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Craziness and Carnival in Neo-Noir Chinese Cinema offers an in-depth discussion of the “stone phenomenon” in Chinese film production and cinematic discourses triggered by the extraordinary success of the 2006 low-budget film, Crazy Stone. Surveying the nuanced implications of the film noir genre, Harry Kuoshu argues that global neo noir maintains a mediascape of references, borrowings, and re-workings and explores various social and cultural issues that constitute this Chinese episode of neo noir. Combining literary explorations of carnival, postmodernism, and post-socialism, Kuoshu advocates for neo noir as a cultural phenomenon that connects filmmakers, film critics, and film audiences rather than an industrial genre. Harry H. Kuoshu is Herring Endowed Chair in Asian Studies and Film Studies at Furman University, USA, where he teaches courses on Chinese film, literature, culture and language. In addition to scholarly articles, he is the author of Lightness of Being in China (1999), Celluloid China (2002), and Metro Movies: Cinematic Urbanism in Post-Mao China (2011).

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The Work of Reading: Literary Criticism in the 21st Century is a sustained critical examination of the developments in the field of literary studies from the early 2000s onwards within the context of the systematic problems in the humanities. This volume analyzes the origins of the current methods—including New Historicism, empiricism, New Formalism, postcritique, and others—and posits alternatives to the present state of literary studies. At a time when many aspects of current methods show a desire to adopt values from other disciplines to solve internal crises, this volume advocates a renewed focus on questions of form by means of the praxis of aesthetic study, close reading, and other modes of engaging directly with literary texts.

Criticism --- History. --- Evaluation of literature --- Literary criticism --- Literature --- Rhetoric --- Aesthetics --- Technique --- Evaluation --- Literature and technology. --- Mass media and literature. --- Digital humanities. --- Motion pictures. --- Literary Theory. --- Literature and Technology. --- Digital Humanities. --- Close Readings in Film and TV. --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts --- Humanities --- Literature and mass media --- Industry and literature --- Technology and literature --- Technology --- Literature and philosophy --- Philosophy and literature --- Philosophy. --- History and criticism --- Theory

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Herbaceous field crops include several hundred plant species worldly widespread for different end-uses, from food to no-food applications. Among them are included cereals, grain legumes, sugar beet, potato, cotton, tobacco, sunflower, safflower, rape, flax, soybean, alfalfa, clover spp. and other fodder crops, but only 15–20 species play a relevant role for the worldly global economy. Nowadays, to meet the food demand of the ever-increasing world population in a scenario of decreased arable lands, the development of holistic agricultural management approaches to boost contemporaneously yield and quality of herbaceous field crops is essential. Accordingly, this book represents an up-to-date collection of the current understanding of the impact of several agricultural management factors (i.e., genetic selection, planting density and arrangement, fertilization, irrigation, weed control and harvest time) on the yield and qualitative performances of 11 field crops (wheat, cardoon, potato, clary sage, basil, sugarcane, canola, cotton, tomato, lettuce and hemp). On the whole, the topics covered in this book will ensure students and academic readers, such as plant physiologists, environmental scientists, biotechnologists, botanists, soil chemists and agronomists, to get the information about the recent research advances on the eco-sustainable management cultivation of herbaceous field crops, with a particular focus on varietal development, soil nutrient and water management, weed control, etc.

Research & information: general --- Biology, life sciences --- Technology, engineering, agriculture --- planting density --- fertilization --- the central composite design --- fiber yield --- analog optimization --- potato --- nitrogen fertilization --- environmental sustainability --- cost-effective --- nitrogen use efficiency --- tuber yield --- EONFR --- growth --- specific leaf nitrogen --- critical nitrogen uptake --- cotton --- dry matter yield --- root growth --- root physiology --- water productivity --- nitrogen productivity --- drip irrigation quota --- lint yield --- biomass --- leaf chlorophyll fluorescence --- leaf gas exchange --- leaf structure --- drought tolerance --- dry weight yield --- essential oil content --- leaf area index --- Ocimum basilicum --- potassium --- fertilizer --- biomass accumulation --- fiber quality --- organic farming system --- yield --- pH --- soluble solid content --- Bostwick viscosity --- phosphorus sensitivity --- phosphorus --- reproductive organ biomass --- nutrients accumulation --- plant density --- nitrogen fertilization rate --- photosynthesis rate --- SPAD readings --- nitrogen efficiency indices --- tuber nutritional composition --- cereal crops --- plant water extracts --- bioherbicides --- weed management --- allelopathy --- dual purpose canola --- nitrogen fertilizer --- oil content --- grazing --- sustainable agriculture --- integrated weed management --- yield losses --- preventive weed control --- mechanical weed control --- physical weed control --- biological weed control --- herbicides --- hybrids --- wheat --- weeds --- competition --- genetic gain --- genomic selection --- quantitative genetics --- sugarcane breeding --- pit plantation --- planting patterns --- ratoon crop --- sowing techniques --- sugarcane yield --- quality --- seasonal variation --- fatty acids --- free sugars --- chemical composition --- Cynara cardunculus L. --- cardoon --- organic acids --- clary sage --- essential oil --- aromatic plant species --- biometric and agronomic characteristics --- arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi --- organic farming --- calcareous soils --- crop physiology --- sustainability --- diatomaceous earth --- monosilicic acid --- Si application method --- soil water conditions --- wheat cultivar --- tocopherols --- lipidic fraction --- companion plants --- N-fertilization --- partial land equivalent ratio (PLER) --- weed control --- grain quality --- productivity --- n/a

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Herbaceous field crops include several hundred plant species worldly widespread for different end-uses, from food to no-food applications. Among them are included cereals, grain legumes, sugar beet, potato, cotton, tobacco, sunflower, safflower, rape, flax, soybean, alfalfa, clover spp. and other fodder crops, but only 15–20 species play a relevant role for the worldly global economy. Nowadays, to meet the food demand of the ever-increasing world population in a scenario of decreased arable lands, the development of holistic agricultural management approaches to boost contemporaneously yield and quality of herbaceous field crops is essential. Accordingly, this book represents an up-to-date collection of the current understanding of the impact of several agricultural management factors (i.e., genetic selection, planting density and arrangement, fertilization, irrigation, weed control and harvest time) on the yield and qualitative performances of 11 field crops (wheat, cardoon, potato, clary sage, basil, sugarcane, canola, cotton, tomato, lettuce and hemp). On the whole, the topics covered in this book will ensure students and academic readers, such as plant physiologists, environmental scientists, biotechnologists, botanists, soil chemists and agronomists, to get the information about the recent research advances on the eco-sustainable management cultivation of herbaceous field crops, with a particular focus on varietal development, soil nutrient and water management, weed control, etc.

planting density --- fertilization --- the central composite design --- fiber yield --- analog optimization --- potato --- nitrogen fertilization --- environmental sustainability --- cost-effective --- nitrogen use efficiency --- tuber yield --- EONFR --- growth --- specific leaf nitrogen --- critical nitrogen uptake --- cotton --- dry matter yield --- root growth --- root physiology --- water productivity --- nitrogen productivity --- drip irrigation quota --- lint yield --- biomass --- leaf chlorophyll fluorescence --- leaf gas exchange --- leaf structure --- drought tolerance --- dry weight yield --- essential oil content --- leaf area index --- Ocimum basilicum --- potassium --- fertilizer --- biomass accumulation --- fiber quality --- organic farming system --- yield --- pH --- soluble solid content --- Bostwick viscosity --- phosphorus sensitivity --- phosphorus --- reproductive organ biomass --- nutrients accumulation --- plant density --- nitrogen fertilization rate --- photosynthesis rate --- SPAD readings --- nitrogen efficiency indices --- tuber nutritional composition --- cereal crops --- plant water extracts --- bioherbicides --- weed management --- allelopathy --- dual purpose canola --- nitrogen fertilizer --- oil content --- grazing --- sustainable agriculture --- integrated weed management --- yield losses --- preventive weed control --- mechanical weed control --- physical weed control --- biological weed control --- herbicides --- hybrids --- wheat --- weeds --- competition --- genetic gain --- genomic selection --- quantitative genetics --- sugarcane breeding --- pit plantation --- planting patterns --- ratoon crop --- sowing techniques --- sugarcane yield --- quality --- seasonal variation --- fatty acids --- free sugars --- chemical composition --- Cynara cardunculus L. --- cardoon --- organic acids --- clary sage --- essential oil --- aromatic plant species --- biometric and agronomic characteristics --- arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi --- organic farming --- calcareous soils --- crop physiology --- sustainability --- diatomaceous earth --- monosilicic acid --- Si application method --- soil water conditions --- wheat cultivar --- tocopherols --- lipidic fraction --- companion plants --- N-fertilization --- partial land equivalent ratio (PLER) --- weed control --- grain quality --- productivity --- n/a