Jun 25, 2009 | Browse Past Volumes, Contents Page Only, Digital Media/Internet, fan culture, Film, Games, Television, Volume 15
Double Issue: General Issue and Television Issue Editors: Angela Ndalianis and Lucian Chaffey Contents 1. ‘Reality is in the performance’: Issues of Digital Technology, Simulation and Artificial Acting in S1mOne – Anna Notaro 2. The Neo-baroque in Lucha Libre...
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...
Jun 25, 2009 | Animation, Comics, Film, Uncategorized, Volume 15
The art of remix and mash-ups is a contemporary cultural phenomenon that has been facilitated by the mass availability of digital software. Remix effectively describes the process of taking samples of existing media – for example audio tracks, film and television...
Jun 25, 2009 | Film, Uncategorized, Urban Space, Volume 15
Abstract This article examines the depictions of small towns in a number of Hollywood films from the 1940s, and describes some of the ideals of community that were shaping (and reflecting) the community attitudes that would underlie the post-war suburban boom. Two...
Jun 25, 2009 | Film, Uncategorized, Volume 15
Abstract ‘Guiding Stars’ investigates the relationship between celebrities, as contemporary models of moral behaviour, and new religions such as Scientology. It discusses how the development of the star figure coincided with changing views of identity towards the end...
Jun 25, 2009 | Film, Volume 15
Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world. (Jean-Luc Godard) Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our capacity to detect it. (Viktor Taransky) Abstract This essay is concerned with the use of digital technologies in Hollywood cinema to argue that they...
