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Serial Pinboarding in Contemporary Television
by Anne GanzertThis book provides an in-depth study of pinboards in contemporary television series and develops the interdisciplinary and innovative concept of Serial Pinboarding. Pinboards are character attributes; they visualize thought processes; are used for conspiracy theories, as murder walls, or for complex cases in any genre. They significantly condition, and are conditioned by, seriality. This book discusses how the pinboards in Castle, Homeland, Flash Forward, and Heroes connect evidence, knowledge, and seriality and how through transmediality and fan practices an “age of pinboarding” has formed. Serial Pinboarding in Contemporary Television will appeal to TV enthusiasts, professionals and researchers, and students of TV and production studies, fan studies, media studies, and art theory.
Serialization in Literature Across Media and Markets
by Sara Tanderup LinkisSerialization is an old narrative strategy and a form of publication that can be traced far back in literary history, yet serial narratives are as popular as ever. This book investigates a resurgence of serial narratives in contemporary literary culture. Analyzing series as diverse as Mark Z. Danielewski’s experimental book series The Familiar; audiobook series by the Swedish streaming service Storytel; children’s books by Lemony Snicket and Philip Pullman and their adaptations into screen; and serial writing and reading on the writing site Wattpad, the book traces how contemporary series at once are shaped by literary tradition and develop the format according to the logics of new media and digital technologies. The book sheds light on the interplay between the selected serials' narrative content and medial, social, and economic contexts, drawing on insights from literary studies, literary sociology, media studies, and cultural studies. Serialization in Literature Across Media and Markets thus contributes a unique and interdisciplinary perspective on a historical phenomenon that has proved ever more successful in contemporary media culture. It is a book for researchers and students of literature and media and for anyone who likes a good series and wants to understand why.
Serienfragmente
by Vera Cuntz-Leng Vincent Fröhlich Maren Scheurer Sophie G. EinwächterDer Band ist ein erstes Übersichtswerk zu vorzeitig abgesetzten oder längerfristig unterbrochenen Fernsehserien. Er analysiert diese im Hinblick auf ihren Fragmentstatus und erprobt Ansätze, wie mit diesem umgegangen werden kann: Das Spektrum reicht von essayistischen Perspektiven bis zu Beobachtungen aus der ethnologischen Feldforschung; Fan Studies, Serialitätsstudien, philosophische Betrachtungen kommen ebenso zum Tragen wie Analysen, die Fragmenttheorien aus der Architektur und Fotografie hinzuziehen. Der Begriff und der Eigenwert des Fragments werden damit erstmals im Kontext der Fernsehserie anhand zahlreicher Beispiele diskutiert.
Serienwelten und Sozialstruktur: Verhandlungen sozialer Ungleichheit in kontemporären Serienformaten (Film und Bewegtbild in Kultur und Gesellschaft)
by Jan WeckwerthIn den vergangenen zwei Jahrzehnten haben Fernsehserien, oftmals unter dem Begriff des „Quality TV“ firmierend, eine merkliche kulturelle Aufwertung erfahren. Während der Großteil der Studien den – auch transnational zu verzeichnenden – Erfolg dieser Formate vor allem in ihren narrativen und (audio-)visuellen Innovationen verortet, widmet sich dieser Band der intensiveren Verhandlung des Sozialen in der Serie. Demzufolge besteht ein weiterer bedeutender Faktor für die gestiegene Attraktion von Fernsehserien im detaillierten sozialstrukturellen Aufbau der Seriengesellschaften, in welche die Figuren und ihre Handlungen tief, stimmig und vielschichtig eingebettet sind. Dies lässt die Serienwelt als Ganzes realistischer wirken und sorgt so für eine engere Anbindung an die Alltagskultur ihrer Publika.Ausgehend von diesen Prämissen und auf Basis etablierter Konzeptionen sozialer Ungleichheit wird ein theoretischer wie methodischer Zugang für eine filmsoziologische Analyse sowohl des Sozialraums der Serienwelt als auch der Praxis der darin auftretenden Figuren entwickelt. Die exemplarische Anwendung auf die erste Staffel der Anthologieserie True Detective illustriert die Ausprägungen eines neuen sozialen Realismus, der sich auch in den Publikumsreaktionen auf die einzelnen Episoden niederschlägt.
Serious Daring: The Fiction and Photography of Eudora Welty and Rosamond Purcell
by Susan Letzler ColeSerious Daring is a careful look at the complementary journeys of two American women artists, celebrated fiction writer Eudora Welty and internationally acclaimed photographer Rosamond Purcell. Each of these artists initially practiced, but then turned from, the art form ultimately pursued by the other. For both Welty and Purcell, the art realized is full of the art seemingly abandoned. Welty's short stories and novels use images of photographs, photographers, and photography. Purcell photographed books, texts, and writing. Both women make compelling art out of the tension between literary and visual cultures. Purcell wrote a memoir in which photographs became endnotes. Welty re-emerged as a photographer through the publication of four volumes of what she called her "snapshots," magnificent black-and-white photographs of small-town Mississippi and New York City life. Serious Daring is a fascinating look at how the road not taken can stubbornly accompany the chosen path, how what is seemingly left behind can become a haunting and vital presence in life and art.
Serious Games: 4th Joint International Conference, Jcsg 2018, Darmstadt, Germany, November 7-8, 2018. Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #11243)
by Minhua Ma Tim Marsh Stefan Göbel Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge Augusto Garcia-Agundez Thomas Tregel Manuel Oliveira Polona CasermanThis book constitutes the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Serious Games, JCSG 2018, held in Darmstadt, Germany, in November 2018. The 15 full and 12 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: serious games studies; game-based learning and teaching; game development - serious games design, models, tools and emerging technologies; and serious games for health.
Serious Games: Joint International Conference, JCSG 2020, Stoke-on-Trent, UK, November 19–20, 2020, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #12434)
by Minhua Ma Tim Marsh Stefan Göbel Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge Bobbie FletcherThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th Joint International Conference on Serious Games, JCSG 2020, held in Stoke-on-Trent, UK, in November 2020. The 19 full papers presented together with 3 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions. The papers offer a wide range in the use of serious games in several fields like learning, simulation, training, health, well-being, management, assessment or marketing and much more.
Serious Microhydro
by Scott DavisWaterpower is the largest source of renewable energy in the world today, and microhydro is a mature, proven technology that can provide clean, inexpensive, renewable energy with little or no impact on the environment. Serious Microhydro brings you dozens of firsthand stories of energy independence covering a complete range of systems, from household pressure sites to higher pressure installations capable of powering a farm, business, or small neighborhood. Topics include: Low head and medium head sites AC-only systems as well as ones using a battery/inverter subsystem Stand alone power supply or grid intertie setups Hybrid systems (combined with photovoltaics or wind) With all the variables involved in microhydro, there is no "typical" system. These case studies represent the most comprehensive collection of knowledge and experience available for tailoring an installation to meet the needs of a site and its owner or operators. If you are considering building a system, you are bound to find a wealth of creative solutions appropriate to your own circumstances. Serious Microhydro shows how scores of people are achieving a high standard of living from local energy sources with a minimal ecological footprint. It has particular appeal to homeowners, teachers, renewable energy professionals, activists, and decision makers who want to understand the technology from a "hands-on" perspective. Scott Davis is an award-winning renewable energy project developer with decades of experience operating, installing, designing, selling, and teaching microhydro technology. He is a founder and president of Friends of Renewable Energy BC, and the author of Microhydro: Clean Power From Water.
Serious Straw Bale
by Paul Lacinski Michel BergeronBergeron and Lacinski's new book "Serious Straw Bale" is the first to look carefully at the specific design considerations critical to success with a straw bale building in more extreme climates-where seasonal changes in temperature, precipitation, and humidity create special stresses that builders must understand and address. The authors draw upon years of experience with natural materials and experimental techniques, and present a compelling rationale for building with straw-one of nature's most resilient, available, and affordable byproducts. For skeptics and true believers, this book will prove to be the latest word. Thorough explanations of how moisture and temperature affect buildings in seasonal climates, with descriptions of the unique capacities of straw and other natural materials to provide warmth, quiet, and comfort year-round. Comprehensive comparison of the two main approaches to straw bale construction: "Nebraska-style," where bales bear the weight of the roof, and framed structures, where bales provide insulation. Detailed advice-including many well-considered cautions-for contractors, owner-builders, and designers, following each stage of a bale-building process. This is a second-generation straw bale book, for those seeking serious information to meet serious challenges while adventuring in the most fun form of construction to come along in several centuries.
Seriously Mad: Mental Distress and the Broadway Musical
by Aleksei GrinenkoTheatermakers in the United States have long been drawn to madness as a source of dramatic spectacle. During the Broadway musical’s golden age in the mid-twentieth century, creative teams used the currently in-vogue psychoanalytic ideas about mental life to construct troubled characters at odds with themselves and their worlds. As the clinical and cultural profile of madness transformed over the twentieth century, musicals continued to delve into the experience of those living with mental pain, trauma, and unhappiness. Seriously Mad offers a dynamic account of stage musicals’ engagement with historically significant theories about mental distress, illness, disability, and human variance in the United States. By exploring who is considered mad and what constitutes madness at different moments in U.S. history, Aleksei Grinenko shows how, in attempts to bring the musicals closer to highbrow sophistication, theater dramatized serious medical conditions and social problems. Among the many Broadway productions discussed are Next to Normal, A Strange Loop, Sweeney Todd, Man of La Mancha, Gypsy, Oklahoma!, and Lady in the Dark.
Serpentine Toe-Up Socks: ePattern from Socks from the Toe Up (Potter Craft ePatterns)
by Wendy D. JohnsonInstructions for making toe-up socks.
Service Design for Emerging Technologies Product Development: Bridging the Interdisciplinary Knowledge Gap (Springer Series in Design and Innovation #29)
by Umar Zakir Abdul Hamid Mari SuoheimoThe productization of emerging technologies related to the Fourth Industrial Revolution (FIR) is now getting more attention across different industries. Compared to the previous industrial transformations that the world has seen which relied on mechanical innovations, the ongoing FIR is seeing software and data-driven products as the foundation. Apart from that, topics such as circular and sustainable economy as well as climate change are also disrupting the industrial ecosystem. For a viable and successful productization of emerging technologies, collaborations between interdisciplinary stakeholders are a necessity. One of the elements that has been identified to facilitate this collaboration is service design. This book aimed to provide comprehensive service design discussions for practitioners in different fields and sectors. The aim is to bridge the knowledge gap between experts in academia, business and product development, among many others, to provide a unified understanding of the importance of service design for the productization of emerging technologies. The book consists of an overview of emerging technologies product development and service design, as well as perspectives from different sectors of the industry. The book is expected to benefit multi-disciplinary researchers, practitioners and general audiences with interests in Service Design for Emerging Technologies.
Service Learning and Literary Studies in English
by Laurie Grobman and Roberta RosenbergService learning can help students develop a sense of civic responsibility and commitment, often while addressing pressing community needs. One goal of literary studies is to understand the ethical dimensions of the world, and thus service learning, by broadening the environments students consider, is well suited to the literature classroom. Whether through a public literacy project that demonstrates the relevance of literary study or community-based research that brings literary theory to life, student collaboration with community partners brings social awareness to the study of literary texts and helps students and teachers engage literature in new ways.In their introduction, the volume editors trace the history of service learning in the United States, including the debate about literature's role, and outline the best practices of the pedagogy. The essays that follow cover American, English, and world literature; creative nonfiction and memoir; literature-based writing; and cross-disciplinary studies. Contributors describe a wide variety of service-learning projects, including a course on the Harlem Renaissance in which students lead a community writing workshop, an English capstone seminar in which seniors design programs for public libraries, and a creative nonfiction course in which first-year students work with elderly community members to craft life narratives. The volume closes with a list of resources for practitioners and researchers in the field.
Serviceology for Services
by Masaaki Mochimaru Kanji Ueda Takeshi TakenakaServices are key activities in the globalization of the economy and also underlie the quality of life of local residents. The advanced work presented in this book was selected from the proceedings of the First International Conference on Serviceology (ICServ2013), held October 16-18, 2013 in Tokyo. This book provides a useful overall guide to the state of the art in theory and practice of services for researchers in various fields, including engineering, marketing, economics, and others. This work also facilitates the scientific systematization of services and promotes technological developments for solutions of industrial issues.
Serving Face: Lessons in realness and grace from the world of drag
by Felix Le FreakLet the world's most celebrated drag queens transform and empower you with their sick'ning style, wit, and wisdom.However you want to werk it - out-there eleganza, easy-breezy realness, and everything in between - Serving Face is like the gentle hand of your Drag Mother guiding you towards a life more fabulous.Featuring interviews with 20 artists, it has all the inspiring motivational and practical tips, tricks, and tutorials you need to jack up your confidence and tease out your own special blend of charisma, uniqueness, nerve, and talent. So dive in, discover your inner diva, and bring joy, love, and laughter to life's runway!
Serving the Marginalized through Design Education (Routledge Focus on Design Pedagogy)
by Steven B. WebberDesign education and practice are inherently social from process to implementation. This book explores the transformation in design education, as educators prepare their students to address complex social design problems for all people in society.This seven-chapter volume provides the reader with a range of viewpoints on the role of design education in shaping the world. The book begins with the overarching potential of design to address the needs of an increasingly complex society and the importance of worldview that underpins education methodology. Each chapter addresses a context that varies by discipline – architecture, graphic, packaging and interior design – and location – Nigeria, Canada, Lebanon, UK and USA. The authors pull back the curtain on their educational methods and provide the reader with a candid view of their teaching outcomes. The needs of the marginalized – victims of Asian hate, students with dyslexia, tomato farmers and even design students themselves – are brought into focus here. These specific places and peoples provide a design context that can be translated to other situations in design education and practice.Design educators and practitioners of many design disciplines will benefit from the philosophical discussions and the practical education examples offered here. This volume can contribute to transforming design education that will one day transform design practice to place a greater emphasis on the needs of the forgotten in society.
Sesame Street (LIFE)
by The Editors of LIFELIFE Magazine presents Sesame Street for LIFE Sesame Street.
Sesshu's Long Scroll: A Zen Landscape Journey
by Reiko ChibaSesshu's Long Sroll is the masterwork of the 15th-century Japanese artist, Susshu-considered by many Japanese to be their greatest.<P><P>Famed not only as a painter but also as a Zen priest and a great traveler, Sesshu found inspiration for his wonderful landscapes both in China and Japan. This magnificent scroll, which pictures the procession of the seasons, is essentially religious painting with a strong atmosphere of Zen Buddhism. Nature, rather than man, is dominant, although the human touch is charmingly evident from time to time. One can take this fascinating Zen landscape journey again and again, and always find new delights.
Set Lighting Technician's Handbook: Film Lighting Equipment, Practice, and Electrical Distribution
by Harry BoxComprehensive. Detailed. Practical. Set Lighting Technician's Handbook, Fourth Edition, is a friendly, hands-on manual covering the day-to-day practices, equipment, and tricks of the trade essential to anyone doing motion picture lighting, including the lamp operator, rigging crew, gaffer, best boy, or director of photography. This handbook offers a wealth of practical technical information, useful techniques, as well as aesthetic discussions. The Set Lighting Technician's Handbook focuses on what is important when working on-set: trouble-shooting, teamwork, set protocol, and safety. It describes tricks and techniques for operating a vast array of lighting equipment including LEDs, xenons, camera synchronous strobes, black lights, underwater units, lighting effects units, and many others. Since its first edition, this handy on-set reference continues to be widely adopted as a training and reference manual by union training programs as well as top university film production programs. New to the fourth edition:* Detailed information on LED technology and gear* Harmonized with union safety and training procedures* All the latest and greatest DMX gadgets, including remote control systems* Many new and useful lights and how to use them and troubleshoot them.* New additions to the arsenal of electrical distribution equipment that make our sets safer and easier to power.* More rigging tricks and techniques.* the same friendly, easy to read style that has made this book so popular.
Set Lighting Technician's Handbook: Film Lighting Equipment, Practice, and Electrical Distribution
by Harry C. BoxA friendly, hands-on training manual and reference for lighting technicians in motion picture and television production, this handbook is the most comprehensive guide to set lighting available. It provides a unique combination of practical detail with a big-picture understanding of lighting, technology, safety, and professionalism, essential to anyone doing motion picture lighting. The fifth edition delves into every aspect of lighting and features vastly expanded sections on controlling LED lights, color science, lighting control systems, wireless systems, Ethernet-based control systems, battery power, and modern set protocol for productions small and large. With a generous number of original images, the book illustrates the use of soft light, the effect of lighting angles, and how the gaffer and DP build an effective lighting plan around the blocking of the actors. This encyclopedic volume of technical knowhow is tempered with years of practical experience and a much-needed sense of humor.This is the ideal text for professional lighting technicians across film and television including lighting directors, gaffers, DOPs, and rigging crews, as well as film and television production students studying lighting, camera techniques, film production, and cinematography.It includes a revamped companion website with supplementary resources, forms, checklists, and images.
Set Your Voice Free: How to Get the Singing or Speaking Voice You Want
by Roger Love Donna FrazierThe greatest vocal coach in the world will help you get the voice you want. Every time we open our mouths, we have an effect on ourselves and the way others perceive us. The ability to speak clearly and confidently can make or break a presentation, an important meeting, or even a first date. Now, with the advent of Skype, YouTube, podcasting, Vine, and any number of reality talent competitions, your vocal presence has never been more necessary for success or more central to achieving your dreams.Roger Love has over 30 years of experience as one of the world's leading authorities on voice. Making use of the innovative techniques that have worked wonders with his professional clients, Love distills the best of his teaching in SET YOUR VOICE FREE, and shares exercises that will help readers bring emotion, range, and power to the way they speak.This updated edition incorporates what he's learned in the last 15 years as the Internet and talent competitions have completely changed the role your voice plays in your life. These are the new essentials for sounding authentic, persuasive, distinctive, and real in a world that demands nothing less.
Set the Action!: Creating Backgrounds For Compelling Storytelling In Animation, Comics, And Games
by Elvin HernandezCreate the Gotham for your Batman, the African savannah for your Simba, or the bustling newsroom for your Clark Kent. Background, setting, environment.whatever you call it, it is the silent character in the visual story, and a dynamic and compelling setting can define and hone the action and drama of your story. If you're in the habit of creating disembodied characters or adding backgrounds as an afterthought, Set the Action! will help you understand and utilize the importance of the setting in your narrative. Understand perspective, blocking, and color-and focus your narrative by establishing and designing your setting to interact with characters and story.
Set the Boy Free: The Autobiography
by Johnny MarrThe long-awaited memoir from the legendary guitarist and cofounder of the seminal British band The Smiths.An artist who helped define a period in popular culture, Johnny Marr tells his story in a memoir as vivid and arresting as his music. The Smiths, the band with the signature sound he cofounded, remains one of the most beloved bands ever, and have a profound influence on a number of acts that followed—from the Stone Roses, Suede, Blur, and Radiohead to Oasis, The Libertines, and Arctic Monkeys.Marr recalls his childhood growing up in the northern working-class city of Manchester, in a house filled with music. He takes us back to the summer of 1982 when, at eighteen, he sought out one Stephen Morrissey to form a new band they called The Smiths. Marr invites fans on stage, on the road, and in the studio for the five years The Smiths were together and how after a rapid ascent, the working-class teenage rock star enjoyed and battled with the perks of success until ideological differences, combined with his much publicized strained relationships with fellow band mates, caused him to leave in 1987. Marr’s “escape” as he calls it, ensured the beginning of the end for one of the most influential groups of a generation. But The Smiths’ end was only the beginning for Marr. The bona-fide guitar hero continues to experiment and evolve in his solo career to this day, playing with Paul McCartney, Pretenders, Modest Mouse, Oasis and collaborating today’s most creative and renowned artists. Rising above and beyond the personal struggles and bitter feuds, Marr delivers the story of his music and his band, sharing the real insights of a man who has made music his life, and finally giving fans what they’ve truly been waiting for.
Set the Scene
by Tracy DorrNo one likes to admit it, but photographers often reach a plateau where they feel they have reached their creative limit. "Sometimes," writes author Tracy Dorr, "it can begin to feel like you are just going through the motions, not particularly engaged in what you are doing. While the quality of your work is still very good, you are not particularly inspired by your product." For readers who find themselves in the monotonous position of shooting multiple similar sessions/clients every day, a new perspective might just be in order. According to the author, "We need to refresh our minds and substitute stale poses and overused locations with fresh, new accessories and ideas in our photo shoots. In short, it's time to embrace shooting with props." In this book, readers will find a wide variety of examples of shooting with props, drawing on work from a broad array of portrait genres and styles. Exploring photos created by top professionals, Dorr provides plenty of work to help readers move forward in their creative and professional journeys. At each turn, she encourages readers to refresh their minds and use the addition of props as a way to rejuvenate their energy and re-inspire their passion for photography. At first glance, this might seem like an antiquated or cheesy approach. In the past, props have often been silly, over-sized gimmicks that didn't make any sense and w ere definitely not cutting edge. Often, they were simply de facto additions to the scene-something that only professional photographers had and that clients accepted. How ever, the over-sized letters or rocking chairs of days past fall far short of the emotional resonance offered by current-day props. Modern prop shooting involves more to the set design of a Hollywood film. Photographers who use props well are very selective and set a high standard when designing their sets. The results can be starkly compelling, beautifully lush, or delightfully offbeat. In any case, the addition of props can force the photographer to branch out into a new genre they hadn't previously considered. Adding props demands the consideration of new themes, locations, wardrobe selections, poses, and lighting strategies-so simply by integrating props, photographers can actually force themselves to re-envision their entire approach to portraiture. Additionally, adding props allows the photographer to offer images that are truly unique and fully customized to the individual client. This can translate into additional income, since clients almost always respond favorably to the prestige of a one-of-a-kind product. Best of all, props can be added to your images at almost no additional cost. As Dorr explains, second-hand, borrowed, do-it-yourself, and found props can be just as effective as high-end specialty options.
Set the Scene
by Tracy DorrNo one likes to admit it, but photographers often reach a plateau where they feel like they've reached their creative limit. Adding the right prop to a portrait setup can elevate every aspect of the image-easing the posing process, inspiring more interesting lighting, and engaging viewers in a more personalized story about the subject. In this book, Tracy Dorr shows you how to make the most of props, making savvy choices for individual and group portraits created in the studio or on location. Packed with inspirational techniques and images from ten contributing photographers (among them, Andrea Crabb, Ashley Warren, Aileen Treadwell, and Mimika Cooney), this book will inspire you to create more evocative images of any subject-from infants to engaged couples-and enhance your brand through the effective use of props.