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IMPRESSIONISTIC [6 records]

Record 1 2006-05-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cinematography
DEF

A film production that is not oriented toward turning a profit but that is produced for the sake of the film, and, the art.

OBS

Normative narrative frame-works are dismissed for such idioms as camera techniques, color, sound, impressionistic images, non-realistic depictions, shapes, forms, tones, rythms, et al. Themes may also be associated with subjects of forbidden fruits, subjective interpretations of the world and even pure abstractions.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cinématographie
DEF

Production cinématographique qui n'est pas axée sur le profit mais sur le film en tant qu'expression artistique.

OBS

Le cinéma expérimental, en tant que genre cinématographique, se veut un renouvellement du langage cinématographique dans la narration, le son et l'image.

Spanish

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Record 2 2005-04-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Films
OBS

The Oscar-winner film is a visual and emotional thriller. It is an impressionistic record of a flamenco dance class given to senior students of the National Ballet School of Canada by two great teachers from Spain, Susana and Antonio Robledo.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de films

Spanish

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Record 3 1999-02-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Organization Planning
CONT

Impressionistic planning : Decisions and choices are made on the basis of experience, pressures, minimal information and rough estimates of needs and possibilities.

OBS

HOHEA: Hogarth, J. Glossary of health care terminology. Copenhagen, WHO Regional Office for Europe, 1978. (Public Health in Europe, No. 4).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Planification d'organisation
CONT

Planification impressionniste: C'est à partir de l'expérience, des pressions exercées, d'un minimum d'information et d'estimations grossières des besoins et des possibilités que les choix sont faits et les décisions prises.

Spanish

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Record 4 1995-10-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Legal System
  • Special-Language Phraseology

French

Domaine(s)
  • Théorie du droit
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité
OBS

Source(s) : [1982] 1 RCS 212 (Etobicoke).

Spanish

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Record 5 1993-04-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cinematography

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cinématographie
OBS

Scène de lit traditionnelle qui laisse place à l'imagination. Cette catégorie de film s'adresse aux quinze ans et plus.

OBS

Équivalent fourni par l'ONF.

Spanish

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Record 6 1981-02-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Social Psychology
OBS

Informal, impressionistic theories of personality that each of us develops. These theories suggest the kinds of qualities or traits that "go together" and hence allow us to form overall impressions of another on the basis of only minimal evidence.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie sociale

Spanish

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