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Reading Videogames as (authorless) Literature [PDF]
, 2013 This article presents the outcomes of research, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council in England and informed by work in the fields of new literacy research, gaming studies and the socio-cultural framing of education, for which the videogame
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Fossil Hegemony and Capitalist Realism in Tropic of Orange
Future Humanities, Volume 4, Issue 1, May 2026.ABSTRACT This article examines Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of Orange (1997) through the lens of Mark Fisher's influential concept ‘capitalist realism’. Scholars of petrofiction have pointed to a political ambivalence in the representation of fossil fuels, where a better understanding of fossil capital can overwhelm as much as galvanize.
Claire Ravenscroft
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The Maritorious Melodrama: Film Noir with a Female Detective [PDF]
, 2009 Feminist critics tend to disagree whether the parachuting of women into traditionally male roles—for example, that of detective—results in a feminist representation.
Gates, Philippa
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The Dynamics of Reading Genre Fiction: Researching and Teaching Interpretive Practices
Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 61, Issue 2, April/May/June 2026.Conceptual model positioning genre fiction as a site for studying how narrative form organizes reader interpretation, identifying four dynamics—iterability, narrative interest, serialization, and spectacle—to guide empirical research on reading processes.
Robert Jean LeBlanc, Amy Stornaiuolo
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The McKinleys of Punch: Politics and the Press in Melbourne, 1870s to 1920s
Australian Journal of Politics &History, Volume 72, Issue 1, Page 35-68, March 2026.This article re‐examines the Melbourne Punch (1855–1925; known simply as Punch from 1900) as a political weapon in the cut‐and‐thrust of Victorian, local, and national politics, in the hands of its longest‐serving, but least‐known proprietor, Alexander McKinley (1848–1927).
Richard Scully
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Rediscovering our humanity: How the posthuman noir anime, Darker Than Black, subverts the tropes of film noir to reaffirm a humanist agenda [PDF]
, 2015 There is an inherent contradiction at the heart of posthuman noir in Anglo-American film and Japanese anime; this sub-genre focuses on science fictional futures where characters have moved beyond the traditional boundaries of what is considered human ...
Gee, Maxine
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«Différant des Autres», Espacements et Temporalités Spectrales
Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 1, Spring 2026.ABSTRACT That night that he agreed to our suggestion that we accompany him outside, for the whole night or until the overflow has passed, M seemed to be in direct contact with all the layers of astronomy, inhabiting all temporalities simultaneously. Outside, lying/sitting on the picnic table, in the pitch‐black darkness of the night in the woods, under
Amélie‐Anne Mailhot
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“A Place Where Freedom Means Something”: James Baldwin's Global Maroon Geographies
Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, March 2026.Abstract Despite his vocal support for the Algerian revolution, Palestinian liberation, and the South African anti‐apartheid struggle, James Baldwin has continued to be regarded as a thinker whose work predominantly revolved around themes of civil rights, cross‐racial dialogue, and integration.
Ida Danewid
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Policing as Un‐Breathing and Geographies of Black Breathing in Europe
Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, March 2026.Abstract The nexus of racism and policing has gained much political attention in Europe since the 2020 mass protests that followed the uprisings after the murder of George Floyd in the US. While many protestors signalled solidarity with policed subjects in the US, they also emphasised the role of state violence “at home”.
Vanessa E. Thompson
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“The Dude Abides”: How The Big Lebowski Bowled Its Way from a Box Office Bomb to Nation-Wide Fests [PDF]
, 2012 Since Blood Simple, the first film they wrote and directed together, the Coen Brothers have been working their way up in the film world and, in spite of their outside-the-mainstream taste for the noir and the surreal, have earned a number of prestigious ...
Małecka Katarzyna
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