Volume 28, 2017

Jun 12, 2017 | Browse Past Volumes, fan culture, Film, Print Media, Television, Volume 28

Themed Issue: Identity and the Fantastic in Penny Dreadful Edited by Amanda Howell, Stephanie Green, Rikke Schubart & Anita Nell Bech Albertsen   Introduction: Identity and the Fantastic in Penny Dreadful  ~ Amanda Howell, Stephanie Green, Rikke Schubart...

Mapping the Demimonde: space, place, and the narrational role of the flâneur, explorer, spiritualist medium and alienist in Penny Dreadful

Jun 12, 2017 | fan culture, Film, Print Media, Television, Volume 28

~  Amanda Howell and Lucy Baker  Abstract: This paper uses the perspectives and formative obsessions of familiar figures from nineteenth century pop culture and literature—the flâneur, the explorer, the alienist and the spiritualist medium—as lenses through which to...

Introduction: Identity and the Fantastic in Penny Dreadful

Jun 12, 2017 | Film, Print Media, Television, Uncategorized, Volume 28

– by Amanda Howell, Stephanie Green, Rikke Schubart and Anita Nell Bech Albertsen   “. . . the best characters are the most complicated ones.” — John Logan (Qtd. Thomas 2014)           In Season Two of television horror-drama,...

Retaining Traces of Composition in Digital Manuscript Collections: A Case for Institutional Proactivity  –  Millicent Weber

Aug 30, 2016 | Digital Media/Internet, Museums, Older Media, Print Media, Uncategorized, Volume 27

  Abstract: Studies of digital manuscripts generally focus on the technical capabilities of collecting institutions, digital storage and preservation, recovery of corrupted or out-dated material, and provision of access. The potential content of future, digital...

‘Rock‘n’roll’s evil doll’: the Female Popular Music Genre of Barbie Rock – Rock Chugg

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...

Volume 26

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...