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Cultured and molecular measures of fecal indicator microbes in Gulf of Mexico recreational waters. [PDF]

open access: yesSci Total Environ
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Communicating Cultism in the Media: Discursive Sense-Giving of Cult Status

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 2022
The term cult has been variously applied to contemporary groups and organizations, marking them as unusual or frightening. Scholarly literature has yet to settle on a concrete conceptualization of cults and reveals little about the communicative processes by which the stigmatizing name becomes attached to certain ...
Kyle A. Hammonds, Michael W. Kramer
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Cult of the vulva vs. cult of the phallus: A case study of media presentations of some famous genitals

Northern Lights: Film & Media Studies Yearbook, 2023
The society we live in is patriarchal, binary and hierarchically coded, evident from social and economic inequality and the stereotyping of men and women. Men are portrayed as active subjects and women as passive objects. Gender stereotyping extends to glorifying the male genitals as active, powerful, excellent and superior and objectifying the female ...
Mirela Holy, Nikolina Borčić
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Wagner the gardener: Media as nature and the building of a cult

Journal of Fandom Studies, The, 2021
This article explores why composer Richard Wagner has such a passionate cult following, by employing the ‘family resemblances’ of cult texts identified by Matt Hills and, in the process, uncovers the elemental threads embedded into his work. Taking up John Durham Peters’s call for an elemental approach to media, I argue that Wagner’s treatment of art ...
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Meghan Markle's healthy lifestyle in the media: Multiracial exceptionalism and the cult of slimness

Women's Studies International Forum, 2021
Abstract This paper examines how media representations of Meghan Markle's healthy lifestyle perpetuate concepts of good femininity rooted in racialized norms. Simone de Beauvoir's concept of ‘cultural myths of femininity’ and Patricia Hill Collins's theory of ‘controlling images’ offer a framework for analyzing how mainstream health and lifestyle ...
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The Lorca cult: Theatre, cinema, and print media in 1980s Spain

Contemporary Theatre Review, 1998
This article offers a reading of the role of Federico Garcia Lorca in the cultural politics of Socialist Spain of the 1980s. Focussing on a wide range of visual and print material (biopics, educational films, adaptations of plays, press reviews, and interviews) it suggests that the Lorca cult serves to abstract the playwright from his historical and ...
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