Published Dec 27th 2008
Split screens spell double trouble. This special issue of Refractory is devoted to the dangers of division, the difficulties of duality and the duplicity of the double, not to mention acts of severing, splintering and splicing.
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Published Dec 27th 2008
Abstract: This article focuses on the operation of sound in the split-screen movie. It concentrates, in particular, on instances where the storytelling function of sound is accompanied by the aural exploration of the split screen as a specific spatial form. Different relationships between the soundtrack and multiple frames are demonstrated through examples from The Thomas Crown Affair, The Boston Strangler and Timecode. Continue Reading »
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Published Aug 22nd 2008
Edited by Angela Ndalianis and Wendy Haslem
Some of the essays in this special bumper issue were presented as papers at the Men in Tights! Superheroes Conference, which was held at Melbourne University, June 2005.
1. True Lies: Do We Really Want Our Icons to Come to Life - Louise Krasniewicz
2. The Comicbook Superhero: Myth For Our Times - Nigel Kaw
3. Toys and Grrls: Comparing Figures in the Merchandising of Television’s Action Heroine - Miranda J. Banks
4. What the *Hezmanah* Are You Talking about?: Alien Discourses in ‘Farscape’ - Jes Battis
5. Xena’s Double-Edged Sword: Sapphic Love & the Judaeo-Christian tradition - Ivar Kvistad
6. Romancing the vampire: the lives and loves of two vampire slayers: Anita and Buffy - Ingrid Hofman-Howley
7. Smallville’s Sexual Symbolism: From Queer Repression to Fans’ Queered Expressions - Anne Kustritz
8. Cyborg girls and shape-shifters: The discovery of difference by Anime and Manga Fans in Australia - Craig Norris
9. The Bold and the Forgetful: Amnesia, Character Mutability and Serial Narrative Form in The X-Men - Radha O’Meara
10. All’s Well, the Twentieth Century Dies: David Bowie as Postmodern Art Detective Professor - Kellie A. Wacker
11. Side FX - the Aura of Electronics in the Information Age - Rock Chugg
12. More than Meets the Eye: the Suburban Cinema Megaplex as Sensory Heterotopia - Leanne Downing
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Published May 24th 2008
Abstract: Douglas Brown’s Rez: An Evolving Analysis dives into Tetsuya Mizuguchi’s ‘trance shooter’ to reveal how the game’s recursive dynamics – between sight and sound, rhythm and novelty, abstraction and representation – work to construct the player’s spatial and temporal experience.
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Published Feb 4th 2005
Can moving enhance listening? Through a series of research sessions that used movement in order to note its relationship to, and effect upon, her capacity to listen, Antonia Pont attempts to answer this question… through poetic means.
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