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Graphic Novel

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Graphic novels are a contemporary literature form of long stories told in comics format. They have the same characteristics of comics: multimodality, cartooning techniques and elements (panels, gutters).

Comics

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Comics (generally referring to comic books and comic strips) are a popular form of visual storytelling that combines still images and text.

Picturebook

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The picturebook is a storytelling medium that presents its text in both verbal and visual language. According to Barbara Bader (1976), a picturebook is words and illustrations in a total design, “an item of manufacture and a commercial product; a social, cultural, historic document; and foremost, an experience for a [reader / beholder]. As an art form it hinges on the interdependence of pictures and words, on the simultaneous display of two facing pages, and on the drama of the turning page” (ibid., p.1).

Arts

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Arts is originally related to art and as such refers to a skill and to creativity.

The mockumentary film and TV show ‘What We Do In The Shadows’

Paper

Kelly Burnet

13/01/2023

17 minutes to read

Modern cinema and popular culture are not done with vampirism. The award-winning mockumentary film and show 'What we do in the shadows' features vampires, and other monsters, trying to make sense of modern life.

R/place through the Lens of Relational Art

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Marit van Dijck

09/12/2022

9 minutes to read

R/place is a perfect example of relational participatory art. This paper explores why it can be classified as such, and how it decommodifies and re-democratizes the collaborative, online pixel board artform.

"Buste de femme" (1943) by Pablo Picasso

Multisensory Realities of Authentic Artworks

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Olga Koltsova

18/11/2022

8 minutes to read

This paper demonstrates how the multisensory design of an art exhibition challenges the concept of artworks' authenticity and allows visitors to connect with the art at a more intimate level.

Knives Out (2019) and the classical detective formula

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Chi-chieh Huang

12/10/2022

14 minutes to read

This article examines how director Rian Johnson follows and deviates from the classical detective formula to create a murder mystery filled with twists and turns in Knives Out (2019).

A frame from Miranda July's Somebody movie

Miranda’s July Relational and Participatory Art

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Szymon Zbiegniewski

24/10/2022

9 minutes to read

In 2014 Miranda July created a project that asked a question about how difficult it is to approach strangers. In this paper, I analyze this project through relational aesthetics and participatory art.

The MCU is the Marvel Cinematic Universe: a franchise and shared-universe in which 23 movies produced by Marvel Studios take place.

The Marvel Cinematic Universe: a realistic fictional world

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Renske Jacobs

01/08/2022

11 minutes to read

In this paper, we explore how Marvel Studios creates a fictional universe that remains realistic in its own right. The main focus is on the reality effect, the paradox of fiction and consistency in the movies' characters.

The sublime of Miyazaki: how the movies of Studio Ghibli give us a feeling of sublimity

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Beau Swierstra

29/06/2022

14 minutes to read

Studio Ghibli movies, of the Japanese director Miyazaki, are famous all over the world. Together with the breathtaking scenes, his formalistic approach, and the complex narratives, sublimity is reached in many of his animation movies.

What Greta Gerwig's Little Women (2019) tells us about injustice in Hollywood

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Lola Vos

27/05/2022

15 minutes to read

The Academy Awards have long been criticized for their lack of diversity in their Oscars nominations. This research explores the consequences of the Academy’s Oscars nominations on Hollywood through a case study of Little Women (2019).