Tatiana Prorokova
Biographic Data
| ID | 3064552 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tatiana Prorokova |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tatiana |
| FAMILY NAME | Prorokova |
| SIGNATURE | PROROKOVA T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Philipps University of Marburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0458-191X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Gender, sexual politics and power
This article explores how the current gender politics, and especially negotiations of gender inequality, gender violence and sexual harassment via the #MeToo movement, impact audience perception of David Mamet’s film adaptation Oleanna (1994). How does the meaning of Oleanna transform in the era of #MeToo? Sexual harassment and abuse have gained particular visibility in the West in 2017, through multiple stories posted on Twitter and other social…
The plane
This article explores the materiality of the airplane, working at the intersection of the environment and health. Via its ambiguous relationship with air—existing and functioning within it while also polluting it—the plane is an object that invades and engages with ecologies. The article proposes conceiving of the plane as a material object that creates environmental-health “heterotopias”—a concept borrowed from Michel Foucault—generating polluti…
Planetary health
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic reminds us that human and more-than-human health is connected to environmental (un)health. This article explores the linkages between health and the environment in cinema. It draws on such issues as pandemics, pollution and air to illustrate how films like Wolfgang Petersen’s Outbreak (1995), Todd Haynes’s Safe (1995), M. Night Shyamalan’s The Happening (2008), Steven Soderbergh’s Contagion (2011) and Colm McCarthy’s…
Sharon Patricia Holland, an other
In an other: a black feminist consideration of animal life, Sharon Patricia Holland intertwines feminism and race theory to understand the relationship between humans, animals, and Blackness. Holland’s exploration of these issues is conducted through the lens of vulnerability, and specifically, the question of what it means “[t]o be (made) vulnerable” (3).At the very beginning of her study, Holland explains how she uses the key terms throughout t…
David Silkenat, Scars on the Land
Environmental racism experienced by BIPOC communities throughout the globe is the outcome of long-lasting ideologies and practices of exploitation and subjugation that emerged in the colonial times. In order to understand and productively address racial inequality today, it is crucial to know the past in which racism was formulated. David Silkenat’s Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South zeroes in on the exam…
Latour, Bruno, (2021). After Lockdown
Latour, Bruno, (2021). After Lockdown: A Metamorphosis, trans. Julie Rose, Polity Press, 2021, 180 pages. £14.99 ISBN: 9781509550029
The Legacy of American Slavery
This article analyses Damian Duffy and John Jennings’ adaptation of Octavia E. Butler’s novel Kindred (1979), Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation (2017). It focuses on the graphic novel’s explorations of the American past and present to examine the legacy of slavery today. Touching upon issues of interracial relationships, biracial children, and sexual abuse, the graphic novel discusses the complexity of being Black in the U.S., from the times of…
The Sexual Grammar of the Cold War
Cultural production during the Cold War largely contributed to establish and propagandise differences between capitalism and communism, reinforcing the ideological confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. The James Bond films are some of the most recognisable cinematic examples from the Cold War era that effectively construct the meaning of the war itself. This article focuses on the James Bond film posters to illustrate the …
Dayna Bowen Matthew, Just Health
Structural racism in the United States has been normalized by those who have profited and continue to profit from it in a variety of ways. Intentionally or not, structural racism has been deeply integrated into the system on economic, political, social, and cultural levels to such an extent that eliminating structural racism in the U.S. would require dramatic, yet vitally necessary changes in the system itself. Dayna Bowen Matthew’s Just Health: …
Child soldiers in transatlantic graphic narratives of war
In this article, I examine the image of child soldiers as depicted in Michel Chikwanine, Jessica Dee Humphreys, and Claudia Dávila’s Child Soldier: When Boys and Girls Are Used in War and Matteo Casali and Kristian Donaldson’s 99 Days and the choice to narrate war and genocide through the filter of young protagonists. Investigating the postcolonial approach adopted in each of these graphic narratives, I am interested in the imagery of postcolonia…
Making sense of weather and climate
"Making sense of weather and climate: the science behind the forecasts." International Journal of Environmental Studies, 76(1), pp. 177–178
Novel cultivations
The smoke of London
"The smoke of London: energy and environment in the early modern city." International Journal of Environmental Studies, 75(1), pp. 226–227
Adam Trexler, Anthropocene Fictions
Adam Trexler, Anthropocene Fictions: The Novel in a Time of Climate Change (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2015), 272 pp., $29.50 (pbk), ISBN: 9-780-81393692-5
A Cultural History of Climate Change
Between Vietnam and 9/11
In this article, I argue that the 1990s was a culturally pivotal period in the history of the U.S., trapped between the Vietnam War and 9/11. Therefore, realization and representation of such a phenomenon as “masculinity” in the 1990s differs considerably from its portrayal before the decade had started and after it was over. I demonstrate that with the release of Twins (1988) and Kindergarten Cop (1990), Arnold Schwarzenegger became a new hero o…
The Holocaust in film
A number of filmmakers cinematize the Holocaust from the standpoint of children, making them the main characters and depicting the genocide through their eyes. Most of such films are framed, at least in part, as a fairy tale, whereby the Holocaust becomes the dominant evil to face and overcome. In the minds of children, the persecution and genocide that simply cannot be imagined as part of their everyday reality become a supernatural evil over wh…
A Companion to the War Film
War cinema continuously attracts the attention of scholars worldwide. Unsurprisingly, there are a large number of academic books that attempt to examine war films. When it seems nothing new can be
Film Review
American History X. 1998. Dir. Tony Kaye. Perf. Edward Norton, Edward Furlong, Beverly D’Angelo, Jennifer Lien, and Ethan Suplee. New Line Cinema.Nazism and fascism provoke anger, irritation, and a
Between Vietnam and 9/11
In this article, I argue that the 1990s was a culturally pivotal period in the history of the U.S., trapped between the Vietnam War and 9/11. Therefore, realization and representation of such a phenomenon as “masculinity” in the 1990s differs considerably from its portrayal before the decade had started and after it was over. I demonstrate that with the release of Twins (1988) and Kindergarten Cop (1990), Arnold Schwarzenegger became a new hero o…
Film Review
American History X. 1998. Dir. Tony Kaye. Perf. Edward Norton, Edward Furlong, Beverly D’Angelo, Jennifer Lien, and Ethan Suplee. New Line Cinema.Nazism and fascism provoke anger, irritation, and a
Between Vietnam and 9/11
In this article, I argue that the 1990s was a culturally pivotal period in the history of the U.S., trapped between the Vietnam War and 9/11. Therefore, realization and representation of such a phenomenon as “masculinity” in the 1990s differs considerably from its portrayal before the decade had started and after it was over. I demonstrate that with the release of Twins (1988) and Kindergarten Cop (1990), Arnold Schwarzenegger became a new hero o…
The Holocaust in film
A number of filmmakers cinematize the Holocaust from the standpoint of children, making them the main characters and depicting the genocide through their eyes. Most of such films are framed, at least in part, as a fairy tale, whereby the Holocaust becomes the dominant evil to face and overcome. In the minds of children, the persecution and genocide that simply cannot be imagined as part of their everyday reality become a supernatural evil over wh…
A Companion to the War Film
War cinema continuously attracts the attention of scholars worldwide. Unsurprisingly, there are a large number of academic books that attempt to examine war films. When it seems nothing new can be
The smoke of London
"The smoke of London: energy and environment in the early modern city." International Journal of Environmental Studies, 75(1), pp. 226–227
Adam Trexler, Anthropocene Fictions
Adam Trexler, Anthropocene Fictions: The Novel in a Time of Climate Change (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2015), 272 pp., $29.50 (pbk), ISBN: 9-780-81393692-5
A Cultural History of Climate Change
Making sense of weather and climate
"Making sense of weather and climate: the science behind the forecasts." International Journal of Environmental Studies, 76(1), pp. 177–178
Novel cultivations
Child soldiers in transatlantic graphic narratives of war
In this article, I examine the image of child soldiers as depicted in Michel Chikwanine, Jessica Dee Humphreys, and Claudia Dávila’s Child Soldier: When Boys and Girls Are Used in War and Matteo Casali and Kristian Donaldson’s 99 Days and the choice to narrate war and genocide through the filter of young protagonists. Investigating the postcolonial approach adopted in each of these graphic narratives, I am interested in the imagery of postcolonia…
Latour, Bruno, (2021). After Lockdown
Latour, Bruno, (2021). After Lockdown: A Metamorphosis, trans. Julie Rose, Polity Press, 2021, 180 pages. £14.99 ISBN: 9781509550029
The Legacy of American Slavery
This article analyses Damian Duffy and John Jennings’ adaptation of Octavia E. Butler’s novel Kindred (1979), Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation (2017). It focuses on the graphic novel’s explorations of the American past and present to examine the legacy of slavery today. Touching upon issues of interracial relationships, biracial children, and sexual abuse, the graphic novel discusses the complexity of being Black in the U.S., from the times of…
The Sexual Grammar of the Cold War
Cultural production during the Cold War largely contributed to establish and propagandise differences between capitalism and communism, reinforcing the ideological confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. The James Bond films are some of the most recognisable cinematic examples from the Cold War era that effectively construct the meaning of the war itself. This article focuses on the James Bond film posters to illustrate the …
Dayna Bowen Matthew, Just Health
Structural racism in the United States has been normalized by those who have profited and continue to profit from it in a variety of ways. Intentionally or not, structural racism has been deeply integrated into the system on economic, political, social, and cultural levels to such an extent that eliminating structural racism in the U.S. would require dramatic, yet vitally necessary changes in the system itself. Dayna Bowen Matthew’s Just Health: …
David Silkenat, Scars on the Land
Environmental racism experienced by BIPOC communities throughout the globe is the outcome of long-lasting ideologies and practices of exploitation and subjugation that emerged in the colonial times. In order to understand and productively address racial inequality today, it is crucial to know the past in which racism was formulated. David Silkenat’s Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South zeroes in on the exam…
Planetary health
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic reminds us that human and more-than-human health is connected to environmental (un)health. This article explores the linkages between health and the environment in cinema. It draws on such issues as pandemics, pollution and air to illustrate how films like Wolfgang Petersen’s Outbreak (1995), Todd Haynes’s Safe (1995), M. Night Shyamalan’s The Happening (2008), Steven Soderbergh’s Contagion (2011) and Colm McCarthy’s…
Sharon Patricia Holland, an other
In an other: a black feminist consideration of animal life, Sharon Patricia Holland intertwines feminism and race theory to understand the relationship between humans, animals, and Blackness. Holland’s exploration of these issues is conducted through the lens of vulnerability, and specifically, the question of what it means “[t]o be (made) vulnerable” (3).At the very beginning of her study, Holland explains how she uses the key terms throughout t…
Gender, sexual politics and power
This article explores how the current gender politics, and especially negotiations of gender inequality, gender violence and sexual harassment via the #MeToo movement, impact audience perception of David Mamet’s film adaptation Oleanna (1994). How does the meaning of Oleanna transform in the era of #MeToo? Sexual harassment and abuse have gained particular visibility in the West in 2017, through multiple stories posted on Twitter and other social…
The plane
This article explores the materiality of the airplane, working at the intersection of the environment and health. Via its ambiguous relationship with air—existing and functioning within it while also polluting it—the plane is an object that invades and engages with ecologies. The article proposes conceiving of the plane as a material object that creates environmental-health “heterotopias”—a concept borrowed from Michel Foucault—generating polluti…
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