Feb 5, 2014 | fan culture, Refractory, Television, Uncategorized, Volume 22
This article appreciates the Michael Richards episode of Jerry Seinfeld’s online video series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee (Crackle, 2012-).[1] I claim the episode is distinguished among the series by its unexpectedly poignant images of Richards giving...
Feb 5, 2014 | Animation, Comics, fan culture, Other, Uncategorized, Volume 22
Abstract: The socio/cultural history and partnership of toy advertisement and children’s television is rich and well documented (Schneider 1989, Kunkel 1988, Seiter 1993). In this article I discuss the influence of policy in girl’s cartoon programming as...
Feb 5, 2014 | Browse Past Volumes, Volume 22
Abstract This essay problematizes, from a theoretical standpoint, the concepts of off-screen and the cinematic image. Taking into account both Deleuze’s definition of time-image and the concept of limit, it’s possible to compare the filmic image to that of...
Feb 5, 2014 | Film, Games, Television, Uncategorized, Volume 22
Abstract: This paper attempts to examine three films by director David Cronenberg, Videodrome, Naked Lunch, and eXistenZ in an effort to understand his ideas regarding the transformative nature of information on the body and mind. As a filmmaker, Cronenberg is unique...
Dec 29, 2012 | Digital Media/Internet, Older Media, Volume 21
The way that a narrative unravels has traditionally been understood to occur over time: the time that it takes to read words on a page and to process meaning, and the time frame of events as depicted in the narrative. As we increasingly encounter electronic...
Dec 28, 2012 | Browse by Media, Browse Past Volumes, Contents Page Only, Volume 21
Special Issue: Digital Cartography: Screening Space edited by Wendy Haslem & Athena Bellas 1. Reaching for the Screen in Nine Inch Nails’ Lights in the Sky – Katheryn Wright 2. I See You: the Posthuman Subject and Spaces of Virtuality – Rebecca Bishop...
