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Robert C. Allen
Researcher at University of Westminster
Publications - 21
Citations - 1812
Robert C. Allen is an academic researcher from University of Westminster. The author has contributed to research in topics: Criticism & Movie theater. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 21 publications receiving 1790 citations.
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Film history: Theory and practice
Robert C. Allen,Douglas Gomery +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a survey of the approaches to the historical study of film, and provide examples of various types of film historical research, as well as a guide to local resources.
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Speaking of Soap Operas
TL;DR: In this article, a reexamination of the production and consumption of soap operas through the use of a unique investigatory model based on contemporary poetics and reader-response theory is presented.
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Horrible Prettiness: Burlesque and American Culture.
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Horrible Prettiness: Burlesque and American Culture
TL;DR: Burlesque was a cultural threat, Allen argues, because it inverted the "normal" world of middle-class social relations and transgressed norms of "proper" feminine behavior and appearance as mentioned in this paper.
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Channels of discourse, reassembled : television and contemporary criticism
TL;DR: In this paper, Allen, Collins, Jane Feuer, John Fiske, Sandy Flitterman-Lewis, James Hay, E. Ann Kaplan, Sarah Ruth Kozloff, Ellen Seiter and Mimi White.