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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"marvel"”.
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Marvel í ljósi sögunnar: Hvernig gullaldartímabil Hollywood lagði línurnar að ofurhetjuveldi Marvel
… stendur upp úr, en það er myndasögufyrirtækið Marvel. Árangur þeirra er einstakur, en fyrirtækið sérhæfir sig í framleiðslu á aðeins einni tegund kvikmynda og þátta, og markar sér því sérstöðu meðal annara kvikmyndaframleiðslufyrirtækja Bandaríkjanna. Að þessu leyti er vert að beina sjónum að …
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Reading the Superhuman, Embodiments of Multiplicity in Marvel Comics
… era using the example of comics produced by the Marvel group between 1961 and 2005. This project argues that the superheroes created during this era reflect major social and cultural upheavals that continue to reshape the postwar era; this includes the dawn of the Atomic Age as well as the rise …
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Doctor Doom in The Marvel Age: an empirical approach to transmedia character coherence
… is tested using a sample of comics featuring the Marvel comics character Doctor Doom, derived from a corpus containing every appearance of the character in the evolving Marvel transmedia storyworld during 'The Marvel Age' from 1962 to 1987 - a period defined here using a Production of Culture …
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The Marvel of Civilization: A Missiological History of the Evangelical Missionaries to California During the Gold Rush Era (1848 - 1861)
Evangelical missionaries to California during the Gold Rush Era asserted a missiological synthesis of Great Commission Theology, American civilization, and California exceptionalism. The missionaries viewed their mission as exceptional, believing they played a providential role in advancing …
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Diferencias en el tono narrativo de películas contemporáneas de Marvel y DC: Iron Man (2008) y Man of Steel (2013)
… primera película del Universo cinematográfico de Marvel y la primera del Universo Extendido de DC. De este modo, el análisis permite comprender de qué forma las decisiones narrativas moldean el significado de estas historias, y aportan al desarrollo técnico de ambas producciones. Para ello, se …
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Where Was the Outrage? The Lack of Public Concern for the Increasing Sensationalism in Marvel Comics in a Conservative Era 1978-1993
… the most popular mainstream comic book company, Marvel Comics, focusing on Daredevil, The Amazing Spider-Man, The Fantastic Four, Ghost Rider, and the X-Men. The thesis also draws extensively on fan mail from the Stan Lee Archives in Laramie, Wyoming, and in the comic books themselves. Comparing …
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Big Screen Heroes with Paper Voices: A Superhero Adaptation Research Essay
… and comic book characters, and particularly Marvel comic book characters, so interesting to modern audiences? This essay demonstrates how the adaptation of superhero characters has embedded comics in mainstream media, while also simultaneously changing comic book characters and their lore …
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The Mexico City Metro: Appropriation and Assimilation of Foreign Technology To Stay on Track With Other Modern Capital Cities and To Produce a Technological and Cultural Marvel
… metro was accepted as a successful technological marvel. Newspaper articles, songs, and local art show that Mexicans accepted the metro as their own. We conclude that the metro was a cultural production that propelled Mexico City to the same level as other modern capital cities.
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Expanded Universes: Reading French Literature of the Long Thirteenth Century with Twentieth and Twenty-First Century American Comics and Fandom Practices
… Arthurian romance alongside comics theory and Marvel comics. Collaborative interests generate serialised content, forming an expanded universe over decades. Chapter 1 pursues a formal analysis of interlace across the Lancelot-Grail, through a close reading of Lancelot’s paintings in Paris, …
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Avenging women: an analysis of postfeminist female representation in the cinematic Marvel’s Avengers series
<p>The cinematic Marvel Avengers series centers on larger than life male figures and leaves little space for fully developed female characters, relying instead on female tropes, stereotypes, and patriarchal constructions that present uncritical and monolithic representations of women. This thesis …
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In-Memory Computing Architecture for Deep Learning Acceleration
… technique. In the third work, I present MARVEL that targets to improve power efficiency in previous resistive accelerators. MARVEL leverage the monolithic 3D integration technology by stacking multi-layer of low-power analog/digital conversion circuits implemented with carbon nanotube …
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Love of Nature
… and three-dimensional clay pieces. As I marvel at God's handiwork, my soul is enriched by the pure sight of His canvas. The rich bright colors of the organic shapes compel me to visually interpret what I experience as an expression of who and what I am, and what I want others to see. My …
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Roman Resources and the Fall of the Western Empire
… we trace the growth of Rome territorially we marvel at the power she was at the same time assuming and the world influence she was attaining.
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Embattled
… Private Ryan , as well as from 1960s era DC and Marvel brand comics such as Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos, GI Combat, and Sgt. Rock. Also included are photocopies or real pieces of wallpaper, flowery fabrics, and snippets of text from popular culture sources. Specific paintings are …
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Desire, Curiosity, and the Search for Truth in Proust, Moreno, and Bechdel
… that places it in contrast with Colombian writer Marvel Moreno’s 1987 novel, <em>En diciembre llegaban las brisas</em>, and Alison Bechdel’s 2006 comic memoir, <em>Fun Home</em>. Starting from a Deleuzian reading of the <em>Recherche</em>, this dissertation proposes the notion of the “proustian …
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Museum of geology for Breezewood, PA: "Studying the role of architecture in the science of geology"
People cannot be trained to marvel at landscapes, nor to love their places and their planet. On the other hand, love of place and of the Earth are scarcely sentimental extras to be indulged only when all technical and material problems have been resolved... The experiences of places, spaces and …
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Mask and closet ; or, "Under the Hood" : metaphors and representations of homosexuality in American superhero comics after 1985
… The close readings examine Northstar, of the Marvel comics Alpha Flight and Uncanny X-Men; Apollo and the Midnighter, of the comics Stormwatch and The Authority, variously published by Wildstorm and DC Comics; and the character Terry Berg in Green Lantern, published by DC Comics.
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Thresholds in Space and Time
… over it, or a grand atrium that you stop and marvel at on your way into the office. They can manifest as a change of materials or finishes, or of some parameter such as ceiling height. They might even be immaterial altogether, like the boundary between light and shadow. Thresholds transcend …
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"To Dream a New World: ""race"", Reality and Surreality in Cesaire, Carpentier and Harris"
… and exclusion and asserts the immanent marvel of America. Wilson Harris subverts both Cesaire's oppositional construction of identity and Carpentier's valorization of American experience. Informed by a fundamental commitment to the diversity of history, tradition, and experience, …
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