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Idioms describing specific emotional states with reference to hot or cold body temperatures are ubiquitous across cultural groups and appear to reflect the interpretive affordances of basic physiological processes. Thus high-arousal emotions tend to be associated with heat and low-arousal emotions with cold. Nonetheless, these associations are not universal but are shaped by cultural history. The description in the Gospel of Luke of the disciples’ ‘burning hearts’ provides an illuminating case study. Although often read by modern interpreters as a transparent metaphor for elation or excitement, ancient usage points in a decidedly different direction, reflecting a prevailing moral and medical assumption in the Greco-Roman world that the dysregulation of the body’s innate heat is a symptom of affective and physical disorder. If Luke’s phrase nonetheless depicts desirable feelings, it would appear to be a harbinger of a new chapter in the history of emotions wherein certain ‘hot feelings’ might be understood not as unregulated passions but rather righteous fervour.
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This article presents a novel, extensive, and thoroughly documented dataset describing Australian feature films and the personnel filling ten key production roles on those films. The dataset is curated from public information in multiple sources and draws on further supplemental resources to verify, validate and consolidate this information. In total, the data describes 22,720 roles filled by 9,397 distinct people across 1,877 films, covering an important 47-year period in the Australian film industry. The authors outline how the dataset solves several problems for scholars interested in data that provides a historical record of the collaborative filmmaking process. In particular, to address concerns about known coverage problems with popular sources such as the Internet Movie Database, this dataset has undergone extensive manual checking to ensure that it is reliable as a source of information on a national film industry. Moreover, the authors have carefully and manually linked each person appearing in the dataset, which allows the dataset to provide a rich source of information for exploring the relationality of filmmaking collaborations. The inclusion of ten key filmmaking roles further expands the utility of the dataset beyond existing datasets which tend to focus on actors and/or directors, writers and producers.
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American military forces have been working on a major doctrinal change since the middle of the last decade to move away from counterinsurgency and toward large-scale conventional warfare. The introduction of the concept of Multi-Dimensional Operations (MDO) to fight peer competitors has been accompanied by extensive historical studies of previous conventional campaigns. This article looks at the lessons learned from one of the main recent collections of historical cases, the Army’s Large-Scale Combat Operations (LSCO) Series. The book series contains a large number of cases of major conventional war from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and demonstrates a clear break with doctrine and historical interpretation developed in Iraq and in Afghanistan. Two sets of historical cases from the LSCO series were chosen for this study, the analyses of the October 1973 War and of the Soviet experience in World War II. These were also two of the main cases that were used in the 1970s and 1980s to help develop AirLand Battle doctrine after Vietnam. The article examines the lessons learned from both of the cases in the LSCO Series and compares those to earlier lessons learned about the same cases in the 1970s and 1980s. In this way, it also finds that the U.S. Army believes that AirLand Battle doctrine continues to be relevant today from a historical standpoint of lessons learned.
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During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the magic lantern emerged as a prominent tool for colonial propaganda, notably for missionaries seeking support. This essay examines the propaganda efforts of the Belgian Scheut Missionaries, focusing on Jozef Napoleon Flameygh (1888–1969), a West Flemish priest deeply involved in these campaigns. By analysing Flameygh’s lantern lectures, personal correspondence and archival materials, this study uncovers the complex interplay of emotions and identity in missionary discourse. Through a microhistorical lens, these sources elucidate the role of the magic lantern in colonial propaganda and missionary self-fashioning, revealing Flameygh’s public and private personas. Despite projecting heroism in public, Flameygh’s private writings expose sentiments of fragility and vulnerability, highlighting the multifaceted nature of missionary identity and the performative dimensions of colonial discourse in constructing emotional communities.