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Explicit and Implicit Religion in \u3cem\u3eDoctor Who\u3c/em\u3e and \u3cem\u3eStar Trek\u3c/em\u3e [PDF]
, 2015 It has often been proposed that the original series of Star Trek reflected a modern, enlightenment perspective on religion, and that subsequent spinoffs like Deep Space Nine moved in a more post-modern direction.
McGrath, James F.
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"Kinda like the folklore of its day": "Supernatural," fairy tales, and ostension
Transformative Works and Cultures, 2010 This essay considers the use of folklore in the television series Supernatural: the show does not simply retell folk narratives, but performs them both diegetically and metatextually in a process known as ostension.
Catherine Tosenberger
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Intersectional critique and social media activism in "Sleepy Hollow" fandom
Transformative Works and Cultures, 2018 We examine fans' social media engagement with the supernatural detective series Sleepy Hollow (2013–17) and argue that fan discourses about the African American police detective Abbie Mills address the representational and institutional treatment of ...
Jacquelyn Arcy, Zhana Johnson
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Out of the dark – Psychological perspectives on people's fascination with true crime
British Journal of Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract The success of the true crime media genre reflects humanity's avid curiosity about violence, deviance, and murder, yet psychological research on this phenomenon is lacking. In this article, we highlight why true crime consumption may be relevant to various research fields that go beyond simple media preferences.
Corinna Perchtold‐Stefan +5 more
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Demon girl power: Regimes of form and force in videogames primal and Buffy the Vampire Slayer [PDF]
, 2005 'There's nothing like a spot of demon slaughter to make a girl's night'. Since the phenomenal success of the Tomb Raider (1996) videogame series a range of other videogames have used carefully branded animated female avatars.
Krzywinska, T
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The Political Novel in the Age of its Impotence: On Recent German Right‐Wing Fiction
The German Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract While scholars have increasingly studied the German right's publishing strategies and literary politics, less attention has been paid to the literary texts as such. They are worth examining in detail, I argue here, because they reflect in exaggerated form a problem that troubles political novels more generally: the dwindling role of the novel ...
Sophie Salvo
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H.P. Lovecraft’s Philosophy of Science Fiction Horror [PDF]
, 2018 The paper is an examination and critique of the philosophy of science fiction horror of seminal American horror, science fiction and fantasy writer H.P. Lovecraft (1890-1937).
Littmann, Greg
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‘It's Like a Horror Movie That You Walk Through’: Experiencing Horror Through Immersive Recreation
The Journal of American Culture, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Horror stories have provided enjoyable forms of leisure for centuries. Over the past five decades, however, these experiences have evolved into increasingly immersive forms of popular culture. What once involved constructing the narrative world internally through reading has expanded into sensory engagement through visual and auditory media ...
Susan Weidmann
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Gregorini v. Shyamalan: Can Access Trump Similarity in a Globalised Digital Age?
The Journal of World Intellectual Property, EarlyView.Abstract On the 20th February 2025, the final judgement of Gregorini v. Shyamalan rejected director Gregorini's claims that the show ‘Servant’ produced by Apple TV+ copied her independent film ‘The Truth About Emanuel’. Infringement can be established by proving substantial similarity and access to the work.
Anna Monnereau
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Reading Nietzsche in an Age of Conspiracy Theories
Modern Theology, Volume 42, Issue 2, Page 251-275, April 2026.Abstract This essay considers Friedrich Nietzsche's critique of Christian morality as a template for interpreting the epistemology of modern conspiracy theorists. The first section elucidates Nietzsche's notion of ressentiment as it can be applied to contemporary conspiracism. The effectiveness of this comparative assessment thus raises the question of
J.W. Olson
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