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Lily Frankenstein: The Gothic New Woman in Penny Dreadful
~ Stephanie Green Abstract: Techniques such as recursive adaptation, narrative hybridity and ensemble performance are now a tradition in fantasy screen drama, in both cinematic and serial mode, from...
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The Journey: Vanessa Ives and Edgework as Self-Work
~ Rikke Schubart Abstract: This paper analyzes the witch Vanessa Ives (Eva Green) in ensemble horror series Penny Dreadful (2014–16). Witches have been television material since Bewitched (1964–72),...
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“There Is Some Thing Within Us All”: Queer Desire and Monstrous Bodies in...
~ Jordan Phillips Abstract: It has been said that we live in a time of monsters. Within the horror genre, these monsters commonly take the form of the creatures you would find in ancient mythologies or...
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Cowboys and Wolf-Men: Ethan Chandler, Transgressive Masculinity, and...
~ Tobias Locke Abstract: Penny Dreadful’s commercial and critical success stems from its transformative adaptation of the Gothic literary canon that precipitated it, and its willingness to use that...
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The Contaminant Cobweb: Complex Characters and Monstrous Mashups
~ Anita Nell Bech Albertsen Abstract: This article maps out character complexity in Penny Dreadful by focusing on the intertextuality of monstrous female characters. The aim of this study is twofold....
View ArticleVolume 28, 2017
Themed Issue: Identity and the Fantastic in Penny Dreadful Edited by Amanda Howell, Stephanie Green, Rikke Schubart & Anita Nell Bech Albertsen Introduction: Identity and the Fantastic in Penny...
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Mapping the Demimonde: space, place, and the narrational role of the flâneur,...
~ Amanda Howell and Lucy Baker Abstract: This paper uses the perspectives and formative obsessions of familiar figures from nineteenth century pop culture and literature—the flâneur, the explorer,...
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Introduction: Identity and the Fantastic in Penny Dreadful
– by Amanda Howell, Stephanie Green, Rikke Schubart and Anita Nell Bech Albertsen “. . . the best characters are the most complicated ones.” — John Logan (Qtd. Thomas 2014) In Season Two of...
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‘Rock‘n’roll’s evil doll’: the Female Popular Music Genre of Barbie Rock –...
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...
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Contents “Children should play with dead things”: transforming Frankenstein in Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie – Erin Hawley “You gave me no choice”: A queer reading of Mordred’s journey to villainy and...
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Themed Issue: Intermediations Edited by Kevin Fisher and Holly Randell-Moon Contents: 1. Editorial Introduction — Kevin Fisher and Holly Randell-Moon 2. Animating Ephemeral Surfaces: Transparency,...
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Defining Urban Fantasy and Paranormal Romance: Crossing Boundaries of Genre,...
Figure 1. Laurell K Hamilton’s Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series is one of the pioneering fiction series of urban fantasy and paranormal romance. The Emergence of Paranormal Romance and Urban Fantasy...
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Everything in this World is Artificial: Media Contagion, Theme Parks and the...
The Ring Franchise Figure 1. Publicity poster for Sadako 3D (2012). The circuits of transnational production sparked by Ringu (Hideo Nakata, 1998)[1] — which remains Japan’s most commercially...
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Jodi Arias in the Public Sphere: Rhetorics of Horror and the Monstrous...
Introduction The Jodi Arias Trial has been described as one of the most peculiar and salacious murder trials in American history.[1] In May 2013, Arias, a 32 year-old woman, was found guilty of...
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On Cinema, Stars, Boleros y Comedia: Contesting Cold War Repression through...
Abstract: This article explores the role that La Opinion, a Mexican American press that rose to meet the growing needs of Mexicans of first and second generation in the U.S. Southwest, played in...
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A Moving Image Experience: Il Cinema Ritrovato: Bologna, June-July, 2010 –...
A film festival is always a time machine, and Il Cinema Ritrovato doubly so. Every bit of film contributes to the kaleidoscope of a century, especially when screened now, at the beginning of a new...
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From Cult Texts to Authored Languages: Fan Discourse and the Performances of...
‘If the Author is Dead, Who’s Updating Her Website?’, asks provocatively a Harry Potter fan in the title of her article published in an online fanzine (Angua 2006). And in this short sentence she seems...
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The Pinball Problem – Daniel Reynolds
On January 21, 1942, pinball machines and their operation were made illegal in New York City. Raids on pinball venues—arcades, bars, and shops—commenced immediately, and thousands of the machines were...
View ArticleNarrative Production and Interactive Storytelling – Alex Mitchell
Abstract: Many different approaches have been suggested for how stories can be told using interactive media. Forms have emerged which range from the collections of text fragments and links that one...
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Editor, Diana Sandars This issue is a special edition consisting of a selection of papers presented at the “What Lies Beneath” postgraduate conference organized by the School of Art History, Cinema,...
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