Author Archive for: ‘Alex Vickery Howe and Lisa Harper Campbell’

Devouring Time: Circling Existential Crises in Dark (2017) and Russian Doll (2019)

Introduction The majority of audiences in North America and Europe, broadly categorised as ‘Western’, are accustomed to tightly controlled episodic structures, culturally engrained storytelling conventions, and deep-rooted expectations of a linear system of cause and effect. This tradition has been popularised by contemporary narratologists, such as Joseph Campbell with his hero’s journey (1993, 1972), but can be traced to the …

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