This paper questions the concept of possible heterotopia cinema by making a creative reading corpus contemporary experimental science-fiction films. We think in direct relation to utopia. If utopia can be linked form thought, then would realised or achievable Heterotopian action allow us experiment subversive, if not new social configurations, where utopian thought allows dream better (or at le...

Accelerated Culture: Exploring Time and Space in Cinema, Television and New Media in the Digital Age by Thomas J. Connelly This dissertation seeks to understand the impact of speed on the interrelation and the overlapping of the production and consumption of cinematic and televisual texts. It explores the immediacy of digital media and new economic processes, and how they are informing structur...

Non-human narrators, by definition anthropomorphized, fill different functions in literature, and have different effects, not always positive for the species that is utilized, for example to voice a human political concern. However, many animal studies scholars agree that anthropomorphism, while inadequate, may be the best way we have to get to know another species. Animal characters who tell t...

We trace the legacies of filmed patient narratives that were edited and screened to encourage engagement with a participatory quality improvement project in an acute hospital setting in England. Using Gabriel’s theory of “narrative contract,” we examine the initial success of the films in establishing common grounds for participatory project and later, and more varied, interpretations of the fi...

Markov model of multi-component machining system comprising two unreliable heterogeneous servers and mixed type of standby support has been studied. The repair job of broken down machines is done on the basis of bi-level threshold policy for the activation of the servers. The server returns back to render repair job when the pre-specified workload of failed machines is build up. The first (seco...

This article examines the discursive narratives in academic literature about nomadic boat-dwelling children of Sama-Bajau group Southeast Asia. Through examining from 1989 to 2021, this paper explores how shapes and mediates children. Findings suggest two threads narratives—one takes a developmentalist lens, other offers alternative that reveal complex identities These observations highlight im...

Motivated by the need for performance models suitable for modeling and evaluation of wireless sensor networks, we introduce a retrial queueing system with a finite number of homogeneous sources, unreliable servers, orbital search, and unreliable orbit. All random variables involved in model construction are assumed to be independent and exponentially distributed. Providing a generalized stochas...