Jun 25, 2009 | Film, Uncategorized, Urban Space, Volume 15
Abstract This article examines the depictions of small towns in a number of Hollywood films from the 1940s, and describes some of the ideals of community that were shaping (and reflecting) the community attitudes that would underlie the post-war suburban boom. Two...
Jun 25, 2009 | Film, Uncategorized, Volume 15
Abstract ‘Guiding Stars’ investigates the relationship between celebrities, as contemporary models of moral behaviour, and new religions such as Scientology. It discusses how the development of the star figure coincided with changing views of identity towards the end...
Jun 25, 2009 | Television, Volume 15
Abstract This paper argues that television articulates an operation of power that can be usefully conceptualised through the Deleuzian notion of control. Drawing on the writings of Gilles Deleuze and other French philosophers, the paper examines television’s cultural...
Jun 25, 2009 | Film, Volume 15
Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world. (Jean-Luc Godard) Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our capacity to detect it. (Viktor Taransky) Abstract This essay is concerned with the use of digital technologies in Hollywood cinema to argue that they...
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...
Jan 29, 2009 | Comics, Film, Television, Volume 10
Abstract: This paper reports on results of a statistical analysis correlating superhero characteristics such as powers, motivations, weaknesses, and costumes with commercial viability as represented by comic book sales and number of appearances in new media such as...
