Born Digital Cultural Heritage – Angela Ndalianis & Melanie Swalwell
The collection and preservation of the ‘born digital’ has, in recent years, become a growing and significant area of debate. The honeymoon years are over and finally institutions are beginning to give...
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Participatory Historians in Digital Cultural Heritage Process:...
Abstract: The paper deals with the question of how digital games become cultural heritage. By using examples of changing conceptualisations of the first commercial Finnish computer game, the paper...
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Introduction: Identity and the Fantastic in Penny Dreadful
– by Amanda Howell, Stephanie Green, Rikke Schubart and Anita Nell Bech Albertsen “. . . the best characters are the most complicated ones.” — John Logan (Qtd. Thomas 2014) In Season Two of...
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Mapping the Demimonde: space, place, and the narrational role of the flâneur,...
~ Amanda Howell and Lucy Baker Abstract: This paper uses the perspectives and formative obsessions of familiar figures from nineteenth century pop culture and literature—the flâneur, the explorer,...
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Themed Issue: Identity and the Fantastic in Penny Dreadful Edited by Amanda Howell, Stephanie Green, Rikke Schubart & Anita Nell Bech Albertsen Introduction: Identity and the Fantastic in Penny...
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The Contaminant Cobweb: Complex Characters and Monstrous Mashups
~ Anita Nell Bech Albertsen Abstract: This article maps out character complexity in Penny Dreadful by focusing on the intertextuality of monstrous female characters. The aim of this study is twofold....
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Cowboys and Wolf-Men: Ethan Chandler, Transgressive Masculinity, and...
~ Tobias Locke Abstract: Penny Dreadful’s commercial and critical success stems from its transformative adaptation of the Gothic literary canon that precipitated it, and its willingness to use that...
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“There Is Some Thing Within Us All”: Queer Desire and Monstrous Bodies in...
~ Jordan Phillips Abstract: It has been said that we live in a time of monsters. Within the horror genre, these monsters commonly take the form of the creatures you would find in ancient mythologies or...
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The Journey: Vanessa Ives and Edgework as Self-Work
~ Rikke Schubart Abstract: This paper analyzes the witch Vanessa Ives (Eva Green) in ensemble horror series Penny Dreadful (2014–16). Witches have been television material since Bewitched (1964–72),...
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Lily Frankenstein: The Gothic New Woman in Penny Dreadful
~ Stephanie Green Abstract: Techniques such as recursive adaptation, narrative hybridity and ensemble performance are now a tradition in fantasy screen drama, in both cinematic and serial mode, from...
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