This paper reviews the transmission modes of Trypanosoma evansi. Its worldwide distribution is attributed to mechanical transmission. While the role of tabanids is clear, we raise questions on the relative role of Haematobia sp. and the possible role of Stomoxys sp. in delayed transmission.
Marc Desquesnes +6 more
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Translating Britishness in the French Versions of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
La forma en que los personajes ficticios se crean y se presentan en los textos, sean escritos o audiovisuales, se denomina caracterización. En el presente artículo, me propongo identificar y definir más aún la caracterización en el marco de la ...
Charlotte Bosseaux
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Everyman with fangs: The acceptance of the modern vampire [PDF]
The vampire, an enduring demon from the European middle ages has through the course of the 20th century undergone a journey of transformation. The journey of the beast describes a circle, starting and ending with the depiction of the vampire as a ...
Cardow, Andrew
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“I Think I Need to Kill You”: The New Woman Assassin in Hanna and Killing Eve
ABSTRACT Killing Eve and Hanna feature women assassins, who are examined here in the context of the action woman, arguing that the depiction of women action in these two series marks a departure from traditional iterations of this and related character tropes.
Cornelia Klecker
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Pop Feminism: Televised Superheroines from the 1990s to the 2010s
This paper analyses the construction of two superheroines, one from the 1990s (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and one from the 2010s (Jessica Jones). I contend that popular feminism has changed between the 1990s and the present and that this is evident in the
Bercuci Loredana
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Book review: Gender, violence and popular culture: tellingstories [PDF]
This book approaches the interrelation of popular representations of gender and violence and global politics by focusing on the narrative of television shows like Angel, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and The West Wing.
Gouseti, Ioanna
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Just chronotopes: Embodiment, social justice, and “the somatopic imagination”
Abstract Drawing on data collected in a global, collaborative ethnography called The Living Justice Project (LJP), this paper investigates how formulations of social justice situate speakers' bodies in relation to one another as well as in relation to dominant interpretations of the past, felt experiences in the present, and visions for the (possible ...
Sonya E. Pritzker +1 more
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Analysis of the Progression of the Representation of Female Protagonists in the Sci-Fi/Fantasy TV Shows Orphan Black and Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Girl Power, Appropriated “Masculinity” in Conjunction with Femininity, Empowered Sexuality, and the Heterosexual Script [PDF]
Buffy Summers goes from urban Los Angeles to Sunnydale, California after she is expelled from her previous high school on the grounds of an assortment of Slayer-related incidents.
Becker, Dakota
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L’héroïsme intermédial de Buffy the Vampire Slayer
International ...
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Demon girl power: Regimes of form and force in videogames primal and Buffy the Vampire Slayer [PDF]
'There's nothing like a spot of demon slaughter to make a girl's night'. Since the phenomenal success of the Tomb Raider (1996) videogame series a range of other videogames have used carefully branded animated female avatars.
Krzywinska, T
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