Tag: narrative

10 Jan

Gender Benders

Gender Benders

Why is gender bending not a part of Canadian popular culture?

 
By Alex Hayter
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18 Oct

Brains or brawn: the active Jew fantasy

Brains or brawn: the active Jew fantasy

Inglorious Basterds and Train of Life, two modern reimaginings of holocaust resistance – are they just lofty fantasy, or something more?

 
By Alex Hayter
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02 Oct

Generation gap

Generation gap

Poets need to move on to new mediums to deliver their messages to our generation.

 
By Alex Hayter
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16 Sep

Faith in fantasy

Faith in fantasy

Psychological fantasy films and the path to the unreal in art.

 
By Alex Hayter
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15 Sep

The Movie Franchise Killed the Comic Book Star

The Movie Franchise Killed the Comic Book Star

Why Disney’s Marvel acquisition signals the death of comic books but the survival of superhero mythology.

 
By Alex Cybulski
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12 Sep

The Beatles: Rock Band as historiographic metafiction

The Beatles: Rock Band as historiographic metafiction

Harmonix’s latest interactive music game offers a heavily stylized retelling of a band’s history – but is it any less valuable than any other “real” historical reference?

 
By Alex Hayter
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05 Sep

Darwinian dueling

Darwinian dueling

Starcraft isn’t the only place where aliens and marines battle for supremacy. One of the best multiplayer mods of all time is getting a sequel. Here’s why you should be interested in Natural Selection 2.

 
By Alex Hayter
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16 Aug

Dawn of the debt

Dawn of the debt

Why our ongoing zombie fiction craze could be related to the recession.

 
By Alex Hayter
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11 Aug

Fight Night gamic

Fight Night gamic

My first foray into gamics – a merging of comics and videogames.

 
By Alex Hayter
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23 Jul

A call of duty to video games

A call of duty to video games

Why Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five shows us that we need a Call of Duty: POW.

 
By Alex Hayter
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