Publications
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Interlude. Paths of Destiny. Rosalía’s Spiritual Car Ride in AUNQUE ES DE NOCHE
(2020)
A critical review of Rosalia's music video for "Aunque es de noche" that focusses on media-transmitted, personal spirituality, female strength and the amalgamation of religious imageries.
On (Dang) Quesadillas and Nachos. Mexicans, Mexican-Americans, and Religion in the Films of Jared Hess
(2019)
Across his cinema, the US, Mormon director Jared Hess has represented the Mexican Other in ambiguous ways that affirm the humanity of the US’s southern neighbors while at the same time signaling them as irreconcilably ...
Parabolic Transcendence in Time and Narrative
(2020)
Subjectivity, memory, identity, and the invisible connections between individuals are all conspicuous within filmmaker Shane Carruth’s two award-winning indie sci-fi films, Primer (Shane Carruth, USA, 2004) and Upstream ...
Pedigree of Dualistic and Non-Dualistic Media: Grasping Extramedial Meanings
(2016)
The article provides suggestions concerning the cultural relevance and embeddedness of dualist and non-dualist media and demonstrates that the presence or absence of certain types of media has extra-medial relevance that ...
On the History and Hermeneutics of Comics
(2017)
What is a comic? The simple answer states that a comic is a drawn story that is picture- rather than text-oriented and told serially. In other words, a comic is a type of illustration. Realism is not its goal; rather a ...
Representations of Religion and Culture in Children’s Literature. An Analysis of othering Processes in Texts and Illustrations
(2018)
Literature is an important medium for representing and communicating world views and values. This article focuses on the representation of culture and religion and reveals constructions of identities in children’s literature. ...
Reality and Paternity in the Cinema of the Dardennes
(2016)
The Dardennes’ filmic production aims at restoring the missing link between human beings and the world that have been progressively undermined during the ultimate development of late-capitalist society. This contribution ...
Religion, Belief and Medial Layering of Communication: Perspectives from Studies in Visual Culture and Artistic Productions
(2015)
The paper analyses the relationship between religious practices, belief and the media based on the medial layering of communication. The arguments are situated within the fields of studies in visual culture and cultural ...
Religion and Communication Spaces
(2015)
Following the reflection initiated in his book The Spaces of Communication, Roger Odin suggests a new distinction between physical communication spaces and mental communication spaces (spaces that we have inside us). The ...