Film actors’ flaunting of tobacco brands rises despite ban by Christie Aschwanden

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“I had a Ticket to the Banquet in My Hands”. Fyodor Nikitin and “Child Theatre Ring” by Garena Krasnova

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Double Takes by Sarah Atkinson

Subjects: “…women film actors…”
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Herding Community by Ann Marie McKinnon

“… The Icelandic horse in the film Of Horses and Men is an individual understood on the basis of what it does, a biosocial becoming in a specific geography, society, and historical moment. The horse is a film actor and an agent and, seen through the visual repetition of the gaze of the horse in the film, offers a clear example of entangled agencies -- a herd of human and non-human animals -- that co-create their Icelandic home. …”
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Hindu Rashtra and Bollywood: A New Front in the Battle for Cultural Hegemony by Nivedita Menon

“…This paper examines the weaponization by Hindu right-wing politics of the suicide of a young Hindi film actor in September 2020. It argues that his death was invoked in particular ways to sharpen the attack on the Bombay film industry as part of the larger concerted move by the RSS to control and purge spaces seen as either controlled by “left liberals,” or as syncretic and unamenable to Hindu-Muslim polarization. …”
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Enter Sir Alfred, or Hitchcock’s Three Du Mauriers by Jean-Loup Bourget

“…It then proceeds to a brief examination of the friendly and professional relationship between Hitchcock and Daphne’s father, the stage and occasionally film actor Gerald Du Maurier, and speculates about possible thematic connections between Hitchcock and Daphne’s grandfather George Du Maurier, the illustrator and author of Trilby and Peter Ibbetson. …”
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“Power Dressing”: Hyper-Feminine Performance and the Professionally Self-Sexualised Female Body by Stephanie Lever

“…However, the professional backdrop of this research is not of the office but of sex-work (defined in the Dictionary as “a person employed in the sex industry, as a prostitute, pornographic film actor, stripper, nude model, or creator of sexually explicit online content”), and celebrity. …”
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An Analysis of Actors in Malay Films: Small Worlds, Centralities and Genre Diversity by Nurun Najwa Bahari, Paul Expert, Fatimah Abdul Razak

“…Moreover, we also calculated the average shortest path in the network to search for the “Kevin Bacon” of the Malay language film actor network. Using NHHI as an indicator of genre diversity, we also show that most of the actors diversify their work over the years and that genre diversity is an important benchmark for an actor.…”
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The Effect of Film Nostalgia on Visiting Tourist Attractions (Case Study: “What's The Time in Your World?” Film) by Seyed Mojtaba Moussavi Neghabi, Seyed Ali Hosseini, Nima Moshiri Langroudi

“…In particular, the research findings show that among the various dimensions of film nostalgia, most viewers who feel nostalgic for film music and film actors are more motivated to visit the destination. …”
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