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What Can the Health Humanities Contribute to Our Societal Understanding of and Response to the Deaths of Despair Crisis?
Deaths of Despair (DoD), or mortality resulting from suicide, drug overdose, and alcohol-related liver disease, have been rising steadily in the...
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“Humans and records are entangled”: empathic engagement and emotional response in archivists
There is growing awareness in archival communities that working with records that contain evidence of human pain and suffering can result in...
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The Etiology of Suicide in Youth Film
This chapter is divided in two parts. The first part discusses the causes of suicide as portrayed in the film sample in general terms. Besides a...
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The Lord of the Rings as Philosophy: Environmental Enchantment and Resistance in Peter Jackson and J.R.R. Tolkien
A key philosophical feature of Peter Jackson’s film interpretation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings is its use of fantasy to inspire a...
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From Greek Tragic Drama to Fantastic Terror: Tragic Echoes in A Storm of Swords’ Red Wedding
The “Red-Wedding” scene from A Storm of Swords, which displays cruelty and savagery and leads to the deaths of several main characters, can be viewed...
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Star Wars as Philosophy: A Genealogy of the Force
Are good and evil a “point of view”? Do Jedi and Sith alike merely crave greater power? What does a “space opera” have to teach us about how to live...
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Shifting Subjectivities: Adopting the Perspective of the Other in Mother and Get Out
In 2018, Caitlin Benson-Allott wrote an article for Film Quarterly in which she addresses the recent horror renaissance in horror film and...
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The Lord of the Rings as Philosophy: Environmental Enchantment and Resistance in Peter Jackson and J.R.R. Tolkien
A key philosophical feature of Peter Jackson’s film interpretation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings is its use of fantasy to inspire a...
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Beyond Empathy to System Change: Four Poems on Health by Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht’s poem “A Worker’s Speech to a Doctor” is frequently cited as a means to raise awareness among health workers of the health effects of...
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Outbreaks of the Balkan Village Vampire in the Eighteenth Century
In the cultural memory of the Western world, vampires are inextricably linked to Transylvania through the Dracula novel (1897) by the Anglo-Irish...
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Outbreaks of the Balkan Village Vampire in the Eighteenth Century
In the cultural memory of the Western world, vampires are inextricably linked to Transylvania through the Dracula novel (1897) by the Anglo-Irish...
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Mediated Suicide in 13 Reasons Why: An Argument for Caution in Television Portrayals of Suicide
There has been growing concern within the mental health and suicide prevention space around the potential real-world impact of exposing people to...
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The Recurrence of the Tragic
In this chapter, first I explore how La novia (Paula Ortiz, 2015) recreates, updates, and dialogues with García Lorca’s tragic universe to make it...
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Breaking Bad as Philosophy: The Moral Aesthetics of the Anti-hero’s Journey
Breaking Bad has been lauded as the best series ever on television by numerous critics and polls. It follows the “Breaking Bad” (i.e., the moral...
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Exploring the Nhaka Concept in Oliver Mtukudzi’s Music
This chapter examines Mtukudzi’s message on the lingering cultural practice of wife inheritance. Through an analysis of several selected songs, the...
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Panic Watching: On the Function of Consuming Fictional Pandemics During a Real Pandemic
Movies are a shared cultural experience that have commonly depicted infectious disease outbreaks and pandemics. While films are usually seen as...
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From Masking Pandemic Times to Identity Challenges: Representations in Current Literature
In the context, contemporary literature is building several and even contradictory aesthetic-literary representations around the idea of mask and...
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Groundhog Day as Philosophy: Phil Connors Says “No” to Eternal Return
In Groundhog Day, weatherman Phil Connors is a miserable human being living a life that lacks meaning. Forced to relive the same day over and over...
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Social Consciousness: The Rapper as an Activist
This chapter aims to discuss Malawian rap music as a platform for activism, in relation to two current issues: the killing of people with albinism...