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The Martyrdom of Nadezhda Kurchenko: Soviet Hero Cults and the Spiritual Turn in Late Socialism
The Russian Review, Volume 85, Issue 1, Page 69-87, January 2026.Abstract This article argues that the spiritual turn in Soviet atheism under Brezhnev provided a meaningful solution to the problems of producing heroes when self‐sacrificing martyrs were losing their appeal. To support this claim, I examine the story of Nadezhda Kurchenko, a nineteen‐year‐old flight attendant killed by two hijackers on an Aeroflot ...
Steven E. Harris
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Secuencias, 2016 El melodrama clásico, mal entendido como Woman´s Film, construye en la mayoría de sus relatos clásicos a la mujer como significante de pasividad y renuncia.
Beatriz Herrero Jiménez
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Journal of Religious History, Volume 49, Issue 3, Page 343-358, September 2025.This article expands upon a central aspect of Holiness evangelist Phoebe Palmer's (1807–1874) theology, which has been only tangentially mentioned by scholars: her gendered identity of motherhood. It first considers how Palmer narrated the deaths of her first two sons in her spiritual narrative The Way of Holiness as divine punishment for her ...
Layla Koch
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El melodrama como discurso histórico, político y mediático en América Latina, la otra modernidad
Academo, 2019 Menospreciado, olvidado, incluso descontextualizado por los discursos académicos elitistas que lo colocan como un discurso inútil y poco crítico que celebra la pobreza y las melancolías históricas de América Latina. Sin embargo, el melodrama coloca a los
Xavier Brito Alvarado +1 more
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Positive Microbiology in the Movies
Microbial Biotechnology, Volume 18, Issue 9, September 2025.How ‘Positive Microbiology’ is portrayed in commercial movies and its potential as a tool for education and engaging general audiences to counteract germaphobia. Image done with freepik. ABSTRACT Microbes are essential for sustaining life in our planet.
Manuel Sánchez‐Angulo
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Ángeles Mastretta: mujeres, revolución y melodrama
Poligramas, 2016 En este artículo se analiza la obra ficcional de la escritora Ángeles Mastretta. Y nos detenemos en tres de sus aspectos más destacados y polémicos: su relación con el feminismo, su manera de revisitar la historia mexicana del siglo XX y su inclinación ...
Alejandro López Cáceres
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The JLS at 50: Art, literature and socio‐legal studies
Journal of Law and Society, Volume 52, Issue S1, Page S202-S215, September 2025.Abstract This article began life as a lecture the author was invited to deliver as part of the Journal's 50th‐anniversary celebrations in the summer of 2024. The piece explores how law, literature and socio‐legal studies in the United Kingdom have evolved alongside each other since the birth of the Journal of Law and Society in 1974.
BARBARA HUGHES‐MOORE
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REPRODUCTION OF MELODRAMA IN CONTEXT OF KADER AND MASUMİYET FILMS
Zeitschrift für die Welt der Türken, 2013 The genre of melodrama has manifested itself as the most popular and thebest-loved genre for long years in Turkish cinema. Melodrama lost its popularitydue to both censorship and a decrease in people’s interest in mid 1990s. However, ithas been seen that
Tuğba ELMACI
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Conexión, 2023 A partir del análisis narrativo, televisual y hermenéutico de tres exitosas telenovelas nocturnas chilenas del subgénero policial: Alguien te mira (2007), ¿Dónde está Elisa? (2009) y El laberinto de Alicia (2011) nos preguntamos por las representaciones
Lorena Antezana Barrios
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