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...

In the Eye of the Beholder: Bishounen as Fantasy and Reality – Christy Gibbs

Nov 7, 2012 | Animation, Comics, fan culture, Television, Volume 20

Abstract: Since the international popularisation of anime and manga, the bishounen has been one of Japan’s best recognised archetypal figures. But where did this stereotypical look come from, and is it a purely fictional representation? This paper examines the...

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...

Creating Godzilla’s media tourism: Comparing fan and local government practices – Craig Norris

Nov 6, 2012 | fan culture, Film, Television, Urban Space, Volume 20

Abstract  Fan pilgrimages to media locations have been variously described as fads or underground activities. More recently there has been a trend to consider cult media tourism as increasingly incorporated into official tourism branding and promotion strategies. This...