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Sublime sacrifice or total revenge: images of science and the scientist in an American horror film
Philosophy of Science and Technology, 2021 Hollywood horror films, which belong to a special genre of cinema, have been extremely sensitive to the topic of scientific and technological progress and the role of research scientists in shaping and promoting the technological picture of the world since their inception. The steadily increasing popularity of visual images of science and scientists in
S.A. Malenko, A.G. Nekita
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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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Mise au Point, 2023 By studying three examples of contemporary Anglo-Saxon cinema aimed at the “general public” and released at the end of the 2010s, this article aims to show different political readings and problems posed by the complexity of the concept of ...
Héloïse Van Appelghem
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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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When does category spanning hurt or help producers?
Strategic Management Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Research Summary Scholars have theorized many factors shaping whether category spanning helps or hurts producers. We first synthesize evidence by meta‐analyzing 25 years of empirical research, which reveals a null effect of spanning on average, yet with significant subsample heterogeneity. To unpack it, we theorize and find that spanning hurts
Jungsoo Ahn +2 more
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We Are Joined Together Temporarily The Tragic Mulatto, Fusion Monster in Lee Frost\u27s The Thing with Two Heads [PDF]
, 2011 In Lee Frost\u27s 1972 film The Thing with Two Heads, a white bigot unknowingly has his head surgically grafted onto the body of a black man. From that moment on, these two personalities compete for control of their shared body with ridiculous results ...
Ponder, Justin
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Effects of the dominant in Secret Window. [PDF]
, 2008 This paper seeks to identify and examine 'problematic' aesthetic strategies in David Koepp's Secret Window (2004). Arguing that the film fits into a specific 'puzzle film' category favouring self-deceiving protagonists and surprise twists, the paper ...
Bettinson, Gary
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Becoming monstrous: Beauty norms, body image, and discursive limits on compassion in The Substance
Nutrition &Dietetics, EarlyView.Abstract Aim This study analyses the Hollywood body horror film The Substance to explore how Western beauty culture regulates emotions and bodies. It aims to explore compassion within dominant body image discourses and considers how this impacts dietetic care. Methods Using Foucauldian discourse analysis informed by affect theory, the film was analysed
Phillip Joy
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Laypeople's Views on the Narrative Identity and Societal Treatment of Genetically Modified People
Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Genome editing in human embryos could raise new ethical issues by changing future people's narrative and numerical identity. Most philosophers agree that some genetic modifications would have larger effects on identity than others, but they disagree on what criteria might explain these differences and have not supported their claims ...
Derek So, Yann Joly, Robert Sladek
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“It’s not just a dream. There is a storm coming!”: Financial Crisis, Masculine Anxieties and Vulnerable Homes in American Film [PDF]
, 2016 Despite the Gothic’s much-discussed resurgence in mainstream American culture, the role the late 2000s financial crisis played in sustaining this renaissance has garnered insufficient critical attention.
Donnar, Glen
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