Paula Ghintuiala
List of John Benjamins publications for which Paula Ghintuiala plays a role.
Article
“The twain is crossing”: Overlapping ontologies in Gerwig’s Barbie (2023) Journal of Language and Pop Culture: Online-First Articles | Article
The storyworld presented in the 2023 fantasy-comedy film Barbie is predicated upon a simple ontological binary: there is the Real World, in which humans reside, and Barbie Land, populated by plastic dolls, and it is roundly accepted that “never the twain shall cross”. However, throughout the… read more