Aug 1, 2011 | Contents Page Only, Volume 19
Contents 1. Blockbusters for the YouTube Generation: A new product of convergence culture – Kristy Hess and Lisa Waller 2. ‘Out wiv the old ay plumma?’ The Uncanny Marginalized Wastelands of Memory and Matter in David Cronenberg’s Spider – Samantha Lindop 3. A...
Aug 1, 2011 | Digital Media/Internet, fan culture, Music, Television, Volume 19
Abstract: While scholars have paid much attention to YouTube in a Web 2.0 environment, the YouTube blockbuster is yet to be discussed as part of this convergence culture. It differs from transmedia storytelling in that no single company owns or controls the characters...
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,...
