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Sonic Stereotypes: Jazz and Racial Signification in American Film and Television Soundtracks
Nota Bene, 2015 This paper examines the use of jazz in contemporary American film and television soundtracks. Through processes of cultural signification, jazz music frequently maps racialized meaning onto the narrative. Often, a “black” jazz aesthetic signifies social
Kyle Jackson
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Индустрии впечатлений: Технологии социокультурных исследований, 2023 Communication between the elite and the masses in the context of modern culture over time acquires a rather specific and atypical character. Instead of the usual system of coercion in its diverse forms, in modern institutional, socio-political discourse,
Sergey Malenko / Сергей Анатольевич Маленко +1 more
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HORROR FILMS IN UNCONSCIOUS ANTHROPOLOGICAL STRATEGIES OF BIOPOWER
Antropologìčnì Vimìri Fìlosofsʹkih Doslìdžen', 2018 Purpose. The article is devoted to horror films as forms of anthropological crisis in mass culture, which generate specific meanings and are presented in ways of control over consumer society, as well as act as unconscious ideological mediators of ...
S. A. Malenko, A. G. Nekita
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‘Wheels of Tragedy’: Death on the Highways in Carnival of Souls (1962) and the Highway Safety Film
Forum, 2017 This article argues that Carnival of Souls (1962), is a foundational text in the ‘Highway Horror’ sub- genre. It directly confronts one of the most pervasive taboos in modern American life: the horrific death toll associated with mass automobility.
Bernice M. Murphy
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Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 2019 Eve Bennett begins her new book, Gender in Post-9/11 American Apocalyptic TV: Representations of Masculinity and Femininity at the End of the World, by describing the apocalyptic aftermath of a suicide bombing in Heroes Reborn (2015).
Martin Fradley
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Spectacles of shame: Ryan Murphy as curator of queer cultural memory [PDF]
Zbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u Prištini, 2017 In the anthology Queer Shame, edited by David M. Halperin and Valerie Traub, 'the personal and the social shame attached to eroticism' is taken to task in relation to the larger contemporary discourse surrounding gay pride (understood in terms of ...
Stepić Nikola N.
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Monsters on MTV: Adaptation and the Gothic Music Video
Humanities, 2023 Music videos of the MTV era often use gothic visual signifiers as decorative elements or creative expressions of the musician’s star persona or latest record.
Drago Momcilovic
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Encountering violence: terrorism and horrorism in war and citizenship [PDF]
, 2014 This article introduces Adriana Cavarero's concept of “horrorism” into International Relations (IR) discussions of the relationship between war and citizenship.
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The Crane Perspective. The Crisis of Female Identity in Hitchcock’s Psycho
Feminismo/s, 2016 Taking as a starting point reading built around this famous film of the modern horror film, this analysis suggests an overall reading of his discourse about the woman.
Laura Antón
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Dealing with the Uncanny? Cultural Adaptation in Matt Reeves’s Vampire Movie Let Me In
American Studies in Scandinavia, 2016 The aim of this article is to examine cultural adaptation and uncanny potential in Matt Reeves’s vampire movie Let Me In (2010), which is an adaptation of John Ajvide Lindqvist’s vampire novel Låt den rätte komma in (2004) – in English translation, Let ...
Maria Holmgren Troy
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