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A Femininomenon: Leadership Development Through Representation On‐Screen
ABSTRACT Historically, films and television centered men, but there has recently been a shift toward focusing on women and people of color (and women of color) in leading roles. Films and shows like Black Panther, Barbie, and Ashoka reflect this trend, offering more complex stories and diverse representation.
Kathleen Callahan
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Zombie as Victim in Film, TV Series, and Video Games
The visual culture of the 21st century has reimagined the zombie. The zombie figure has started appearing in every corner of contemporary pop culture, particularly over the last two decades, captivating audiences with outbreak narratives on screens. The
Marta Bubnowska
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Amanda PlumbCampfire Zombie, 2024 Fandom: Halloween Resin2 x 1 1/2 inCollection of the artist Rating: General Audiences Tags: Halloween, zombie, campfireCreator\u27s notes: This piece shows a zombie relaxing in front of a campfire, roasting a marshmallow.
Amanda Plumb
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The Dark Pyramid: Unpacking the Multidimensional Nature of the Dark Side of Leadership
Abstract The dark side of leadership has been employed as an umbrella term to cover an array of concepts typically concerned with the dysfunctionality and/or toxicity of individual leaders. As the field of leadership studies moves towards ‘post‐heroic’ perspectives, we apply the same ontological positioning, adopting a ‘post‐villainous’ perspective in ...
Peter Stephenson +2 more
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Victorian values: necrophilia and the nineteenth century in zombie films
This essay examines the perverse twist on the ornate mourning rituals offered by zombie films set in the nineteenth century. In actual Victorian society, ornate mourning rituals kept the memories of the dead alive. In these historically set zombie films,
Harmes, Marcus
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Role-Playing Games and Playing the Zombie [PDF]
Using the Mass Effect trilogy (2007, 2010, 2012) and Cyberpunk 2077 (2020) as case studies, this chapter interrogates player relations to the zombie.
Farnsworth, Stephanie, Koven, Mikel
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Cutting freedom down to size Liberté calibrée
Freedom, as a concept and a value, presents limited prospects for anthropological comparison. The study of enslavement, much neglected in attempts to develop an anthropology of freedom, shows that freedom has been imagined by the enslaved as the opposite of their condition only under particular circumstances.
Harri Englund
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Layered abandonment: The moral interpretation of suffering in extreme confinement
Abstract Loss and rejection are central to prison life, yet how they crystallize into a more general sense of abandonment remains under‐theorized. Drawing on 64 interviews with men held in prolonged self‐isolation or serving indeterminate forvaring sentences in Denmark, we conceptualize abandonment not simply as hardship but as suffering plus ...
Frederik Rom Taxhjelm, Julie Laursen
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Did the COVID-19 pandemic zombify the economy? A look at zombie firms
Zombie firms are businesses that persistently perform poorly over time without exiting, and their prevalence has been rising over time across many advanced economies. They negatively impact economic growth as they tend to be unproductive and compete with
Alexander Amundsen +2 more
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Zombie, vous avez dit zombie ? Quand l’apocalypse zombie s’empare du roman
Cet article examine la manière dont les genres littéraires narratifs (roman et nouvelle) se sont approprié la figure du zombie mythifiée au cinéma par George A. Romero.
Patrick Bergeron, Bergeron, Patrick
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