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Introduction to Japanese horror film, by Colette Balmain [book review]
Transformative Works and Cultures, 2009 Book review, Colette Balmain. Introduction to Japanese horror film. Edinburgh University Press, 2008. £16.99 (214p) ISBN 978-0-7486-2475-1.
Alessia Alfieroni
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The Irony of Liberation in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Journal of American Culture, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The 1975 film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest vividly portrays the tragic consequences of repressive psychiatric authority. The film was—and remains—one of the most memorable and well‐known products of anti‐psychiatry sentiment. Opponents of American psychiatry from the time period of Cuckoo's Nest objected to what they saw as social control ...
Laura Hirshbein
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Flatliners (2017): In the border between life and Death
Revista de Medicina y Cine / Journal of Medicine and Movies, 2019 Flatliners (2017) is a science fiction horror film. Directed by Niels Arden, as a remake of the original from 1990´s film. Starring renowned actors such as Ellen Page, Kiefer Sutherland and Diego Luna. The film shows the life of five medical students and
José Patricio NOVELO PÉREZ +5 more
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Product Positioning and Incentives to Innovate
Journal of Economics &Management Strategy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper shows that product positioning affects the incentives to invest in process innovation. The result is found using a model of price competition with three firms under horizontal product differentiation—and then extended to a more general Bertrand triopoly.
Emanuele Bacchiega, Paolo G. Garella
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Zdarzenie – między horrorem a baśnią
Slavia Meridionalis, 2016 An Event – between horror and fairy tale An Event (Događaj, 1969) is one of the few Croatian horror movies. In comparison to other examples of the use of the horror genre in Croatian cinema, the film is distinguished by its aesthetic sophistication and
Patryk Pająk
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Organizational Soundscapes and the Sonicity of Voices: The Power of the ‘Sounds’ that Carry ‘Words’
Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Organizations are soundscapes – they resonate with sounds and particularly the sounds of voices. Somehow however voice sonics, that is the sounds of voices and not the words carried on those sounds, have escaped attention in management studies. This absence of analysis is peculiar given voice sonics' undoubted influence on management (they may
Nancy Harding, Jackie Ford
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Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines how and to what extent violence has become a pivotal tool for conducting business in places integrated into the global value chain. It also explores the roles stakeholders play in silencing workers' resistance within these places.
Shoaib Ahmed
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Extracting vitalities: Cuts in Indigenous women's bodies‐territories (Brazil)
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract In this article, I explore the connections between the medicalization of childbirth and environmental devastation through Guarani‐Mbyá understandings of life and the living. I argue that the cuts made to Guarani‐Mbyá women's vaginas (episiotomies) in Brazilian hospitals are experienced and situated on the same cosmopolitical level as the cuts ...
Maria Paula Prates
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Transcultural perspectives in Teaching Children's Horror Films
Seminar.net, 2018 Transcultural perspective has recently raised more academic attention due to the internationalization of higher education and migration all over the globe.
Marjo Kovanen, Sirkku Kotilainen
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Labors of Fear: The Modern Horror Film Goes to Work, edited by Aviva Briefel and Jason Middleton
Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen MediaFrom the gory cover art of VHS tapes to the iconic imagery of chainsaws, horror films have long been misconstrued as mere vehicles for shock and sensation.
Blake Lynch
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