This article examines how the horror genre in literature treats its black female characters and their trauma. It examines the relationship of haunting as a technique used in horror and haunting as a visualization of…
This article, originally a speech made by Caroline Coon, examines the power art has to influence popular opinion and politics. Taking 1970s British punk band The Clash as a case study, the article uses anecdotes to…
Benjamin Franz writes a review of Taika Waititi’s film Jojo Rabbit, analyzing Waititi’s use of genre-blending to create a simultaneously comic and horrific depiction of Nazi Germany. In it he argues the bright colors,…
This journal article examines the life of writer Aldous Huxley, from his youth to his political opinions as a young man to his fascination with religion in his later years. Semmler connects each of these facets of…
This book chapter argues the 1919 film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari manifests the anxiety and trauma of immediate post-World War I Germany into one of the first horror films. Keas analyzes such elements of the film as…
Monk discusses war and peace in two of the interwar novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald, who fought in World War I and lived and travelled throughout Europe in the 1920s, witnessing firsthand the effects of both war and the…
In this introduction to a literary journal, David Higgins analyzes the political undertones in novels such as Frank Herbert’s Dune and Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, particularly as those political themes…
Garrett Stewart argues animation and documentary-style filmmaking/writing enhance the constructed nature of memory and trauma in Ari Folman’s 2008 documentary Waltz With Bashir. This makes the film’s ending (especially…
Toles analyzes the antagonist of The Third Man (1949), Harry Lime, arguing he is an allegory for Hitler and Stalin, among others. Lime behaves in the same despotic way during peace as during war, and thus his character…
This article presents an analysis of the appearance of Habsburg monarchs and the pre-World War I Austrian Empire which was common in Austrian film from the 1910s until the 1950s and 1960s. These appearances were partly…