Volume 9, 2006

Jul 4, 2006 | Contents Page Only, Volume 09

Traversing Narrative Media: Histories, Identities, Futures Editor, Allan Cameron CONTENTS 1. Multimedia and the Narrative Frame: Navigating Digital Histories – Paul Arthur 2. Re-Membering the Time-Travel Film: From La Jetée to Primer – Corinn Columpar 3....

Multimedia and the Narrative Frame: Navigating Digital Histories – Paul Arthur

Jul 4, 2006 | Volume 09

Introduction Janet Murray’s Hamlet on the Holodeck (1997), a landmark text written nearly a decade ago, set out to investigate the potential for interactive story forms at a time when digital interactivity was, for the first time, in the hands of the mainstream. Her...

Re-Membering the Time-Travel Film: From La Jetée to Primer – Corinn Columpar

Jul 4, 2006 | Volume 09

With its capacity to transport a viewer to the past or future through a convincing mise-en-scene, to accumulate discontinuous moments through elliptical editing, and to compress or expand the flow of time through optical effects, the cinema is a time machine that...

Buffy vs. Dracula”: Intertextuality, Carnival and Cult – Patrick J. Porter

Jul 4, 2006 | Television, Volume 09

Buffy: Who are you? Dracula: I apologize. I assumed you knew. I am Dracula. Contemporary television drama serials often rely on media-literate audiences who are able to trace a plethora of often subtly encoded and obscure allusions to other narratives. However,...

I Fought the Law and the Law Won: Transgression, the Act, and Narratives of Aphanisis in Claude Chabrol’s Story of Women – Christine Evans

Jul 4, 2006 | Volume 09

Introduction: Not Just About Horses But Also Just About Horses In François Truffaut’s 1969 neo-noir Mississippi Mermaid, protagonists Louis and Marion attend a screening of Nicholas Ray’s Johnny Guitar and proffer the following analysis as they exit the cinema: “It’s...

Creating New Spaces in Third Cinema: Trinh T. Minh-Ha Rewrites the Narrative of Nationalism With Love – Loran Marsan

Jul 4, 2006 | Volume 09

What interests me is not the love story – which I differentiate from the story of love – but the state of being in love: a state in which our perception of the world around us radically changes. Love can awaken our senses in an intense and unpredicted manner. It can...