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🚀 Exciting News! 🚀 Our latest article, “Derry Girls: The Importance of Understanding the Lived Experience of The Trouble...
29/07/2024

🚀 Exciting News! 🚀 Our latest article, “Derry Girls: The Importance of Understanding the Lived Experience of The Troubles,” is coming out this Wednesday! 🎉📘 Don’t miss it!

Our new article, “I Want to Believe, But in What? The 1990s ‘Spiritual Awakening’ through The X-Files,” is now live! Che...
17/07/2024

Our new article, “I Want to Believe, But in What? The 1990s ‘Spiritual Awakening’ through The X-Files,” is now live! Check it out and let us know your thoughts! 🌌👽

By Ilaria W. Biano, Religious and Cultural Studies Scholar and Historian, Italy In a 1995 commentary piece in the Washington Post, William F. Powers, introducing season three The X-Files, which was already a “cult hit,” highlighted how at the core of the series’ success resided a specific way ...

👽✨ “I Want to Believe, But in What? The 1990s ‘Spiritual Awakening’ through The X-Files,” comes out tomorrow! 🚀 Dive dee...
16/07/2024

👽✨ “I Want to Believe, But in What? The 1990s ‘Spiritual Awakening’ through The X-Files,” comes out tomorrow! 🚀 Dive deep into the series and explore how it captured the era’s quest for spiritual understanding. Don’t miss out!

Our newest article is out! 🐺Read Kathryn Tanaka's piece here:
03/07/2024

Our newest article is out! 🐺Read Kathryn Tanaka's piece here:

By Kathryn M. Tanaka, Associate Professor at the University of Hyogo This article is about Mononoke-hime (Princess Mononoke), a 1997 film directed by one of Japan’s great storytellers and the founder of Studio Ghibli, Miyazaki Hayao (1941-).1 But this is also an article about stories shared betwee...

New article alert! Check out our website tomorrow to read Kathryn Tanaka's newest article about Hansen's disease in Prin...
02/07/2024

New article alert! Check out our website tomorrow to read Kathryn Tanaka's newest article about Hansen's disease in Princess Mononoke and Japanese discourse more broadly!




Calling all Whovians! 🤖🚨We just released our latest article, "'Wonderful Chap, All of Them': The Ubiquitous Queerness of...
19/06/2024

Calling all Whovians! 🤖🚨We just released our latest article, "'Wonderful Chap, All of Them': The Ubiquitous Queerness of Doctor Who" by Jeremy Sarachan. You can check it out here:

By Jeremy Sarachan, Associate Professor of Media and Communication, St. John Fisher University Queerness has always been integral to Doctor Who, insofar as the series has mostly eschewed heteronormative romantic relationships from its premier in 1963. The main character is an alien and a Time Lord a...

“Even if Hollywood could tell Malcolm’s story, would Malcolm – who approached popular culture with simultaneous fascinat...
05/06/2024

“Even if Hollywood could tell Malcolm’s story, would Malcolm – who approached popular culture with simultaneous fascination and interrogation – want it to?" Read more at...

By Jacob Walters, PhD Candidate, Cornell University Spike Lee’s film Malcolm X announces itself as both a clear, forceful vision and a deep, abiding conundrum right in its opening credits. Denzel Washington, as Malcolm X, speaks off-screen while an American flag burns from the edges, and an “X.....

We are SO back! Check out historifans.org tomorrow to read Jacob Walter's new piece "Hollywood Coming Home to Roost: Cin...
04/06/2024

We are SO back! Check out historifans.org tomorrow to read Jacob Walter's new piece "Hollywood Coming Home to Roost: Cinema, Resistance and Identity in Spike Lee's Malcolm X"

Now that we've all had a chance to skim over the best and worst dressed lists from the Met Gala, make sure to check out ...
14/05/2024

Now that we've all had a chance to skim over the best and worst dressed lists from the Met Gala, make sure to check out Arendse Lund's article, "Guo Pei's Hautest Designs: From Baroque Europe to Rihanna's Met Gala Gown," when it drops tomorrow at historifans.org.

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18/03/2024

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