Considered one of the greatest films ever made, Jean Renoir’s The Rules of the Game is a scathing critique of corrupt French society cloaked in a comedy of manners in which a weekend at a marquis’s country château lays bare some ugly truths about a
This thesis compares the sociopolitical discourses of Merchant Ivory's eponymous film adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's 1989 novel released in 1993, to French filmmaker Jean Renoir's 1939 film Both are Marxist films in the sense that they delve into how class distinctions between the aristocracy/...
The heart of Renoir’s genius was his gift for hiding that genius. Expertly controlled,The Rules of the Gameplays as one huge happy accident that might’ve been caught on the fly over the course of a long drunken weekend. Everything is justright, and the performances and individual moments...
The question should not be, “[w]hat do substantive law and justice require?,” but here it is, “[h]ave the rules of the game been carried out strictly?” Id. at 406. 53. Id. at 407. American courts make public policy decisions as incidents of private litigation. Id.“[C]ourts...
Lea Maes6, Yannis Manios7, George Moschonis7 and Saskia J te Velde8 Abstract Background: Research suggests an inverse association between parental rules and screen time in pre-adolescents, and that parents' style of communication with their children is related to the children's time spent watch...
Animals face the dilemma between exploiting known opportunities and exploring new ones, a decision-making process supported by cortical circuits. While different types of learning may bias exploration, the circumstances and the degree to which bias occur
French’s data back to 1926 you will find that value investing gave a significant edge over the market throughout much of the period. 10 year average HML was positive in every year before 2014 except in 1939. Only the last 10 to 15 years have been historically awful for the value factor...
1954. Utility analysis and the consumption function: an interpretation of cross-section data. In Post-Keynesian Economics, ed. K. Kurihara, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. Google Scholar Phelps, E.S. and Pollak, R.A. 1968. On second-best national saving and game-equilibrium ...
The magnitude of the change depends on the rating of their opponents. The Elo rating system is currently the most widely used.The first modern rating system was used by the Correspondence Chess League of America in 1939. Soviet player Andrey Khachatoruv proposed a similar system in 1946. The...
The modern trend, however, is to assign paramount importance to analysis of the specific position at hand rather than to general principles.The development of theory in all of these areas has been assisted by the vast literature on the game. In 1913, preeminent chess historian H. J. R. ...