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Becoming American: Constructing Mexican Immigrants In Local Newspapers, Zheng Zhu
Becoming American: Constructing Mexican Immigrants In Local Newspapers, Zheng Zhu
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Media representation of Latino immigrants has been extensively studied by scholars across diverse academic disciplines. Particular to the U.S. context, preceding scholarships pertaining to the ways in which Latinos were represented centered on the media representation of Latino immigrants either as the exotic racial other or undesirable foreigners. In light of the important role that the Mexican immigrants played in understanding the current national debate on illegal immigration and the overall historical experiences of immigrants in Washington State (WA), this study critically investigated how news articles published in WA represented Mexican immigrants. As a crucial point of departure from prior …
Hollywood’S Image Of The Second World War - David Ayer’S Fury (2014) And The Depiction Of Violence In War, Frank Jacob
Hollywood’S Image Of The Second World War - David Ayer’S Fury (2014) And The Depiction Of Violence In War, Frank Jacob
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The article describes the way in which violence is depicted in David Ayer’s World War II movie Fury (2014). It also deals with the general question how violence is visualized in current Hollywood movies.
Blood, Tits And The Modern Depiction Of Antiquity – Sparatcus: Blood And Sand And The Display Of A Historical Myth, Frank Jacob
Blood, Tits And The Modern Depiction Of Antiquity – Sparatcus: Blood And Sand And The Display Of A Historical Myth, Frank Jacob
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The article is dealing with the depiction of antiquity in the TV series Spartacus: Blood and Sand.
Aviation Cinema, Kevin L. Ferguson
Digital Aids Documentary: Webs, Rooms, Viruses And Quilts, Alexandra Juhasz
Digital Aids Documentary: Webs, Rooms, Viruses And Quilts, Alexandra Juhasz
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No abstract provided.
Downtown's Queer Asides, Lucas Hilderbrand, Alexandra Juhasz, Debra Levine, Ricardo Montez
Downtown's Queer Asides, Lucas Hilderbrand, Alexandra Juhasz, Debra Levine, Ricardo Montez
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No abstract provided.
Developing Media Literacy: Managing Fear And Moving Beyond, Katherine Fry
Developing Media Literacy: Managing Fear And Moving Beyond, Katherine Fry
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One way to view the development of the media literacy movement is through the various different ways in which strains of media literacy education have been called on to allay fears that accompanying new media technologies. This article focuses on how one media literacy organization, The LAMP, deals with two very different arenas —the internet safety arena and the news literacy arena-where fear of digital media has created narrow pockets of concern seeking narrow solutions. As media literacy grows and develops the hope is that these fears subside, a perception of separateness dissolves, and a broader media literacy vision advances.
Philosophy's Rarified Air: On Peden's Spinoza Contra Phenomenology, Steven Swarbrick
Philosophy's Rarified Air: On Peden's Spinoza Contra Phenomenology, Steven Swarbrick
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No abstract provided.
Collecting To The Core: American Crime Fiction, Michael Adams
Collecting To The Core: American Crime Fiction, Michael Adams
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Overview of key secondary works analyzing American crime fiction: general works, works dealing with specific periods, works dealing with crime fiction by women and African Americans.
A Game Changer: Frederick Wiseman’S The Titicut Follies, William Blick
A Game Changer: Frederick Wiseman’S The Titicut Follies, William Blick
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It has become evident that film has the ability to invoke changes in a society. The social issue of the treatment of the mentally ill has always been the subject of films, although many films of past appear exploitative, sensationalist, crude, and ignorant of the realities of the issues being represented. In 1967, Frederick Wiseman’s film, The Titicut Follies, despite winning numerous awards, created such controversy that it became the only film to be banned in the United States for reasons other than obscenity and national security until 1991. The film revealed gross mistreatment of the mentally ill …