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Grandfather Twilight
At the day's end, Grandfather Twilight walks in the forest to perform his evening task, bringing the miracle of night to the world.
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Masculinity Unveiled: Exploring the Translation of Male Characters in the Twilight Saga Across Cultures
This study aims to identify the manifestations of masculinity portrayed by the main characters in the Twilight Saga novel series and to examine the appraisal system utilized to articulate masculinity and its subsequent translation. This research employed qualitative descriptive research. This research was oriented towards translation products. Data sources, including documents and informants, were selected through purposive sampling. The novels Twilight Saga Series, along with their translated versions, served as primary documents. Informants comprised experts in translation and linguistics. Linguistic and translation data form the basis of the research, encompassing shifts in translation and expressions of masculinity alongside evaluation schemes. Data analysis employed domain, taxonomy, component, and cultural theme analyses. The research findings revealed the presence of both invoked and inscribed expressions of masculinity. Five distinct types of masculinity emerge: sexual, intellectual, emotional, physical, and interpersonal. Graduation and attitude constitute the appraisal system for these expressions, with judgment being the most prevalent attitude type in Edward and Jacob's manifestations of masculinity. The research shows two shifts in masculinity type and appraisal systems. While both characters exhibit strong masculinity, the author provides more detailed descriptions of Edward's masculinity than Jacob's. Edward Cullen's masculinity is heavily influenced by his family background, particularly emphasizing physicality over other forms of masculinity. The study identifies data shifts, encompassing changes in masculinity type and appraisal system. Suggestions for future research include exploring translation methods and ideologies not addressed in this study and investigating prototype translation models for translating masculinity.
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Daddy, me, and the Magic Hour
A father and son enjoy a quiet walk through their neighborhood and some fun at the park between supper and bedtime.
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Vampire Gentlemen and Zombie Beasts: A Rendering of True Monstrosity
Many vampires in popular fiction have developed a conscience that mitigates their monstrosity and makes them objects of human love and admiration. With the advent of the reformed vampire, Western culture has, perhaps, lost an icon of true horror. As the vampire has become increasingly humanized and sympathetic, the zombie has stepped up to take its place. Zombies remind us that we will soon be decomposing flesh; the zombie horde embodies fear of loss of self and individuality; zombies expose the dark side of mass consumer culture; and zombies highlight the fragility of human identity in an advanced, globalised society.
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Music in Science Fiction Television
The music for science fiction television programs, like music for science fiction films, is often highly distinctive, introducing cutting-edge electronic music and soundscapes. There is a highly particular role for sound and music in science fiction, because it regularly has to expand the vistas and imagination of the shows and plays a crucial role in setting up the time and place. Notable for its adoption of electronic instruments and integration of music and effects, science fiction programs explore sonic capabilities offered through the evolution of sound technology and design, which has allowed for the precise control and creation of unique and otherworldly sounds. This collection of essays analyzes the style and context of music and sound design in Science Fiction television. It provides a wide range of in-depth analyses of seminal live-action series such as Doctor Who, The Twilight Zone, and Lost, as well as animated series, such as The Jetsons.
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Race, Philosophy, and Film
This collection fills a gap in the current literature in philosophy and film by focusing on the question: How would thinking in philosophy and film be transformed if race were formally incorporated moved from its margins to the center?
The collection's contributors anchor their discussions of race through considerations of specific films and television series, which serve as illustrative examples from which the essays' theorizations are drawn. Inclusive and current in its selection of films and genres, the collection incorporates dramas, comedies, horror, and science fiction films (among other genres) into its discussions, as well as recent and popular titles of interest, such as Twilight, Avatar, Machete, True Blood, and The Matrix and The Help. The essays compel readers to think more deeply about the films they have seen and their experiences of these narratives.
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Re-imagining the Gothic in Contemporary Australia: Carmel Bird Discusses Her Mandala Trilogy
Britten interviews writer Carmel Bird regarding her unique approach to Gothic. Among other things, Bird talks about her Mandala Trilogy.
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Tales of Dread in The Twilight Zone
There are several different sorts of story‐types among the episodes of The Twilight Zone. Although the Tale of Dread recurs frequently in The Twilight Zone, the Tale of Dread is not unique to The Twilight Zone. In this chapter, while making reference to episodes of The Twilight Zone, the author attempts to elucidate Tales of Dread and explain not only what they are but the way in which they elicit the sensation of dread that it is their function to engender. The author also indicates ways in which they both resemble and contrast with horror stories. The correlation between the Twilight Zone and the devil suggests the way in which the Tale of Dread is able to discharge its central purpose ‐ to engender dread, anxiety, or fear.
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TRANSCULTURAL NIGHT WORK OF U.S.-BASED SOUTH AMERICAN CULTURAL PRODUCERS
“Transcultural” is the adjectival form of “transculturation.” The latter term was originally coined in Spanish more than half a century ago by Cuban anthropologist and ethnographer Fernando Ortiz Fernández (1881–1969) to describe a bi-directional if not multi-directional convergence of different cultures that changes all cultures in the process, creating new hybridized cultures. He deliberately coined the term and elaborated the idea of “transculturation” as an alternate paradigm to coloniality, the dominant paradigm in the Americas including the United States, that assumes and attempts to enforce the acculturation and assimilation of what are deemed non-hegemonic nationalities, ethnicities, or cultures to
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