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Identifying Indigenous People's Grieving and Funeral Practices as Components for Establishing a Grief Support Framework: An Integrative Literature Review. [PDF]
J Psychiatr Ment Health NursABSTRACT Introduction Grieving and funeral practices form an integral component of the culture of indigenous people. Although studies on specific indigenous grief support frameworks could not be found, the authors did find certain studies on the grieving and funeral practices of indigenous people.
Felix R, du Plessis E, Jacobs I.
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Speculations on a privileged state of cognitive dissonance [PDF]
, 2001 This paper examines two commonly held and conflicting cognitions in the modern world, each based on a belief vital to the individual's sense of self, both maintained in what is here considered as a chronic state of dissonance.
Montell, Conrad
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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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Transformative Works and Cultures, 2010 This article examines fan responses to an episode of the CW television series Supernatural; the episode features a metatext including a number of shout-outs and jokes about fandom.
Lisa Schmidt
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Reasoning, Science, and the Ghost Hunt [PDF]
, 2017 This paper details how ghost hunting, as a set of learning activities, can be used to enhance critical thinking and philosophy of science classes. We describe in some detail our own work with ghost hunting, and reflect on both intended and unintended ...
Hansel, Timothy, Koolage, W. John
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Returning again. Resurrection narratives and afterlife aesthetics in contemporary television drama [PDF]
, 2020 This article examines the return of the dead to life in two television drama series of the last decade, Les Revenants (The Returned; 2012–15, Canal) and Glitch (2015–19, ABC Studios).
Hodkinson, James R.
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American, British and Canadian Studies Journal, 2015 The present study revisits one of American television’s most famous and influential shows, Twin Peaks, which ran on ABC between 1990 and 1991. Its unique visual style, its haunting music, the idiosyncratic characters and the mix of mythical and ...
Moldovan Raluca
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Angels, demons and whatever comes next: the storyworld dynamics of Supenatural
Series. International journal of tv serial narratives, 2018 This paper explores the narrative dynamics of the fantasy television series Supernatural (2005-) in order to better understand how this particular program has become a backbone of The CW network. Combining formal and contextual narratologies, it blends a
Florent Favard
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Transformative Works and Cultures, 2008 This article examines incestuous slash fan fiction produced for the CW television series Supernatural. I argue that "Wincest" fan fiction is best understood not as perverse, oppositional resistance to a heterosexual, nonincestuous show, but an expression
Catherine Tosenberger
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High Fidelity: Adapting Fantasy to the Small Screen
TV Series, 2014 In an article in The Atlantic, Alyssa Rosenberg compares HBO series Game of Thrones to True Blood in an attempt to pinpoint the ways in which the first succeeds where the older series fails.
Shannon Wells-Lassagne
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