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Genre (2010) 43 (1-2): 137–162.
Published: 01 March 2010
..., University of Pittsburgh History imposes a heavy burden on the image of the child: the past as it survives in the present and into the future. Within cinematic and literary dis- courses, the child is conventionally a sign of both the universalized historical past, and the hope that the past...
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Genre (2003) 36 (3-4): 221–238.
Published: 01 September 2003
... . Translated and Introduced by Yúdice George . Minneapolis : U of Minnesota P , 2001 . Giddens Anthony . The Consequences of Modernity . Stanford : Stanford UP , 1990 . Gunning Tom . “‘The Whole World Within Reach’: Travel Images Without Borders.” Travel Culture: Essays...
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Published: 01 July 2021
Figure 1. Opening web page of Marisha Pessl's Night Film (2014a). This image is a scan of the book itself. More
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Published: 01 July 2021
Figure 2. Web page in Marisha Pessl's Night Film (2014a: 184). This image is a scan of the book itself. More
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Genre (2021) 54 (1): 67–87.
Published: 01 April 2021
... of Jacob ). Both novels investigate the challenges inherent in the project of providing an image of the world, and alongside various interventions on the level of content, each examines the kind of world‐image that different approaches to narrative voice can produce. In Flights , the narrator's striving...
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Genre (2017) 50 (2): 267–295.
Published: 01 July 2017
... reveal a peripatetic ethics that serves as a formal alternative to both the values of cynical self-interest and of a generic tradition of beatus ille poetic images associated with narratives of ethical retirement. The two novels produce a drama in which genres vie with genres; modes of storytelling...
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Genre (2018) 51 (3): 295–323.
Published: 01 December 2018
... reading and viewing experience in its audience, calling attention to the intimate relation between word and image. Though rarely examined in its original interdisciplinary form—in part because many of the twenty-five hundred first edition copies now reside in special or private collections where access...
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Genre (2011) 44 (2): 205–222.
Published: 01 June 2011
... transformed the image of the encyclopedia as a hierarchic totalizing tree into the encyclopedia as a network (ideally a rhizome) that contains a constant tension between totality and open-endedness. With this tension as its core characteristic, the encyclopedic narrative becomes useful as a generic...
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Genre (2016) 49 (2): 135–158.
Published: 01 July 2016
...), a supernatural tale that, he claims, exerted a virtually unparalleled influence on weird literature. Forming a distorted mirror image of Georg Lukács's description of Otranto as a piece of costumery that nonetheless became the most famous historical novel of the eighteenth century, Lovecraft's equivocal praise...
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Genre (2017) 50 (1): 19–38.
Published: 01 April 2017
... writ large. The essay concludes by connecting nineteenth-century images for the bounding and blurring of classes to similar figures in recent studies of genre. Considering the deeper historical relationship between generic thinking and the areas of logic that undergird later approaches to genre—both...
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Genre (2011) 44 (3): 381–391.
Published: 01 September 2011
... literal jumps between defense mechanisms of lower-order animals and fearful emotional states in humans. The origins of depression thus become a subject discussed with rhetorical naïveté that interweaves figurative language with sometimes contradictory images. Darwin would not be pleased. © 2011...
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Genre (2012) 45 (3): 423–441.
Published: 01 December 2012
... painting portraying the royal family of Spain, is the narration of an epistemological break through the analysis of an image. In a similar fashion, Q , composed in 1999 by the four writers of the Italian collective, the Luther Blissett Project, takes a fictionalized visual representation as a point...
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Genre (2011) 44 (2): 105–128.
Published: 01 June 2011
... is a structural moment in the creation of belief; the disavowal of faith is a lure that dupes subjects into ideological conformity. In this respect, the defensive mode of iconoclastic debunking is not the exclusive possession of a modern and cynical age but an implicit property of an image worship...
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Genre (2011) 44 (3): 239–261.
Published: 01 September 2011
...Catherine Belling We do not have direct, real-time visual access to the entities and events inside living human bodies. Despite the increasingly precise apparent access facilitated by medical-imaging technology, we still rely, finally, on representational and discursive tools in order to visualize...
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Genre (2022) 55 (3): 235–258.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Christian Mehrstam John Badham's cult film WarGames (1983) is widely recognized as one of the most influential narratives shaping the popular image of the hacker. Research and critiques are, however, conflicted regarding what that influence is. Some see it as troubling and countercultural, others...
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Genre (2003) 36 (3-4): 365–381.
Published: 01 September 2003
... Social Order . Stanford : Stanford UP , 1994 . Bruhn Matthias . Bildwirtschaft . Verwaltung und Verwertung der Sichtbarkeit . Weimar : 2003 . Frosh Paul . The Image Factory: Consumer Culture, Photography and the Visual Content Industry . Oxford : Berg , 2003...
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Genre (2003) 36 (3-4): 383–404.
Published: 01 September 2003
...-System . Cambridge, UK : Cambridge UP , 1995 . Knox Paul . The Restless Urban Landscape . Englewood Cliffs, NJ : Prentice , 1993 . Lefebvre Henri . The Production of Space . Oxford, UK : Basil Blackwell , 1991 . Lehrer Ute . “Reality or Image? Place Selling...
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Genre (2003) 36 (3-4): 251–270.
Published: 01 September 2003
... by a specific form of mapping: the earth-as-globe. Images of maps and globes interest me here, as opposed to actual, instrumental- ized maps. This second-order globe, the icon or the "merely cultural" globe, appears in portraits or advertisements often as decoration or background rather than...
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Genre (2003) 36 (3-4): 341–364.
Published: 01 September 2003
... : Schocken , 1969 . 217 - 52 . Biggs Lewis . “Brave New World.” Andreas Gursky. Images . Ed. Liverpool Tate Gallery . New York : Blackwell , 1995 . 58 - 61 . Bolton Richard , ed. The Content of Meaning. Critical Histories of Photography . Cambridge : MIT P , 1989...
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Genre (2016) 49 (2): 231–253.
Published: 01 July 2016
... : 42 – 49 . ———. 1997 . A User's Guide to the Millennium . London : Flamingo . Barthes Roland . 1977 . Image—Music—Text . Translated by Heath Stephen . London : Fontana . Benjamin Walter . 1968 . Illuminations . Edited by Arendt Hannah . New York : Shocken...