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China EFL curriculum reform

Table of Contents: “…/ (Teng/Niu/Gregory/Wolff) -- Use and abuse of teaching with movies / (Niu/Wolff) -- China EFL: programming human robots / (Wolff) -- China EFL: what is holistic English? …”
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The glass slipper : women and love stories / by Weisser, Susan Ostrov

Table of Contents: “…Lawrence -- Why Charlotte Bronte despised Jane Austen (and what that tells us about the modern meaning of love) -- The true and real thing: Victorian and modern magazine cultures of romance -- Victorian desires and modern romances: Pocahontas on a bridge in Madison County -- For the love of mermaids, beasts, and vampires (and ghosts, robots, monsters, witches, and aliens): romancing the other -- Women who love too much ... or not enough...or the wrong way: the tragedy and comedy of romantic love in modern movies -- Feminism and Harlequin romance: the problem of the love story -- A genre of one's own: African American romance imprints and the "universality" of love -- Is female to romance as male is to porn? …”
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Digital signal processsing using MATLAB for students and researchers by Leis, John, 1966-

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China EFL curriculum reform

Table of Contents: “…/ (Teng/Niu/Gregory/Wolff) -- Use and abuse of teaching with movies / (Niu/Wolff) -- China EFL: programming human robots / (Wolff) -- China EFL: what is holistic English? …”
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The glass slipper : women and love stories / by Weisser, Susan Ostrov

Table of Contents: “…Lawrence -- Why Charlotte Bronte despised Jane Austen (and what that tells us about the modern meaning of love) -- The true and real thing: Victorian and modern magazine cultures of romance -- Victorian desires and modern romances: Pocahontas on a bridge in Madison County -- For the love of mermaids, beasts, and vampires (and ghosts, robots, monsters, witches, and aliens): romancing the other -- Women who love too much ... or not enough...or the wrong way: the tragedy and comedy of romantic love in modern movies -- Feminism and Harlequin romance: the problem of the love story -- A genre of one's own: African American romance imprints and the "universality" of love -- Is female to romance as male is to porn? …”
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Bits and Pieces : Screening Animal Life and Death / by O'Brien, Sarah, 1982-

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Given world and time temporalities in context /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Tyrus Miller -- Temporality in the long run -- Walking backwards into the future : the conception of time in the ancient Near East / Stefan Maul -- Epic remains : seeing and time in the odyssey / Karen Bassi -- Fourier and the Saint-Simonians on the shape of history / Jonathan Beecher -- World history according to Katrina / Wai Chee Dimocl -- Historical figures : mediations, citations, narrations -- The transfiguration of proper and improper sounds from Christian to Jewish environments / Ruth Ha Cohen -- Quoting from the past, or dealing with temporality / Britta Duelke -- Taking time : temporal representations and cultural politics / Richard Terdiman -- Image-times, image-histories, image-thinking / Richard Terdiman -- Documentary reenactments : a paradoxical temporality that is not one shapes of modernity / Bill Nichols -- Time and progress time as progress : an enlightened sermon by William Robertson / László Kontler -- Religious revivals : modernity and religion in Friedrich Nietzsche's anti-Christ and Richard Wright's the outsider / Andrew Wegley -- Hetero-temporalities of post-socialism / Lisa Rofel -- The politics of temporality Heidegger, Bourdieu, Benjamin, Derrida to the planetarium : from cosmos to history and back / David Hoy -- Eternity no more : Walter Benjamin on the eternal return / Tyrus Miller -- A microscope for time : what Benjamin and Klages, Einstein and the movies owe to distant stars / Karl Clausberg.…”
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Bits and Pieces : Screening Animal Life and Death / by O'Brien, Sarah, 1982-

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Battling the plantation mentality Memphis and the Black freedom struggle / by Green, Laurie Boush

Table of Contents: “…: wartime clashes over labor, gender, and racial justice -- Moral outrage: postwar protest against police violence and sexual assault -- Night train, Freedom Train: black youth and racial politics in the early Cold War -- Our mental liberties: banned movies, black-appeal radio, and the struggle for a new public sphere -- Rejecting mammy: the urban-rural road in the era of Brown v. …”
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Nabokov's cinematic afterlife by Mazierska, Ewa

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Nabokov's afterlife in cinema -- Humbert between dignity and romanticism : Lolita by Stanley Kubrick (1962) and Adrian Lyne (1997) -- Going blind in swinging London : Laughter in the dark (1969) by Tony Richardson -- Nabokov, or the logic of late capitalism : King, queen, knave (1972) by Jerzy Skolimowski -- Escape into a different person, escape into a different reality : Despair (1978) by Rainer Werner Fassbinder -- Rememberance of things unspoken : Mademoiselle O by Jerome Foulon -- Duel in contemporary Estonia : An affair of honor by Valentin Kuik -- Nabokov as a gentle feminist : The Luzhin defence (2000) by Marleen Gorris -- From b-movie script to Greek tragedy : "The assistant producer" by Vladimir Nabokov, and Triple agent (2004) by Eric Rohmer -- Vladimir Nabokov and Jean-Luc Godard.…”
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Neuroscience in science fiction films / by Packer, Sharon

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Iron man, "extremis" and analysis -- Neuroscience fiction film in post-psychoanalytic society -- Movies and the mind (and the rebirth of the brain) -- The legacy of 19th century literature -- Automatons, androids, replicants and robocops -- Human-ape brain exchanges, Darwinian debates and the "monkey gland man" -- Sputnik, space aliens and brains from outer space -- Science fiction in social problems films -- Brain drains, brain chips and brain machines -- Flashbacks, flash-forwards and flash drives -- Memory, mentation and medication: before birth and after Alzheimer's -- Dream scenes: from silent cinema to Salvador Dali to CGI -- Video games, virtual reality and "reality testing" -- Drugs, dystopias and utopias -- Computers, consciousness and control -- Conclusion: Hive minds, herds and Jung's collective unconscious.…”
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Battling the plantation mentality Memphis and the Black freedom struggle / by Green, Laurie Boush

Table of Contents: “…: wartime clashes over labor, gender, and racial justice -- Moral outrage: postwar protest against police violence and sexual assault -- Night train, Freedom Train: black youth and racial politics in the early Cold War -- Our mental liberties: banned movies, black-appeal radio, and the struggle for a new public sphere -- Rejecting mammy: the urban-rural road in the era of Brown v. …”
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Nabokov's cinematic afterlife by Mazierska, Ewa

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Nabokov's afterlife in cinema -- Humbert between dignity and romanticism : Lolita by Stanley Kubrick (1962) and Adrian Lyne (1997) -- Going blind in swinging London : Laughter in the dark (1969) by Tony Richardson -- Nabokov, or the logic of late capitalism : King, queen, knave (1972) by Jerzy Skolimowski -- Escape into a different person, escape into a different reality : Despair (1978) by Rainer Werner Fassbinder -- Rememberance of things unspoken : Mademoiselle O by Jerome Foulon -- Duel in contemporary Estonia : An affair of honor by Valentin Kuik -- Nabokov as a gentle feminist : The Luzhin defence (2000) by Marleen Gorris -- From b-movie script to Greek tragedy : "The assistant producer" by Vladimir Nabokov, and Triple agent (2004) by Eric Rohmer -- Vladimir Nabokov and Jean-Luc Godard.…”
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Neuroscience in science fiction films / by Packer, Sharon

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Iron man, "extremis" and analysis -- Neuroscience fiction film in post-psychoanalytic society -- Movies and the mind (and the rebirth of the brain) -- The legacy of 19th century literature -- Automatons, androids, replicants and robocops -- Human-ape brain exchanges, Darwinian debates and the "monkey gland man" -- Sputnik, space aliens and brains from outer space -- Science fiction in social problems films -- Brain drains, brain chips and brain machines -- Flashbacks, flash-forwards and flash drives -- Memory, mentation and medication: before birth and after Alzheimer's -- Dream scenes: from silent cinema to Salvador Dali to CGI -- Video games, virtual reality and "reality testing" -- Drugs, dystopias and utopias -- Computers, consciousness and control -- Conclusion: Hive minds, herds and Jung's collective unconscious.…”
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Terror tracks music, sound and horror cinema /

Table of Contents: “…Psycho-analysis : form and function in Bernard Herrmann's music for Hitchcock's Masterpiece / James Wierzbicki -- An audiovisual foreshadowing in Psycho / Scott Murphy -- Sound and music in Hammer's vampire films / Michael Hannan -- Creative soundtrack expression : Toro Takemitsu's score for Kwaidan / Kyoko Koizumi -- Prog rock, the horror film and sonic excess : Dario Argento, Morricone and Goblin / Tony Mitchell -- Inflamed : synthetic folk music and paganism in the island world of The wicker man / Jon Fitzgerald and Philip Hayward -- Rhythms of evil : exorcising sound from The exorcist / Mark Evans -- Texas chainsaws : audio effect and iconicity / Rebecca Coyle and Philip Hayward -- Incorporating monsters : music as context, character and construction in Kubrick's The shining / Jeremy Barham -- Music of the night : scoring the vampire in contemporary film / Janet K. Halfyard -- Scary movies, scary music : uses and unities of metal in the contemporary horror film / Lee Barron and Ian Inglis -- Like razors through flesh : Hellraiser/s sound design and music / Karen Collins -- Spooked by sound : the Blair witch project / Rebecca Coyle -- Popular songs and ordinary violence : exposing basic human brutality in the films of Rob Zombie / Laura Wiebe Taylor -- Terror in the outback : Wolf Creek and Australian horror cinema / Philip Hayward and Harry Minassian -- The ghostly noise of J-horror : roots and ramifications / James Wierzbicki.…”
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Screen enemies of the American way political paranoia about Nazis, Communists, saboteurs, terrorists and body snatching aliens in film and television / by Sherman, Fraser A.

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Iconic turns nation and religion in Eastern European cinema since 1989 /

Table of Contents: “…Narrating the Shoah in Poland: post-1989 movies about Polish-Jewish relations in times of German extermination politics / Christian Schmitt -- Memory, national identity, and the cross: Polish documentary films about the Smolensk plane crash / Maren Roger -- Religion visible and invisible: the case of post-Yugoslav anti-war films / Miroslaw Przylipiak.…”
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Projecting Britain at war : the national character in British World War II films / by Havardi, Jeremy

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Terror tracks music, sound and horror cinema /

Table of Contents: “…Psycho-analysis : form and function in Bernard Herrmann's music for Hitchcock's Masterpiece / James Wierzbicki -- An audiovisual foreshadowing in Psycho / Scott Murphy -- Sound and music in Hammer's vampire films / Michael Hannan -- Creative soundtrack expression : Toro Takemitsu's score for Kwaidan / Kyoko Koizumi -- Prog rock, the horror film and sonic excess : Dario Argento, Morricone and Goblin / Tony Mitchell -- Inflamed : synthetic folk music and paganism in the island world of The wicker man / Jon Fitzgerald and Philip Hayward -- Rhythms of evil : exorcising sound from The exorcist / Mark Evans -- Texas chainsaws : audio effect and iconicity / Rebecca Coyle and Philip Hayward -- Incorporating monsters : music as context, character and construction in Kubrick's The shining / Jeremy Barham -- Music of the night : scoring the vampire in contemporary film / Janet K. Halfyard -- Scary movies, scary music : uses and unities of metal in the contemporary horror film / Lee Barron and Ian Inglis -- Like razors through flesh : Hellraiser/s sound design and music / Karen Collins -- Spooked by sound : the Blair witch project / Rebecca Coyle -- Popular songs and ordinary violence : exposing basic human brutality in the films of Rob Zombie / Laura Wiebe Taylor -- Terror in the outback : Wolf Creek and Australian horror cinema / Philip Hayward and Harry Minassian -- The ghostly noise of J-horror : roots and ramifications / James Wierzbicki.…”
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Screen enemies of the American way political paranoia about Nazis, Communists, saboteurs, terrorists and body snatching aliens in film and television / by Sherman, Fraser A.

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