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PolitikonThis review analyzes how Neill Blomkamp’s 2009 film District 9 uses an alien species forced into a refugee camp as an allegory for the institutionalized racial discrimination experienced in South Africa under apartheid. Three key aspects are explored in
Vladimir Rosas-Salazar
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Disappearance of the Self and Its Constitutive Outside in Kafka and Woody Allen’s Zelig [PDF]
Cultural Intertexts, 2020 Although parallels between Kafka’s hybrid characters and Woody Allen’s Leonard Zelig have been noted in literature studies (Bruce 1998), the underlying interpretative synergy is not exhausted and occasions a revisit, timely in light of the social ...
Lukas MOZDEIKA
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Le Bureau : Le nouveau mockumentaire d’entreprise francais(e) en question?
TranscUlturAl, 2009 In this essay, I show how Le Bureau (2006), a business fiction adapted from the British TV series The Office (2001-2003), maintained its originality by being in line with diverse traditions both French and trans-national. However, while addressing with a
C(h)ris Reyns-Chikuma
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Cinergie, 2019 In the last few years the new television series was considered as an important subject in the field of both Television and Media Studies, which have highlighted its complexity considered as a key concept emphasizing not only on a narrative basis but also
Valentina Domenici
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“Doing the Work” Through Mockumentary: A Rhetoric of Irony in Daily Wire’s Am I Racist?
ReligionsIn 2024, the conservative media outlet Daily Wire produced a documentary film entitled Am I Racist? Created by political commentator and author Matt Walsh and director Justin Folk, the film became one of the highest-grossing documentaries of the last ...
G. Brandon Knight
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Multilingual humour in audiovisual translation. Modern Family dubbed in Italian
The European Journal of Humour Research, 2019 Audiovisual productions are increasingly featuring multi-ethnic communities which also reflect today’s globalised world. Characters in both films and TV series are often depicted as having a bilingual background and heavily relying on code-switching to ...
Margherita Dore
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Education SciencesAbbott Elementary, the Emmy-award winning mockumentary-style comedy television show, chronicles the day-to-day efforts of a group of teachers in a Philadelphia public elementary school who, despite the odds stacked against them, are determined to help ...
Sara Jones, Kountiala J. Some
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Students perceptions of fake news created by artificial intelligence: The case of deep Soria
Journal of Technology and Science EducationFake news and artificial intelligence are phenomena addressed in academia and research within the fields of communication and audiovisual education. As a medium and language, cinema has mirrored these challenges, exemplified by the short film Deep Soria.
Ana Isabel Cea +1 more
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Memory of the Voiceless. Verbatim, Cvasi-verbatim, Mockumentary [PDF]
Theatrical Colloquia, 2019 Abstract This paper examines a series of practices circumscribed to verbatim theatre, which uses interviews or other documentary materials, in order to engage the audience in relation to urgent, controversial topics of general or local interest.
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Praktyki kontrfaktualne w narracjach naukowych i fikcjonalnych
Teksty Drugie, 2017 This article deals with counterfactual practices in history and the historical novel (whose production has increased in the last few years, and which presents alternative versions of the past), as well as in areas where the humanities and the natural or
Małgorzata Sugiera
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