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This essay intervenes in debates about the depiction of conflict since 1945, by comparing two highly significant photographic ‘hacks’: Brecht’s War Primer (Kriegsfibel) 1955; and Broomberg & Chanarin’s War Primer 2, 2011.
Bernadette Buckley
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Anachronism and Doxa Attitude in Dr. Nasser Takmil Homayoun’s Historiography [PDF]
The present article examines the writings of Dr. Nasser Takmil Homayoun, a prominent contemporary historian and sociologist, with a special emphasis on his works in the Qajar period. Most of his writings are researches on the history and society of Qajar.
Yaghoub Khazaei
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Teach phenomenology the bomb: Starship Troopers, the technologized body, and humanitarian warfare [PDF]
Paul Verhoeven's SF films are often concerned with how the future body will be reshaped as a technological device. Starship Troopers strangely departs from Verhoeven's own work, other SF films, and current directions in cultural theory by seeing the ...
Clements Jonathan +3 more
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Timespace for Emotions: Anachronism in Flaubert, Bal/Williams Gamaker, Munch and Knausgård
Quoting Flaubert through time, Mieke Bal and Michelle Williams Gamaker’s Madame B brings Madame Bovary’s reflections on love and emotions to the present day, in a productive anachronism.
Miguel Ángel Hernández Navarro
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This article examines the many metamorphoses of London in The Hill of Dreams, dwelling in particular on its transformation into a ‘fiery stage’ upon which an ancient orgiastic rite is played out.
Sophie Mantrant
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The civil wars of the end of Roman Republic in Lucan’s Pharsalia reveal paroxysmal exactions whose trauma is perceptible as far on citizens’ bodies as on Rome’s one.
Pierre-Alain Caltot
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In January 2014, I published a Dutch poetry volume Mens Dier Ding (Man Animal Thing) in the Netherlands and Belgium. The book is partly based on research around the historical figure of Chaka, and especially Chaka’s fictional representation in three ...
Alfred Schaffer
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Nostalgia and Tourism: Narratives of Yucatán’s Tangible Heritage
Tourism in Mexico plays an important role in the country’s economy. It represents almost a third of the foreign currency that is invested in the country (Banco de México, 2014).
Francisco Javier Fernández Repetto
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Kamera i poeta doctus? O filmach Edwarda Żebrowskiego z perspektywy lotu ptaka [PDF]
This text conserns the excelent polish director Edwrad Żebrowski’ creation. It has character of synthetic discussion. It shows main formal questions of it this creation and main problems of it.
Szpulak, Andrzej
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Aby Warburg: The Collective Memory as a Medium for Art [PDF]
In this paper, I intend to study the contribution of Aby Warburg, a cultural theorist and an art historian, especially his concern with the relations between memory and history, relations that have been theorized in the late 20th century, but which ...
Gabriel Badea
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