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Images of the Modern Vampire The Hip and the Atavistic


Free Download Images of the Modern Vampire: The Hip and the Atavistic By Barbara Brodman (editor), James E. Doan (editor)
2013 | 276 Pages | ISBN: 1611475821 | EPUB | 1 MB
In the predecessor to this book, The Universal Vampire: Origins and Evolution of a Legend, Brodman and Doan presented discussions of the development of the vampire in the West from the early Norse draugr figure to the medieval European revenant and ultimately to Dracula, who first appears as a vampire in Anglo-Irish Bram Stoker’s novel, Dracula, published in 1897. The essays in that collection also looked at the non-Western vampire in Native American and Mesoamerican traditions, Asian and Russian vampires in popular culture, and the vampire in contemporary novels, film and television. The essays in this collection continue that multi-cultural and multigeneric discussion by tracing the development of the post-modern vampire, in films ranging from Shadow of a Doubt to Blade, The Wisdom of Crocodiles and Interview with the Vampire; the male and female vampires in the Twilight films, Sookie Stackhouse novels and TrueBlood television series; the vampire in African American women’s fiction, Anne Rice’s novels and in the post-apocalyptic I Am Legend; vampires in Japanese anime; and finally, to bring the volumes full circle, the presentation of a new Irish Dracula play, adapted from the novel and set in 1888.

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Enhancing Images with Artificial Intelligence (AI)


Free Download Enhancing Images with Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Updated: April 2, 2021
Duration: 3h 1m | .MP4 1280×720, 30 fps(r) | AAC, 48000 Hz, 2ch | 4.13 GB
Level: Beginner + Intermediate | Genre: eLearning | Language: English
The use of artificial intelligence is fundamentally changing the way that photos are edited and enhanced. New creative options are unlocked and previously impossible tasks are made easy. Don’t wait to harness the power of artificial intelligence. Join instructor Rich Harrington as he explores a variety of AI-powered apps that can take your photography to the next level. Learn how to get better results from raw files, find images with intelligent search tools, and use software from Adobe, Skylum, EyeQ, and Topaz Labs to perform common and uncommon editing tasks, from fixing color and tone to automatically enhancing portraits to adding color and detail that doesn’t exist in the original photograph. By the end of the course, you’ll be amazed and empowered by what you can do with AI.

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Prussians, Nazis and Peaceniks Changing images of Germany in International Relations


Free Download Jens Steffek, "Prussians, Nazis and Peaceniks: Changing images of Germany in International Relations"
English | ISBN: 152613571X | 2020 | 256 pages | EPUB | 562 KB
Germany looms large in international politics, far larger than its size and population would suggest. From images of Prussian militarism, to the Holocaust, the Nuremberg trials, and the fall of the Berlin Wall, changing perceptions of Germany in the twentieth century not only determined how Germans were seen and treated, but they influenced the concepts that scholars and practitioners used to theorise international relations in the English-speaking world. Today, ‘civil power’ Germany, an economic giant but a military dwarf, is seen as a puzzling aberration from normal state behaviour.

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Processing of Hyperspectral Medical Images Applications in Dermatology Using Matlab®


Free Download Processing of Hyperspectral Medical Images: Applications in Dermatology Using Matlab® by Robert Koprowski
English | PDF (True) | 2017 | 135 Pages | ISBN : 3319504894 | 9.3 MB
This book presents new methods of analyzing and processing hyperspectral medical images, which can be used in diagnostics, for example for dermatological images. The algorithms proposed are fully automatic and the results obtained are fully reproducible. Their operation was tested on a set of several thousands of hyperspectral images and they were implemented in Matlab. The presented source code can be used without licensing restrictions. This is a valuable resource for computer scientists, bioengineers, doctoral students, and dermatologists interested in contemporary analysis methods.

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Human Beings and their Images Imagination, Mimesis, Performativity


Free Download Human Beings and their Images: Imagination, Mimesis, Performativity by Christoph Wulf
English | March 24, 2022 | ISBN: 1350265136, 1350265179 | True PDF | 272 pages | 11.3 MB
Bringing the image into dialogue with the imagination, mimesis and performativity, Christoph Wulf illuminates the historical, cultural and philosophical aspects of the relationship between images and human beings, looking both at its conceptual and physical manifestations.

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Images of Imperial Rule


Hugh Ridley, "Images of Imperial Rule "
English | ISBN: 1138499269 | 2019 | 192 pages | EPUB | 281 KB
Originally published in 1983. In the late nineteenth century as the European powers divided the world between themselves and scrambled over Africa, so their writers went with them, recording in fiction, as well as in historical narrative, the events and issues of the colonial expansion. The literature which they left behind them is the subject of this book.

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The Peripatetic Frame Images of Walking in Film


The Peripatetic Frame: Images of Walking in Film By Thomas Deane Tucker
2019 | 168 Pages | ISBN: 1474409296 | PDF | 4 MB
From cinema’s earliest days, walking and filmmaking have been intrinsically linked. Technologically, culturally and aesthetically, the pioneers of cinema were not only interested in using the camera to scientifically study ambulatory motion, but were also keen to capture the speed and mobile culture of late 19th-century urban life. Photographers such as Felix Nadar took their cameras into the Parisian streets and boulevards as mechanised flâneurs, ushering us into the age of the ‘mobilised virtual gaze’. But if photography could only embalm modernity in an instant of time, the cinema brought these instants to life again. From Muybridge and Marey’s photographic studies of motion to Charlie Chaplin’s character ‘The Tramp’, and from the Steadicam to the police procedural, Thomas Deane Tucker explores the intertwined relationship between cinema and walking from its very first steps – breaking new ground in motion studies and providing a bold new perspective on film history.

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