Jan 29, 2009 | Comics, fan culture, Older Media, Other, Volume 10
Post-Superheroes: Transcending Media Guest Editor, Wendy Haslem CONTENTS 1. Superhero by Numbers – Lisa Watson and Phil Stocks 2. El Santo: Wrestler, Saint and Superhero – Gabrielle Murray 3. America vs Japan: the Influence of American...
Dec 26, 2008 | Film, Other, Volume 14
Abstract: In this essay I position the Deleuzian circuit of the actual and the virtual in relation to a film installation, Sutapa Biswas’ Birdsong (2004), in order to open up a reading of the film in terms of affect. Biswas’ film, in which a boy confronts a horse in a...
Dec 26, 2008 | Film, Other, Volume 14
Abstract: This article examines the intriguing treatment of expanded cinema in two seminal texts in film theory: Stephen Heath’s Questions of Cinema and Gilles Deleuze’s Cinema 2: The Time-Image. I argue that expanded forms of cinema such as the split...
Aug 22, 2008 | Comics, Film, Other, Sound, Television, Urban Space, Volume 08
Edited by Angela Ndalianis and Wendy Haslem Some of the essays in this special bumper issue were presented as papers at the Men in Tights! Superheroes Conference, which was held at Melbourne University, June 2005. Contents 1. True Lies: Do We Really Want Our Icons to...
May 23, 2008 | Games, Older Media, Other, Volume 13
Abstract: As a way of envisioning futuristically appropriate player experiences, this paper speculates on the emergence of participatory virtual environments as a metamaterial phenomena resulting from the confluence of aleatory, tribal playspaces and human-computer...
May 23, 2008 | Games, Older Media, Other, Volume 13
Abstract: In this exploratory essay the author describes the shared context of Sculptor turned Games Designer Keita Takahashi, best known for his PS2 title Katamari Damacy, and superstar contemporary artist Takashi Murakami. The author argues that Takahashi’s...
