... of Paul Lynch's 2023 novel Prophet Song to address the ongoing and horrific crisis of 2023–24 in Palestine and Israel. Turning to genre as a way to look at emergencies and the ways in which we comprehend them, the article argues that once identified and declared, an emergency brings about an array...

...Nicholas Gamso This essay considers the political efficacy of hip-hop, as genre and as lifestyle, three decades after it emerged from the South Bronx and as its artists and cultural critics variously mourn, endure, and embrace its institutionalization. I look at three recent critical works on hip...

...Bran Nicol Baudrillard appeared uninterested in the detective story and his work barely features in studies of the genre. This essay argues, however, that analyzing detective fiction from a Baudrillardian perspective – concentrating in particular on how the genre is structured around a tension...

... to subsume a human security crisis into the narrative of an eternal Cold War. The third is transmedial , to acquire new political and cultural perspectives on the pandemic through the zombie cinematic genre, including our documentary film, Project Z : The Final Global Event . A zombie inquiry can help us...

...Valeria Graziano Abstract The hypothesis of a post-work society has provoked a newfound interest in the role of imagination in political thinking, made explicit by many authors who turned to the literary genres of utopian and sci-fi writing to sketch possible scenarios of a jobless future...

...-hop's artistic uses of “Pablo”—as Escobar is known in the genre—clash with Colombian elites’ iconoclastic and moralistic stance in opposition to any representation of Escobar in the media. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 Pablo Escobar hip-hop...

...Sean Cubitt Ecocritical work on media has developed from a genre criticism of nature-themed films to address cinema, TV, and media arts more broadly as articulations of the human-natural relation and its mediation through technologies. Embracing the environmental impacts of product life cycles...

... discourses of integrity and authenticity associated with practices of advocacy, and suggests that their extension beyond the formal political realm into media genres traditionally excluded from the established political domain might work to consolidate the public inquisitor as a discursive figure. Therefore...

..., and explore how a global cinematic circularity shapes the creative and industrial aspects of Asian spy films. While Suarez made these films explicitly for a Western/regional audience, they also imported cinematic styles like blaxploitation and the Hong Kong kung fu genre, while also adopting Asian culturalist...

... security which, while historically specific to the moment of production – the late 1960s and early 1970s – are also provocatively contemporary in their identification of the limits of resistance. Vanishing Point is read as a film that refuses the escapism of the road movie genre and instead pursues...

... capitalist repertoires while art is a viable means of subverting social hegemony. Or whether it is fair to say the inverse is also true. But, my real intention here is to consider two texts or artworks, produced by brilliant, genre-defying Black creatives in the hope that as my eye draws these two works...

... of the Postmodern . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Donawerth Jane . 2013 . “ Genre Blending and the Critical Dystopia .” In Dark Horizons, Science Fiction, and the Dystopian Imagination , edited by Baccolini Raffaella Moylan Tom , 29 – 47 . New York : Routledge . Echols Alice...

... anti-Semitism October 7 genres of emergency Israel-Palestine ruangrupa documenta fifteen Taring Padi In 1989, a hundred cameras followed what was happening in Romania; history is no longer divided into theatrical scenes, nor into literary chapters—it is perceived as a sequence...

... witnessed than in the reality makeover television genre, a subset of lifestyle media that incorporates the individual quest for self-improvement with the refashioning of bodily appearance and commodity consumption ( Raisborough 2011 ). In McRobbie’s words, the makeover format involves “the transformation...

... importance to Modernism is served by a significantly expanded visual lexicon. By enacting the notion of a personal archive through the formal directives of contrasting visual genres, each kind of work and each work itself becomes a “container” for multiple sets and subsets of ideas. I have no interest...

... their bodily functions to “dominating” their body through intrusive forms of bio-engineering” (109). Alphin shows how the cyberpunk genre has long explored the fusion between the human and cybernetic by offering us dystopic visions of enhanced human subjects who appear faster, stronger, and more resilient than...

... at the heart of program content. This format enabled the genre to develop away from its traditional didacticism and into the realm of narrative story telling with a culinary theme. The second phase in the rise of Oliver was through the adaptation of the program format into an advertising campaign...

... into relief as an economic, cultural, and political force that flies in the face of received notions about the inauguration of modernity, the American social compact, and the constitution of “so-called Man.” Beginning at the turn of the millennium, a new genre of American narrative began to emerge...

... the anthropologist as scholar remains a classic bystander as witness who in one or other genre witnesses in detachment, despite the moral power of his or her rhetoric. While cast in the conventional language of anthropological purpose (of ethnography, analysis, etc.) and interest, this work, both...

... tout court ). The heterogeneity of phrase regimes and the incommensurability of discursive genres would then be less something that holds between regimes and between genres and more an originary heterogeneity affecting the very identifiability of any regime and any genre, a kind of primary passive...