Rosalind Gill and Catherine RottenbergCitation2020), while other elements of postfeminist sensibility have intensified including an “expectation for women to work on their bodies, transforming them to meet cultural beauty ideals, and to understand this...
A small example Let’s close with a brand story that gives some inspiration for manufacturing on the smaller side. Bellroy is an Australian maker of backpacks, phone cases, wallets and the like, founded in 2010. The founders also started Carryology.com, to write about the things people car...
"Our MakeLoveNotPorn stars find the process of sharing their real-world sex transformative for them and their relationships," says Gallop, "because when you decide to film yourselves having sex, you have to talk about it." When you rent a MLNP video, you're watching two re...
“The most visually innovative graphic novel in years, PRISM STALKER pairs stunning art with a richly layered sci-fi thriller about the young scouts caught between a colonial empire telling them less than the truth and a planet that is more than it seems. Book of the year, hands down.”—...
And so the first category of explanation is the neurobiological one. A behavior occurs--whether an example of humans at our best, worst, or somewhere in between. What went on in a person's brain a second before the behavior happened? Then Sapolsky pulls out to a slightly larger field of...
The term genocide has assumed a strategic function since the very beginning of the conflict: Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, has mentioned the presumed genocide against ethnic Russians in Donbas as an argument to justify the war (https:// tinyurl.com/2srjcdd4); on the other side, ...
while, and one of the names which lead the way was Greenspoon. I recall watching the credits ofThe Lost Boys, and the name ‘Morton K. Greenspoon’ etched itself in my head as those bright yellow vampire lenses really did stand out for me as an excellent example of what a lens can ...
“masculine” novel. While I am only in the beginning parts of her book, I can agree that this novel unlike the other eight I have read this year feels as if it is heftier and less focused on the dramatic tropes she uses to talk about family life as an expat in London or village ...
characters behave in ways that go against common tropes readers may feel cheated. They may read past problematic elements if expectations are otherwise met. Often problematic aspects of a narrative are part and parcel of its map, so embedded that the story doesn’t really function without them....
in order to break into the English-language market. Part of the strategy seems to emphasise similarities with Japanese comics in terms of certain styles, themes and tropes, while at the same time to distinguish manhwa subtly as somehow different from and superior to manga, for example, because...