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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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What Was ‘Middle Australia’? Social Categorisation and Political Positioning in the Late‐20th Century

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT ‘Middle Australia’ became a ubiquitous term of social categorisation and political positioning during the latter decades of the 20th century. This article examines how this concept was variously used in the metropolitan print media in the guises of the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age of Melbourne, including in their reporting of federal and ...
Chris Beer
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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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The Many Lives of Teresa Mendoza: Genre, Gender and Melodrama in La Reina del Sur

Middle Atlantic Review of Latin American Studies, 2019
This study considers how reality, fiction, and melodrama intersect so that Teresa Mendoza, protagonist of Arturo Perez-Reverte’s novel, La Reina del Sur, escapes into everyday reality and is imagined into existence.
M. Ruiz
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Negociación y ruptura en Tres días con la familia: la nueva generación del melodrama familiar

Comunicación, 2022
A lo largo de la historia del cine, la familia ha funcionado como la base narrativa del material melodramático. En ‘Tres días con la familia’, Mar Coll pone en cuestión los códigos cinematográficos del melodrama con respecto a la feminidad, la ...
Beatriz Herrero Jiménez, Samuel Caraballo Estévez   +1 more
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Generative AI and the Future of Musical Diversity

Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract I argue that the current proliferation of generative artificial intelligence (AI) represents a new stage in a longer historical process of distancing humans from their unique individual psyches and of reducing participation and cultural diversity in music. The argument consists of six parts: (1) reiterating the uniqueness of individual psyches,
Dor Shilton
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On ‘Not Being Nothing’: Post-ironic Melodrama in James Gray’s “The Immigrant”

Iperstoria, 2021
This essay analyzes James Gray’s The Immigrant (2013) discussing it as an instance of post-ironic melodrama (Włodek 2017) aimed at recovering the purity shown by this genre in the early phases of cinematic history.
Simone Francescato
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Faith, gender and financial investment: Providence and Presbyterianism in Scotland and abroad

Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, Volume 66, Issue 2, Page 152-174, July 2026.
Abstract Mid‐nineteenth century fictional representations of misdirected investment by widows and clergy position them as ignorant in financial matters and hence pitiable. While scholars have recognised female agency in nineteenth century commerce, insufficient attention has been paid to religious belief in financial decision‐making.
Jennifer Jones, Susan Poole
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IN PURSUIT OF THE HOFFMANNESQUE

German Life and Letters, Volume 79, Issue 3, Page 298-310, July 2026.
ABSTRACT This article seeks to elucidate the term ‘Hoffmannesque’ — the eponymous adjective that refers to E. T. A. Hoffmann — through recourse to Hoffmann's own use of ‘esque’ words: arabesque, grotesque, burlesque, picturesque. By investigating the characteristics of ‘esque’ formulations and tracing their recurrence through Hoffmann's texts, I argue ...
Polly Dickson
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‘These reforms have teeth’: The affective dimensions of teacher education policy enactment

British Educational Research Journal, Volume 52, Issue 3, Page 1919-1939, June 2026.
Abstract The affective dimensions of education policy enactment have often received less attention in the research literature, especially regarding teacher education policy. This article reports on a study of the affective responses of university‐based teacher educators in England to the significant initial teacher education reforms of 2019–2022: the ...
Ian Cushing, Viv Ellis
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