This article re-evaluates Derek Jarman’s adaptation of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest (1979) based on archival research into the cinematic and historical intertexts that influenced film. Specifically, it focuses impact Pier Paolo Pasolini aesthetics, particularly Italian filmmaker’s last work: Salò, or 120 Days Sodom (1975). explores how Jarman used Pasolini’s work as a filter through which ...

abstract facial defects not only impact on the function and quality of life but also affect the psychological well-being and social behavior of patients. a nasal prosthesis can re-establish the esthetics and anatomical contour in patients with mid-facial defects, often more effectively than surgical reconstruction. for successful results, many factors such as retention, texture, color match and...

SIRS,-The attention of the Council of British Ophthalmologists has been drawn to the difficulty which the Services and the Ministry of Health are experiencing in obtaining spectacle lenses to supply their urgent needs, and it has been suggested that the situation could be helped by a simplification of the prescriptions supplied by civilian ophthalmic surgeons. LThe Council has considered the qu...

BACKGROUND Uncorrected Refractive errors are the most common cause of avoidable visual impairment in children worldwide. Importance of school screening of refractive errors are one of the most important initiatives outlined in WHO Vision 2020 targets for control of avoidable visual impairment in children. But the benefit depends on the compliance of the spectacle wear by children. PURPOSE To ...

Contact lenses do not significantly improve central vision as compared to spectacle lenses. I have never rehabilitated a highly myopic patient with subnormal vision by prescribing contact lenses as an optical aid, nor have I ever seen a patient so rehabilitated. My clinical experience confirms theoretical calculations that the effective magnification is not greater than 27 per cent. for a spect...

Although contact dermatitis (CD) from eyeglass frames is uncommon, occasionally it may be encountered. Various substances may cause allergic CD, including metals, cosmetics, plastics, rubber, solvents, antioxidants, dyes, and waxes, some of which can be found in the average eyeglass frame. Recently, it has been determined that plasticizers, UV stabilizers and nickel are the most common allergen...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to assess the effects of amount of myopia, axial elongation staphyloma and type of optical correction on contrast sensitivity of high myopic subjects. METHODS Fifty-one patients (91 eyes) were selected on the following qualifications: myopia > or = 8 dpt and/or axial length > or = 26 mm, and visual acuity > or = 0.1 recorded through spectacle lenses. Cont...