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(Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, 2014)Homer’s The Odyssey is the archetypal quest story. The dialogue began with Homer, and contemporary texts and popular culture media have continued the tradition of deconstructing and recreating stories, addressing issues ...
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(Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, 2014)George Stevens’ film Shane, which dates from 1953, remains an especially successful version of the heroic paradigm that is established in Homer’s Iliad. Just as Achilles, the hero of Homer’s poem, considers abandoning the ...
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(Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, 2014)Despite a chronological gulf of nearly two thousand years, the second century C.E. Greek romance writer Longus and the early twentieth century Irish novelist Henry de Vere Stacpoole were prompted to produce their best works ...
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(Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, 2014)Like so many of my academic colleagues, I spend an inordinate amount of time lamenting our students’ lack of engagement, discipline, and preparation. The problems are naturally exacerbated when the subject is literature ...
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(Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, 2014)Chris Nolan’s 2010 film Inception uses architecture as a language whereby to comment upon the relationship of the protagonist, Dom Cobb, with his deceased wife, Mal. This paper argues that three classical models – Homer’s ...
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(Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, 2014)Knowledge of Ovid is invaluable for analyzing Nancy Meyers’s film What Women Want (2000). Advertising executive Nick Marshall (Mel Gibson) is a sexist, chauvinistic ladies’ man who acquires the ability to hear what women ...
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(Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, 2014)Pedagogical practices in Reception-based courses on ancient Greece and Rome in film often focus on an individual film’s connections to its historical themes and meta-narrative. In contrast, courses based on Film Studies ...
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(Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, 2014)After a disastrous premature release, a complete design and programming team change, and a sweeping revision of battle and interface systems that continued until the very last minute, Final Fantasy XIV (FFXIV) is at last ...
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(Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, 2014)In the world of higher education, the last 10 years have seen an explosion in the scholarly study of sequential art, sometimes dubbed comics studies. The present number of courses related to comics is probably triple what ...
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(Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, 2014)This article explores the relationship between the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur, and Viktor Pelevin’s 2006 adaptation of it, The Helmet of Horror, particularly how it can serve as a case study for the nature and ...
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(Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, 2015)This article explores how adult and higher education (AHE) learners utilize popular culture as an informal pedagogical resource when learning about different cultures and preparing for international learning abroad or study ...
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(Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, 2015)From the works of Anne Rice and Stephen King to films on vampires and the walking dead, the appeal of vampirism has become a cultural phenomenon in the United States, especially to young people. In the modern era where the ...
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(Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, 2015)This paper will consider the pedagogical potential in constructing a class on the phenomenon of reality television by exploring the possibilities and pitfalls of a shared viewing of these “texts” as a site of critical ...
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(Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, 2015)Rooted in sociocultural theory, this article utilizes a conceptual framework derived from Alexander, Schallert, and Reynolds’ four topographical dimensions of learning: who of learning, what of learning, where of learning, ...
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(Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, 2015)Though political science undergraduate courses reflect a rich theoretical tradition, they typically lack opportunities for students to express intangible concepts through the interpretation of creative works, a standard ...
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(Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, 2015)Although new episodes of the program ceased to be recorded in 2004, the Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood show is still recalled by many today as an iconic childhood staple—the right show to watch if you are a young child or a ...
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(Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, 2015)Three recent television and film adaptations testify to the continuing popularity of Arthur Conan Doyle’s consulting detective Sherlock Holmes. The fast-paced novella that introduces detective duo Holmes and Watson, A Study ...
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(Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, 2015)Quiet fills the concert hall. A young man, about 30 years old, stands in front of the audience. With him are a number of musicians in what appears to be a traditional ensemble, but with a few interesting and unusual changes. ...
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(Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, 2015)Professional actors assemble a toolkit of monologues with an obligatory “Shakespearean monologue” of around 20 lines. But female actors are at a disadvantage, with less than 150 women in a repertoire of over 1100 characters ...
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(Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, 2015)Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House novels have been adapted into two major television series: Michael Landon’s well-known series, which aired from 1974-1983, and a more recent Disney adaptation, which aired as a miniseries ...
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