Dec 28, 2012 | Digital Media/Internet, Urban Space, Volume 21
Abstract: As the contemporary city becomes a site of complex negotiations between technology and people, the ubiquity of digital maps is disrupting traditional spatial paradigms. Here, the texts of the urban imagination are becoming increasingly geo-coded, changing...
Dec 28, 2012 | Digital Media/Internet, Film, Volume 21
Everything is backwards now, like out there is the real world and this is the dream. (James Cameron’s Avatar, 2009) Over recent years, considerable scholarly attention and mass media speculation has been paid to the emergence of the figure of the posthuman – a vision...
Dec 28, 2012 | Digital Media/Internet, fan culture, Film, Games, Music, Sound, Volume 21
Abstract: During the Nine Inch Nails’ Lights in the Sky tour in 2008, Trent Reznor made use of two semi-transparent stealth screens layered in front of a third screen through which the band performed the second and third acts of the show. A stealth screen is made from...
Nov 17, 2012 | Film, Volume 20
Abstract: There is a clear division in the writings about Billy Wilder’s 1959 cross-dressing musical comedy, Some Like It Hot. Either the film is categorised, and criticized, as a typical cross-dressing farce with the inevitable return to the heterosexual status quo...
Nov 7, 2012 | Contents Page Only, Volume 20
Contents 1. On Cinema, Stars, Boleros y Comedia: Contesting Cold War Repression through Mexican American Popular Culture in the Pages of La Opinion – Soledad Vidal 2. In the Eye of the Beholder: Bishounen as Fantasy and Reality – Christy Gibbs 3. Disruptive...
Nov 7, 2012 | Animation, Comics, fan culture, Television, Volume 20
Abstract: Since the international popularisation of anime and manga, the bishounen has been one of Japan’s best recognised archetypal figures. But where did this stereotypical look come from, and is it a purely fictional representation? This paper examines the...
