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Mimetopia and the illusion of meaning in Naboko...

Jul 02 2010 09:00 PM | nivenkumar in Literature and Film

(Continued from Part 1...) Cincinnatus, at the end of his tether, begins to understand his circumstances for what they are. He recognises the theatricality around him, he understands that "... everything has duped me..." With this, comes the r...

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Mimetopia and the illusion of meaning in Naboko...

Jul 02 2010 01:00 PM | nivenkumar in Literature and Film



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Borges in his parallel universes

Jun 28 2007 08:00 PM | nivenkumar in Literature and Film

By Niven Kumar (2007) Where does one begin with Borges? What meanings, if there is any at all, do we glean from his work? Who is Borges? And how many? One? Three? Five? Is he Everyman? Or is he No Man? Where do his labyrinths take us? These are mere...

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Soderbergh's Solaris

Jun 17 2005 09:00 PM | Hugo Holbling in Literature and Film

By Paul Newall (2005) When Steven Soderbergh's version of Stanislaw Lem's novel Solaris opens with the sight of Kris Kelvin sat on his bed, listening to the disembodied sound of his dead wife's voice, it is immediately clear that the scrip...

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Kieślowski's Three Colours Trilogy

Jun 13 2005 09:00 PM | Hugo Holbling in Literature and Film

By Paul Newall (2005) Krzysztof Kieślowski's Three Colours trilogy is a monumental work that blends cinema, philosophy and music in a seamless whole. Its sheer depth poses a host of interpretational difficulties but this paper seeks to unravel a m...

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American Psycho Reinterpreted

Jun 13 2005 09:00 PM | Hugo Holbling in Literature and Film

By Paul Newall (2005) Bret Easton Ellis’s masterpiece American Psycho is typically described as a satire ("a black-hearted satire on the terrible power of money" said Jenny Turner in the Scotsman) and, in particular, a savage indictment of a (...

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Kirilov's Dilemma

Jun 09 2005 09:00 PM | Hugo Holbling in Literature and Film

By Paul Newall (2005) In his The Possessed (also known as Demons) and other works, Dostoevsky employed an advocatus diaboli device familiar to and used by the Schoolmen and the Church whereby he offered and defended in detail those notions he wished t...

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Tykwer's Heaven

Jun 08 2005 09:00 PM | Hugo Holbling in Literature and Film

By Paul Newall (2005) Although he had claimed upon its completion that the Three Colours Trilogy would be his final work, Krzysztof Kieślowski was writing (with his long-time collaborator Kryzsztof Piesiewicz) a second trilogy at the time of his death...

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Wag the Dog

Jun 07 2005 09:00 PM | mosaic in Literature and Film

By Chen-Roy Simpson (2005) Abstract: Wag the Dog is a film about media manipulation. In the first section of the paper, some relatively unknown "Wag the Dog" cases are explored. In the second section, the complicity and lack of vigilance of th...

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Shyamalan's The Village

Jun 05 2005 09:00 PM | Hugo Holbling in Literature and Film

By Paul Newall (2005) M. Night Shyamalan's The Village has aroused vociferous responses from viewers and commentators alike but there have been few detailed studies of the themes and ideas explored in considerable depth in the movie. In this essay...

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