A Guiding Line? Rethinking the Road in American Post-Apocalyptic Narratives by Cécile DO HUU

“…From western films to road movies, the road has become a specific space-time woven from the mythologies of the Frontier, wilderness, progress, as well as an imaginary of freedom and new beginnings. …”
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Exploitation Feminism: Trashiness, Lo-Fidelity and Utopia in She-Devils on Wheels and Blood Orgy of the Leather Girls by Kristina Pia Hofer

“…From the mid-1960s onwards, American exploitation cinema has spawned a number of Girl Gang movies whose potential for challenging androcentric and heteronormative modes of representation have been hotly disputed by fans and academics alike. …”
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Application of Neural Network and Virtual Reality Technology in Digital Video Effects by Liao Jiang

“…With the continuous innovation of technology, digital technology is more and more widely used in the production of TV shows and movies and plays an important role. The effective application of digital video effects technology can enhance the visual effects of the overall TV and film works and improve the quality of the works. …”
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Méditations sur le « Paradoxe Pulp » : Pal, la Paramount et les pulps de SF by Jay P. Telotte

“…This essay reconsiders what genre historian Bradley Schauer terms the “pulp paradox”, that is, the film industry’s supposed reluctance to produce sf films because of a fear that doing so would associate the movies with “the less reputable variations of the genre” often associated with pulp literature. …”
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Finding Meaning in an Imperfect World by Hamidreza Mahboobi Arani

“…Iddo Landau, is a warmly written book, rich with instances from the author's life, history, movies and literature. Prof. Landau attempts to offer new arguments and practical advice that make us become and stay alert to the already meaningful aspects of our ordinary lives and show how we can increase it, if necessary. …”
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PUEBLA 1961, GÉNERO Y MOVIMIENTO ESTUDIANTIL by GLORIA ARMINDA TIRADO VILLEGAS

“…Este ensayo pretende visibilizar la presencia de las universi- tarias en el movimiento estudiantil de 1961 en la Universi- dad Autónoma de Puebla, apoyándose en la transversalidad de género, categoría que permite reconstruir las asimetrías entre los géneros y el empoderamiento dentro de este movi- miento estudiantil. Este conflicto tan importante en la histo- ria de la universidad duró más de dos años en resolverse; con él la autonomía de la universidad se vuelve real porque logra que sus autoridades sean electas por la comunidad universitaria y no por el gobernador, y que esta institución asuma una educación laica y gratuita. …”
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Tongues Untied (Marlon Riggs, 1989) et Paris is Burning (Jennie Livingston, 1990) : les documentaires du New Queer Cinema by Camille Bui

“…In the light of Judith Butler’s definition of gender as performative, this article discusses how these films try to destabilize the gender norms of American society by questioning the traditional image of Black Americans conveyed by mainstream movies. The two films give new visibility to marginalized communities of Black and Latino gays and transgenders, thus opening the field of possible identities. …”
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The War in the Historical Memory of Nations by N. V. Pavlov

“…This memory is alive in literature, in movies and plays, songs, in memorials, biographies and historical dates. …”
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Le corps du joueur et l’écran traversé : récurrences et circulation d’un motif. by Sonny Walbrou

“…The identification of this topos first goes with the tracking of its appearances as well as its variations as soon as the early 1980’s, within the illustrations in video game press, in advertisements, in movies, or in cartoon books. Regarding its interpretation, the works of Scott Bukatman and Vivian Sobchack about science-fiction allow us to think of the screen crossing in the terms of a decentered subjectivity, of a subject projected into the machine. …”
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Places and Cultures of Capitalism: Histories from the Grassroots by Elsa Devienne, Andrew Diamond

“…Over the past decade or so, the concept of capitalism has exploded within the domains of popular culture and mainstream political discourse in the United States, a phenomenon driven forward by the visibility of anticapitalist movements like Occupy Wall Street, the appearance of bestselling books like Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century and blockbuster movies like The Big Short, and the meteoric rise of nationally prominent democratic socialist politicians like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. …”
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Hollywoodzki gotyk i zamknięta przestrzeń ogniska domowego by Patrycja Włodek

“…Gotycki cykl, określany też wiele mówiącymi nazwami paranoid women’s movies i persecuted wife cycle, pokazuje, jak owa zamknięta przestrzeń staje się areną małżeńskiego koszmaru, odsłaniając też kolejną szczelinę subwersji w pozornie jednoznacznym przekazie ideologicznym Hollywood poddanego dyktatowi kodeksu Haysa. …”
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ViPErLEED package II: Spot tracking, extraction, and processing of I(V) curves by Michael Schmid, Florian Kraushofer, Alexander M. Imre, Tilman Kißlinger, Lutz Hammer, Ulrike Diebold, Michele Riva

“…As part of the Vienna package for Erlangen LEED, low-energy electron diffraction (ViPErLEED) project, computer programs have been developed for facile and user-friendly data extraction from movies of LEED images. The programs make use of some concepts from astronomical image processing and analysis. …”
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Instrumental practice and body discomfort: study with musicians of violin and viola by Clarissa Stefani Teixeira, Rubian Diego Andrade, Fausto Kothe, Érico Pereira Gomes Felden

“…The postures adopted in the execu- tion of musical routines were identified by means of movies and the identification of pain and/or discomfort by Corlett and Bishop (1976) questionnaire. …”
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CD-LLMCARS: Cross Domain Fine-Tuned Large Language Model for Context-Aware Recommender Systems by Adeel Ashraf Cheema, Muhammad Shahzad Sarfraz, Usman Habib, Qamar Uz Zaman, Ekkarat Boonchieng

“…Fine-tuning Llama 2 with information from multiple domains can enhance the generation of contextually relevant recommendations that align with a user's preferences in areas such as movies, music, books, and CDs. Techniques such as Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) and Half Precision Training (FP16) are both effective and resource-efficient, allowing CD-LLMCARS to perform optimally in cold start scenarios. …”
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‘I can now hear the pauses’: the narratives of L2 listening and vocabulary development through extensive viewing by Lanoke Intan Paradita, Haira Rizka, Banatul Murtafi’ah, Lutfi Ashar Mauludin, Gatot Prasetyo

“…Despite initial challenges, the engaging nature of the series motivated the learner to watch all episodes (approximately 2,500 TV series episodes and 16 movies), contributing to significant improvement. …”
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"Mouth !" : voix et lieux du pouvoir dans Norma Rae de Martin Ritt (1979) by Corinne Oster

“…Hollywood has never been eager to make movies about the American working class. In the few films that depict social conflict in US society, a few characters, and even fewer women, stand out as the protagonists of a working-class America in which they struggle, often barely surviving, often trying to get out of their condition. …”
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Medios y elecciones 2012: viejos y nuevos desafíos para la comunicación política en México by Leticia Castillo Quiñónez

“…Desde esos dos marcos nacionales, se presenta una mirada local de las elecciones 2012, situadas en Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, en donde se repitió una tendencia histórica de abstencionismo después de un proceso subordinado a la contienda federal, con cobertura mediática tradicional y reducida, escasa propaganda, poco entusiasmo, incluso en el eco al movi - miento #Yosoy132.…”
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(De)Humanising People in Discussions around Race and Religion by Lea Skewes

“…Suhr’s talk was based on his experiences as a film maker, and he drew attention to how the framing of movies about minorities (like Muslims) shape our understandings of what it means to belong to a particular minority. …”
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Deconstructing Domestic Violence in Bollywood: by Rohini Zakaria Oishee

“…It is a topic that has gained attention in various forms of media, including Bollywood movies. One of the recent Bollywood productions, Darlings (2022), directed by Jasmeet K. …”
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From Scientific Innovation to Popularisation of Science: Theoretical Model of Science Communication by S. M. Medvedeva

“…Here we discuss a model of motion and transformation of ideas from the moment of their generation to the time of their appearance in public movies and literature. The model consists of 5 elements: phase of a scientist (generation of ideas); phase of scientific community (promotion of the ideas among scientists); phase of interested groups (communication with business and government, education of future scientists); phase of popular science (promotion of ideas into mass culture); phase of fiction (subject of communication becomes not scientific knowledge, but myth about science). …”
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