Oct 10, 2017 | Television, Volume 29
Refractory: a Journal of Entertainment Media, Volume 29, 2017 Abstract: This article analyses the IFC sitcom Maron (2013-2016) and compares Maron‘s semi-fictional episodic narratives to current scholarly debates surrounding the status of philosophical aesthetics...
Oct 9, 2017 | Digital Media/Internet, Games, Uncategorized, Urban Space, Volume 29
Refractory: a Journal of Entertainment Media, Volume 29, 2017 Abstract: Some players argue that they experience nostalgia while digitally immersed in the streets of 1940s Los Angeles, an experience that entails driving old cars and visiting historical landmarks. Part...
Oct 9, 2017 | Digital Media/Internet, Film, Uncategorized, Volume 29
Contents The Camera-Body: Affectivity, Modulation and GoPro Technology in the Control Society ~ Eddie Lohmeyer 2. From Byronic Hero to Modern-Day Misfit: Dark Shadows, Barnabas Collins, and the Shift from Paranormal Romance to Burtonian Film ~ Erin Louttit 3. The...
Oct 9, 2017 | fan culture, Film, Television, Uncategorized, Volume 29
Refractory: a Journal of Entertainment Media, Volume 29, 2017 Abstract: Dark Shadows began its long life as a television soap opera in the 1960s. It featured supernatural plots and characters, including a vampire named Barnabas Collins. Barnabas’s love story,...
Oct 8, 2017 | Digital Media/Internet, Film, Uncategorized, Volume 29
Refractory: a Journal of Entertainment Media, Volume 29, 2017 Abstract: The recent consumer phenomenon of the GoPro camera, suggests novel ways in which media corporations channel the value of affective experience into new forms of subjectivity and control through the...
Jun 14, 2017 | fan culture, Film, Print Media, Television, Uncategorized, Volume 28
~ Stephanie Green Abstract: Techniques such as recursive adaptation, narrative hybridity and ensemble performance are now a tradition in fantasy screen drama, in both cinematic and serial mode, from the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) to Agents of Shield...
