Melodie Roschman
Biographic Data
| ID | 1375477 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Melodie Roschman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Melodie |
| FAMILY NAME | Roschman |
| SIGNATURE | ROSCHMAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Independent Scholar, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Trans identity, transfiguration, and apocalypse in Daniel M. Lavery's “Something That May Shock and Discredit You”
I Will Have Your Surrender”
In the Starz time-travel drama Outlander, World War II nurse Claire Randall is transported back to 1743 while visiting Scotland. While Claire initially tries to travel back to her husband Frank, she soon becomes caught up in rebellion and marries Scottish Jamie Fraser. Claire, an Englishwoman, is forced to acknowledge the harsh realities of British colonial rule in Scotland. Frank’s ancestor, British Captain “Black Jack” Randall, serves as a terr…
Now I Have a Machine Gun, Ho-Ho-Ho
In a 2017 article for the comedy website Cracked, Christopher Daed argues that "Die Hard and Home Alone are the EXACT same movie." Daed was not the first to make this connection: a cursory search reveals frequent comparison on social media. Very little scholarship, however, has seriously engaged with this pairing. In this paper, I examine how both Die Hard (1988) and Home Alone (1990) use narratives of redemptive violence to define idealized Amer…
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Now I Have a Machine Gun, Ho-Ho-Ho
In a 2017 article for the comedy website Cracked, Christopher Daed argues that "Die Hard and Home Alone are the EXACT same movie." Daed was not the first to make this connection: a cursory search reveals frequent comparison on social media. Very little scholarship, however, has seriously engaged with this pairing. In this paper, I examine how both Die Hard (1988) and Home Alone (1990) use narratives of redemptive violence to define idealized Amer…
Trans identity, transfiguration, and apocalypse in Daniel M. Lavery's “Something That May Shock and Discredit You”
I Will Have Your Surrender”
In the Starz time-travel drama Outlander, World War II nurse Claire Randall is transported back to 1743 while visiting Scotland. While Claire initially tries to travel back to her husband Frank, she soon becomes caught up in rebellion and marries Scottish Jamie Fraser. Claire, an Englishwoman, is forced to acknowledge the harsh realities of British colonial rule in Scotland. Frank’s ancestor, British Captain “Black Jack” Randall, serves as a terr…
Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Archaeology (1 work) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (1 work) · Colonization (1 work) · Craft (1 work) · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control (1 work) · Femininity (1 work) · Gender Studies (1 work)