Looking Past Seeing: Imaginative Space and Empathetic Engagement in The...
Might it be, for example, that fictional works might require or encourage us to simulate the mental states of their characters? I believe that the answer is yes: understanding, and learning from a...
View Article“Never my soul”: Adaptations, Re-makes and Re-imaginings of Yeşilçam Cinema –...
Introduction Regan is tied to her bed, articulating inhuman noises, swearing… She has scars on her face, and her hair is all over the place. She challenges the man who has come to exorcise her, with...
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What does it mean to say a text is within, or representative of, a transitional state? Is such a position even possible given we must always choose a point of fixity from which to proceed in our...
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Transitions in Popular Culture Editors: Matthew Sini and Angie Knaggs Editorial: Transitions in Popular Culture – Matthew Sini and Angie Knaggs 1. “Never my soul”: Adaptations, Re-makes and...
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Don Draper On The Couch: Mad Men and the Stranger to Paradise – Mark Nicholls
“I don’t think I realised it until this moment. But it must be hard being a man too… Mr. Draper, I don’t know what it is you really believe in but I do know what it feels like to be out of place, to...
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“A series of emotional remembrances”: Echoes of Bernard Herrmann – Daniel...
1965 was not a good year for Bernard Herrmann. In his personal life, after fifteen years, his marriage to Lucy Anderson had ended in divorce. In his professional life, his career as a film composer was...
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A Moving Image Experience: Il Cinema Ritrovato: Bologna, June-July, 2010 –...
A film festival is always a time machine, and Il Cinema Ritrovato doubly so. Every bit of film contributes to the kaleidoscope of a century, especially when screened now, at the beginning of a new...
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‘Out wiv the old ay plumma?’ The Uncanny Marginalized Wastelands of Memory...
Abstract: The shift of economic focus from industrial production to consumption in contemporary Western Society has meant that once booming factories and their surrounding infrastructure are now...
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Blockbusters for the YouTube Generation: A new product of convergence culture...
Abstract: While scholars have paid much attention to YouTube in a Web 2.0 environment, the YouTube blockbuster is yet to be discussed as part of this convergence culture. It differs from transmedia...
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Contents 1. Blockbusters for the YouTube Generation: A new product of convergence culture – Kristy Hess and Lisa Waller 2. ‘Out wiv the old ay plumma?’ The Uncanny Marginalized Wastelands of Memory and...
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“Fear is a Place”: The Asylum as Transgressive Haunted House in Brad...
Abstract Session 9 (Brad Anderson, 2001) features a gothic, abandoned mental asylum, a decaying relic of the past whose uncanny power is reinforced through the extra-diegetic fact that the Danvers...
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Creating Godzilla’s media tourism: Comparing fan and local government...
Abstract Fan pilgrimages to media locations have been variously described as fads or underground activities. More recently there has been a trend to consider cult media tourism as increasingly...
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The Single Female Intruder – David Surman
Abstract: This essay examines a contemporary cultural icon that operates across distinct media boundaries, as a kind of transmedia archetype. Of interest is the visuality of what I call the ‘single...
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On Cinema, Stars, Boleros y Comedia: Contesting Cold War Repression through...
Abstract: This article explores the role that La Opinion, a Mexican American press that rose to meet the growing needs of Mexicans of first and second generation in the U.S. Southwest, played in...
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In the Eye of the Beholder: Bishounen as Fantasy and Reality – Christy Gibbs
Abstract: Since the international popularisation of anime and manga, the bishounen has been one of Japan’s best recognised archetypal figures. But where did this stereotypical look come from, and is it...
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Content 1. On Cinema, Stars, Boleros y Comedia: Contesting Cold War Repression through Mexican American Popular Culture in the Pages of La Opinion – Soledad Vidal 2. In the Eye of the Beholder:...
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Disruptive Influence: The Enduring Appeal of Some Like It Hot – Suzanne Woodward
Abstract: There is a clear division in the writings about Billy Wilder’s 1959 cross-dressing musical comedy, Some Like It Hot. Either the film is categorised, and criticized, as a typical...
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Reaching for the Screen in Nine Inch Nails’ ‘Lights in the Sky’– Katheryn Wright
Abstract: During the Nine Inch Nails’ Lights in the Sky tour in 2008, Trent Reznor made use of two semi-transparent stealth screens layered in front of a third screen through which the band performed...
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I See You: the posthuman subject and spaces of virtuality – Rebecca Bishop
Figure 1: Jake Sully in his Na’vi avatar. Avatar (James Cameron, 2009) Everything is backwards now, like out there is the real world and this is the dream. (James Cameron’s Avatar, 2009) Over recent...
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Cartographic City: mobile mapping as a contemporary urban practice – Clancy...
Abstract: As the contemporary city becomes a site of complex negotiations between technology and people, the ubiquity of digital maps is disrupting traditional spatial paradigms. Here, the texts of the...
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