The Contaminant Cobweb: Complex Characters and Monstrous Mashups

Jun 14, 2017 | fan culture, Film, Print Media, Television, Uncategorized, Volume 28

~ Anita Nell Bech Albertsen Abstract: This article maps out character complexity in Penny Dreadful by focusing on the intertextuality of monstrous female characters. The aim of this study is twofold. First, it seeks to examine show how mashup characters gain...

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,...

Morality, Mortality and Materialism: an Art Historian Watches Mad Men – Catherine Wilkins

Oct 8, 2015 | Browse by Media, Browse Past Volumes, Older Media, Television, Volume 26

Abstract: In 17th century Netherlandish painting, artists employed a complex visual system to assign a symbolic value to everyday objects, in a sort of visual shorthand for lengthier moral concepts and narratives. Such “disguised symbolism” was often used to reflect...

“You gave me no choice”: A queer reading of Mordred’s journey to villainy and struggle for identity in BBC’s Merlin – Joseph Brennan

Oct 7, 2015 | Browse by Media, Browse Past Volumes, Digital Media/Internet, fan culture, Older Media, Television, Uncategorized, Volume 26

Abstract: This essay performs a queer reading of the Mordred character—that great archetype of the treacherous villain—from BBC’s Merlin (2008–2012) so as to examine his role in a series that garnered a devoted following among ‘slash fans,’ who homoeroticise male...