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, 2015 This paper explores the vital role art house movie theaters play in their communities, particularly in bringing film culture to small towns. I argue that art house theaters have a symbiotic relationship with their communities (particularly small towns ...
Marianelli, Morgan H.
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.The contested dynamics of slum gentrification in Rio de Janeiro came into focus during the brief period of relative peace brought by the pacification policy leading up to the 2016 Olympics. In this unprecedented moment, Rio's South Zone favela residents experienced a respite from the daily confrontations with police operations and drug trade violence ...
Angela Torresan
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Aller au cinéma pour apprendre à être « moderne » ?
Conserveries Mémorielles, 2012 Movie at its beginnings in China took over many places traditionally dedicated to Chinese culture (teahouse, gardens, theater and opera houses); however, it became very quickly obvious that movie screenings should be held in places that could mirror the ...
Anne Kerlan
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Revista de Estudios Brasileños, 2018 Since the late nineteenth century, new forms of entertainment have become popular in cities. New entertainments (such as cinema), which were conceived for the population of urban centers, assumed a different form of participation, where the spectator's ...
Sylvia COSTA COUCEIRO
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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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Revista de Arquitectura (Bogotá), 2016 La evolución de las salas para la proyección cinematográfica ha sido estudiada de manera fragmentada atendiendo a regiones geográficas o estilos, y sin establecer relaciones con el perfeccionamiento experimentado por las propias películas y los ...
Ana C Lavilla-Iribarren
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How a "Hit" is Born: The Emergence of Popularity from the Dynamics of Collective Choice
, 2007 In recent times there has been a surge of interest in seeking out patterns in the aggregate behavior of socio-economic systems. One such domain is the emergence of statistical regularities in the evolution of collective choice from individual behavior ...
Pan, Raj Kumar, Sinha, Sitabhra
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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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The din of gunfire: Rethinking the role of sound in World War II newsreels
NECSUS, 2014 French film historian Laurent Véray has famously called World War I ‘the first media war of the twentieth century’. Newsreels, which first appeared in 1910, brought the war to movie theaters across Europe and the U.S., screening combat for those on the ...
Masha Shpolberg
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Mission Impossible: COVID-Less Movie Theater
, 2021 In today’s world, the COVID-19 pandemic has affected many lives and forced the people to take safety precautions like never before. Therefore, designing an environmentally friendly theatre minimizing germ propagation using filtration mechanisms is a valuable project, as it would help struggling businesses, and give people a chance to enjoy a day ...
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