The Gospel According to Spielberg in "E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial"

This article examines the parallels between the space alien in Spielberg's "E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial" and the New Testament account of the life of Jesus Christ

"The Gospel According to Spielberg in E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial"

This essay makes direct comparisons and correlations between Steven Spielberg's E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial and the New Testament story of Jesus of Nazareth. In addition, the article situates the film (the highest-grossing movie ever, at that point) in its political and historical moment, the Age of Reagan

When You Can’t “Phone Home”: Subversive Politics Of The Foreign Other In E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial And District 9

This thesis takes a close look at the ways in which alien representations, especially in films, mirror the ways in which transnational and migrant individuals are viewed and treated. E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial is viewed as an unintentional allegory for undocumented immigrants in the United States, while District 9 and the fictional work of Jorge Luis Borges are conflated in order to analyze the statements being made in the film on the historical occurrences of post-apartheid Johannesburg

The Myth & Legend of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial on the Atari 2600: The Fan’s Quick Start and Strategy Guide

As an instructional designer and technologist, my goal with this book is remarkably simple, to consolidate and create a job aid for a complex and often frustrating/misunderstood quest. Rather than hunting all over the Internet, the map, tips, and information about the game are all gathered and summarized here. Also, rather than being an obscure Easter Egg in Amazon (like an Earnest Cline/James Halliday egg, especially on the hidden Pacman arcade game), I want to make this guide easier to find. Along with the nostalgia, classic video games and the technology and applied message design behind their creation are fascinating, especially when considering what has been built upon these foundations. I hope you find this guide helpful and motivating... have fun and \u27pass on what you have learned\u27... [Miquel Ramlatchan]https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/distancelearning_books/1001/thumbnail.jp

Relational Collaborative Filtering:Modeling Multiple Item Relations for Recommendation

Existing item-based collaborative filtering (ICF) methods leverage only the relation of collaborative similarity. Nevertheless, there exist multiple relations between items in real-world scenarios. Distinct from the collaborative similarity that implies co-interact patterns from the user perspective, these relations reveal fine-grained knowledge on items from different perspectives of meta-data, functionality, etc. However, how to incorporate multiple item relations is less explored in recommendation research. In this work, we propose Relational Collaborative Filtering (RCF), a general framework to exploit multiple relations between items in recommender system. We find that both the relation type and the relation value are crucial in inferring user preference. To this end, we develop a two-level hierarchical attention mechanism to model user preference. The first-level attention discriminates which types of relations are more important, and the second-level attention considers the specific relation values to estimate the contribution of a historical item in recommending the target item. To make the item embeddings be reflective of the relational structure between items, we further formulate a task to preserve the item relations, and jointly train it with the recommendation task of preference modeling. Empirical results on two real datasets demonstrate the strong performance of RCF. Furthermore, we also conduct qualitative analyses to show the benefits of explanations brought by the modeling of multiple item relations

Die Grenzen der Phantasie : Kinder, Erwachsene und der Traum vom Fliegen in den Filmen von Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg gilt als einer der kommerziell erfolgreichste Regisseur aller Zeiten. Sein Regiewerk bedient mit historischen Dramen, Abenteuer- und Science Fiction-Spektakeln und Horrorfilmen diverse Genres, zwischen denen er offenbar mühelos hin und herwechseln kann. Dabei verweist der beinahe allen Filmen beschiedene Erfolg auf eine werkübergreifende individuelle Handschrift Spielbergs, die das Unterschiedliche auf formaler und inhaltlicher Ebene verbindet. Diese individuelle Signatur Spielbergs tritt besonders in einem Motiv zutage, das in fast allen seiner Filme anzutreffen ist: Die Rede ist vom Flugmotiv. Ihm kommt – so die hier zu verhandelnde These – eine zentrale und motivbündelnde Stellung zu

The Retranslation and Mediated Translation of Audiovisual Content in Multilingual Spain: Reasons and Market Trends

Retranslations are the second, third, fourth or nth-translations of the same text produced at a later stage. In the case of audiovisual content, retranslations occur under certain circumstances. Focusing on Spain as a multilingual country, where regional languages demand new translations, frequently conceived as mediated translations, this article concentrates on the definition of retranslation and the differences between retranslation and mediated translation, and also lists the major reasons why retranslations, be them redubbings or resubtitlings, are commissioned and carried about. Economic, historical, linguistic and political issues triggering retranslations will also be dealt with, and some translatological conclusions will be drawn, as well as some new avenues of research grounded on retranslations

What Is The Most Popular Movie Of All Time?: Teaching The Importance Of Ceteris Paribus

Students often have difficulty understanding the importance of distinguishing between real and nominal prices, or more generally, why ceteris paribus conditions are important. We exploit students interests in popularity to teach the nominal/real distinction, and the importance of adjusting for inflation, population, and income levels. We illustrate the importance of these topics by asking, What is the most popular movie of all time

Reappraising Always

Steven Spielberg's 1989 film Always represents one of the director's few critical and commercial disappointments. This paper examines the extent to which the film's failures are attributable to its formal, stylistic, and narrative features. The paper offers a defence of Always against specific reproaches. It also pursues more positive aims. Following Warren Buckland, the paper pinpoints organic unity as Spielberg's primary compositional principle; it tracks the development of motifs, tactics of foreshadowing, and other internal norms to demonstrate the formation of a structurally unified text; and it posits contrasts with a pertinent antecedent, A Guy Named Joe (Victor Fleming, 1943), so as to set Spielberg's artistic achievements in relief. The paper goes on to isolate some putatively troublesome manoeuvres at the film's internal level. Certain of these problematic aspects, I argue, force us to recognise that important narrative effects can be yielded by modulated deviations from organic unity. The collective aim of these arguments is to suggest that Always is apt for critical revaluation. Over this hovers a secondary objective. The paper seeks to disclaim two interrelated faults ascribed to Spielberg: a characteristic supplanting of narrative coherence by spectacle; and an indifference to subtlety and sophistication