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The Condition of Polish Autobiographical Documentaries – More Similar to a Reality Show?

open access: yesActa Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica, 2016
The autobiographical documentary has a number of elements which resemble those of a reality show. Such documentaries can be considered to be young directors’ responses to this TV genre and its celebration of voyeurism.
Bogumiła Fiołek-Lubczyńska   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Is There an Invisible Boundary Between the Races at UIUC (specifically FAR)? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
This project aims to answer the following questions: 1) What is the role of perceptions of race in creating social space? 2) What interactions take place between the racial groups?
Barber, Ashanti
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On Not Being Porn: Intimacy and the Sexually Explicit Art Film [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Since the mid-twentieth century, we have passed from a time where sexual frankness was actively obstructed by censorship and industry self-regulation to an age when pornography is circulated freely and is fairly ubiquitous on the Internet.
Barker, Anthony
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KILLJOY POETICS IN ANTJE RÁVIK STRUBEL'S BLAUE FRAU (2021)

open access: yesGerman Life and Letters, Volume 79, Issue 2, Page 217-242, April 2026.
Abstract Drawing on Sara Ahmed's concept of killjoy activism, I explore how Antje Rávik Strubel's Blaue Frau employs a killjoy poetics that refuses to brush over violence, asymmetry, injury and force. Instead, the novel intervenes in affective textures of happiness and reconciliation, and forms activist and ecological networks of resistance. I build on
Alrik Daldrup
wiley   +1 more source

Gossip, Liminality, and Erotic Display: Jennifer Crusie’s Links to Eighteenth- Century Amatory Fiction

open access: yesJournal of Popular Romance Studies, 2012
Links between contemporary popular romance and novels of amatory fiction in the eighteenth century have received limited critical attention, but today’s authors of popular romance share significant topics and strategies with those early pioneers of the ...
Kimberly Baldus
doaj  

Food Photography, Anxiety, and Desire

open access: yesPanorama, 2017
Margaretta M. Lovell, Jay D. McEvoy, Jr., Professor of American Art, Art History Department, University of California, Berkeley The visual rhetorics incorporated into these images trigger (in different ways) both physical appetite and social appetite ...
Margaretta M. Lovell
doaj   +1 more source

Foucault, exhibitionism and voyeurism on chatroulette [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Sexuality, understood as a Foucauldian discourse that expresses itself through our passions and pursuits and contributes massively to our socially- constructed identity formation, has from the outset been a major factor in the growth of the internet.
Kreps, DGP
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Psychopathic traits and deviant sexual interests : the moderating role of gender [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The present study examined associations between psychopathic traits and deviant sexual interests across gender in a large community sample (N = 429, 24% men). Correlation analyses supported the positive link between psychopathic traits and deviant sexual
Bogaerts, Stefan   +3 more
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Disintegration, Salvation, and/or Madness in Dostoevsky

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, Volume 23, Issue 1, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Psychological fragmentation and derangement suffuse Dostoevsky's fiction. This paper argues that the madness of Dostoevsky characters derives from intense wounds to the self: humiliating lacerations that impel fugue and disintegration. Such vulnerable, frangible characters seek to escape and deny themselves to avoid being seen for who they are.
Jerry Piven
wiley   +1 more source

Do Fans of Violent Stories Show a Higher Potential for Creative Harm? True Crime as a Stimulating Environment for Malevolent Creativity

open access: yesThe Journal of Creative Behavior, Volume 60, Issue 1, March 2026.
ABSTRACT The media we consume may shape our cognition, emotion, and behavior. While violent media effects on aggression have been studied extensively, one popular media genre has escaped scrutiny until now: true crime, featuring real stories of assault, murder, or serial killings.
Corinna M. Perchtold‐Stefan   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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