Oct 7, 2015 | Browse by Media, Digital Media/Internet, fan culture, Film, Volume 26
Abstract: This study analyzes the aesthetic content and user-generated feedback of fan-appropriated film trailers exhibited in on the Internet. The aim of this research is to gauge participatory culture’s involvement in the transformation of promoting archival motion...
Oct 7, 2015 | Browse by Media, Browse Past Volumes, Digital Media/Internet, fan culture, Older Media, Television, Uncategorized, Volume 26
Abstract: This essay performs a queer reading of the Mordred character—that great archetype of the treacherous villain—from BBC’s Merlin (2008–2012) so as to examine his role in a series that garnered a devoted following among ‘slash fans,’ who homoeroticise male...
Oct 7, 2015 | Browse Past Volumes, fan culture, Film, Games, Music, Print Media, Television, Volume 26
Contents “Children should play with dead things”: transforming Frankenstein in Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie – Erin Hawley “You gave me no choice”: A queer reading of Mordred’s journey to villainy and struggle for identity in BBC’s Merlin – Joseph Brennan...
Oct 7, 2015 | Animation, fan culture, Film, Uncategorized, Volume 26
Abstract: In this paper, I explore the possibility of retelling Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein in a children’s media text. Like most material within the horror genre, Frankenstein is not immediately accessible to children and its key themes and tropes have...
Aug 6, 2014 | Digital Media/Internet, fan culture, Film, Television, Volume 24
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 concepts of intermediality and transmediality that are used to describe...
Aug 6, 2014 | fan culture, Film, Television, Volume 24
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 story. In the program, vampires have ‘outed’ themselves to the...
