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Presentation at International Conference on The Wizard of Oz and the Cultural Imagination, Brighton CineCity Film Festival
The Journal of Popular Culture
Monstrous Modernism and The Day of the Locust2011 •
T he social and technological upheavals at the end of the nineteenth century bred, in that tangled network of discourses comprising modernism, a pervasive anxiety toward collective activity and the collective body. While Pinkertons violently discouraged collections of ...
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
Hearing Aids and the History of Electronics Miniaturization (2011)2011 •
Exploring the Cultural History of Continental European Freak Shows and 'Enfreakment'
FROM SHOWBIZ TO THE CONCENTRATION CAMP: THE FABULOUS, FREAKISH LIFE OF HUNGARIAN JEWISH "DWARF" PERFORMERS, ZOLI HIRSCH AND THE OVITZ FAMILYSouth Atlantic Review
"H.D.’s American Landscape: The Power and Permanence of Place”This article examines the public's fascination with little people by tracing their history in the entertainment industry. We describe the appearance of little people as objects of amusement from the 15 th to 18 th centuries and in Freak Shows during late 19th and early 20th centuries. We then compare older and newer film and television media to determine what shifts, if any, have taken place in how the media casts and portrays little people. Using Garland-Thomson's (2009) concept of staring as a theoretical foundation, we Media Fascination with Little People 2 describe a selection of older and newer feature-length movies and television programs in drama, fantasy, and comedy. In this description we describe changing stereotypes with respect to four areas: (a) the evil and sinister stereotype, (b) magical and mythical beings, (c) career portrayals, and (d) humor.
2018 •
The International Encyclopedia of Gender, Media, and Communication
Black Women in Television, a Short History2020 •
People with dwarfism often encounter discrimination in their daily interactions with strangers. Staring, harassment and infantilization are some of the behaviours they have reported to encounter. Through two qualitative research studies conducted in 2013 and 2015/16 it was revealed that people with dwarfism also experience strangers taking unauthorized pictures of them. This article explores this phenomenon in depth, utilizing the perspective of individuals who have experienced it first hand and analysing the relevant socio-historical influences. These include the history of the photographic exploitation of ‘abnormal’ bodies, and the cultural construction of a ‘dwarf’ as an object of entertainment. This article engages gaze theories in gender and race and ethnicity studies as well as a discussion of Foucault’s interpretation of the ‘panopticon’, positing that the advent of the cell-phone camera in the twenty-first century has altered how ‘abnormal’ bodies are recorded within oppressive ideological beliefs.
2010 •
To understand a neural circuit requires knowledge of its connectivity. Here we report measurements of functional connectivity between the input and ouput layers of the macaque retina at single-cell resolution and the implications of these for colour vision. Multi-electrode technology was used to record simultaneously from complete populations of the retinal ganglion cell types (midget, parasol and small bistratified) that transmit high-resolution visual signals to the brain. Fine-grained visual stimulation was used to identify the location, type and strength of the functional input of each cone photoreceptor to each ganglion cell. The populations of ON and OFF midget and parasol cells each sampled the complete population of long- and middle-wavelength-sensitive cones. However, only OFF midget cells frequently received strong input from short-wavelength-sensitive cones. ON and OFF midget cells showed a small non-random tendency to selectively sample from either long- or middle-wavelength-sensitive cones to a degree not explained by clumping in the cone mosaic. These measurements reveal computations in a neural circuit at the elementary resolution of individual neurons.
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F1000 - Post-publication peer review of the biomedical literature
Faculty of 1000 evaluation for Functional connectivity in the retina at the resolution of photoreceptors2000 •
YGDRASIL PRESS
Ygdrasil - February 2022 issue - KIOSK by Lynn Strongin2012 •
2011 •
Transatlantica. Revue d'études américaines. …
The American Jockey, 1865-19102012 •
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
Digital paint systems: an anecdotal and historical overview2001 •
2017 •
Journal of Neuroscience
Microcircuitry for Two Types of Achromatic Ganglion Cell in Primate Fovea2007 •
The Leadership Quarterly
First and ten leadership: A historiometric investigation of the CIP leadership model2010 •
2017 •
Journal of vision
Circuitry to explain how the relative number of L and M cones shapes color experience2016 •