Volume 21, 2012
Special Issue: Digital Cartography: Screening Space edited by Wendy Haslem & Athena Bellas 1. Reaching for the Screen in Nine Inch Nails’ Lights in the Sky – Katheryn Wright 2. I See You: the...
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Moving Through The Narrative: Spatial Form Theory And The Space Of Electronic...
Geoff Ryman’s 253. The way that a narrative unravels has traditionally been understood to occur over time: the time that it takes to read words on a page and to process meaning, and the time frame of...
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The Digital Gesture: Rediscovering Cinematic Movement through Gifs – Hampus...
Norman in Psycho. An animated gif uses the Graphics Interchange Format to create movement from still images. The outcome is a short clip with jerky motion that has been described, quite aptly, as a...
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Digital Memories: The McCoy’s Electronic Sculptures – Wendy Haslem
Abstract: This article investigates the connections between history and new forms of memory that are produced, configured and mapped with the tools of digital media. Digital memories are contained...
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Red Riding Hood (2011): The Heroine’s Journey Into the Forest – Athena Bellas
Figure 1: Red Riding Hood as powerful hunter, armed with a weapon in Catherine Hardwicke’s Red Riding Hood In the closing scenes of Catherine Hardwicke’s recent teen film Red Riding Hood (2011),...
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Candid Cameras: Transmedia Haunting and the Paranormal Activity Franchise –...
In 2008, Steven Spielberg received a DVD screener of Oren Peli’s micro-budget horror film Paranormal Activity; after watching it, Spielberg claims his bedroom door mysteriously locked from the inside,...
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Everything in this World is Artificial: Media Contagion, Theme Parks and the...
The Ring Franchise Figure 1. Publicity poster for Sadako 3D (2012). The circuits of transnational production sparked by Ringu (Hideo Nakata, 1998)[1] — which remains Japan’s most commercially...
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Defining Urban Fantasy and Paranormal Romance: Crossing Boundaries of Genre,...
Figure 1. Laurell K Hamilton’s Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series is one of the pioneering fiction series of urban fantasy and paranormal romance. The Emergence of Paranormal Romance and Urban Fantasy...
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Sinister Celluloid in the Age of Instagram – Marc Olivier
When The Exorcist hit theaters in 1973, televangelist Billy Graham was widely rumored to have said that evil resided in the very celluloid of that film.[1] Scott Derrickson’s Sinister (2012) derives...
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Who is the Slender Man? – Naja Later
Figure 1. Victor Surge’s Slender Man, 2009.The Slender Man is a monster that has crept into our frame of imagination in recent years. Invented on the Internet forum Something Awful in 2009, the Slender...
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Trafficking in the Zombie: The CDC Zombie Apocalypse Campaign, Diseaseability...
(Figure 1, Image from ‘Zombie campaign’, U.S. Centers for Disease Control, 2011) On May 16, 2011, the Director of the Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response for the United States Centers for...
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Themed Issue: Transmedia Horror Edited by Jessica Balanzategui & Naja Later Contents 1. The Comfort and Disquiet of Transmedia Horror in Higurashi: When They Cry (Higurashi no naku koro ni) –...
View ArticleEditorial: Intermediations — Kevin Fisher & Holly Randell-Moon
This special issue developed out the Intermediations symposium held at the University of Otago on May 31, 2013,[1] and on the invitation of keynote speaker and Refractory Editor, Angela Ndalianis....
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Animating Ephemeral Surfaces: Transparency, Translucency and Disney’s World...
Abstract: This paper examines the unusual theatrical and exhibition dimensions of Disney’s World of Color, an outdoor night time entertainment spectacle which screens animated films on ephemeral...
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Vertical Framing: Authenticity and New Aesthetic Practice in Online Videos —...
Abstract: In recent years there has been much focus on the opportunities that mobile media devices (phones, tablets) offer for user-generated audio-video production. Most often this focus has...
View ArticleAttached To My Devices: Across Individual, Collective and Panspectric worlds...
Abstract: Attachment is a complex subject in the psychological literature. In this paper, affect and attachment is discussed in relation to mobile devices and new technologies. This opens up questions...
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The Ecstatic Gestalt in Werner Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten Dreams — Kevin Fisher
Abstract: Werner Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010) has been celebrated as the first non-gratuitous use of 3-D: perfectly suited to revealing the interior of the cave and the naturalistic...
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Intermediality and Interventions: Applying Intermediality Frameworks to...
Abstract: This article explores the usefulness of ‘intermediality’ approaches for understanding contemporary reality television. Through a case study of Intervention, it is proposed that intermedial...
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‘God Hates Fangs’: Gay Rights As Transmedia Story in True Blood — Holly...
Abstract: In this paper I examine the television program True Blood’s allusions to gay liberation in terms of the biopolitical and neoliberal implications of consuming civil rights as a transmedia...
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We are the Borg (in a good way): Mapping The Development Of New Kinds Of...
Abstract: Digital technologies have enabled new ways of communicating and relating to others and this has fundamental consequences for being and for meaning. In this paper I map the development of...
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