Prologue

  “This world demands the qualities of youth: not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease.” — Robert Kennedy. Adolescence occupies an unique position in pop cultural imagination. Continue Reading

Enola and the Mariner: Why we can’t have one without the other in the film, Waterworld – Tanya Ang

Introduction “The future… The polar ice caps have melted, covering the earth with water. Those who survived have adapted, to a new world.” In Waterworld (1995), extreme global warming has caused the polar ice caps to melt. The Earth has flooded over, and survivors were forced to adapt to a new world, living on floating Continue Reading