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Blood and Bone: The quarantine chronicles. [PDF]

open access: yesRes Pract Thromb Haemost, 2020
Abstract In the midst of the chaos of the global pandemic, the online daily webinar series Blood and Bone was created. The series started with a blank schedule on a google doc and, with enthusiasm and participation from the hematopoiesis and hemostasis/thrombosis communities, was quickly filled through September 2020.
Taylor KA, Machlus KR.
europepmc   +2 more sources

An observational model for vampire slaying in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Scientifically guiding the next generation of slayers

open access: yes, 2019
The American television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (“BtVS”, 1997-2003) has been the subject of extensive literary analysis, largely due to its use of demon-slaying as a metaphor for real-life conflict. Interestingly, exploring these themes throughout 100+ hours of television has also produced a large set of observational data that gives insight ...
Julian Freedland
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Gender recognition from unconstrained and articulated human body. [PDF]

open access: yesScientificWorldJournal, 2014
Gender recognition has many useful applications, ranging from business intelligence to image search and social activity analysis. Traditional research on gender recognition focuses on face images in a constrained environment. This paper proposes a method for gender recognition in articulated human body images acquired from an unconstrained environment ...
Wu Q, Guo G.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Magic and Spells in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003)

open access: yesM/C Journal, 2023
Introduction Many examinations of magic and witchcraft in film and television focus on the gender dynamics depicted and what these can reveal about attitudes to women and power in the eras in which they were made.
Louise Child
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The “Bury your Gays” trope in contemporary television: Generational shifts in production responses to audience dissent

open access: yesThe Journal of Popular Culture, Volume 56, Issue 5-6, Page 810-823, October/December 2023., 2023
Abstract “Bury Your Gays” is the popular name used to describe the common television trope in which characters who are ostensibly gender‐ or sexually‐diverse are denied happy endings or “killed off”. Widespread online commentary among audiences reacting to incidents of “Bury Your Gays” are indicative of a public concern over the repetitiveness of this ...
Rob Cover, Cassandra Milne
wiley   +1 more source

Mirrors, Windows, and Feminist Threshold Imagery in Grimm (Through Buffy-Tinted Glass) [PDF]

open access: yesSlayage, 2023
Grimm and Buffy the Vampire Slayer have significant connections not only in terms of fictional content and production but also visual imagery. Threshold imagery develops both Buffy and Juliette, who goes from being a woman behind glass to a witch who ...
Wilcox, Rhonda V.
doaj  

Variety within Bigotry: From Individual to Systemic Monsterism in Buffy the Vampire Slayer [PDF]

open access: yesSlayage, 2023
Scholars debate and categorize varieties of bigotry in terms of responsibility, whether individual, institutional, structural, systematic, or systemic. Using the distance of fantasy narrative and “monsterism” in specific cases in Buffy the Vampire Slayer,
Rocha, James, Rocha, Mona
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Sympathetic Vampires and Zombies with Brains: The Modern Monster as a Master of Self‐Control

open access: yes, 2021
The Journal of Popular Culture, Volume 54, Issue 3, Page 594-612, June 2021.
Irina M. Erman
wiley   +1 more source

Television vampire fandom and religion

open access: yesScripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 2013
Popular culture and fandom provide a setting where people can reflect on the questions of life. A television show defines for many of its fans what it means to be human.
Minja Blom
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