Художественный обман и манипулированная реальность: Осень 2025: Том X, Выпуск 3

This Fall 2025 issue includes reviews of shows on Netflix from Editor Anna Faktorovich. The Martian is considered as a counter-environmental plot, when humanity needs to be taught that this planet is our only option. Alaskan Bush People is weighed for its depiction of wealthy fraudsters living in the lower-forty-eight while pretending to be wild Alaskan bushmen. The mythos of mutilating stunt work in Wick Is Pain is questioned as recommending an unhealthy obsession with real near-death feats in place of what should be magician-designed fake stunts. The new Interview with the Vampire series is considered as yet another misunderstanding of Anne Rice’s erotic-fantasy power-play. The line between puffery and excuses for bad medicine is analyzed in the British series This Is Going to Hurt . And the merger of acknowledged self-demonizing and traditional warmongering is studied in the action film Land of Bad . Two scholarly essays examine filmmaking. Robert McParland considers how history was made in the adaptation Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin . And Keith Moser weights haunted capitalism as hyperreal spectacles in Dawn of the Dead and Thanksgiving .