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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Westerns"”.
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Once upon a time in the veld: South Africa westerns in context
Historically westerns have been one of the most popular film genres in South Africa but very few features have been produced locally. In addition, the few productions that exist have not received significant attention from researchers and scholars. Thus, this study aims to contribute to South …
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People and Place: A Journey Through Film, Tourism, and Heritage
… Western genre. During national social change, Westerns increase in number to reflect national values and identity. Westerns that ally with landscapes and people are potentially the most powerful storytelling tool in mainstream media. My research shows that this paring of people and place …
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"Feels Like Times Have Changed": Sixties Western Heroes
… a certain degree of ambivalence, but in 1960s westerns they become increasingly reluctant about the communities their deeds serve, and their reluctance reflects specific sociopolitical issues ofthe decade. The westerns of this time reveal an awareness of the cultural and political limitations …
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Investigations into the role of protein phosphatases in the EGFR signaling network
… activity. We verified the use of In-Cell Westerns and phospho-ErbB ELISAs for these studies, as well as the use of different cell lines and both general and specific phosphatase inhibitors in system-wide experiments. The phosphatase inhibitors we used perturbed cellular systems in complex …
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Clearing out: Escape genres and American culture, 1880-1915
… turn-of-the-century utopias, fantasy novels, and westerns inform and define each other, imagining an escape from what their often white middle-class writers perceived as an increasingly urban and chaotic American democracy.
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“War is God” and “Unguessed Kinships”: Blood Meridian and Cormac McCarthy’s “Border Tetralogy”
… Since historicist approaches to McCarthy’s Westerns often read them as imaginative critiques of Manifest Destiny and colonialism, this metaphysical exploration of the “Border Tetralogy” can serve as an inquiry into the conceptual underpinnings that make historiography and nationalist …
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Romance, revolution and regulation: colonialism and the US-Mexico border in American Cold War film.
… of specific genres such as science fiction, westerns and film noir to cold war politics, this thesis moves away from such generic constraints to focus on films of different genres which feature representations of the US-Mexico border. The thesis’ central contribution therefore lies in its …
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Mechanistic investigation of polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) synthases and elucidation of PHB biosynthesis and degradation process in Wautersia eutropha H16
… Analysis of reaction products by SDS-PAGE gel, Westerns with PHA and PhaCPhaEAv antibodies, and autoradiography showed different migratory properties of the mutant synthase after its reaction with substrate at various substrate to enzyme ratios (S/E). These results indicate that PhaCAv has been …
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Silent Cowboys and Verbose Detectives: Masculinity as Rhetoric in Wister, Hammett, and Chandler
… century, popular fiction and film in the form of Westerns and the noir detective story cultivated brands of masculinity through archetypal male characters. This project aims to propose and investigate the existence of a countervailing tradition between the language-resistant cowboy figure and his …
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Silent Cowboys and Verbose Detectives: Masculinity as Rhetoric in Wister, Hammett, and Chandler
… century, popular fiction and film in the form of Westerns and the noir detective story cultivated brands of masculinity through archetypal male characters. This project aims to propose and investigate the existence of a countervailing tradition between the language-resistant cowboy figure and his …
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The Way of All Flesh: A History and Historiography of Violence and Death in Italian Cinema (1943-1980)
… Third World Marxism define the Italian political Westerns of the late 1960s. As well, some Italian horrors of the 1970s emplot the historical impasses reached by the unproductive violent numbers of Italian political terrorism. PROFONDO ROSSO (1975) and CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST (1980) in particular warn …
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Corrupted, Tormented and Damned: Reframing British Exploitation Cinema and The films of Robert Hartford-Davis
… ―kitchen-sink dramas‖, comedies, musicals, westerns, as well as many films from Continental Europe and Scandinavia. Therefore, the current description of an exploitation film in Britain has changed a great deal from its original meaning. Moreover, the films currently described as …
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Soundtrack: the Significance of Music in the Films Written and Directed by Quentin Tarantino
This thesis will examine the significance of pre-existing music in writer and director Quentin Tarantino's feature-length films Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill Volume I, and Kill Bill Volume II. This examination will show that the music in these films not only plays a pivotal …
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"Take my saddle from the wall" : Larry McMurtry and his innovations on the formula Western.
… illustrating the end of the West (most Westerns show the Old West's perpetuation). Lonesome Dove, a novel that transcends the limitations of the formula Western, possesses universal significance. The fifth, and final, chapter analyzes Anything For Billy, McMurtry's parody of Wister's …
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Characterisation of the KA1 & KA2 domains and interaction with APC/C
… called Cut9. Yeast two hybrid and native far Westerns demonstrated that the KA domains interact with the APC/C co activator Slp1. Phosphorylation assays showed that three of these kinases phosphorylated a ~30kDa band of the APC/C complex which was shown to be Mad2, an important subunit of the …
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Beyond “Brutality”: understanding the Italian Filone’s violent excesses
… giallo thrillers, poliziotteschi crime dramas, westerns and others) released during a frenzied period of film production between the late 1950s and mid 1980s. A disproportionate emphasis on scenes of often extreme violence and spectacle can be traced across all of the cycles, resulting in a …
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The Beautiful Struggle: an Analysis of Hip Hop Icons, Archetypes, and Aesthetics
… sports culture, comic super hero narratives, westerns, and the culture of capitalism, etc.). I explore early twentieth century popular culture, iconography, and manhood, and link them to hip-hop aesthetics. Lastly, this chapter identifies Afrocentric cross-currents within hip hop culture, …
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<i>Plasmodium</i>-Induced Nitrosative Stress in <i>Anopheles stephensi</i>: The Cost of Host Defense
… NO<SUB>x</SUB> levels. SNO-biotin switch westerns indicated that <i>S</i>-nitrosated midgut proteins change over the course of blood meal digestion, but not in response to infection. Photolysis-chemiluminescence was used to release and detect bound ·NO from compounds in blood-filled …
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Manifest Density: Decentering the Global Western Film
<p>The Western is often seen as a uniquely American narrative form, one so deeply ingrained as to constitute a national myth. This perception persists despite its inherent shortcomings, among them its inapplicability to the many instances of filmmakers outside the United States appropriating the …