When we see body counts rise, the human capacity to respond often becomes frozen. “The more who die, the less we care,” as highlighted in a recent article published in Risk Analysis, which follows up on Paul Slovic’s earlier work…
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“Whatever happened to the epic?” by Jo Ann Cavallo
Miguel de Cervantes famously claimed to have composed Don Quixote de la Mancha to combat the imaginative hold that books of chivalry had over his contemporaries. Reading the novel for the first time as an undergraduate, however, I had been…
Arts and Sustainability in the Land of Eden Barbara Sellers-Young
John Dewey argued in Art as Experience (1934/2005) that art is central to the sustainability of daily life. In doing so, he is not only talking about being a consumer of arts by attendance at events or exhibitions but the…
Britain and Its Mandate over Palestine: Legal Chicanery on a World Stage by John Quigley
Anyone who is knowledgeable about Britain and its role in Palestine after World War I knows that Britain was given the territory by Turkey under a peace treaty and that the League of Nations legalized Britain’s tenure, conferring a mandate…
Contemporary Figure Skating: Dancing towards an Unhealthy Aesthetics
Dr Maryam Farahani – July 2022 Health and beauty classifications are controversial topics in humanities and sciences, but they are also inevitable concepts upon which people ponder in the path of self-discovery. In their edited volume, Narrative Art and the…
‘A Sensitive, Avid and Silent Political Subject’: Roland Barthes, Politics-Polemics-Pandemics
by Andy Stafford, Senior Lecturer in French Studies, University of Leeds; author of the forthcoming book Roland Barthes Writing the Political: History, Dialectics, Self. As we emerge now (hopefully!) from two years of the pandemic and regular lock-down, isolation and…
William Blake as Natural Philosopher, 1788-1795
Drawn to Blake In Ross Glass’s 2020 psychological horror film, Saint Maud, the title character, a hospice nurse who has recently converted to an extremely ascetic form of Catholicism after a hedonistic earlier phase, is given a book of William…
The Lived Experiences of African International Students in the United Kingdom
The Lived Experiences of African International Students in the United Kingdom: Reactions to the Law through the Lens of Precarity and Consciousness By James Marson, Mohammed Dirisu and Katy Ferris The United Kingdom is largely a welcoming place for international…
Travel Writing in an Age of Global Quarantine
Travel writing, as its name suggests, would seem to require travel in order to be effectively produced. After all, how can one write about your experience of visiting foreign lands if you’re unable to travel to them in the first…
Techniques & Aesthetics in 3D Films of 1950s and their Impact on Later Productions by David A. Cook
Although I have written about 3D films before in A History of Narrative Film (HNF, W. W. Norton, 1981; 1990; 1996; 2004; 2016) – both polarized and digital – in Chapters 12 and 21 respectively, I wanted to understand stereoscopy…