Screening vulnerability in the Anthropocene: Island of The Hungry Ghosts and the eco-ethics of refugee cinema by Chu, Kiu-Wai

“…In short, as Bauman puts it, ‘becoming an inmate of a refugee camp means eviction from the world shared by the rest of humanity’. In recent decades we have seen a growing number of film and media representations that address the conditions caused by the global refugee crisis. …”
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Mechanization and the human desire for control in ghost in the shell and innocence. by Yap, Esther Lei Ling.

“…Thus, the near futuristic world depicted in the animated films, Ghost in the shell and it's sequel, Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, directed by Mamoru Oshii, acutely reflects the fulfillment of humanity's desire to conquer the natural and physical laws of nature and death. …”
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Paradise Lost – and Found Again METRO 2033, the Ghosts of the Past, Moral Choices,and Game Rewards by Krottmaier, Sina, Zuanni, Chiara

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Creating the world of strange occurrences : Bukit Bulabu by Yeo, Gloria Jia Min

“…The Final Year Project documented in this report is a Stop Motion film that is titled Strange Occurrences: Bukit Bulabu, a fictional ghost documentary that takes place in Singapore. …”
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Chinese Subtitling of Participants in an English Film : A Narrative-Informed Visual-Verbal Reference by Yuping Chen

“…Against the backdrop of increased attention to semiotic relations in audiovisual translation, this qualitative study examines the subtitling of characters and objects from verbal reference to visual information in the presenting and presuming systems in film. By comparatively analyzing the visual-verbal endophora, exophora, and homophora in the DVD and the YYeTs fansubbed Chinese subtitles of an English film Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol , it is found that there is a stronger visual-verbal link in the DVD subtitle, in which the visual information functions to generalize unfamiliar world knowledge pertaining to uniquely presumed characters to meet target audiences half way, omit redundant verbal information concerning explicitly presumed characters, and explicitate indefinite lexical items relating to explicitly and implicitly presumed objects. …”
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WATCH ME MOVE : THE ANIMATION SHOW / by Hilty, Greg, editor 635515, Pardo, Alona, editor 635516, Barbican Art Gallery, editor 635517

From Bluebeard's castle to the white world of dreams : constrictions and constructions in Angela Carter's prose fiction by Murphy, FLM

“…Elements of film theory, urban studies and architecture are threaded throughout, and some conclusions are offered through a reading of the important tropes of dream and labyrinth in <u>American Ghosts and Old World Wonders</u>.…”

Medium Specific Uncanny in Contemporary Video Games by Csönge Tamás

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Of haunted spaces: cinema, heterotopias, and China’s hyperurbanization by Raidel, Ella

“…Assemblies of ruins, theme parks, entirely copied towns, simulacra, business districts on a globalized template, reconstructed historic districts, settlements, and ghost towns are finding a new expression in the contemporary world. …”
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Ghostbusting in the Late Anthropocene by Robert A Saunders

“…Indeed, the decade of Reaganism haunts the film, serving as a ghostly reminder of how we arrived at our current Anthropocene predicament through white heteropatriarchal triumphalism, neoliberal excess, and ecocide. …”
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Traditions of German Expressionism in the Cinematography of the Second Half of the 20th – Early 21st Centuries by E. A. Radaeva

“…As a result, it was revealed that the expressionist concept of man and the world is strong in the artistic world of cinema art of this period. …”
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For a Ghoul Time, Call: Telephonic Terror at the Boundary of Narrative and Information in BBC Ghostwatch by Rose Rowson

“…This article revisits controversial BBC television film Ghostwatch (1992), a seasonal feature-length television special about a family plagued by a poltergeist and the television crew has entered their home hoping to capture ghostly phenomena on camera. …”
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