Nov 17, 2012 | Film, Volume 20
Abstract: There is a clear division in the writings about Billy Wilder’s 1959 cross-dressing musical comedy, Some Like It Hot. Either the film is categorised, and criticized, as a typical cross-dressing farce with the inevitable return to the heterosexual status quo...
Nov 7, 2012 | Contents Page Only, Volume 20
Contents 1. On Cinema, Stars, Boleros y Comedia: Contesting Cold War Repression through Mexican American Popular Culture in the Pages of La Opinion – Soledad Vidal 2. In the Eye of the Beholder: Bishounen as Fantasy and Reality – Christy Gibbs 3. Disruptive...
Nov 7, 2012 | Animation, Comics, fan culture, Television, Volume 20
Abstract: Since the international popularisation of anime and manga, the bishounen has been one of Japan’s best recognised archetypal figures. But where did this stereotypical look come from, and is it a purely fictional representation? This paper examines the...
Nov 7, 2012 | Film, Music, Older Media, Print Media, Volume 20
Abstract: This article explores the role that La Opinion, a Mexican American press that rose to meet the growing needs of Mexicans of first and second generation in the U.S. Southwest, played in addressing migrants through a pedagogy of ethnic consciousness. It is...
Nov 7, 2012 | Animation, Comics, Digital Media/Internet, fan culture, Film, Games, Older Media, Television, Volume 20
Abstract: This essay examines a contemporary cultural icon that operates across distinct media boundaries, as a kind of transmedia archetype. Of interest is the visuality of what I call the ‘single female intruder’, which emerges as the intersection of a variety of...
Nov 6, 2012 | fan culture, Film, Television, Urban Space, Volume 20
Abstract Fan pilgrimages to media locations have been variously described as fads or underground activities. More recently there has been a trend to consider cult media tourism as increasingly incorporated into official tourism branding and promotion strategies. This...
