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PASTA OR PARADIGM: THE PLACE OF ITALIAN-AMERICAN WOMEN IN POPULAR FILM [PDF]
, 1979 The year is 1930, the film is Little Caesar, and Hollywood begins its long and often irresponsible tradition of portraying the Italian-American male as gangster, thug, sociopath.
Golden, Daniel
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David Roche (ed.), Steven Spielberg: Hollywood Wunderkind & Humanist [PDF]
, 2018 Julia Echeverría
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The Journal of American Culture, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the use of promotional interviews (“promos”) in American professional wrestling of the 1980s. I argue that promos introduced a vocal modality into a form of sports entertainment that, as Roland Barthes ([1957] 1972) showed in Mythologies, had always been dominated by visual spectacle. I then undertake a focused linguistic
Jens Kjeldgaard‐Christiansen
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Nordicom Review, 2009 The article aims to tease out an implicit, possibly even instinctive, assumption about why big-budget blockbuster storylines come up short compared to other kinds of culturally sanctioned narratives.
Lavik Erlend
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Woc-Bots: An Agent-Based Approach to Decision-Making
Applied Sciences, 2019 We present a flexible, robust approach to predictive decision-making using simple, modular agents (WoC-Bots) that interact with each other socially and share information about the features they are trained on.
Sean Grimes, David E. Breen
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Opening remarks to the Community Reinvestment Conference [PDF]
Presentation to the Community Reinvestment Conference, Hollywood, CA, March 29, 2004Community ...
Robert T. Parry
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‘It's Like a Horror Movie That You Walk Through’: Experiencing Horror Through Immersive Recreation
The Journal of American Culture, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Horror stories have provided enjoyable forms of leisure for centuries. Over the past five decades, however, these experiences have evolved into increasingly immersive forms of popular culture. What once involved constructing the narrative world internally through reading has expanded into sensory engagement through visual and auditory media ...
Susan Weidmann
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