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Take your mama to work today
Violet is very helpful when she visits her mother's office, and gives pointers on delivering the mail (be sure to decorate it with extra stamps and stickers), helping the boss with his big presentation (like a show-and-tell for grown-ups), and making business cards (after clearing the paper jam in the copier).
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Fiction as an Instrument of Conceptual Exploration
If, on the other hand, one looks at the reasoning in its entirety then one risks getting lost in the byways of discovery'.2 The difficulty is doubtless only the more acute when one is dealing with innovation, a field where theory is always in danger of saying too much, and method perhaps not enough. To support his case, he urged me to reread Dégot et al.'s Chroniques Muxiennes (1982), a series of tales (whose title recalls that of Stendhal's Italian Chronicles) that explore scenarios for the introduction of office automation and IT more generally on the basis of the authors' research at the Electricité de France (EDF), the French national electricity utility in 1979. Though I was not aware of it at the time, my own experience corresponds perhaps to one of these usages, recalling, for example, the hermeneutic of invention described by Barrere and Martucelli (2009), in which the novel serves as a 'laboratory' of new concepts; their approach, however, invokes a work already in existence, ready for over-interpretation.
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Katy Duck goes to work
Katy is excited to spend a day with her father at work and enjoys typing, pressing buttons, visiting the water cooler, and coloring but quickly learns to be careful when dancing at work.
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Memoria y posmemoria en El taller de Nona Fernández: la representación de la dictadura a través de la metaficción y la autoficción
Nona Fernandez (1971) is a well-known Chilean writer associated with the generation \"de los hijos\" [literature of sons and daughters]: writers born and/or raised during the dictatorship years, who started publishing in the post-dictatorship era. Most of their production is about the historical memory of their country's recent past. In the play El taller (2012), Fernandez reflects a particular chapter of the relationship between art, dictatorship, and memory in Chile: the case of writer and agent Mariana Callejas and the literary workshop she directed in her home/intelligence headquarters-torture center. This paper presents an interpretative analysis of how this episode –previously visited by a Pedro Lemebel's chronicle and by a Roberto Bolaño's novel– is revisited by playwright Nona Fernandez, who uses strategies such as metafiction, autofiction and literary hybrid genres to discuss memory from the contemporary scenic art.
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Sunset beach
\"Drue Campbell's life is adrift. Out of a job and down on her luck, life doesn't seem to be getting any better when her estranged father ... shows up at her mother's funeral after a twenty-year absence. Worse, he's remarried--to Drue's eighth grade frenemy, Wendy, now his office manager. And they're offering her a job ... With no other prospects, Drue begrudgingly joins the firm, spending her days screening out the grifters whose phone calls flood the law office ... But when a suspicious death at an exclusive beach resort nearby exposes possible corruption at her father's firm, she goes from unwilling cubicle rat to unwitting investigator, and is drawn into a case that may or may not involve her father\"--Dust jacket flap.
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Beyond the Dutch Quota: Media Policy and Cultural Diversity in Local Video-on-Demand Production (2013–2023)
Starting January 1, 2024, a new Dutch investment obligation requires that streaming services with annual revenues exceeding 10 million euros allocate 5% of their turnover to Dutch content production. This policy aligns with similar obligations in countries like France, Germany, and Italy, which introduced tax-based investment obligations for streaming platforms before the 2018 revision of the EU’s Audiovisual Media Service Directive (AVMSD). The AVMSD established a 30% European content quota for subscription video-on-demand (SVoD) platforms and permitted member states to implement revenue-based investment obligations to support local industries. Our article situates the Netherlands as a small-screen media industry and the base of Netflix’s first European headquarters. We contextualise the Dutch investment obligation within the evolving European media landscape, examining shifts in diversity and inclusion in Dutch VoD fiction productions from 2013 to 2023. We assess production trends by type and genre by critically analysing policy frameworks and production data from international SVoD platforms (e.g., Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+) and domestic steaming services (Videoland, NPO Start/Plus). Our findings reveal significant gaps in genre diversity and underinvestment in high-cost historical dramas and fantasy/horror/sci-fi series, highlighting a decade-long reliance on mainstream-oriented genres, including drama and crime series. This context underscores the importance of the new regulation in addressing these disparities and critically examines the requirements of the new regulation. Our article contributes to understanding the state of Dutch VoD production and evaluates the potential of the investment obligation to foster cultural and genre diversity in Dutch VoD fiction.
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Fictions Inc
Fictions Inc. explores how depictions of the corporation in American literature, film, and popular culture have changed over time. Beginning with perhaps the most famous depiction of a corporation—Frank Norris’s The Octopus—Ralph Clare traces this figure as it shifts from monster to man, from force to “individual,” and from American industry to multinational “Other.” Clare examines a variety of texts that span the second half of the twentieth century and beyond, including novels by Thomas Pynchon, William Gaddis, Don DeLillo, Richard Powers, and Joshua Ferris; films such as Network, Ghostbusters, Gung Ho, Office Space, and Michael Clayton; and assorted artifacts of contemporary media such as television’s The Office and the comic strips Life Is Hell and Dilbert. Paying particular attention to the rise of neoliberalism, the emergence of biopolitics, and the legal status of “corporate bodies,” Fictions Inc. shows that representations of corporations have come to serve, whether directly or indirectly, as symbols for larger economic concerns often too vast or complex to comprehend. Whether demonized or lionized, the corporation embodies American anxieties about these current conditions and ongoing fears about the viability of a capitalist system.
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Postal Culture
The nationalization of the postal service in Italy transformed post-unification letter writing as a cultural medium. Both a harbinger of progress and an expanded, more efficient means of circulating information, the national postal service served as a bridge between the private world of personal communication and the public arena of information exchange and production of public opinion. As a growing number of people read and wrote letters, they became part of a larger community that regarded the letter not only as an important channel in the process of information exchange, but also as a necessary instrument in the education and modernization of the nation.
In Postal Culture , Gabriella Romani examines the role of the letter in Italian literature, cultural production, communication, and politics. She argues that the reading and writing of letters, along with epistolary fiction, epistolary manuals, and correspondence published in newspapers, fostered a sense of community and national identity and thus became a force for social change.
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How does film adaptation influence box office performance? An empirical analysis of science fiction films in Hollywood
PurposeThis study aims to identify the factors that influence box office performance in the specific context of the adaptation of science fiction (SF) to film in Hollywood.Design/methodology/approachFifty-one film adaptation cases were collected and empirically analyzed with two-stage least-squares (2SLS) regression.FindingsEmpirical analysis demonstrates that the adaptation of the title, the popularity of the original novel and the director's experience in film adaptation have significant impacts on box office performance.Research limitations/implicationsThe study contributes to the literature by bridging the gap between two separate streams of the research literature on film performance and film adaptation. Moreover, the study has extended the literature on the prediction of film performance by examining important factors in the special context of SF film adaptation.Practical implicationsIn the case of film adaptation, recruiting an experienced director will be a good choice. Author power is also required for attracting more investment and increasing audience share in the short term. From a marketing perspective, pointing out in the title that the film is an adaptation of an original novel would be an advantageous approach.Originality/valueThis is among the pioneering research related to the effects of film adaptation on box office performance. The approach and results of this study direct future studies in many aspects.
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Dear Peter, Dear Ulla
written by Barbara Nickel illustrated by Ian Hampton Thistledown Press, 2021 978-1-77187-217-1 (pb) $16.95 for Grades 4 and up Historical Fiction | Second World War | Family and Love | Fear, Courage, Resilience | Prejudice and Racial Violence Dear Peter, Dear Ulla, written by award-winning, British Columbia-based children's author Barbara Nickel and peppered with illustrations by Ian Hampton, is an insightful, affecting historical middle-grade fiction novel about the deep pull of family and friendship, the cataclysmic effects of conflict and racism, and the immeasurable value of courage, hope, loyalty and resilience-all set against the backdrop of the outbreak of the Second World War, in September 1939. [...]party narration is skillfully woven throughout the correspondence, adding vivid, vital information about Peter and Ulla, their families, the war and the communities involved. A must-read for introducing young readers to the nuances and optics of the Second World War and Mennonite history, this richly layered and ultimately life-affirming book is complete with a table of contents and addenda, including multiple postscripts, an author's note, black-and-white illustrations, maps, photos, etchings and two German recipes for food featured in the book: one for Oma's Pepper-nuts and one for Aunt Malgorzata's Polish Apple Cake with Meringue.
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