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The Concept of "Self" and the "Other" in Western Movies [PDF]
, 2001 Melodrama has been a part of the American life since colonial time. This genre, with its \u27hero-villain\u27 or \u27black and white\u27 development of characters, has formed the idea of the American heroes.
Basuki, R. (Ribut)
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Phantasmic Encounters in the Arctic: Haunting Materialities Beyond the Ghosts of War
Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.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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THE RIGHT STUFF: From Western to melodrama and comedy
NECSUS, 2016 THE RIGHT STUFF (1983), directed by Philip Kaufman, has explored which genre conventions were appropriate for space travel. The film first uses the Hollywood Western, as has been acknowledged by several authors.
Wim Staat
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Victorian Literature and Culture, 2012 Starting with Dickens himself, many critics have understood that melodrama is not the opposite of realism. This essay argues for the tight relation between Dickens’s parodies of melodrama and his adaptations or transformations of it. After considering the melodramatic alternation between tragic and comic scenes – theorised in Chapter 17 of Oliver Twist
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Nanook News, Vol. 04, No. 30 (May 16, 1963) [PDF]
, 1963 HOME ECONOMICS STYLE SHOW TONIGHT -- MILITARY EDUCATORS CONFER HERE -- MELODRAMA RETURNS! -- WILSON IN WASHINGTON -- "LONG DISTANCE RUNNDER" SHOWS SATURDAY -- AAAS HOLDS SPRING DINNER MEETING -- MUSEUM ANNOUNCES SUMMER HOURS -- PICTURES - PICTURES ...
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The Life of Events: Exception and Everyday Life in Acapulco, Mexico
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.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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Melodrama, gênero dramatúrgico e linguagem televisiva: uma análise à luz de Bakhtin
Revista Eco-Pós, 2009 Ainda que as análises do melodrama sejam variadas, controversas e até mesmo incompatíveis, dois aspectos geram unanimidade: a durabilidade do gênero e sua maleabilidade. São essas características, aliadas à combinação de sentimentalismo e prazer visual,
Clara Fernandes Meirelles
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[Review of] Charles Green and Basil Wilson. The Struggle for Black Empowerment in New York City [PDF]
, 1991 This book by Charles Green and Basil Wilson is most informative. The authors, a sociologist and a political scientist respectively, draw upon the research and reporting methods of their disciplines in bringing forth a comprehensive interdisciplinary ...
Scott, Otis L.
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Creative Nonfiction: The Christian Dior woman
Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 1, June 2026.Abstract This work of creative nonfiction emerges from ethnographic research on Arab women's testimonies of their cancer experience conducted in 2016–2018. It focuses on the account of one Lebanese woman diagnosed with breast cancer and highlights her feelings, thoughts, and perceptions from the time of the initial medical examination through to final ...
Abir Hamdar
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“ENERGY INDEPENDENCE”: PRESIDENT OBAMA’S RHETORIC OF A SUCCESS STORY [PDF]
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Bonnefille, Stephanie
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