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Lexicon of Global Melodrama [PDF]
, 2022 This new go-to reference book for global melodrama assembles contributions by experts from a wide range of disciplines, including cultural studies, film and media studies, gender and queer studies, political science, and postcolonial studies.
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The Life of Events: Exception and Everyday Life in Acapulco, Mexico
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 51, Issue 2, June 2026.ABSTRACT The paper focuses on the event of ‘Ingrid‐and‐Manuel’—a Hurricane and Tropical Storm that hit Acapulco, Mexico in 2013. It traces what this event was and how it remains for people in and beyond Acapulco. It does so in the context of a place where the lines between events and everyday life are often blurred, and yet the event was still named ...
Hector Becerril +2 more
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International Journal of Consumer Studies, Volume 50, Issue 3, May 2026.ABSTRACT Nonprofit humanitarian imagery has long sparked ethical concerns, yet these critiques often overlook how such images are received by potential donors—even though donor support is essential to nonprofit success. Most work seeking to understand ethical imagery has been largely conceptual or focused on single image attributes.
Aimee E. Smith +5 more
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Flesh and code: The cinematic lineage of AI replacing humans from Maria to Cassandra
AI Magazine, Volume 47, Issue 1, Spring 2026.Abstract This study explores the evolving representation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) characters in media and its intersection with contemporary technological issues, focusing on the paradoxical human desire for emotional and creative replacement.
Jiyoung Kim, Ki Han Kwon
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‘Three Circles’: Winston Churchill's Approach to International Relations
History, Volume 111, Issue 395, Page 155-167, March 2026.ABSTRACT This article introduces a special issue that explores Winston Churchill's relationship with different countries. As its starting point, this piece takes Churchill's world view that Britain derived her status from its position at the focal point of three intersecting circles: Europe, the British Empire and the wider English‐speaking world ...
ALLEN PACKWOOD +2 more
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Phantasmic Encounters in the Arctic: Haunting Materialities Beyond the Ghosts of War
Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 1, Spring 2026.ABSTRACT In the vast north, ghostly experiences are common for locals and outsiders alike. Here, we explore how cultural‐natural attributes, like remoteness and extreme seasonal variation, compound experiences of the haunting in visceral ways. This provides the Arctic region with an unusually pronounced baseline of other‐than‐human agency, which in the
Aki Hakonen, Oula Seitsonen
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Legal mobilization and anti‐fluoridation campaigning in post‐war Britain
Journal of Law and Society, Volume 53, Issue 1, Page 150-169, March 2026.Abstract The fluoridation of public water supplies to improve dental health is often cited as an example of an ‘intractable controversy’ in public health, reflecting deeply held principles about rights and the public sphere. This article examines legal mobilization to prevent fluoridation in Britain, from the first pilot studies in the mid‐1950s ...
JANET WESTON
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The Political Novel in the Age of its Impotence: On Recent German Right‐Wing Fiction
The German Quarterly, Volume 99, Issue 1, Page 5-20, Winter 2026.Abstract While scholars have increasingly studied the German right's publishing strategies and literary politics, less attention has been paid to the literary texts as such. They are worth examining in detail, I argue here, because they reflect in exaggerated form a problem that troubles political novels more generally: the dwindling role of the novel ...
Sophie Salvo
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Singing Off the Road to Life: The Threat of Sonic Delinquency in the Early Soviet Union
The Russian Review, Volume 85, Issue 1, Page 7-22, January 2026.Abstract During the New Economic Policy, Bolshevik activists and the public alike shared a fixation on singing criminals and young delinquents. It saturated stories of criminality and moral or social reform, from newspapers to sociological literature and even one of the first Soviet sound films.
Elizabeth Abosch
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