Author: Shelby
The Farce of the Revolution: The Théâtre du Soleil’s 1789; Heidi Collins
In May 1968, student protests in Paris quickly transformed into a revolutionary call to completely transform society, remove economic inequities, and overturn the government run by elites. Collaborati... Read More
Using Informal Facebook Archives: Lessons from Greece; Panagiotis Zestanakis
Social media has transformed the mediascape in the last few years and plays a crucial role in the contemporary public sphere. This situation developed from technologically advanced societies (e.g., th... Read More
Rewriting Martyrdom: Variations on Japan’s Most Famous Christian Martyr: Amakusa Shirō; Patrick Drazen
Powerpoint Slides: Full Text: The historical facts about Amakusa Shirō are well-known in Japan and are indisputable. An adolescent at the time of the extreme and debilitating Shimabara tax revolt of ... Read More
Will the Real Steve Rogers Please Stand Up?: Conflicting Nationalist Narratives in Captain America Comics, Whitney Thompson
Captain America, despite his name, has never been a simple symbol of American patriotism — something that’s probably obvious to anybody who’s studied him or read his comics. Much of Steve Ro... Read More
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? It’s Jack the Ripper!, Dr. Andrew Edwards
Alan Moore collaborated with artist Eddie Campbell to create From Hell (1999), which is a work of fiction that explores historical events, specifically the Whitechapel murders and Jack the Ripper. Whi... Read More![“He appeared [...]clad only in a pair of low-cut blue jeans:” Incipient Female Gazing at The Outsiders (1983), Blue Profitt](https://s.wayne.edu/waynepop/files/2020/09/outsiders-542x340.jpeg)
“He appeared […]clad only in a pair of low-cut blue jeans:” Incipient Female Gazing at The Outsiders (1983), Blue Profitt
In a way, this essay began in the second year of my master’s program upon a rereading of Laura Mulvey’s “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” when I began to seriously reconsider Mulvey’s c... Read More
Behind Closed Doors: Connecting Joyce’s ‘Wandering Rocks’ with Morrison’s Rock Poetry, Cornelius Fortune
“Did you have a good world when you died? Enough to base a movie on?” ––Jim Morrison, “The Movie,” from An American Prayer Everyone has a story to tell with a unique vision to tell ... Read More