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Author Archives: Lucas Mattila
H2O: Just Add Water and the Aboriginal Mermaid Myth
by anonymous The show H20: Just Add Water is a children’s show about three teenage girls Emma, Cleo and Rikki (And later, Emma is replaced by Bella) who become mermaids and grow tails as soon as they touch water. The … Continue reading
The Infinite Man – Movie Review
by Eva Musat The Infinite Man is a 2014 Australian science-fiction film directed by Hugh Sullivan that is about Dean, a scientist, who wishes to relive a special weekend he had with his girlfriend Lana. When Lana’s ex-boyfriend Terry interrupts … Continue reading
Cargo: An Emotional Take on the Zombie Apocalypse
Short Film vs. Feature-length Film by Eva Musat & Julia Riffel The 2013 Australian short film Cargo, written and directed by Yolanda Ramke and Ben Howling is about a father who must save his young daughter from zombies by trying … Continue reading
Horror and Ghost
by anonymous Some things are scary. It can be the unknown in a dark alley, an old doll at a flea market, some irremovable stains, or simply the monsters under our beds. Sometimes it’s not physical, but only some unreasonable … Continue reading
Human Beings Playing God
by Mara Geißen My first intuition about a book titled Ghost Species was that it would be about ghosts in some way. However, it is not about the living dead haunting somewhere, but much more excitingly about the re-creation of … Continue reading
Ghost Species – about the Fallacies of Capitalism
by anonymous The Australian novel Ghost Species by James Bradley talks extensively about the nature of human life, nature vs. nurture, finding your place in the world, etc. Underlying its positive messages to these topics is a frankly horrifying depiction … Continue reading
How not to Shape the Future
by anonymous The question of whether reproduction is still a morally responsible thing to do has been a highly debated topic which has recently even expanded onto the mainstream discourse. The predominant approaches we’ve seen are firstly the assumption that … Continue reading
Davis and his God Complex
by Janine Braune While reading Ghost Species, one character in particular caught my eye, Davis. Let me give you a short introduction, to who Davis is. Davis Hucken is a white male in his thirties with a slim figure and … Continue reading
A Supernatural Family Drama
by Joshua Gormanns The novel Ghost Species by James Bradley on the surface seems like your stereotypical science fiction novel, dealing with the dangers of climate change and how humanity caused the problems and now tries its best to preserve … Continue reading
Ethics of De-extinction
by Anonymous When reading the title Ghost Species, your first associations probably include the general image of ghosts or the novel could even be assumed to be some kind of ghost story. Instead, the reader learns, within the novel’s first … Continue reading