Adopting a cognitive and econarratological perspective, this article explores the use of framing strategies for slowness as a way in which multiperspective narratives may foreground the complex entanglement of human and more-than-human temporalities. By introducing the concept of ‘framed slowness,’ I aim to describe a slow way of experiencing narrative elicited by the use of segmentivity and other framing devices…
Frames are principles of sorting. They affirm categories, comprise perspectives, and facilitate convenient modes of printing. [1] Texts require frames and they embed a smorgasbord of content and meaning. Text and frame often conflate. As a unit, tightly bound together, this combination stretches to multiple areas of the 18th and early 19th century press and printing industry. It covers materialities, temporalities, and spatialities as well as modes of representation,…
Flitting through strips of analog film, camera burns, and out-of-sync audio, HBO’s foray into NBA basketball is a nostalgic love letter to the 1980s from the digital age. Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty (2022–23) both chronicles the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team in the ‘Showtime’ era, from 1979 to 1991, and grapples with the multitrack possibilities in film production today. With players and coaches addressing the camera as frequently as one another, the series refuses to commit to any particular film stock or camera technology…
Over recent decades, right-wing parties and populist movements in Poland and other European countries have effectively framed their agendas around the Catholic Church, presenting themselves as defenders of “traditional” values and a “natural” social order. This strategy has produced a populist blend of anti-feminist, anti-progressive, and anti-abortion rhetoric and symbolism.
This _Article examines the complex processes of framing within anti-gender discourse, particularly focusing on how anti-German stereotypes are reinterpreted within the Polish political landscape. The study explores how these deeply rooted stereotypes are transformed to fit into influential and emergent frames within anti-gender movements. In this paper, anti-gender is used as an umbrella term encompassing opposition to LGBTQ+ rights, acknowledging that LGBTQ+ issues are…
