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A new media landscape? The BBFC, extreme cinema as cult, and technological change

New Review of Film and Television Studies, 2014
Disreputable films involving explicit representations of sex and violence have long attracted the attention of the censors and cult film audiences alike. In late 2012, the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) announced it was tightening its regulation of representations of sadistic and sexual violence, simultaneously enhancing the subcultural ...
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The Echoes of Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej’s Cult of Personality in the Media (1945-1965)

Analele Universităţii "Dunărea de Jos" din Galaţi Fascicula XIX Istorie, 2007
The cult of personality is an essential component of the communist regime. If the elements of Nicolae Ceausescu’s cult of personality are wellknown, this kind of researches about Gheorghe Gheorghiu Dej is still at the beginning. The author analyses, based on the elements found in the press of the time, the genesis of Dej’s cult of personality, its ...
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Media Portrayals From Leadership Cults to Celebrity Politicians

2017
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Saints, Media and Minority Cultures: On Coptic Cults of Egyptian Revolution from Alexandria to Maspero

2013
This chapter explains the linkages and tensions between Coptic minority cultures of martyrdom, on the one hand, and Egyptian imaginaries of belonging on the scale of national revolution, on the other. It draws attention to the broader public culture of apprehending and evaluating acts of sacrificial martyrdom, in their moral value and their political ...
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CrossFit (Cult)ure: a Rhetorical Analysis of Symbolic Convergence Through Digital Media

2019
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Personality Cult or a Mere Matter of Popularity?

International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, 2022
Anne-Mette Sundahl
exaly  

Social Media as the Spatiotemporally Unconfined Cult of the Dead

2022
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Contextualizing the bronies: Cult, quality, subculture and the contradictions of contemporary fandom

Journal of Popular Television, 2020
Ewan Kirkland
exaly  

MEDIA CULTS

2010
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CULT MEDIA, FANDOM, AND TEXTILES

2016
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