Category: Visual Cultural Theory
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Selfies – “Electronic Masturbation?”
Written and posted for new blog, Fanny Pack, on 19th November 2014. Please head over there and follow them for more of the same Feminist articles written by myself and others! Today’s technological advances have made it possible for us to make as many self-portraits as many times a day, hour, or even minute, in any…
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Superman Returns & Man of Steel: Man vs. Myth
“Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human cultural manifestation. Regions, philosophies, arts, the social forms of primitive and historic man, prime discoveries in science and technology, the very dreams that blister sleep, boil up from the basic magic ring of myth.” – Joseph Campbell, The Hero…
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Godzilla vs. MUTO vs. Humanity: Who are the real monsters?
SPOILERS AHEAD. Ye have been warned. I love the Fantasy genre and I love the Sci-Fi genre. But….Sci-Fi holds a special place in my heart. This isn’t because I think it is inherently better than Fantasy, it’s a personal opinion. A personal opinion that I think stems from the general but fundamental difference between…
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The Problem with Graphic Novels
I have loved comic books right from when I first learnt how to read. It started with Tintin and Asterix and Obelix as a child, which my mum introduced me to. I later discovered superheroes as a teenager – Batman and X-Men were (and still are) particular favourites. Not long after that I started…
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Disability Visibility in Comics & Manga
Roughly a year ago now I started reading a manga called Gangsta online and became pretty much hooked from the first few pages. I lapped up every chapter that was available, and every subsequent chapter that was painfully slowly uploaded by the scanlators (I would explain what a ‘scanlator’ is, but the clue…
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Sparkly Vamps vs. Groggy Heroines: A possibly controversial Twilight/Hunger Games analysis.
It seems like decades has passed since I stayed up all night to read the entirety of New Moon in my room, lying on my bed on my stomach, legs crossed in the air in the manner that all teenage girls seem to read books in films. My mum came in at about 6:00am and…
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Comic Lore: Batman, Superman, and The Third Identity
“As you know, I’m quite keen on comic books. Especially the ones about superheroes. I find the whole mythology surrounding superheroes fascinating. Take my favorite superhero, Superman. Not a great comic book. Not particularly well-drawn. But the mythology… The mythology is not only great, it’s unique…Now, a staple of the superhero mythology is, there’s the…
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Anime and Cartoons: East vs. West
Anime and Cartoons: East vs. West So, this is all started when I tried to find a DVD of the brilliant but sadly forgotten anime series The Big O. I say ‘tried’ because to my surprise I discovered that not only were there barely any copies up for sale on both eBay and Amazon, but…
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