Biophoty: The Biofilm in Biography Theory by Joanny Moulin

“…The term “biopic”, designating properly speaking a Hollywood invention, introduces a deleterious conceptual-cum-ideological misunderstanding that inhibits theorization. …”
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“Rise like two angels in the night:” Sexualized Violence against Queers in American Film by Ralph J. Poole

“…This essay discusses ways both mainstream Hollywood films and independent cinema have addressed sexualized violence against queers. …”
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‘A Part of Some Other’s Experience’: <em>Dark Victory</em>, Interdependence, and the Limits of ‘Normalcy’ in the 1930s by Anna Debinski

“…This article argues that a culturally specific understanding of disability in the 1930s sheds new light on the superficially problematic disability representation in popular 1939 Hollywood melodrama, Dark Victory. While Bette Davis’ disabled heroine dies, perpetuating eugenic understandings of disabled people as unworthy of life, she also fosters a vision of disability as a valuable embodiment of interdependence. …”
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Fear of an Islamic Planet? Intermedial Exchange and the Rhetoric of Islamophobia by Stefan L. Brandt

“…Orientalist stereotypes have informed Hollywood blockbusters and television series as well as acclaimed novels such as Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner (2003), John Updike’s Terrorist (2006), and Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007), not to mention Donald Trump’s speeches and writings on “radical Islamic terrorism.” …”
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Rendering swearing across cultures: arabic professional subtitles and fansubs of pulp fiction by Yousef Sahari

“…Due to the prevalence of swearing in popular Hollywood films, a cross-cultural challenge arises when translating these films into socio-cultural contexts where swearing is more severely proscribed. …”
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Faire obstacle à la vérité et tromper les attentes : Hitchcock et Wilder comme on les connaît peu by Julie Michot

“…Hitchcock’s and Wilder’s aesthetics and preferred themes seem so different that the two European-born directors have rarely been compared, although they were at the height of their fame at about the same period in Hollywood. And yet, they have much more in common than what might appear at first sight. …”
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A Review of Understand Film Studies by Ali Sheikhmehdi, Arsalan Moghadas

“…However, the 10 approaches mentioned in the book do not have enough precision and comprehensiveness for film analysis. The emphasis on Hollywood films and special privileges for the director as auteur, despite the subsequent text-based analysis, reduces the updated content of the book.…”
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De Falkenau aux ruines de Verboten! (1959), les dialectiques formelles de Samuel Fuller by Vincent Souladié

“…Before becoming a famous Hollywood director, Samuel Fuller honed his visual sensibility as a soldier whose superior officers had entrusted with the task of filming the liberation of Europe by US troops in 1945. …”
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Los Angeles, espace augmenté révélé par un genre littéraire : l’anthologie by Charles JOSEPH

“…Often perceived as an anti-intellectual space, Los Angeles is a city that was built on the indelible association that unites it to the Hollywood industry and which produced exponentially - even more so from WWII - an idealized imagery of its territory leading to a collective imaginary that governs many expectations as well as the irresistible diktat of what the “American Way of Life” is supposed to be or look like. …”
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Feminismo, fundamentalismo islámico y la política de la contrainsurgencia by Saba Mahmood, Charles Hirschkind

“…Algunas estrellas de Hollywood y la organización Mayoría Feminista (Feminist Majority) hicieron una campaña para “terminar con la discriminación de género en Afganistán”, pero pasaron por alto el papel que Estados unidos había jugado en la promoción de grupos extremistas islámicos en la región, equipándolos con armas, y creando un ambiente político en el cual la emergencia de los Talibán era un resultado predecible. …”
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An Adult Patient with Fontan Physiology: A TEE Perspective by Edward Gologorsky, Angela Gologorsky, Eliot Rosenkranz

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La exotización hollywoodense de Colombia mediante la relación civilización-barbarie y el tratamiento de su espacio como jardín-desierto: Análisis de Romancing The Stone (1984), dir... by María Ximena Méndez Mihura

“…Este trabajo se propone visibilizar cómo ha sido representada Colombia en una película de Hollywood, industria que en muchos films se ha preocupado por mostrar este país y a sus habitantes. …”
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The Haunted World of El Superbeasto (Rob Zombie, 2009): An Animated Exploitation of Exploitation Cinema by Pierre Floquet

“…Yet the question remains as to whether the movie also means to play a controversial political role in showing what Hollywood films (both direct and animated) have repressed—the unseen of culture—or whether it is merely a distanced animated one-off in the directing career of a multi-skilled artist. …”
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The South between Two Frontiers: Confederate Cowboys and Savage Rednecks by Hervé Mayer

“…If The Birth of a Nation was the first and last film in which Blacks were pictured as predatory beasts in Hollywood, this internal frontier reappears with the cultural crisis of the 1960s, when the South became home to savages of a new kind, degenerate rednecks, who embody the failure of the national myth in the Western, serving as scapegoats for an American savagery revealed by the My Lai massacre and the Manson murders. …”
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La ficción de la inclusión cultural en el cine Hollywoodense: Babel y la reproducción de estereotipos culturales by Yunuen Ysela Mandujano-Salazar, Andrés Ramírez-Sánchez

“…Este críticamente aclamado filme, estrenado en 2006, fue dirigido y escrito por dos mexicanos, pero producido y distribuido hacia el mundo desde Hollywood. Se tiene por objetivo extraer las imágenes y características predominantes en la representación de las sociedades mexicana, estadounidense, japonesa y marroquí́, así como de sus ciudadanos, y problematizar si en esas representaciones y en los discursos que se construyen a través del argumento del filme se refuerzan o desafían estereotipos culturales y étnicos vigentes en Estados Unidos con respecto a las sociedades involucradas, sirviendo de alguna manera a los intereses políticos dominantes.…”
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Foule et public by Emmanuel Plasseraud

“…She understood that the audience, in its diversity, would dictate its tastes to the film-makers, expressing an idea that Hollywood producers had already assimilated.…”
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An Off-Label Use of a Unibody Aortic Stent-Graft System for the Treatment of Infrarenal Abdominal Aortic Dissections by Joseph Faraj, Rebekah L. W. Tan, Bibombe P. Mwipatayi

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Phyllis, Cora, Laura, Gilda… Kobieta jako przedmiot w „film noir” by Patrycja Włodek

“…Analiza czterech filmów (Podwójne ubezpieczenie, Listonosz zawsze dzwoni dwa razy, Gilda, Laura), w których ekranowa obecność bohaterek określona jest nie tylko przez ich rolę w narracji i silnie nacechowaną erotycznie stronę wizualną, ale też przez konkretne i znaczące przedmioty (bransoletka, szminka, rękawiczka), wskazuje jednak na pewne strategie stosowane w Hollywood. Strategie te wynikały m.in. z momentu dziejowego i kodeksu Haysa, a ich celem było umieszczenie silnej i niezależnej femme fatale w ramach społecznych, którym tak bardzo sprzeciwia się ona w toku akcji. …”
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Greta Garbo and the Stock Cube: Film-themed Sweepstakes with Commercial Purposes in the Years of Fascism by Mariapia Comand

“…From this starting point, it examines the relationships between the media industry, the broader industrial sector, the bureaucratic apparatus, political power, and legislative authority, when the international dominance of Hollywood overshadowed the Italian market. The article considers ephemera as a complex discursive system in which the relationships and tensions between different and sometimes competing subjects and interests can be revealed. …”
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Skinner Sweet, American Vampire by James J. Donahue

“…In the subsequent storylines, Skinner Sweet finds himself at various iconic moments of American cultural history: Hollywood in the 1920s, Las Vegas in the 1930s, and the Second World War. …”
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