Dilip Kumar: An Auteur Actor by Sharaf Rehman

“…Dilip Kumar has been praised for his sublime dialog delivery, for his restrained gestures, and for his measured and controlled underplay of emotions in tragic stories as well as in light-hearted comedies. His debut in 1944 with Jwar Bhata (Ebb and Tide) met with less-than-flattering reviews. …”
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Challenging the stereotype through humor? Comic female scientists in animated TV series for young audiences by Jade Soucy-Humphreys, Karina Judd, Anna-Sophie Jürgens

“…However, the representation of the female scientists in these animated TV comedies was steeped in archaic stereotypes that, surprisingly, were barely associated with humor: it was the science, not the female scientist per se, that was comic. …”
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Repercussões satíricas dos processos de escolarização do social nas ondas do rádio (1930-1940) Satirical repercussions of the social schooling processes in radio programs (1930-194... by Maria Angela Borges Salvadori

“…<br>This article analyzes satirical repercussions of the social schooling processes in Brazil found in old radio comedies which, usually built around the dialogue between a teacher and his or her students, were, on the one hand, huge audience successes and, on the other hand, subjected to systematic criticism from those who believed that radio broadcasting should be used as an instrument to disseminate the "true" culture. …”
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Cinema d'auteur and dubbing: the Woody Allen Paradox by Frédérique Brisset

“…Based on examples taken from nine of Allen’s comedies over a 30-year period, this descriptive diachronic and comparative study contrasts the original versions of the films with their translations in French editions and their dubbed versions, using Berman’s theory of “deforming tendencies”.…”
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What do you see and what do you recall?: Using eye tracking to understand product placement by Jittima Kongmanon, Phallapa Petison

“…Among those, research studies indicated that product placements in situation comedies (Sitcoms) are the most effective. This study aims to examine five forms of product placement: (1) product movement, (2) plot integration, (3) product tie-in, (4) sponsorship, and (5) graphics, which are the most effective, in terms of brand recognition and brand recall. …”
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Translation from Chinese of Poems 1–9 from 'Wandering Spirit and Metaphysical Thoughts' by Gao Xingjian by Mabel Lee, Gao Xingjian

“…He recovered, and the opera premiered as scheduled with the help of a co-director before he returned to Paris to direct the Comédie Français premiere of his Quatre quatuors pour un week-end. …”
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The Politics of Transgenericity: Pierre Du Ryer’s Dramatic Adaptations of John Barclay’s “Argenis” by Michael Meere

“…Taking advantage of the novel’s success, Pierre Du Ryer (1606-1658), one of the most popular playwrights of his generation, wrote two adaptations of Barclay’s novel: Argenis et Poliarque, ou Théocrine, tragicomédie (1630), focusses on the first encounter between Argenis and Poliarchus, whilst L’Argenis du sieur Du Ryer, tragi-comédie, dernière journée (1631) attempts to recount the entire plot. …”
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Dans le sillage de Dante : le naufrage comme châtiment by Brigitte Urbani

“…Si dans l’Odyssée d’Homère les embûches – et donc les naufrages - qui parsèment le retour d’Ulysse à Ithaque sont dues à la colère des dieux offensés (Athéna, Poséidon), dans la Divine Comédie, où Dante invente un dernier voyage d’Ulysse, le naufrage final apparaît comme le châtiment de celui qui s’est rendu coupable de vouloir trop savoir en franchissant les Colonnes d’Hercule et en naviguant jusqu’au monde interdit aux humains. …”
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Mokyklinis jėzuitų teatras – politinio Lietuvos Didžiosios Kunigaikštystės teatro dalis | Scholastic Jesuit Theatre – a Part of Political Theatre in Great Duchy of Lithuania... by Eugenija Ulčinaitė

“…Eventually, however, scholastic theatre overgrew these didactic aims: from academic lecture-halls they spread into the streets and squares of the town, became inseparable part of the town life, helped to form esthetic taste of spectators, impressively expressed the baroque spirit.The article analysis comedies, recitations and paratheatrical plays performed by the students of old Vilnius university show in political and social events by using different theatre forms.The biggest part of the analysis is devoted to the drama “About peace” written by the university professor Kasper Pentkovski (Kasper Pætkowski, 1554–1612). …”
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The role of a song in a Hindi film by Rajiv Vijayakar

“…It not only exists in a musical Hindi movie but is also used as a narrative device in films of every genre from comedies and romances to crime thrillers and horror films, most of which, routinely, may have five or more songs. …”
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Alexis Piron, poète (1689-1773), ou la condition difficile d'auteur sous Louis XV by Verèb, P

“…Piron, auteur dramatique: l'Opéra-Comique et la petite comédie en vaudevilles <br/> 12. Piron, auteur dramatique: le Théâtre-Français <br/> Post-face <br/> Annexe: répertoires des écrits pironiens <br/> Bibliographie <br/> Index…”

Plauto y Terencio en Ausonio: significación del texto teatral en la Antigüedad tardía by Liliana Pégolo

“…The present article analyzes the Ausonian varietas focusing on the inclusion of Plautus, Terence and Afranius in the work of this renowned author of togatas comedies.…”
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The Confluence of Naturalism and Postmodernism in Rose Tremain’s The Swimming Pool Season: a Post-War Feminist Approach to Realism by Émilie Walezak

“…With such characters as Gervaise or the Maréchal exclaiming over ‘la comédie humaine’, Tremain pays homage in The Swimming Pool Season to the tradition of the great realistic novel. …”
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Linguistic Creativity in Cinematic Discourse and Discourse of Children’s Literature: Lexical Level by Irina Zykova, Mariya Kiose

“…The procedure is applied to the discourse data sets which amount to 104,543 text signs of two cinematic comedies and four children's humorous short stories; to assess the pragmatic relevance of linguistic creativity parameters, we relied on the humorous effect produced with the use of linguistic means. …”
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The International Conference on the Great Lakes Region and the implementation of the Ezulwini Consensus: Challenges and prospects by Shirambere P. Tunamsifu

“…However, when regional organisations in areas of conflict face such challenges, the African Union must take responsibility for comediating or sending African experts to resolve the conflict impartially.…”
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Die Bedeutung der Handwerkerrechnungen und Bierdeputate für den Opernbetrieb des Jarmeritzer Schlosstheaters in der ersten Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts by Jana Perutková

“…The number of extras was variable according to the genre; for comedies there were mostly 4 – 6 extras, for operas 22 – 33. …”
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FRA GIGLI E MASTROFINI: IL “PROSPETTO DI VERBI TOSCANI TANTO REGOLARI CHE IRREGOLARI” (1761) DI GIOVANNI BATTISTA PISTOLESI by Alessio Ricci

“…Finally, based on the comedies of Giovanni Battista Fagiuoli, the author assesses the degree of reliability ineighteenth century Florentine language.…”
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Linguocultural Localization of Movie Titles by Vladislav E Anissimov, Anna S Borissova, Grigoriy R Konson

“…We analysed of eighty-seven French feature films of various genre affiliations (detectives, action films, dramas, melodramas, comedies, thrillers and fantasy), released in Russian from 2000 to 2018, and their translation equivalents. …”
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Shakespeare’s Legal Wit: Evolution of the Translation of Shakespeare’s Legal Puns into Spanish from the 20th to the 21st Century by Rodríguez Herrera, José Manuel

“…After a brief overview of Shakespearean translations into Spanish over the centuries, this study focuses on the evolution of the translation of Shakespeare’s legal puns into Spanish through the works of three translators starting with Leandro Fernandez de Moratín’s early 20th century renderings, Manuel Ángel Conejero’s version in 1995, and finally Ángel Luis Pujante’s recent edition of Shakespeare’s comedies and tragicomedies. The paper concludes by problematizing such strategies in the context of “law-worthy” translations as opposed to “stage-worthy” ones.…”
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El fracaso o la anti épica en dos novelas venezolanas contemporáneas: El pasajero de Truman y Sumario by Celso Medina

“…Notre travail veut réfléchir sur la signification que ces deux romans historiques peuvent offrir dans l’historisation d’une tragédie qui joue avec la comédie, configurant une anti-épique.…”
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