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Playfulness in Shakespearean Adaptations, Marina Gerzic and Aidan Norrie (eds) (2020) 玛丽娜·格齐奇和艾丹·诺丽（编辑）（2020）

Australasian Journal of Popular Culture Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.1386/ajpc_00062_5

K. Ely-Harper

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Sexy, slimy, monstrous: Infection as collaboration in Ben Wheatley’s In the Earth and Jaco Bouwer’s Gaia 性感、黏糊糊、可怕：本·惠特利的《在地球上》和雅各布·布沃的《盖亚》中的合作感染

Australasian Journal of Popular Culture Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.1386/ajpc_00056_1

Catherine Lord

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Renters: Disgust, judgement and marginalization of the dirty poor 租客:对肮脏的穷人的厌恶、判断和边缘化

Australasian Journal of Popular Culture Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.1386/ajpc_00053_1

J. Burn

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Charles Manson and his Family: ‘Human monsters, human mutants’ 查尔斯·曼森和他的家人：“人类怪物，人类变种人”

Australasian Journal of Popular Culture Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.1386/ajpc_00058_1

L. McLean, Jenny Wise

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Gothic Metaphysics: From Alchemy to the Anthropocene, Jodey Castricano (2021) 《哥特式形而上学:从炼金术到人类世》，乔迪·卡斯特里卡诺(2021)著。

Australasian Journal of Popular Culture Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.1386/ajpc_00060_5

Tof Eklund

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The legend of the ‘gentlemen of the flashing blade’: The canecutter in the Australian imagination “闪刀绅士”的传说:澳大利亚人想象中的切刀者

Australasian Journal of Popular Culture Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.1386/ajpc_00050_1

Kerry Boyne

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Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Aoife Mary Dempsey (2022) 约瑟夫·谢里丹·勒法努，奥伊夫·玛丽·邓普西（2022）

Australasian Journal of Popular Culture Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.1386/ajpc_00061_5

Matthew J. Thompson

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Painfully Neurotypical: A Review of Love on the Spectrum, Cian O'Clery (Dir.) (2019–21), Australia: Northern Pictures 《痛苦的神经典型：光谱上的爱》，Cian O’Clery（导演）（2019-21），澳大利亚：北方影业

Australasian Journal of Popular Culture Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.1386/ajpc_00063_5

Chloe T. Rattray

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Sons, husbands, brothers: The Gothic worlds of Thai men in the films of Kongkiat Khomsiri 儿子，丈夫，兄弟:Kongkiat Khomsiri电影中泰国男人的哥特式世界

Australasian Journal of Popular Culture Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.1386/ajpc_00055_1

Katarzyna Ancuta

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Breast augmentation and artificial insemination: Monstrous medicine and the female body in recent fiction 隆胸与人工授精:近代小说中的怪异医学与女性身体

Australasian Journal of Popular Culture Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.1386/ajpc_00057_1

Amber Moffat

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