Elena Stanciu

This paper aims to explore mobility as a trope in the post-apocalyptic dystopian visual narrative Station Eleven (2021), a TV adaptation of the eponymous novel by Emily St. John Mandel. Perspectives from the new mobility paradigm and writings on...

The Construction and Representation of Black Embodiment in THEM (2021) This paper departs from an interest in exploring the depiction of Black bodies and experiences of suffering, death, and being terrorized in popular television, applied to a...

Short Analysis of Morality, Technology and Disaster during the Great Flood of 1927 and Hurricane Katrina

Kushner’s epic play abounds with symbols of resistance, all within a political frame,defined by ambivalence and binary imagery: “Angels in America” valorizes identity politics while building an “anti-foundationalist critique against identity politics”...

If “The Crossing” can be read as an existentialist take on nihilism, yet we can find oases of morality, this may not be the case with regards to “Blood Meridian”. In this novel,chronologically preceding “The Crossing”, moral discussion seems...

The unsubstantiated naturalization of the visual and the primacy attributed to visual indicators of identity generate a field of cultural aggression that is projected at the level of bodily presence and corporeal dispositions: phenol-typical...

New York is a fairly incomprehensible urban environment. Highly eclectic, characterized by a mix of styles and architectural choices, continuous influx of immigrants, the city appears unknowable to the point of neurosis. One way of coping with...

Urban space is interpretation – of values, of moods and desires, image and projection of what it has been and what is to become. Urban space is as fluid as time, flowing between compact structures of concrete and steel, glass and mirrors; a “liquid”...

MA Thesis | This thesis addresses the black male body as a cultural artifact in American visual culture during modernity and contemporaneity and proposes a critical account of the cultural practices that contribute to its formation. The thesis...