In True Hollywood Style? Localized Emulations of American Genre Film in Contemporary Swedish Cinema
European Journal of American StudiesThis essay explores a selection of Swedish feature films that were made with the explicit intention of emulating elements and conventions associated with American action, thriller, disaster, sci-fi, and horror films.
Joel Frykholm
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Carry on My Wayward Sonne (and Moon): Common Cosmological Quirks in the Norse Fimbul-winter and Tolkien’s Early Legendarium [PDF]
, 2021 An abbreviated version of this paper was presented at the 2021 International Medieval Congress sponsored by the University of Leeds, and is the third of three related works on Tolkien’s early ...
Larsen, Kristine
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Canid Eschatologies in Irish and Norse Myth [PDF]
, 2018 While medieval Irish literature does not preserve any pre-Christian sources on eschatology, other Indo-European cultures do, notably that of the Norse cosmology and its end in Ragnarök.
Bernhardt-House, Phillip A.
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Consideraciones acerca de la iconografía solar: pervivencias [PDF]
, 2012 This paper deals with the sun's iconography as its central topic of study. The work planning covers two ways of research. The first one studies the sun's iconography within several agrarian religions, both Near Eastern and Western. The second one studies
García-Gelabert Pérez, María Paz
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The Evolution of Masculinity and Fatherhood in God of War: Ragnarok [PDF]
God of War: Ragnarok was released in 2023 to millions of sales and offers its players a unique look at the themes of masculinity and fatherhood set to a backdrop of mythical deities warring against one another.
Wingo, Jacob TF
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BASTA : das Studierendenmagazin des AStA der Universität Mannheim , 115 [PDF]
, 2009 Aus dem Inhalt: Mehr als nur ein Lebenslaufeintrag: Praktika als Selbsterfahrung Berufsluft schnuppern: BASTA-Redakteure berichten über ihr Praktikum Generation Lebenslauf?
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A luz, as sombras e a procura da verdade. Os média e a construção de uma realidade equívoca e totalizante [PDF]
, 2017 A luz, associada à ideia de verdade, realça o real que vive dela e a reflete em tons diferenciados. Platão (”Alegoria da Caverna”) observava que a caverna correspondia ao mundo do visível e o sol ao fogo cuja luz se projetava dentro dela. Para Nietzsche ‘
Sousa, Vítor Manuel Fernandes Oliveira
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Cultural assimilation in Njals saga [PDF]
, 1998 My ambition in this essay is to explore more deeply the final fraught stages in the dynamic assimilation between Lonnroth's two systems of medieval Icelandic literary culture, between the one system dominated by the most prestigious narrative complex in ...
Davis, Craig R.
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Images from Old Norse Mythology and Legend on Anglo-Scandinavian and Scandinavian Stone Sculpture and some Wood Objects [PDF]
, 2014 The objective of this thesis was to survey the various stone and wood monuments (that include images from Old Norse mythology and legend) in the north of England and Scandinavia during the so-called Viking Age.
Braithwaite-Westoby, Manu
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'Just because something works doesn't mean it can't be improved': an ethnographic analysis of the health system in Black Panther's Wakanda. [PDF]
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