Jul 18, 2010 | Comics, Digital Media/Internet, fan culture, Film, Games, Uncategorized, Volume 17
ed. Angela Ndalianis Contents 1. From Cult Texts to Authored Languages: Fan Discourse and the Performances of Authorship – Karolina Agata Kazimierczak 2. The Pinball Problem – Daniel Reynolds 3. The Invisible Medium: Comics Studies in Australia –...
Jul 18, 2010 | Digital Media/Internet, fan culture, Film, Print Media, Television, Uncategorized, Volume 17
‘If the Author is Dead, Who’s Updating Her Website?’, asks provocatively a Harry Potter fan in the title of her article published in an online fanzine (Angua 2006). And in this short sentence she seems to encapsulate the whole tradition of literary criticism, from...
Jul 18, 2010 | Games, Older Media, Print Media, Uncategorized, Urban Space, Volume 17
On January 21, 1942, pinball machines and their operation were made illegal in New York City. Raids on pinball venues—arcades, bars, and shops—commenced immediately, and thousands of the machines were seized within the following weeks. The banning of pinball in the...
Jul 18, 2010 | Comics, Volume 17
The term ‘graphic novel’ was popularised by Igor Goldkind, a publicist employed by UK publisher Titan Books in 1985 to promote comic books to an adult audience.[1] ‘My job,’ he said, ‘was to develop a semantic the general public and the book trade could understand’...
Jul 18, 2010 | Digital Media/Internet, Television, Urban Space, Volume 17
We are still living under the banner of medieval technology. Umberto Eco (1986) The medieval system, based on graded ranks, of course knew no economic quality. Lewis Mumford (1961) Introduction Science and technology are locked into an unbreakable dualism that differs...
Jul 18, 2010 | Film, Older Media, Volume 17
When paintings appear in the films of celebrated auteurs such as Peter Greenaway or Rainer Werner Fassbinder, critical debate tends to ask how, rather than if, the inclusion of these works impacts the broader meaning of the film as a whole. But despite the prevalence...
