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Essay · Screen & Culture
An exploration of adaptation through the classic films of Hitchcock and Spielberg.
This article argues that the most successful film adaptations, such as ‘Rear Window,’ ‘Jaws,’ and ‘Psycho,’ don’t just copy their literary …
Essay · Screen & Culture
A Study in Functional Analogy
This article proposes a framework of ‘functional analogy’ connecting the cinematic single take with literary techniques such as stream of consciousness, sustained …
Essay · Screen & Culture
How Netflix Turns a Reader of Arsène Lupin into Its Modern Gentleman Thief
This essay proposes ‘narrative inheritance’ as an AuthZ framework for reading Lupin: Assane Diop does not replace Arsène Lupin but studies and performs him, connecting Leblanc’s …
Essay · Screen & Culture Advisory
A close reading of doubled identity, interrupted rescue, and a cliffhanger built for another season.
The Twin Peaks Season 2 finale closes some of its immediate plot while turning Dale Cooper’s rescue mission into an unresolved crisis of identity. This essay separates that close …
Essay · Screen & Culture
How Isolation and Paranoia Turn Speculative Premises into Ethical Questions
This essay proposes ‘Television as Thought Experiment’ as an AuthZ interpretive framework, comparing how two early Twilight Zone episodes test desire, suspicion, and collective …
Essay · Writing & AI
An interpretive framework for uneven reactions to synthetic creativity
The Proximity Paradox is a proposed lens—not a demonstrated law—for comparing reactions to AI in writing and performance through embodiment, visible substitution, and control.
Essay · Screen & Culture
How Crime Films Stage the Limits of Shared Fictions
This essay treats three “shared fictions”—a just system, a benevolent state, and a coherent self—as an AuthZ interpretive framework for reading selected American crime films.
Essay · Screen & Culture
What five films reveal about class, gender, work, and Code-era negotiation
This essay treats the ‘Trojan horse’ as an AuthZ interpretive frame, not a proven industry strategy. It follows five comedies from 1940 to 1960 while separating what their production …
Essay · Books & Literature Advisory
The Corporeal Politics of Dickens’s Revolution
This article proposes that A Tale of Two Cities contrasts the collective body of the crowd, the condemned body on the scaffold, and the family imagined as a fragile domestic refuge.
Essay · Books & Literature Advisory
Mapping Consciousness in a Fractured World
This article argues that Virginia Woolf’s formal innovations, feminist critiques, and psychological realism were not separate endeavours, but an integrated project to build a new …
Essay · Books & Literature
Surrealism, Consumption, and the Search for Self in Late Capitalism
This article analyzes how Haruki Murakami uses surrealism, Western cultural motifs, and meticulous daily rituals to explore alienation. By framing his narratives as responses to the …