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    From Uncle Tom to Nat Turner: An Overview of Slavery in American Film, 1903-2016 by Melvyn Stokes

    Published 2019-09-01
    “…This article analyses the representation of American slavery in film over more than a century. …”
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    HORROR FILMS IN UNCONSCIOUS ANTHROPOLOGICAL STRATEGIES OF BIOPOWER by S. A. Malenko, A. G. Nekita

    Published 2018-06-01
    “…And the emergence of the horror film genre in American and world cinema means abandoning the model of classical political power based on the sacralisation and rationalization of personal authority and physical coercion. …”
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    Caught in a “mousetrap”: An analysis of the relationship of the local population with the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone in film and television productions (1990–2021) by Claudia Fiorito

    Published 2024-06-01
    “…This is also a central theme in Svetlana Alexievich’s renowned 1997 work Voices from Chernobyl: Chronicle of the future, whose stories inspired some episodes of the Anglo-American series. This article analyzes the representation of the relationship between the inhabitants of the Chornobyl/Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and their homeland in film and television productions dedicated to the nuclear disaster, beginning with Eastern European films made in the early 1990s, moving on to the representation in the Western series, and culminating with an analysis of Kozlovskij’s Chernobyl: Abyss. …”
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    The Dweller on the Threshold: Whiteness, the Family and the End of Classical Cinema by Conall Cash

    Published 2025-02-01
    “…Through a discussion of two key American films of the 1940s and 1950s – Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt (1943) and John Ford's The Searchers (1956) – this article situates the breakdown of classical cinema, or what Gilles Deleuze calls the “crisis of the action-image”, in relation to the critique of whiteness and the family. …”
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    Cinemas and Spectators of International Development by Molly Geidel

    Published 2019-12-01
    “…However, it attends not only to the ideal spectators these films attempted to create, but also to the experiences of spectators themselves, concluding that audience reactions to development films, particularly among non-experts, were often skeptical of the universal modernization trajectories on which the films insisted.…”
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    Women’s Suffrage: A Cinematic Study by Suzanne Bouclin

    Published 2014-11-01
    “…I do so through a close reading of three key moments in the film’s narrative which suggest how women’s participation or lack thereof, in formal institutions, remains today, an indicator of aspirational and actualized gender equality.…”
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    The Routledge handbook of mass media ethics /

    Published 2020
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