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No future: The realist impulse in dystopian fictions in Britain, 1973--1987

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The article was published on 2010-08-01 and is currently open access. It has received 7 citations till now.

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Children of men

Steph Bruning
TL;DR: A disillusioned government agent agrees to help transport and protect a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea where her child's birth may help scientists to save the future of mankind.
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Writing a nation

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An Introduction to Modern British History 1900-1999

Michael Lynch
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the role of Britain's role in the post-war world and its role in social policy in Britain after the Second World War and the 1970s.
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Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man

TL;DR: Lapham as discussed by the authors re-evaluated McLuhan's work in the light of the technological as well as the political and social changes that have occurred in the last part of this century.
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Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema

Laura Mulvey
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TL;DR: This paper used psychoanalysis to discover where and how the fascination of film is reinforced by pre-existing patterns of fascination already at work within the individual subject and the social formations that have moulded him.
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Dialectic of Enlightenment

TL;DR: The Dialectic of Enlightenment as mentioned in this paper is one of the most celebrated and often cited works of modern social philosophy, and it has been identified as the keystone of the 'Frankfurt School', of which Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer were the leading members.
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Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy

TL;DR: Most often, the homogenization argument subspeciates into either an argument about Americanization, or anargument about "commoditization", and very often the two arguments are closely linked as discussed by the authors. But these arguments fail to consider that at least as rapidly as forces from various metropolises are brought into new societies they tend to become indigenized in one or other way.

Beyond the Pleasure Principle

Sigmund Freud
TL;DR: The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud under the general editorship of James Strachey as discussed by the authors was the first English translation of Freud's major works to appear in his lifetime.