Introduction My current research project on emerging screen technologies and practices ranges from early cinema to hand-held game consoles. In this project, mobility is a central topic, both concretely and as a conceptual metaphor. Mobility figures as a recurring trope of self-reflection throughout the history of modern visual media. Visions of mobility, I argue, reflect, and stimulate thought ...

According to construal level theory (N. Liberman, Y. Trope, & E. Stephan, in press; Y. Trope & N. Liberman, 2003), people use a more abstract, high construal level when judging, perceiving, and predicting more psychologically distal targets, and they judge more abstract targets as being more psychologically distal. The present research demonstrated that associations between more distance and hi...

This paper offers an analysis of Jennifer Check from Diablo Cody’s film Jennifer’s Body (2009). It argues that the character advances concept femme fatale by exploring ways in which she both adheres to and challenges trope, ranging her outward appearance, duplicity relationships with other female characters. is contextualised through overview longer history fatale, touching on biblical figures ...

Four studies examined the prediction of construal level theory that the more distant future events would be construed in higherlevel, more abstract, and simple terms. Objects were categorized into broader categories when they pertained to distant future situations than to near future situations (Study 1). Positive and negative experiences in the more distant future were expected to be more prot...

Hybridity has become a master trope across many spheres of cultural research, theory, and criticism, and one of the most widely used and criticized concepts in postcolonial theory. This article begins with a thorough review of the interdisciplinary scholarship on hybridity. Then it revisits the trope of hybridity in the context of a series of articles on cultural globalization published in the ...

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