Morano, a successful cinematographer who made her directorial debut on the critically-acclaimed Tribeca film festival smash Meadowland earlier this year, takes charge of a film with an unusual combination of themes.
Mantel's concern in these stories, in contrast to her historical fiction, is with domestic suffocation, psychological unease and even the ghoulish – a combination of themes that has run throughout her more contemporary novels, from her debut Every Day Is Mother's Day (1985) to Beyond Black (2005), whose protagonist was haunted by visions of the afterlife.
Palms Springs' unusual combination of themes and personalities is unique in the world.
Also evidenced throughout the show is the flexibility of the form itself to handle, in a single frame, a paradoxical combination of themes.
When asked why they were or were not willing to participate, the employees named a combination of themes.
The Akaike information criterion (AIC) value, within a sequential logistic regression model, was used to measure the adequacy of the fitted models for each theme and combination of themes predicting the dichotomous outcome variable (unorthodox view versus all others) [ 30].
The initial coding scheme was drawn up through a combination of themes emerging from the data, pre-defined areas of interest identified from the main intervention and from anthropological theory.
It is a method used to identify patterns, and see how different combinations of themes interact.
The final choice of particular solutions (combinations of themes which logically explain the studied outcome in the material), however, is once again dependent on qualitative judgement, as are the parameters that are entered in QCA in the first place.
On Wednesday, BBC2 commentator David Croft had a field day with the combination of Martin Wolfie Adamsms (theme music: Duran Duran's Hungry Like the Wolf) and the freezing weather: "The wolf has arrived in sheep's clothing – nothing sheepish about his performance tonight!" Adams later "howled his way into the quarter finals".
