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  21st Century Cinema at 24

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  Jenny Gunn Georgia State University

  October 28, 2024

  content. Even where films reject digital capacities, “returning to the analog,” or at least the look of the ... production as the new site of value creation or at least maximization. [1]  A symptom of late capitalism’s ... least feign a persistent continuity of movement: circulation for circulation’s sake. Constant ...
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  A24’s “Heretic” and The History of Mormonism in Cinema

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  Mickey Randle Georgia State University

  December 05, 2024

  The film allegedly portrays Latter-Day Saint history, beginning with Joseph Smith, the founder of the ... the film was at the very least condoned, if not produced, by the Church. Since the 1990s, the LDS ... off, the film is well researched and thought-out, at least on behalf of its Latter-Day Saint ...
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  Barbie’s Feminisms?

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  Pamela Thoma Washington State University

  January 31, 2024

  (Rand), at times turning them against or at least playing with apparent intentions (I enjoyed making ... (Bingham 5-6). Interpreting Barbie and its representation of Barbie celebrity at least in part as ... appointment. The film ends, as it begins, with the birth—and rebirth—of Barbie.”   Sources Referenced ...
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  The Dictionary of Obscure Figures

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  Alper Gobel Georgia State University

  April 25, 2024

  beginning, with a difference: here is the opening image of Kosmos (Figure 1). A figure in black, Kosmos, is ... beginning of the film, after rescuing the drowning boy from the river, Kosmos is mesmerized by the boy’s ... the beginning of the film, Battal, the useless figure, is detained while drifting around a prohibited ...
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  Hiding in Plain Sight: Blackamoors in Classical Hollywood Cinema

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  Susan Felleman University of South Carolina

  April 23, 2024

  until after publication.” [1] The Blackamoor’s invisibility—at least to many non-Black viewers—is one of ... films (according to one source, eleven of them, beginning with From Russia with Love, feature ...
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  VR Game Design and the Limits of Creating a ‘Cozy’ Game Space

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  Jacob Mertens Manchester University

  November 15, 2024

  consider the clearest vision for what VR game design can provide (at least at the time of writing), the ... of time ultimately conveys itself differently within a fully immersive environment. As players begin ...
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  Ideology, Critique, and Post-Cinema

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  Michael Cramer Sarah Lawrence College

  February 26, 2024

  individual, voluntary agency at least. Post-cinema theory, like political modernist theory, avoids developing ... phenomenologically accessible, but also, at least if they are to be commercially viable, has some sort of structured ... narrative that includes a beginning, middle, and end, and usually resolution. They still employ the ...
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  Quasi-Hyperpersonal Communication and Deception in Love is Blind

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  Joshua P. Sills Texas Tech University

  October 11, 2024

  interactions, one partner begins to form powerful emotional attachment, an extreme reaction, based on limited ... the other party kept private (Sherman, 2001). Modern relationships have the potential to begin in ...
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  Zoned for Interest (Notes With and Around Serge Daney)

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  Jordan Chrietzberg Georgia State University

  March 22, 2024

  of interest: Oscar, Speech, Letter—a KPI bumper crop for the digital enclosure to say the least. [2] ... let’s say: the first—the diegetic off-screen—is the least interesting by far, sounding primarily through ... of its Rivettian censor — montage obligatory in short. Incredibly ‘cool,’ but by far Zone ’s least ...
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  Nathan's Curse

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  Vinícius Portella

  April 12, 2024

  literally show you at least a couple of scenes you have never seen before. The show and its performances ... that it largely succeeded in doing so.  Nathan had already made at least two previous attempts at what ...

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