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Abstract: This paper comes out of a book project examining the emergence of identity recognition practices in the first half of the twentieth century, that is, during the period leading up to the visual (de)construction of identity in a manner no longer verifiable by the human eye. Its focus is on the filmic representation of early institutions of photographic identification and their tactical subversion through fraud, plastic surgery, masks, identity theft, as well as visual occlusions occurring at the level of cinematography, such as techniques of blocking, framing, magnifying, and editing as described by Balázs in his film theory. The paper focuses on practices of opacity and mis(re)cognition such as are practiced specifically by central and east European practitioners in exile, including in the films of Bela Balázs, Fritz Lang, Peter Lorre, and Conrad Veidt.
Keywords: film and media studies, east central European regional studies, migration studies
Published in RUNG: 09.10.2024; Views: 955; Downloads: 0
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Keywords: The observing strategy with continuous scanning and large sky coverage of the upcoming ground-based Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) will make it a perfect tool in search of rare transients, such as Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs). Bright optical flares resulting from tidal disruption of stars by their host supermassive black hole (SMBH) can provide us with important information about the mass of the SMBH involved in the disruption and thus enable the study of quiescent SMBHs, which represent a large majority of SMBHs found in centres of galaxies. These types of transients are extremely rare, with only about few tens of candidates discovered so far. It is expected that the LSST will provide a large sample of new TDE light curves. Here we present simulations of TDE observations using an end-to-end LSST simulation framework. Based on the analysis of simulated light curves we estimate the number of TDEs with good quality light curves the LSST is expected to discover in 10 years of observations. In addition, we investigate whether TDEs observed by the LSST could be used to probe the SMBH mass distribution in the universe. The participation at this conference is supported by the Action CA16104 Gravitational waves, black holes and fundamental physics (GWverse), supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology).
Published in RUNG: 04.01.2021; Views: 4104; Downloads: 0

Keywords: Central European cultural politics, Georg Lukacs, Anna Lesznai, Soviet Communes, revolution, film industry, mass media
Published in RUNG: 11.12.2020; Views: 3486; Downloads: 0
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Keywords: film history, animation, Central Eastern European cultural history, cultural politics of political transition
Published in RUNG: 11.12.2020; Views: 3557; Downloads: 0
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Keywords: film history, Central European film, film theory, art history
Published in RUNG: 10.12.2020; Views: 3841; Downloads: 0
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