MLA Commons | MS Visual Culture | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/visual-culture/ Activity feed for the group, MS Visual Culture. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 06:08:57 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 331fdbb76ec0d66fd7caa3e7ff63e943 Berna Gueneli started the topic CF Applications for the position of Assistant Professor of Film Studies, UGA in the forum MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/visual-culture/forum/topic/cf-applications-for-the-position-of-assistant-professor-of-film-studies-uga/ Tue, 18 Nov 2025 21:10:00 -0500 The Department of Theatre and Film at the University of Georgia welcomes applications for the position of Assistant Professor of Film Studies.

 

Area of specialization is open. Desired areas of specialization include, but are not limited to, one or more of the following: global animation; cinemas of East, Southeast, South, or Western Asia and…[Read more]

]]> 0 bc23953ca41a5b0470b18ce556a91ae7 Guylian Nemegeer started the topic CFP - Incontri. Rivista Europea di Studi Italiani in the forum MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/visual-culture/forum/topic/cfp-incontri-rivista-europea-di-studi-italiani-3/ Wed, 22 Oct 2025 14:03:43 -0400 <span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Dear colleagues,</span>

<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>For its upcoming issues, </span><i><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Incontri. Rivista europea di studi italiani</span></i><span style=”font-weight: 400;”> is currently accepting essay submissions and proposals for special issues.</span>

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]]> 0 2fefff99434499ac9c1c4efad33eb939 Doris Hambuch deposited Humorous Takes on Marriage in the UAE: Digital Comics, Social Media Comedy and Short Films in the group MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900965/ Mon, 07 Oct 2024 03:11:04 -0400 This article investigates humorous representations of marriage in digital comics, standup comedy and short films created by Emirati artists and content creators who primarily rely on social media as their most effective form of distribution. Studied against theories of humor in the Western and the Arabic traditions, selected examples demonstrate…[Read more]

]]> 0 98412a2e171d72d17c3d1a23ff1aa1ce Doris Hambuch deposited Ways of Seeing Nujoom Alghanem’s Nearby Sky (سماء قريبة) and Sharp Tools (آلات حادة) as Docupoetry,Comment voir le ciel proche de Nujoom Alghanem (سماء قريبة) et les outils tranchants (آلات حادة) comme docupoésie in the group MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900963/ Mon, 07 Oct 2024 03:05:42 -0400 This article proposes to establish a
sub-category called “docupoetry” to
classify the documentary films by
Emirati poet and filmmaker Nujoom
Alghanem. Detailed analysis of two
selected films, Sharp Tools (2017) and
Nearby Sky (2014), illustrates the
unique composition, cinematography,
and use of poetic devices, such
as rhythm, sym…[Read more]

]]> 0 4f9442367a2527580c0220213c974ab3 Susan Larson deposited Comfort and Domestic Space in Modern Spain in the group MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1890327/ Thu, 27 Jun 2024 03:08:57 -0400 Comfort and domestic space are complex narratives that can help draw our attention to everything from urban planning, everyday objects, and new technologies to class conflict, racial and ethnic segregation, and the gendering of domestic labour. Comfort and Domestic Space in Modern Spain delves into the history of ideas surrounding the modern home.…[Read more]

]]> 0 94cd4edd2fc699e0ce59ff16b9868e8d Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New Article: Banal misogynism in Turkish media in the discussion MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/visual-culture/forum/topic/new-article-banal-misogynism-in-turkish-media/ Wed, 27 Mar 2024 14:24:30 -0400 Dear Colleagues,

I , Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fatma Fulya Tepe, from Istanbul Aydin University, Faculty of Education, published a new article titled “Banal misogynism in Turkish media at the beginning of the multi-party era: the case of Boşboğaz” in the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics which is a Q1 journal. You can find the abstract and the link…[Read more]

]]> 0 b42e8544a63a68b55bc4e7f045f2c1ac Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New creative feminist work: A Misogynist Triptych from 1945 in the discussion MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/visual-culture/forum/topic/new-creative-feminist-work-a-misogynist-triptych-from-1945-17/ Tue, 05 Dec 2023 16:09:30 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

I , Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fatma Fulya Tepe, from Istanbul Aydin University, Faculty of Education and Emeritus Prof. Dr. Per Bauhn from Sweden’s Linnaeus University prepared “A Misogynist Triptych from 1945” based on cartoon material coming from the Turkish Boşboğaz (Bigmouth) Humor Gazette from 1945. This project was supported by…[Read more]

]]> 0 ca6579937e0f1cad7da5eb44a701f377 Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic new article: Osman Hamdi Bey – an Ottoman Orientalist or a Humanist Ottoman? in the discussion MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/visual-culture/forum/topic/new-article-osman-hamdi-bey-an-ottoman-orientalist-or-a-humanist-ottoman/ Tue, 05 Dec 2023 14:52:38 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

Emeritus Prof. Dr. Per Bauhn from Linnaeus University, Sweden published an article titled “Osman Hamdi Bey – an Ottoman Orientalist or a Humanist Ottoman?” in Nordic Review of Iconography.
I present the abstract of this article below and the article can be downloaded for free from the link b…[Read more]

]]> 0 098193ec95d4a758716c946e549c44c2 Sophie Christman deposited Alt-Burger: Transforming Populist Food Systems in the group MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1861779/ Sun, 15 Oct 2023 04:19:23 -0400 This article argues that there exists a problematic nexus between the industrial livestock industry, US food system policies, and American propagandist literature. The essay’s specific aim is to transform carnivorous appetites by subverting the integrity of America’s national gastronomic emblem – the hamburger. The article examines how hambu…[Read more]

]]> 0 ef7b41cccf02bd2f98f7d6e58e6f9304 Sophie Christman deposited * The Rise of Proto-Environmentalism in George Eliot in the group MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1861770/ Sun, 15 Oct 2023 04:05:28 -0400 The “Ilfracombe” journals, “Ex Oriente Lux,” and “A Minor Prophet” register the ways
in which George Eliot’s nineteenth-century nonfiction prose and poetry evidence
ecotheological concerns that are proto-environmental, concerns that are also
reflected in some of her novels. Employing an ecocritical methodology, this article
traces the…[Read more]

]]> 0 c78b7af6fcde8f0ae9d929f600528734 Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Against Stereotypical Representations: On young Saudi directors in the group MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1857505/ Wed, 06 Sep 2023 01:16:31 -0400 In his writing, Cultural theorist Stuart Hall has often argued that an image or a set of images has the capability of condensing a number of attributes into a single picture, producing a misleading representation of what other people and cultures are like. As a result, multiple stories evolve into the one story that is told repeatedly and usually…[Read more]

]]> 0 c2f90519df2bcf48dc0873bd29aaeca1 Carl Gelderloos posted an update in the group MS Visual Culture: Very excited that my essay on Paul Scheerbart's Lesabéndio […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1843360/ Wed, 03 May 2023 00:32:43 -0400 Very excited that my essay on Paul Scheerbart’s Lesabéndio is now live on Modernism/modernity Print Plus! https://modernismmodernity.org/articles/gelderloos-nowhere-obstacle

]]> 0 41e35f228a654036588331d036bf18e2 Doris Hambuch deposited Bridges within the Arts: Bob Dylan and Martin Scorsese in the group MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1835536/ Mon, 27 Feb 2023 02:23:41 -0500 Tracing the collaboration between Dylan and Scorsese from the 1960s on to the Netflix original ‘The Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese’ (2019), this article argues that the mutual respect of the two artists rests on a shared contestation of borders between fact and fiction. In the spirit of romanticism, both Dylan and…[Read more]

]]> 0 f7ce4534bf8c669fcfabc4c87cded081 Hania A.M. Nashef deposited What Does a Nascent Film Movement of Popular Genres Reveal About Emirati Culture? in the group MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1835478/ Sun, 26 Feb 2023 03:52:16 -0500 Despite a lack of a traditional cinema culture, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has recently witnessed an increase in film production. This rise can be attributed to a number of factors, not least of which, is the opening of movie theaters, the establishment of international film festivals and the arrival of film companies. These ventures have…[Read more]

]]> 0 e56fd8c36d78233bfac73693ed241cff Adrienne Brown started the topic Visual Culture MLA Convention CFPs in the discussion MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/visual-culture/forum/topic/visual-culture-mla-convention-cfps/ Thu, 17 Feb 2022 13:32:59 -0500 Below you’ll find four CFP’s for proposed panels sponsored by the Visual Culture Forum for this year’s MLA.  Please do circulate widely and consider contributing.

1- Visual Culture Forum seeks proposals for guaranteed MLA session, Women and Frames of Violence. How do women engage, practice and perform violence in visual culture? Considerations b…[Read more]

]]> 0 df772ef0048e2a1e15e411787b9d0054 Rocío Quispe-Agnoli deposited Enigmas de la Nueva corónica y buen gobierno. in the group MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1756116/ Thu, 21 Oct 2021 02:36:03 -0400 This article reviews four crucial moments of the editorial life of Guaman Poma de Ayala’s “Nueva corónica y buen gobierno” [New Chronicle and Good Government], a 1189-page history of Peru before, during, and after the Spanish conquest. The chronicle includes 399 ink drawings made by the author. The essay also addresses unanswered questions…[Read more]

]]> 0 4f4671dda0576305857d448fe5c07c65 Rocío Quispe-Agnoli deposited Hablando desde el archivo colonial: Voces femeninas del Virreinato del Perú in the group MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1756113/ Thu, 21 Oct 2021 02:24:45 -0400 Invited contribution to the book-catalog “Libros y autores del virreinato del Perú (1542-1824)” [Books and authors of the Viceroyalty of Peru] that accompanies the one-year exhibit (same title as the book) at the Instituto Cervantes in Madrid (Spain). The exhibit can be visited from September 2021-September 2022. This chapter addresses the…[Read more]

]]> 0 a3dd2cabe2be473e35820e8010f28d26 Susan Larson deposited Architecture and the Urban in Spanish Film in the group MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1755734/ Mon, 18 Oct 2021 03:54:38 -0400 Building on existing film and urban histories, this innovative volume examines Spanish cinema through contemporary interdisciplinary theories of urban space, the built environment, visuality and mass culture from the industrial through to the digital age. Architecture and the Urban in Spanish Film brings together the scholarship of an…[Read more]

]]> 0 614633f6d344298a94bfb8691447ad82 Hania A.M. Nashef deposited “The right to narrate”: Gazans contest popular geopolitics with film in the group MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1750089/ Thu, 26 Aug 2021 03:48:43 -0400 Since the Intifada of 2000, living conditions in the Gaza Strip have progressively deteriorated, and when Hamas came to power in 2006–07, a complete blockade was enforced on the inhabitants by Egypt and Israel. In addition, five full-scale wars have been
waged on the Strip. Despite these conditions, Gazans remain resilient, as evidenced by s…[Read more]

]]> 0 8a1d2267cba1640ebbf079cc83de6f18 Joseph R. Millichap deposited “The Dark Mirror of Our Lives”: Richard Wright, 12 Million Black Voices, and Auto/biography in the group MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1725626/ Sun, 31 Jan 2021 02:29:51 -0500 First presented as a paper at the 2018 SAMLA Convention in Atlanta, this article will become a chapter of my book in progress on the photobooks of the 1930s and 1940s illustrated with the photographs of the Farm Security Administration.

]]> 0 86ccf01fb06f2b1c65eb188db393489c Rocío Quispe-Agnoli deposited Mujeres en papel y tinta: identificación, automodelaje y remodelaje en el archivo colonial in the group MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1716478/ Sat, 14 Nov 2020 04:05:29 -0500 Direct and indirect women’s access to the expression of their ideas and wishes on ink and paper has significantly contributed to the construction of the Latin American colonial archive. Nevertheless, this contribution to the area of Latin American women’s studies still remains little known and understudied. The colonial tradition of women’s autho…[Read more]

]]> 0 1f2d068d2a0140bfb30abeffcd0bd6ab Hania A.M. Nashef deposited “Giving a Face to the Silenced Victims: Recent Documentaries on Gaza” in the group MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1716313/ Thu, 12 Nov 2020 03:51:40 -0500 Often described as an open-air prison, the citizens of the Gaza Strip have long resisted a subaltern existence. Conditions in Gaza, and specifically since the Second Intifada of 2000, have increasingly worsened. With the advent of Hamas in 2006-2007, a complete blockade was imposed on the Strip. A deafening silence by the world has resulted in…[Read more]

]]> 0 4a62580ffb9b2642994e636bfe91a127 Ellen Spolsky deposited Archetypes Embodied, Then and Now in the group MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1713768/ Tue, 20 Oct 2020 04:01:55 -0400 With the support of recent theorizing in evolutionary biology and anthropology, this essay refurbishes the term archetype for reuse, recognizing that it signals a painful cognitive failure. Examples are taken from The Terminator movies and pictures of the annunciation to Mary.

]]> 0 3ae1c634d39362de12014660ccf4827e Ellen Spolsky deposited Iconotropism as Representational Hunger: Raphael and Titian in the group MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1713624/ Mon, 19 Oct 2020 04:05:56 -0400 Iconotropism is a gargantuan overgeneralization hypothesizing that people are hungry for pictures and feed on them, metabolize them, turn them into nourishment. The study examples are Raphael’s Transfiguration and Titian’s Diana and Actaeon. It is a contribution to embodiment theory and cognitive cultural history.

]]> 0 3e0efeb129d4051543bac2e8e28e97e8 Ellen Spolsky deposited How Do Audiences Act? in the group MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1713619/ Mon, 19 Oct 2020 03:48:43 -0400 This is an afterword to Movement in Literature: Exploring Kinesis Intelligence, ed. by Kathryn Banks and Timothy Chesters. (Palgrave 2018). It is intended to advance further work on kinesic intelligence by connection some of what has already been written about how the forms of fiction appeal to what human bodies know about action with what can be…[Read more]

]]> 0 4f683e7c7efc8b8d10e57ee869dcf1e6 Anastasia Salter deposited Syllabus: Social Media Research in the group MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1705323/ Fri, 14 Aug 2020 02:24:12 -0400 Social media is a key contemporary site of activity for politics, entertainment, and relationships, but how can we study it? This course combines theory and practice; students will both read canonical and contemporary social media research from leading scholars and learn to engage with social media platforms to collect and analyze their own data.…[Read more]

]]> 0 f35f493fec108f04da647a21542a2047 Doris Hambuch deposited Liberating Bicycles in Niki Caro’s 'Whale Rider' and in Haifaa Al Mansour’s 'Wadjda' in the group MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1704927/ Tue, 11 Aug 2020 02:27:52 -0400 Susan B. Anthony declared in 1896 that the bicycle “has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world.” The comparative study of ‘Whale Rider’ (2002) and ‘Wadjda’ (2012) demonstrates that this liberating effect of the basic tool of transportation is being reinforced in the new millennium. The analysis further situates two con…[Read more]

]]> 0 e5c30b0b5767d0f1eb31d60f9ec7123f Albertine Fox deposited Hearing the Crackles in the Background: Listening and Female Intimacy in 'Portrait of a Lady on Fire' in the group MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1685127/ Fri, 24 Apr 2020 03:59:14 -0400 Online at: https://screen-queens.com/2020/04/14/listening-and-female-intimacy-in-portrait-of-a-lady-on-fire/

]]> 0 4eb8bbb1dccbec65b38031ab2a71b461 Andrew G. Christensen deposited On Being One's Own Heir: British Portraiture, Metaphysical Inheritance, and The Picture of Dorian Gray in the group MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1643146/ Mon, 24 Jun 2019 03:53:47 -0400 Much scholarship on The Picture of Dorian Gray has focused on its possible textual sources and its place in literary traditions. This article demonstrates that by contextualizing the novel in the history of art and the tradition of British portraiture, we are able to answer significant yet overlooked questions such as why Wilde chose “picture” rat…[Read more]

]]> 0 3f5f855f6ad9952461d9ba98dd9682ae Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Ophelia Unbound in Asian Performances." Actes des congrès de la Société française Shakespeare 37 (2019): 1-12 in the group MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1642796/ Wed, 19 Jun 2019 03:56:52 -0400 Asian directors leverage Shakespeare’s own propensity to undermine dominant ideologies of gender—notably through the Ophelia figure—in their effort to renew Asian performance traditions. How do Shakespeare and modern directors talk to each other across cultural and historical divides? How does Ophelia become “unbound” through supraling…[Read more]

]]> 0 d6221a2c722c516ff2acb7f11d84d392 Carl Gelderloos deposited Learning to See: Art & Media in Weimar Germany | Fall 2018 in the group MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1641993/ Fri, 07 Jun 2019 16:26:29 -0400 A syllabus for an undergraduate course, taught in English, on the visual culture (primarily film, photography, and aesthetic theory) of the Weimar Republic. The course is housed in German Studies and crosslisted with Art History, Cinema, and other departments.

]]> 0 d09f2e25e70f560c6f896d4b7948b95d Doris Hambuch deposited Including E-Literature in Mainstream Cultural Critique: The Case of Graphic Art by Khaled Al Jabri in the group MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1640013/ Fri, 10 May 2019 16:30:52 -0400 This essay uses the image-based work of Emirati cartoonist Khaled Al Jabri to address concerns of technological dependence to reconsider our use of screens. The production of electronic literature requires technologies responsible for undeniable hazards unique to today’s information and gadget age. As represented in Al Jabri’s graphic art, these…[Read more]

]]> 0 cbb5d4c3dcf31b27084b7531a6e799d9 Tobias Steiner deposited What Would Jack Bauer Do? Negotiating Trauma, Vengeance and Justice in the Cultural Forum of Post-9/11 TV Drama, from 24 to Battlestar Galactica and Person of Interest in the group MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1634697/ Sun, 10 Mar 2019 03:53:25 -0400 Discussing the concept of cultural trauma and its role in popular television dramas such as 24 (FOX 2001-10, 2014-), Battlestar Galactica (Syfy 2004-9), Rubicon (AMC 2010) and Person of Interest (CBS 2011-16), this paper sets out to identify three distinct clusters that are part of what Newcomb and Hirsch once termed a “cultural forum”—a discu…[Read more]

]]> 0 f591b1e08ee936e65aac47ae6b98ceaf Shirin A. Khanmohamadi deposited Medieval Literature in the Contact Zone -- review essay in the group MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1633494/ Thu, 28 Feb 2019 03:51:01 -0500 Exemplaria review essay by Sarah Elliott Novacich of recent books by Simon Gaunt, Jonathan Hsy, and Shirin Khanmohamadi on medieval contact zones.

]]> 0 c911cc230815c4e8346da308c445e4e9 Tobias Steiner deposited TV Studies for all? On Open Access and Publishing in TV and Media Studies in the group MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1633392/ Wed, 27 Feb 2019 04:07:37 -0500 Personal perspective on the current state of open access and publishing practices in the fields of Television and Media Studies, and pointers to a variety of scholar-led initiatives and options of where scholars can actually publish open access in their field without the payment of Article Processing Charges (APCs).

]]> 0 152a731ad2dd0bed0b7a489dae7c260d Andrew G. Christensen deposited White Noise and the Supermarket Aesthetic in the group MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1629811/ Sun, 20 Jan 2019 03:48:43 -0500 Don DeLillo’s White Noise (1985) has been thoroughly examined as a work of postmodern fiction, with particular attention to media and simulacra, and from the perspective of science and technology, focusing on chemistry and toxicity. In this presentation, I look at the novel from an art historical perspective, considering the relations it bears to…[Read more]

]]> 0 91c854505b2e03f1d32807ebe3d31e6c Shirin A. Khanmohamadi deposited Durendal, translated: Islamic object genealogies in the chansons de geste in the group MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1621092/ Mon, 15 Oct 2018 04:06:34 -0400 The transfer of Saracen arms into Frankish ownership is a leitmotif of
many chansons de geste, but one whose significance for translatio imperii has yet to be
elucidated. In this essay, I focus on the Chanson d’Aspremont, a twelfth-century epic
set in Calabria that narrates the pre-history of Durendal, Roland’s sword of Song of
Roland fam…[Read more]

]]> 0 ef86f50938a12ccaa7578b28aa2cefd9 Shirin A. Khanmohamadi deposited The Look of Medieval Ethnography: William of Rubruck's Mission to Mongolia in the group MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1621087/ Mon, 15 Oct 2018 03:54:13 -0400 Reads William of Rubruck’s mission to Asia as an instance of premodern ethnographic representation and the shape of the precolonial European ethnographic gaze upon Asia.

]]> 0 e01fe0dee59b42a6e673df1446fe9b0c Jeremiah Mercurio deposited Faithful Infidelity: Charles Ricketts's Illustrations for Two of Oscar Wilde's Poems in Prose in the group MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1620971/ Sat, 13 Oct 2018 16:29:17 -0400 The artist, collector, and critic Charles Ricketts (1866–1931) has often been characterised as a reactionary voice in early-twentieth-century debates about modern art. Although he responded conservatively to modern-art developments such as those embodied by the term ‘Post-Impressionism’, his work in book design and illustration exemplifies p…[Read more]

]]> 0 eed8f2d321c5ce01f23f67ec7bca0ba5 Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion Literature and Other Arts https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/visual-culture/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2019-forum-delegate-election-43/ Fri, 21 Sep 2018 12:38:54 -0400 The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]

]]> 0 ef00d732926b0d660d517511f020a2aa Tobias Steiner deposited Subversion of Nostalgia as a Strategy of Engagement in Alternate History TV: 11.22.63 and The Man in the High Castle in the group MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1609732/ Sat, 02 Jun 2018 03:56:46 -0400 Beginning with television’s popularization and mass availability in the 1950s, TV has extensively been employed to transport and mediate history. From the early televisual experiments of The Twilight Zone and Star Trek to more recent examples such as Quantum Leap, The X-Files and Continuum, Science Fiction television and its subgenre of A…[Read more]

]]> 0 5b2ce17fd3bd5f77e10f75c261c8c830 Lisa Zunshine deposited Groucho, Harpo, and Narrative Theory in the group MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1605795/ Mon, 09 Apr 2018 04:02:04 -0400 This short piece on _Duck Soup_ (1933) and narrative theory is a response to Jim Phelan’s target essay “Authors, Resources, Audiences,” published in the double-issue of _Style_ (52.1 & 52.2).

]]> 0 4bc65c17066eb5746f1aa5e59908f974 Lisa Marie Rhody deposited Beyond Darwinian Distance: Situating Distant Reading in a Feminist Ut Pictura Poesis Tradition in the group MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1596832/ Sat, 13 Jan 2018 04:20:36 -0500 Looking from a distance, as a condition of knowledge, participates within a long-standing Western tradition of power relations. This article considers the use of “distant reading” as theorized by Franco Moretti in his book by the same title and suggests that the method of literary analysis that uses such a metaphor should be aware and critical of…[Read more]

]]> 0 6c803b09e4bda42497e4ee2d3541f74e Tobias Steiner deposited „Ça va de soi“. Die visuelle Repräsentation von Gewalt im Holocaust-Dokumentarfilm in the group MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1596234/ Thu, 11 Jan 2018 06:00:30 -0500 Brian Winston greift die Debatte um die Nicht-Darstellbarkeit der Gewalt des Holocausts auf und weist darauf hin, dass vor jeder moralischen Überlegung zunächst einmal die fast vollständige Abwesenheit von audiovisuellen Zeugnissen konstatiert werden muss. Wie kann der Dokumentarfilm dennoch ein Bild des Grauens zeigen? In Referenz auf den Ve…[Read more]

]]> 0 0efa141fa473d7fb5c9fe0040b4cf419 Tobias Steiner deposited Transmediales Erzählen im narrativen Universum von "Game of Thrones" in the group MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1596227/ Thu, 11 Jan 2018 05:44:01 -0500 English title: “Transmedia Storytelling in the narrative universe of ‘Game of Thrones'” — This essay’s aim is to briefly introduce the concept of Transmedia Storytelling and to provide a showcase analysis and review of the serial TV narrative of GAME OF THRONES in order to show how a television series’ narrative universe, driven by both producers…[Read more]

]]> 0 b6962f4ac8030a28069357ca29ff6f63 Tobias Steiner deposited TV or not TV? Historical Development of US American Serial Television from the 1950s up to today // Historische Entwicklung US-amerikanischer Fernsehserien von 1950 bis heute in the group MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1596077/ Wed, 10 Jan 2018 05:53:06 -0500 Syllabus of BA seminar “Historische Entwicklung US-amerikanischer Fernsehserien von 1950 bis heute” aka. “TV or not TV? Historical Development of US American Serial Television from the 1950s up to today” held during Winter semester 2013/14 at Universität Hamburg, Germany.

]]> 0 6e34dcd97a53e40798145920ce4e5bbe Tobias Steiner deposited TV or not TV? Historical Development of US American Serial Television from the 1950s up to today // Historische Entwicklung US-amerikanischer Fernsehserien von 1950 bis heute in the group MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1596074/ Wed, 10 Jan 2018 05:46:19 -0500 Syllabus of BA seminar “Historische Entwicklung US-amerikanischer Fernsehserien von 1950 bis heute” aka. “TV or not TV? Historical Development of US American Serial Television from the 1950s up to today” held during Winter semester 2013/14 at Universität Hamburg, Germany.

]]> 0 785a16fddf295afd7a9f4f692e28ec18 Tobias Steiner deposited TV or not TV? Historical Development of US American Serial Television from the 1950s up to today // Historische Entwicklung US-amerikanischer Fernsehserien von 1950 bis heute in the group MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1596073/ Wed, 10 Jan 2018 05:45:54 -0500 Syllabus of BA seminar “Historische Entwicklung US-amerikanischer Fernsehserien von 1950 bis heute” aka. “TV or not TV? Historical Development of US American Serial Television from the 1950s up to today” held during Winter semester 2013/14 at Universität Hamburg, Germany.

]]> 0 a6572524c4c42c06fe0533faa654a186 Tobias Steiner deposited Bron/Broen, the Pilot Episode as Space between Cultures, and (re)negotiations of Nordic Noir in the group MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1594345/ Wed, 03 Jan 2018 05:45:22 -0500 Nordic Noir has, since the early-2000s, evolved into a globally-popular genre that now easily transcends media-specific boundaries. Television has always been at the forefront of that development: Scandinavian TV productions either turned literary successes into distinct and easily-recognizable television scripts, or developed independent shows…[Read more]

]]> 0 38f04ec506743d80921b7c0665fbac61 Charles Gleek deposited Looking Anywhere But At You: The Gaze in Kara Walker's Silhouettes in the group MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1589997/ Mon, 27 Nov 2017 05:51:20 -0500 The silhouetted cutouts in Kara Walker’s Gone: An Historical Romance of a Civil War as It Occurred b’tween the Dusky Thighs of One Young Negress and Her Heart are fine with being seen but care little for the actual presence of the viewer. They’re kissing and sucking, fucking and birthing, playing and pillorying all without shame or service to the…[Read more]

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