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HISTORICAL CRITICISM [4 records]

Record 1 2017-03-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Cinematography
  • Television Arts
DEF

An individual who writes and/or publishes a review of a film from either an artistic or entertainment point of view.

CONT

Film reviews often analyze and discuss a film's details, its content and characters, a critique of the performances, camera work, directing, editing, production, and script; film critics are usually more philosophical and theoretical than film reviewers or commentators; film criticism refers to the analysis of the narrative, historical and stylistic characteristics of film; ’critics’is sometimes abbreviated as crix.

OBS

The familiar plural form of "critic" is "crix".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Cinématographie
  • Télévision (Arts du spectacle)
DEF

Personne qui fait une analyse commentée d'œuvres cinématographiques en tant que forme artistique ou de divertissement.

Spanish

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Record 2 2009-02-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Library Science (General)
  • Cartography
CONT

... the map librarian [is] an intermediary between map collection and user... The librarian function as translator and mediator between patrons and materials is possibly more important in a historical map library than in another type, because so many of the users from the amateur genealogist to the historical researcher are unfamiliar with the potential uses of maps. Map users will often need a guide who can teach them to apply the apparatus of historical criticism to maps, as they are adept at doing to other historical sources.

CONT

Map librarians, Dr. Williams noted, are the fortunate recipients of ages worth of knowledge about the world.

OBS

map librarian: term used at Natural Resources Canada - Earth Sciences Sector.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Bibliothéconomie (Généralités)
  • Cartographie
DEF

Personne gérant une cartothèque, lieu de conservation et de consultation de cartes géographiques.

OBS

cartothécaire : terme en usage à Ressources naturelles Canada - Secteur des sciences de la Terre.

Spanish

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Record 3 1992-03-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Acoustics (Physics)
  • General Vocabulary
DEF

centered on sound (here for a figure of speech).

CONT

For her part, it is enough to bring together "historical study and literary criticism" on the assumption that in the work of "the great writers"(a hierarchy ripe for deconstruction) "history speaks with a human voice"(a revealing phonocentric trope).(Source : London Review of Books, 22 Jan. 1987, p. 10).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Acoustique (Physique)
  • Vocabulaire général

Spanish

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Record 4 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • History

French

Domaine(s)
  • Histoire
OBS

(Harrap 1947)

Spanish

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