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This book contains 15 fully peer-reviewed Invited Papers which were
presented at the 13th Biennial European Conference on Fracture and
is a companion to the CD-ROM http:
//www.elsevier.com/locate/isbn/008043701xProceedings.
The ongoing process of bio-evolution has produced materials which
are perfectly adapted to fulfil a specific functional role. The
natural world provides us with a multitude of examples of materials
with durability, strength, mechanisms of programmed self-assembly
and biodegradability. The materials industry has sought to observe and appreciate the
relationship between structure, properties and function of these
biological materials. A multidisciplinary approach, building on
recent advances at the forefront of physics, chemistry and
molecular biology, has been successful in producing many synthetic
structures with interesting and useful properties. "Structural Biological Materials: Design and Structure-Property
Relationships" represents an invaluable reference in the field of
biological materials science and provides an incisive view into
this rapidly developing and increasingly important topic within
materials science. This book focuses on the study of three sub-groups of structural
biological materials: Hard tissue engineering, focussing on cortical bone The fundamental relationship between structure and properties,
and certain aspects of design and engineering, are explored in each
of the sub-groups. The importance of these materials, both in their
intrinsic properties and specific functions, are illustrated with
relevant examples. These depict the successful integration of
material properties, architecture and shape, providing a wide range
of optimised designs, tailored to specific functions. Edited by Manuel Elices of the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain, this book is Volume 4 in the Pergamon Material Series.
The idea for this book came out of the EURESCO Conference on High
Performance Fibers: Euroconference on Fiber Fracture in 2000. Many
of the books that are currently available look at different aspects
of fiber processing, properties, or applications, but none are
focussed on the fracture behaviour of fibers. This book presents
the mechancisms and models of fiber fracture currently available
for both natural and synthetic fibers, and it is expected that
increasingly there will be cross fertilization between the fields,
opening new frontiers in academic research and more competitive
products for industry. It covers the following areas of fiber
fracture: ceramic fibers; glass fibers; carbon filters; metallic
fibers and thin wires; polymeric fibers; and carbon nanotubes.
The film industry and mainstream popular culture are notorious for promoting stereotypical images of Native Americans: the noble and ignoble savage, the pronoun-challenged sidekick, the ruthless warrior, the female drudge, the princess, the sexualized maiden, the drunk, and others. Over the years, Indigenous filmmakers have both challenged these representations and moved past them, offering their own distinct forms of cinematic expression. Native Americans on Film draws inspiration from the Indigenous film movement, bringing filmmakers into an intertextual conversation with academics from a variety of disciplines. The resulting dialogue opens a myriad of possibilities for engaging students with ongoing debates: What is Indigenous film? Who is an Indigenous filmmaker? What are Native filmmakers saying about Indigenous film and their own work? This thought-provoking text offers theoretical approaches to understanding Native cinema, includes pedagogical strategies for teaching particular films, and validates the different voices, approaches, and worldviews that emerge across the movement.
Killing the Indian Maiden examines the fascinating and often disturbing portrayal of Native American women in film. Through discussion of thirty-four Hollywood films from the silent period to the present, M. Elise Marubbio examines the sacrificial role of what she terms the "Celluloid Maiden" -- a young Native woman who allies herself with a white male hero and dies as a result of that choice. Marubbio intertwines theories of colonization, gender, race, and film studies to ground her study in sociohistorical context all in an attempt to define what it means to be an American. As Marubbio charts the consistent depiction of the Celluloid Maiden, she uncovers two primary characterizations -- the Celluloid Princess and the Sexualized Maiden. The archetype for the exotic Celluloid Princess appears in silent films such as Cecil B. DeMille's The Squaw Man (1914) and is thoroughly established in American iconography in Delmer Daves's Broken Arrow (1950). Her more erotic sister, the Sexualized Maiden, emerges as a femme fatale in such films as DeMille's North West Mounted Police (1940), King Vidor's Duel in the Sun (1946), and Charles Warren's Arrowhead (1953). The two characterizations eventually combine to form a hybrid Celluloid Maiden who first appears in John Ford's The Searchers (1956) and reappears in the 1970s and the 1990s in such films as Arthur Penn's Little Big Man (1970) and Michael Apted's Thunderheart (1992). Killing the Indian Maiden reveals a cultural iconography about Native Americans and their role in the frontier embedded in the American psyche. The Native American woman is a racialized and sexualized other -- a conquerable body representing both the seductions and the dangers of the frontier. These films show her being colonized and suffering at the hands of Manifest Destiny and American expansionism, but Marubbio argues that the Native American woman also represents a threat to the idea of a white America. The complexity and longevity of the Celluloid Maiden icon -- persisting into the twenty-first century -- symbolizes an identity crisis about the composition of the American national body that has played over and over throughout different eras and political climates. Ultimately, Marubbio establishes that the ongoing representation of the Celluloid Maiden signals the continuing development and justification of American colonialism.
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