Of Movies and Money by Anika Saba

“…The paper will talk about the cultural implications of these Hollywood blockbusters and the money-making processes beyond the tickets sale such as gaming, toys and other merchandise. It will argue that the film industry has become the biggest cultural industry today run by media moguls and capitalist giants in the light of Stuart Hall’s notes on popular culture. …”
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A cultural study of Disney's Star Wars : theorizing circuit of culture by Vaidya, Ruta

“…Using Star Wars as a case study, this thesis examines the cultural circulation of morality through discourses related to the Star Wars films and a range of the transmedia storytelling universe such as toys and merchandizing activities. …”
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Representations of Hulk Hogan in the 1980s: Christianity, Masculinity, Xenophobia by Conor Heffernan

“…Using film, wrestling magazines, and wrestling broadcasts, this article argues that Hogan’s body and his use of his body were paramount to his success. …”
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Editors’ Introduction for NANO Special Issue 12: Star Wars: The Force Awakens: Narrative, Characters, Media, and Event by Jason W. Ellis, Sean Scanlan

“…This movie, the new characters, the new poster, the toys, the novelization (by Alan Dean Foster, the science fiction writer and film novelization specialist who served as ghost writer for George Lucas’ Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker, 1976, and Star Wars: The Force Awakens, 2016), and the countless viewing parties, the information sites such as Wookieepedia, and wonderful spoofs such as YouTube’s Bad Lip Reading enable me to say that this film is far beyond simple nostalgia and money-making scheme—though both of those are in play here. …”
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Early stressful experiences are associated with reduced neural responses to naturalistic emotional and social content in children by Anne T. Park, Hilary Richardson, Ursula A. Tooley, Cassidy L. McDermott, Austin L. Boroshok, Adrian Ke, Julia A. Leonard, M. Dylan Tisdall, Kirby Deater-Deckard, J. Christopher Edgar, Allyson P. Mackey

“…Because children can struggle with tasks in the scanner, we collected fMRI data while 4-to-11-year-olds watched a short film with positive and negative emotional events, and rich parent-child interactions (n = 70). …”
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La stop-motion como ejército de resistencia. La tardía Edad de Oro de una técnica anacrónica by Jordi Costa

“…Paradoxically, in the era of digital animation, stop motion animation not only does not have retired to the bench -or the attic of broken toys- in a scenario that did not ensure its survival, but it reveals itself more bustling than ever was with the completion of numerous feature films that are distributed globally, produced under the baton of veteran directors like Henry Selick -alma mater of the paranormal Laika-, Peter Lord -Aardman Animations-, Tim Burton or the revived Czech master JiÅ™í Barta, also involving an added attraction for live action filmographies as personal as Wes Anderson's. …”
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PRINCESSES IN DISCOURSE: THE DISNEY DOLLS CHARACTERS IN CHILDREN'S VISION by Michelle Brugnera Cruz Cechin, Thaise da Silva

“…The opportunity to play and reflect on these toys allowed new possibilities of thinking distinct modes of subjectivation.…”
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MIDI Gesamtkunstwerk and a schema for creative design by Atherton, David, 1960-

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Educational Care and Play by Alessandro Bortolotti, Andrea Ceciliani

“…We monitored the relationship between educational care and free play by means of an “ecological observation method” involving more than 90 children aged 3 and 5 years; children were monitored and filmed while playing in the open space (courtyards) of their school. …”
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Fans feeling a disturbance in the Force. Star Wars and the power of paratexts by Claus Toft-Nielsen

“…While this may seem true at first glance if we regard the blockbuster films of the Star Wars franchise, such a sentiment proves to be more problematic when we consider the merchandise accompanying the films. …”
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Mechapocalypse: Tracing the Global Popularity of Mobile Suit Gundam by Anthony Dominguez

“…This essay examines Char’s Counterattack as its own watershed moment for the Gundam franchise wherein Gundam would begin to spin-off into multiple media and other franchises, including more anime and films, but also manga, toys, novels, and later video games, all of which would be exported throughout the world, giving rise to Gundam’s global popularity. …”
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Rapid Assessment of Di(2-ethylhexyl) Phthalate Migration from Consumer PVC Products by Jiwon An, Hyun-Ho Roh, Haeyoon Jeong, Kuen-Yong Lee, Taiyoun Rhim

“…Poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC) is widely used to produce various consumer goods, including food packaging, toys for children, building materials, and cosmetic products. …”
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Time traveling––An intuitive grasp of time takes time by Cavicchi, Elizabeth

“…Other class activities included examining internal mechanisms of kinetic sculptures, wind-up toys and mechanical clocks; reading fictional and historical accounts; and watching stop-action photography in the early silent films of Georges Méliès. …”
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Occupational Therapy in mental health: the occupation as an entity, agent and means of treatment by Moruno Miralles, P, Romero Ayuso, D M

“…On the table, there was a dominoes of animals (of a famous toys brand) which was by chance like the one he had been given as a present; a puzzle with images from the latest Disney film; plastic cubes and little balls of very vivid colours, blue, red, yellow, green, and a very strange sphere whith a metallic net and containing small spheres with numbers inscribed. …”
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Visual effects and their importance in the field of visual media creation by Aja Knific Košir, Helena Gabrijelčič Tomc

“…This is followed by a presentation of the history of visual effects from its beginnings to the digital age, taking in the most successful examples of film production such as Terminator, Toy Story, The Matrix, and Star Wars. …”
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Religious Symbolism in the Cinema: “One Hour Photo” by Oleksandr Pasichnik, Eugene Piletsky

“…This study aims to identify religious symbols in the film (One Hour Photo) directed by Mark Romanek in 2002. …”
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The District! and the Autonomous Story Zone by Terence DeToy

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Development of Communicative Functions in Normal Persian-speaking Children from 12 to 18 Months of Age: A Longitudinal Study by Zahra Babaei, Atieh Ashtari, Enayatolah Bakhshi

“…For 7 months (once a month, each session for one hour), the examiner filmed the child-mother interaction during a semi-structured play with a set of toys at the child’s home. …”
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Liquid Flow Morphology of Viscous Systems in Structured Packings: Investigations by X-ray Tomography by Lukas Bolenz, Dominique Toye, Eugeny Kenig

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A meta-ethnography of health-care professionals’ experience of treating adults with chronic non-malignant pain to improve the experience and quality of health care by Fran Toye, Kate Seers, Karen Barker

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