Serial Production, Serial Photography, and the Writing of History in Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance by Flora Valadié

“…Yet the paradigm of the series maintains a linearity Powers’ prose foregoes: the historical event, just like the artifact, is to be perceived in terms of solid geometry and intersection of planes, a cross between “essayistic firmness” and “the invitation of fiction” that result in a three-dimensional object which the series fails to create.…”
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Director Eligibility: Corporations and AI by Daisuke ASAOKA

“…Although AI does not have personhood in itself, corporations that own AI are given corporate personhood as a legal fiction. Human directors commonly obtain assistance from AI in making decisions, but they are open to being replaced by an AI-powered corporation when the latter has superior intelligence or when tasks are simple enough for automation. …”
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Quentin Tarantino : du cinéma d’exploitation au cinéma by Philippe Ortoli

“…So much so that, following on the success of Pulp Fiction (1994), critics and scholars who previously frowned upon exploitation cinema were now displaying vast knowledge of these films. …”
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Fighting Another’s War: Imperialist Projections on the Victorian Novel’s Continent by Tamara Wagner

“…The proposed paper traces the representation of European wars in nineteenth-century British fiction. They were seen as a threat, spilling over into Britain, as bringing in competing flows of refugees, and most importantly perhaps, as demanding a rethinking of imperialist legacies of guilt. …”
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The gonzo journalism of Elena Garro by Angie Jennifer Anticona Alegre

“…Reformatorio de Señoritas, published for the first time in the magazine Así in 1941, republished by Gonzo police journalism retro 01. of Producciones El salario del miedo in 2014 and later published on the Metropolis Fiction website in 2017. This research has a descriptive level, qualitative and not experimental. …”
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Research of organisation specifics of shooting process in the creation of an audiovisual product by Yu. V. Vorontsova, A. Yu. Mazur

“…Carlos Saura’s work is characterised by a relationship between past and future, reality and fiction. When making a film, it is necessary to think photographically and critically, especially on the issue of national identity. …”
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Les voix post-humaines : Le thème de l’infestation extra-terrestre et la poétique de la subjectivité by Elana Gomel

“…Cet article analyse les représentations narratives de la subjectivité post-humaine dans plusieurs textes de science-fiction dont l’intrigue se concentre sur la prise de pouvoir des extra-terrestres sur les humains. …”
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Tours de Babel et lettres de feu : motifs bibliques dans le Berlin de Vladimir Nabokov by Monica Manolescu-Oancea

“…When examining the critical responses to Vladimir Nabokov’s representations of Berlin in his Russian fiction, it is quite surprising to notice that two antithetical positions have been formulated, one which stresses the absence of Berlin as a city in Nabokov’s texts, and a more recent position emphasizing, on the contrary, the substantial presence of the city in terms of references, landmarks and recognizable sites. …”
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Relaciones hipertextuales en la primera etapa de Rodolf Sirera (1969–1977) by Ramon X. Rosselló

“…Finally, analysis of these two types of hypertextual relationship will allow us to distinguish two distinct points in the development of this first period, since from 1974 onwards we can observe a gradual abandonment of hypertextual practices in favour of original fiction with a lesser presence of Brechtian devices. …”
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“As Canadian as possible under the circumstances": how girls grow up canadian in Margaret Awood’s The Robber Bride by Ellen McCarthy

“…Il se concentre sur la façon dont le roman réaborde et reformule certaines des questions sur l’identité canadienne qui sont posées avec insistance dans les premiers récits de fiction et essais critiques d’Atwood. L’article s’intéresse, en particulier, à la manière dont les récits d’évolution personnelle s’entrecroisent avec les discours sur l’identité féminine et canadienne dans La Voleuse d’hommes. …”
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Framing Deaths, Embracing Lives: Alan M. Clark’s Jack the Ripper Victims Series by Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko

“…Jack the Ripper fictions tend to be realist in mode, making frequent use of the Victorian press and archives to depict the 1888 murders. …”
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La guerre des voix by Raphaël Baroni

“…Je tenterai de montrer que cette question ne recouvre pas seulement un problème d’attribution, potentiellement insoluble, mais qu’il engage la question fondamentale de la valeur des énoncés fictionnels, que ces valeurs soient esthétiques ou éthiques, ou qu’il s’agisse de la prétention de la fiction à représenter une « vérité », ou du moins un aspect objectif de la réalité. …”
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Le paysage spatial : de l’Ecole de Barbizon aux Pulp magazines by Elsa De Smet

“…Cet article propose d’aborder l’influence de la peinture de paysage européenne sur les illustrations d’astronomie au début du xxe siècle puis la large contamination de cette iconographie sur les couvertures de pulps magazines américains illustrant des histoires de science-fiction dans la décennie 1950.…”
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Inventing and naming America:  Place and Place Names in Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita by Monica Manolescu-Oancea

“…In the afterword to Lolita, Nabokov claimed that in this book he had to invent both Lolita and America after having invented Europe in his previous fiction. This paper focuses precisely on the various ways in which Nabokov “invented” America in his best-known novel. …”
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Car la Lettre tue mais l’Esprit vivifie : une relecture des textes bibliques selon Elizabeth Gaskell by Benjamine Toussaint-Thiriet

“…Unlike her husband, she was not a Minister and therefore her own way of preaching the Word of God was to write fiction. She was convinced that the Pharisees had not disappeared with the Advent of Christ and, in her novels, she used her own, sometimes unorthodox, interpretation and rewriting of the Gospels to convert the Pharisees of her own time to the true essence of Christianity. …”
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The Incredible Shrinking Man in Paul Auster’s Report from the Interior: The Film and the Myths by Marie GOURRUT

“…It also casts a light on the theme of the depletion of material resources which pervades Auster’s fictions and conveys, in multiple ways, the idea of “a return to origins” as Mircea Eliade, for instance, analyzed it. …”
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Raconter la Partition de l’Inde : une impossible histoire des femmes ? by Anne Castaing

“…Beyond the historical reading of fiction, however, a literary reading reveals some ambiguities and contradictions in the strategies that aim at giving voice to subaltern characters, and notably women. …”
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Tehnici auctoriale de încriptare a simbolului infantil. Studiu de caz: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Émile by Cristina Deutsch

“…Seen, in fact, as a conventional symbol in fiction, the child will be viewed in this case more as an incarnation of the natural child, changing, in this way, the previous perceptions of childhood, both at a scientific level and at a literary one. …”
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Crack paths in smooth and precracked specimens subjected to multiaxial cyclic stressing by Nicholas R. Gates, Ali Fatemi

“…Instead, the preferred crack growth mode is shown to have a dependence on the applied shear stress magnitude and stress normal to the crack plane, indicating a significant role of fiction and roughness induced crack closure effects in the crack growth process. …”
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« Ascénir » le space opera : de Joël Maillard à Bruno Latour by Danielle Chaperon

“…In an artistic context marked by the debates around the anthropocene,Joël Maillard attacks the "cosmos of the moderns" by diverting certain imaginations from the science fiction of the 1960s and 1970s and, following the example of Bruno Latour, by making the stage cage the symbolic stake of a "War of the Worlds".…”
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