Elena Stanciu

Academic writing • 20th March 2024

Waterbodies and Bodies on Water: Matter. Movement. Medium

An analysis of the film Lower than the Sky by Vajiko Chachkhiani. Master Thesis at RUC 2023

29th November 2022

Post-apocalyptic mobilities in Station Eleven

This paper aims to explore mobility as a trope in the post-apocalyptic dystopian visual narrative Station Eleven (2021), a TV adaptation of the eponymous novel by Emily St. John Mandel. Perspectives from the new mobility paradigm and writings on...

Academic writing • 3rd November 2022

Horrors of History and Colonial Imaginaries

The Construction and Representation of Black Embodiment in THEM (2021) This paper departs from an interest in exploring the depiction of Black bodies and experiences of suffering, death, and being terrorized in popular television, applied to a...

16th January 2019

Life and Death on the Mississippi.

Short Analysis of Morality, Technology and Disaster during the Great Flood of 1927 and Hurricane Katrina

16th January 2019

Aesthetics and Protest. Angels in America and the Politics of Selfhood

Kushner’s epic play abounds with symbols of resistance, all within a political frame,defined by ambivalence and binary imagery: “Angels in America” valorizes identity politics while building an “anti-foundationalist critique against identity politics”...

16th January 2019

God, Evil and Truth in Cormac McCarthy’s "Blood Meridian" and "The Crossing"

If “The Crossing” can be read as an existentialist take on nihilism, yet we can find oases of morality, this may not be the case with regards to “Blood Meridian”. In this novel,chronologically preceding “The Crossing”, moral discussion seems...

Analize Journal of Gender and Feminist Studies • 16th January 2019

Controlling Women’s Bodies: the Black and Veiled Female Body in Western Visual Culture

The unsubstantiated naturalization of the visual and the primacy attributed to visual indicators of identity generate a field of cultural aggression that is projected at the level of bodily presence and corporeal dispositions: phenol-typical...

1st January 2015

New York – Postmodern Space and Postmodern Identity. Short Analysis of Competing Discourses in the Construction of New York City

New York is a fairly incomprehensible urban environment. Highly eclectic, characterized by a mix of styles and architectural choices, continuous influx of immigrants, the city appears unknowable to the point of neurosis. One way of coping with...

Analize Journal of Gender and Feminist Studies • 1st October 2014

Urban Space and Queer Identities: The LGBTQ Film Festival as Heterotopia

Urban space is interpretation – of values, of moods and desires, image and projection of what it has been and what is to become. Urban space is as fluid as time, flowing between compact structures of concrete and steel, glass and mirrors; a “liquid”...

13th November 2013

The Black Male Body. Violence and Representation in American Visual Culture

MA Thesis | This thesis addresses the black male body as a cultural artifact in American visual culture during modernity and contemporaneity and proposes a critical account of the cultural practices that contribute to its formation. The thesis...