Politically Animated studies the convergence of animation and actuality within films, television series, and digital shorts from across the Spanish-speaking world. Read… READ MORE
November 30, 2023
In the third and final installment of a three-part blog series on semiotics, Marcel Danesi looks at how semiotics is applied today.
March 26, 2021
Martyn Lyons shares what a day in the life of a researcher looks like as he discusses some of the meticulous archival research that went his new book, The Typewriter Century: A Cultural History of Writing Practices.
March 25, 2021
In the second installment of a three-part blog series on semiotics, Marcel Danesi explores the question, “what is meaning?” A word with many connotations, he investigates how meaning is created and how it is communicated.
March 19, 2021
In a new three-part blog series, Marcel Danesi explores what semiotics is all about, why it is so important for gaining insights into our elusive and mysterious human nature, and how semiotics is applied today.
March 10, 2021
In this week’s blog post, Marta Dvořák, author of the newly released Mavis Gallant: The Eye and the Ear, discusses her relationship with Mavis Gallant, the Paris-based master of the short story and visual and sound culture.
January 31, 2020