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  • 101David Bordwell — Bordwell lecturing on the economics of the film industry; his whiteboard diagram shows the oligopoly that existed in the US film industry during the Golden Age of Hollywood. David Bordwell (born July 23, 1947) is an American film theorist and… …

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  • 102Georges Poulet — (1902 ndash;1991) was a Belgian literary critic associated with the Geneva School. Best known for his four volume work Studies in Human Time , Poulet rejected formalist approaches to literary criticism and advanced the theory that criticism… …

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  • 103Coordinative definition — A coordinative definition is a postulate which assigns a partial meaning to the theoretical terms of a scientific theory by correlating the mathematical objects of the pure or formal/syntactical aspects of a theory with physical objects in the… …

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  • 104X. J. Kennedy — (born 21 August 1929, Dover, New Jersey) is a poet, translator, anthologist, editor, and bestsellingFacts|date=January 2008 writer of children s literature as well as student textbooks on English literature and poetry.LifeHe was born Joseph… …

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  • 105Rhina Espaillat — was born in the Dominican Republic in 1932 and has lived in the United States since 1939. She taught English in the New York City public schools for many years, and retired to Newburyport, Massachusetts, where for more than a decade she has led a …

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  • 107Achille Castiglioni — (Milan, 1918 2002) was a renowned industrial designer. He was often inspired by everyday things and made use of ordinary materials. He uses the minimal amount of materials while creating forms with a maximum effect. Biography Achille Castiglioni… …

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  • 108Terence Wilmot Hutchison — FBA (August 13, 1912 ndash; October 6, 2007) was born in Bournemouth and took his BA at the University of Cambridge in 1934. After World War II he began teaching at the London School of Economics, but he moved to the University of Birmingham in… …

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  • 109Formalism (music) — In the twentieth century, formalism in music came to be strongly associated with music composed in the Soviet Union during the Stalinist era. The term was borrowed from Marxist literary theory, and was used to describe any music that was deemed… …

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  • 110Refunctioning — is a core strategy of the aesthetic developed by the German modernist theatre practitioner Bertolt Brecht. Brecht wanted his theatre to intervene in the process of shaping society, Robert Leach explains, so in his work:: [the] duality of form and …

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