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Dealing with the Uncanny? Cultural Adaptation in Matt Reeves’s Vampire Movie Let Me In
American Studies in Scandinavia, 2016 The aim of this article is to examine cultural adaptation and uncanny potential in Matt Reeves’s vampire movie Let Me In (2010), which is an adaptation of John Ajvide Lindqvist’s vampire novel Låt den rätte komma in (2004) – in English translation, Let ...
Maria Holmgren Troy
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German-language culture and the Slav stranger within [PDF]
, 2006 The aim of this article is to delineate the symbolic position of the Slavonic, and in particular the Czech, in German-language Austrian culture of the period 1890–1940. My approach will be informed by psychoanalysis.
Beasley-Murray, T.
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Unnatural Causes: Cryptocurrencies, Carbon Credits, and the rise of Neoliberalism from Below
Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Klima is a carbon‐backed cryptocurrency running as a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). In 2021, it had accumulated 9 million metric tons of digital carbon credits and reached a market value of more than US$1 billion. In 2023, its treasury stored twice as many carbon credits, but its spot price was a tiny fraction compared to 2021 ...
Riccardo De Cristano, Alexander Paulsson
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 Stimuli that resemble humans, but are not perfectly human-like, are disliked compared to distinctly human and nonhuman stimuli. Accounts of this Uncanny Valley effect often focus on how changes in human resemblance can evoke different emotional responses.
Anne E. Ferrey +2 more
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Republican Monsters: The Cultural Construction of American Positivist Criminology, 1767-1920 [PDF]
, 2019 This dissertation examines the history of and cultural influences on positivist criminology in the United States. From Benjamin Rush to the present day, the U.S.
Burton, Chase Smith
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Strategic framing of novel ideas: How contestation shapes the evolution of novelty
Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Research Summary Entrepreneurs use strategic framing to gain support for their novel ventures, products, and services. A key challenge entrepreneurs face is that audiences often contest frames that introduce novel ideas, especially when these ideas disrupt audiences' mental and business models.
Janina Klein +2 more
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Rethinking Face‐to‐Face Interaction: Lessons from Studies of “Autistic Sociality”
Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.Face‐to‐face interaction is a foundational concept in microsociology. This article surveys the social experiences of autistic people, who are commonly known for having a strained relationship with interactions face to face. By interpretively reviewing and synthesizing the broader literature on “autistic sociality,” the article provides a nuanced ...
Lars E. F. Johannessen
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Uncanny survivors and the Nazi beast: Monstrous imagination in See under: Love [PDF]
, 2016 In the past three decades, as writers have grappled with the legacy of the Holocaust and its aftermath, figures of the uncanny—such as ghosts, monsters, and mythic beings—have consistently appeared as salient metaphors in Holocaust fiction. As symbols of
Spiro, Miriam
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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This study examined the effects of repeated viewing and reading fluency on incidental second language vocabulary acquisition through captioned video exposure. A total of 149 Japanese EFL learners watched a short animation with or without captions, varying in the number of repetitions (once, twice, or three times).
Satsuki Kurokawa, Takumi Uchihara
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Surrealist technique and the uncanny in the films of the quay brothers: A case study of Street of crocodiles 1986 and Rehearsals for extinct anatomies 1988 [PDF]
, 2014 The Quay Brothers’ films have often provoked some kind of discomfort in the viewers. There are various techniques that the Quay Brothers utilise which cause this feeling of discomfort.
Buck, Sascha
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