Merlin Seller
Biographic Data
| ID | 9409577 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Merlin Seller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Merlin |
| FAMILY NAME | Seller |
| SIGNATURE | SELLER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3781-3035 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Ever-Lockdown
Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ (Nintendo 2020) huge popularity has previously been attributed to escapism prompted by the singularity of lockdown life (Frushtick 2020; Zhu 2020), resonating with analyses which have been quick to frame lockdown as a radical historical caesura in experiences of work and leisure (Harari 2020; Krastev 2020). However, Adam Chmielewski and Fernanda Bruno argue that lockdown can be seen in relation to continuities in ne…
Repeated failure
This paper explores the relationship of history and comedy in Joker (2019) through a comedy theory of broken thingness and queer theory of failure – investigating the interplay of the film’s use of comic timing and signifiers of historical time in its diegesis. I argue that Joker uses its black humour to probe a disjointed affective relationship to masculine dressage, and the repeating crises of a city coded as 1970s New York. While arguably cour…
Walter Sickert’s Miss Earhart’s Arrival
This article considers Walter Sickert’s Miss Earhart’s Arrival (1932) in relation to contemporary discourses on heavier-than-air flight. I look at the negotiation of the future in paint, and through discourse analysis of its reception I conclude that Arrival questions the capacities of new technologies. By examining a cross-medium practice concerned with transcribing found press images of historic events, I situate this work in my larger argument…
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Walter Sickert’s Miss Earhart’s Arrival
This article considers Walter Sickert’s Miss Earhart’s Arrival (1932) in relation to contemporary discourses on heavier-than-air flight. I look at the negotiation of the future in paint, and through discourse analysis of its reception I conclude that Arrival questions the capacities of new technologies. By examining a cross-medium practice concerned with transcribing found press images of historic events, I situate this work in my larger argument…
Ever-Lockdown
Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ (Nintendo 2020) huge popularity has previously been attributed to escapism prompted by the singularity of lockdown life (Frushtick 2020; Zhu 2020), resonating with analyses which have been quick to frame lockdown as a radical historical caesura in experiences of work and leisure (Harari 2020; Krastev 2020). However, Adam Chmielewski and Fernanda Bruno argue that lockdown can be seen in relation to continuities in ne…
Repeated failure
This paper explores the relationship of history and comedy in Joker (2019) through a comedy theory of broken thingness and queer theory of failure – investigating the interplay of the film’s use of comic timing and signifiers of historical time in its diegesis. I argue that Joker uses its black humour to probe a disjointed affective relationship to masculine dressage, and the repeating crises of a city coded as 1970s New York. While arguably cour…
Art (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Ambivalence (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (2 works) · Dystopia (2 works) · Popularity (2 works) · Psychoanalysis (2 works)