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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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Pamiętnik Teatralny, 2017 The text approaches the problems of music-dramatic work of Wojciech Bogusławski in a new way by examining it from the standpoint of opera studies. The article analyses relations between opera libretto and melodrama in the work of the father of the Polish
Daniel Stachuła
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Estrategias narrativas y género policiaco en la ficción televisiva de Gran Hotel (2011-2013)
Comunicación, 2022 El presente trabajo analiza las estructuras narrativas de la ficción seriada Gran Hotel, la cual incorpora los cánones del género policiaco al formato del melodrama histórico, representativo del modelo de televisión pública de los años ochenta. A través
Pablo Sánchez Blasco
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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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Lejos del nido: el indígena como el malo (y feo) del melodrama
Estudios de Literatura Colombiana, 2013 Lejos del nido es una novela escrita por el colombiano Juan José Botero nacido en Rionegro (Antioquia) y publicada por primera vez en 1924. La propuesta del siguiente artículo es señalar los elementos melodramáticos subyacentes en dicha novela y que ...
Wilson Orozco
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Melodrama, subjetividad y reconocimiento en la ficción televisiva. Una propuesta de abordaje
Correspondencias & Análisis, 2020 Proponemos enunciar brevemente los conceptos que relacionan el melodrama con una forma de ser y estar en América Latina, el modo en que los medios de comunicación masiva, especialmente la televisión, lo han adoptado y adaptado, para constituirlo en “el ...
María Victoria Bourdieu
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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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Melodrama in the Apltiplano. Child Abuse, Illegal Mining and Mental Health in Three Puno Melodramas
Contratexto, 2016 It is noticeable that, in regional Peruvian cinematography, the most common genre is melodrama, and that the region that has produced the most melodramas is Puno.
Emilio Bustamante
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Weighing up the qualities of independence: 21 grams in focus [PDF]
, 2004 At the heart (literally) of 21 Grams (2003) is a concern about questions of identity; of measuring that which seems ineffable – the essence of life, or what makes us distinct, unique as individuals, or otherwise.
King, G
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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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