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Squid Game and the Significance of Derivative Television

Quite some “Netflix Originals” are actually derivative. While often understood as a derogatory term, Evert Jan van Leeuwen argues how significant the derivative character of popular culture can be by exploring Squid Game’s close-intertextual relations to earlier deadly-gameshow stories.

Evert-Jan van Leeuwen • 05-11-2021

Modern and Contemporary Studies

Research on “Arts in Society” - general remarks and a case study

In her research, Professor Anthonya Visser contrasts political and literary discourses about the 'Wende'. In the context of our 'Arts in Society' theme, which is also the LUCAS theme, she confronts Wolfgang Schaüble's speeches with Volker Braun's Iphigenia

Anthonya Visser • 05-03-2018