“Quiet Quitters”: Detectorists, Hobbies and Resistance to Neoliberal Capitalism
(2024)
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The end of history?: Contesting the legacy of the 1960s and 1970s in The X-Files (2023)
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This chapter examines how The X-Files offered a revisionist historical perspective of the political upheaval the United States experienced through the 1960s and 1970s. It shows how in its relentless questioning of the official record on the assassina... Read More about The end of history?: Contesting the legacy of the 1960s and 1970s in The X-Files.
Bad Hombres at the Border: Masculinity and Mexico in Rambo Last Blood (2022)
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The Rambo series (1982-2019) has functioned as a barometer of US domestic and foreign policies across its forty year history. At first a traumatised veteran of the war in Vietnam, John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) became a hard-bodied defender of US in... Read More about Bad Hombres at the Border: Masculinity and Mexico in Rambo Last Blood.
Teaching Demons and Eating Nazis: Morality in Trump-era Fantasy Comedy (2022)
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Donald Trump’s personality is arguably symptomatic of the values of the contemporary era. His aggressive individualism, narcissism and selfishness were no impediment to securing the presidency, which suggests the normalisation, indeed, valorisation,... Read More about Teaching Demons and Eating Nazis: Morality in Trump-era Fantasy Comedy.
Kubrick and the Critics (2021)
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