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The Portrayal of Child Soldiers in Documentaries and Hollywood Film [PDF]
, 2017 People in the United States are becoming increasingly mindful of child soldiers, with film being a critical means of bringing about awareness. However, awareness can be dependent upon media representation since most individuals in the U.S.
Tassava, Jessica
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The Geographical Journal, EarlyView.Short Abstract This paper explores the relationships between Bedouin rights, citizenship and indigeneity in cultural heritage sites in Jordan. Through interviews and ethnographic fieldwork with Bedouin communities, we argue that a more critical engagement with indigeneity is necessary in Jordan.
Taraf Abu Hamdan, Olivia Mason
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The Only Defense is Excess: Translating and Surpassing Hollywood’s Conventions to Establish a Relevant Mexican Cinema [PDF]
, 2011 Mexico is one of the countries which has adapted American cinematographic genreswith success and productivity. This country has seen in Hollywood an effectivestructure for approaching the audience.
Barreiro Posada, Paula
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PROVINCIALISING BERLIN IN MENSCHEN IM HOTEL
German Life and Letters, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In this article, I take the peculiar source of Vicki Baum's Menschen im Hotel (1929) in a Southern Moravian town as a starting point to reveal the ways in which the hierarchies between metropolis and province are negotiated and complicated by the novel.
Meindert Peters
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A Romanian Jew in Hollywood: Edward G. Robinson
American, British and Canadian Studies Journal, 2014 The present study aims to investigate the contribution that actor Edward G. Robinson brought to the American film industry, beginning with his iconic role as gangster Little Caesar in Mervyn Le Roy’s 1931 production, and continuing with widely-acclaimed ...
Moldovan Raluca
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My Life and the Final Days of Hollywood by Claude Jarman Jr.
Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 2019 The bitter observation of child actor Bobby Driscoll, who won a special Academy Award for his performance in The Window (1949), sums up the attitude of many actors that have found themselves built up and feted, only to be cast aside by the studio system ...
Gwenda Young
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Weighing up the qualities of independence: 21 grams in focus [PDF]
, 2004 At the heart (literally) of 21 Grams (2003) is a concern about questions of identity; of measuring that which seems ineffable – the essence of life, or what makes us distinct, unique as individuals, or otherwise.
King, G
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‘QUOD NON EST IN BEROLINA, NON EST IN MUNDO’: VIEWS FROM THE PERIPHERY
German Life and Letters, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The historiography of Weimar cinema has focused almost exclusively on film production and exhibition in the German capital Berlin, generally neglecting other geographic regions, in particular the Rhineland which, after the First World War, remained under Allied control until the mid‐1920s for some parts, for others even longer.
Frank Kessler, Sabine Lenk
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Dialectic and narrative in Aquinas; The soul as virgin wife; On evil (3 books) [PDF]
, 1996 Reviewed Book: Hibbs, Thomas S. Dialectic and narrative in Aquinas: an interpretation of the Summa contra gentiles. [S.l.]: Univ of Notre Dame Pr, 1995. Hollywood, Amy.
Erb, Peter C.
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Good Public Theology is Twilight Theology. A Constructive Deconstruction of Public Theology
International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.Abstract The article outlines the basic features of a good public theology that is inspired by Paul’s description of the situation of the church and Christians: ‘The night has passed, the day is not far distant’ (Rom 13:12). In his analysis of the present, the author identifies eight specific challenges of contemporary culture – challenges that have so
Günter Thomas
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