The Politics of Circularity in Todd Phillips’s Joker (2019) by Guillaume Mouleux

“…In the wake of the worldwide box office and critical success of Todd Phillips’s movie Joker (2019) and of the controversies which accompanied its release, this article focuses on the notion of circularity both in the film’s storytelling and its interactions with the viewer, especially through the numerous intertextual references and evocations which are developed on screen. …”
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Guidelines for Writing Quality Impact Statements for Workload and Marketing by Amy Harder, Ruth Borger

“…Extension faculty can use storytelling techniques to develop strong impact statements that communicate the results of their programming. …”
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Comment la fiction contemporaine travaille ses lecteurs by Nancy Murzilli

“…What can literature do in front of neoliberalist storytelling practices whose objective is to invent an "actionable" concept-solution, effective in terms of like, follow and sale ? …”
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American Minimalism: The Western Vernacular in Norman Mailer’s The Executioner’s Song. by Andrew Wilson

“…The article positions The Executioner’s Song alongside earlier minimalist styles in American Literature and takes stock of Mailer’s use of oral storytelling techniques and panoramic perspectives. Mailer’s minimal presence in the narrative and the original capital punishment proceedings is established, with support from early reviews, debates surrounding the genre of The Executioner’s Song and interviews given by the author since its publication in 1979.…”
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Affect and Metaphor Sensing in Virtual Drama by Li Zhang, John Barnden

“…Our paper contributes to the journal themes on believable virtual characters in real-time narrative environment, narrative in digital games and storytelling and educational gaming with social software.…”
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The Contributions of Cultural Entertainment Groups to Tourism in Kabale District. by Ahumuza, Shallot

“…In today's world, entertainment has moved from mere storytelling, gladiator fight,s and horse races to big business in Europe. …”
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Unlocking the interactive potential of digital models with game engines and visual programming for inclusive Vr and web-based museums by Fabrizio Banfi, Daniela

“…A VR platform and a WebVR application have been developed, enabling users to immerse themselves in a virtual environment enriched by virtual-visual storytelling (VVS). This narrative approach integrates textual information, audio, and 3D animations to enhance the user's experience (UX) and provide a multifaceted understanding of the site’s historical and cultural significance. …”
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Landscape, Geopolitics, and National Identity in the Norwegian Thrillers Occupied and Nobel by Saunders Robert A.

“…Focusing on the use of landscape in the Norwegian series Occupied (2015–2020) and Nobel (2016), this article examines the ways in which cityscapes and panoramas of the natural environment are employed as affective, as well as aesthetic tools for storytelling within a geopolitically inflected framework. …”
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Neurological Impairment and Literary Empowerment in Nicole Krauss’s Man Walks into a Room by Pascale Antolin

“…In numerous passages focused on ordinary moments of life, Krauss draws her reader’s attention to the singularity of experience and the power of storytelling, through figuration in particular, to account for it.…”
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Empirical insights into traditional and AI-enhanced interactive narratives based on children’s fables by Świerczyńska-Kaczor Urszula

“…Aim/purpose – The study delves into the creation and the experience of interactive children’s narratives based on poetry, examining the emerging role of artificial intelligence (AI) as a collaborative partner in storytelling for children. The research questions are: 1) What are the experiences of readers, specifically children’s guardians, with interactive narratives based on children’s poetry?…”
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Township Politics by Mpho Moalamedi

“…Delving into the intricate dynamics of grassroots movements during the post-apartheid era, the review highlights the author's adept storytelling and sociopolitical analysis. By humanizing the historical narrative through the voices of ordinary citizens and community leaders, the book succeeds in providing a nuanced understanding of the challenges and triumphs inherent in civic engagement within South African townships. …”
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What’s the Story? Issues of Diversity and Children’s Publishing in the U.K. by Laura ATKINS

“…Building on previous research, including her article published in "White Privilege and Children's Publishing: A Web 2.0 Case Study,” Write4Children (Web), she here focuses on issues of diversity, representation and storytelling in children’s books. After sharing some of her personal experiences as an editor, she then builds on author interviews, in the hope of ultimately allowing editors to explore their subjectivity and preferences, which shape the publishers’ catalogues.…”
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The Landscapes of Eco-Noir by Mrozewicz Anna Estera

“…I argue in this article that Occupied challenges this white-ecological masculine discourse through “dark ecology” (Morton, 2007), embodied by Russia and expressed by the avoidance of spectacular landscape aesthetics as well as by the strategy of “enmeshment”, facilitated by the medium of televisual long-form storytelling and the eco-noir aesthetics.…”
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Fiction and Cyberspace: Reading Dickens in the Information Age by Maria Cristina Paganoni

“…Several analogies are detectable between the construction of fictional worlds typical of Victorian novels and digital entertainment media and storytelling genres, while the intense reader engagement Dickens established between his fiction and the social world is remindful of the online/offline identity performance of Internet users. …”
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The Datafication Challenge. Introduction to Themed Issue by Joke Hermes, Julia Conemans, Rachel Somers Miles, Kuba Piwowar

“…This issue therefore explores how professionals might find help in not only coming to terms with datafication and algorithmic logic but also build it into a strength for public-minded news and documentary storytelling. …”
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Tedium and Terror: Dreading Narration in Colson Whitehead’s Zone One by Mark Pedretti

“…The article concludes by considering this form of dread as indicative of a postnarrative moment that calls for new forms of storytelling.…”
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La postmémoire dans le discours politique de Manuel Valls et Anne Hidalgo by Carole Viñals

“…Both have developed a story, a storytelling, of their family origins which has helped to forge a political image for them. …”
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Un processus d’enquête à l’université par la narration professionnelle by Simon Mallard

“…In such case, the logic of inquiry supports the process of exchange between trainees and a kind of collective storytelling. This approach encourages confrontation with the professional gender of the teaching profession and also the positioning, but also emergence, of a style-action.…”
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Ethnographie d’un film commémoratif by Isabelle Becuywe

“…I work in anthropology on storytelling using digital technologies in France and Quebec. …”
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Story and Recall in First-Person Shooters by Dan Pinchbeck

“…Partially, this is due to advances in technology enabling a greater capacity for distributed storytelling and a better integration of story and gameplay. …”
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