Contemporary Screen Narratives

The Role of the Intellectual in Contemporary Turkish Women's Narratives

In her article "The Role of the Intellectual in Contemporary Turkish Women's Narratives" Adile Aslan analyzes the figure of the woman intellectual in two of the most widely praised novels written in Turkish, Adalet A!ao!lu's 1971 Ölmeye Yatmak (Lying Down to Die) and Leyla Erbil's 1985 Karanlı!ın Günü (The Day of Darkness). Aslan discusses how the two authors represent in their texts intertwine...

A Genre-Independent Approach to Producing Interactive Screen Media Narratives

In this paper we describe a productionand genreindependent approach to developing interactive and reconfigurable screen media narratives made with recorded essence. It is founded on a declarative language for the representation of interactive narratives called Narrative Structure Language (NSL). A complete software system for authoring and delivery and a number of productions realised with it, ...

The Ludic Life of Things: Explorations in the Vitality of the Ludic Object in Contemporary Narratives

Biographical value: towards a conceptualisation of the commodification of illness narratives in contemporary healthcare.

Illness narratives play a central role in social studies of health and illness, serving as both a key theoretical focus and a popular research method. Despite this, relatively little work has gone into conceptualising how and why illness narratives - be they in books, websites, television or other media - are commodified in contemporary healthcare and its social environment; namely, how distinc...

When Commodities Attack: Reading Narratives of the Great Recession and Late Capitalism in Contemporary Horror Films

This paper examines recent horror films in the US in relationship to the economic collapse of 2008 and the Great Recession. Using Rubber (2010) and Iron Invader (2011), it explores how the “killer commodity” resonates with working-class anxieties of dispossession and disposability, especially in the auto industries of the places where the films are set and produced: the US and France. The films...