A Very Slow Apocalypse: Zombie TV

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stacey Abbott
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Soap Opera ◽  
The Political ◽  
Buffy The Vampire Slayer ◽  
The Walking Dead ◽  
Political Allegory ◽  
And Function ◽  
Walking Dead

This chapter examines the role of the zombie within TV horror both in terms of a long established tradition of monster-of-the-week through to the increasingly prevalent place that the zombie plays within contemporary serialised television. This chapter challenges the dismissal of television as an appropriate space for horror and the political allegory often associated with Romero’s zombie films, by presenting a series of case studies in which the TV zombie serves such as narrative and thematic purpose. In particular it considers how the serialized nature of television, exemplified by the soap opera format, is well suited to the zombie narrative in which closure is traditionally denied. It also serves to structure the nature and function of allegory within the televisual zombie format. Case studies include: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Supernatural, The Walking Dead and In the Flesh.

scholarly journals Choices and Consequences: The Role of Players in The Walking Dead: A Telltale Game Series

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 350-358 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matteo Genovesi
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Video Games ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Comic Books ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Interactive Approach ◽  
Transmedia Storytelling ◽  
The Walking Dead ◽  
Walking Dead

Abstract One of the most important features in a transmedia structure, as Max Giovagnoli argues in his book Transmedia: Storytelling e Comunicazione [Transmedia: Storytelling and Communication], is the development of the user’s decision-making power, defined by the author as “choice excitement.” In this, every choice of the user should have a consequence in the fictional universe of a specific franchise. Consequently, a narrative universe that wants to emphasize choice excitement and the active role of people can focus on video games, where the interactive approach is prominent. This essay will discuss a specific video game, based on the famous franchise of The Walking Dead. This brand, which appears in comic books, novels, TV series, Web episodes and video games, is analysable not only as an exemplary case of transmedia storytelling, where every ramification of the franchise published in different media is both autonomous and synergistic with the others, but also by focusing on the choice excitement of users in the first season of the video game The Walking Dead: A Telltale Game Series.

scholarly journals The practice of accountability in questioning prime ministers: Comparative evidence from Australia, Canada, Ireland, and the United Kingdom

2021 ◽  
pp. 136914812110585
Author(s):  
Ruxandra Serban
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
Political System ◽  
The Political ◽  
Prime Ministers ◽  
The United Kingdom

This paper compares the practice of holding prime ministers to account in four case studies: Australia, Canada, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. Using text analysis, as well as research on prime ministerial responsibilities, it investigates oral questions asked in parliamentary procedures where prime ministers are questioned together with ministers (Question Period in Canada and Question Time in Australia) versus procedures where they are questioned individually (PMQs in the United Kingdom and Oral Questions to the Taoiseach in Ireland), and explores the degree to which they are questioned for matters that are within their remit. It argues that the practice of prime ministerial accountability is decisively shaped by procedural features such as whether written notice is required for questions, as well as by the broader role of the questioning mechanism in the political system, and less by the collective or individualised nature of questioning.

scholarly journals Zmieniający się paradygmat opowiadania we współczesnych serialach grozy

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (17) ◽  
pp. 11-20
Author(s):  
Artur Borowiecki
Keyword(s):  
Buffy The Vampire Slayer ◽  
The Walking Dead ◽  
The Sopranos ◽  
Horror Story ◽  
Walking Dead

Od czasu emisji serialu Rodzina Soprano (The Sopranos, 1999–2007) można zaobserwować nowy etap w historii kinematografii, popularnie nazywany „złotym okresem telewizji”. Główną jego cechą są seriale złożone narracyjnie. Twórcy tych utworów korzystają z nowych środków stylistycznych, a także eksperymentują z ukonstytuowanymi od początku istnienia telewizji schematami narracyjnymi. W artykule podjęto tematykę serialowych horrorów, które zalicza się właśnie do produkcji złożonych narracyjnie. Na przykładzie wybranych sezonów popularnych amerykańskich seriali grozy: Buffy, postrach wampirów (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 1997–2003), Żywe trupy (The Walking Dead, 2010–), American Horror Story (2011–) i Channel Zero (2016–2018) oraz serialu amerykańsko-angielskiego Dom grozy (Penny Dreadful, 2014–2016) omówiono kwestię zmian w strategiach narracyjnych tychże seriali. Szukano odpowiedzi na następujące pytania: czy współczesne seriale grozy przeszły podobną metamorfozę jak dramaty jakościowe i na czym ta zmiana polega? Czy występują postmodernistyczne kolaże, zakłócenia w warstwie temporalnej linii narracyjnych? Czy twórcy wplatają nowatorskie rozwiązania, podążając za myślą formalistów rosyjskich, w struktury narracyjne? I w końcu czy można mówić o nowym typie seriali horrorów, czy są to jedynie powielone wzorce, które wcześniej występowały w serialowym dyskursie grozy?

scholarly journals Transformative mindfulness: the role of mind-body practices in community-based activism

2020 ◽  
pp. 147447402091888
Author(s):  
Benedikt Schmid ◽  
Gerald Taylor Aiken
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Real World ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Entrepreneurs ◽  
Community Based ◽  
The Real ◽  
Simple Observation ◽  
Body Practices

This article emerges from the simple observation that community-based social and environmental activists often engage with practices of mindfulness, either personally or collectively. It draws on two case studies, a UK-based Transition initiative and a community of social entrepreneurs in Germany. On the surface, social and environmental activists, committed to change in the ‘real world’, outward facing and public, jar with practices of ‘mindfulness’: personal and interior actions –‘private’. We argue that post-foundationalist understandings of community, particularly Nancy’s being-in-common – popularised within geography as ‘community economies’ – and the philosophical and spiritual roots of mindfulness are two lines of thought that provide clues to this co-occurrence. Going beyond understandings of collectivity that build on the coming together of preformed individuals or presuppose a common substance, we set the (Westernised) Buddhist influences on mindfulness, specifically the notion of interbeing, side by side with Nancy’s being-in-common. This article argues that both the political and spiritual aspects of activism are integral parts of social change. It concludes that post-foundational and Buddhist-inspired lines of thought cross-fertilise and chart a course towards transformative mindfulness.

The Role of Committees in Rights Protection in Federal and State Parliaments in Australia

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Grenfell ◽  
Sarah Moulds
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
The Political ◽  
Law And Order ◽  
Federal Level ◽  
Counter Terrorism ◽  
Rights Protection ◽  
External Stakeholders ◽  
Emerging Culture ◽  
The Right

This article offers a snapshot of how Australian parliamentary committees scrutinise Bills for their rights-compliance in circumstances where the political stakes are high and the rights impacts strong. It tests the assumption that parliamentary models of rights protection are inherently flawed when it comes to Bills directed at electorally unpopular groups such as bikies and terrorists by analysing how parliamentary committees have scrutinised rights-limiting anti-bikie Bills and counter-terrorism Bills. Through these case studies a more nuanced picture emerges, with evidence that, in the right circumstances, parliamentary scrutiny of ‘law and order’ can have a discernible rights-enhancing impact. The article argues that when parliamentary committees engage external stakeholders they can contribute to the development of an emerging culture of rights-scrutiny. While this emerging culture may not yet work to prevent serious intrusions into individual rights, at the federal level there are signs it may at least be capable of moderating these intrusions.

Worshippers of the Gods

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mattias P. Gassman
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Fourth Century ◽  
Religious History ◽  
The Political ◽  
Christian Identity ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
Traditional Religion ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Changing Attitudes

Worshippers of the Gods Worshippers of the Gods tells how the Latin writers who witnessed the political and social rise of Christianity rethought the role of traditional religion in the empire and city of Rome. In parallel with the empire’s legal Christianisation, it traces changing attitudes toward paganism from the last empire-wide persecution of Christians under the Tetrarchy to the removal of state funds from the Roman cults in the early 380s. Influential recent scholarship has seen Christian polemical literature—a crucial body of evidence for late antique polytheism—as an exercise in Christian identity-making. In response, Worshippers of the Gods argues that Lactantius, Firmicus Maternus, Ambrosiaster, and Ambrose offered substantive critiques of traditional religion shaped to their political circumstances and to the preoccupations of contemporary polytheists. By bringing together this polemical literature with imperial laws, pagan inscriptions, and the letters and papers of the senator Symmachus, Worshippers of the Gods reveals the changing horizons of Roman thought on traditional religion in the fourth century. Through its five interlocking case studies, it shows how key episodes in the Empire’s religious history—the Tetrarchic persecution, Constantine’s adoption of Christianity, the altar of Victory affair, and the ‘disestablishment’ of the Roman cults—shaped contemporary conceptions of polytheism. It also argues that the idea of a unified ‘paganism’, often seen as a capricious invention by Christian polemicists, actually arose as a Christian response to the eclectic, philosophical polytheism in vogue at Rome.

Undead Apocalypse

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stacey Abbott
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Film And Television ◽  
Language Of Science ◽  
The Walking Dead ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Two Sides ◽  
Walking Dead

Twenty-first century film and television is overwhelmed with images of the undead. Vampires and zombies have often been seen as oppositional: one alluring, the other repellent; one seductive, the other infectious. With case studies of films like I Am Legend, Daybreakers, and 28 Days Later, as well as television programmes like Angel, In the Flesh, and The Walking Dead, this book challenges these popular assumptions and reveals the increasing interconnection of undead genres. Exploring how the figure of the vampire has been infused with the language of science, disease, and apocalypse, while the zombie text has increasingly been influenced by the trope of the ‘reluctant’ vampire, this book shows how both archetypes are actually two sides of the same undead coin. When considered together they present a dystopian, sometimes apocalyptic, vision of twenty-first century existence.

scholarly journals Case Studies in Physical Therapy: Transitioning a "Hands-On" Approach into a Virtual Platform

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-50
Author(s):  
Aideen Turner
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Physical Therapist ◽  
Clinical Skills ◽  
Online Technologies ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Directional Preference ◽  
Increasing Demand ◽  
Virtual Platform ◽  
And Function

Technology is expanding at an unprecedented rate. Because patients value the speed and convenience of the internet, there is an increasing demand for telemedicine.  Practitioners must therefore adapt their clinical skills to evolving online technologies. This paper presents a series of three case studies in which a physical therapist first assessed and treated musculoskeletal disorders via a live, secure video. The basis of the mechanical assessment was observation of movement rather than palpation. In each case, the virtual mechanical assessment identified a specific sub-classification with a directional preference.  All patients reported improvements in symptoms and function in less than four visits and all maintained a reduction in symptoms after three months. Given the “hands-off” role of the evaluator, this approach can become an effective tool in the evolving healthcare platform of telerehabilitation. 

scholarly journals Due Process and the Iraq Sanctions: A Response to Devika Hovell

AJIL Unbound ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 110 ◽  
pp. 13-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joy Gordon
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Security Council ◽  
Due Process ◽  
United Nations Security Council ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Cholera Epidemic ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
And Function

Devika Hovell raises deeply significant questions about the role of due process in the legitimacy of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). Hovell gives us a fine-grained analysis of what exactly makes due process so compelling; in her approach, the reasons why it is compelling will vary in different contexts, depending upon the particular value and function it serves. In particular, she discusses three ways of articulating the values underlying due process, and the models of due process that would follow from each. She then discusses how her analysis would play out in two situations: The Council’s use of asset freezes, and the role of the UN in the cholera epidemic in Haiti. In her case studies, she looks at situations where due process has been insufficient, and discusses some of the UN’s attempts to remedy this, and the organizational difficulties in doing so.

scholarly journals Buildings, Faces, Songs of Alienation: How Interiority Transforms the Meaning Out There

Interiority ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-60
Author(s):  
Pieter Marthinus De Kock
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Interior Space ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
The Third ◽  
Mind And Body ◽  
Spatial Quality ◽  
And Function ◽  
The Mind

This paper presents a theoretical framework that explores visual meaning in the design and use of interior space. It is comprised of three main parts. The first outlines the framework and draws on several key theories. The second introduces three very different constructs as case studies that in#uence (or are a product of) spatial quality, namely: buildings, faces, and songs of alienation. The third part is a discussion about how each of these three constructs are linked to each other as well as to the idea of interiority. While architectural forms are containers of meaning, the way in which interior space is curated is driven by deeper meaning–one that transcends form and function because people ultimately produce the meaning. And because each person is different, the conditions of interiority (in this case, the meaning that resides within each person) drives the meaning of external constructs that act as enclosures of meaning (buildings and their interiors). The findings are that the mind and body can be projected beyond the facade and into the spaces contained in the buildings we occupy. The role of technology is also important because changes in technology help mediate the process of linking the meaning inside with the meaning out there.

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