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The iPodification of Universities Tara Brabazon (15-25) Sex and the City Stephen Gennaro (210-226) Iran: the 2006 Elections Babak Rahimi (233-237) THIS ISSUE OF NEBULA IS OUR LARGEST VOLUME TO DATE, SPANNING OVER TWO-HUNDRED AND THIRTY PAGES, INCLUDING NINETEEN ARTICLES BY EIGHTEEN DIFFERENT AUTHORS, WIDELY DIVERGENT TOPICS, THREE INDEPENDENT MENTIONS OF LAO TZU BY THREE UNRELATED AUTHORS, AND SOME RARE AND IMPRESSIVE SCHOLARSHIP ACROSS THE BOARD, NOT TO MENTION IMPECCABLE CREATIVE WORK... Samar Habib Editor Nebula 4.1, March 2007 The Nebula Editorial Board Dr. Samar Habib: Editor in Chief (Australia) Dr. Joseph Benjamin Afful, University of Cape Coast (Ghana) Dr. Senayon S. Alaoluw,University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa) Dr. Samirah Alkasim, independent scholar (Egypt) Dr. Rebecca Beirne, The University of Newcastle (Australia) Dr. Nejmeh Khalil-Habib, The University of Sydney (Australia) Dr. Isaac Kamola, Dartmouth College (U.S.A) Garnet Kindervater, The University of Minnesota (U.S.A) Dr. Olukoya Ogen, Obafemi Awolowo University (Nigeria) Dr. Paul Ayodele Osifodunrin, University of Lagos (Nigeria) Dr. Babak Rahimi, University of California (San Diego, U.S.A) Dr. Michael Angelo Tata, City University of New York (U.S.A) The Nebula Advisory Board Dr. Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio, The University of Puerto Rico Dr. Paul Allatson, The University of Technology, Sydney (Australia) Dr. Benjamin Carson, Bridgewater State College (U.S.A) Dr. Murat Cemrek, Selcuk University (Turkey) Dr. Melissa Hardie, The University of Sydney (Australia) Dr. Samvel Jeshmaridian, The City University of New York (U.S.A) Dr. Christopher Kelen, The University of Macao (China) Dr. Kate Lilley, The University of Sydney (Australia) Dr. Karmen MacKendrick, Le Moyne College of New York (U.S.A) Dr. Tracy Biga MacLean, Academic Director, Claremont Colleges (U.S.A) Dr. Wayne Pickard, a very independent scholar (Australia) Dr. Ruying Qi, The University of Western Sydney (Australia) Dr. Ruben Safrastyan, Armenian National Academy of Sciences (Armenia) Dr. Alberto Sandoval, Mount Holyoke College (U.S.A) Dr. Judith Snodgrass, The University of Western Sydney (Australia) Dr. Helga Tawil-Souri, New York University (U.S.A) Opinions expressed in articles published in Nebula reflect those of their respective authors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the journal or its editorial or advisory board members. Nebula 4.1, March 2007 Content i Note on contributors 120 Christian Communication in the Popular Cinema: Cross Imagery, Cruciform Poses 1 The Gothic-postmodernist “Waste Land” and Pieta Stances. of Ellowen Deeowen: Salman Rushdie’s Anton Karl Kozlovic Nightmarish Visions of a Postmodern Metropolis. 142 Franks’ Effect on Islamic Spirit, Religious Maria Beville and Cultural Characters in Medieval Syria 15 Mobile Learning: the iPodification of Hatim Mahamid Universities. Tara Brabazon 157 The Agricultural Sector and Nigeria’s Development: Comparative Perspectives 26 Hyperreality, the Question of Agency, and from the Brazilian Agro-Industrial the Phenomenon of Reality Television. Economy, 1960-1995. Chung Chin-Yi Olukoya Ogen 36 The Witch: Subversive, Heretic or 166 A Long Term Voyage. Scapegoat? Federico Sabatini Danny Dawson 168 As If: The Construction of a Practical 57 Apophasis, Aletheia: William Faulkner’s Fiction in D. H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow. The Hamlet Jordan Sanderson Owen Elmore 184 Language, Ideology and Power Relations 67 Home Sweet Roadhouse. in Nigerian Newspaper Headlines. Matt Ferrence Rotimi Taiwo 72 The Rhetoric of Love. 210 Sex and the City: Perpetual Adolescence Karen Heise Gendered Feminine? Stephen Gennaro 88 Nietzsche’s Jesus. Robert Hull 227 Credible News Measures: A Medium’s Integrity. 96 Lao Tzu at the border. Jendele Hungbo Christopher Kelen 233 Iran: the 2006 Elections and the Making 107 Playing with the Dao de Jing of Authoritarian Democracy. Christopher Kelen Babak Rahimi Nebula 4.1, March 2007 Note on contributors Maria Beville University of Singapore since 2006. She has taught classical literature and film studies. Current Maria Beville is a Ph.D student and tutor at Mary research involves theories of psychoanalysis and Immaculate College, University of Limerick, and post-structuralism. currently a guest student at Aarhus University, Denmark. She has presented at several con- ferences including her paper The Gothic and Postmodernist Philosophy, Sexual Terror in Bram Danny Dawson Stoker’s Dracula and Beckett’s Late Prose Works as a Derridean Nightmare. Danny Dawson is a Research Fellow at Oxford Brookes University, England. After gaining a MSt(cantab),MSc(oxon) and a PhD(Kent University), he has had several articles on mod- Tara Brabazon ern historical themes published. In addition to the ‘Great Witch-Hunt’, current research areas include Tara Brabazon is Professor of Media Studies at the medical and commemoration issues regarding University of Brighton (UK). She has published World War 1. seven books including Digital Hemlock, The University of Google, Ladies who Lunge, Tracking the Jack and From Revolution to Revelation. She has won numerous teaching awards including Owen Elmore the National Teaching Award for the Humanities and was a finalist for Australian of the Year. She Owen Elmore is interested in the ways writers is currently the director of the Popular Culture serve as societal pilot fish, clinging close enough Collective (www.popularculturecollective.com). to clean the body of culture of its outmoded para- digms while managing to remain marginal enough to the sonar of conscious social perception and convention to succeed in their work. Elmore Chin-Yi Chung served for two years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Lesotho, southern Africa. He earned his Ph.D. Chung Chin-Yi is a doctoral candidate at the in literature from Auburn University in 2003, and National University of Singapore. Her research currently he is Assistant Professor of English at the involves a study of the relations between Beckett, Alexandria campus of Louisiana State University. Derrida and Phenomenology. Her other research Elmore’s work has appeared in the journal The interests include cultural studies and critical the- Explicator, at ArabesquesPress.org, and he has ory. She has presented papers on Beckett at the a chapter in the forthcoming book Conflict in Beckett centenaries held in Ireland and Denmark Southern Writing from Edwin Mellen Press. in 2006. Her previous research centred on the con- cept of schizophrenia in Beckett, using the theory of Deleuze and Guattari. She has been a research scholar and teaching assistant at the National Note on Contributors i Nebula 4.1, March 2007 Matthew Ferrence Nietzsche studies, and environmental ethics. Matthew J. Ferrence is currently a Swiger Doctoral Fellow in the English Department of West Virginia University, specializing in contem- Jendele Hungbo porary American literature and culture. He has also completed an M.F.A. in creative writing at Jendele Hungbo was born on 20th April, 1967 at the University of Pittsburgh. He has published Ayede village Ogun State Nigeria. Now a senior both academic and literary essays in venues such producer with Gateway Television, he holds a as EAPSU Online and Verbsap, and has presented Bachelor’s degree in English and a Master’s in at conferences at the University of Toronto, Communication and Language Arts. Jendele the University of Rochester, and West Virginia has produced several documentaries with one of University. He recently presented an essay titled them, Island of Hope, getting a nomination in The “Definite Ambiguity: Memento’s destabiliz- Nigerian Media Merit Awards (NMMA, 2005). ing package” at the 20th Century Literature and He is currently on study leave to do research Culture Conference at the University of Louisville in African Literature at the University of The in February of 2007. Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa where he has also won a Post Graduate Merit Award. Stephen Gennaro Christopher Kelen Stephen Gennaro is a cultural historian of media and youth. His main area of interest is “perpetual Christopher (Kit) Kelen is an Associate Professor adolescence” which examines the many ways that at the University of Macau in south China, where the culture industries market “youthfulness” to he has taught Literature and Creative Writing for young and old consumers alike. Stephen is currently the last seven years. The most recent of Kelen’s completing his Doctorate in Communications at seven volumes of poetry Eight Days in Lhasa was McGill University in Montreal and teaching at published by VAC in Chicago in 2006. A volume York University in Toronto, Canada. of Macao poems, Dredging the Delta, is forthcom- ing from Cinnamon Press in the U.K. Robert Hull Karen Heise Dr. Robert Hull is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Karen Heise received an M.A. in English from Philosophy and Religion at West Virginia the University of Northern Colorado. She has Wesleyan College, USA. His published work has edited online and print media and published fic- addressed issues in political philosophy, modern tion, poetry, essays, and academic articles in Janus and contemporary philosophy, existentialism, Head, The Journal of Lesbian Studies, Wazee, and Note on Contributors ii Nebula 4.1, March 2007 elsewhere. In addition to freelance editing and Middle Eastern Studies at Ben-Gurion University. writing, she currently teaches online writing and He received his PhD from Tel Aviv University literature classes for Paris Junior College, Paris, in 2001, where he specialized in the History of Texas, and lives in Buena Vista, Colorado. Medieval Islam, from Fatimid to Late Mamluk Egypt and Syria. He has published numerous journal articles and contributed to three criti- cal anthologies as well as presenting papers at Anton Karl Kozlovic numerous conferences. His book Al-Tatawwurat fi Nizam alHukm wal-Idara fi Misr al-Fatimiyya Anton Karl Kozlovic is a postgraduate in was published by al-Asil in Jerusalem in 2001. Screen Studies, School of Humanities, Flinders Dr Mahamid has previously contributed “Isma’ili University (Adelaide, Australia). He is interested Da’wa in Fatimid Egypt” to Nebula 3.2.