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Spectacular metaphors: From theatre to cinema
Thomaz WoodThe use of metaphoric language has grown in prevalence in recent years. Frontline organizations have become “magical kingdoms”: ethereal places where image and substance rarely…
Hitchcock’s Vertigo and the tragic sublime
Heather HöpflThis is a paper about the cinematic as spectacle and the construction of the sublime. It is concerned with gendered constructions of desire and construes the object of desire in…
Vocation to profession: Changing images of nursing in Britain
Julia HallamThe public image of a profession is an important barometer of the group’s status in society. Media images play a key role in this respect, projecting the ideas and values of the…
Dead Man – an encounter with the unknown past
Peter PelzerJim Jarmusch’s feature film Dead Man, apparently a Western, exceeds the genre’s traditional boundaries and shows ambivalence, unclear roles in an environment existing between the…
Video fractals: Research as mass media
Hugo LeticheIn this article, research as “mass media” (Luhmann) is appraised. “Videocy” or videoed research results are examined. A form of video research with its roots in action research…
The “presence” of video
Duska RosenbergThis paper is based on the study of computer‐mediated communication (CMC) making use of e‐mail and video conferencing to facilitate co‐operative work at a distance. Video…
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- Prof Slawomir Magala