Volume 1, 2002

Aug 6, 2002 | Contents Page Only, fan culture, Film, Television, Volume 01

Contents: 1. The Techno-Sublime by Barbara Bolt 2. Contested Spaces: The Internet Ate My TV, The TV Company Ate My Internet Site by Djoymi Baker 3. The Uncomfortable Cult: How Novelty and Subverted Expectations Generate a Cult Following in Contemporary Fantastic...

The Techno-Sublime – Barbara Bolt

Aug 6, 2002 | Volume 01

Barbara Bolt argues that the encounter between dance culture and technology as experienced in ‘clubbing’is a sublime encounter. However, the techno-sublime encounter is predicated on a very different relation to the sublime, than that developed by Immanuel...

Contested Spaces: The Internet Ate My TV, The TV Company Ate My Internet Site – Djoymi Baker

Aug 6, 2002 | Browse by Media, Digital Media/Internet, Television, Volume 01

Beyond the usual location of the television set in the private home, television discourse extends into other spaces, such as those created by TV gossip, journalism, and merchandising. In the age of the internet, virtual space has become the site of both official and...

The Uncomfortable Cult: How Novelty and Subverted Expectations Generate a Cult Following in Contemporary Fantastic Television – Patrick Porter

Aug 6, 2002 | Volume 01

It has been suggested that cult shows have a large percentage of viewers who are avid fans and these fans have relatively high visibility compared to the fans of other shows. These ‘avid’ fans, as opposed to ‘casual’ or ‘devoted’...

I Know What Movie You Did Last Summer – Peter Mattessi

Aug 6, 2002 | Volume 01

Focusing on Vera Dika’s idea of audience ‘game play’, and the increased intertextual awareness of contemporary audiences detailed by Jim Collins, Peter Mattessi demonstrates that a new level of reflexivity, inspired by Scream, has entered the realm of the teen slasher...

Does Game Size Matter? Comparing Vivian Sobchack’s theory of the QuickTime Memory Box and the experience of Tomb Raider on the Game Boy – Tim Drylie

Aug 6, 2002 | Volume 01

Focusing on the Game Boy format, Tim Drylie outlines why it is a fallacy to assume that an ‘authentic’ and ‘true’ path for computer game development leads to a more ‘real’ game experience via a connection with more powerful and larger digital technologies. It is not...