Volume 15, 2009

Jun 25, 2009 | Browse Past Volumes, Contents Page Only, Digital Media/Internet, fan culture, Film, Games, Television, Volume 15

Double Issue: General Issue and Television Issue Editors: Angela Ndalianis and Lucian Chaffey Contents 1. ‘Reality is in the performance’: Issues of Digital Technology, Simulation and Artificial Acting in S1mOne – Anna Notaro 2. The Neo-baroque in Lucha Libre...

Mobile Content Market: an Exploratory Analysis of Problems and Drivers in the U.S. – Giuseppe Bonometti, Raffaello Balocco, Peter Chu, Shiv Prabhu, Rajit Gadh

Jun 25, 2009 | Volume 15

Abstract This paper aims at filling the vacuum in the mobile content literature addressing the following two macro-topics: the identification, classification and assessment of problems and inhibitor factors thwarting players involved in the mobile content market in...

The Neo-baroque in Lucha Libre – Kat Austin

Jun 25, 2009 | Comics, fan culture, Film, Older Media, Volume 15

Abstract Lucha libre displays a major trait of the (neo-)baroque: it presents us with illusions and then reveals their artifice to us, only to provide us with yet more illusions. Lucha libre is a neo-baroque form that plays with grand themes such as illusion and...

Ryan Is Being Beaten: Incest, Fanfiction, and The OC – Jes Battis

Jun 25, 2009 | Television, Volume 15

Abstract This essay interrogates the concept of queer incest within The OC by exploring the relationship between principle characters Ryan Atwood and Seth Cohen, both on the show and in fanfiction. The goal of this discussion is not to offer any sort of recuperative...

The Bill 1984 – 2009: Genre, Production, Redefinition – Margaret Rogers

Jun 25, 2009 | Television, Volume 15

Abstract This paper examines the British series The Bill as an example of, and benchmark for, the television police genre. Although the series holds a special position within the genre, not least because of its longevity and embedding within Australian and British...

Digital Intervention: Remixes, Mash Ups and Pixel Pirates – Amanda Trevisanut

Jun 25, 2009 | Animation, Comics, Film, Uncategorized, Volume 15

The art of remix and mash-ups is a contemporary cultural phenomenon that has been facilitated by the mass availability of digital software. Remix effectively describes the process of taking samples of existing media – for example audio tracks, film and television...