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Journal articles on the topic "Alexander Korda"
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Street, Sarah. "Alexander Korda, prudential assurance and British film finance in the 1930s." Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television 6, no. 2 (January 1986): 161–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01439688600260181.
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Walker, Greg. "The roots of Alexander Korda: myths of identity and the international film." Patterns of Prejudice 37, no. 1 (January 2003): 3–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0031322022000054312.
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Carroll, Noël. "Béla Balázs: The Face of Cinema." October 148 (May 2014): 53–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/octo_a_00174.
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Herbert Bauer, known to the world as Béla Balázs (1894–1949), led the sort of life about which contemporary intellectuals might fantasize. He knew everyone and he did everything. Born in Hungary, he included György Lukács, Karl Mannheim, Arnold Hauser, Béla Bartók, and Zoltán Kodály in his circle, among others. He knew the filmmakers Alexander Korda and Michael Curtiz before their names were Anglicized. He studied with Georg Simmel and met Max Weber. As time went on, he came, so it seems, to know virtually every major European intellectual—Stefan Zweig, Robert Musil, Walter Benjamin, Sergei Eisenstein, Erwin Piscator, and on and on. He lived in the midst of a universe of conversation that dazzles us as we look back enviously upon it.
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Portuges, Catherine. "Hollywood on the Danube: Hungarian Filmmakers in a Transnational Context." Hungarian Cultural Studies 5 (January 1, 2012): 341–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/ahea.2012.83.
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Exile, emigration and displacement have marked the trajectories of Hungarian filmmakers over the past century. Michael Curtiz, the Korda brothers—Alexander, Vincent and Zoltán—André de Toth, Emeric Pressburger, Vilmos Zsigmond, Miklós Rózsa, Peter Lorre, Géza von Radvány and other talented artists have crossed borders, cultures and languages, creating such classics as Casablanca, Somewhere in Europe, The Red Shoes and The Lost One. The legendary sign posted in Hollywood studios read: "It is not enough to be Hungarian, you have to have talent, too!" Accompanied by film extracts, rare footage, personal interviews, archive photographs, and documentary materials, my presentation explores the transnational odysseys of these Hungarian directors, producers, cinematographers, composers, actors and screenwriters whose artistic contributions became an indispensable part of international cinema, suggesting that the challenges of emigration may also offer opportunities for critique, self-examination and artistic creativity.
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Győri, Zsolt. "Sensations of the Past: Identity, Empowerment, and the British Monarchy Films." Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Film and Media Studies 8, no. 1 (September 1, 2014): 183–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ausfm-2014-0033.
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Abstract Royal bio-pics have always enjoyed a high priority among cinematic representations of British history and taken a lion’s share in defining Britishness to audiences at home and abroad. These historical narratives never render national identity by capturing the past of historians, instead reconstruct the past as a mirror of contemporary reality and in a way as to satisfy their audience’s demand for both romantic qualities and antiquarian nostalgia, for sensations they regard their own. The author’s basic assumption is that such cinema does not represent history but exploits spectatorial desire for a mediated reality one inhabits through the experience of an empowered identity. The first part of the article examines how private-life films (a subgenre of royal bio-pics) mythologized and idealized Tudor monarchs in the 1930s, while in the second part, contemporary representatives of the subgenre are analysed as they portray the challenges of the Monarchy in its search for a place within modern British identity politics. Analysed films include The Private Life of Henry VIII (Alexander Korda, 1933), The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (Michael Curtiz, 1939), Mrs Brown (John Madden, 1997), The Queen (Stephen Frears, 2006), and The King’s Speech (Tom Hooper, 2010).1
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Robison, William B. "Lancastrians, Tudors, and World War II: British and German Historical Films as Propaganda, 1933–1945." Arts 9, no. 3 (August 10, 2020): 88. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/arts9030088.
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In World War II the Allies and Axis deployed propaganda in myriad forms, among which cinema was especially important in arousing patriotism and boosting morale. Britain and Germany made propaganda films from Hitler’s rise to power in 1933 to the war’s end in 1945, most commonly documentaries, historical films, and after 1939, fictional films about the ongoing conflict. Curiously, the historical films included several about fifteenth and sixteenth century England. In The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933), director Alexander Korda—an admirer of Winston Churchill and opponent of appeasement—emphasizes the need for a strong navy to defend Tudor England against the ‘German’ Charles V. The same theme appears with Philip II of Spain as an analog for Hitler in Arthur B. Wood’s Drake of England (1935), William Howard’s Fire Over England (1937), parts of which reappear in the propaganda film The Lion Has Wings (1939), and the pro-British American film The Sea Hawk (1940). Meanwhile, two German films little known to present-day English language viewers turned the tables with English villains. In Gustav Ucicky’s Das Mädchen Johanna (Joan of Arc, 1935), Joan is the female embodiment of Hitler and wages heroic warfare against the English. In Carl Froelich’s Das Herz der Königin (The Heart of a Queen, 1940), Elizabeth I is an analog for an imperialistic Churchill and Mary, Queen of Scots an avatar of German virtues. Finally, to boost British morale on D-Day at Churchill’s behest, Laurence Olivier directed a masterly film version of William Shakespeare’s Henry V (1944), edited to emphasize the king’s virtues and courage, as in the St. Crispin’s Day speech with its “We few, we proud, we band of brothers”. This essay examines the aesthetic appeal, the historical accuracy, and the presentist propaganda in such films.
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PODENAS, SIGITAS, HONG YUL SEO, TAEWOO KIM, JUN MI HUR, A. YOUNG KIM, TERRY A. KLEIN, HEUNG CHUL KIM, TAE HWA KANG, and RASA AUKŠTIKALNIENĖ. "Dicranomyia crane flies (Diptera: Limoniidae) of Korea." Zootaxa 4595, no. 1 (May 3, 2019): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4595.1.1.
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A total of 38 Korean species of crane flies belonging to the genus Dicranomyia Stephens, 1829 (Diptera: Limoniidae: Limoniinae) are taxonomically revised. No species of Dicranomyia were previously reported from South Korea, and only twelve species were reported from North Korea. New records of Dicranomyia from the Korean Peninsula include: D. (Dicranomyia) depauperata Alexander, 1918, D. (D.) distendens pallida Savchenko, 1983, D. (D.) handlirschi handlirschi Lackschewitz, 1928, D. (D.) hyalinata (Zetterstedt, 1851), D. (D.) kandybinae Savchenko, 1987, D. (D.) longipennis (Schummel, 1829), D. (D.) mesosternatoides Alexander, 1924, D. (D.) modesta (Meigen, 1818), D. (D.) pammelas Alexander, 1925, D. (D.) poli (Alexander, 1941), D. (D.) sera (Walker, 1848), D. (D.) shinanoensis (Alexander, 1933), D. (D.) takeuchii Alexander, 1922, D. (D.) unispinosa Alexander, 1921, D. (Erostrata) globithorax Osten Sacken, 1869, D. (E.) globulithorax Alexander, 1924, D. (E.) yazuensis Kato et al., 2018, D. (Glochina) basifusca Alexander, 1919, D. (Melanolimonia) paramorio platysoma (Alexander, 1933), D. (Numantia) fusca (Meigen, 1804), D. (Sivalimnobia) euphileta (Alexander, 1924). Species D. (D.) byuni Podenas, sp. nov., D. (D.) cornuta Podenas, sp. nov., D. (D.) jirisana Podenas, sp. nov., D. (D.) petrasiuni Podenas, sp. nov., and D. (D.) yankovskyi Podenas, sp. nov. are described. An additional ten new records are reported from North Korea, bringing the total number of Dicranomyia species known from North Korea to 22 species. South Korea has a greater diversity of Dicranomyia with total number of 30 species. D. (D.) amurensis Alexander, 1925 is synonymised with D. (D.) hyalinata (Zetterstedt, 1851). An illustrated key with redescriptions and photographs of all species and both sexes of adults collected in Korea are presented. Most females are illustrated or described for the first time. Elevation range, period of activity, habitat information, general distribution and a distribution map in Korean Peninsula is given for each species.
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PODENAS, SIGITAS, and VIRGINIJA PODENIENE. "Limonia crane flies (Diptera: Limoniidae) of Korea." Zootaxa 4231, no. 1 (February 9, 2017): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4231.1.1.
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The Korean species of Limonia Meigen, 1803 crane flies (Diptera: Limoniidae) are taxonomically revised. Species L. annulata Lackschewitz, 1940 (Lackschewitz, Pagast, 1940), L. bidens Savchenko, 1979, L. episema Alexander, 1924, L. fusciceps fusciceps Alexander, 1924, L. juvenca Alexander, 1935, L. messaurea messaurea Mendl, 1971, L. nemoralis Savchenko, 1983 are new records for the Korean peninsula and L. pia n. sp. is described. Synonymy of L. venerabilis Alexander, 1938 with L. macrostigma (Schummel, 1829) is confirmed. L. tanakai (Alexander, 1921) is not confirmed for the Korean Peninsula. An identification key, redescriptions and illustrations of all species and both sexes of adults, if they were found in Korea, are presented. Descriptions, illustrations and habitat characteristics are given for the previously unknown larva and pupa of L. parvipennis Alexander, 1940. Distinguishing morphological characters of the last instar larvae of Korean Limonia are discussed. Keys to the known Korean Limonia larvae and pupae are compiled.
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PODENAS, SIGITAS, and HYE-WOO BYUN. "Libnotes crane flies (Diptera: Limoniidae) from Jeju Island (South Korea)." Zootaxa 4483, no. 2 (September 21, 2018): 375. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4483.2.9.
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The Korean species of Libnotes (Laosa) Edwards, 1926 and L. (Libnotes) Westwood, 1876 from Jeju Island are taxonomically revised. L. (Laosa) charmosyne (Alexander, 1958) and L. (Libnotes) divaricata (Alexander, 1924) are new records for South Korea and L. (Libnotes) byersiana n. sp. is described. An identification key for all Korean Libnotes, redescriptions and illustrations of the three currently known Jeju species are presented.
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PETRAŠIŪNAS, ANDRIUS, and SIGITAS PODENAS. "New data on winter crane flies (Diptera: Trichoceridae) of Korea with description of a new species." Zootaxa 4311, no. 4 (August 25, 2017): 561. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4311.4.8.
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Species of Trichoceridae Rondani known to occur on the Korean Peninsula are reviewed; eight of these are recorded for Korea for the first time. Trichocera (Saltrichocera) sapporensis Alexander, 1935 and T. (S.) maculipennis pictipennis Alexander, 1930 are proposed as synonyms of T. (S). maculipennis punctipennis Brunetti, 1912 which is transferred to a subspecific rank. A new species—Trichocera (Saltrichocera) latipons sp. nov. is described.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Alexander Korda"
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Wiest, Jessica Caroline Alder. "Alexander Korda and his "Foreignized Translation" of The Thief of Bagdad (1940)." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2010. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2545.
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Adaptation studies has recently turned an eye towards translation theory for valuable discussion on the role of movie makers as translators. Such discussion notes the difficulties inherent in adapting a medium such as a book, a play, or even a theme park ride into film. These difficulties have interesting parallels to the translation of one language into another. Translation theory, in fact, can shed important light on the adaptation process. Intrinsic to translation theory is the dichotomy between domesticating translation and foreignizing translation, the two major styles of translation. Translation scholar Lawrence Venuti, the author of these two terms, argues that while the former is an "ethnocentric reduction of the foreign text to receiving cultural values, bringing the author back home," the latter is "an ethnodeviant pressure on those values to register the linguistic and cultural differences of the foreign text, sending the reader abroad" (15). Venuti suggests that foreignizing translations, ones that maintain distinct cultural difference within the translated target text, are more desirable and ultimately commit less violence on the source text and language. This paper analyzes the 1940 film The Thief of Bagdad, a British remake of a 1924 Hollywood film by the same name, for its elements of foreignizing translation. Producer Alexander Korda, acting as a kind of translator, made this film during the height of the British national film movement. Supported by this movement, and inspired by his own personal vendetta against Hollywood, Korda took an American blockbuster and re-vised it with distinctly British thematic elements. Because his ultimate audience was an American one, however, I argue that his film took an American source text, The Thief of Bagdad (1924), and foreignized it, hoping, in the process, to establish British cinema as a major player in the international film world.
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Philipp, Heinz Conrad [Verfasser], Hans-Werner [Akademischer Betreuer] Wehling, and Alexander J. [Akademischer Betreuer] Schmidt. "Die Bedeutung eines Grüngürtels für eine Megacity : Interdisziplinäre Stadtanalyse am Beispiel von Seoul (Republik Korea) / Heinz Conrad Philipp. Gutachter: Alexander J. Schmidt. Betreuer: Hans-Werner Wehling." Duisburg, 2014. http://d-nb.info/1047543745/34.
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Eckstein, Lutz [Verfasser], Reiner [Akademischer Betreuer] Biffar, Bernd [Akademischer Betreuer] Kordaß, Sebastian [Akademischer Betreuer] Ruge, Alexandra [Akademischer Betreuer] Amlang, Reiner [Gutachter] Biffar, and Sven [Gutachter] Reich. "Opazität und Biegefestigkeit von multilayer Zirkoniumdioxid für den Einsatz in der Digitalen Zahnmedizin / Lutz Eckstein ; Gutachter: Reiner Biffar, Sven Reich ; Reiner Biffar, Bernd Kordaß, Sebastian Ruge, Alexandra Amlang." Greifswald : Universität Greifswald, 2021. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:9-opus-56516.
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Akin, Alexander. East Asian Cartographic Print Culture. NL Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463726122.
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Alexander Akin examines how the expansion of publishing in the late Ming dynasty prompted changes in the nature and circulation of cartographic materials in East Asia. Focusing on mass-produced printed maps, East Asian Cartographic Print Culture: The Late Ming Publishing Boom and its Trans-Regional Connections investigates a series of pathbreaking late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century works in genres including geographical education, military affairs, and history, analysing how maps achieved unprecedented penetration among published materials, even in the absence of major theoretical or technological changes like those that transformed contemporary European cartography. By examining contemporaneous developments in neighboring Chos.n Korea and Japan, this book demonstrates the crucial importance of considering the East Asian sphere in this period as a network of communication and publication, rather than as discrete national units with separate cartographic histories. It also reexamines the Jesuit printing of maps on Ming soil within the broader context of the local cartographic publishing boom and its trans-regional repercussions.
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Stockham, Martin. The Korda Collection: Alexander Korda's Film Classics. Carol Pub Group, 1993.
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Bukh, Alexander. These Islands Are Ours. Stanford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.11126/stanford/9781503611894.001.0001.
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Territorial disputes are one of the main sources of tension in Northeast Asia. Escalation in such conflicts often stems from a widely shared public perception that the territory in question is of the utmost importance to the nation. Yet that’s frequently not true in economic, military, or political terms. The tiny and remote islets, known as Dokdo in South Korea and Takeshima in Japan, for instance, have no such value. Yet citizens and groups in both countries have mounted sustained campaigns to protect them as the heart of the nation. Similar movements are taking place throughout the region and have wide-ranging domestic and international consequences. Focusing on non-state actors rather than political elites, Alexander Bukh explains how and why apparently inconsequential territories become central to national and nationalist discourse in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. These Islands Are Ours gives us a new way to understand the nature of territorial disputes and how they inform national identities by exploring their social construction, amplification, and ideological consequences.
Book chapters on the topic "Alexander Korda"
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Helbig, Jörg. "Alexander Korda: Die Internationalisierung des britischen Films." In Geschichte des britischen Films, 60–73. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-03681-0_5.
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"Alexander the Great." In Korda. I.B.Tauris, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9780755698516.ch-008.
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"The Films of Sir Alexander Korda." In Korda. I.B.Tauris, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9780755698516.0008.
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Ellenberger, Allan R. "Goldwyn." In Miriam Hopkins. University Press of Kentucky, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813174310.003.0010.
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There are many disagreements with costar Edward G. Robinson on the set of Barbary Coast, her first picture for Sam Goldwyn. Hopkins makes These Three, the first of four films with the director William Wyler, and it is a critical success. She receives a Best Actress Academy Award nomination for Becky Sharp but is beaten out by Bette Davis. Hopkins sails to Europe, where she witnesses the militarization of the Continent, while making a film in England for producer, Alexander Korda.
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Rode, Alan K. "A Stirred-up Anthill." In Michael Curtiz. University Press of Kentucky, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813173917.003.0005.
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Kertész continued his prolific period at Phönix with the release of seven films during 1917–18. Titles included The Jew Tenant and The Rental Car 99, the latter starring Bela Lugosi. October 1918 brought an end to the war when Austria-Hungary was broken up by the victorious Allies. As the country descended into chaos, Kertész continued making films. The ascension of an authoritarian Communist government quickly gave way to a right-wing coup that included a purge launched against the film industry and Jews.Feeling very much at risk, Kertész slipped out of the country and ended up in Vienna making films for Count Alexander Kolowrat’sSascha Productions. He was soon joined by many of his countrymen, including Alexander Korda and Bela Lugosi.
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Rode, Alan K. "Phönix Rising." In Michael Curtiz. University Press of Kentucky, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813173917.003.0004.
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Kertész’s military service concluded in the summer of 1915, and he returned to making films. He marriedseventeen-year-old IlonkaKovaks, who changed her name to Lucy Doraine.Their daughter, Katalin, who would be known as Kitty, was born on November 25, 1915. Kertész and Doraine were self-absorbed, indifferent parents—the baby was raised by nannies. He reestablished himself by directing films with Kino-Ripert and is quoted about the creative supremacy of the film director. As the war began to sap the Hungarian economy, he was appointed executive producer of Phönix-Film, a newly formed film studio.He became an incredibly prolific filmmaker, producingThe Last Dawn (1917) and scores of other movies. His career paralleled that of his boyhood friend Sandor Kellner, aka Sir Alexander Korda. The personality differences between the two filmmakers prevented any genuine collaboration while preserving their lifelong friendship.
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Glancy, Mark. "Chapter 21." In Cary Grant, the Making of a Hollywood Legend, 280–94. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190053130.003.0022.
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In 1946, Howard Hughes nearly killed himself testing a new aircraft over Beverly Hills, and he spent weeks in the hospital before convalescing at Grant’s home. In 1947, when Hughes had recovered, he and Grant went on a cross country flight and their plane fell out of radio contact, leading the press to report that they were missing and presumed dead. On his return to Hollywood, Grant was unhappy making The Bishop’s Wife (1947), and he wanted to trade roles with his co-star David Niven, but producer Samuel Goldwyn refused his requests. While Grant hoped to make films in Britain with Alexander Korda, the plans eventually fizzled out. Nevertheless, he enjoyed a trip to London and Bristol, where he visited his mother again. On the voyage home, he met his future wife, the young actress Betsy Drake. The comedy Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948), was made at a time when the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) was investigating communist subversion in Hollywood. Grant’s co-stars, Myrna Loy and Melvyn Douglas, were committed to resisting the investigation and promoting First Amendment rights. Grant, however, was reluctant to take a stand, believing that actors had no place making political pronouncements. It was only when Charlie Chaplin was attacked a few years later that Grant finally spoke out against the investigations.
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Faragher, Megan. "A Science So-Called." In Public Opinion Polling in Mid-Century British Literature, 21–55. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192898975.003.0002.
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H.G. Wells’s life extends the radical evolution of psychographics outlined in the Introduction, but his oeuvre also proves the inherent difficulty in aestheticizing the emergent age of social psychology—a point evinced when producer Alexander Korda demanded Wells revise the script version of his 1933 novel The Shape of Things to Come three times to make it “filmable.” While Wells’s novel imagines a peaceable future wherein social psychology becomes the “whole literature, philosophy, and general thought of the world,” the film adaptation instead symbolizes this philosophical transformation by starring a sole philosopher-king who, against the people’s will, seeks to control and colonize the universe. This chapter argues that the conflict between these two Wellsian visions is prefigured by his intimate and conflicted relationship to sociology and group psychology. As early as 1906, Wells sought out the position as the first British chair of sociology at the University of London. But Wells was immediately to become a gadfly in academia: he engaged in scathing critiques of sociology for denying its utopian impulses and refuted theories of group dynamics put forward by Gustave Le Bon and Wilfred Trotter. Incorporating readings across Wells’s literary career—including Anticipations, An Englishman Looks at the World, and In the Days of the Comet—this chapter contends that Wells’s writing captures a life-long effort to reprise the scope of sociology from outside academia, and captures the writer’s foundering efforts to aestheticize the institutional promise of social psychology—efforts that inevitably succumb to Wells’s fetishization of pseudo-authoritarian technocracy.
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Taber, Douglass. "Transition Metal Catalyzed Construction of Carbocyclic Rings: (-)-Hamigeran B." In Organic Synthesis. Oxford University Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199764549.003.0076.
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Several elegant methods for the enantioselective transformation of preformed prochiral rings have been put forward. Derek R. Boyd of Queen’s University, Belfast devised (Chem. Commun. 2008, 5535) a Cu catalyst that effected allylic oxidation of cyclic alkenes such as 1 with high ee. Christoph Jaekel of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg established (Adv. Synth. Cat. 2008, 350, 2708) conditions for the enantioselective hydrogenation of cyclic enones such as 3. Marc L. Snapper of Boston College developed (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2008, 47, 5049) a Cu catalyst for the enantioselective allylation of activated cyclic enones such as 5. Alexandre Alexakis of the University of Geneva showed (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2008, 47, 9122) that dienones such as 8 could be induced to undergo 1,4 addition, again with high ee. Tsutomu Katsuki of Kyushu University originated (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 10327) an Ir catalyst for the addition of diazoacetate 11 to alkenes such as 10 to give the cyclopropane 12 with high chemo-, enantio- and diastereoselectivity. Weiping Tang of the University of Wisconsin found (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2008, 47, 8933) a silver catalyst that rearranged cyclopropyl diazo esters such as 13 to the cyclobutene 14 with high regioselectivity. Zhang-Jie Shi of Peking University demonstrated (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 12901) that under oxidizing conditions, a Pd catalyst could cyclize 15 to 16. Sergio Castillón of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona devised (Organic Lett. 2008, 10, 4735) a Rh catalyst for the enantioselective cyclization of 17 to 18. Virginie Ratovelomanana-Vidal of the ENSCP Paris and Nakcheol Jeong of Korea University established (Adv. Synth. Cat. 2008, 350, 2695) conditions for the enantioselective intramolecular Pauson-Khand cyclization of 19 to give, after hydrolysis, the cyclopentenone 20. Quanrui Wang of Fudan University, Several elegant methods for the enantioselective transformation of preformed prochiral rings have been put forward. Derek R. Boyd of Queen’s University, Belfast devised (Chem. Commun. 2008, 5535) a Cu catalyst that effected allylic oxidation of cyclic alkenes such as 1 with high ee.
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Taber, Douglass F. "Construction of Oxygenated and Aminated Stereogenic Centers." In Organic Synthesis. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199965724.003.0037.
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Computational analysis of the Novozyme 435 active site led (Tetrahedron Lett. 2010, 51, 309) Liyan Dai and Hongwei Yu of Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, to t-butanol for the enantioselective monoesterification of 1 to 2. Bruce H. Lipshutz of the University of California, Santa Barbara, devised (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132, 7852) a Cu catalyst that mediated the enantioselective 1,2-reduction of α-branched enones such as 3. Qi-Lin Zhou of Nankai University found (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132, 1172) that an α-alkoxy unsaturated acid 5 could be hydrogenated with high ee. Tohru Yamada of Keio University desymmetrized (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132, 4072) the tertiary alcohol 7, delivering the enol lactone 8. Zachary D. Aron of Indiana University established (Organic Lett. 2010, 12, 1916) that the simple aldehyde 10 effected rapid racemization of the α-amino ester 9. Running the epimerization in the presence of an enantioselective esterase produced 11 high ee. Robert A. Batey of the University of Toronto devised (Organic Lett. 2010, 12, 260) a Pd catalyst for the enantioselective rearrangement of 12 to 13. In the course of a synthesis of dapoxetine, Hyeon-Kyu Lee of the Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology showed (J. Org. Chem. 2010, 75, 237) that the Rh*-mediated intramolecular C-H insertion of 14 to 15, as developed by Du Bois, gave the opposite absolute configuration to that originally assigned. To prepare α-quaternary amines, Thomas G. Back of the University of Calgary explored (J. Org. Chem. 2010, 75, 1612) the selectivity of the PLE hydrolysis of esters such as 16. Daniel R. Fandrick and colleagues at Boehringer Ingelheim reported (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132, 7600) a general method for the catalytic enantioselective propargylation of aldehydes, including 18. Dennis G. Hall of the University of Alberta devised (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132, 5544) a route to α-hydroxy esters such as 22 by enantioselective conjugate addition to 21. Alexandre Alexakis of the University of Geneva prepared (Chem. Commun. 2010, 46, 4085) disubstituted epoxides such as 25 by the conjugate addition of 23 to 24.