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Of Rainbow Unicorns. The Role of Bonding Queer Icons in Contemporary LGBTIQ+ Re-Positionings
Ocula, 2020 Over the years, queer icons have in the main displayed a dual yet conflicting function: that of cautiously dissimulating reality, while blatantly representing it.
Giuseppe Balirano
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Serial Crime, Serious Threats? Replicating the 'Yellow Peril' in British Popular Crime Fiction
Ocula, 2020 From 1912 and for numerous decades, Sax Rohmer contributed to create, and recreate, an archvillain of tremendous vigour, Fu Manchu, whose routing lives, appallingly magnetic powers, subterranean connections made him a global star.
Marilena Parlati
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Il volto di Dio, il volto di Laura. Appunti preliminari [PDF]
, 2006 L'Autore esamina Rvf 16, 77, 78 (chiarendone fino in fondo l'esegesi minuta) sostanzia1mente per approfondire i rapporti di P. con l'Immagine e con il Ritratto (quello di Laura eseguito da Simone Martini, e l'idea di ritratto che emerge dai sonetti ...
Bertone, Giorgio
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Indagine identitaria del personaggio seriale. Verso una semiotica identitaria nella serialità
Ocula, 2020 The contemporary media landscape is more and more pervaded by serial narrations called character-based. This tendency can be traced back to the dawn of the modern seriality, finding in characters as Sherlock Holmes the main cornerstones of popular serial
Nicolò Villani
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Storie di icone. Dall'icona all'icona culturale
Ocula, 2020 The aim of this article is to outline the path of growth and development that proceeds from the icon to the cultural icon, defining its semiotic status and describing the specificities of its formation.
Mauro Ferraresi
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Ocula, 2020 There are many famous women that, in the last years, has taken the floor, speaking about women (i.e., with the aim to speak about equality and gender violence).
Federica Turco
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Guanyin's Limbo: Icons as Demi‐Persons and Dividuating Objects
American Anthropologist, Volume 121, Issue 4, Page 897-910, December 2019., 2019 ABSTRACT How do objects and humans relationally constitute one another? In this article, we examine statues of Guanyin, the bodhisattva of compassion, in Hong Kong to illuminate the forms of personhood and agency that arise through human–icon relations in a modern metropolis. We follow the life course of Guanyin statues, investigating their production,
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Achille e Ulisse. Icone eroiche a confronto
Ocula, 2020 Achilles as the hero of courage, strength, and action vs. Ulysses as the hero of travel, knowledge, and narrative. The ancient view is found in the modern reception, especially in mass culture, in which the two heroes play an iconic role that goes far ...
Alessandro Iannucci
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Testi fatti a pezzi. Il culto mediale come ars excerpendi
Ocula, 2020 The article identifies three properties of cultural icons: the recognizability, the ability to generate a community, the tendency of being "reworked". The latter recalls Eco's thought that, in order to become "iconic", a text must be "dismembered" and ...
Eduardo Grillo
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Ocula, 2020 Last generation TV series - the Tv series of the last two decades - seem to be a true obsession for their audiences, to the point these series can be defined as cult series. The main element which raises such veneration is the protagonist's figure, or of
Andrea Bernardelli
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