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    “Check Your Network Connection”: Cyberpunk Visions of Disembodied Labor in Sleep Dealer by Michael Pitts

    “…As the following analysis of the Mexican film Sleep Dealer (2008) illustrates, film and, more specifically, cyberpunk cinema act as important vehicles through which complex commentaries on the socioeconomic conditions of the Mexico-U.S. border may be developed and presented.…”
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    Um estudo da formalidade sonoro-narrativa no documentário musical Titãs - a vida até parece uma festa by Cynthia Schneider

    Published 2012-08-01
    “…As a theoreticalproposal for understanding the documentary specificities, this article considers the conceptsof the non-fiction film as presented by Ramos (2008) and film editing proposed by Aumont(1994).…”
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    Rasquache aesthetics in Alex Rivera’s “Why Cybraceros?” by Debra Ann Castillo

    Published 2014-07-01
    “…This paper studies Rivera's 12-year-old spoof outsourcing website, with particular attention to the 4.5 minute 1997 video that served as its original point of departure (he is now best know for his 2008 feature film, "Sleep Dealer.").   Rivera’s work in general involves a practice he calls a “rasquache aesthetic” of filmmaking.  …”
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    On Christian Martyrdom in Japan (1597-1658) by Cristina Osswald

    Published 2021-12-01
    “…Hundred and eighty-eight Kirishithan martyred for their faith, and who were mostly laypersons, were declared blessed in 2008. The film Silence directed by Martin Scorsese and based on the novel by Shisaku Endo opened the debate on the significance of Christianity and martyrdom in early modern Japan to the wide public in 2016.…”
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    Cinema as Testimony and Discourse for History: Film Cityscapes in Autobiographical Documentaries by Iván Villarmea Álvarez

    “…This paradigm shift explains why memory and identity are two of the main topics of post-modern documentaries, such as some “urban autobiographies” that recall the emotional experience of missing cityscapes: Roger and Me (Michael Moore, USA, 1989), My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin, Canada, 2007) and Of Time and the City (Terence Davies, UK, 2008). These films share a similar subjective approach to portraying the decline of industrial towns through personal memories, despite their belonging to three different subgenres: the performative political documentary, the essay film and the self-fiction. …”
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    ‘Appelsinpiken’ and experiential tourism. Andalusia, ‘geography with a thrill’ by Maria del Carmen Puche Ruiz

    “…The purpose of this article is to analyse the context in which ‘Appelsinpiken’ (‘The Orange Girl’, Eva Dahr, 2008) was filmed, and also the image of tourism in Seville that the films suggests as a reduction of the image of Andalusia and Spain in the Nordic collective conscience. …”
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