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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
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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
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The representation of money in film : gold, paper, metal and electronic [PDF]
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
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"
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
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.
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
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
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Realism of the senses: a tendency in contemporary world cinema [PDF]
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
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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