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Ce travail de recherche s’intéresse au renouvellement de la pratique de l’artiste d’effets visuels de simulation en industrie. Le contexte de pratique en industrie implique désormais des modèles de production de plus en plus rationalisés et rigides posant plusieurs défis et inconforts chez les artistes. Au fil des années, le problème ressenti dans l’expérience de travail du praticien renvoie à une fatigue esthétique à l’égard des tâches à accomplir, c’est-à-dire à un désintéressement, désenchantement, une perte de plaisir dans l’acte de création, contrairement à la vive passion qui l’animait le début de sa carrière. La pratique en industrie n’apporte pas d’opportunités suffisamment intéressantes au praticien artiste à poursuivre son développement et sa quête de sens ; trop peu de place à l’exploration, à la découverte, …
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This paper proposes a reflection on the film adaptation of Boris Vian's novel L'Écume des jours by filmmaker Michel Gondry. Taking up the concept of “poetic narrative” developed by Jean-Yves Tadié, our analysis seeks to demonstrate the poetic specificities of Vian's novel untranslatable in cinematographic terms, and especially how Gondry was able to find formal equivalences to create a new aesthetic equilibrium in his film, which remains inspired by the Vianesque style. Gondry's mediagenic solution is essentially based on an exacerbation of ostentatious film effects, which re-mediatizes Vian's narrative poetry within a specific filmic form.
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By examining the representation of two machines created in the film Terminator 2 (Cameron, 1992), this study seeks to uncover and understand the relationship between technology and masculinity in Hollywood cinema. Since the origin of this relationship lies at the very centre of Western culture, we will draw on one of the most extreme products of this culture: fascism in Germany between the wars. The fascist perception of the body, male and female, does in fact aid us to understand the anxieties and desires expressed in the form of the two antagonistic machines. A parallel comparison, this time diegetic, between this film and The Terminator (Cameron, 1984), the first episode in the series, will help us to evaluate how these representations influence the narrative content of Terminator 2.
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This article will interrogate the connection between the movie camera's portability and synthetic imagery. It invites readers to question, in the case of wholly “virtual” productions composed on a computer, the role granted to hand-held camera movements when even movements through virtual space depend in the first place on algorithms and predetermined trajectories. This article proposes to approach this question through the prism of a particular film, James Cameron's Avatar (2009), which was based on a technology, performance capture, lying part-way between synthetic images and live-action photography, and on an original capturing system taking the form of a portable camera developed for the film. The idea is to establish that at the dawn of an ever-greater desire on the part of computer graphics artists for their work to be part of the singular imaginary of contemporary action cinema, based in large part on the hand-held camera, new capturing devices came into existence in the form, in this case, of a simulation of the portable camera: the SimulCam. This system brought into play an astonishing paradox which reaffirms the role of the camera operator in synthetic film production while at the same time negating his or her physical presence through features inherited from video games.
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Planning, adaptive action and emergency preparedness can reduce or mitigate losses and associated distress resulting from negative impacts of climate change on small islands. However, adaptation plans and strategies are typically developed using only scientific and economic data. These need to be augmented by data that reflect the social and cultural concerns of citizens. Social and cultural values mapping uses Geographic Information System (GIS) to display and analyze social and cultural values that are attached to geographic space. This method brings various knowledge fields together and creates the potential to compare and juxtapose normally invisible human relationships with scientific data on the predicted impacts of climate change. These maps then become tools to assist local governments in planning and prioritizing effective adaptation strategies. In addition, the process of collective map building reassures people that their knowledge and values are respected. This helps develop trust and collaboration in governance which are essential for effective community-level climate change adaptation. Small island governments and community groups are the vanguard of climate change adaptation because small islands are among the most vulnerable places on the planet to the effects of climate change. These jurisdictions will need tools that allow them to improve their resilience, adaptation mechanisms, and ability to speak to international governing bodies. In this paper we report on a pilot study of social and cultural values mapping performed on Prince Edward Island in January - March 2010. We conclude that this methodology has potential as a tool to support decision-making for climate change adaptation, and it can be implemented and modified as required by a variety of stakeholders.
Keywords: changements climatiques, cartographie des valeurs, petites îles, petits territoires insulaires, gouvernance locale, valeurs sociales, valeurs culturelles, Île-du-Prince-Édouard, Canada, Climate change, values mapping, small islands, local governance, social values, cultural values, Prince Edward Island
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Keywords: Adaptation, théâtre, bande dessinée, texte de lecteur
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AbstractThis article examines the language practices and discourse of employees and management in a Montreal business currently expanding into new markets in the USA and Mexico. Findings from this ethnographic study reveal the strong presence of a French-English “technolect” that draw on English terms used in the post-production industry and software, but the main language of communication is French. This said, we also observe deliberate strategies for managing the bilingual and multilingual needs of the company. The recent expansion into Spanish-speaking markets has lead to the hiring of trilingual employees; however, this does not represent a major adjustment for the company, as it has always had to deal with the need for a language other than French in its business practices. In effect, moving into a globalized economy seems to provoke more concern about the cultural and “identity” aspects of Quebec's “projet de société” than about language. In summary, concern over the vitality of French has by no means disappeared, but new types of concerns over the future of Quebec have emerged.
Keywords: Langue du travail, Montréal, multilinguisme, haute technologie, mondialisation, Workplace, language practices, Montreal, multilingualism, new technologies, globalization
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