Jun 25, 2009 | Comics, fan culture, Film, Older Media, Volume 15
Abstract Lucha libre displays a major trait of the (neo-)baroque: it presents us with illusions and then reveals their artifice to us, only to provide us with yet more illusions. Lucha libre is a neo-baroque form that plays with grand themes such as illusion and...
Jan 29, 2009 | Comics, fan culture, Older Media, Other, Volume 10
Post-Superheroes: Transcending Media Guest Editor, Wendy Haslem CONTENTS 1. Superhero by Numbers – Lisa Watson and Phil Stocks 2. El Santo: Wrestler, Saint and Superhero – Gabrielle Murray 3. America vs Japan: the Influence of American...
Jun 17, 2004 | Comics, Contents Page Only, Digital Media/Internet, fan culture, Television, Volume 06
Editor, Djoymi Baker CONTENTS 1. Fandom and Space: An Introduction [Editorial] – Djoymi Baker 2. Of Mounties and Gay Marriage: Canadian Television, American Fans, and the Virtual Heterotopia – Rhiannon Bury 3. Between Consumerism and Resistance, Outreach...
Feb 3, 2004 | Contents Page Only, fan culture, Film, Television, Volume 05
CONTENTS 1. The Democratic Genre: fan fiction in a literary context – Sheenagh Pugh 2.‘You That Way, We This Way’: Spectatorship and Song in Kenneth Branagh’s Love’s Labour’s Lost – Felicia Chan & Yong Li Lan 3.Under the...
Aug 6, 2002 | Contents Page Only, fan culture, Film, Television, Volume 01
Contents: 1. The Techno-Sublime by Barbara Bolt 2. Contested Spaces: The Internet Ate My TV, The TV Company Ate My Internet Site by Djoymi Baker 3. The Uncomfortable Cult: How Novelty and Subverted Expectations Generate a Cult Following in Contemporary Fantastic...
