I wrote this in 2014 while studying at the University of Queensland under Dr Lisa Bode. At the time, only the first season of Hannibal had been aired, so that is the only season I wrote about. Naturally, after I had it printed and bound and looking all pretty at UQ Print, I found dozens... Continue Reading →
That time I went on a friend’s podcast and talked about HOST
In 2020, my dear friend Dr Damien O'Meara asked if I would go on his brand-new podcast to talk about a horror film. I said I'd love to. We did our master's degrees at the same time and he's a huge horror nerd. He also has the perfect podcast voice. One thing that has bugged... Continue Reading →
Hannibal for Dinner
Hello. My name is Lisa and I am a Fannibal. I wrote an essay about the television series Hannibal for "Hannibal for Dinner: Essays on America's Favorite Cannibal on Television" which has recently been published by McFarland. My contribution, "Giving Voice to the Unmentionable: How Hannibal Lecter uses bodies in the television series Hannibal," is... Continue Reading →
Everyday objects in Hannibal
In this essay I will examine the television program Hannibal through the combined lenses of cultural studies and everyday aesthetics. While there are many moments during the program that allow us to study various everyday objects, I will focus on one particular moment of aesthetic significance in the second episode “Amuse-Bouche” that features a cup... Continue Reading →
Mr Robot
‘Give a man a gun and he can rob a bank; give a man a bank and he can rob the world.’ -Tyrell Wellick. Hello, friend. If you could wipe all of your debt, would you do it? Not just your debt but your family’s, your friend’s, their families, would you do it? If you... Continue Reading →
Tales from the Pine Tree Forest
I don’t recall how the obsession with building cubby houses came about. It must have been connected to the innate compulsion to prevent the flow of the stream near the bike track by constructing dams of pebble and stone. King Cnut had nothing on us.
Changing Mood: Trajan’s Column
This essay will examine Trajan’s Column through the writings of American philosopher John Dewey (1859 – 1952) to discuss the aesthetics of the column and its aim to immortalise the Emperor Trajan, his army, and the Roman Empire. I will also analyse how the viewer’s perception of the column has been altered over the past... Continue Reading →
Saving Science
Three web cameras captured the bushfire that almost destroyed the Mopra Radio Telescope in January 2013. The telescope is situated just outside the mountainous Warrumbungle National Park, west of Coonabarabran in New South Wales. Between 13 January and 29 January, 40,000 hectares, which accounts for 80% of the National Park, was lost in the massive... Continue Reading →
Up
“Close your mouth.” It may sound like an odd thing to be said by a NASA Flight Director on such a momentous occasion but the intention of the message was well meant. Inside the Russian-built Soyuz TMA-07M capsule, three men were falling to Earth, and in order to make the landing more comfortable, they had... Continue Reading →
André Masson and Le labyrinthe
This essay was written for MSTU1010 Introduction to Creative Thought and Practice as part of the Bachelor of Creative Arts, University of Queensland in 2011.
Lisa Rufus 