May 6, 2011 | Browse by Media, fan culture, Film, Music, Older Media, Television, Volume 18
What does it mean to say a text is within, or representative of, a transitional state? Is such a position even possible given we must always choose a point of fixity from which to proceed in our analysis? Popular culture, and the media through which it is transmitted,...
May 6, 2011 | Film, Volume 18
Introduction Regan is tied to her bed, articulating inhuman noises, swearing… She has scars on her face, and her hair is all over the place. She challenges the man who has come to exorcise her, with terrible profanities. The man enters her room, ordering her to be...
May 6, 2011 | Film, Volume 18
Might it be, for example, that fictional works might require or encourage us to simulate the mental states of their characters? I believe that the answer is yes: understanding, and learning from a fictional work (it might be a cinematic or other kind of fictional...
May 6, 2011 | Film, Volume 18
The reconciliation period in Australia in the 1990s gave rise to a number of feature films that explicitly engage with the themes of reconciliation, and in particular with issues surrounding understandings of history and Indigenous identity. The two feature films on...
May 6, 2011 | Film, Volume 18
Introduction New Queer Cinema emerged in the 1990s as a movement of stylishly adventurous queer films that gained critical notability on the festival circuit. B. Ruby Rich coined the term ‘New Queer Cinema’ (NQC) in her article of the same name, claiming that although...
May 6, 2011 | Film, Volume 18
‘Film capitalizes on our most primary means of communication, employing visual images that move us deeply… Each decade’s cultural anxiety and hope about gender is coded frame by frame in the celluloid representations of gender nonconformists’ (Mackenzie 1999, 206-7)....
