Oct 10, 2017 | Television, Volume 29
Refractory: a Journal of Entertainment Media, Volume 29, 2017 Abstract: This article analyses the IFC sitcom Maron (2013-2016) and compares Maron‘s semi-fictional episodic narratives to current scholarly debates surrounding the status of philosophical aesthetics...
Oct 9, 2017 | fan culture, Film, Television, Uncategorized, Volume 29
Refractory: a Journal of Entertainment Media, Volume 29, 2017 Abstract: Dark Shadows began its long life as a television soap opera in the 1960s. It featured supernatural plots and characters, including a vampire named Barnabas Collins. Barnabas’s love story,...
Jun 14, 2017 | fan culture, Film, Print Media, Television, Uncategorized, Volume 28
~ Stephanie Green Abstract: Techniques such as recursive adaptation, narrative hybridity and ensemble performance are now a tradition in fantasy screen drama, in both cinematic and serial mode, from the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) to Agents of Shield...
Jun 14, 2017 | fan culture, Film, Print Media, Television, Volume 28
~ Rikke Schubart Abstract: This paper analyzes the witch Vanessa Ives (Eva Green) in ensemble horror series Penny Dreadful (2014–16). Witches have been television material since Bewitched (1964–72), usually in comedy or light drama, and often for teen audiences. Penny...
Jun 14, 2017 | fan culture, Film, Print Media, Television, Volume 28
~ Jordan Phillips Abstract: It has been said that we live in a time of monsters. Within the horror genre, these monsters commonly take the form of the creatures you would find in ancient mythologies or Gothic literatures; however, they have also been allegorically...
Jun 14, 2017 | fan culture, Film, Print Media, Television, Uncategorized, Volume 28
~ Tobias Locke Abstract: Penny Dreadful’s commercial and critical success stems from its transformative adaptation of the Gothic literary canon that precipitated it, and its willingness to use that adaptation as a vehicle for contemporary discourse. While previous and...
