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Enhancement technologies and inequality [PDF]
, 2018 Recognizing the variety of dystopian science-fiction novels and movies, from Brave New World to Gattaca and more recently Star Trek, on the future of humanity in which eugenic policies are implemented, genetic engineering has been getting a bad ...
Veit, Walter
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Zhang Yimou's 'Blood simple':cannibalism, remaking and translation in world cinema [PDF]
, 2014 Zhang Yimou’s A Woman, A Gun and A Noodle Shop (2009) remakes the Coen brothers’ Blood Simple (1984) in a way that re-imagines the earlier film in a Chinese setting, adapting and recreating the narrative, but the film cannot be regarded as being aimed ...
Evans, Jonathan
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High Voltage, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Film capacitors, essential for energy storage in power systems, benefit from reduced film thickness to increase capacitance and lower costs. While the inverse power law traditionally links higher electric strength with thinner films, its validity diminishes below a critical thickness.
Chuansheng Zhang +5 more
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Homophobia, heteronormativity, and slash fan fiction
Transformative Works and Cultures, 2016 I analyze the relationship between homophobia/heteronormativity and slash fan fiction. Through reading and coding almost 6,000 pages of Kirk/Spock fan fiction written from 1978 to 2014, I illuminate shifts in how normative gender and sexuality are ...
April S. Callis
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Legal Fictions: Copyright, Fan Fiction, and a New Common Law [PDF]
, 1997 A girl owns a number of Barbie dolls. She makes outfits for them and constructs elaborate scenarios in which they play starring roles. She enacts her dramas in her front yard, where passers-by can easily see. Does she violate the law?
Tushnet, Rebecca
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Intellectual Property in Experience [PDF]
, 2018 In today’s economy, consumers demand experiences. From Star Wars to Harry Potter, fans do not just want to watch or read about their favorite characters— they want to be them. They don the robes of Gryffindor, flick their wands, and drink the butterbeer.
Sunder, Madhavi
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‘Let's Turn the Grass Into Meat’: Animal Husbandry as Women's Work in Cold War North Korea
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In postcolonial North Korea, the future of the nation was said to be a function of the feedlot. Unobtainable on the battlefields of the recently ended Korean War, liberation and unification of the peninsula became a question of competitive developmentalism.
Sunho Ko, Derek J. Kramer
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The mediation of fandom in Karin Giphart's Maak me blij
Transformative Works and Cultures, 2012 The plot of the Dutch novel Maak me blij (Make me happy) (2005) by Karin Giphart draws from the culture of online fan communities. It describes the life of a lesbian in her late 20s, Ziggy, who has a terminally ill mother.
Nicolle Lamerichs
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, 2011 A magazine by 'Publish and be Damned' related to the fringes of publishing edited by myself (with Kate Phillimore and Louise O'hare). Including my interview with slash fiction founder 'Della Van Hise' and my review of 'Seeing is Believing', Kunst ...
Hammonds, Kit
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