Risultati della ricerca - "HyperCultura"

Abstract: How might we reimagine Eleanor Roosevelt not only as a political icon but as a figure whose entire life—private and public—queered traditional boundaries of being, sexuality, and power? Susan Wittig Albert presents this possibility in Loving Eleanor (2016), which examines the romantic conn...

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Abstract: This paper explores trauma, memory, and time in Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s “The Lovers” (2019) from Before the Coffee Gets Cold, focusing on their role in shaping identity. Using speculative fiction, Kawaguchi follows Fumiko Kiyokawa, a woman dealing with the trauma of a sudden breakup, to show...

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Abstract: The film Akaash Vani (2013) exhibits a significant shift in how domestic violence is depicted in Hindi cinema, moving away from honor-based moral judgments to a perspective centered on rights. This article demonstrates how the film challenges the prevalent honor culture in India, highlight...

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Abstract: This article examines two film adaptations of Shakespeare’s Othello released in 2001, Geoffrey Sax's telefilm Othello and Tim Blake Nelson's O, from the perspective of Fernando Ortiz’s concept of transculturation, focusing on how ideas about race, gender and sexuality are trans...

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Abstract: This article retraces Mircea Eliade’s mystical travel through the Himalayas as shown in his Himalayan Journal and his struggle to survive as a writer under the weight of brutal historical events in his Portugal Journal. The two travel journals reveal the influence of geographical and his...

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Abstract: Cinema is not only a medium of entertainment, but it also has the power to reproduce, express, and shape ideas, ideologies, trends, needs, and concerns of a society at a certain time. The aim of this paper is to study the cinematographic representation of prostitution during the 1950s and...

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Abstract: Cartography, or the art of mapmaking, has been used by past and present writers to locate the settings of their stories. When it comes to imaginary settings, at times, the act of marking the place on the map of the real world implies that it has a different intention than just being the ba...

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Abstract: This article, which unites narratology, comparative mythology, and psychoanalysis, examines the ways in which mother-daughter relationships in a parallel world affect female identity in Henry Selick’s Coraline, and how this process of individuation is replaced by the mythical heroine’s jou...

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