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The following dissertation focuses on six Argentine horror films available in the United States and Argentina and how the films' circulation in two national markets is reflected in multiple sociopolitical allegories concerning both countries. 9/11, the War in Iraq, legacies of A…

Flexible, mobile, and distributive social web technologies afforded online users with unprecedented opportunities to connect previously disconnected groups of people at a distance surrounding shared interests or common issues. Reflecting the opportunities opened by social web te…

This dissertation examines whether there is empirical support for the assertion that Islamic banks are more stable than Western banks in general and more particularly during periods of financial crisis. There is relatively little empirical work done in this aspect of Islamic ban…