Discourse Volume 47, Issue 1, Winter 2025

Discourse explores a variety of topics in contemporary cultural studies, theories of media and literature, and the politics of sexuality, including questions of language and psychoanalysis. The journal publishes valuable and innovative essays on a wide range of cultural phenomena, promoting theoretical approaches to literature, film, the visual arts, and related media.

Volume 47, Number 1 (Winter 2025)

Media-Milieu Dialectic: Thinking beyond Elemental Media
Mehak Sawhney

The Queerness of Animation: Barry JC Purves and the Supplementarity of Form
Ferdinando Cocco

Anachronic 1968: The Crisis of Media in Imagen de Caracas
Noraedén Mora Méndez

The Discourse of the Handle: Teachers, Students and the Blackboard Film
Nicolas Helm-Grovas

The “Inside-Out” Realist Cinema in Nigeria: A New Tradition of Publicizing the Hidden
Lani Akande

“The Bard Wouldn’t Recognize Hamlet”: On Medium Specificity and Shakespeare in Africa
Jennifer Blaylock

Book Reviews

Bits and Pieces: Screening Animal Life and Death, by Sarah O'Brien
Luke Kuplowsky

On the Figure in General and the Body in Particular, by Nicole Brenez
Thomas Quist

Contributors