Padraic Killeen
Biographic Data
| ID | 6583891 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Padraic Killeen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Padraic |
| FAMILY NAME | Killeen |
| SIGNATURE | KILLEEN P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Trinity College Dublin |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6722-9342 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Ecology, Materialism, and Transfiguration: An Autopsy of ‘Body Noir’ in David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future
Introduction An ecologically responsive parable about biological mutation in a post-apocalyptic environment, David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future (2022) was hailed on release as a “dream-noir” (Ehrlich), a “sci-fi noir” (Oller), and a “body-noir” (“Crimes”). The use of the term ‘noir’ here is enigmatic. As is often the case, the term is deployed to address a quality that otherwise resists easy identification. Noir has, of course, acquired a mu…
Burned Out Myths and Vapour Trails: Vaporwave’s Affective Potentials
As a “born digital” audiovisual music genre and visual aesthetic, vaporwave channels remnants of popular culture, advertising, and consumer technology from the 1980s and early 1990s. retrieving the strange sense of affective potential that still echoes within the outmoded, depleted myths of that era. In doing so, it opens up a unique vantage-point on our present moment, and our contemporary attachments to digital media and a still unrelenting con…
Stained flesh – Ireland as idyll/damp patch in Mike Leigh's Naked
This article reflects on a number of enigmatic allusions to Ireland that surface in Mike Leigh's 1993 film Naked. The essay explores these allusions in terms of Ireland's cinematic positioning as a shorthand for ‘home’ and an idyllic retreat from modernity. Thereafter, it ventures a more speculative thesis that, in fact, the film's cryptic ‘Irish’ signifiers can be understood as emblematic of a postcolonial unconscious at work in contemporary Bri…
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Stained flesh – Ireland as idyll/damp patch in Mike Leigh's Naked
This article reflects on a number of enigmatic allusions to Ireland that surface in Mike Leigh's 1993 film Naked. The essay explores these allusions in terms of Ireland's cinematic positioning as a shorthand for ‘home’ and an idyllic retreat from modernity. Thereafter, it ventures a more speculative thesis that, in fact, the film's cryptic ‘Irish’ signifiers can be understood as emblematic of a postcolonial unconscious at work in contemporary Bri…
Burned Out Myths and Vapour Trails: Vaporwave’s Affective Potentials
As a “born digital” audiovisual music genre and visual aesthetic, vaporwave channels remnants of popular culture, advertising, and consumer technology from the 1980s and early 1990s. retrieving the strange sense of affective potential that still echoes within the outmoded, depleted myths of that era. In doing so, it opens up a unique vantage-point on our present moment, and our contemporary attachments to digital media and a still unrelenting con…
Ecology, Materialism, and Transfiguration: An Autopsy of ‘Body Noir’ in David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future
Introduction An ecologically responsive parable about biological mutation in a post-apocalyptic environment, David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future (2022) was hailed on release as a “dream-noir” (Ehrlich), a “sci-fi noir” (Oller), and a “body-noir” (“Crimes”). The use of the term ‘noir’ here is enigmatic. As is often the case, the term is deployed to address a quality that otherwise resists easy identification. Noir has, of course, acquired a mu…
Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Law (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Advertising (1 works) · Art history (1 works) · Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies (1 works) · Consumer Culture (1 works)