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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"blockbuster"”.
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Vigilantes, incorporated: an ideological economy of the superhero blockbuster
"Since 2000, the comic-book superhero blockbuster has become Hollywood's most salient genre. ""Heroes, Incorporated: A Political Economy of the Superhero Blockbuster"" examines these seemingly reactionary fantasies of American power, analyzing their role in transmedia storytelling for a …
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The Ben-Hur Franchise and the Rise of Blockbuster Hollywood
… level of success. Thus, the current state of the blockbuster oriented American film industry owes a great debt to the <em>Ben-Hur</em> films for helping to popularize blockbuster filmmaking. While the blockbuster marketing, fandom, and discussions of today are more profuse and sophisticated than …
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Stardom, Spectacle, Show, and Salability: United Artists and the Founding of the Hollywood Blockbuster Model
… the model for the contemporary Hollywood blockbuster. Attributing the formation of the blockbuster to United Artists not only complicates the notion of the Hollywood blockbuster as a post-World War II phenomenon, but also broadens our comprehension of blockbuster filmmaking by formulating …
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The online obstacle : a study of African-American enterprise on the Internet
… potential existence of a set of impediments to blockbuster success for African-American founded consumer Internet companies -- or an "online obstacle," as I have chosen to term the condition. In utilizing a short-form survey and telephone interviews to collect the thoughts and opinions of 16 …
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Seeing the Spell: Baroque, Decadence, and a Cinema of Digital-Animated Liberation
… workings. It takes the contemporary Hollywood blockbuster as its chief subject for this inquiry, insofar as this is the filmmaking idiom most given to the embrace and deployment of digitally-liberated spectacle, and one which is frequently assumed to be largely bereft of formal and narrative …
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Cortometraje Cactus
… Jurassic Park 2. Steven Spielberg era el rey del blockbuster norteamericano y los cines se llenaban masivamente de gente que iba a ver su más reciente película. Mi madre, cinéfila empedernida sin ni siquiera ser conciente de ello, también era parte de esa masa fiel. Al ser viuda y yo hija única …
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Eastern European Cinema vs. Hollywood: Bosnia War Films
… study will specifically examine the Hollywood blockbuster Behind Enemy Lines and the Serbian film, Pretty Village, Pretty Flame in contrast with one another. Each of these films creates a discourse which influences many other films about the war and how films about the conflict are presented.
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Exhibiting Berthe Morisot after the Advent of Feminist Art History
… forms—the retrospective, the Impressionism blockbuster, and the gendered “women Impressionists” show—may frame Morisot’s work differently according to their organizing principles.
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Audiovisual Translation, Ideology and Politics: A Case Study of the Effects of Franco-American Relations on Hollywood Film Translation
… to modern popular culture, Hollywood blockbusters reach millions of individuals worldwide; thus, the cultural, ideological and political embeddedness of its dubbed products warrants analysis within a Translation Studies framework. Situated within the context of Franco-American …
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Genomics research and cultivating serendipity in pharmaceutical drug discovery : assessing the competitiveness of R&D productivity between the West and Asia
… and commercialized into the ubiquitous blockbuster drugs on the market, ranging from statins to proton-pump inhibitors (PPIs).
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<i>Party Time</i> & <i>The Third Space: a study of Annie Ernaux's Cleaned Out</i>
… Anthony has dreams of writing a Hollywood blockbuster. His friends make plans to move to Berlin or Australia. They all struggle in their own way to get by, working precarious jobs, making ends meet. It is a novel that is underpinned by the theoretical writings of Pierre Bourdieu and …
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Distracted spectatorship, the cinematic experience and franchise films
… in-depth contemporary case study, the Hollywood blockbuster franchise The Hunger Games (Gary Ross and Francis Lawrence, 2012-2015), to examine how these identities are made visible through distracted spectatorship and its impact on the cinematic experience. By making specific reference to the …
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Process Analytical Technology in biopharmaceutical manufacturing
… of regulatory pressure and because the previous blockbuster-oriented business model is becoming less viable. This thesis proposes a methodology for evaluating PAT systems and delivers guidance on how to develop and implement them to effectively manage risk in biopharmaceutical manufacturing. The …
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Business models for information commons in the pharmaceutical industry
… it encourages pharmaceutical firms to focus on "blockbuster" drugs, and to neglect meeting needs in small potential markets such as "orphan" diseases and diseases primarily found in third world countries. This thesis focuses on new modes of innovation, specifically the sharing of safety …
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The Phenomenal <em>Harry Potter</em> Books: A Cultural Study of Corporate Influence on Reading Instruction and Image-Making
… messages.</p> <p>The researcher concluded that blockbuster children's book content does influence a child reader's images of self and others when considering issues of gender, race, and class. Inspection of the instructional guides shows that they reinforce these embedded messages as they …
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The evaluation of system-wide financial incentives in pipeline decisions in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry : the paradox of R&D spend Vs. new drug approvals
… by the industry in moving from a deterministic, blockbuster era to a more stochastic era defined by multiple unknowns.
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Applying Industry 4.0 in the Automotive Sector
… too slowly could risk becoming the Kodak or Blockbuster of the car industry. Whilst the optimal route to i4.0 may not be clear; this dissertation will aim to highlight examples of OEMs that are embracing these future trends and highlight key foundational areas that should be focused upon to …
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The photoredox-catalysed generation and reaction of alkyl α-amino radicals for α-tertiary amine synthesis
… demonstrated in the single step synthesis of the blockbuster drug fingolimod. Mechanistic studies enabled a catalytic cycle to be proposed and highlighted the importance of a key 1,5-HAT process in driving the forward reaction. Subsequently, it was discovered that by employing a chiral amine as a …
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Assessing decision inputs in drug development between small, early stage companies and big pharma : is there is a difference?
… over the past few decades in commercializing blockbuster products means that it is now faced with near-term patent expirations on such products, representing billions of dollars in lost sales and profits. In order to maintain its economic momentum, Big Pharma is increasingly relying on the …
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Playing Games with Art: The Cultural and Aesthetic Legitimation of Digital Games
… art; the cultural reception and canonization of blockbuster “prestige games” that pursue artistic status within the boundaries of the commercial industry, such as Bioshock; and at the opposite end of the spectrum, the construction of independently-produced “artgames” such as Passage as a gaming …
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