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Authenticating White Trash: The performance of country music in O Brother,...
Abstract: This essay explores the way white trash identity is performed through country music. In particular, the focus is on the way the film O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Joel Coen, 2001) uses a...
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What does it mean to say a text is within, or representative of, a transitional state? Is such a position even possible given we must always choose a point of fixity from which to proceed in our...
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“A series of emotional remembrances”: Echoes of Bernard Herrmann – Daniel...
1965 was not a good year for Bernard Herrmann. In his personal life, after fifteen years, his marriage to Lucy Anderson had ended in divorce. In his professional life, his career as a film composer was...
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Blockbusters for the YouTube Generation: A new product of convergence culture...
Abstract: While scholars have paid much attention to YouTube in a Web 2.0 environment, the YouTube blockbuster is yet to be discussed as part of this convergence culture. It differs from transmedia...
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On Cinema, Stars, Boleros y Comedia: Contesting Cold War Repression through...
Abstract: This article explores the role that La Opinion, a Mexican American press that rose to meet the growing needs of Mexicans of first and second generation in the U.S. Southwest, played in...
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Reaching for the Screen in Nine Inch Nails’ ‘Lights in the Sky’– Katheryn Wright
Abstract: During the Nine Inch Nails’ Lights in the Sky tour in 2008, Trent Reznor made use of two semi-transparent stealth screens layered in front of a third screen through which the band performed...
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Contents “Children should play with dead things”: transforming Frankenstein in Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie – Erin Hawley “You gave me no choice”: A queer reading of Mordred’s journey to villainy and...
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‘Rock‘n’roll’s evil doll’: the Female Popular Music Genre of Barbie Rock –...
Abstract: Fostering male tradition in popular music, rock’n’roll history often underrated the early Girl Group chart-topping era of 1958-63 after Elvis and before Beatlemania. By the 1990s-2000s, Riot...
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