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It Follows
Two local boys spy on her in the pool and later peek in at her while she lies in her bed, recuperating from her attack; childhood friend Paul (Keir Gilchrist) appears caring but is obsessively fixated on her; and neighbour Greg (Daniel Zovatto) is a charming but unreliable cad who has treated Jay badly in the past and doesn't really believe her story (to his own detriment). To call this film derivative would be a polite understatement; any half-way knowledgeable horror enthusiast will experience a strong sensation of déjà vu throughout, most particularly in relation to Mitchell's recurrent reliance upon Halloween-style slow tracking shots. [...]while the debt It Follows owes to Halloween has rightly been noted by most critics, the core premise - that of a curse which must be deliberately passed on to someone else if the protagonist is to survive - is straight out of Ring's playbook.
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Mighty Children and the Transformation of Authoritative Adults in Andrea Beaty's The Questioneers: A Discussion of Age-Based Power as a Theme in Literature for Children
Andrea Beaty's and David Roberts's The Questioneers series—including Iggy Peck, Architect (2007); Rosie Revere, Engineer (2013); Ada Twist, Scientist (2016); Sofia Valdez, Future Prez (2019); and Aaron Slater, Illustrator (2021)—features imaginative children navigating challenges in pursuit of their goals. This article explores how the series interrogates age-based power dynamics through the interactions between its young protagonists and authoritative adults. Drawing on Maria Nikolajeva's concept of aetonormativity and Clementine Beauvais's formulations of children's might, adults' authority, and the transformation from one to another, this article explores the books' foregrounding of dialogic encounters that transform both children and adults in a renegotiation of age-based power. These encounters occur through Max Weber's three types of legitimate authority: legal, traditional, and charismatic. Through close reading of the five picturebooks in the series alongside theoretical engagements with age, power, and Freirean learning communities, the article considers the arguably irresolvable tension between literature for children that represents those renegotiations of power and its context in the inherently aetonormative structure of children's book publishing.
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Acknowledgement to Reviewers of Cosmetics in 2016
The editors of Cosmetics would like to express their sincere gratitude to the following reviewers for assessing manuscripts in 2016. [...]
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The Id follows: It Follows (2014) and the existential crisis of adolescent sexuality
[...]Yara's compact e-reader aside, there is a curious lack of cell phones and other electronic devices that have become the staple of modern youth. [...]it is a large pool which Jay and her friends had visited as children that provides the setting for the climax of the film, the final confrontation with It. [...]the children were given \"the sex ed talk\" the next day, calling to mind Freud's view that one of the most important tasks of society is the control and restriction of the sexual instinct in accordance with its mandates (Freud 1916, 1930). [...]given the themes of the film, one must also consider the possibility that Jay has actually been the victim of sexual abuse, either at the hands of her father or her grandfather (who appears in the form of It, just before the final pool scene, standing naked on Jay's roof and staring at her in a predatory fashion as she watches in disgust). [...]It may be seen as representing Jay's recurring psychological trauma, externalized and disavowed after being triggered by her sexual encounter with Hugh, which in itself may be seen as constituting a sexual assault (Murphy 2015; Morrow 2016; Hahner and Varda 2017) (interestingly, Hahner and Varda [2017] have illustrated how critics and audiences themselves seem to have disavowed the elements of sexual assault portrayed in the film).
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Acknowledgement to Reviewers of Data in 2016
The editors of Data would like to express their sincere gratitude to the following reviewers for assessing manuscripts in 2016.[...]
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David Robert Hadden
The UK Prospective Diabetes Study (UKPDS) was a key step in the management of this disease and, like many physicians of his time, David Hadden was pleased to have been part of it. Unlike most of his peers, however, Hadden could make a further claim: that he was a prime mover in setting up a smaller but earlier study that paved the way for UKPDS.
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Devil in the Details: The Uncanny History of The Witch (2015)
What can the horror film teach us about history? Robert Eggers' breakout film \"The Witch\" is striking both for its chilling depiction of witchcraft in 1630s New England and for its unusual commitment to historical authenticity. In presenting the story of a Puritan family victimized by supernatural forces in the American wilderness, Eggers undertook an \"aggressively accurate portrait of the time period...and the fears it contained,\" as Lauren Duca explains. The director spent three years researching his subject, working with historians at Plymouth Plantation in Massachusetts; scrupulously studying details of seventeenth-century colonial life; consulting manuals on subjects ranging from Calvinism to witchcraft and goat farming; even insisting that his female characters wear cloth corsets rather than the bone ones anachronistically used in many films depicting the period (Duca). Trained as a production designer, Eggers paid meticulous attention to mise en scene, ensuring that the house and barn at the center of his film were constructed according to the strictest historical parameters, using only tools that would have been available at the time. Lighting, with the exception of night scenes, was primarily natural or candlelit, creating chiaroscuro effects reminiscent of Dutch painting. Eggers placed just as much emphasis on sound as on image, requiring the actors to speak in a period-specific Yorkshire accent and, in the soundtrack, using only instruments that were extant in the early seventeenth century (Anielski).
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