Ludic Populism and Its Unpopular Subversion by Sascha Pöhlmann

“…Understanding the political as a way of imagining a community as a political actor through symbolic practices, either in the interest of creating the sovereign of democratic systems or an ethnicity, I argue that video games may employ a populist imagination in constructing ‘the people’ as a basically unified group (usually in implicitly or explicitly essentialist ways) as much as they may resist or subvert this populist fantasy of homogeneity. I am especially interested in games that dialectically combine both these aspects at the same time by way of dissonances between their representational elements and their gameplay. …”
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The Problem of Hybridity by Speculative Space

“…However, a problematic dichotomy remains: whilst a neutral, transparent and universal truth may be a fantasy construct, the disturbance of such a construct through individual embodiments is no simple alternative. …”
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L’Humpur en BD : de fabuleuses frontières by Florence Plet-Nicolas

“…In 2013, Soleil productions, specialized in fantasy comics, published Les Fables de l’Humpur by Pierre Bordage (scripter) and Olivier Roman (cartoonist), adapted from Bordage’s novel (1999). …”
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Accumulation solaire : la théorie des systèmes-mondes de The Expanse by Brent Ryan Bellamy, Sean O’Brien

“…The Expanse is a pivotal narrative that promises a new interplanetary cycle of accumulation and its decline all at once, a fantasy of continuity that simultaneously dramatizes the contemporary crisis of futurity.…”
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La ruine angkorienne et le fromager : une mise en cloche d’un paysage fantasmé synonyme d’inaction ? by Sébastien Preuil

“…Although most of these representations correspond to reality, some are more of the realm of fantasy or come from another era, as in the case of the representation of the ancient city reclaimed by the jungle. …”
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La Sacralisation littéraire et picturale de la montagne au XIXe siècle : (re)naissances et épiphanies by Françoise Dupeyron-Lafay

“…In the works of these authors, mountains—whether real or merely imaginary, whether the results of experience or pure fantasy—are nevertheless the locus of intense epiphanies leading to the advent of the self as true individual and artist…”
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Hyperperformer le stéréotype : l’écriture d’une scène de sexe dans The Compleat Purge de Trisha Low by Anne-Lise Solanilla

“…Low cites these literary discourses in a way that emphasizes their stereotypical nature, including cliché dialogues and a sex scene written as an adolescent fantasy. This is exactly why Low’s strategy is situated. …”
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Hallelujah (1929) de King Vidor : naissance de la voix afro-américaine à Hollywood by Jean-Marie Lecomte

“…Avoiding both popular imagery and musical fantasy, Vidor achieved what might be called “lyrical social realism”, a blend of subjective vision and objective reality. …”
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Parallel Universes? Alison Bechdel’s Dykes to Watch Out For (1983-2008) and Diane DiMassa’s Hothead Paisan: Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist (1991-1996) by Hélène Tison

“…Cartoonists Alison Bechdel and Diane DiMassa, writing in a socially and culturally heteronormative context, give life to a fantasy: worlds that, instead of excluding dykes from public space, are entirely organized around lesbian characters. …”
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Taking Place and Finding One’s Place: Unhomely Events in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007) and Exit West (2017) by Maëlle Jeanniard du Dot

“…Hamid's subtle mingling of realism and fantasy offers an aesthetic vantage point from which the event can be addressed and identities can be negotiated.…”
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Les « leçons d’histoire » revues et corrigées par le théâtre jeunes publics contemporain by Marie Sorel

“…The rewriting of tales and Robinsonade stories, the proliferation of narrative and retrospective voices, humour and fantasy are among the techniques applied by this reflective and hybrid theatre to question the modalities of writing history. …”
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Le refus du monde tel qu’il est : vertus et ambivalences de quelques fictions contemporaines (Peyrebonne, Haenel, Vasset) by Pascal Mougin

“…What this corpus reworks the concept of strangeness, fantasy and utopia? How do these alternative dramas imply on the behalf of the reader, perhaps less the traditional temporary suspension of disbelief than a "want to believe" that is convergent with the evolution of critical thinking itself, when theories of emancipation, wich have no more certainty regarding the revolutionary inevitability, bet more on the necessity of belief in alternative thought? …”
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Using Digital Games in Technology Oriented STEM Education: The Examination of the Students’ Game Designs by Ismail Donmez, Murat Tekce, Serihan Kirmit

“…Students used human figures, animals, objects and fantasy characters as the protagonists in their games. …”
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Who will protect the night's Watch? Legislative reform and a state apparatus for the comprehensive shielding of South African whistleblowers by Radulović Ugljesa

“…Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire high fantasy novels. Utilizing a qualitative approach encompassing two research methods, this paper establishes that whistleblowers protected South Africa alone like a fire burning against the cold, being subjected to various forms of retaliation. …”
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"Josef K von 1963...": Orson Welles' ‘Americanized’ Version of The Trial and the changing functions of the Kafkaesque in Postwar West Germany by Anne-Marie Scholz

“…It was, as one critic suggested, a distorted, “Americanized” fantasy. Others, however, appreciated the didactic value of Welles’ international co-production, which coincided with the beginnings of the New German Cinema movement, a confrontational effort to engage with questions of the past through film.…”
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David Lynch’s Los Angeles: Control and Liberation through the Cinematic Image by Jakob Jurisch

“…Lynch’s cinematic outings, such as the neo-noir Lost Highway (1997), the acclaimed Hollywood fantasy Mulholland Drive (2001), and the experimental nightmare Inland Empire (2006), are all set in the heart of the film industry, in Los Angeles, and reveal his most ambitious vision yet: to examine the hierarchies of images in American pop-culture, providing a space in which dreams and nightmares routinely, yet subtly, intersect. …”
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Review of the Monograph “LegalTech in the Field of Entrepreneurship” by V. N. Shelmenkov, D. A. Gusev

“…Performing such routine tasks as drafting contracts, document management, issuing licenses, with the help of artificial intelligence, the algorithms of which exclude the possibility of professional error, is no longer a fantasy, but a reality towards which humanity is successfully moving. …”
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A Book Review of Charming Elements in Animation Cinema by Hamid Sadeghian, , Gity Nooreddinnejad

“…This feature, in addition to the possibility of creating a fantasy universe, has a special charm that can address all age groups. …”
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Le touriste malgré lui : John Edgar Wideman et la Martinique by Michel Feith

“…Moreover, in a striking mirroring of center and periphery, natives and French people from the Métropole envy each other, in a game of musical chairs that is also a fantasy of freedom. To escape from this uncanny state of historical alienation, one has to reinvent the island. …”
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Translating culture: the rise and resonance of Chinese contemporary literature in the Portuguese-speaking world by Xin Huang, Xiang Zhang

“…Additionally, the study reveals that the exploration of fantasy as a universal passion underscores shared experiences that transcends cultural boundaries, connecting readers in China to those in the Portuguese-speaking world. …”
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