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‘Fine Men from Afar’: Cricket and Empire on the Home Front
History, EarlyView.Abstract During the Second World War, contrary to enduring images of bombardment and scarcity, people on Britain's ‘Home Front’ continued to take part in a broad array of sporting activities. Cricket played a more significant role in the wartime sporting landscape than many historians have previously recognized.
Michael Collins
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Laughter and collective awareness: The cinema auditorium as public space
NECSUS, 2014 This article looks at how the collective experience of laughter in the movie theater is related to the idea of the cinema as a public space. Through the non-verbal expression of laughter the audience ‘constructs’ a public space the viewers may not have ...
Julian Hanich
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Demand-Driven Scheduling of Movies in a Multiplex [PDF]
, 2007 This paper describes a model that generates weekly movie schedules in a multiplex movie theater. A movie schedule specifies within each day of the week, on which screen(s) different movies will be played, and at which time(s).
Eliashberg, J. (Jehoshua) +7 more
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The First World War at Sea: Death, Commemoration and Cultural Remembrance
History, EarlyView.Abstract Despite the ever‐increasing body of work devoted to war memorials, national days of remembrance and the commemoration of the First World War in Britain, academic focus remains firmly on the commemoration of the First World War on land. Yet, while the number of people who died at sea paled in comparison to their counterparts on the battlefield ...
ROWAN THOMPSON
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Mise au Point, 2012 In the early 1950s, 20th Century-Fox acquired the rights to a Swiss television theater system called Eidophor which the company promoted as creating a “new field of operation-a field of limitless opportunity” for cinema exhibitors.
Kira Kitsopanidou
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, 2019 Amongst the Civil War community here at Gettysburg College, the movie Gettysburg is very much a part of our daily lives. Quotes are thrown back and forth in witty banter, the music is played for dramatic effect, and history professors are badgered to ...
Ortman, Olivia
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Identifying lead users in a living lab environment [PDF]
, 2013 This paper emphasizes the identification process of lead users within a living lab environment. Lead users are seen as important contributors to the living lab methodology since they express needs before the general market does.
Coorevits, Lynn +2 more
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History, EarlyView.Abstract Participants in Russia's 1825 Decembrist uprising against the Tsarist regime were, quite literally, a case study in French cultural influence upon Russia. This is particularly true as it relates to Russia's emotional cultures. Although this has not, traditionally, been the primary focus of historical analysis of this event (in Soviet or ...
ADAM COKER
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20 YEARS OF OS TRAPALHÕES NO AUTO DA COMPADECIDA: LESS
Travessias, 2007 The subject of this article is the relationship between Literature-Film , from the analysis of the film Os Trapalhes no Auto da Compadecida ,directed by Roberto Farias , based on the play Auto da Compadecida , written by Ariano Suassuna.
José Eduardo Botelho de Sena
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Crowd, Space and the Movie Theater Lure. Notes on Contemporary Off/Online Moviegoing
Cinergie, 2013 The article explores crowdsourced practices connected to the spaces of filmic consumption. In order to contextualize them, the concept of crowd is presented under a critic-historical light, with the aim of underscoring the continuity/discontinuity ...
Chuck Tryon, Miriam De Rosa
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