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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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Twelve. Peoples Temple: Mass Murder-Suicide, the Media, and The “Cult” Label

2019
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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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Access to excess: media as religion and the new cargo cults

Culture and Religion, 2018
Recent studies of religion and the media generally assume the secular nature of the latter impacting on the former. Religious relevance is set against a media culture of screens and networks that purportedly shape and reshape the symbols of sacredness.
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Channel-Surfing: Media, Mediumship, and State Authority in the María Lionza Possession Cult (Venezuela)

2002
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Media Tourism and Rural Romance: Constructing Food Television’s ‘Cult Geographies’

2017
Chapter 5 considers food television’s depiction of idyllic rural locales as drivers of media tourism. Focusing on the Australian television programme, Gourmet Farmer, a tree-change narrative set in rural Tasmania, Phillipov traces the differing experiences of media producers, celebrity chefs, food and beverage producers, and other industry figures ...
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British Mass Media on the Cult of Jeremy Corbyn: Realization of Discreditation Strategy

Политическая лингвистика, 2019
В статье рассматриваются языковые средства, используемые в британских СМИ при создании образа лидера оппозиции Джереми Корбина для реализации стратегии дискредитации.
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