Hollywood adaptations of comic books in a post-9/11 context: the economic and cultural factors by Nathalie Dupont

“…The paper will first show that adapting comic books is ideal for the film industry as comic books perfectly fit the blockbusters’ formula. …”
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Enhanced Mental Health with Virtual Reality Mental Hygiene by a Veteran Suffering from PTSD by Bo Søndergaard Jensen, Niels Andersen, Jes Petersen, Lene Nyboe

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Od ciekawostki do dyscypliny. Historia teorii badań nad wczesnym kinem by Łukasz Biskupski

“…Opisane są również ostatnie teorie, metody i obszary zainteresowań badaczy wczesnego kina, takie jak film niefikcjonalny, koncepcja „kina atrakcji” czy szersze zagadnienia z zakresu wizualnej kultury popularnej. …”
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Un palimpsesto urbano: de la Puerta del Sol al 15-M by Nancy Berthier, Marianne Bloch-Robin

“…Basilio Martín Patino’s documentary film, Libre te quiero, shot at the time of the occupation of the square in 2011, puts in scene the recovery of this symbolic space by a people in jubilation.…”
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Memory, Metatextuality and the Music of War by Devin Harner

“…Dans le cadre de cette étude, nous explorons la structure du film animé Valse avec Bashir, son esthétique et sa musique. …”
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REPERTOIRE OF CINEMAS AND AUDIENCE PREFERENCES IN THE ERA OF "STAGNATION" by M. Kosinova

“…These worldviews continue to run in the conveyor of the Soviet film industry, which automatically gives the most part of its products smack of falsehood, which cannot fail to perceive the viewer. …”
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Capital punishment or capitol forgiveness? The enduring message of Dead Man Walking by Frederick Hale

“… The best-selling book and internationally popular film Dead Man Walking address squarely the issue of capitol punishment which has been extensively debated throughout much of the world and challenged the ethical thinking of Christian and non-Christian moralists. …”
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Pourquoi filmer sa culture ? Rituel et patrimonialisation en Amazonie brésilienne by Chloé Nahum-Claudel, Nathalie Pétesch, Cédric Yvinec

“…This article examines three detailed case studies (Karajá, Enawenê-nawê, Suruí of Rondônia) in which films of collective and spectacular ritual are produced as a means to display Amazonian indigenous “culture”. …”
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DYNAMIC MODELING AND SIMULATION OF ROLLING BEARING WITH PITTING FAILURE by ZHANG HuiLing, LV FuLing

“…The five degree of freedom dynamic model of rolling bearing system with local fault is established by considering the nonlinear factors such as oil film and the sliding of rolling element. An improved model of pitting failure is proposed, and the corresponding models of different fault parameters are analyzed. …”
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El Niño Shuá: del estereotipo a la reivindicación de la vida y obra de Miguel Ángel Jusayú by Nelly  García  Gavidia, Carlos Adán  Valbuena  Chirinos, Carmen Laura  Paz  Reverol

“…We take a journey through the life and work of the master Miguel Ángel Jusayú (1933-2008), with the purpose of analyzing, based on his autobiography and the film El Niño Shuá by Patricia Ortega, the most difficult moments after the loss of the vision and the way he lived with the stigma of being blind in the Wayuu society to which he belonged and also his process of appropriating the writing of Spanish, whose mastery allowed him to guarantee his subsistence and also specialize and give an invaluable contribution to the grammar and writing of the Wayuunaiki language.…”
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L’indépendance cubaine au miroir du cinéma : enjeux idéologiques, esthétiques et historiographiques by Julie Amiot

“…This article broaches the subject of national independence in Cuban films, in order to reveal that films produced within the framework of the commemorations of this event in 1968 stand out through their quantity as well as through their quality. …”
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Reversed Intestinal Rotation Presented as Bowel Obstruction in a Pregnant Woman by David Aranovich, Ilan Schrier

“…The young woman was admitted with progressive nausea and vomiting which did not respond to conventional therapy. Her plain abdominal film revealed signs of small bowel obstruction. On laparotomy, her transverse colon was found to be located beneath the root of small bowel mesentery and completely obstructed by congenital fibrous bands. …”
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Racial Violence at the Crossroads of West and South in Rosewood (John Singleton, 1997) by Claire Dutriaux

“…Almost twenty years before Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained, African American film director John Singleton’s Rosewood (1997) told the violent racial history of the South during the Jim Crow era and the real suffering they experienced at the hands of Whites, via a combination of a western-style narrative with a black cowboy hero and a historical drama. …”
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An investigation on corrosion protection layers in pipelines transporting hydrocarbons by Giovanna Gabetta, Bernardo Molinas

“…Scales act as a diffusion barrier and prevent the progress of corrosion, a dangerous failure initiator. The protective film (10-100 μm thickness) can be removed locally by the action of the internal flow, or by other mechanisms. …”
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Le son et lumière de Friedrich Kittler by John Durham Peters

“…Après une présentation de l’ancrage intellectuel, universitaire et disciplinaire de l’œuvre de Friedrich Kitter, l’article dégage les thèses majeures des Médias optiques et des principales œuvres antérieures, notamment des Aufschreibesysteme et de Grammophon, Film, Typewriter. Cette introduction de la part d’un universitaire américain permet de rappeler que le monde anglo-saxon s’est familiarisé avec la théorie des médias de Kittler depuis plusieurs années déjà. …”
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La mirada confusa de Barrio (1998). Estereotipos y violencia contra las mujeres en la España de finales de los noventa by Mercedes Álvarez San Román

“…In order to identify how the symbolic violence is exercised, I will focus on the Spanish successful movie from the 90s, Barrio (1998), directed by Fernando León de Aranoa. This feature film was produced and released during a turning point in the perception of gender violence, when the society assumed that it was a public problem and not an individual issue. …”
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Study on Strength and Permeability of Silt Soils Improving by Tung Oil and Sticky Rice Juice by Xiao-Wu Tang, Yue Yu, Li-Pei Zhou, Min-Liang Fei, Guo-Ping Sun

“…Tung oil has the property of good waterproofness, fast dry-up, and quick film-forming by oxidation. Sticky rice juice has the advantage of high glutinousness, good tenacity, and low expandability. …”
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Fotografía del rodaje de la película Plácido, de Luis García Berlanga (Plana de l'Om, Manresa, 1961) by Col·lecció Francesc Escala Bartrolí

“…jig[1]/ML/73900   Photo from the film shoot of the movie Plácido, by Luis García Berlanga ((Plana de l'Om, Manresa, 1961) Although in the film the name of the town where the story takes place is never named or identified, most of the filming took place in Manresa, except for the final scene, shot in Barcelona. …”
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Guanine-based spin valve with spin rectification effect for an artificial memory element by Nicusor Iacob, Cristina Chirila, Mama Sangaré, Andrei Kuncser, Anda E. Stanciu, Marcela Socol, Catalin C. Negrila, Mihaela Botea, Claudiu Locovei, Gabriel Schinteie, Aurelian C. Galca, Anca Stanculescu, Lucian Pintilie, Victor Kuncser, Bogdana Borca

“…Here, a ferroelectric film of guanine nucleobase is used in a resistive memory junction sandwiched between two different ferromagnetic films of Co and CoCr alloys. …”
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AKADEMI DESAIN ANIMASI DENGAN PENDEKATAN ARSITEKTUR NUSANTARA by St Aisyah Rahman, Kurnia Afdillah, Taufik Arfan

“… Abstrak_ Penggunaan animasi saat ini telah mencakup ke seluruh bidang, mulai dari dunia hiburan seperti film, dunia  pendidikan  sebagai  media  pembelajaran  di  sekolah-sekolah,  hingga  ke  dunia  bisnis  sebagai  media promosi dan penjualan.  …”
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