Oct 8, 2015 | Browse Past Volumes, Film, Older Media, Uncategorized, Volume 26
Abstract: In this article, I marry star studies to haptic theory in order to explore the complex meanings of space and stardom in 1970s disaster films. I use the The Poseidon Adventure [1972] as my case study, a film often cited as one best epitomising the genre. I...
Oct 8, 2015 | Browse by Media, Browse Past Volumes, Digital Media/Internet, fan culture, Games, Volume 26
Abstract: People play games at work, especially digital games, rather than asking “why” this paper starts with “how”? To do so the game Minecraft and its players are used as a focus to address how people manage to play while at work and in...
Oct 8, 2015 | Browse by Media, Browse Past Volumes, Older Media, Television, Volume 26
Abstract: In 17th century Netherlandish painting, artists employed a complex visual system to assign a symbolic value to everyday objects, in a sort of visual shorthand for lengthier moral concepts and narratives. Such “disguised symbolism” was often used to reflect...
Oct 8, 2015 | Browse by Media, Browse Past Volumes, Digital Media/Internet, Music, Other, Print Media, Volume 26
Abstract: Fostering male tradition in popular music, rock’n’roll history often underrated the early Girl Group chart-topping era of 1958-63 after Elvis and before Beatlemania. By the 1990s-2000s, Riot Grrrl and Girl Power success was again devalued by that homosocial...
Oct 7, 2015 | Browse Past Volumes, Film, Older Media, Uncategorized, Volume 26
Abstract: Claire Adams Mackinnon and her contributions to the war effort 100 years ago are largely forgotten. The product of two Canadian military families, she put aside her burgeoning film career when war broke out to train and work as a nurse before returning to...
Oct 7, 2015 | Browse by Media, Digital Media/Internet, fan culture, Film, Volume 26
Abstract: This study analyzes the aesthetic content and user-generated feedback of fan-appropriated film trailers exhibited in on the Internet. The aim of this research is to gauge participatory culture’s involvement in the transformation of promoting archival motion...
