Oct 8, 2015 | Browse by Media, Browse Past Volumes, Digital Media/Internet, Music, Other, Print Media, Volume 26
Abstract: Fostering male tradition in popular music, rock’n’roll history often underrated the early Girl Group chart-topping era of 1958-63 after Elvis and before Beatlemania. By the 1990s-2000s, Riot Grrrl and Girl Power success was again devalued by that homosocial...
Oct 7, 2015 | Browse Past Volumes, fan culture, Film, Games, Music, Print Media, Television, Volume 26
Contents “Children should play with dead things”: transforming Frankenstein in Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie – Erin Hawley “You gave me no choice”: A queer reading of Mordred’s journey to villainy and struggle for identity in BBC’s Merlin – Joseph Brennan...
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...
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...
Aug 1, 2011 | Digital Media/Internet, fan culture, Music, Television, Volume 19
Abstract: While scholars have paid much attention to YouTube in a Web 2.0 environment, the YouTube blockbuster is yet to be discussed as part of this convergence culture. It differs from transmedia storytelling in that no single company owns or controls the characters...
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...
