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The whispering statue
Nancy and her friends establish headquarters in a seaside yacht club to investigate strange happenings in a bookstore and the disappearance of a marble statue.
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Cultural Reception and Production: The Social Construction of Meaning in Book Clubs
Investigations of the reception of textual objects have alternately emphasized demographically conditioned patterns of evaluation and taste, or the agency of viewers, readers, and listeners in constructing their own cultural interpretations. In the present article, we advance an empirical and formal analysis of the cultural reception of texts in which interpretations of the multiple dimensions on which a text may be evaluated are transmitted and modified within small groups of individuals in face-to-face contact. We contribute an approach in which the intersection of social structure, individual readings, and interactive group processes all may enter into readers' interpretations of a novel. Our investigation focuses on a set of book clubs for which we collected data on group members' pre- and post-discussion evaluations of a specific book, and the interpersonal influence networks that were formed during the groups' discussions. We analyze these data with a multilevel model of individuals nested in groups, which allows us to address the effects of structure and group dynamics on cultural reception in a single analytic framework.
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Schreber Guardian
A year beforeThe Matrix(1999) chose mysticism over science fictionDark City(1998) hit the screen, running science fiction into the burial ground of lost worlds. Aliens have abducted a large number of humans to study under the lab and maze conditions of their life-or-death experiments. The aliens are fading fast: it is surmised that what the humans call soul (or psyche) has marked them, in contrast, for survival. The intermediary or double agent between the manipulated mediatic human habitat and the control room of the alien experimenters—whose voice-over, which is in the beginning, introduces us to the
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