Oct 9, 2017 | Digital Media/Internet, Film, Uncategorized, Volume 29
Contents The Camera-Body: Affectivity, Modulation and GoPro Technology in the Control Society ~ Eddie Lohmeyer 2. From Byronic Hero to Modern-Day Misfit: Dark Shadows, Barnabas Collins, and the Shift from Paranormal Romance to Burtonian Film ~ Erin Louttit 3. The...
Oct 9, 2017 | fan culture, Film, Television, Uncategorized, Volume 29
Refractory: a Journal of Entertainment Media, Volume 29, 2017 Abstract: Dark Shadows began its long life as a television soap opera in the 1960s. It featured supernatural plots and characters, including a vampire named Barnabas Collins. Barnabas’s love story,...
Oct 8, 2017 | Digital Media/Internet, Film, Uncategorized, Volume 29
Refractory: a Journal of Entertainment Media, Volume 29, 2017 Abstract: The recent consumer phenomenon of the GoPro camera, suggests novel ways in which media corporations channel the value of affective experience into new forms of subjectivity and control through the...
Jun 14, 2017 | fan culture, Film, Print Media, Television, Uncategorized, Volume 28
~ Stephanie Green Abstract: Techniques such as recursive adaptation, narrative hybridity and ensemble performance are now a tradition in fantasy screen drama, in both cinematic and serial mode, from the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) to Agents of Shield...
Jun 14, 2017 | fan culture, Film, Print Media, Television, Volume 28
~ Rikke Schubart Abstract: This paper analyzes the witch Vanessa Ives (Eva Green) in ensemble horror series Penny Dreadful (2014–16). Witches have been television material since Bewitched (1964–72), usually in comedy or light drama, and often for teen audiences. Penny...
Jun 14, 2017 | fan culture, Film, Print Media, Television, Volume 28
~ Jordan Phillips Abstract: It has been said that we live in a time of monsters. Within the horror genre, these monsters commonly take the form of the creatures you would find in ancient mythologies or Gothic literatures; however, they have also been allegorically...