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Goodlad, Lauren M. E. "The Ontological Work of Genre and Place: Wuthering Heights and the Case of the Occulted Landscape." Victorian Literature and Culture 49, no. 1 (2021): 107–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150319000639.

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This essay shows how genre and place enable the “ontological reading” of narrative fiction. Such sense-making dialectics enable readers to infer the terms of existence that shape fictional worlds. World-systems thinkers have theorized the critical premise of material worlds shaped though ongoing processes of combined and uneven development. Ontological reading is a comparative practice for studying the narrative work of “figuring out” those processes—for example, through the “occulted landscapes” of Yorkshire noir. Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights () can be likened to a species of crime fictio
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Chinita, Fátima. "A Tale of Sound and Fury Signifying Everything: Argentine Tango Dance Films as Complex Self-Reflexive Creation." Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Film and Media Studies 20, no. 1 (2021): 68–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ausfm-2021-0015.

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Abstract This article equates the multidimensional artistic form of Argentine tango (dance, music and song) with the innately hybrid form of film. It compares Argentine tango culture to the height of French cinephilia in the 1950s Paris, France, arguing that they are both passionate, erotic and nostalgic ways of life. In Carlos Saura’s Tango (1998) and Sally Potter’s The Tango Lesson (1997), the intertwining of the related skills of tango practice and filmmaking are an audio-visual treat for the senses and a cognitive challenge for the mind. Their self-reflexivity promotes excess and the resul
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Lysaght, Tom. "Genesis in King Lear." Journal of Bahá’í Studies 29, no. 3 (2019): 83–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.31581/jbs-29.3.5(2019).

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“If we tire of the saints, Shakespeare is our city of refuge.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson A luminary of fi ve religions, Joseph of Egypt looms larger than life. Bahá’u’lláh even likens Himself to “the Divine Joseph” (Gleanings 103:4). However, Joseph’s gradual unveiling as a minor prophet also renders him humanly relatable in ways a Manifestation of God can never be. In the West, Shakespeare and the Bible have each served as paths to knowledge, and their union a way to wisdom. That assertion proves especially true upon comparing Joseph’s odyssey of becoming with Edgar’s in King Lear. Both the proph
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Veel, Kristin. "OVERVÅGNINGSNARRATIONER - OVERVÅGNING SOM FIGUR OG FORMGREB I SAMTIDSROMANEN." K&K - Kultur og Klasse 38, no. 110 (2010): 93–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/kok.v38i110.15775.

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SURVEILLANCENARRATIONS. SURVEILLANCE AS SUBJECT AND FORM IN THE CONTEMPORARY NOVELWithin recent years surveillance has simultaneously become a pervasive topic of public debate, a growing academic field in its own right and an increasingly popular theme in the arts and popular culture. This article argues that there are significant insights to be gained on the impact of surveillance on our cultural imagination from looking at the ways in which contemporary fiction employs surveillance as a literary trope. By exploring the ways in which surveillance is portrayed in three recent novels, Ulrich Pe
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Zhigalova, Lyudmila G. "THE VITALITY OF ANDROIDS. LIVING AND NON-LIVING IN THE OF MODERN SCIENCE FICTION TV SHOWS." RSUH/RGGU Bulletin. "Literary Theory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies" Series, no. 7 (2023): 119–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2023-7-119-134.

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Humanity has been inventing a robot throughout its history. The steam-powered Pigeon of Archytas and the automatic servant made by Philo of Byzantium belong to the antiquity. Automatons of St. Albertus Magnus, Bacon and Regiomontanus, the Jewish golems, the anthropomorphic idols of Daedalus, the “Iron man” of the Russian monarch Ivan IV, Leonardo’s mechanical knight, the Writer, the Draftsman and the Pianist of Pierre Jaquet-Droz. Each following epoch filled up the list of inventions seeking to come as close as possible to the likeness of the living. At the same time, the desire to reproduce a
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KRIESEL, JAMES C. "THE MARVELOUS BETWEEN DANTE AND BOCCACCIO." Traditio 73 (2018): 213–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/tdo.2018.7.

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In the late Middle Ages, authors of fiction, historical texts, and travel narratives discussed issues related to the places and spaces of marvels. Writers debated whether local, western occurrences could be as wondrous — and thus worthy of being recorded in writing — as foreign, eastern phenomena. This article explores how Boccaccio's engagement with Dante was intertwined with evolving views of the marvelous. It proposes that Boccaccio, following Dante, likened his writings to natural marvels to defend the status of literature, a mode of discourse sometimes considered unnatural or fraudulent.
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Horbach, N. "Modification of the Genre Matrix in N. Dolyak’s Ironic Detective ''Luxury Life in Wuppertal''." Вісник Житомирського державного університету імені Івана Франка. Філологічні науки, no. 1(87) (May 13, 2018): 69–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.35433/philology.1(87).2018.69-73.

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Despite an almost two-hundred-year history of detective fiction and a great readers’ demand, this kind of literature is one of the least learnt spheres of the world study of literature. The problem of the modification of detective genre matrix with a reader’s change of genre expectations is especially debatable. Essential role in the deconstruction of mass stereotypes in modern detectives belongs to the irony, which allows creating an ironic detective as an individual genre modification. Therefore, the purpose of our research is to look at N. Dolyak’s book from the point of its genre matrix tr
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Bailey, Peter. "White Collars, Gray Lives? The Lower Middle Class Revisited." Journal of British Studies 38, no. 3 (1999): 273–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/386195.

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The lower middle class has long had a bad press, for in common with other subaltern groups it has been more represented from without than within. Thus Victorian writers faced with the disquieting irruption of a new breed of petty bourgeois shop and office workers devised a parodic discourse of littleness, whose feminized tropes rendered the clerk as socially insignificant as the sequestered Victorian woman. George Grossmith's comic classic, Diary of a Nobody, pilloried the new social type in Mr. Pooter, whose smaller-than-life adventures stood for all that was ineffectual, pretentious, and ban
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COEN, DEBORAH R. "THE COMMON WORLD: HISTORIES OF SCIENCE AND DOMESTIC INTIMACY." Modern Intellectual History 11, no. 2 (2014): 417–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1479244314000079.

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Let us begin by considering a series of letters written in 1863 by Max Vigne, a humble imperial surveyor in India, to his wife at home in England. In the course of his affectionate and finely observed correspondence, Vigne comes to think of himself for the first time as a naturalist. He recounts his growing fascination with botany, particularly the new field of plant geography, and he expresses a keen desire to share this new knowledge—and his newfound identity—with his faraway wife, Clara.Everything I am seeing and doing is sonew. . . When I lie down to sleep everything spins in my brain. I c
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Zhygun, Snizhana. "«Noah's Ark» by Halyna Hordasevych: How Metaphor Reveals Trauma." LITERARY PROCESS: methodology, names, trends, no. 21 (2023): 57–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.28925/2412-2475.2023.21.6.

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The subject of the research in this article is a metaphor that reveals unresolved trauma. The process of metaphorization is part of shaping a trauma narrative, in which metaphor works as a protective mechanism that allows one not to talk about the traumatic experience directly, but still talk about it. The purpose of this research is to demonstrate how, in fiction about traumatic experiences, metaphor can seem like a way to give meaning to events, but instead highlights the inability to express personal experience. The methodological basis of the research is trauma studies, in particular the w
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錢, 虹. "“我們不能控裁我們的青春”——嚴歌苓及其“文革”題材小説解讀". 人文中國學報, 1 жовтня 2012, 261–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.24112/sinohumanitas.182210.

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LANGUAGE NOTE | Document text in Chinese; abstract also in English.
 近年來，美籍華人女作家嚴歌苓在國内越來越“走紅”。但人們關注得較多的，往往是她那些“虚構”型文本，如《扶桑》、《小姨多鶴》、《第九個寡婦》、《金陵十三叙》等。本文則選取《灰舞鞋》等有關“文革”題材的“穗子的故事”系列小説，從作品與作者生活經歷的重合度、小説的“自傳”色彩、時代的印象寫真、殘酷的青春記憶等方面，做較爲深入的解讀與剖析，并以此凸顯嚴歌苓有關“文革”
 American-Chinese writer Yan Geling is becoming more and more popular in Mainland China. However, most attention focuses on her fictional works, such as Fusang (Japan), Xiaoyi Duohe (Little Aunty Duohe), and Dijiuge guafu (The Ninth Widow). The present essay focuses on “Stories of Suizi, “a series of works on the Great Cultural Revolutio
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Shaw, Janice Marion. "The Curious Transformation of Boy to Computer." M/C Journal 19, no. 4 (2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1130.

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Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time has achieved success as “the new Rain Man” or “the new definitive, popular account of the autistic condition” (Burks-Abbott 294). Integral to its favourable reception is the way it conflates the autistic main character, the fifteen-year-old narrator Christopher Boone, with the savant, or individual who exhibits both neurological problems and giftedness, thereby engaging with the way autism is presented in popular culture. In a variety of contemporary films and television series, autism has been transformed from a disability to a f
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Marcella, Avery. "Sounds of the Past: Creating Immersion in Video Games Through Diegetic, Pre-Existing Music." Inquiry@Queen's Undergraduate Research Conference Proceedings 18, no. 2 (2024). http://dx.doi.org/10.24908/iqurcp18015.

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The modern state of gaming has seen a variety of interactive narratives play out in a variety of worlds. A major category of setting in video games is ‘the past’, whether that be a form of realistic fiction, an alternate history, or something which draws inspiration from some aspect of the real past to create an entirely imagined location. Despite the differences in their likenesses to our own world, many games referencing the past share a commonality in their musical soundtracks: the use of pre-existing music. Songs like “Drunken Sailor” or “La Cucaracha” are prolific, but there exists an eve
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Michael, Rose. "Out of Time: Time-Travel Tropes Write (through) Climate Change." M/C Journal 22, no. 6 (2019). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1603.

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“What is the point of stories in such a moment”, asks author and critic James Bradley, writing about climate extinction: Bradley emphasises that “climatologist James Hansen once said being a climate scientist was like screaming at people from behind a soundproof glass wall; being a writer concerned with these questions often feels frighteningly similar” (“Writing”). If the impact of climate change asks humans to think differently, to imagine differently, then surely writing—and reading—must change too? According to writer and geographer Samuel Miller-McDonald, “if you’re a writer, then you hav
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Bartlett, Lexey A. "Who Do I Turn (in)to for Help?" M/C Journal 10, no. 2 (2007). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2627.

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 Many theories address the material adaptations that organisms—including humans—make to their environments, and many address the adaptation of art to different forms. The film Adaptation (Spike Jonze, 2002) by Charlie Kaufman, ostensibly an adaptation of Susan Orlean’s The Orchid Thief, addresses both kinds of adaptation, but also suggests how humans might psychically adapt to their emotional and mental environments, namely by doubling or multiplying their identities to create companions and helpmates who can help them cope with emotional and mental stresses. To expose some
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Caudwell, Catherine Barbara. "Cute and Monstrous Furbys in Online Fan Production." M/C Journal 17, no. 2 (2014). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.787.

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Image 1: Hasbro/Tiger Electronics 1998 Furby. (Photo credit: Author) Introduction Since the mid-1990s robotic and digital creatures designed to offer social interaction and companionship have been developed for commercial and research interests. Integral to encouraging positive experiences with these creatures has been the use of cute aesthetics that aim to endear companions to their human users. During this time there has also been a growth in online communities that engage in cultural production through fan fiction responses to existing cultural artefacts, including the widely recognised ele
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Bode, Lisa. "Digital Doppelgängers." M/C Journal 8, no. 3 (2005). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2369.

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 The doppelgänger (literally ‘double-goer’) of 18th and 19th century European literature and lore is a sinister likeness that dogs and shadows a protagonist heralding their death or descent into madness – a ‘spectral presentiment of disaster’ (Schwartz 84). Recently the term ‘digital doppelgänger’ has been adopted by the English-speaking entertainment and technology press to refer to a digital image of an actor or performer; whether that image is a computer-generated wire-frame model, an amalgamation of old film footage and artistry, or a three dimensional laser scan of the
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Muller, Vivienne. "Abject d’Art." M/C Journal 9, no. 5 (2006). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2663.

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 Julia Kristeva’s famous essay Powers of Horror conceptualises the abject as that which “disturbs identity, system, order. What does not respect borders, positions, rules. The in-between, the ambiguous” (4). While the social forms of the abject are clearly implicated here, Kristeva illustrates it primarily in corporeal terms, suggesting that filth, excrement, those things injected and expelled by the body, and disturb the epidermic surfaces of it (Grosz 244) are visible signifiers of the abject. In this semiotic schema, the corpse is the ultimate site of the abject because
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Crooks, Juliette. "Recreating Prometheus." M/C Journal 4, no. 4 (2001). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1926.

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Prometheus, chained to a rock, having his liver pecked out by a great bird only for the organ to grow back again each night so that the torture may be repeated afresh the next day must be the quintessential image of masculinity in crisis. This paper will consider Promethean myth and the issues it raises regarding 'creation' including: the role of creator, the relationship between creator and created, the usurping of maternal (creative) power by patriarchy and, not least, the offering of an experimental model in which masculine identity can be recreated. I argue that Promethean myth raises sign
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Joseph, Kaela, and Ruby McCoy. "Personalised Progressive Porno." M/C Journal 27, no. 4 (2024). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.3075.

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Introduction The year 2018 saw drastic shifts in fan spaces where fan works, such as art, fiction, and videos, were once widely, openly shared, including those containing sexually explicit content, a.k.a. porno. Major catalysts were the highly contested United States legislations Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (SESTA) and Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA), which addressed the liability of host sites for content shared by users. Shortly after, similar legislation appeared around the world, including Australia’s Online Safety Act 2021. In response, Websites once popular with adolescent
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O'Meara, Radha. "Do Cats Know They Rule YouTube? Surveillance and the Pleasures of Cat Videos." M/C Journal 17, no. 2 (2014). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.794.

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Did you see the videos where the cat jumps in the box, attacks the printer or tries to leap from the snowy car? As the availability and popularity of watching videos on the Internet has risen rapidly in the last decade, so has the prevalence of cat videos. Although the cuteness of YouTube videos of cats might make them appear frivolous, in fact there is a significant irony at their heart: online cat videos enable corporate surveillance of viewers, yet viewers seem just as oblivious to this as the cats featured in the videos. Towards this end, I consider the distinguishing features of contempor
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Chen, Jasmine Yu-Hsing. "Beyond Words." M/C Journal 27, no. 2 (2024). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.3033.

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Introduction Despite the expansive and multimodal realm of Chinese Boys’ Love (BL) culture (also known as danmei in Chinese), audio works have been notably absent from scholarly discussions, with the focus predominantly being on novels (e.g. Bai; Zhang). This article aims to fill this gap by delving into the transformative impact of sound on narrative engagement within the Chinese BL culture. Focussing on the audio drama adaptations of Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation (modao zushi, hereafter Grandmaster), originally a serialised Chinese BL novel, this analysis aims to unravel the meticulousl
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Roemhild, Juliane, and Melinda Turner. "Reading in Uncertain Times." M/C Journal 26, no. 4 (2023). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2983.

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We are living in uncertain times. Recent and ongoing crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change and natural disasters, and increasing geopolitical and economic instability, have arguably led to a growing awareness of our existential precarity. Recent studies suggest that mental health is poor: among the general population, 24.4% experience anxiety and 22.9% suffer from symptoms of depression. These figures rise to an alarming 41.1% and 32.5% respectively in vulnerable populations (Bower et al.). As Maree Teesson, Director of the University of Sydney’s Matilda Centre for Research in
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Brien, Donna Lee. "“Concern and sympathy in a pyrex bowl”: Cookbooks and Funeral Foods." M/C Journal 16, no. 3 (2013). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.655.

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Introduction Special occasion cookery has been a staple of the cookbook writing in the English speaking Western world for decades. This includes providing catering for personal milestones as well as religious and secular festivals. Yet, in an era when the culinary publishing sector is undergoing considerable expansion and market segmentation, narratives of foods marking of one of life’s central and inescapable rites—death—are extremely rare. This discussion investigates examples of food writing related to death and funeral rites in contemporary cookbooks. Funeral feasts held in honour of the d
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Cuningham, Phillip Lamarr, and Melinda Lewis. "“Taking This from This and That from That”: Examining RZA and Quentin Tarantino’s Use of Pastiche." M/C Journal 16, no. 4 (2013). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.669.

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In his directorial debut, The Man with the Iron Fists (2012), RZA not only evokes the textual borrowing techniques he has utilised as a hip-hop producer, but also reflects the influence of filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, who has built a career upon acknowledging mainstream and cult film histories through mise-en-scene, editing, and deft characterisation. The Man with the Iron Fists was originally to coincide with Tarantino’s rebel slave narrative Django Unchained (2012), which Tarantino has discussed openly as commentary regarding race in contemporary America. In 2011, Variety reported that RZA h
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Ludewig, Alexandra. "Home Meets Heimat." M/C Journal 10, no. 4 (2007). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2698.

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 Home is the place where one knows oneself best; it is where one belongs, a space one longs to be. Indeed, the longing for home seems to be grounded in an anthropological need for anchorage. Although in English the German loanword ‘Heimat’ is often used synonymously with ‘home’, many would have claimed up till now that it has been a word particularly ill equipped for use outside the German speaking community, owing to its specific cultural baggage. However, I would like to argue that – not least due to the political dimension of home (such as in homeland security and homela
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Wessell, Adele. "Making a Pig of the Humanities: Re-centering the Historical Narrative." M/C Journal 13, no. 5 (2010). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.289.

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As the name suggests, the humanities is largely a study of the human condition, in which history sits as a discipline concerned with the past. Environmental history is a new field that brings together scholars from a range of disciplines to consider the changing relationships between humans and the environment over time. Critiques of anthropocentrism that place humans at the centre of the universe or make assessments through an exclusive human perspective provide a challenge to scholars to rethink our traditional biases against the nonhuman world. The movement towards nonhumanism or posthumani
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Lerner, Miriam Nathan. "Narrative Function of Deafness and Deaf Characters in Film." M/C Journal 13, no. 3 (2010). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.260.

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Introduction Films with deaf characters often do not focus on the condition of deafness at all. Rather, the characters seem to satisfy a role in the story that either furthers the plot or the audience’s understanding of other hearing characters. The deaf characters can be symbolic, for example as a metaphor for isolation representative of ‘those without a voice’ in a society. The deaf characters’ misunderstanding of auditory cues can lead to comic circumstances, and their knowledge can save them in the case of perilous ones. Sign language, because of its unique linguistic properties and its la
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Leaver, Tama, and Suzanne Srdarov. "ChatGPT Isn't Magic." M/C Journal 26, no. 5 (2023). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.3004.

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Introduction Author Arthur C. Clarke famously argued that in science fiction literature “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” (Clarke). On 30 November 2022, technology company OpenAI publicly released their Large Language Model (LLM)-based chatbot ChatGPT (Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer), and instantly it was hailed as world-changing. Initial media stories about ChatGPT highlighted the speed with which it generated new material as evidence that this tool might be both genuinely creative and actually intelligent, in both exciting and disturbing ways. In
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Dean, Gabrielle. "Portrait of the Self." M/C Journal 5, no. 5 (2002). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1991.

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Let us work backwards from what we know, from personal experience: the photograph of which we have each been the subject. Roland Barthes says of this photograph that it transforms "the subject into object": one begins aping the mask one wants to assume, one begins, in other words, to make oneself conform in appearance to the disguise of an identity (Camera Lucida 11). A quick glance back at your most recent holiday gathering will no doubt confirm his diagnosis. Barthes gives to this subject-object the title of Spectrum in order to neatly join the idea of spectacle with the fearsome spectre, wh
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Mead, Amy. "Bold Walks in the Inner North: Melbourne Women’s Memoir after Jill Meagher." M/C Journal 20, no. 6 (2017). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1321.

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Each year, The Economist magazine’s “Economist Intelligence Unit” ranks cities based on “healthcare, education, stability, culture, environment and infrastructure”, giving the highest-ranking locale the title of most ‘liveable’ (Wright). For the past six years, The Economist has named Melbourne “the world’s most liveable city” (Carmody et al.). A curious portmanteau, the concept of liveability is problematic: what may feel stable and safe to some members of the community may marginalise others due to several factors such as gender, disability, ethnicity or class.The subjective nature of this t
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Balanzategui, Jessica. "“You have a secret that you don't want to tell me”: The Child as Trauma in Spanish and American Horror Film." M/C Journal 17, no. 4 (2014). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.854.

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In the years surrounding the turn of the millennium, there emerged an assemblage of American and Spanish horror films fixated on uncanny child characters. Caught in the symbolic abyss between death and life, these figures are central to the films’ building of suspense and Gothic frisson—they are at once familiar and unfamiliar, vulnerable and threatening, innocent yet unnervingly inscrutable. Despite being conceived and produced in two very different cultural climates, these films construct the child as an embodiment of trauma in parallel ways. In turn, these Gothic children express the waveri
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Furey, Sinead, Heather McIlveen, and Christopher Strugnell. "Food Deserts." M/C Journal 2, no. 7 (1999). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1799.

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In today's society there is evidence of a culture of the 'empowered consumer' -- an image of the consumer as a citizen rather than a subordinate. In fact, human rights language is increasingly coming to the fore in the consumption debate. The consumer has been allocated rights by the United Nations whereby all human beings are born free and equal and have civil, political, economic and social rights (McGregor 44). However, as citizens we also have responsibilities of an environmental and social concern. Food retailing and equality of shopping provision is one such concern. Food is a basic righ
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Nichols, L. Dugan. "Generational Detectives." M/C Journal 28, no. 1 (2025). https://doi.org/10.5204/mcj.3136.

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Introduction This article examines American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders (2024), a four-part documentary released on Netflix. Directed by Zachary Treitz, the documentary follows young photojournalist Christian Hansen as he tries to solve the mysterious death of Danny Casolaro. In 1991, Casolaro was found deceased in a hotel room while tracking officials in the CIA and former Reagan White House. He had planned to write an explosive book about what he termed “The Octopus”, an octuplet of overlapping conspiracies that transpired in the 1980s. At the time, local officials ruled Casolaro’s death
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McNicol, Emma Jane Brosnan. "Gendered Violence as Revelation in John le Carré’s The Night Manager." M/C Journal 23, no. 4 (2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1665.

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Susanne Bier and David Farr’s 2016 television adaptation of John le Carré’s novel The Night Manager (“Manager”) indexes the resilience of traditional Christian misogyny in contemporary British-American media. In the first episode of the series, Sophie (Aure Atika)’s partner Freddie Hamid (David Avery) brutally beats her. In the subsequent scene, despite her scars, Sophie has a sex scene with the eponymous night manager Pine (Tom Hiddlestone). Sophie’s eye socket and the left side of her face bear fresh bruises and wounds throughout the sex scene. And in the sixth and final episode, Pine and Je
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Altiok, Revna. "Unveiling Ken." M/C Journal 27, no. 3 (2024). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.3067.

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Introduction "Barbie has a great day every day, but Ken only has a great day if Barbie looks at him", states the narrator in Barbie (2023). Directed by Greta Gerwig, the film not only claimed the title of the highest-grossing film of the year but also prompted its audience to reconsider a character they had previously mostly overlooked; another one of Barbie’s many accessories: Ken. Ken's identity as Barbie's companion is fundamentally dependent upon the presence and recognition of his more prominent female counterpart. This highlights Ken's secondary role, where he serves as a supporting figu
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DeJong, Scott, and Alexandre Bustamante de Monti Souza. "Playing Conspiracy." M/C Journal 25, no. 1 (2022). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2869.

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Introduction Scholars, journalists, conspiracists, and public-facing groups have employed a variety of analogies to discuss the role that misleading content (conspiracy theory, disinformation, malinformation, and misinformation), plays in our everyday lives. Terms like the “disinformation war” (Hwang) or the “Infodemic” (United Nations) attempt to summarise the issues of misleading content to aide public understanding. This project studies the effectiveness of these analogies in conveying the movement of online conspiracy theory in social media networks by simulating them in a game. Building f
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