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    “Bugs Bunny? Why Are You Hanging around with these Guys?” by Rick Cousins

    Published 2025-01-01

    Although animated shorts released to theatres by Warner Brothers from the 1930s through the 1960s ransacked contemporary pop culture and show business for references, catchphrases and jokes, the upper echelon of film stars was a relatively underutilized source of graphic and vocal caricature in wha...

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    “…Instead, Warner animation staff drew inspiration for their characters from lesser-known performers, in the process creating a number of enduring pop culture icons whose importance as signifiers in the film and entertainment worlds has not only obscured their original referents, but has also outlasted the cultural significance of much of "classic" cinema’s Hollywood royalty. …”
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    Bursting the Bubble: The Fluids Mechanics That Prove Godzilla Would Survive the Plan by Nicolas Dietrich

    Published 2025-04-01

    Cinematic and pop culture narratives offer powerful tools for engaging with science by contextualizing complex principles within familiar, imaginative stories. This paper investigates the scientific feasibility of a plan depicted in Godzilla Minus One to neutralize the iconic kaiju through buoyancy...

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    “…Cinematic and pop culture narratives offer powerful tools for engaging with science by contextualizing complex principles within familiar, imaginative stories. …”
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    De los mitos colectivos del héroe (Emiliano Zapata) a las mitologías heroicas personales. Un arte figurativo mexicano by Christine Frérot

    Published 2014-01-01

    Après une décennie de non-figuration, les artistes des années 1980 et 1990 ont revisité la culture mexicaine en y agrégeant des visions personnelles teintées de surréalisme, de fantastique et de pop-art. Leurs productions sont parodiques, humoristiques, provocatrices et blasphématoires. Diversement...

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    “…Après une décennie de non-figuration, les artistes des années 1980 et 1990 ont revisité la culture mexicaine en y agrégeant des visions personnelles teintées de surréalisme, de fantastique et de pop-art. …”
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