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Despite being outside of his jurisdiction, Broward County Chief Detective Lawrence Lang attempted to reopen the Floyd and Burkett murder case due to its similarities to the Floyd McFarland murder in Fort Lauderdale. Though they were stonewalled by Port St. Joe authorities, detectives travelled to north Florida to investigate.
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Despite being outside of his jurisdiction, Broward County Chief Detective Lawrence Lang attempted to reopen the Floyd and Burkett murder case due to its similarities to the Floyd McFarland murder in Fort Lauderdale. Though they were stonewalled by Port St. Joe authorities, detectives travelled to north Florida to investigate.
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Curtis Adams and the Port St. Joe/Fort Lauderdale Murders
2023Chapter 2 outlines the murders, of which Pitts and Lee were wrongfully convicted, that took place at the Mo Jo gas station in Port St. Joe on July 31, 1963. Grover Floyd and Jesse Burkett were two white gas station attendants who were murdered by Curtis Adams, who robbed them of $100. Adams lived with his girlfriend, Mary Jean Akins, who would prove to
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Adam Curtis' Spooky Carnival: The Documentarian as World Historian
2023World History Connected, Vol. 16 No.
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Negotiating the Pleasure Principle: The Recent Work of Adam Curtis
Film Quarterly, 2008Abstract This essay discusses the most recent BBC documentary series by Adam Curtis: The Century of the Self, The Power of Nightmares, and The Trap. It is argued that the theses of the films are to a degree undermined by Curtis's reliance on the same persuasive, advertising-style techniques that are being critiqued.
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Adam Curtis as remixologist: the case for metajournalism as radical practice
Studies in Documentary Film, 2017In his work for the BBC over the last 30 years, Adam Curtis has tracked some of the main currents of our sociopolitical world.
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Global Media and Communication, 2009
Khoury-Machool, M. 'The re-mythologization of Islam and the Arab world in Adam Curtis's The Power of Nightmares', Global Media and Communication, 2009 5 vol 5 no. 1: 35-55. DOI: 10.1177/1742766508101313 In compliance with a request from the University of Hertfordshire, dated 2 November 2010, the authorship of this article has been changed to: Makram
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Khoury-Machool, M. 'The re-mythologization of Islam and the Arab world in Adam Curtis's The Power of Nightmares', Global Media and Communication, 2009 5 vol 5 no. 1: 35-55. DOI: 10.1177/1742766508101313 In compliance with a request from the University of Hertfordshire, dated 2 November 2010, the authorship of this article has been changed to: Makram
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‘Half of it is just the fun of finding the right music’: Music and the films of Adam Curtis
Studies in Documentary Film, 2013ABSTRACTThis article introduces the use of music in Adam Curtis' documentary films, focusing on The Power Of Nightmares (2005) and All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace (2011). Curtis' work is notable for its use of found footage and archive material, as well as an eclectic range of pre-existing musics from cinematic, popular, industrial and ...
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