Alison Griffiths
Biographic Data
| ID | 3605847 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alison Griffiths |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alison |
| FAMILY NAME | Griffiths |
| SIGNATURE | GRIFFITHS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4208-3962 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1963 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A cost analysis of reductions in work productivity for MG patients and their caregivers by symptom severity
Introduction: Myasthenia Gravis (MG) is a debilitating autoimmune disorder associated with fatigue and weakness in the ocular, respiratory, bulbar and limb muscles. This study evaluates productivity losses for MG patients and their caregivers by MG symptom severity. Methods: In the multinational MyRealWorld-MG study, 1,049 MG patients and caregivers reported on work productivity (sick leave, reduced working hours, early retirement). Productivity …
Amateur Film, Cultural Memory and the Visual Legacy of the 1920s Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial
This essay considers amateur cinema as a site of Indigenous history and counter-memory, one capable of activating meanings that challenge notions of home movies as being films without public value. The amateur films were made by an American geologist, William Wrather, at the Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial in Gallup, New Mexico, in the late 1920/1930s, and they interweave footage of Wrather’s family with recordings of the parade and dances. I expl…
The crystal reveals the whole
This article examines the rich visual culture of the medieval period in order to better understand dreaming as a kind of visual thought experiment, one in which ideas associated with cinema, such as embodied viewing, narrative sequencing, projection, and sensory engagement, are palpable in a range of visual and literary works. The author explores the theoretical connections between the oneiric qualities of cinema and the visual culture of medieva…
The carceral aesthetic
This article examines how actuality and fictional films about prisoners made during the early cinema period construct a carceral imaginary that appropriated visual tropes from the Middle Ages while experimenting with motion picture's unique signifying properties. The essay constructs a genealogy of prison-set motion pictures made before 1914, a period overlooked in standard prison film histories, starting with actualities of prisoners including T…
The 1920s museum-sponsored expedition film
Many natural history museums, including the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), enthusiastically adopted the young medium of motion pictures in the form of the sponsored expedition film. This essay examines Camping Among the Indians, shot in the American Southwest in 1927 by Clyde Fisher, AMNH curator (and later Chairman of the AMNH Hayden Planetarium), and Ernest Thompson Seton, wildlife illustrator, children's book author, and founder of…
Wonder, Magic and the Fantastical Margins
What are the nature and power of special effects that induce such strong reactions in cinema spectators, and is it possible to find an analog to this contemporary fascination in the visual culture of the Middle Ages? This article contends that spectators during the medieval period may have responded to fantastical, supernatural, phantasmagorical, miraculous, satanic, or spectacular images with a similar sense of awe and wonder as contemporary vie…
They Go to See a Show’
Nineteenth‐century museums of science and industry were public spaces where visitors could encounter unique modes of visual spectacle celebrating machines in motion as emblems of the Industrial Revolution. A diverse set of visitors traversed the halls of the South Kensington and Patent Museums in London in pursuit of information about the latest inventions as well as a hefty dose of visual spectacle and an opportunity to mingle with family and fr…
National and cultural identity in a Welsh-language soap opera
This chapter considers the growing interest in the popular Welsh-language soap opera, Pobol Y Cwm (People of the Valley), and the extent to which discourses of Welshness and definitions of cultural and national identity contribute to the appeal and longevity of the soap. Welshlanguage broadcasting has been largely neglected in debates surrounding popular culture and pleasure in the 1970s and 1980s; little English-language research has been done i…
Playing at Being Indian
Anickelodeon screening of an “Indian” melodrama almost one hundred years ago might have seemed both novel and reassuringly familiar to audiences at the time; novel, since “Indian” films were suddenly en vogue at the time, and this may have been the spectator's first taste of the exciting new genre, and familiar, since many of the films' narrative and iconographic tropes would have been instantly recognized from nineteenth-century painting, photog…
Cambridge and the Torres Straits
Cambridge and the Torres Straits: Centenary Essays on the 1898 Anthropological Expedition. Anita Herle and Sandra Rouse. eds. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 252 pp
A moving picture in two senses
(1996). A moving picture in two senses: Allegories of the nation in 1950s Indian melodrama. Continuum: Vol. 9, Media Education, pp. 173-184
Knowledge and Visuality in Turn of the Century Anthropology
Ethnography and popular memory
(1994). Ethnography and popular memory: Postmodern configurations of welsh identities. Continuum: Vol. 7, Screening Cultural Studies, pp. 307-326
The National Aeronautics and Space Act
Knowledge and Visuality in Turn of the Century Anthropology
Cambridge and the Torres Straits
Cambridge and the Torres Straits: Centenary Essays on the 1898 Anthropological Expedition. Anita Herle and Sandra Rouse. eds. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 252 pp
The 1920s museum-sponsored expedition film
Many natural history museums, including the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), enthusiastically adopted the young medium of motion pictures in the form of the sponsored expedition film. This essay examines Camping Among the Indians, shot in the American Southwest in 1927 by Clyde Fisher, AMNH curator (and later Chairman of the AMNH Hayden Planetarium), and Ernest Thompson Seton, wildlife illustrator, children's book author, and founder of…
They Go to See a Show’
Nineteenth‐century museums of science and industry were public spaces where visitors could encounter unique modes of visual spectacle celebrating machines in motion as emblems of the Industrial Revolution. A diverse set of visitors traversed the halls of the South Kensington and Patent Museums in London in pursuit of information about the latest inventions as well as a hefty dose of visual spectacle and an opportunity to mingle with family and fr…
Ethnography and popular memory
(1994). Ethnography and popular memory: Postmodern configurations of welsh identities. Continuum: Vol. 7, Screening Cultural Studies, pp. 307-326
The National Aeronautics and Space Act
Ethnography and popular memory
(1994). Ethnography and popular memory: Postmodern configurations of welsh identities. Continuum: Vol. 7, Screening Cultural Studies, pp. 307-326
A moving picture in two senses
(1996). A moving picture in two senses: Allegories of the nation in 1950s Indian melodrama. Continuum: Vol. 9, Media Education, pp. 173-184
Knowledge and Visuality in Turn of the Century Anthropology
Cambridge and the Torres Straits
Cambridge and the Torres Straits: Centenary Essays on the 1898 Anthropological Expedition. Anita Herle and Sandra Rouse. eds. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 252 pp
Playing at Being Indian
Anickelodeon screening of an “Indian” melodrama almost one hundred years ago might have seemed both novel and reassuringly familiar to audiences at the time; novel, since “Indian” films were suddenly en vogue at the time, and this may have been the spectator's first taste of the exciting new genre, and familiar, since many of the films' narrative and iconographic tropes would have been instantly recognized from nineteenth-century painting, photog…
National and cultural identity in a Welsh-language soap opera
This chapter considers the growing interest in the popular Welsh-language soap opera, Pobol Y Cwm (People of the Valley), and the extent to which discourses of Welshness and definitions of cultural and national identity contribute to the appeal and longevity of the soap. Welshlanguage broadcasting has been largely neglected in debates surrounding popular culture and pleasure in the 1970s and 1980s; little English-language research has been done i…
They Go to See a Show’
Nineteenth‐century museums of science and industry were public spaces where visitors could encounter unique modes of visual spectacle celebrating machines in motion as emblems of the Industrial Revolution. A diverse set of visitors traversed the halls of the South Kensington and Patent Museums in London in pursuit of information about the latest inventions as well as a hefty dose of visual spectacle and an opportunity to mingle with family and fr…
Wonder, Magic and the Fantastical Margins
What are the nature and power of special effects that induce such strong reactions in cinema spectators, and is it possible to find an analog to this contemporary fascination in the visual culture of the Middle Ages? This article contends that spectators during the medieval period may have responded to fantastical, supernatural, phantasmagorical, miraculous, satanic, or spectacular images with a similar sense of awe and wonder as contemporary vie…
The 1920s museum-sponsored expedition film
Many natural history museums, including the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), enthusiastically adopted the young medium of motion pictures in the form of the sponsored expedition film. This essay examines Camping Among the Indians, shot in the American Southwest in 1927 by Clyde Fisher, AMNH curator (and later Chairman of the AMNH Hayden Planetarium), and Ernest Thompson Seton, wildlife illustrator, children's book author, and founder of…
The carceral aesthetic
This article examines how actuality and fictional films about prisoners made during the early cinema period construct a carceral imaginary that appropriated visual tropes from the Middle Ages while experimenting with motion picture's unique signifying properties. The essay constructs a genealogy of prison-set motion pictures made before 1914, a period overlooked in standard prison film histories, starting with actualities of prisoners including T…
The crystal reveals the whole
This article examines the rich visual culture of the medieval period in order to better understand dreaming as a kind of visual thought experiment, one in which ideas associated with cinema, such as embodied viewing, narrative sequencing, projection, and sensory engagement, are palpable in a range of visual and literary works. The author explores the theoretical connections between the oneiric qualities of cinema and the visual culture of medieva…
Amateur Film, Cultural Memory and the Visual Legacy of the 1920s Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial
This essay considers amateur cinema as a site of Indigenous history and counter-memory, one capable of activating meanings that challenge notions of home movies as being films without public value. The amateur films were made by an American geologist, William Wrather, at the Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial in Gallup, New Mexico, in the late 1920/1930s, and they interweave footage of Wrather’s family with recordings of the parade and dances. I expl…
A cost analysis of reductions in work productivity for MG patients and their caregivers by symptom severity
Introduction: Myasthenia Gravis (MG) is a debilitating autoimmune disorder associated with fatigue and weakness in the ocular, respiratory, bulbar and limb muscles. This study evaluates productivity losses for MG patients and their caregivers by MG symptom severity. Methods: In the multinational MyRealWorld-MG study, 1,049 MG patients and caregivers reported on work productivity (sick leave, reduced working hours, early retirement). Productivity …
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