The Digital Gesture: Rediscovering Cinematic Movement through Gifs – Hampus Hagman

Dec 29, 2012 | Digital Media/Internet, fan culture, Film, Older Media, Uncategorized

An animated gif uses the Graphics Interchange Format to create movement from still images. The outcome is a short clip with jerky motion that has been described, quite aptly, as a “digital flip book”.[1] The device has been around since the 1980s, but due to its...

I See You: the posthuman subject and spaces of virtuality – Rebecca Bishop

Dec 28, 2012 | Digital Media/Internet, Film, Volume 21

Everything is backwards now, like out there is the real world and this is the dream. (James Cameron’s Avatar, 2009) Over recent years, considerable scholarly attention and mass media speculation has been paid to the emergence of the figure of the posthuman – a vision...

Reaching for the Screen in Nine Inch Nails’ ‘Lights in the Sky’ – Katheryn Wright

Dec 28, 2012 | Digital Media/Internet, fan culture, Film, Games, Music, Sound, Volume 21

Abstract: During the Nine Inch Nails’ Lights in the Sky tour in 2008, Trent Reznor made use of two semi-transparent stealth screens layered in front of a third screen through which the band performed the second and third acts of the show. A stealth screen is made from...

Disruptive Influence: The Enduring Appeal of Some Like It Hot – Suzanne Woodward

Nov 17, 2012 | Film, Volume 20

Abstract: There is a clear division in the writings about Billy Wilder’s 1959 cross-dressing musical comedy, Some Like It Hot. Either the film is categorised, and criticized, as a typical cross-dressing farce with the inevitable return to the heterosexual status quo...

On Cinema, Stars, Boleros y Comedia: Contesting Cold War Repression through Mexican American Popular Culture in the pages of La Opinion – Soledad Vidal

Nov 7, 2012 | Film, Music, Older Media, Print Media, Volume 20

Abstract: This article explores the role that La Opinion, a Mexican American press that rose to meet the growing needs of Mexicans of first and second generation in the U.S. Southwest, played in addressing migrants through a pedagogy of ethnic consciousness. It is...

The Single Female Intruder – David Surman

Nov 7, 2012 | Animation, Comics, Digital Media/Internet, fan culture, Film, Games, Older Media, Television, Volume 20

Abstract: This essay examines a contemporary cultural icon that operates across distinct media boundaries, as a kind of transmedia archetype. Of interest is the visuality of what I call the ‘single female intruder’, which emerges as the intersection of a variety of...