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Russia and the Birth of Right‐Wing Terrorism: Mass Politics, Antisemitism, and the Assassination of Mikhail Gertsenshtein

open access: yesThe Russian Review, Volume 85, Issue 3, Page 289-306, July 2026.
Abstract This article examines the assassination of Duma representative Mikhail Gertsenshtein in July 1906 as the pivotal moment for the emergence of the concept of “right‐wing terrorism” (pravyi terrorizm) in the Russian Empire. Drawing on court documents, police files, and censorship reports, this article argues that the significance of the ...
Moritz Florin
wiley   +1 more source

Discursive Power, Civilian Agency, Wartime Duress, and Resilience: Letters to the Authorities in the Blockade of Leningrad

open access: yesThe Russian Review, Volume 85, Issue 3, Page 307-324, July 2026.
Abstract How did World War II affect the nature and resilience of Soviet institutions and authority, especially in the extreme case of the Blockade of Leningrad? During the Blockade, Leningraders acted with great agency by engaging in the shadow trade of food and shadow talk for information and community in order to survive.
Jeffrey K. Hass, Nikita A. Lomagin
wiley   +1 more source

The representation of money in film : gold, paper, metal and electronic [PDF]

open access: yes
This dissertation is a study of the representation of money on screen, in its textual and contextual constructions. Money, itself a representation, has a complex status: it is both an abstract concept, a symbol of value, a social convention, and a ...
Gabrysiak, Diane
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Existential and Phenomenological Horror in Les Diaboliques

open access: yesFilm-Philosophy
This article will show how, through an expressionist style that references Gothic and noir cinema, Les Diaboliques (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1955) mediates concepts found in contemporary post-war French existentialism, in particular the phenomenology of ...
Daniel Tilsley
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Dying to be Seen: Snuff-Fiction's Problematic Fantasies of "Reality"

open access: yes, 2011
The mythic Snuff film has remained a persistent cinematic rumour since the mid-1970s. The discourses that surround Snuff are preoccupied by two factors: (a) the formal aesthetic, and (b) their alleged role as a kind of titillating pornography.
Jones, Steve
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Quatro voltas do parafuso: romance epistolar, found footage e glitch gothic no ensino de cinema

open access: yesComunicação & Educação, 2022
Neste trabalho, apresentaremos reflexões sobre os resultados da pesquisa teórico-prática desenvolvida em 2018, na qual uma turma de alunos de graduação do curso de Cinema e Audiovisual adaptou cenas da novela epistolar A volta do parafuso (1898), de ...
Laura Cánepa   +1 more
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Quebecus Horribilis: Theatricality, the «Moment of Horror» and Quebec’s «Satanist» Cinema.

open access: yes, 2008
In their book, Grand-Guignol: The French Theatre of Horror (2002), Richard J. Hand and Michael Wilson argue that horror plays performed at the Théâtre du Grand-Guignol from the late 19th century to the theatre’s closure in the early 1960s generally ...
Loiselle, Andre
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Medos públicos em lugares privados: o horror nos filmes de Kleber Mendonça Filho

open access: yesSignificação: Revista de Cultura Audiovisual, 2020
O artigo investiga três filmes do diretor brasileiro Kleber Mendonça Filho, Vinil Verde (2004), O Som ao Redor (2012) e Aquarius (2016), buscando identificar, por meio da análise fílmica, o uso de elementos característicos do gênero cinematográfico do ...
Lucas Procópio Caetano, Paula Gomes
doaj  

Realism of the senses: a tendency in contemporary world cinema [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This thesis proposes to examine the production of sensory realism in world cinema by using as case studies the cinemas of Carlos Reygadas (Mexico), Tsai Ming-liang (Taiwan) and Gus Van Sant (US).
Magalhães De Luca, Tiago
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Australian horror movies and the American market

open access: yes, 2018
In Australian cinema since the mid-2000s, horror has become a popular and at times commercially viable genre for low-budget and emerging filmmakers targeting international markets.
Ryan, Mark David, Mark David Ryan
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