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This article re-evaluates Derek Jarman’s adaptation of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest (1979) based on archival research into the cinematic and historical intertexts that influenced film. Specifically, it focuses impact Pier Paolo Pasolini aesthetics, particularly Italian filmmaker’s last work: Salò, or 120 Days Sodom (1975). explores how Jarman used Pasolini’s work as a filter through which ...

El vídeo musical es un formato perfecto para transmitir visualmente aquellas ideas, conceptos o estéticas que acompañan al mensaje sonoro. Este artículo gira en torno cortometraje Broken English: Three songs by Marianne Faithfull (1979), el director británico Derek Jarman realizó ilustrar tres canciones de la cantante. La pieza, anterior nacimiento MTV, reúne maneras muy diferentes enfocar musi...

Geographical variation in coronary revascularisation rates Sir-I found the paper by Black et all on the geographical variation in coronary re-vascularisation rates extremely interesting. This is a vital area if the NHS is to try to achieve a more equitable service. I am impressed by the tremendous size of the study embarked upon to investigate these variations and the wealth of information avai...

Geographical variation in coronary revascularisation rates Sir-I found the paper by Black et all on the geographical variation in coronary re-vascularisation rates extremely interesting. This is a vital area if the NHS is to try to achieve a more equitable service. I am impressed by the tremendous size of the study embarked upon to investigate these variations and the wealth of information avai...

AIMS To describe a series of children with invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD). METHODS A review of patient records for children aged 0-18 years admitted to the John Radcliffe Hospital with IPD from 1985 to 2001. Social deprivation was measured by the Jarman index. The proportion of children with congenital abnormalities was compared with national data. RESULTS We identified 140 children wi...

Patients and practitioners have been found to have differing views of health and to monitor progress in rehabilitation in different ways (Malzer 1988, St Claire et al 1996). Thus the importance of patient-centred care has been recognised in physiotherapy (Grant 1994, Potter et al 2003b) along with general medicine, nursing and other allied health professions (Brown et al 1986, Fulford et al 199...

STUDY OBJECTIVE A number of measures have been developed which attempt to combine a range of variables into a single, more easily understood dimension of "deprivation". These extend from fairly simple additive measures through to those based on more sophisticated statistical techniques. All attempts to simplify a number of variables into a single, summary measure have limitations. This paper co...