Jul 18, 2010 | Digital Media/Internet, fan culture, Film, Print Media, Television, Uncategorized, Volume 17
‘If the Author is Dead, Who’s Updating Her Website?’, asks provocatively a Harry Potter fan in the title of her article published in an online fanzine (Angua 2006). And in this short sentence she seems to encapsulate the whole tradition of literary criticism, from...
Jul 18, 2010 | Games, Older Media, Print Media, Uncategorized, Urban Space, Volume 17
On January 21, 1942, pinball machines and their operation were made illegal in New York City. Raids on pinball venues—arcades, bars, and shops—commenced immediately, and thousands of the machines were seized within the following weeks. The banning of pinball in the...
May 23, 2008 | Games, Print Media, Volume 13
Abstract: Many different approaches have been suggested for how stories can be told using interactive media. Forms have emerged which range from the collections of text fragments and links that one finds in hypertext fiction, the adventure-game-like experience of...
Oct 8, 2004 | Contents Page Only, Film, Older Media, Print Media, Volume 07
Editor, Diana Sandars This issue is a special edition consisting of a selection of papers presented at the “What Lies Beneath” postgraduate conference organized by the School of Art History, Cinema, Classics, Archaeology, University of Melbourne, November...
Feb 3, 2004 | Film, Older Media, Other, Print Media, Volume 05
In our teaching of Shakespearean film adaptation to undergraduates, one of the issues that frequently arises in class discussions is the question of how the visuality of the cinematic medium is constructed in tension against the verbal nature of Shakespeare’s...
Jun 26, 2003 | Film, Older Media, Print Media, Urban Space, Volume 03
I existed independently of time and matter, I felt myself departing from my body as I imagined a spirit would depart -emanating into the cockpit, extending through the fuselage as though no frame of fabric walls were there, angling upward, outward, until I reformed in...
