Lee Edelman's new book is not principally a work of film studies. Nonetheless, there are several reasons why this brilliantly argued and overtly polemical book should be brought to the attention of the film studies community. In the first place, the final two of the book's four chapters present bravura readings of Hitchcock, with chapter three devoted to an analysis of only the final minutes of...

The effect of surface bond-order loss on the classical resistivity of metallic polycrystalline thin films is studied. The potential barriers due to grain boundaries considered here contain square-well depressions on both sides taking into account the effect of surface bond-order loss for the grains in a film. Electron scattering by film surfaces is also considered following the lines of Fuchs’ ...

Anxiety is feeling of danger in a person who is threatening with something. Nowadays, anxiety is increased in different populations and, thus it is became an important problem in many countries. Melissa officinalis (Melissa) and Valeriana officinalis (Valerian) are two medicinal plants. These two plants are traditionally used as sedative herbal drugs and new studies on their pharmacological act...

Thin films of LaS were prepared by using spray pyrolysis technique at 270 0 C and thickness were varied by changing the concentration of reactant solution. The films were optically characterized and their variations with film thickness were studies. It was found that thickness can be tuned by varying concentration of reactant solution. The band gap was found to vary between 2.35eV to 2.50eV. Th...

A simple approach to the mechanical modulation of layer-by-layer (LbL) films is through manipulation of the film assembly. Here, we report results based on altering the salt concentration during film assembly and its effect on film rigidity. Based on changes in film rigidity, cell adhesion characteristics and transfection activity were investigated in vitro. LbL films consisting of reducible hy...

We report parametric studies of elastic wave generation by a pulsed laser and associated spalling of thin surface films by the corresponding high stresses. Two different substrate materials, single crystal Si (100) and fused silica, are considered. Spallation behavior of Al thin films is investigated as a function of substrate thickness, film thickness, laser energy, and various parameters gove...

encouraged within the academic community, the study of film music has become a burgeoning multidisciplinary if not transdisciplinary endeavor. Today writers utilize not only the concepts and technical vocabularies of music and film making, but variously terms and concepts from musicology, film theory, media and communication studies, cultural studies, comparative literature, literary criticism,...

Though Mexican cinema has been the object of numerous studies, few of these refer to the process of audience reception: to that intimate moment of cinematic communication in which the gazing subject discovers part of its identity while simultaneously appropriating the film. In this article I would like to share the findings of a research project that advances the study of audience reception fro...