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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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Gold and tears of Maria Moura: a contemporary heroine in the hinterland of the nineteenth century
Gragoatá, 2005 Which should be the main traces of a heroin that really belongs to the XXIst century? The feuilleton of the XIXth century brings to paper many of the the strategies of theatrical melodrama, which appeared in France after French Revolution.
Patrícia Coelho Moretzsohn
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Melodrama and the Production of Empathy in Manuel Puig’s El Beso de la mujer araña
Latin American Literary Review, 2020 Manuel Puig’s 1974 novel, El Beso de la mujer araña, investigates how empathy can be incrementally learned through a melodramatic storytelling pratice and, eventually, mobilized to effect political and social change.
Irina Popescu
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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 ...
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The ThinkerThis article focuses on two post-apartheid melodramatic films that engage with the experiences of queer characters. While melodrama is often dismissed as a less serious and less sophisticated cinematic genre, I argue that it can be powerfully used to ...
Andy Carolin
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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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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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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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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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Melodramas con brujas, vampiros u hombres lobos: El caso Pie de bruja de Carolina Andújar
La Palabra, 2017 Carolina Andújar es una escritora colombiana que ha publicado dos novelas enmarcadas en el ámbito gótico: Vampyr (2009) y Vajda Príncipe inmortal (2012).
Campo Ricardo Burgos López
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