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Artistic representations of infectious disease. (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). Artistic representations of infectious disease. Psychology, Health and Medicine, 1 - 5. https://doi.org/10.1080/13548506.2019.1705991

Artistic representations of disease are widespread yet largely ignored in health psychology research. In this paper we use two infectious diseases, tuberculosis and the plague, as tracers to study how infectious diseases are represented in novels, fi... Read More about Artistic representations of infectious disease..

The Very Worst Things: Vulnerability and Violence in Djamila Sahraoui's Yema (2012) (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). The Very Worst Things: Vulnerability and Violence in Djamila Sahraoui's Yema (2012). Studies in French Cinema, 246-264. https://doi.org/10.1080/14715880.2018.1511182

This article explores the connections between vulnerability, gender and terrorist violence, drawing on Algerian filmmaker Djamila Sahraoui’s Yema (2012). The film will first be situated in relation to Sahraoui’s oeuvre, and within a wider context of... Read More about The Very Worst Things: Vulnerability and Violence in Djamila Sahraoui's Yema (2012).

Torture in Word and Image: Inhuman Acts in Resnais and Pontecorvo (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). Torture in Word and Image: Inhuman Acts in Resnais and Pontecorvo. Cinema Journal, 26-48. https://doi.org/10.1353/cj.2019.0021

This article examines the interplay of word and image in two depictions of torture during the Algerian War: Muriel (Alain Resnais, 1963) and The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966). While Resnais offers the spectator a desynchronized sound-ima... Read More about Torture in Word and Image: Inhuman Acts in Resnais and Pontecorvo.

Transnational Science Fiction at the End of the World: Consensus, Conflict and the Politics of Climate Change (2019)
Journal Article
Archer. (2019). Transnational Science Fiction at the End of the World: Consensus, Conflict and the Politics of Climate Change. Cinema Journal, 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1353/cj.2019.0020

This article considers the significance of transnational production, aesthetic, and narrative strategies in recent forms of "apocalyptic" science fiction cinema. As the article explores, a more transnational mode of science fiction offers the opportu... Read More about Transnational Science Fiction at the End of the World: Consensus, Conflict and the Politics of Climate Change.