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Historicizing video game series through fan art discourses

Transformative Works and Cultures, 2016
In this article, we argue that fannish histories should not be dismissed as mere nostalgia over past experiences of one's own media fandom. Instead they should be understood as complex narratives which combine various historical layers (personal ...
Jan Švelch, Tereza Krobová
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Luxury perfume brands: Consumer Brand Relationship and the mature consumer [PDF]

, 2016
The heritage of luxury fashion perfume brands dates back to the early twentieth century with the first branded perfume, Rosine, being launched by French couturier Paul Poiret’s.
Carey, Lindsey, Stewart, Aileen, Walkinshaw, Susan   +2 more
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Hokey Religions: Star Wars and Star Trek in the Age of Reboots [PDF]

, 2017
Disney’s recent “decanonization” of the decades-old Star Wars “Expanded Universe” in preparation for the release of The Force Awakens once again raises the question of the triangular relationship between the corporate ownership of intellectual property ...
Canavan, Gerry
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A multi-layered approach to surfacing and analysing organisational narratives : increasing representational authenticity [PDF]

, 2013
This paper presents an integrated, multi-layered approach to narrative inquiry, elucidating the evolving story of organisational culture through its members and their physical, textual, linguistic and visual dialogue.
Eaves, Sally, Walton, John
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Granny Would Be Proud: on Doing Vintage, Practices and Emergent Socialities [PDF]

, 2013
It is proposed that vintage consumption must be understood as an embodied practice. This paper seeks to initiate a Vintage Turn within consumer research, to consider vintage as a practice of transformation and togetherness in an alternative consumption ...
Duffy, Katherine, Hewer, Paul, Wilson, Juliette   +2 more
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Always Elsewhere: On Longing and Palermo [PDF]

, 2015
This research paper explores the implications of returning to a cultural homeland. Using an autoethnographical approach, this paper follows my own recent ‘return’ to my mother’s city of Palermo, Sicily.
Gacioppo, Amaryllis
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"New Songs of the Battlefield": Songs and Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution [PDF]

, 2004
This dissertation focuses on a five-volume anthology of songs published from 1972 to 1976 known as "Zhandi Xinge," literally "New Songs of the Battlefield." The songs represent a significant portion of the limited musical expression during a period in ...
Bryant, Lei Ouyang
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“I stopped liking the country I was born in – the motherland”: Nostalgia and Anti-nostalgia in the Israeli Works of Kalman Segal

Studia Judaica
The subject of reflection in this article is the Israeli period in the work of Polish-Yiddish writer Kalman Segal (1917–1980), who decided to emigrate to Israel after the antisemitic campaign inspired
Magdalena Ruta
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Reflections on power, friendship and sexuality within the person [PDF]

, 2014
La experiencia del cambio se divide entre la euforia y la nostalgia. El libro-objeto creó hábitos, afectos, espacios, conductas y un modo de pensar que la digitalización altera irreversiblemente.
Palacios Cruz, Víctor H.
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Absent Women, the Modern Greek School Canon and – Maybe? – Communist Nostalgia in Greece

Classica Cracoviensia
Although Greece was not incorporated into the Soviet Bloc and the beaten Communist partisans were forced to leave or to remain silent – and obedient, nevertheless contemporary Greek culture is permeated by nostalgia for Communism, by the thought: how it
Przemysław Kordos
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