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OXFORD: A Cradle of Fantasy
Modern fiction and fantasy have an unquantifiable amount of geographical, cultural, and institutional origins, but only a few of these places can be credited as…
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A Mid-Autumn Night’s Dream: Chinese Moon Folktales
“A sky-dog is eating the moon.” “天狗吃月亮” – Chinese folktale This is how my mother described the eclipse we barely saw Sunday night, because some…
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Emily Carroll’s Horror Spectacle: Why I Checked Under My Bed That Night
“Unsettling” is a common word used to describe Emily Carroll’s graphic fiction these days, though perhaps it is given unjustly. “Unsettling” seems to skim the…
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Jessica Jones: It’s Time to Learn Her Name
When Marvel announced that it would be putting out several series on Netflix about street-level heroes, they told us who we’d be getting: Daredevil, Luke…
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When (Super) Strength Isn’t Enough: An Examination of Strong Female Protagonist
What if you were both invincible and had super-strength—yet you still couldn’t save the world? That’s the problem confronting Alison Green, the twenty-year-old protagonist of…
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On The Babadook and What Truly Terrifies Us
When I was a kid, there was one book on my shelf that used to give me nightmares. It was called The Ugliest Dog in…
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The Fantastical Duo in The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
This review contains spoilers. “America teaming up with Russia—that doesn’t sound very friendly.” The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is a 2015 reboot of the 1964 NBC…
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If Dinosaurs Walked the Earth… You’d Be Riding One
What do you think of when you imagine a utopia? How about a dystopia? If you had trouble with the first, but The Hunger Games…
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More than Dinosaurs: The Humans of Jurassic World
This post contains spoilers. Eager as ever, I arrived at the theater for Jurassic World just in time and sat through the previews, which is…
The Spectatorial 