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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Halloween"”.
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The Halloween Party
… exhibition for which will also be named The Halloween Party, is a mix of individual works and a picture-book. The individual works consist of oil paintings on canvas, and gouache paintings on paper. The oil paintings deal with the figurative, although there are abstract moments to be found …
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Weird Old Figures and a New Twist: Cultural Functions of Halloween at the Turn of the 20th Century
Halloween arrived in the United States in the mid-nineteenth century with the surge in immigration from the British Isles — especially Ireland. However, the folk holiday did not gain widespread attention until the late 1870s and 1880s when descriptive pieces containing both accounts of Halloween's …
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Done to death? Re-evaluating narrative construction in slasher sequels.
Slasher sequels, such as those in the Halloween, Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm Street series, are often criticised for their derivative processes of narrative construction, which are widely perceived to sacrifice development and complexity for the sake of repetition and formula. Thus, …
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Wise the Wizard: A Feature Documentary about the Late Harry Wise of Sanford, Florida
… areas; Art Litka, who dedicated a portion of his Halloween Village to Harry Wise; filmmaker and magician Gary Lester, who studied magic under Harry Wise and acquired and restored many of Harry's former props; and Lynn Ashe, Harry Wise's best friend.</p>
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The Dark Ride
… amusement park environments. As a "ride-thru Halloween," the dark ride maintains a popular tradition of deriding and mocking the symbols of hell and death. As a variety of theater, the dark ride shares its technological and structural origins with primitive cinema (whose own century-long …
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The Autumn Leaves Swirl in Crisp October Wind
… Rhythmic”, expresses the excitement and fun of Halloween night, beginning with a layered percussion groove with more instruments adding in over time. The third “Brisk” section features various sections in the ensemble and signifies a change in weather, with temperatures dropping and cold winds …
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Seasonal Roads
… float up to us periodically, much like those Halloween apples we bobbed for in our childhood, seemingly randomly, yet never quite that, informing and forever changing the direction of our lives, so that at times we don’t understand the significance of things until we’re “meant to.” The past, …
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The contemporary horror film
… this film with a similarly influential movie - Halloween - made almost two decades later, assessing some of the changes which the genre has undergone in the intervening period. The following five chapters (5-9) discuss a number of films of the period 1968 - 80, paying particular attention to …
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A cognitive poetics of the threat scene: How movies scare us
… Films like Cat People, John Carpenter's Halloween, and Ridley Scott's Alien contain what I term threat scenes, moments where characters are threatened by offscreen menaces. By suggesting threats in offscreen space, filmmakers can accentuate fear by encouraging a greater imaginative …
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A comprehensive analysis of calendar anomalies in mature and emerging markets: essays on the major calendar anomalies in the US and Saudi markets
… for the weekday, turn-of-the-month, January and Halloween effects and the results confirm that the effects of these anomalies exist and persist uniformly across almost all industries in both periods before and after the break point. Hence, calendar effects are driven by economic events affecting …
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Ensemble estimation and analysis of network parameters: strengthening the GIC modelling chain
… applied to an out-of-sample dataset during the Halloween Storm of 2003 with previous GIC modelling in the South African power network using the same dataset. Analysis of the ensembles has verified certain ground assumptions (specifically the plane-wave assumption and network directionality) made …
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Essays in Behavioral Economics: Lying and Deception
… by recruiting trick-or-treaters during Halloween, a time of year when people wear salient and extreme clothing. We use the lying game of Fischbacher and Föllmi–Heusi as our experimental paradigm with 2 × 3 × 2 conditions. First, we vary the stakes to price lying behavior. Second, we run …
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Effects of solar particle events on Geospace
… Another selected SEP event from 2003, the 'Halloween flare', resulted in a polar cap absorption event for which empirical altitude-dependent relations have been derived between proton flux and D-region electron density. Values of effective recombination coefficient have been determined for …
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Discovering Border Crossings in Pagan Epic Literature
<p>This dissertation argues that border crossings were important to the ancient Celts and Norse as evidenced by the vast quantity of occurrences in their literature,and have remained important themes in literature throughout the ages. Border crossings reflect man's fascination with concepts beyond …