Rethinking Jean Baudrillard's simulacres et simulation in Christopher Nolan's memento and the prestige by Ahmad Naufal Amirza

“…My thesis is that the simulacra in Nolan’s films is caused by the repetition and layering of simulations perpetuated by the individual. …”
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A Functional Study of Film Sound Design in Science Fiction Films by Fang Zhuxin

“…The purpose of this paper is to analyze the role of sound effects in science fiction films, and will use Avatar, Inception, The Prestige and Gravity, the four films, respectively, to explain the three functions that sound effects have. …”
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The (im)possibility of filming Ibsen by Melvin Chen

“…I consider how aesthetic principles may be developed so as to aid the potential film-maker who is likewise driven by the Shakespeare premise and the concomitant hidden potential in Ibsen, whose dramatic texts share the natural priority and canonical prestige of Shakespeare’s texts. …”
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The (im)possibility of filming Ibsen by Chen, Melvin

“…I consider how aesthetic principles may be developed so as to aid the potential film-maker who is likewise driven by the Shakespeare premise and the concomitant hidden potential in Ibsen, whose dramatic texts share the natural priority and canonical prestige of Shakespeare’s texts. …”
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Reimagining Queer Female Histories through Fandom by Ellie Turner-Kilburn

“…Carol (2015), a film directed by Todd Haynes that is set in the 1950s, has quickly become a cult classic among queer audiences and has garnered industry prestige. …”
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Will You Awaken When Your Netflix No Longer Works? American Films, Television Productions and Social Transformations in Poland by Mirosław Filiciak

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Reading the Apocalypse with Christopher Nolan: Story and Narrative, Time and Space by Jamie Davies

“…The approach taken to Nolan’s work is that of auteur theory, a pattern theory which traces the distinctive technical and artistic voice of the director across a wide range of films (e.g. Memento, The Prestige, Inception, Dunkirk). …”
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"Fabiola", storia di un appuntamento mancato: i cattolici e la coproduzione cinematografica italo-francese by Paola Palma

“…Il saggio si propone – attraverso il vaglio di documenti inediti – di stabilire fino a che punto i cattolici hanno voluto e potuto essere implicati nel fenomeno della coproduzione italo-francese ovvero nella concezione, produzione e ricezione di questi film. "Fabiola" (1949), directed by Alessandro Blasetti and produced by Salvo D’Angelo’s Universalia Film, seems to represent an early step in the Catholics’ search for a place within the new media era – all the while maintaing their tradition and prestige, but paying attention to international relationships. …”
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I paladini di Calvino, Gianini e Luzzati, e Monicelli by Beatrice Sica

“…Italo Calvino dans le Vicomte pourfendu (1952) et dans le Chevalier inexistant (1959), Mario Monicelli dans le film L’armée Brancaleone, Emanuele Luzzati e Giulio Gianini dans le générique de ce film ainsi que dans le court-métrage d’animation La gazza ladra (1964) créent des chevaliers grotesques, sans armée, sans prestige. …”
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Un-quaring San Francisco in Milk and Test by Clayton Dillard

“…While it is perhaps unsurprising that Milk, a prestige Hollywood film, engages homonormative depictions of queerness, the fact that Test, an American indie, presents San Francisco in a similar manner demonstrates how pernicious this discourse is and that it persists no matter the industrial formation.…”
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Bottom-Up Approach to Language Policy and Planning in Kazakhstan by Dinara Tlepbergen, Assel Akzhigitova, Anastassia Zabrodskaja

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Language Editors: Challenges, Linguistic Attitudes and Motivation by Neringa Micutaitė, Kristina Jakaitė-Bulbukienė

“…The texts edited by the participants vary in their nature: cultural, legal, film texts, scientific, medical, culinary, business, fiction literature and etc. …”
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As encenações da História Staging History by Sheila Schvarzman

“…Through the History, one tries to give credibility and prestige to the films, atracting investitors to financial then, according the new laws of culture incentive. …”
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Male teachers in primary school by Giuseppe Zanniello

“…In OECD member countries, primary school teachers form a minority of the teaching staff due to the low remuneration, the low social prestige and also due to the fact that it has been considered as a profession for women. …”
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Examining beliefs, stereotypes and linguistic attitudes in teacher training: a route to critical thinking education by Taís Bopp da Silva

“…The participants (22 language undergraduate students) watched the comedy-drama “Domésticas, o filme”, answered a language attitude questionnaire related to the characters portrayed in the plot and took part on a debate about those characters. …”
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Is journalism failing on climate? by Stefan Rahmstorf

“…A representative of Channel 4, where the documentary was first broadcast, justified this by stating: ‘this is a controversial film but we feel that it is important that all sides of the debate are aired’ (Wikipedia 2012). …”
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