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Mind Reading in Stage Magic: The “Second Sight” Illusion, Media, and Mediums
This article analyzes the late-nineteenth-century stage illusion “The Second Sight,” which seemingly demonstrates the performers’ telepathic abilities.
Katharina Rein
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Spiritualists in the nineteenth century gave much emphasis to the collection of evidences of scientific meaning. During séances, they used instruments similar to those employed in scientific practice to substantiate their claims.
Simone Natale
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Self-Writing Machines: Technology and the Question of the Self
In order to show that technology mediates between man and machine, I will discuss in this text a literally other or alter-knowledge system that also heavily relied on self-writing machines: spiritualism.
Christian Kassung
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Background Tobacco consumption is a critical concern in populous low-income countries, like India. The social acceptability of tobacco perpetuates its use: the positive portrayal of tobacco in the media has been associated with increased consumption of ...
Nandita Murukutla +7 more
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Contemporary Lyric Poetry in Transitions between Genres and Media
More than any other literary form, contemporary poetry is in transition: intermingling with narrative and dramatic genres, combining prose and verse, and even incorporating other media, such as visual art, music, film and digital technology, shifting the
Ralph Müller, Henrieke Stahl
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Based on a Luce Initiative on Asian Studies and the Environment Pilot-Year Project at Furman University This article discusses how film festivals and other media projects can be used to engage students in hands-on learning while also immersing campus ...
Tami Blumenfield
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The Book as Event: On the Russian Translation of Film Art by D. Bordwell, K. Thompson, and J. Smith [PDF]
First published in 1979 and originally based on Bordwell’s film studies lectures at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, over the last forty-five years in its continuing reissues and translations into other languages, Film Art: An Introduction has come ...
Diane Nemec Ignashev, Polina Yu. Rybina
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This paper presents an interview with Janet Wasko. She is a Professor and Knight Chair in Communication Research at the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism and Communication and widely considered as one of the key authors working in the tradition
Jernej Amon Prodnik, Janet Wasko
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There is relatively little research about the simultaneous electropolymerization of porphyrins and aniline derivatives in aqueous media. Normally, the copolymerization studies are focused in the polymerization of two conducting monomers without a redox ...
Roxana Arce +6 more
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Media in Action: From Exorcism to Mesmerism
In the Bavaria of 1775, the popular exorcist practices performed by the catholic priest Johann Joseph Gassner were discredited and superseded by the enlightened, ‘scientific’ system of Franz Anton Mesmers “Animal Magnetism”.
Stephan Gregory
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