Jun 26, 2014 | Browse Past Volumes, fan culture, Film, Games, Television, Uncategorized, Volume 23
Themed Issue: Transmedia Horror Edited by Jessica Balanzategui & Naja Later Contents 1. The Comfort and Disquiet of Transmedia Horror in Higurashi: When They Cry (Higurashi no naku koro ni) – Brian Ruh 2. Jodi Arias in the Public Sphere: Rhetorics of...
Jun 26, 2014 | Digital Media/Internet, Film, Other, Uncategorized, Urban Space, Volume 23
On May 16, 2011, the Director of the Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response for the United States Centers for Disease Control, Dr. Ali S. Khan, did something unusual. He did something that irrevocably changed the ways in which public health agencies around...
Jun 26, 2014 | Digital Media/Internet, fan culture, Film, Games, Uncategorized, Urban Space, Volume 23
The Slender Man is a monster that has crept into our frame of imagination in recent years. Invented on the Internet forum Something Awful in 2009, the Slender Man has developed into an entire multi-platformed transmedia mythos.[1] Defined by his liminality, he makes a...
Jun 26, 2014 | Digital Media/Internet, Film, Volume 23
When The Exorcist hit theaters in 1973, televangelist Billy Graham was widely rumored to have said that evil resided in the very celluloid of that film.[1] Scott Derrickson’s Sinister (2012) derives horror from a similarly perverse faith in film stock as a vehicle for...
Jun 26, 2014 | fan culture, Print Media, Television, Uncategorized, Urban Space, Volume 23
The Emergence of Paranormal Romance and Urban Fantasy Although it emerged only in the 1990s, the urban fantasy and paranormal romance genre now exerts a powerful influence on representations of monsters and the supernatural in popular culture. Over the last 25 years...
Jun 22, 2014 | fan culture, Film, Games, Other, Print Media, Television, Uncategorized, Urban Space, Volume 23
The Ring Franchise The circuits of transnational production sparked by Ringu (Hideo Nakata, 1998)[1] — which remains Japan’s most commercially successful domestic horror film ever released — are polyvalent and anfractuous, constituted of almost unprecedented levels of...
