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Belghazi, Taieb, and Abelhay Moudden. "Visualizing the Painful Past." Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication 11, no. 3 (November 23, 2018): 229–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18739865-01103001.

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Abstract Conventional social science studies of state violence privilege ‘instrumental’ approaches in which the main focus is on rational and calculated acts of state violence that operate as a means to achieve specific ends. In this paper, we use six Moroccan feature films on the subject of violence as an introduction to ‘expressive’ dimensions of state violence, the set of meanings it expresses and the affects it triggers. Fictive as they are, the films highlight key issues pertaining to the topic, issues that have remained insufficiently addressed by social scientists. These issues include

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Simoni, Marcella. ""Spara e prega!". Il cinema israeliano a trent'anni dalla guerra del Libano." PASSATO E PRESENTE, no. 88 (February 2013): 111–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.3280/pass2013-088006.

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The first decade of the new century has seen the appearance of numerous Israeli films by different directors, and at least one fiction book, who addressed various aspects of the Israeli involvement in Lebanon in some of its phases: the 1982 Lebanon War, the occupation of Beaufort and the evacuation from the so-called Security Zone (2000). Using these movies and the book as a sources - and framing them in the critical literature on the subject - this article discusses if such a cultural production gave rise to a public or political debate in Israel, or if they just responded to the individual n

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Leonard, Karen. "Sandhya Shukla. India Abroad: Diasporic Cultures of Postwar America and England. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2003." Comparative Studies in Society and History 47, no. 3 (July 2005): 670–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s001041750524029x.

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Sandhya Shukla has written a highly interdisciplinary comparison of Indian diasporic cultures in Britain and the United States. Specializing in Anthropology and Asian American Studies, she is particularly strong on historical and literary text analysis. She says, “The relational aspects of a range of texts and experiences, which include historical narratives, cultural organizations, autobiography and fiction, musical performance and films, are of paramount importance in this critical ethnography” (20). Contending that the Indian diaspora confronts “a simultaneous nationalism and internationali

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Hao, Tianhu. "Scientific Prometheanism and the Boundaries of Knowledge: Whither Goes AI?" European Review 26, no. 2 (February 13, 2018): 330–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1062798717000710.

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This article discusses John Milton’sParadise Lost, Mary Shelley’sFrankenstein, and the contemporary filmEx Machinaas a coherent group concerning the boundaries of knowledge and the perils of scientific Prometheanism. The development of AI (Artificial Intelligence) should be delimited and contained, if not curtailed or banned, and scientists ought to proceed in a responsible and cautious manner. An obsessive or excessive pursuit of knowledge, aiming to equal God and create humanoid beings, constitutes the essential feature of scientific Prometheanism, which can end in catastrophic destruction.

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Genovese, Michael A. "Politics and Science Fiction Films." News for Teachers of Political Science 46 (1985): 7–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0197901900001793.

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The movie theatre may seem like an odd place for politics, but almost all movies could be considered “political.” Even stranger is the notion that those spacemen, monsters and aliens we are so accustomed to seeing in science fiction films may be more than just entertaining us, they may be conveying a political message. In fact, most science fiction films make deeply political statements about the society from which they emerge.Science fiction films provide a unique opportunity for movie makers to comment on the implications of both human and “non-human” behavior. Through science fiction, one c

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Henebury, Anja. "Holocaust as Fiction: Bernhard Schlink's ‘Nazi’ Novels and Their Films." Journal of Contemporary European Studies 21, no. 1 (March 2013): 140–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14782804.2013.766456.

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Hladki, Janice. "Hazardous Futures and Damned Embodiments: Disability and White Masculinization in Science Fiction Film." Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies: Volume 14, Issue 4 14, no. 4 (October 1, 2020): 453–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/jlcds.2020.30.

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Drawing on critical disability interrogations of the “human,” this article explores how frameworks of normalization shape conceptions of human qualification and disqualification in two science fiction films. It examines how representations of the contaminated, injured, unstable, and mutated body produce discourses of, and social anxieties about, abnormalization and monstrosity. The films The Thing (1982) and Deadpool (2016), both characterized by science fiction cult popularity, are linked through multiple concerns for human futurity, including the dangers of monstrous disability and the need

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Mörth, Ingo. "Elements of Religious Meaning in Science-Fiction Literature." Social Compass 34, no. 1 (February 1987): 87–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/003776868703400107.

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La science-fiction en tant que genre littéraire représente une sphère de significations sans doute marginale, encore qu'elle soit solidement associée à la vie quotidienne. En analysant son contenu, on perçoit qu'il existe des relations singulières et intenses entre la science-fiction et la religion. Elles concernent non seulement des éléments formels propres à la pen sée utopique, mais également les structures matérielles du monde dans ses dimensions temporelles, spatiales et sociales. Les thèmes de la science-fiction et de la religion ont des racines communes: les limites du monde vivant. Mai

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Longden, Kenneth. "China Whispers: The Symbolic, Economic, and Political Presence of China in Contemporary American Science Fiction Film." Open Cultural Studies 2, no. 1 (September 1, 2018): 151–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/culture-2018-0014.

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Abstract China has long been present in Western science fiction, but largely through notions of Orientalism and depictions as the 'Yellow Peril'. However, with China's new ascendancy and modernization over the last 15 years, along with its investment and collaboration with Hollywood in particular, contemporary film in general, and contemporary science fiction in particular, has embraced this new China in ways hitherto unseen before. This essay examines three contemporary western/American science fiction films which each represent and construct China in slightly different ways, and in ways whic

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Ayhan, Kadir Jun. "Transferring Knowledge to Narrative Worlds: Applying Power Taxonomy to Science Fiction Films." International Studies Perspectives 21, no. 3 (December 3, 2019): 258–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/isp/ekz024.

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Abstract Instructors of courses in international relations increasingly use films to facilitate students’ learning of abstract concepts and to deepen their understanding of theories. This paper introduces how the fictional universes presented in films can be utilized as platforms for students to learn about the application of analytical frameworks. This method aims to enhance students’ abilities to transfer learned knowledge to a different setting. Knowledge transfer requires skills that go beyond lower-order thinking. Higher-order thinking aids students’ retention of concepts, and enables the

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Dahms. "Science-Fiction Films and “Love”: Toward a Critique of Regressive Social Relations." Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal 103, no. 2 (2020): 121. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/soundings.103.2.0121.

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Knapp, Jeffrey. "Selma and the Place of Fiction in Historical Films." Representations 142, no. 1 (2018): 91–123. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/rep.2018.142.1.91.

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Every historical film must contend with the possibility that its viewers will be scandalized by its mixture of fact and fiction, but no recent historical film has faced such pressure to justify its hybrid nature as Selma has, in large part because no recent film has taken on so momentous and controversial a historical subject: the civil rights marches from Selma to Montgomery that led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965. The renewed urgency of the issues Selma dramatizes, along with the film’s own commitment to the “moral certainty” of the civil rights movement, helps explain why S

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Liu, Xinmin. "‘Place’ Construction: innovative reworking of fiction in recent Chinese films." Journal of Contemporary China 17, no. 57 (October 29, 2008): 699–716. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10670560802253428.

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Simsone, Bārbala. "Zinātniskā fantastika kā ideoloģiskais ierocis." Aktuālās problēmas literatūras un kultūras pētniecībā: rakstu krājums, no. 25 (March 4, 2020): 165–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.37384/aplkp.2020.25.165.

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Since one of the main characteristics of the science fiction genre is the modelling of future societies, often from the safe distance perspective drawing quite visible parallels with those of the present world, the discussion about political and social topics has been an integral part of the genre since the beginnings. Moreover, since science fiction, especially regarding the subgenre of utopia, allegorically projects a particular ideology in an imaginary world, certain propaganda was also frequent compound in the genre works. These factors were largely responsible for the fact that some polit

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Orr, David MR. "Dementia and detectives: Alzheimer’s disease in crime fiction." Dementia 19, no. 3 (May 28, 2018): 560–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1471301218778398.

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Fictional representations of dementia have burgeoned in recent years, and scholars have amply explored their double-edged capacity to promote tragic perspectives or normalising images of ‘living well’ with the condition. Yet to date, there has been only sparse consideration of the treatment afforded dementia within the genre of crime fiction. Focusing on two novels, Emma Healey’s Elizabeth is Missing and Alice LaPlante’s Turn of Mind, this article considers what it means in relation to the ethics of representation that these authors choose to cast as their amateur detective narrators women who

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Clarke, Patricia. "The Queensland Shearers' Strikes in Rosa Praed's Fiction." Queensland Review 9, no. 1 (May 2002): 67–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1321816600002750.

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Novelist Rosa Praed's portrayal of colonial Queensland in her fiction was influenced by her social position as the daughter of a squatter and conservative Cabinet Minister, Thomas Lodge Murray-Prior, and limited by the fact that she lived in Australia for much less than one-third of her life. After she left Australia in 1876, she recharged her imagination, during her long novel-writing career in England, by seeking specific information through family letters and reminiscences, copies of Hansard and newspapers. As the decades went by and she remained in England, the social and political dynamic

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Magerstädt, Sylvie. "Love Thy Extra-Terrestrial Neighbour: Charity and Compassion in Luc Besson’s Space Operas The Fifth Element (1997) and Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)." Religions 9, no. 10 (September 27, 2018): 292. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel9100292.

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The role of romantic love in cinema–and its redeeming aspects–has been extensively explored in film studies and beyond. However, non-romantic aspects of love, especially love for the neighbour, have not yet received as much attention. This is particularly true when looking at mainstream science fiction cinema. This is surprising as the interstellar outlook of many of these films and consequently the interaction with a whole range of new ‘neighbours’ raises an entirely new set of challenges. In this article, the author explores these issues with regard to Luc Besson’s science fiction spectacles

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Ryu, Sunghan. "How does film adaptation influence box office performance? An empirical analysis of science fiction films in Hollywood." Arts and the Market 10, no. 3 (October 12, 2020): 125–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/aam-05-2019-0018.

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PurposeThis study aims to identify the factors that influence box office performance in the specific context of the adaptation of science fiction (SF) to film in Hollywood.Design/methodology/approachFifty-one film adaptation cases were collected and empirically analyzed with two-stage least-squares (2SLS) regression.FindingsEmpirical analysis demonstrates that the adaptation of the title, the popularity of the original novel and the director's experience in film adaptation have significant impacts on box office performance.Research limitations/implicationsThe study contributes to the literatur

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Pastourmatzi, Domna. "Researching and Teaching Science Fiction in Greece." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 119, no. 3 (May 2004): 530–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/003081204x20613.

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In the dreams our stuff is made of, Thomas M. Disch talks about the influence and pervasiveness of science Fiction in American culture and asserts the genre's power in “such diverse realms as industrial design and marketing, military strategy, sexual mores, foreign policy, and practical epistemology” (11-12). A few years earlier, Sharona Ben-Tov described science fiction as “a peculiarly American dream”—that is, “a dream upon which, as a nation, we act” (2). Recently, Kim Stanley Robinson has claimed that “rapid technological development on all fronts combined to turn our entire social reality

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Fergnani, Alessandro, and Zhaoli Song. "The six scenario archetypes framework: A systematic investigation of science fiction films set in the future." Futures 124 (December 2020): 102645. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2020.102645.

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Gardell, Mattias. "‘The Girl Who Was Chased by Fire’: Violence and Passion in Contemporary Swedish Fascist Fiction." Fascism 10, no. 1 (June 24, 2021): 166–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22116257-10010004.

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Abstract Fascism invites its adherents to be part of something greater than themselves, invoking their longing for honor and glory, passion and heroism. An important avenue for articulating its affective dimension is cultural production. This article investigates the role of violence and passion in contemporary Swedish-language fascist fiction. The protagonist is typically a young white man or woman who wakes up to the realities of the ongoing white genocide through being exposed to violent crime committed by racialized aliens protected by the System. Seeking revenge, the protagonist learns ho

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ATTIA, Nesrine, and Kantaoui MOHAMED. "CONTEMPORARY CREATIVE FICTION WRITING SOCIAL AND HOMELAND ISSUES." RIMAK International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 03, no. 07 (September 1, 2021): 11–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.47832/2717-8293.7-3.2.

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The narrative story has evolved from its precursor, when the old myths are shattered, in which the new novel has become a text with numerous cultural formats within its contents. Fragmentation and separation have been two of the most significant aspects of modern creative writing. In order to grasp the evolving reality, novelists must assume new creative forms in which the reader joins the realms of secrecy and marginalization. Those looking for the positions of the novelist critics will notice that contemporary writing has occupied a distinguished position due to the issues it raises regardin

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Jacques, Christian. "Les Représentations des Migrations Forcées des « Allemands »: De Tchécoslovaquie dans les Films de Fiction Tchèques Après 1990." Revue d’études comparatives Est-Ouest 47, no. 01-02 (March 2016): 141–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.4074/s0338059916001066.

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CASADO DA ROCHA, ANTONIO. "Narrative Autonomy." Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 23, no. 2 (February 12, 2014): 200–208. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s096318011300073x.

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This section welcomes submissions addressing literature as a means to explore ethical issues arising in healthcare. “Literature” will be understood broadly, including fiction and creative nonfiction, illness narratives, drama, and poetry; film studies might be considered if the films are adaptations from a literary work. Topics include in-depth analysis of literary works as well as theoretical contributions, discussions, and commentary about narrative approaches to disease and medicine, the way literature shapes the relationship between patients and healthcare professionals, the role of specul

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Köroğlu, Erol. "Theses on the “National Truth”: Border Crossings between History Writing and Historical Fiction in Attilâ İlhan's Gâzi Paşa." New Perspectives on Turkey 36 (2007): 97–123. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0896634600004611.

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AbstractThe aim of this essay is to read Attilâ İlhan's novel Gâzi Paşa, a historical novel about the Turkish Independence War, with a focus on the distinction between history writing and historical novel. I begin my analysis of this novel from the narratological perspective developed by Dorrit Cohn, who emphasizes two aspects of this distinction: different reference fields of history and fiction, and fiction's distinctive ability in reaching into the minds of characters. These aspects will help me to unravel the production of meaning in Gâzi Paşa through its ambivalent and intentional border

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Marrone, Gaetana. "Federico Fellini as Auteur: Seven Aspects of His Films (review)." Italian Culture 24, no. 1 (2007): 252–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/itc.2007.0018.

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Zalomkina, Galina. "The Moon as an Object of Exploration in the Perception of Russian Science Fiction." Semiotic studies 1, no. 2 (September 13, 2021): 47–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.18287/2782-2966-2021-1-2-47-54.

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Purpose: to trace how the representative Russian science fiction texts reflect the process of the exploration of the Earths satellite, both in scientific/technical and socio-philosophical aspects. Methods: comparative-historical, mythopoetic, socio-historical, hermeneutical, structural analysis. Results: Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, the outstanding rocket scientist and pioneer of the astronautic theory, in his story On the Moon conjectured in detail the impression of an observer on its surface. The Soviet science fiction writer Alexander Belyaev developed Tsiolkovskys hypotheses in the

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FOKKEMA, DOUWE. "Focus: China, tradition and modernity Introduction." European Review 11, no. 2 (May 2003): 163–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1062798703000176.

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This Introduction was written in November 2002, when the 16th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party was being held where more than 2000 delegates (representing 66 million Party members) decided on future policies and changes in the leadership. The way these decisions were prepared and endorsed reminds us how China differs from Western democracies. However, apart from the political structures, to what extent is China different?The following five essays, all written by Chinese scholars, allow us a glimpse into contemporary Chinese culture through informative reports on philosophy, cultural stu

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Tomé-Alonso, Beatriz, and Lucía Ferreiro Prado. "Mapping Orientalist Discourses: Using Waltz with Bashir in the Classroom." International Studies Perspectives 21, no. 2 (August 13, 2019): 154–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/isp/ekz009.

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Abstract While fiction and non-fiction productions can be used as tools to observe, describe, and analyze the “world-out-there,” within these events-issues centered approaches post-positivists posit films themselves as “cultural artifacts” to be analyzed. This paper proposes a critical analysis of Waltz with Bashir (2008) to be conducted with students in the classroom. This acclaimed animated film by Israeli writer and director Ari Folman depicting the 1982 Lebanon War is a non-obvious but germane example of Said's “Orientalism.” After explaining post-structuralism and post-orientalist stances

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Marsh, Rosalind. "The Nature of Russia's Identity: The Theme of “Russia and the West” in Post-Soviet Culture." Nationalities Papers 35, no. 3 (July 2007): 555–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00905990701368795.

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The aim of this essay is to present a brief overview of the treatment in post-Soviet culture and the media, especially in literature, film and publitsistika on historical themes, of certain aspects of the perennial debate about “Russia and the West.” I will ask whether the West is still regarded as Russia's “Other,” or whether, in a period when Russia has been more open to the West than ever before, and Western and Russian tastes in historical and other fiction appear to be converging, such a polar opposition can now be seen as fundamentally outdated.

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Brown, Kevin M. "‘Racial’ Referents: Images of European/Aboriginal Relations in Australian Feature Films, 1955–1984." Sociological Review 36, no. 3 (August 1988): 474–502. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-954x.1988.tb02926.x.

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The article discusses fifteen feature films which re-present aspects of European/Aboriginal relations. Through an analysis of the narrative structures of the films, three basic themes are identified and outlined, each of which could be implicated in the processes through which racist ideology inheres in the encoding/decoding nexus. The concept of ‘racial’ register is utilised to signify the limits to these forms of representations. It is argued that at both the levels of the narrative theme (intertextual) and the syntagmatic (intratextual), the ‘racial’ register works to reconstruct ‘race’ as

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Ademakinwa, Adebisi. "'Acquisitive Culture' and its Impact on Nigeria's Socio-Economic Development." Matatu 40, no. 1 (December 1, 2012): 285–300. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757421-040001020.

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This is an interdisciplinary study of the role of culture in the development of Nigeria as a nation. The essay raises questions, among which are: what are the externalized and internalized aspects of Nigerian national culture? Which innate concepts of this culture do contemporary Nigerians understand and which concepts are grasped or misunderstood by foreigners? Russian and Nigerian literary works – Nikolai Gogol's and Chinua Achebe's, to mention but two – are utilized to determine similarity and dissimilarity of the pervasive nature of materialism in two different cultures. The essay finds ph

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Lanovoy, Vladyslav, and Sally O’Donnell. "Climate Change and Sea-Level Rise." International Community Law Review 23, no. 2-3 (June 29, 2021): 133–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18719732-12341466.

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Abstract This article examines the challenges that climate change and sea-level rise pose to certain key aspects of the law of the sea. Sea-level rise is likely to impact maritime baselines, the qualification of maritime features and the entitlements they generate, and ultimately the stability of maritime boundaries, which are critical for the peaceful co-existence of sovereign States. This article examines whether some of the relevant provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea can accommodate a liberal interpretation so as to provide some, even if incomplete, answers to

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Thomas, Sarah. "Primed for Suffering: Gender, Subjectivity, and Spectatorship in Spanish Crisis Cinema." boundary 2 48, no. 3 (August 1, 2021): 215–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/01903659-9155817.

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Examining three fiction films (Techo y comida, Ayer no termina nunca, and Magical Girl), this essay illuminates the traces of the economic crisis in recent Spanish cinema, focusing on how it is inscribed on female-gendered bodies and subjectivities. In exploring how female pain accumulates across the boundaries of genre in these disparate films, it asks what kind of gendered subjects these films construct, and what work women's suffering is asked to perform, both for the benefit of the film's plot and the spectator's engagement. It shows how, even in cinema sympathetic to those devastated by c

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Axelson, Tomas. "Movies and the Enchanted Mind." YOUNG 25, no. 1 (January 1, 2017): 8–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1103308816668920.

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The outcome of an empirical audience study in Sweden, including questionnaires, focus groups and 10 in-depth individual interviews discussing favourite films, supports claims about viewers as active and playful (cf. Frampton, 2006; Hoover, 2006; Plantinga, 2009). The soft side of mediatization processes is illustrated showing young adults experiencing enchantment through films (Jerslev, 2006; Klinger, 2008; Oliver and Hartmann, 2010; Partridge, 2008). The outcome is in line with a growing number of empirical case studies which support conclusions that both thinking and behaviour are affected b

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Pedersen, Sune Bechmann. "The Aesthetics of a Collapsing Border." East Central Europe 41, no. 2-3 (December 3, 2014): 254–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18763308-04103007.

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This article is a diachronic study of the fall of the Berlin Wall as it has been represented in German fiction films from 1989 until 2010. The focus is on the formal features of the inclusion of the event in filmic narratives and on the reactions by film critics to the representations. By studying the aesthetics of representation and the reactions and expectations expressed by critics, it is possible to trace the ways in which the event has changed from a sacrosanct experience, vividly remembered, to a historical affair of little controversy. At the same time, the article also depicts a change

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Abu-Remaileh, Refqa. "The Kanafani Effect." Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication 7, no. 2 (2014): 190–206. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18739865-00702006.

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Guided by Ghassan Kanafani’s seminal studies on ‘resistance literature’, this paper extends the concept to contemporary Palestinian fiction film to explore its permutations in the visual medium. The resistance label has had its repercussions on Palestinian cultural production; however, it continues to inspire an aesthetically-driven innovative defiance in the face of an ongoing Israeli occupation. Tracing the divorce of cultural production from political organizations, I focus on a Palestine configuring ‘inside’, attending to the films of Michel Khleifi and Elia Suleiman, to explore therein a

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Krishnamurthy, Mekhala. "Reconceiving the grain heap." Contributions to Indian Sociology 52, no. 1 (January 2, 2018): 28–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0069966717743382.

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This article returns to what was once an ethnographic staple in the sociology of India: the post-harvest grain heap. Having long occupied centre stage in analyses of a moneyless, redistributive transactional order widely known as the jajmani system, it has also been the subject of influential critique, where it has been argued that the misconceived heap sustained a powerful anthropological fiction. Moving beyond these positions, which seem to have left the heap grounded in the past, the grain heap in this work is reconceptualised as a critical entry point and analytic for the study of contempo

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BUBB, ALEXANDER. "The Life of the Irish Soldier in India: Representations and Self-Representations, 1857–1922." Modern Asian Studies 46, no. 4 (February 17, 2011): 769–813. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x11000059.

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AbstractThe Irish in India present an interesting case. Arguably a colonized people, the colonies of the British Empire ironically afforded them employment and profit on a large scale. Although studies have been made of Irish administrators, it was Irish soldiers that were most numerous and it is the ‘stereotyped’ Irish soldier who represents his nation in depictions of the colonial military. This paper first summarizes the Irish military involvement in India. The reasons why men joined the army in large numbers and, in particular, why they sought service in India, are explored. The regimental

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Godhe, Michael. "After Work: Anticipatory Knowledge on Post-Scarcity Futures in John Barness Thousand Cultures Tetralogy." Culture Unbound 10, no. 2 (October 30, 2018): 246–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/cu.2000.1525.2018102246.

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What would happen if we could create societies with an abundance of goods and services created by cutting-edge technology, making manual wage labour unnecessary – what has been labelled societies with a post-scarcity economy. What are the pros and cons of such a future? Several science fiction novels and films have discussed these questions in recent decades, and have examined them in the socio-political, cultural, economic, scientific and environmental contexts of globalization, migration, nationalism, automation, robotization, the development of nanotechnology, genetic engineering, artificia

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Peplinski, Maciej. "Gatunek na usługach doktryny. Ideologia w polsko-enerdowskiej koprodukcji Milcząca gwiazda." Images. The International Journal of European Film, Performing Arts and Audiovisual Communication 28, no. 37 (March 31, 2021): 77–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/i.2020.37.05.

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   The East German-Polish co-production The Silent Star (1960, Kurt Maetzig) belongs to the group of early postwar Eastern European science fiction films which still remain barely examined by film and genre historians. The article summarizes the existing research on the film and investigates not only the specific formal character of Maetzig’s unprecedented project, but also the numerous ideological and political motivations which stood behind it.  

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Tyron, Olena M. "HOW TO USE WRITERS' PIECES OF ART – POPULARIZERS OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOFT SKILLS OF ENGINEERING STUDENTS." Scientific Notes of Ostroh Academy National University: Psychology Series 1, no. 13 (June 24, 2021): 68–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.25264/2415-7384-2021-13-68-75.

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Fiction writers who are engaged in science is a phenomenon. We studied this phenomenon to gain new opportunities for the development of soft skills in students of technical specialties and to widen the possibility of popularizing scientific achievements. The chronological boundaries of the study cover the period of XVIII – the first half of XX century; geographical boundaries cover Europe, the United Kingdom and the United States. The relevance of the study is related to the relevance of popularizing science among students of technical specialties, as well as the development of soft skills thr

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Mahmutćehajić, Rusmir. "ANDRIĆISM." East European Politics and Societies: and Cultures 27, no. 4 (July 30, 2013): 619–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0888325413494773.

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Andrić’s fiction is closely identified with Bosnia and often taken for a faithful reflection of that country’s culture, social relations, and tragic history. Rather than reflecting Bosnian pluralism, however, his oeuvre undermines its very metaphysical underpinnings, in part because his works are so firmly rooted in the European experience of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. From the perspective of a dominant modernity, certain cultures and peoples came to be presented as un-European, Oriental, and essentially foreign. Bosnia, which had always been a religiously plural society, now beca

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Howard, Nigel. "Negotiation as Drama: How "Games" Become Dramatic." International Negotiation 1, no. 1 (1996): 125–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157180696x00322.

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AbstractThe metaphor of drama has recently been proposed as a means of extending game-theoretic methods of analysis to include an understanding of irrationality, emotion and the way in which players "reframe" their situation so as to create for themselves a new, different game. This paper attempts to describe in terms accessible to non-mathematicians how to model and analyze a negotiation process as a drama. The central idea is that by analyzing a game (renamed a "frame") and certain objects within it, we can find its gradient, i.e., the tendency of its different parts to change under the pres

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Kerlan-Stephens, Anne. "The Making of Modern Icons: Three Actresses of the Lianhua Film Company." European Journal of East Asian Studies 6, no. 1 (2007): 43–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157006107x197664.

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AbstractBetween 1930 and 1937, the Lianhua Film Company was one of the major studios in China, and in many ways was a symbol of modernity. The policy of the Company towards its actors was quite new and contributed to the creation of a new social status for this group, especially for the women. This paper focuses on three female stars (Wang Renmei, Chen Yanyan and Li Lili,) who worked for the Lianhua Film Company. Through a detailed analysis of the photos published in its magazine, Lianhua Huabao, as well as feature films produced by the Company, we will study Lianhua's strategies to transform

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Johnston, Nessa. "Beneath sci-fi sound." Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, no. 3 (August 8, 2012): 49–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.33178/alpha.3.04.

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Primer is a very low budget science-fiction film that deals with the subject of time travel; however, it looks and sounds quite distinctively different from other films associated with the genre. While Hollywood blockbuster sci-fi relies on “sound spectacle” as a key attraction, in contrast Primer sounds “lo-fi” and screen-centred, mixed to two channel stereo rather than the now industry-standard 5.1 surround sound. Although this is partly a consequence of the economics of its production, the aesthetic approach to the soundtrack is what makes Primer formally distinctive. Including a brief expl

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Andreescu, Florentina. "The changing face of the Other in Romanian films." Nationalities Papers 39, no. 1 (January 2011): 77–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00905992.2010.532776.

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This article focuses on how the Other is represented and understood in films produced in Romania during periods of radical political, social and economic change. Specifically it addresses films produced during the years of communism and the planned economy, during the transition to democracy and to capitalism, as well as films produced during the period of democracy, capitalism and membership in the European Union. The research acknowledges two main aspects: the changing face of the Other over time (the socialist state, the foreign investors, the West, etc.) and the consistency of the fantasy

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Förster, Yvonne. "Art and Technology." Yearbook for Eastern and Western Philosophy 2018, no. 3 (May 27, 2019): 122–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/yewph-2018-0009.

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AbstractThe world we live in is shaped by technology and its development. This process is observed and debated in the humanities as well as in computer science and cognitive sciences. Narratives of human life being merged with and transcended by technology not only belong to science fiction but also to science: Theorists like Katherine Hayles or Mark B. N. Hansen speak of a technogenesis of consciousness. These accounts hold that our cognitive abilities are deeply influenced by technology and digital media. The digitalization of the lifeworld is a global phenomenon, which unfolds regardless of

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Aleksov, Bojan. "One hundred years of Yugoslavia: the vision of Stojan Novaković revisited." Nationalities Papers 39, no. 6 (November 2011): 997–1010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00905992.2011.619180.

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This article examines a text written 100 years ago by Stojan Novaković, a leading Serbian scholar and president of its Academy of Science. Written in a political science fiction genre, it foresees a country of united South Slavs in 2011. Yugoslavia, in the enlightened vision of Novaković, will appear and strengthen due to scientific and economic development on one hand and common culture based on a common vernacular on the other. Elite-driven unification is the only mode for South Slavs to survive facing the challenges of modernization and the territorial threats of their neighbors. Accurate i

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Lancashire, Edel. "The Lock of the Heart Controversy in Taiwan, 1962–63: A Question of Artistic Freedom and a Writer's Social Responsibility." China Quarterly 103 (September 1985): 462–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s030574100003071x.

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The early 1960s marked a period of intellectual and literary ferment in Taiwan. The East-West Controversy, which had its roots in the debate that took place in the middle of the last century regarding the continued validity of the Chinese tradition in the face of western military and economic superiority and in the controversy regarding westernization as the road to modernization in the 1930s, had broken out afresh. Creative writers, musicians and painters were experimenting with new forms and new techniques. As early as 1954 the writers of modern Chinese poetry had started the search for a mo

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