Breast Schwannoma by Vandana Dialani, Neely Hines, Yihong Wang, Priscilla Slanetz

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Viralité et starisation : le procès Johnny Depp / Amber Heard by Laura Santone

“…As both protagonists are Hollywood stars, the virality here is questioned not only from a linguistic point of view, but also in the context of the star-system. …”
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Daughters of the Dust (Julie Dash, 1991), le récit d’esclave revisité by Delphine Letort

“…Whilst allowing women to address their most intimate dilemmas (rape, skin colour, pregnancy, sexuality, gender roles), the director tries to undermine Hollywood stereotypes of black women. Not only does she look back into the past as a source of inspiration and creation, but she also generates a longing for an idealized tribal life that never was but in the imaginary construct of afrocentrist theorists.…”
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Enter Sir Alfred, or Hitchcock’s Three Du Mauriers by Jean-Loup Bourget

“…It concludes that the complex network between Hitchcock and three generations of Du Mauriers is evidence of the Hollywood director’s abiding English roots and inspiration.…”
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Editorial: Insights in pediatric urology: 2022 by Marco Castagnetti, Marco Castagnetti, Miguel A. Castellan, Miguel A. Castellan, Miguel A. Castellan, Ezekiel E. Young, Ezekiel E. Young

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In the Shadow of the “Indeterminate Speech-Act”: The Populist Politics of Rumor in Fritz Lang’s Early Sound Films by Florian Zappe

“…This interpretation of M―Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder (Germany, 1931) and Lang’s first Hollywood production Fury (USA, 1936) will show that the shift from silent to sound cinema marks not only an aesthetic and technological innovation, but also coincides with an increased political awareness in the director’s oeuvre. …”
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ŞEYTANIN AVUKATI'NDAN BAŞKANIN ADAMLARI'NA: ASİMETRİK İLETİŞİM VE SPİN DÖNGÜSÜNDE GERÇEKLİK ÜRETİMİ by Fuat Ustakara, Mustafa Aydemir

“…Amerikan ve İngiliz siyasal iletişiminde spin etkisi, ikna çekiciliğinin örneklerini teşkil etmektedir. Bu çalışma, Hollywood üretimi beş filmde çeşitli metaforların kullanılması yoluyla asimetrik iletişim ve spin doctor girişimleriyle özdeşlik kurulmasına yönelmektedir. …”
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“This is 1986. This isn’t like the 60s and 50s”: Locating the Long Civil Rights Narrative in Just Mercy (2019) by Johanne Østergaard, Mikkel Jensen

“…Most mainstream films about the civil rights movement are set in the South in the 1950-1960s, but this article points out how Hollywood in the 2010s broke new ground by also portraying civil rights struggles after that era. …”
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Kto polubi Mary Lennox? „Tajemniczy ogród” Agnieszki Holland i współczesne kino familijne by Elżbieta Ostrowska-Chmura

“… Tajemniczy ogród (The Secret Garden, 1993), pierwszy film zrealizowany przez Agnieszkę Holland w Hollywood, jest adaptacją powieści Frances Hodgson Burnett powszechnie uznawanej za klasykę literatury dziecięcej. …”
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La Palestine comme écran, ou comment passer « de l’autre côté du miroir » by Laure Fourest

“…Our study is based on one of the most convincing creations in this production; in Port of Memory [2009], Kamal Aljafari uses sequences taken from Israeli and Hollywood films shot in Jaffa in the 1970s and 1980s where Palestinian inhabitants were excluded. …”
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LA LA LAND FİLMİNİN METİNLERARASI EVRENDE GÖĞE YÜKSELİŞİ by Fatma Okumuş

“…Müzik, edebiyat, tasarım, siyasal kampanya gibi çeşitli etkinlikler arasındaki sınırların kalktığı son yıllarda besteciler, reklamcılar, yazarlar, ressamlar, sinemacılar, dansçılar, vd. ustalıklarıyla karma iletişim araçları (mixed-media) üreterek çok katmanlı metinler sunuyorlar. Hollywood sinemasında son dönemde üretilen filmler de geleneksel anlatı yapısından ayrılarak metinlerarası bir evrende geziniyor. …”
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Un-quaring San Francisco in Milk and Test by Clayton Dillard

“…While it is perhaps unsurprising that Milk, a prestige Hollywood film, engages homonormative depictions of queerness, the fact that Test, an American indie, presents San Francisco in a similar manner demonstrates how pernicious this discourse is and that it persists no matter the industrial formation.…”
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Présences mémorielles et carences fictionnelles : L’espace du deuil dans le cinéma indépendant new-yorkais post-11/09 by Vincent SOULADIÉ

“…Whereas the Hollywood majors observed a careful distance in the evocation and the representation of 9/11, several filmmakers belonging to New York's independent cinema chose to rapidly direct movies set in its immediate aftermath and in the bruised landscape of New York. …”
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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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