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The Fastskin Revolution From Human Fish to Swimming Androids
Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research, 2011 The story of fastskin swimsuits reflects some of the challenges facing the impact of technology in postmodern culture. Introduced in 1999 and ratified for the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, fastskin swimsuits were touted as revolutionising competitive ...
Jennifer Craik
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, 2011 Between is a performance inhabited by three dancers and up to 30 viewers that explores the tension between visual spectacle and intimacy. A collaboration with Angela Woodhouse, the piece offers the choice of experience as spectator or participant ...
Broadhead, Caroline, Woodhouse, Angela
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, 2020 A friend and I walk through the museum quarter of a West-German city, surrounded by a bunch of tourists. There are plenty of exhibitions, but none can compete with the spectacle my body seems to present.
Yaghoobifarah, Hengameh
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From the 'cinematic' to the 'anime-ic': Issues of movement in anime [PDF]
, 2008 This is the author's accepted manuscript. The final published article is available from the link below.This article explores the way that movement is formally depicted in anime.
Bordwell, D. +10 more
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Supermodernity, distraction, schizophrenia: walking in Tokyo & Hong Kong.
Glocalism: Journal of Culture, Politics and Innovation, 2014 The architecture in a supermodern city has no sense of the place where it is located. This paper discusses how schizophrenia and distraction, through walking, respond to supermodernity by referring to how three dislocated subjects, Fumiya Takemura ...
Ian Ho-Yin Fong
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The search for the Jew's gene : science, spectacle, and the ethnic other [PDF]
, 2009 This paper considers the collision of spectacle, science, and racial-ethnic identifications in the contemporary scientific search for a "Jewish gene." It aims not so much to distinguish the "line between ‘real’ and ‘fabled’ aspects of the Jew" (as ...
Steinberg, Deborah Lynn
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Death and the adorable orphan: Marcelino pan y vino (1954; 1991; 2000) [PDF]
, 2004 The Spanish journalist and writer José María Sánchez-Silva, unaware that he was adapting a folk tale about religious devotion rewarded, produced a complex narrative about the mother-son dyad: Marcelino pan y vino (1952).
Harvey, Jessamy
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Spectacles of Resistance and Resistance of Spectacles
Management Communication Quarterly, 2008 The author explores organizational controls in an era dominated by spectacles, images, and pictures and seeks to identify forms of resistance that subvert and undermine these controls. The author analyzes new forms of resistance, such as whistle-blowing, that are particularly aimed at besmirching an organization's image and reputation and argues that ...
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The Cosmos Project: a journey to the stars [PDF]
, 2011 There seems to be some agreement that ‘science for all’ does not necessarily mean ‘one size fits all’ (Lynch, 2001). Teaching scientific disciplines in schools has been traditionally concerned with delivering science as a product with a main focus on its
Kuksa, I, Rumney, P, Scriven, N
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How to humiliate and shame: A reporter's guide to the power of the mugshot [PDF]
, 2013 This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in Social Semiotics, 24(1), 56-87, 2014, copyright Taylor & Francis, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/The judicial photograph – the “mugshot” – is a ubiquitous and instantly ...
Arendt H. +30 more
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