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Staging the World: The Devils as Theatrum Mundi
- Christophe Van Eecke
- Art
- 22 September 2015
When Ken Russell's film The Devils was released in 1971 it generated a tidal wave of adverse criticism. The film tells the story of a libertine priest, Grandier, who was burnt at the stake for… Expand
Intergenerational Desire in/and Children's Literature
- E. Wesseling, Christophe Van Eecke
- Psychology
- 2017
Reader, I Groomed Him: Gie Laenen's Juvenile Novels as Paedophile Seduction
- Christophe Van Eecke
- Sociology
- 23 November 2017
This article considers whether the youth novels of Gie Laenen, a Flemish author who was convicted of the sexual abuse of teenage boys, can be read as a grooming tool for the way they offer positive… Expand
Pandaemonium: Ken Russell's Artist Biographies as Baroque Performance
- Christophe Van Eecke
- Art
- 2015
Ken Russell (1927-2011) was a renegade talent and the self-styled enfant terrible of British cinema. His legacy as a film-maker consists of a large number of films on the lives of artists, mainly… Expand
Blowing the Morte: The Rites of Manhood in William Rayner's Stag Boy
- Christophe Van Eecke
- Art
- 2019
William Rayner’s young adult novel Stag Boy (1972) is often discussed in surveys of children’s literature as a classic title, but it has received little probing critical attention. This article… Expand
The postfeminist biopic. Narrating the lives of Plath, Kahlo, Woolf and Austen
- Christophe Van Eecke
- Art
- 10 April 2015
Academic interest in biographical films, or biopics, is a relatively recent phenomenon. Systematic study only began with George F. Custen’s Bio/Pics: How Hollywood Constructed Public History (1992)...
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