Oct 14, 2005 | Volume 08
The representation of the sexually autonomous woman tends to either construct the woman as deviant or transgressive or the object of her desire as transgressive. This paper explores the literary and visual construction of two vampire slayers: Laurell K Hamilton’s...
Oct 14, 2005 | Volume 08
In 1938 the United States’ economic recovery from the 1929 stock market crash, the Dust Bowl, and the Great Depression was well underway. Ideologically, President Roosevelt’s New Deal was an attempt not only to bolster the economy and cushion rising unemployment, but...
Oct 14, 2005 | Volume 08
This essay explores how manga (Japanese comic books) and anime (Japanese animation) fans in Australia construct ideas of manga and anime’s difference and Japanese-ness. It is based on a number of interviews I conducted with members of anime clubs around Australia ,...
Oct 14, 2005 | Volume 08
“Mutation is the key to our evolution,” according to the voice-over introduction to the X-Men movie (Brian Singer 2000) by Professor Charles Francis Xavier. Mutation is also, it seems, the key to characterization in serial narratives. Characters in serial narratives...
Oct 14, 2005 | Volume 08
When considering David Bowie, people tend to envision specific iconic incarnations of Bowie-the-performer: the Mod of the early 1960s; the hippy folk rocker of the late 1960s; Ziggy Stardust of the early 1970s; the “Plastic Soul” singing Thin White Duke of the...
Oct 14, 2005 | Volume 08
During the boom in widely circulated electronic information society literature, contemporary research rejects a conspiracy theory explanation for the social context of telecommunication development and origins in the military. Just as yesterday’s critics...
