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Grimm et Once upon a time, entre contes et séries télévisées

Strenae, 2015
Grimm and Once Upon a Time offer a surprising example of two tv shows broadcast at the same time and relying on the same hypotext, the fantastic tale. And yet, these two television rewritings of the same intertextual substratum differ radically.
Isabelle Périer
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Putting the Femme in Feminist: Trans Feminism and the ‘Male Lesbian’ in the American Second Wave

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A slur, a joke or a post‐structuralist case of mistaken identity. To the extent that the male lesbian has been discussed, she has figured dismissively. Yet throughout the period historicised as American feminism's second wave, potentially thousands of trans femmes organised under this identity. Despite being entirely overlooked in scholarship,
Aino Pihlak, Emily Cousens
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The Excess and Potential of the Movie Theatre Ruin: The Midnight Star

Transformations, 2016
Abandoned and derelict movie theatres are some of the most striking of contemporary ruins. Movie theatres of the interwar ‘picture palace’ era were designed to create an atmosphere of leisure, fantasy and escapism, qualities which continue to inform ...
Vanessa Berry
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Affordances of Historic Urban Landscapes: an Ecological Understanding of Human Interaction with the Past [PDF]

, 2014
Heritage has been defined differently in European contexts. Despite differences, a common challenge for historic urban landscape management is the integration of tangible and intangible heritage. Integration demands an active view of perception and human-
Alves, Susana
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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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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
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How the Fantastic Spaces in Memoirs of a Survivor and Neverwhere Destabilise the Notion of a Uniform, Homogeneous Urban Identity

Fafnir, 2020
This article discusses how Doris Lessing’s Memoirs of a Survivor and Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere question notions of self and identity through engagement with the fantastic urban space. Through the examination of the cityscape, maturity, and reconciliation
Amanda Landegren
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Using Sequential Mixed Social Science Methods to Define and Measure Heritage Conservation Performance [PDF]

, 2011
There is no agreed-upon definition for heritage conservation performance, but it is possible to borrow ideas from the natural resource conservation field to inform this concept. Dimensions of performance can include economic, technical, and sociocultural
Wells, Jeremy C.
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The Edification of Manuela Xiqués: Slavery, Finance, Biography, and the Construction of Modern Barcelona

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT An analysis of the dual biographies, economic and domestic, of Manuela Xiqués, an enslaver from nineteenth‐century Cuba and Spain, deepens our understanding of the role of European and Creole women in the nineteenth‐century Atlantic. This essay foregrounds the role of literature, namely family biography, as a locus of the processes of ...
Lisa Surwillo, Martín Rodrigo Alharilla
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Magiczne światy Bena Aaronovitcha. Modelowanie rzeczywistości w cyklu o Peterze Grancie

Literatura i Kultura Popularna
The reality presented in Aaronovitch’s cycle featuring Peter Grant is a world imitating the extratextual one — it is mostly set in London, with all its characteristic landmarks, and includes references to various historical facts, figures, and ...
Joanna Kokot
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