Mick Broderick
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Managing <i>The Days</i>: Personal Responsibility and the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Open
The recently released eight-part Japanese docudrama THE DAYS (Netflix 2023) ostensibly concerns the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami, nuclear reactor explosions and subsequent meltdowns at Fukushima. We highlight the problematic rendering of…
Virtual Trauma: Prospects for Automediality Open
Unlike some current discourse on automediality, this essay eschews most of the analysis concerning the adoption or modification of avatars to deliberately enhance, extend or distort the self. Rather than the automedial enabling of alternat…
Dossier: Screen Genres of Reconciliation in Australia, Chile, Rwanda, and New Zealand Open
"Dossier: Screen Genres of Reconciliation in Australia, Chile, Rwanda, and New Zealand." Critical Arts, 31(5), p. 77
‘Dude, get a shot of this’: The performance of violence in the school shooting film <i>Excursion</i> Open
One of the persistent aspects of the media and general public response to campus shooting tragedies is an obsessive fascination with the motives of the killers. Our short drama Excursion attempts to intervene in this interest in the perpet…