Gene Tierney may be one of the most recognizable faces of studio-era Hollywood: she starred in numerous classics, including Leave Her to Heaven, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, and Laura, with the latter featuring her most iconic role. While Tierney was considered one of the most beautiful women in Hollywood, she personified "ordinariness" both on- and off-screen. Tierney portrayed roles such as a pinup type, a wartime worker, a wife, a mother, and, finally, a psychiatric patient-the last of which may have hit close to home for her, as she would soon leave Hollywood to pursue treatment for mental illness and later attempted suicide in the 1950s. After her release from psychiatric clinics, Tierney sought a comeback as one of the first stars whose treatment for mental illness became public knowledge. In this book, Will Scheibel not only examines her promotion, publicity, and reception as a star but also offers an alternative history of the United States wartime efforts demonstrated through the arc of Tierney's career as a star working on the home front. Scheibel's analysis aims to showcase that Tierney was more than just "the most beautiful woman in movie history," as stated by the head of production at Twentieth Century Fox in the 1940s and 1950s. He does this through an examination of her making, unmaking, and remaking at Twentieth Century Fox, rediscovering what she means as a movie legend both in past and up to the present. Film studies scholars, film students, and those interested in Hollywood history and the legacy of Gene Tierney will be delighted by this read.

This edited collection is the first book-length critical study of the Showtime-Sky Atlantic television series Penny Dreadful (2014-2016), which also includes an analysis of Showtime's 2020 spin-off City of Angels. Chapters examine the status of the series as a work of twenty-first-century cable television, contemporary Gothic-horror, and intermedial adaptation, spanning sources as diverse as eighteenth and nineteenth-century British fiction and poetry, American dime novels, theatrical performance, Hollywood movies, and fan practices. Featuring iconic monsters such as Dr. Frankenstein and his Creature, the "bride" of Frankenstein, Dracula, the werewolf, Dorian Gray, and Dr. Jekyll, Penny Dreadful is a mash-up of familiar texts and new Gothic figures such as spiritualist Vanessa Ives, played by the magnetic Eva Green. As a recent example of adapting multiple sources in different media, Penny Dreadful has as much to say about the Romantic and Victorian eras as it does about our present-day fascination with screen monsters.

Fibrous Proteins will give an overview over some of the most important fibrous proteins including amyloids, collagens, fibrin, flagella, intermediate filaments, microtubules, silks concerning structure and function and possible applications as biomaterials. While our knowledge on globular proteins has been increasing over the past decades, fibrillar proteins have not entered center stage until recently. In general, research of fibrillar proteins has developed in recent years into a very exciting one. New technologies have drastically increased the accessibility and analysis of fibrillar proteins in the past years. With this book we draw attention to this highly fascinating topic of protein science. The book is aimed for an audience of graduate students and scientists and will provide the opportunity to highlight the field of fibrous proteins.

Das Controlling- und Fuhrungsinstrument der Balanced Scorecard unterstutzt die Erhebung von harten und weichen Kennzahlen und ermoglicht es dadurch, auch strategische Ziele fassbar zu machen. Die gewonnenen Kennzahlen konnen eingesetzt werden, um den Anforderungen der neuen ISO 9001:2000 zu entsprechen: Messung von Prozessen, Vision, Strategie (Qualitatspolitik) und Nachweis der Wirksamkeit des QM-Systems an messbaren Qualitatszielen mit BSC. Das Buch liefert Losungen auf Excel-Basis, mit denen die Unternehmensstrukturen analysiert und ausgewertet werden konnen. Neu in der dritten Auflage ist das Risikomanagement mit Fruhwarnindikatoren. Untersucht werden die Risiken, denen das Unternehmen ausgesetzt ist und mogliche Fruhwarnindikatoren, die auf viele Unternehmen zutreffen. Neben den vier traditionellen Perspektiven Finanzen, Kunden, Prozesse und Mitarbeiter der Balanced Scorecard werden jetzt die Risiken des Unternehmens als Teil der Strategie aufgenommen.

Das Buch mit CD-ROM wendet sich an Praktiker, die selbst eine Umsetzung von BSC im eigenen Unternehmen durchfuhren wollen.

This is a critical edition, with translation and commentary, of part of the cycle of elegies entitled AUrania VictrixA (1663), the important late poetic work of Jacob Baldes, Germany's most internationally renowned Jesuit poet. The work is not only a challenging example of edificatory literature faithfully reflecting the conflicts of the age, but also a compendium of Baroque knowledge culture, in which the five senses of the human body each enlarge upon their own experience of the modern world.

Developed by internationally renowned neurosurgeons, this unique book is designed for students of psychology and the biological sciences, and medical, dental, and nursing students.

Neu in der dritten Auflage ist das Risikomanagement mit Fruhwarnindikatoren. Untersucht werden die Risiken, denen das Unternehmen ausgesetzt ist und moegliche Fruhwarnindikatoren, die auf viele Unternehmen zutreffen. Neben den vier traditionellen Perspektiven Finanzen, Kunden, Prozesse und Mitarbeiter der Balanced Scorecard werden jetzt die Risiken des Unternehmens als Teil der Strategie aufgenommen. Aus den Besprechungen zur 1. Auflage: Der Autor leistet einen innovativen Beitrag durch die Verknupfung verschiedener Ansatze. Er fullt eine gewisse Lucke, da es speziell fur KMU kaum einschlagige Veroeffentlichungen gibt. Die auf konkrete Praxiserfahrung bezogenen Ausfuhrungen werden durch die beigefugte CD-ROM noch verstarkt. cm - controller magazin 2002, 27/2

Julie Grossman and Will Scheibel's enthusiastic book on the television series Twin Peaks takes fans through the world that Mark Frost and David Lynch created and examines its impact on society, genre, and the television industry. Grossman and Scheibel explore the influences of melodrama and film noir, the significance around the idea of "home," as well as female trauma and agency. In addition to this close investigation of the series itself, the authors examine the rich storytelling surrounding Twin Peaks that includes the film prequel, Mark Frost's novels, and Showtime's 2017 revival. In Twin Peaks, Grossman and Scheibel argue that the show has transcended conventional binaries not only in film and television but also in culture and gender. The book begins with a look into the publicity and critical discourses on authorship that framed Twin Peaks as an auteurist project rather than a prime-time soap opera. Despite critics' attempts to distance the series from the soap opera genre, Grossman and Scheibel explore how melodrama and noir are used in Twin Peaks. Grossman and Scheibel masterfully examine star performances in the series including Kyle MacLachlan's epic portrayal as the idiosyncratic Special Agent Dale Cooper and Sheryl Lee's haunting embodiment of Laura Palmer. The monograph finishes with an examination of the adaptation and remediation of Twin Peaks in a variety of different platforms, which have further expanded the boundaries of the series. Twin Peaks explores the ways in which the series critiques multiple forms of objectification in culture and textuality. Readers interested in film, television, pop culture, and gender studies as well as fans and new audiences discovering Twin Peaks will embrace this book.

Gene Tierney may be one of the most recognizable faces of studio-era Hollywood: she starred in numerous classics, including Leave Her to Heaven, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, and Laura, with the latter featuring her most iconic role. While Tierney was considered one of the most beautiful women in Hollywood, she personified "ordinariness" both on- and off-screen. Tierney portrayed roles such as a pinup type, a wartime worker, a wife, a mother, and, finally, a psychiatric patient-the last of which may have hit close to home for her, as she would soon leave Hollywood to pursue treatment for mental illness and later attempted suicide in the 1950s. After her release from psychiatric clinics, Tierney sought a comeback as one of the first stars whose treatment for mental illness became public knowledge. In this book, Will Scheibel not only examines her promotion, publicity, and reception as a star but also offers an alternative history of the United States wartime efforts demonstrated through the arc of Tierney's career as a star working on the home front. Scheibel's analysis aims to showcase that Tierney was more than just "the most beautiful woman in movie history," as stated by the head of production at Twentieth Century Fox in the 1940s and 1950s. He does this through an examination of her making, unmaking, and remaking at Twentieth Century Fox, rediscovering what she means as a movie legend both in past and up to the present. Film studies scholars, film students, and those interested in Hollywood history and the legacy of Gene Tierney will be delighted by this read.