Film studies

Home Ownership as the Locus of Horror.

Horror House Film analyses horror films – in different subgenres – in which the predominantly male drive for the possession of property and the exploitation of other people are brought together. It locates this pernicious aspect of modern culture in what Erich Fromm terms the being-is-having mode of human identity formation. An article by Jane … Continue reading →

Literature

Archival Encounter:  Editing Charles Olson’s The Special View of History, Revised and Expanded Edition

In this blog, John Faulise, the editor of The Special View of History: Revised and Expanded Edition examines how an archival encounter with the source materials at the Charles Olson Research Collection resulted in this new edition of Olson’s major statement on postmodern poetics. The need for a new edition of Charles Olson’s The Special … Continue reading →

Art, Journals

The Virgin with the Laughing Child: technical and art-historical analyses of an enigmatic fifteenth-century terracotta sculpture | Sculpture Journal 35.2 Featured Article

Sculpture Journal launches a new Featured Article series with an interdisciplinary study of a fifteenth-century terracotta sculpture at the Victoria and Albert Museum. In “The Virgin with the Laughing Child,” Charlotte Hubbard and colleagues combine archival and scientific analysis to explore authorship, manufacture, and context. Free to read for a limited time.

books, History, medieval studies, Modern Languages

The Invention of Frenchness

This year, the Bayeux Tapestry is being displayed in the UK for the first time after 1,000 years. Here, Anne-Hélène Miller, discusses this significant moment and her new book, The Invention of Frenchness. Scene 51 of the Bayeux Tapestry, from the Bayeux Museum. Credit: https://www.bayeuxmuseum.com/la-tapisserie-de-bayeux/decouvrir-la-tapisserie-de-bayeux/explorer-la-tapisserie-de-bayeux-en-ligne The year 2026 marks the “return” of the Bayeux Tapestry … Continue reading →