In her article "The Sin of Pride in Dressing Bodies in Spanish and Anglo-American Ballads" Ana Belén Martínez García argues that trying to decipher the reasons for characters to dress in a certain way may help discover the underlying sociocultural mechanisms that prevail. The author aims to reveal the gender divide associated to clothing through a comparative approach towards popular literature...

In this paper we present our videodisc project (a videodisc of multinational print advertisements) asking the question, "Who will be the audience?" In order to answer it we engage in a comparative analysis of the construction of the readerlconsumer (audience) in French and American advertisements. Our first comparison takes into consideration the imaging of men and women in perfume and cosmetic...

Sex sells – darüber ist sich die Unterhaltungsindustrie der westlichen Hemisphäre einig. Immer häufiger wird Sexualität nicht nur impliziert, sondern zum Hauptthema von Filmen, Fernsehserien und anderen Unterhaltungsformen. Während bislang jedoch vor allem Heterosexualität thematisiert und repräsentiert wurde, zeigt sich in der Filmund Fernsehunterhaltung der letzten fünf bis zehn Jahren ein Wa...

Scientific creation battles the worldview of naturalism at the level of scientific fact and theory, but crucial battlegrounds are also found in the foundational concepts that shape the method and direction of science. One of these is summarized by the term “naturalism.” This debate is hindered by equivocal terminology, presuppositional inconsistency, and the use of secular premises by some Chri...