May 6, 2011 | Film, Volume 18
To acknowledge that the avant-garde has evolved and changed, has adapted to the realities of our time, is to acknowledge as well that the world has moved on, that technology has evolved, that audiences now have different eyes, different expectations, and that the...
Jul 18, 2010 | Comics, Digital Media/Internet, fan culture, Film, Games, Uncategorized, Volume 17
ed. Angela Ndalianis Contents 1. From Cult Texts to Authored Languages: Fan Discourse and the Performances of Authorship – Karolina Agata Kazimierczak 2. The Pinball Problem – Daniel Reynolds 3. The Invisible Medium: Comics Studies in Australia –...
Jul 18, 2010 | Digital Media/Internet, fan culture, Film, Print Media, Television, Uncategorized, Volume 17
‘If the Author is Dead, Who’s Updating Her Website?’, asks provocatively a Harry Potter fan in the title of her article published in an online fanzine (Angua 2006). And in this short sentence she seems to encapsulate the whole tradition of literary criticism, from...
Jul 18, 2010 | Film, Older Media, Volume 17
When paintings appear in the films of celebrated auteurs such as Peter Greenaway or Rainer Werner Fassbinder, critical debate tends to ask how, rather than if, the inclusion of these works impacts the broader meaning of the film as a whole. But despite the prevalence...
Jul 18, 2010 | Film, Older Media, Television, Uncategorized, Volume 17
Media matters, Friedrich Kittler reminds us. Without media the world is senseless, or rather we are senseless before it. More importantly, media matter in different ways such that the world mediated via pen and paper is essentially different from a world mediated via...
Jul 18, 2010 | Film, Sound, Volume 17
Much of the academic writing on the films of Buster Keaton concentrates on the silent period from 1917, when Keaton began his career in films, to 1928 when his independent production company (Buster Keaton Productions) was wound up and Keaton signed a contract with...
