Joshua Bastian Cole-Kurz
Biographic Data
| ID | 6915996 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joshua Bastian Cole-Kurz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joshua Bastian |
| FAMILY NAME | Cole-Kurz |
| SIGNATURE | COLE-KURZ J B |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Lost Boys and Trans Time in Devs and The OA
The streaming series The OA and Devs portray death as the only option for their trans youth characters, with cisgender figures acting as judges and saviors. Buck and Lyndon, trans masculine teens, symbolize interdimensionality: breached borders and alternate futures. While transness is often seen as movement, Hil Malatino's concept of the interregnum—a liminal state between past and future—and Cameron Awkward-Rich's “lag time” both reveal how tra…
You Can't Go Home Again
Months before beginning this piece, I found a photograph of my father doing an impersonation (he is a few generations too old for “cosplay”) of Walter Pidgeon's iconic Dr. Morbius from the classic sci-fi film Forbidden Planet (dir. Fred M. Wilcox, 1956) (fig. 1). I framed the photograph and placed it on a pile of books, and as I drew closer to putting words to this essay, I moved the photograph to my desk. At this moment, the framed photo is angl…
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You Can't Go Home Again
Months before beginning this piece, I found a photograph of my father doing an impersonation (he is a few generations too old for “cosplay”) of Walter Pidgeon's iconic Dr. Morbius from the classic sci-fi film Forbidden Planet (dir. Fred M. Wilcox, 1956) (fig. 1). I framed the photograph and placed it on a pile of books, and as I drew closer to putting words to this essay, I moved the photograph to my desk. At this moment, the framed photo is angl…
Lost Boys and Trans Time in Devs and The OA
The streaming series The OA and Devs portray death as the only option for their trans youth characters, with cisgender figures acting as judges and saviors. Buck and Lyndon, trans masculine teens, symbolize interdimensionality: breached borders and alternate futures. While transness is often seen as movement, Hil Malatino's concept of the interregnum—a liminal state between past and future—and Cameron Awkward-Rich's “lag time” both reveal how tra…
DEVS (1 work) · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis (1 work) · Liminality (1 work) · Metaphor (1 work) · Narrative (1 work) · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics (1 work) · Psychology (1 work) · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism (1 work) · Themes in Literature Analysis (1 work)