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Middlebrow Aesthetics: An Explanation and Defense
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We offer a philosophical account of the middlebrow as a theoretical category to do explanatory and critical work in aesthetics. On our account, the middlebrow ought to be understood as aspirational popular art. That is, it is art which aspires both to be popular (in a distinctive sense), and at the same time to be something more than popular ...
Aaron Meskin, Jonathan M. Weinberg
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The Subversion of Factual Discourse in Found Footage Films
Aletria: Revista de Estudos de Literatura, 2016 Este artigo analisa como o design textual de filmes do formato found footage subverte o discurso factual a fim de potencializar a pretendida sensação de horror na tela. Filmes como Canibal Holocausto (1980), A Bruxa de Blair (1999), Atividade Paranormal (
Claudio Vescia Zanini
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Out of the dark – Psychological perspectives on people's fascination with true crime
British Journal of Psychology, Volume 117, Issue 3, Page 880-909, August 2026.Abstract The success of the true crime media genre reflects humanity's avid curiosity about violence, deviance, and murder, yet psychological research on this phenomenon is lacking. In this article, we highlight why true crime consumption may be relevant to various research fields that go beyond simple media preferences.
Corinna Perchtold‐Stefan +5 more
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"Drácula Found Footage": Reflexões sobre um exercício de realização audiovisual
Mediaciones Sociales, 2018 Filmes de ficção que partem da premissa de “registro encontrado” (found footage) são hoje um fenômeno massivo de produção e consumo audiovisual, sobretudo no campo dos gêneros de fantasia e horror. Característica fundamental desses filmes é o recurso da
Laura Loguercio Cánepa +1 more
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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 8, Issue 4, Page 1087-1094, July 2026.Widespread museum digitization initiatives have made the world's herbaria more accessible than ever, launching a renaissance of specimen use. We highlight the value of digitization to bolster both scientific and historical research using the specimens from the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition (1881–1884) to the Canadian arctic, remembered for its tragedy ...
J. Mason Heberling, Jackson P. Wright
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Auschwitz e os desafios da representação
Anuário de Literatura, 2008 A partir dos conceitos de representação e de catástrofe, proponho uma reflexão acerca de duas obras dedicadas a um evento que, devido a sua própria natureza, não previa testemunho, diálogo ou resposta: o extermínio nazista.
Fernanda Muller
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When does category spanning hurt or help producers?
Strategic Management Journal, Volume 47, Issue 7, Page 1907-1934, July 2026.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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Bulletin of Latin American Research, Volume 45, Issue 3, July 2026.ABSTRACT This article explores how documentary film constructs responsibility for environmental harm in response to the Argentine Supreme Court's 2008 ruling on the polluted Matanza‐Riachuelo river basin. Through an interdisciplinary dialogue between socio‐legal, film and cultural studies, the analysis explores how three documentaries envisage ...
Oliver Wilson‐Nunn
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‘AN AUSTRIAN FATE’: TRAUMA, REPRESSION AND WAR IN ADRIAN GOIGINGER'S DER FUCHS (2022)
German Life and Letters, Volume 79, Issue 3, Page 351-364, July 2026.ABSTRACT This article examines one of the highest‐grossing films in recent years in Austria, Der Fuchs (Adrian Goiginger, 2022), which focuses on the friendship of the protagonist, a Wehrmacht soldier, with an abandoned fox cub, but in the process elides more than four years of the soldier's wartime experience.
Katya Krylova
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International Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 28, Issue 3, Page 299-317, July 2026.Abstract Ancient ideas about human transformation and divinization have resurfaced in our cultural moment. Artificial intelligence and biotechnology are raising afresh questions about what it means to be human and divine. The Oxford Handbook of Deification has arrived on the scene as its subject matter has splashed out of theological discourse into the
Andrew J. Byers
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