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An Interlude on Shots and Cultural Change

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The Most Important Shot in Popular Cinema

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References

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Narrational Complexity

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Discrepant Affects

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Actors and Aliens: Representations of Teenage Protagonists in Bestselling YA Fiction

Ball, R. (2016) · doi:10.26686/wgtn.17057948

Defending Discontinuity

Gilmore, J. (2020) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780190096342.003.0005

Introduction

Gilmore, J. (2020) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780190096342.003.0001

Evaluative Emotions

Gilmore, J. (2020) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780190096342.003.0003

Artistic Functions

Gilmore, J. (2020) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780190096342.003.0009

Entertainment

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Creative Cultural History as a Medium for Social and Emotional Learning: Teaching Students to Present the Stories of Their Community Across Cultural Boundaries

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Introduction

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Content and Form

Ready, J. L. (2023) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780192870971.003.0008

Prompts for (a Study of ) Identifying with Characters

Ready, J. L. (2023) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780192870971.003.0003

Preface

Ready, J. L. (2023) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780192870971.002.0005

Conclusion

Ready, J. L. (2023) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780192870971.003.0009

Identification with Mortals and Gods

Ready, J. L. (2023) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780192870971.003.0004

Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Immersion

Ready, J. L. (2023) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780192870971.003.0006

Copyright Page

Ready, J. L. (2023) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780192870971.002.0003

Ancients and Moderns on Immersion

Ready, J. L. (2023) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780192870971.003.0005

The Study of Identification

Ready, J. L. (2023) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780192870971.003.0002

Emotional Immersion

Ready, J. L. (2023) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780192870971.003.0007

Dedication

Ready, J. L. (2023) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780192870971.002.0004

Practicing Dying

Hugaas, K. H. (2023) · transcript Verlag eBooks · doi:10.1515/9783839461921-006

How to Be a Man?: Masculinity Construction in a Short Story Mina's Eid Cake's Secret

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Ecstasy

Portier-Young, A. E. (2024) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/9780197604991.003.0007

God’s Surrogate (Exodus 3–4)

Portier-Young, A. E. (2024) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/9780197604991.003.0003

Conclusion

Portier-Young, A. E. (2024) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/9780197604991.003.0011

Abbreviations

Portier-Young, A. E. (2024) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/9780197604991.002.0001

First-Person

Portier-Young, A. E. (2024) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/9780197604991.003.0004

The Buried Body

Portier-Young, A. E. (2024) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/9780197604991.003.0001

Anger and Tears

Portier-Young, A. E. (2024) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/9780197604991.003.0009

Becoming Other

Portier-Young, A. E. (2024) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/9780197604991.003.0005

Introduction

Portier-Young, A. E. (2024) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/9780197604991.002.0002

Re-Embodying Biblical Prophecy

Portier-Young, A. E. (2024) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/9780197604991.003.0002

Devastation and Wonder

Portier-Young, A. E. (2024) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/9780197604991.003.0010

Dedication

Gilmore, J. (2020) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780190096342.002.0005

Copyright Page

Gilmore, J. (2020) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780190096342.002.0004

Epigraph

Gilmore, J. (2020) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780190096342.002.0006

Dedication

Cutting, J. E. (2021) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oso/9780197567777.002.0004

Introduction: Reading Minds

McDowell, S. (2026) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781009380430.001

On Sympathy

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Conclusion: Reading Together Apart

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Building Themes Together

Gordon, J. C. (2020) · Routledge eBooks · doi:10.4324/9780429277917-9

Social Relationships in the Finite Province of Meaning of Reading Literature

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