Nov 6, 2012 | fan culture, Film, Television, Urban Space, Volume 20
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 incorporated into official tourism branding and promotion strategies. This...
Nov 6, 2012 | Browse by Media, Film, Volume 20
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 Asylum of the film was a real abandoned asylum in Boston until its...
Aug 1, 2011 | Film, Volume 19
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 redundant. Left to decay, the places and spaces of yesteryear are now...
Aug 1, 2011 | Film, Print Media, Sound, Volume 19
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 century and during circumstances where almost no moment of film, and...
Aug 1, 2011 | Film, Music, Volume 19
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 stagnating. Despite a decade of collaboration with director Alfred...
May 6, 2011 | Browse by Media, fan culture, Film, Music, Older Media, Television, Volume 18
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 analysis? Popular culture, and the media through which it is transmitted,...
