Dostoyevsky Reimagined Archive

01 February

Transmedia in Wrestling

Written by Nik Daniels

With entertainment juggernauts like Marvel and Star Wars, transmedia is arguably more prevalent than ever before. Transmedia is storytelling that covers multiple platforms. Marvel has its record-breaking box office films, but over the years they have expanded those stories...

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17 December

The Great Corona Bake Off

Written by Nik Daniels

We all, if we have taken the necessary precautions, are like Dostoyevsky’s Underground Man in 2020. Life goes on, but now life includes a more apparent deconstruction of society and its flaws. *** As holidays careen toward us during...

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04 November

Dostoyevsky in The Boys

Written by Nik Daniels

In a time where superhero movies are revered and box office juggernauts, audiences cannot escape the genre. If the 1950s and 1960s were the era of the Western, then the 2010s and 2020s are the era of the superhero...

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15 October

Raskolnikov’s Place Among Horror Villians

Written by Jonah Desneux

Everyone loves a good villain. Sure the heroic protagonist has their enjoyable moments when it’s their time to shine, but nothing is more satisfying than watching a villain work their evil wonders. As wrong as it feels, it is...

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11 October

A Breakup Movie Dressed in the Clothes of a Folk-Horror Film. Ari Aster’s Midsommar (2019) and a nod to Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Written by Leila Djatdoeva

Traditional horror movies were highly popular at the beginning of the present century. Their main purpose was to scare people. But recently they started to fail – people weren’t interested in just a “scare” anymore. And this pretty much...

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09 October

Wrestling as Literature

Written by Nik Daniels

When discussing Dostoevsky’s work, I often refer to Leonid Grossman’s quote in The Poetics of Dostoevsky where he says Dostoevsky wanted “to introduce the extraordinary into the very thick of commonplace, to fuse…the sublime with the grotesque, and push...

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25 September

Live From St. Petersburg, It’s Dostoyevsky Night Live!

Written by Jonah Desneux

Since his first major work Notes from the Underground was written in 1864, Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s influence can be found in literature, philosophy, and even pop culture. Dostoyevsky’s ideas have transcended his original Russian audiences of the 19th century and are now...

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25 August

Beautiful Chaos: Nicolas Cage

Written by Nik Daniels

Daniel Day-Lewis. Denzel Washington. Viola Davis. Meryl Streep. All these A-list celebrities are magnificent choices for the greatest at their craft in America. Lists plague the internet discussing the greatest of all time. While it is rather arbitrary to...

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19 August

Double, Double, Toil and Trouble: The Doppelganger in Pop Culture

Written by Heather Nowlin

One of the most intriguing ideas of Western Literature is that of the doppelganger: the double, the evil twin, the mischievous imposter who steals away our identity or corrupts our reputation, whether in broad daylight or under cover of...

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10 August

The Impact of Stranger Than Fiction Documentaries

Written by Jonah Desneux

For all the amazing screenwriters that have graced audiences with their written words come to life on screen, some of the most amazing stories are the real ones that seem too unreal to be true. Stranger than fiction documentaries...

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