Free Download Daniel Varndell, "Torturous Etiquettes: Film Performance and Social Form "
English | ISBN: 1438493517 | 2023 | 250 pages | EPUB, PDF | 4 MB + 2 MB
Explores the "torture" of mannered behavior and the prevalence of etiquette as a theme in classical and contemporary Hollywood and European cinema.

Free Download Thin Film Solar Cells by Kasturi Lal Chopra , Suhit Ranjan Das
English | PDF | 1983 | 615 Pages | ISBN : 0306411415 | 51.4 MB
"You, 0 Sun, are the eye of the world You are the soul of all embodied beings You are the source of all creatures You are the discipline of all engaged in work" - Translated from Mahabharata 3rd Century BC Today, energy is the lifeline and status symbol of "civilized" societies. All nations have therefore embarked upon Research and Development pro grams of varying magnitudes to explore and effectively utilize renewable sources of energy. Albeit a low-grade energy with large temporal and spatial variations, solar energy is abundant, cheap, clean, and renewable, and thus presents a very attractive alternative source. The direct conver sion of solar energy to electricity (photovoltaic effect) via devices called solar cells has already become an established frontier area of science and technology. Born out of necessity for remote area applications, the first commercially manufactured solar cells - single-crystal silicon and thin film CdS/Cu2S - were available well over 20 years ago. Indeed, all space vehicles today are powered by silicon solar cells. But large-scale terrestrial applications of solar cells still await major breakthroughs in terms of discovering new and radical concepts in solar cell device structures, utilizing relatively more abundant, cheap, and even exotic materials, and inventing simpler and less energy intensive fabrication processes. No doubt, this extraordinary challenge in R/D has led to a virtual explosion of activities in the field of photovoltaics in the last several years.

Free Download Thin Film Device Applications by Kasturi Lal Chopra, Inderjeet Kaur
English | PDF | 1983 | 305 Pages | ISBN : 1461336848 | 39.5 MB
Two-dimensional materials created ab initio by the process of condensation of atoms, molecules, or ions, called thin films, have unique properties significantly different from the corresponding bulk materials as a result of their physical dimensions, geometry, nonequilibrium microstructure, and metallurgy. Further, these characteristic features of thin films can be drasti cally modified and tailored to obtain the desired and required physical characteristics. These features form the basis of development of a host of extraordinary active and passive thin film device applications in the last two decades. On the one extreme, these applications are in the submicron dimensions in such areas as very large scale integration (VLSI), Josephson junction quantum interference devices, magnetic bubbles, and integrated optics. On the other extreme, large-area thin films are being used as selective coatings for solar thermal conversion, solar cells for photovoltaic conver sion, and protection and passivating layers. Indeed, one would be hard pressed to find many sophisticated modern optical and electronic devices which do not use thin films in one way or the other. With the impetus provided by industrial applications, the science and technology of thin films have undergone revolutionary development and even today continue to be recognized globally as frontier areas of RID work. Major technical developments in any field of science and technology are invariably accompanied by an explosion of published literature in the form of scientific publications, reviews, and books.

Free Download Seth Barry Watter, "The Human Figure on Film: Natural, Pictorial, Institutional, Fictional "
English | ISBN: 1438495080 | 2023 | 160 pages | EPUB, PDF | 6 MB + 6 MB
Seth Barry Watter is a film and media historian. His work has appeared in Grey Room, Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Camera Obscura, Film International and elsewhere. He lives and teaches in New York.

Free Download David L. Moody, "The Complexity and Progression of Black Representation in Film and Television"
English | ISBN: 0739188372 | 2016 | 168 pages | EPUB | 10 MB
The Complexity and Progression of Black Representation in Film and Television examines the intricacies of race, representation, Black masculinity, sexuality, class, and color in American cinema and television. Black images on the silver screen date back to the silent film era, yet these films and television programs presented disturbing images of African American culture, and regrettably, many early films and small screen programs portrayed Black characters in demeaning and stereotypical roles. In order to fully analyze the roles of Black actors and actresses in film and television, Moody addresses the following issues: the historical significance of the term "race films"; female Black identities and constructs; queerness and Black masculinity; Black male identities; and Black buffoonery in film and television.

Free Download Tarja Laine, "Reframing Trauma in Contemporary Fiction Film"
English | ISBN: 1793651949 | 2023 | 228 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 4 MB
In Reframing Trauma in Contemporary Fiction Film, Tarja Laine provides insights into how cinema engages its spectator emotionally with the pathology of memory that lies at the heart of trauma. By arguing that cinema communicates the inability to process a traumatic event by means of its aesthetic specificity, Laine demonstrates that traumatic cinema can be an important source of ethical knowledge, both within and beyond the cinematic world. The films discussed in this book do not necessarily narrate trauma but embody that aspect of trauma which resists narrativization. This is why there are modes of affective engagement beyond storytelling by which spectators can meaningfully relate to trauma. Scholars of film studies, media studies, and philosophy will find this book of particular interest.

Free Download Geetha Ramanathan, "Kathleen Collins: The Black Essai Film "
English | ISBN: 1474440681 | 2020 | 176 pages | PDF | 9 MB
A philosopher-filmmaker, Kathleen Collins decisively redefined the parameters of African American film with The Cruz Brothers and Miss Malloy (1980) and Losing Ground (1982). This book uses detailed analyses of Collins's films to contextualise her work in the African American, feminist and world film traditions, and it highlights her contribution to each of these canons.

Free Download Malte Hagener, "How Film Histories Were Made: Materials, Methods, Discourses "
English | ISBN: 9463724060 | 2023 | 530 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This book is specifically dedicated to film history's own history: It provides insights into the fabrication of film histories and the discourses on their materials and methods in the past in order to better understand and reconsider film history today. The interventions unpack unspoken assumptions and hidden agendas that determine film historiography until today, also with the aim to act as a critical reflection on the potential future orientation of the field. The edited volume proposes a transnational, entangled and culturally diverse approach towards an archaeology of film history, while paying specific attention to persons, objects, infrastructures, regions, institutional fields and events hitherto overlooked. It explores past and ongoing processes of doing, undoing and redoing film history. Thereby, in a self-reflective gesture, it also draws attention to our own work as film historians.

Free Download Valentina Valente Rossella Catanese, Francesca Scotto Lavina, "From Sensation to Synaesthesia in Film and New Media"
English | ISBN: 1527519244 | 2019 | 264 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This collection of essays focuses on current theories of sensation and synaesthesia in films and audiovisual works from a variety of methodological perspectives. It offers an insightful exploration of recent film theories about the cinematic experience. Film spectatorship and its extension in new media as a similar form of audience enjoyment stimulates both our senses and mind by creating immersive environments that involve different levels of emotion and consciousness. The collection addresses these topics through its five sections. The first, Perception, focuses on the synaesthetic mechanism underpinning film perception and its connection with affect, cognition, and emotions. The second part, Movement, calls into question the role of gesture and movement within the synaesthetic properties of film. The third section, Senses, examines how movies stimulate all senses, such as olfaction and haptics, and how senses flow into each other according to a-modal perception. The fourth, Abstractions, addresses how avant-garde and abstract cinema trigger synaesthetic reactions in the viewers. The fifth part, New Media and Media Art, explores the deep involvement of the human body through the experience of new media and a variety of synaesthetic implications theorized in different perspectives.

Free Download Christopher Falzon, "Experiments in Film and Philosophy"
English | ISBN: 1032075821 | 2023 | 146 pages | EPUB, PDF | 420 KB + 5 MB
Christopher Falzon argues in this book for a new way of understanding film as philosophy. Inspired and informed by the work of Michel Foucault, Falzon shows how a motion picture can operate not simply as a thought experiment but as a form of experience-centred, experimental reflection. It is film's ability to show viewers things that challenge their way of thinking, giving them experiences that can make them think differently, that gives the film its status as philosophy.