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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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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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Introduzione. I mille volti delle icone culturali
Ocula, 2020 Some cultural elements immediately recognizable and repeated in various contexts maintain a productive capability and repeatedly capture the audience's interest. These elements can be defined as cultural icons.
Eduardo Grillo
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Media as Religion. Stardom as Religion. Really? Christian Theological Confrontation
Religions, 2020 In the more recent scholarly literature on media, pop culture or celebrity studies, there has been a growing tendency to identify media, stardom and other pop culture forms of cult with religion.
Terézia Rončáková
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The artist speaks: the interview as documentation [PDF]
, 2000 Nearly every exhibition catalogue now contains an interview with, or related statement by, the artist. How and why did this become the norm? The increasing popularity of the artist's words is traced back in this article to its roots in Romanticism, the ...
Bury, Stephen, Scott, Helen
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The Sims: A Retrospective - A Participatory Culture 14 Years On [PDF]
, 2014 A review of the original Sims game and how fans are attempting to preserve the game and its assets through digital archives and other participatory practices.
Ludovica Price
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‘Being in a knowledge space’: Information behaviour of cult media fan communities [PDF]
Journal of Information Science, 2016 This article describes the first two parts of a three-stage study investigating the information behaviour of fans and fan communities, focusing on fans of cult media. A literature analysis shows that information practices are an inherent and major part of fan activities, and that fans are practitioners of new forms of information consumption and ...
Price, L., Robinson, L.
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Sexual transgression on the American stage: Clyde Fitch, Sapho, and the 'American Girl' [PDF]
, 2013 Clyde Fitch's play, Sapho (1900), is significant in the history of theatre censorship in America as a result of the arrests of the leading actress, Olga Nethersole, and several of her entourage.
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Terrains/Théories, 2022 This article compares two versions of the informal and controversial cult of the image of Death in Latin America, Santa Muerte in Mexico and San la Muerte in Argentina.
Maureen Burnot
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Body Dysmorphic Disorder and the influence of the media in demand for plastic surgery: the importance of proper evaluation [PDF]
Revista Brasileira de Cirurgia Plástica, 2023 Introduction: Since the beginning, plastic surgery has improved self-esteem and acceptance in a society that idealizes the cult of the body. The pressure of consumption and the ease of undergoing plastic surgery becomes an obsession in these patients ...
Alexandre Kataoka +3 more
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