Aug 1, 2011 | Film, Volume 19
Abstract: The shift of economic focus from industrial production to consumption in contemporary Western Society has meant that once booming factories and their surrounding infrastructure are now redundant. Left to decay, the places and spaces of yesteryear are now...
Aug 1, 2011 | Film, Print Media, Sound, Volume 19
A film festival is always a time machine, and Il Cinema Ritrovato doubly so. Every bit of film contributes to the kaleidoscope of a century, especially when screened now, at the beginning of a new century and during circumstances where almost no moment of film, and...
Aug 1, 2011 | Film, Music, Volume 19
1965 was not a good year for Bernard Herrmann. In his personal life, after fifteen years, his marriage to Lucy Anderson had ended in divorce. In his professional life, his career as a film composer was stagnating. Despite a decade of collaboration with director Alfred...
Aug 1, 2011 | Television, Volume 19
“I don’t think I realised it until this moment. But it must be hard being a man too… Mr. Draper, I don’t know what it is you really believe in but I do know what it feels like to be out of place, to be disconnected, to see the whole world laid out in front of you,...
May 6, 2011 | Contents Page Only, Volume 18
Transitions in Popular Culture Editors: Matthew Sini and Angie Knaggs Editorial: Transitions in Popular Culture – Matthew Sini and Angie Knaggs 1. “Never my soul”: Adaptations, Re-makes and Re-imaginings of Yeşilçam Cinema – Can Yalcinkaya 2....
May 6, 2011 | Browse by Media, fan culture, Film, Music, Older Media, Television, Volume 18
What does it mean to say a text is within, or representative of, a transitional state? Is such a position even possible given we must always choose a point of fixity from which to proceed in our analysis? Popular culture, and the media through which it is transmitted,...