Jul 14, 2018 | Digital Media/Internet, Older Media, Theatre, Uncategorized, Virtual Reality, Volume 30
Abstract: This article maps aspects of the current Extended Reality (XR) production ecosystem in the UK, capturing a unique industry at its moment of emergence. The last three years have seen an increase in activity by traditional theatre institutions in the UK...
Jul 1, 2018 | Augmented Reality, Digital Media/Internet, Film, Games, Museums, Theatre, Uncategorized, Virtual Reality, Volume 30
Themed Issue: VIRTUAL REALITY edited by Andrew Lynch, Alexa Scarlata and Thao Phan Virtual Perspective: The Aesthetic Lineages of Immersive Experience ~ Asher Warren Virtual Humanity: Empathy, Embodiment and Disorientation in Humanitarian VR Experience Design ~...
Oct 9, 2017 | Digital Media/Internet, Games, Uncategorized, Urban Space, Volume 29
Refractory: a Journal of Entertainment Media, Volume 29, 2017 Abstract: Some players argue that they experience nostalgia while digitally immersed in the streets of 1940s Los Angeles, an experience that entails driving old cars and visiting historical landmarks. Part...
Oct 9, 2017 | Digital Media/Internet, Film, Uncategorized, Volume 29
Contents The Camera-Body: Affectivity, Modulation and GoPro Technology in the Control Society ~ Eddie Lohmeyer 2. From Byronic Hero to Modern-Day Misfit: Dark Shadows, Barnabas Collins, and the Shift from Paranormal Romance to Burtonian Film ~ Erin Louttit 3. The...
Oct 9, 2017 | fan culture, Film, Television, Uncategorized, Volume 29
Refractory: a Journal of Entertainment Media, Volume 29, 2017 Abstract: Dark Shadows began its long life as a television soap opera in the 1960s. It featured supernatural plots and characters, including a vampire named Barnabas Collins. Barnabas’s love story,...
Oct 8, 2017 | Digital Media/Internet, Film, Uncategorized, Volume 29
Refractory: a Journal of Entertainment Media, Volume 29, 2017 Abstract: The recent consumer phenomenon of the GoPro camera, suggests novel ways in which media corporations channel the value of affective experience into new forms of subjectivity and control through the...
