n=1, 1.11%), hypotension (n=4, 44%), dental trauma (n=5, 5.55%) and oesophageal intubation (n=3, 3.33%) were observed in our study.

Conclusion: Our study is the first  from India which describes the characteristics of endotracheal intubations done in the Emergency Department along with data on RSI adherence. The first attempt success rate, indications, and complications were comparable with other studies in the literature. We recommend future prospective studies to analyze success rates between different specialties and resident doctors to improve the airway management skills in the Department
Management of Inguinal Hernia in a Tertiary Center, a two-year Retrospective Study.
Authors: Cobani Dritan , Dogjani Agron , Gjata Arben , Haxhirexha Kastriot , Bendo Hysni
Published: August 2021

Background: Inguinal hernia repair remains the most common surgery performed by general surgeons worldwide. There is a lot of published data on the surgical management of inguinal hernias in our country. This study aims to describe our experiences in the surgical management of inguinal hernias and compare our results with those reported in the literature. Material and Method: A descriptive retrospective study was conducted at the University Hospital of Trauma in Albania. From April 2016 - March 2018 were recorded all the data for patients who presented to our hospital and underwent inguinal hernia repair in our hospital, under the conditions of elective surgery. Statistical data analysis was done using SPSS software version 17.0. Results: In this period had a total of 542 patients with inguinal hernias were enrolled in the study. The median age of patients was 46,12 years (range 14 to 92 years old). Males outnumbered females by a ratio of 18.3:1. This gender difference was statistically significant (p = 0.004). Most patients 130 (23.9%) presented late (more than one year of onset of hernia). At presentation, 208 (38.4%) patients had a reducible hernia, 101(18.6%) had an irreducible hernia. The majority of patients 303(55.9 %) had a right-sided inguinal hernia, and 156(28.7 %) had left-sided inguinal hernia with a right-to-left ratio of 1.94: 1. Eighty-three 83(15.3%) patients had bilateral inguinal hernias. 319 (58.8%) patients had an indirect hernia, Conclusion: Inguinal hernias continue to be a source of morbidity and mortality in our center. Early presentation and elective repair of inguinal hernias is pivotal in order to eliminate the morbidity and mortality associated with this very common problem.
Disseminated Alveolar Echinococcosis.
Authors: Çuko Liri , Bilaj Fatmir , Çela Durim , Hysenj Arlinda , Bakeri Borana , Babameto Adriana , Kurti Floreta , Tafaj Irgen , Çeliku Etmont
Published: August 2021

Alveolar echinococcosis (AE) is caused by the larval form of the tapeworm Echinococcus multilocularis. In humans, E. alveolaris metacestode cells proliferate in the liver inducing a hepatic disorder that mimics liver cancer and can spread to other organs. From 1960 to 1972 mortality was at 70% and 94% after 5 and 10 years of follow-up, respectively. Since then, studies have shown an increasing trend towards improving survival rates [1]. As AE is also spreading to new areas of Eastern Europe, researchers seek to better understand the clinical presentation of pathology, including asymptomatic forms. Clinical case; One 36-year-old woman from Peshkopia has been admitted to the Gastrohephatology department on 20.07.2011 with fatigue, anorexia, dull pain in right hypochondrium, mild epigastric pain, bloating, and weight loss. The epidemiological anamnesis showed that the patient lived in the village and had pets. On physical examination, the patient appeared severely ill with jaundice, massive hepatomegaly, massive mass in the mesogastric area, and anxiety. Laboratory examinations were as follows: Hb 11.1 g/dl, sediment 25 mm/h; leukocytes 6700/mm3; platelets 127000/mm3; prothrombin level 60%, uremia 12.7 mmol/l; creatinine 0.78 mmol /l; ALP 127 U/I; AST 15 U/I; ALT 37 U/I; GGT 131 U/I; bilirubin 3.7 mg/l, albumin 2.8 gr / l, total protein 8.1 gr / l, HbsAg negative, anti-HCV negative. Regarding serology, the titer of anti-echinococcal antibodies was positive (22, n = 11) Conclusions: Clinical presentation and radiologic imaging findings of disseminated alveolar echinococcosis can mimic metastatic malignancy, and diagnosis can be challenging in atypically advanced cases. As the incidence of human alveolar echinococcosis appears to be increasing and, physicians should be aware of alveolar echinococcosis, its epidemiology, and its clinical features.
ANALISIS SISTEM AKUNTANSI PENERIMAAN KAS MASUK DALAM UPAYA PENINGKATAN EFEKTIVITAS PENGENDALIAN INTERNAL
Authors: Firdarini Khoirunnisa Cahya , Wijayanti Erni
Published: August 2021

This research aims to analyze cash receipt accounting system for room selling either in cash or on credit at Grage Business Hotel Yogyakarta. Based on  Mulyadi's theory, this research evaluate internal control effectivity of the hotel, especially for cash receipt system. The element have been evaluated are organizational structure, authority and administration procedure, and implementation of duties and obligation based on each person's responsibilities. The data collection method used are observation, interview, and documentation. The results shows that implementation of internal control system as mention above at Grage Business Hotel Yogyakarta has not yet qualify Mulyadi's theory criterias. The major problem there are not segregation of duties. Cash and sales function run by receptionist while accounting and administration function run by general cashier. The implication of this research is to improve internal control of cash receipt of the hotel.
SISTEM INFORMASI MONITORING PENGGUNA NARKOBA DENGAN STUDI KASUS BNN KABUPATEN MUSIRAWAS MENGGUNAKAN METODE MVC
Authors: Sunardi Lukman , Wijaya Harma Oktavia Lingga
Published: August 2021

Penerapan teknologi komputer dalam setiap aspek dunia perkantoran Indonesia sudah dianggap sebagai suatu kebutuhan. Tanpa memiliki sistem informasi yang tangguh dalam pencarian data akan lebih sulit dilakukan. Monitoring adalah pengumpulkan secara teratur , mengkaji dan bertindak atas informasi tentang pelaksanaan suatu proyek atau kegiatan,yang pada umumnya digunakan untuk memeriksa kinerja terhadap target serta memastikan memastikan kepatuhan terhadap peraturan. Kantor BNN Musi Rawas adalah sebuah intansi pemerintahan yang berada di kabupaten Musi Rawas, yang bertugas memantau  kegiatan penyalahgunaan Zat PSIKOTROPIKA atau pun NAPZA. Permasalahan yang dihadapi BNN yaitu dalam penghitungan pengguna narkoba yang ada di Kabupaten  Musi Rawas yang berada pada wilayah tertentu belum maksimal dan masih mencatat menggunakan aplikasi Ms. Word, belum menggunakan sistem yang terkomputerisasi menggunakan database, sehingga dalam pencatatan dan penyajian laporan tentang data-data pengguna narkoba di Kabupaten Musi Rawas masih belum akurat dan untuk mengukur tingkat pengangguran di suatu daerah yang berada di Kabupaten Musi Rawas masih rendah tingkat ke akuratannya. Metode pengembangan sistem yang dipakai dalam penelitian ini adalah metode waterfall dan hasil penelitian adalah sistem informasi monitoring pengguna narkoba dengan studi kasus BNN Kabupaten Musirawas menggunakan Model View Controller (MVC.
A járványügyi veszélyhelyzet megélése a próbaidős tiszthelyettesek körében
Authors: Borbély Zsuzsanna
Published: August 2021

2020-ban hódító körútra indult a világban a koronavírus-járvány. Erre tekintettel a 2019–2020-as tanévben próbaidős évüket töltő tiszthelyettesek körében egy folyamatban levő  kutatás részeként felmérték a veszélyhelyzet első két  hónapjának megélését, tapasztalatait, hiszen a rendőri  állomány tagjaiként a mindennapi feladatellátásukban  szerepet kaptak a veszélyhelyzethez kapcsolódó tevékenységek. A vizsgálatot egy általunk összeállított, 14  kérdésből álló minikérdőívként integrálták a kutatásban  használt kérdőívcsomagba. A lekérdezés online formában  történt, a szakmai vizsgák időszakában (2020. május vége –  június eleje), s összesen 28 fő töltötte ki a koronavírus miatt  kialakult járványhelyzettel kapcsolatos kérdőívet. A  válaszadók körében a hatósági házi karantén ellenőrzése, a  határátkelőhelyeken ellátott szolgálat és a kijárási  korlátozásokkal kapcsolatos közterületi szolgálat is  megjelent feladatként. A válaszadók döntő többsége  (85,7%) nem érezte érzelmileg megterhelőbbnek ezen  időszak feladatellátását. Fizikálisan ugyanakkor valamivel  többen értékelték megterhelőbbnek a szolgálatokat  (28,6%). A mintában a legintenzívebb félelemként a  családtag fertőzötté válása jelentkezett, ezt követte mások  megfertőzése és a kollégák megfertőződése – saját  megfertőződésüktől jelentősen kevésbé féltek. Az eredmények alapján valószínűsíthető, hogy a veszélyhelyzet első két hónapjában a próbaidős állomány számára nem  jelentett kiemelkedő pszichés terhelést a járványügyi  veszélyhelyzethez kapcsolódó feladatok ellátása. Habár az  eredmények nem reprezentatívak, de kiindulási alapot  jelenthetnek a további vizsgálatok számára, mivel a téma  mindenképpen érdemes további kutatásra – különösen,  hogy az őszi járványügyi helyzet jelentősen megterhelőbb  mindenki számára mentálisan és fizikálisan egyaránt.
Domótica como auxílio para pessoas com deficiência e idosos
Authors: Dantas Filho Carlos Alberto , Braz Daniel da Silva , Zwipp Gabriel Nunes , Santos Lukas Gabriel Assis dos , Melo Thiago Cunha de , Benites Cristiano da Silva
Published: August 2021

A automação é um ramo de estudo que teve início no setor industrial, depois em edifícios comerciais e agora na domótica. Esta tecnologia aplica-se ao ambiente doméstico para ser controlada pelo usuário por meio de um aplicativo ou comando de voz, dando vida aos seus serviços, conforto e comodidade aos seus usuários, tudo isso podendo ser realizado via celular. A automação residencial é um conjunto completo de serviços técnicos, visando a melhor maneira de atender às necessidades básicas de segurança, comunicação, gestão de energia e conforto de vida. A casa inteligente é como uma casa com vida própria, por isso o sistema de automação residencial tem as características de um sistema inteligente, que pode interagir com os moradores. Adotamos métodos de pesquisas bibliográficas baseados em materiais já publicados, composto por livros e artigos científicos, bem como pesquisas exploratórias para proporcionar a maior familiaridade com a automação residencial (AR), especificamente para pessoas com deficiência (PCD). Com este artigo, pretendemos apresentar os principais aspectos da residência automática, enfocando elementos básicos e típicos. Diferentes campos e aplicações também são considerados, enfatizando os diversos benefícios que a casa automática pode trazer, como: acessibilidade, comodidade, praticidade, sistemas de segurança e controle de gastos, controle de luzes, portas automatizadas, janelas, camas e escadas. Apontamos, também, algumas desvantagens como: alto custo e má utilização, sempre com foco em PCD. A pesquisa destaca diversos aspectos relevantes do planejamento e aplicações de automação residencial para apoiar os vários elementos de casas automatizadas.
Psychological Stress Among Mothers of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Down Syndrome in the City of Kufra
Authors: Bopaeda Mansour Mohammed Ali
Published: August 2021

Having a baby is a huge responsibility. It often happens that mothers, especially when they are having their first baby, feel stressed and incompetent in their role as mothers even as their children normally grows. The purpose of this article is to identify the general features of psychological stress among mothers of autism spectrum disorder and Down syndrome and to identify the differences and relationship in psychological stress between mothers of autism and down syndrome. In this study participated a group of mothers with children who have autism (n = 44) and mothers of children with Down syndrome (n = 44). The findings made proved that the general features of psychological stress are high Among mothers of autistic children, while it was low among mothers of Down syndrome, there were also statistically significant differences in the level of psychological stress between mothers of autism and Down syndrome, and a correlation was found between mothers of autism and Down syndrome at the level of significance (0.01).
Solutions For Growing the Power Factor Prevent A Reactive Electricity Tariff And Decrease Warmth On Installation With Bank Capacitors
Authors: Angga Anggara Trisna Nugraha , Messiah Muhammad Syahid , Rinaldi Dimas , Ramadhan Moch. Fadhil , Shiddiq Muhammad Jafar
Published: August 2021

PT. Intan Ustrix that's placed at Jl. Raya Roomo No.425, Sekarsore, Roomo, Kec. Manyar, Kabupaten Gresik Indonesia is a company engaged in the paper and cardboard business, and has many machines used in the manufacturing process. The load of the induction motor will make the cost lower, thereby increasing the current cost through the device inside the carton production unit. Fixing the cost of cos is a great way to solve this problem. In this case, it is very important to install a capacitor bank to recover the charge. By installing a capacitor bank will affect the overall performance of the motor used. The cause of this research is the increasing cost of boarding at the cardboard production unit of PT. Intan Ustrix. As an evaluation, capacitor banks are installed on the H200, AFG, 6PA, FM, and 6PS buses so that low cos costs can be increased. The final result of this charge shows that increasing the cos cost at full load of 325 KW from 0.716 to 0.872 can reduce the actual power cost (S) from 396 KVA to 329 KVA, which can maintain 65 KVA and today's decrease (I) from 498 A to 410 A, the lower the current consumption price of the motor used can increase the resistance of the device to the carton production unit.
Massage Effleurage terhadap Adaptasi Kecemasan Primigravida
Authors: Purmata Putri Masita , Jama Fatma , Munir Nur Wahyuni
Published: August 2021

Effleurage is a massage technique using the palms of the hands in a circular pattern of movements in several parts of the body or strokes along the back and extremities. This study aims to determine the effect of massage effleurage on the adaptation of the anxiety level of childbirth during the first active phase of primigravida at Masyita Maternity Hospital.The type of research used is experiment with pre-experimental design with one group prestest design approach because it will compare the situation before it is done with after treatment. The sample in this study were all 30 prigravida maternity respondents. The relationship test was carried out using the paired sample t test with a significance level (α) of 0.05.The results of the paired sample t test p = 0.000, which means that the p value is smaller than the value (α) 0.05, thus H0 is rejected and Ha is accepted. Interpretation of the effect of massage effleurage on the adaptation of the level of anxiety during labor during the active phase.With this research, it can be concluded that overcoming labor anxiety when 1 fae is active, can be done by doing non-pharmacological methods such as massage, for example by giving efflaurage massage, without having to take drugs. This research can increase knowledge, especially regarding the effect of massage effleurage on the adaptability of primigravida anxiety during the active phase. and can be used as a source of information, especially related to maternity nursing science.
Lindsay Anderson
Authors: Gourdin-Sangouard Isabelle
Published: August 2021

This article will explore three key stages in Lindsay Anderson’s career that illustrate the complex relationship between the director’s negotiation of his own national background and the imposition of a national identity in the critical reception of his work. First, I will look briefly at Anderson’s early directorial career as a documentary filmmaker: by using references to the Free Cinema movement and Thursday’s Children (1953), I will show that, in both instances, the question of artistic impact and critical reception took on a transnational dimension. I will then discuss the production of a documentary short in Poland, which Anderson filmed at the request of the Documentary Studio in Warsaw in 1967, and which constitutes the director’s first experience of working in a foreign film industry. Finally, I will discuss Britannia Hospital (1982), the last feature film that Anderson made in Britain. Throughout the paper, I will also use material from the Lindsay Anderson Archive held at Stirling University.
The fictive archive
Authors: Çiçek Özgür 
Published: August 2021

In this paper, I consider the potentials and theoretical interpretations of Kurdish Cinema produced in Turkey. I evaluate the dynamics of the emergence of a state-less Kurdish cinema, which produces films in spite of the existence of Turkish National cinema and an oppressive Turkish national identity. Using Hayden White’s formulations on narrative and history and Gilles Deleuze’s theories on minority filmmaking and the time-image, I argue that the conception of time in Kurdish Cinema exceeds the time of the narrative and carries an archival potential for the unrepresented history of Kurdish life in Turkey.
Ideas of sex
Authors: Impey Nick 
Published: August 2021

Both The Night Porter (Cavani) and The Gestapo’s Last Orgy (Canevari) are often referred to as exploitation. Exploitation cinema’s focus on empty excess is in line with the exaggeration/superficiality of “Camp”. Despite Susan Sontag’s separation of “Camp” elements and homosexual-Camp elements, subsequent
 commentators have argued that Camp is an exclusively gay critique of the artificial nature of the “performance” of hetero-normative gender roles. My article looks at the ways in which lesbian filmmaker Liliana Cavani discusses queer sexuality through a Camp play on gender roles, and how this same discourse is
 “developed” in Canevari’s virtual remake. German/Italian fascist ideology’s preoccupation with the perfected male body and Hitler’s original acceptance of homosexuality contributed to the presence of a lingering (masculine) homoeroticism in Nazi iconography. Holocaust history of Nazi domination enhanced this masculine image. Accordingly, the two filmmakers use a binary of male (masculine) Nazi dominator and female submissive prisoner, which is possessing of a heterosexual quality made fragile by the history of fascist sexual ambiguity. Essentially, my paper argues that the films’ disruption of the traditional images of Nazi aggressor/innocent victim through the protagonists’ depicted collaboration corresponds with the filmmakers’ blurring of masculine/feminine roles in their individual statements about queer sexuality.
Cinema/history
Authors: Leonard Michael 
Published: August 2021

This article compares the engagement with the history of May 1968 in Philippe Garrel’s Les Amants réguliers/Regular Lovers (2005)and Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Dreamers (2004). Through a close study of both films, it demonstrates how Garrel finds a more nuanced and transformative aesthetic than Bertolucci in representing this defining moment in modern French culture and politics. The films share a number of aspects; most notably, they draw upon the history of cinema itself in recalling this period, an approach that can be related to Godard’s project in Histoire(s) du Cinéma (1988-1998). However, their differing approaches to cinematographic citation (metonymic in the case of Bertolucci, and metaphoric in the case of Garrel) have significant implications for the temporal dynamics of each film. The article argues that Bertolucci’s method is intrinsically conservative—reactionary, even—implying an historical linearity that reinforces the “pastness” of May, its significance as a piece of “heritage” rather than part of an ongoing historical process, or dialectic. Garrel’s practice of citation, by contrast, generates a more radical, heterochronous form that constitutes a testimony to May 1968 by evoking its continued presence. In the course of its discussion, the article also reflects on the relationship between Les Amants réguliers and the nouvelle vague, exploring in particular the relations between this film and Jacques Rivette’s Paris nous appartient (1961).
Face to face with the Muslim “Other”
Authors: Caoduro Elena 
Published: August 2021

The bombings on March 11, 2004 in Madrid and on July 7, 2005 in London brought terror to the heart of Europe and amplified the feelings of fear, disbelief and suspicion developed as a consequence of 9/11 trauma. This article departs from Hollywood discourses on international terrorism to investigate how European cinema reflected upon these tragedies. Focusing on the films Fremder Freund (The Friend, Elmar Fischer, 2003)and London River (Rachid Bouchareb, 2009), it outlines the peculiarities of European cinema in dealing with international terrorism and thus analyses the representation of Islamic fundamentalism and more generally, Muslim communities. The films stimulate the public debate about contemporary society and the role of British and German institutions in developing “home-grown” terrorists. The article argues that these films avoid any explicit attempts of commemorating and memorialising these tragic events, but they contextualise the attacks engaging with issues of multiculturalism rather than commenting on the problem of international crime and terrorism.
Motherhood in crisis in Lucrecia Martel’s Salta Trilogy
Authors: Clancy Fiona
Published: August 2021

This article concerns the complex negotiation of ageing and femininity in Amy Heckerling’s two most recent films: I Could Never Be Your Woman (2007) and Vamps (2012). These films are positioned as part of the contemporary postfeminist media culture, (Gill, 2007) noting the scrutiny received by the ageing female body, and its changing status under the prevailing cultural norms of femininity. However, Heckerling’s films also demonstrate a sense of play with these gender norms, and so calls to be read also in terms of Judith Butler’s theorisation of performativity (1990; 1993; 2004). This article contends that Heckerling’s representation of liminality and indeterminacy—in her teen movies, and later work alike—provides a way for women to carve out an autonomous identity that humorously demonstrates the absurdity of mediatised constructions of femininity. Her work, then, is more complex than has hitherto been acknowledged, and the piece concludes by calling for the director and screenwriter to be repositioned as a significant female voice in 21st century screen media.
“Nice White Ladies Don’t Go Around Barefoot”
Authors: Thouaille Marie-Alix
Published: August 2021

Not only is The Help(2009; 2011) a text within which a white woman author (Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan, played by Emma Stone) profits from the lives of women of colour, but it is also a text originally written by a white woman author (Kathryn Stockett) who profits from the real and/or imagined lives of women of colour. Both authors rely on the invisibility of their whiteness and white privilege in order to inhabit, and, appropriate from, marginalised subjectivities. Through an analysis of The Help’s filmic strategies for inscribing whiteness as a form of absence, this article posits that women of colour are erased and excluded by our continuing cultural reluctance to “see” whiteness and its privileges. I go on to argue that the film simultaneously offers a sceptical reading of Stockett’s and Skeeter’s appropriative projects, finding ways to make characters’ whiteness visible, embodied and accountable. Only in interrogating this cultural invisibility can we contest the ways in which neoliberalism and postracism interplay to reify middle-class whiteness as the default subject position for women in screen media in the twenty-first century.
Pocahontas no more
Authors: Mayer Sophie
Published: August 2021

Sydney Freeland’s fiction feature Drunktown’s Finest (2014) represents the return of Indigenous women’s feature filmmaking after a hiatus caused by neoconservative politics post-9/11. In the two decades since Disney’s Pocahontas (1995), filmmakers such as Valerie Red-Horse have challenged erasure and appropriation, but without coherent distribution or scholarship. Indigenous film festivals and settler state funding have led to a reestablishment, creating a cohort that includes Drunktown’s Finest. Repudiating both the figure of Pocahontas, as analysed by Elise M. Marubbio, and the erasure of Indigenous women in the new Western genre described by Susan Faludi, Drunktown’s Finest relates to both the work of white ally filmmakers of the early 2000s, such as Niki Caro, and to the work of contemporary Indigenous filmmakers working in both features (Marie-Hélène Cousineau and Madeline Ivalu of Arnait) and shorts (Danis Goulet, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers). Foregrounding female agency, the film is framed by a traditional puberty ceremony that—through the presence of Felixia, a transgender/nádleeh woman—is configured as non-essentialist. The ceremony alters the temporality of the film, and inscribes a powerful new figure for Indigenous futures in the form of a young woman, in line with contemporary Indigenous online activism, and with the historical figure of Pocahontas.
Cinemagoing as spatially contextualised cultural and social practice
Authors: Ravazzoli Elisa
Published: August 2021

Cinemagoing as a sociocultural experience and the cinema theatre as a setting where that experience takes place are naturally linked to a certain notion of space. In fact, cinemagoing is a practice in which space is not only conceived and perceived but is also constructed; space and place are social constructs, always mediated by people‚Äôs experience and sociocultural processes. Likewise, the space of the cinema theatre is not a given but is continuously produced, reconstructed and reconfigured by audiences. This article analyses the dialectic relations between the notions of space and place and the experience of cinemagoing as a spatialised social practice and a cultural experience; it also investigates the cinema theatre as a physical, symbolic and mental setting. Overall, the article offers a theoretical reflection on the multiple notions of space in relation to cinemagoing
Ethnography as a tool of cinema history
Authors: Leveratto Jean-Marc , Montebello Fabrice
Published: August 2021

This article shows the heuristic value of a film consumption study that combines oral archives and fieldwork with written sources. Oral archives on film consumption provided by a local film market of Longwy, an industrial town of north-eastern France, during the 1950s allow the researcher to reconstruct the audience‚Äôs collective experience of the films released on this market. Combined with a systematic study of local releases and their box office, they give us access to the artistic expertise of local filmgoers in the past and motivate us to challenge the conventional interpretation of film consumption as the ostensibly predictable expression of a social taste.
Performing history/ies with obsolete media
Authors: Kesting Marietta
Published: August 2021

The article addresses the tension between old (analogue) media and new (digital) media usage and their specific materialities by discussing the question of the preserving and re-telling of (subjective and national) history and histories. It analyses Pied Piper’s Voyage (2014), a photo-film of emerging South African artist Lebohang Kganye in the context of the South African photographic and filmic archive. In order to address the question of agentiality and transmission of memory through media this article interrogates the strategies of this piece, using a “hand-made” or analogue aesthetic in a high-definition video, and focuses on how the usage of obsolete media formats resonates both with the artists’ own subjective history and with the (chrono-)politics of representation and in/visibility in South Africa’s transnational history—including the often absent photo and film archive of black South Africans’ lives under apartheid and thus the negotiation of cultural memory in the present. It asks how media technology performs historicity: how can outdated formats invoke or announce pastness? Which different temporalities can they project? What desires and “atmospheres” may they create by staging or presenting “auratic” qualities?
Analogue video in the age of retrospectacle
Authors: Rozenkrantz Jonathan
Published: August 2021

This article explores the various manifestations of analogue video in digital culture. Introducing the framing concept of an aesthetics of remanence, it argues that the â€œsociety of the spectacleâ€ (Debord) has entered an age of retrospectacle, a dominant signifier of which is the remediation and/or simulation of analogue videography. The concept of remanence connects the material conditions of magnetic tape with analogue videoâ€™s aesthetic expressions, and the cultural situation in which analogue video finds itself today. By looking at three different cases related to retro gaming, contemporary hip hop, and â€œold skoolâ€ rave, the article shows how the aesthetics of remanence remains highly susceptible to subcultural sensibilitiesâ€”while it also functions as their shared visual variable. The short film Kung Fury (David Sandberg, 2015) is a playfully post-ironic recuperation of failed media technologies. The music video â€œFromdatomb$â€ (David M. Helman, 2012) is a complex exploration of the idea(l) of the historical real. And the work of video art Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore (Mark Leckey, 1999) is a creative treatment of nostalgia which invites us to reconsider the medical origins of the term.
The Wonder Years
Authors: Williams Kathleen
Published: August 2021

This article explores the various manifestations of analogue video in digital culture. Introducing the framing concept of an aesthetics of remanence, it argues that the “society of the spectacle” (Debord) has entered an age of retrospectacle, a dominant signifier of which is the remediation and/or simulation of analogue videography. The concept of remanence connects the material conditions of magnetic tape with analogue video’s aesthetic expressions, and the cultural situation in which analogue video finds itself today. By looking at three different cases related to retro gaming, contemporary hip hop, and “old skool” rave, the article shows how the aesthetics of remanence remains highly susceptible to subcultural sensibilities—while it also functions as their shared visual variable. The short film Kung Fury (David Sandberg, 2015) is a playfully post-ironic recuperation of failed media technologies. The music video “Fromdatomb$” (David M. Helman, 2012) is a complex exploration of the idea(l) of the historical real. And the work of video art Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore(Mark Leckey, 1999) is a creative treatment of nostalgia which invites us to reconsider the medical origins of the term.
Retro quality and historical consciousness in contemporary European television
Authors: Bayman Louis
Published: August 2021

This article investigates the trend represented by the recent TV series This Is England 86 (2010), Deutschland 83 (2015) and 1992 (2015). It analyses retro in the series as enabling an exhilarating experience of the music, fashions and lifestyles of the past while claiming to offer a serious social history. The article thus takes issue with theories of retro that view it as ahistorical (for example Guffey), to demonstrate how retro in these series enables a particular dramatic conception of the dynamics of national history, whether in post-imperial decline (This Is England), a westalgie for the grip of geopolitical conflict (Deutschland 83) or the cyclical progression of trasformismo (1992). The article discusses the series’ common visions of the past as characterised by a pleasing youthful naivety, opposed to an implied present of cynical superior knowledge. I argue that these series embody retro’s distinct ability to combine irony and fetishism in its recreation of the past, as befits an age in which historical consciousness is increasingly referred to the intimate sphere of the individual self and its uncertain relation to posterity.
The fight for self-representation
Authors: Centeno Martín Marcos P. 
Published: August 2021

Film representation of the Ainu people is as old as cinema but it has not remained stable over time. From the origins of cinema, Ainu people were an object of interest for Japanese and foreign explorers who portrayed them as an Other, savage and isolated from the modern world. The notion of “otherness” was slightly modified during wartime, as the Ainu were represented as Japanese subjects within the “imperial family”, and at the end of the fifties when entertainment cinema presented the Ainu according to the codes of the Hollywood Western on the one hand; and Mikio Naruse proposed a new portrayal focusing on the Ainu as a long-discriminated social collective rather than as an ethnic group, on the other. However, Tadayoshi Himeda’s series of seven documentaries following the Ainu leader Shigeru Kayano’s activities marked a significant shift in Ainu iconography. Himeda challenged both the postwar institutional discourse on the inexistence of minorities in Japan, and the touristic and ahistorical image that concealed the Ainu’s cultural assimilation to Japanese culture. The proposed films do not try to show an exotic people but a conventional people struggling to recover their collective past.
Depicting the racist past in a "postracial" age
Authors: Wayne Michael L. 
Published: August 2021

This article examines the ways in which depictions of race and racism in some prime-time historical dramas promote contemporary postracial ideologies. Focusing on the portrayals of overt racism and interracial relationships in Hell on Wheels (2011–2016) and The Knick (2014–2015), the author argues that the use of morally ambiguous white, male protagonists in contexts associated with morally unambiguous racism allows these shows to acknowledge the centrality of racism in American history while simultaneously presenting racism in interpersonal rather than systemic terms. This representational strategy differs from the politically correct depictions of race and racism in historical dramas like Mad Men (2007–2015). As such, Hell on Wheels and The Knick reflect the paradox of postracial popular culture whereby depictions of racial animus and violence support viewers’ desires to forget about both race and racism. In contrast, the racial caste system in Deadwood (2004–2006) presents white supremacy and American history as inseparable. This article concludes by discussing some of the connections between these representational strategies and the shifting economic landscape of the post-network-era television.
How to get away with colour
Authors: Martens Emiel , Póvoa Débora
Published: August 2021

The popular American television series How to Get Away with Murder (2014) seems to challenge the long history of stereotypical roles assigned to racial minorities in American media by choosing a multiracial cast to impersonate characters that, while having different racial backgrounds, share a similar socio-economic status and have multidimensional personalities that distance them from the common stereotypes. However, although it has been praised for its portrayal of racial diversity, the series operates within a problematic logic of racial colour-blindness, disconnecting the main characters from any sign of racial specificity and creating a fictional world in which racism is no longer part of American society. This case study aims to demonstrate to which extent the “colour-blind approach” of the TV show reinforces the postracial illusion in the United States, i.e. the idea that the country has overcome its past of racial segregation and now offers the same opportunities for everyone, regardless of colour and race. Through a narrative analysis of the first season of the series, this chapter will argue that the depiction of race in How to Get Away with Murder is highly ambivalent. On the one hand, the show does not completely ignore race by inserting topics such as racism in the plot, giving these issues at least some visibility. On the other hand, its more general panorama reveals an intent to deracialise its main characters in a colour-blind manner. This is problematic since it overshadows racial issues that still have a big impact on the lives of racial minorities.
Cosmopolitan pleasures and affects; or why are we still talking about yellowface in twenty-first-century cinema?
Authors: Chan Felicia
Published: August 2021

It is now widely acknowledged that the postracial fantasies ushered in by Barack Obama’s two-term election success are now in tatters. Yet debates on yellowface casting practices in contemporary Hollywood (also said to have evolved into “whitewashing” practices), in such films as The Last Airbender (M. Night Shyamalan, 2010), Aloha (Cameron Crowe, 2015), Doctor Strange (Scott Derrickson, 2016), Birth of the Dragon (George Nolfi, 2016), and Ghost in the Shell (Rupert Sanders, 2017), have resurfaced in recent times. These press controversies seem almost anachronistic after a generation of “intercultural” artistic theory and practice, “diversity” management training, and numerous academic discourses on otherness and difference, including those on cosmopolitan theory and practice. This article reviews yellowface practices and debates in contemporary times and puts them in dialogue with cosmopolitan aspirations of being “open to difference”, and argues that the latter cannot be taken as self-evident. It offers a way of thinking about yellowface practice via cosmopolitan pleasures evoked largely through modes of consumption, which “hollow out” the subjectivity of the character being depicted. On the site of the intersection between representation and subjectivity is where the identity politics occurs, yet, rather than universalising the issue, the article argues that a cosmopolitan approach should take on board localised conditions and contexts of production and reception in ways that acknowledge the multilayered complexity of the issues at hand.
Global film at global airlines
Authors: Iordanova Dina
Published: August 2021

In recent years, since the introduction of individually controlled multichannel entertainment systems on-board, it has become customary to see a growing range of international cinematic selections being made available to airline passengers. The film selection is no longer dominated by Hollywood fare; average long-haul flights now feature films sourced out of Bollywood, East Asia, and Europe, as well as from other cinematic traditions—and the selection grows in size and in variety, especially on flights that bridge together far-flung parts of the world. It is an unprecedented situation—to see global cinema “live”, as it were, on board of global airlines—that turns the airlines into territories of conviviality, as no similar levels of diversity are found in the actual geographical territories of the countries where the airlines are based. Some research questions that arise in this context include: is it possible to speculate that the programme that airlines make available to audiences on long-haul flights is reflective of a specific understanding of diversity and cosmopolitanism that underwrite their choices? What message does the multifaceted and multinational entertainment menu of global airlines convey in a political context that is defined by backlash against globalisation and cosmopolitanism? Can one claim that global airlines are now one of the few platforms where global cinema is recognised and represented in its largest assortment?
Imperial and critical cosmopolitans
Authors: Kustritz Anne
Published: August 2021

This article argues that two modern reinterpretations of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, that is the BBC’s Sherlock (2010–) and CBS’s Elementary (2012–), differ in their representations of the city in ways that bear significant political ramifications. In particular, Sherlock repeats many of the social structures of Conan Doyle’s stories that construct an imperial cosmopolitan vision of life in London, while Elementary offers an interpretation of Holmes’s life in modern New York with a critical cosmopolitan ethos. Building on the works of Craig Calhoun, Ann Stoler, Paul Gilroy, and Walter Mignolo, this article argues that imperial cosmopolitanism refers to a colonial node wherein the global circulation of goods and people leads to increases in segregation, social differentiation, and ethnocentrism, whereas critical cosmopolitanism refers to circumstances under which the arrangement of the global city creates increased contact between various kinds of people as well as decreased social differentiation, which may lead to mutual understanding, solidarity, and what Lauren Berlant calls political empathy. This article demonstrates these two divergent approaches by analysing the programmes’ aesthetic choices, depictions of social contact between Holmes and the diverse inhabitants of the city, and the representations of women, particularly with regard to the casting of Watson. As a result, the article finds that Sherlock depicts London from above as a space that must be strategically traversed to maintain social distance, while Elementary depicts New York from street level as a space wherein Holmes learns to encounter diverse others as co-equal citizens and the audience is invited to experience multiple perspectives. Consequently, Sherlock reiterates an imperial cosmopolitan view of urban globalisation, while Elementary includes key preconditions for the emergence of critical cosmopolitan mentalities.