May 6, 2011 | Television, Volume 18
Your inside is out, And your outside is in Your outside is in, And your inside is out (John Lennon and Paul McCartney) Introduction Screen geography is a growing trans-disciplinary field that focuses on mapping the cinematic terrain. The ‘spatial turn’ in cultural...
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 | Digital Media/Internet, Television, Urban Space, Volume 17
We are still living under the banner of medieval technology. Umberto Eco (1986) The medieval system, based on graded ranks, of course knew no economic quality. Lewis Mumford (1961) Introduction Science and technology are locked into an unbreakable dualism that differs...
Jul 18, 2010 | Film, Older Media, Television, Uncategorized, Volume 17
Media matters, Friedrich Kittler reminds us. Without media the world is senseless, or rather we are senseless before it. More importantly, media matter in different ways such that the world mediated via pen and paper is essentially different from a world mediated via...
Jun 25, 2009 | Browse Past Volumes, Contents Page Only, Digital Media/Internet, fan culture, Film, Games, Television, Volume 15
Double Issue: General Issue and Television Issue Editors: Angela Ndalianis and Lucian Chaffey Contents 1. ‘Reality is in the performance’: Issues of Digital Technology, Simulation and Artificial Acting in S1mOne – Anna Notaro 2. The Neo-baroque in Lucha Libre...
Jun 25, 2009 | Television, Volume 15
Abstract This essay interrogates the concept of queer incest within The OC by exploring the relationship between principle characters Ryan Atwood and Seth Cohen, both on the show and in fanfiction. The goal of this discussion is not to offer any sort of recuperative...
