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Boy Melodrama: Genre Negotiations and Gender-Bending in the Supernatural Series [PDF]
Text Matters, 2016 For years Supernatural (CW, 2005–) has gained the status of a cult series as well as one of the most passionate and devoted fandoms that has ever emerged.
Agata Łuksza
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Apollonius and the Golden Fleece: A neo-mythological screen legacy
Archai: Revista de Estudos sobre as Origens do Pensamento Ocidental, 2022 A number of ancient poets and painters described or showed the Golden Fleece, one of the most intriguing supernatural objects in classical myth. But the poets were not as specific as their modern readers may wish. By contrast, cinema and television show
Martin M. Winkler
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Travelling Sideways in Time (Without a Suitcase): The Aggregate Identity of Audrey Parker on Haven
Postscriptum Polonistyczne, 2021 A distinct strand has differentiated itself in television programming in the twenty-first century: television series that feature female protagonists travelling between parallel worlds.
Sonia Front
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(G)hosting television: Ghostwatch and its medium [PDF]
, 2014 This article’s subject is Ghostwatch (BBC, 1992), a drama broadcast on Halloween night of 1992 which adopted the rhetoric of live non-fiction programming, and attracted controversy and ultimately censure from the Broadcasting Standards Council.
Barr C. +28 more
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After the Prestige: A Postmodern Analysis of Penn and Teller [PDF]
, 2015 By mocking the magic community and revealing the secret behind some of their tricks, Penn and Teller perform a kind of parodic and post-modern “anti-magic.” Penn and Teller display an artful use of rhetoric; in exposing the secrets and shortcomings of ...
Miller, Liz, Zompetti, Joseph P.
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Babel: Littératures Plurielles, 2012 Since its first publication, Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw (1898) has always haunted the imagination of artists (Benjamin Britten, Jack Clayton, Amenábar) and has been widely used as a source for television narratives (Dan Curtis, US TV version ...
Anna Viola Sborgi
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I Am Big, It’s the Pictures That Got Small: Sound Technologies and Franz Waxman’s Scores for Sunset Boulevard (1950) and The Twilight Zone’s “The Sixteen Millimeter Shrine” (1959) [PDF]
, 2017 Franz Waxman composed over 150 film scores, the most famous of which is Billy Wilder’s film noir Sunset Boulevard (1950). The film plot bears a striking resemblance to Rod Serling’s teleplay for The Twilight Zone, “The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine” (1959 ...
Reba Wissner
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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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TV Series, 2014 The 2000s saw the emergence of five TV shows with very similar concepts: Sherlock, Elementary, House, Lie to Me, and The Mentalist. Each of these portray a principal character with a quasi-supernatural power to read others’ emotions, lies, and ...
Marie Maillos
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Television vampire fandom and religion
Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 2013 Popular culture and fandom provide a setting where people can reflect on the questions of life. A television show defines for many of its fans what it means to be human.
Minja Blom
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