Screenscapes

Editor, Leanne Downing

1. An Urban Island: Atlantic Station and its Use of the Screen
   Beau B. Beza & Derek Merrill
2. Vegas on the Yarra: Situating Melbourne’s Crown Entertainment Complex
   Leanne Downing
3. Public Screens and the Transformation of Public Space
   Scott McQuire, Nikos Papastergiadis & Sean Cubitt
4. Screenwatching or Watching the Screen?  The Large Format Experience
   Mary Nucci
5. Screens of Navigation: From Taking a Ride to Making the Ride
   Nanna Verhoeff

Editor, Angela Ndalianis

CONTENTS

Traversing Narrative Media: Histories, Identities, Futures

Editor, Allan Cameron

CONTENTS

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

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

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

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

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

Blending the Virtual and Physical:Narrative’s Mobile Future?
- Scott Ruston

The Choice Of An Ending: DVD And The Future(s) Of Post-Apocalyptic Narrative
- Carol O’Sullivan

Editor, Angela Ndalianis

CONTENTS

1. The Comicbook Superhero: Myth For Our Times
- Nigel Kaw

2. Toys and Grrls: Comparing Figures in the Merchandising of Television’s Action Heroine
- Miranda J. Banks

3. What the *Hezmanah* are you talking about?: Alien Discourses in ‘Farscape.’
- Jes Battis

4. Xena’s Double-Edged Sword: Sapphic Love & the Judaeo-Christian tradition
- Ivar Kvistad

5. Romancing the vampire: the lives and loves of two vampire slayers - Anita and Buffy
- Ingrid Hofman-Howley

6. Smallville’s Sexual Symbolism: From Queer Repression to Fans’ Queered Expressions
- Anne Kustritz

7. Cyborg girls and shape-shifters: The discovery of difference by Anime and Manga Fans in Australia
- Craig Norris

8. The Bold and the Forgetful: Amnesia, Character Mutability and Serial Narrative Form in The X-Men
- Radha O’Meara

9. All’s Well, the Twentieth Century Dies: David Bowie as Postmodern Art Detective Professor
- Kellie A. Wacker

10. Side FX - the Aura of Electronics in the Information Age
- Rock Chugg

11. More than Meets the Eye: the Suburban Cinema Megaplex as Sensory Heterotopia - Leanne Downing

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, Classics & Archaeology, Univeristy of Melbourne, November 4th 2003.

Editor, Diana Sandars

CONTENTS

1. Helen on the Edge: the Movement of Liminal Women and its Consequences in Early Greek Myth
- Aleks Michalewicz

2. Tracks in the Desert: the tremulous landscapes of Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula and Fred Williams
- Ryan Johnston

3. From the Hollywood Musical to Music Video: The Grafting that Lies Beneath Contemporary Australian Musicals
- Diana Sandars

4. New Thresholds of Perception: Representations of Altered States in Early Cinema
- Marie-Louise Hillcoat

Editor, Djoymi Baker.

CONTENTS

Fandom and Space: An Introduction [Editorial] - Djoymi Baker

Of Mounties and Gay Marriage: Canadian Television, American Fans, and the Virtual Heterotopia - Rhiannon Bury

Between Consumerism and Resistance, Outreach and Exclusion: Online Vampire Subcultures - Dale Hudson

Comrade Guy Unites the Happy Workers - Greg Levine

‘We was cross-dressing ‘afore you were born!’ Or, how sf fans invented virtual community - Helen Merrick

The Day Superman Changed - Michael G. Robinson

Slash Fandom on the Internet, Or, Is the Carnival Over? - Rachel Shave

Editor, Angela Ndalianis

CONTENTS

1. The Democratic Genre: fan fiction in a literary context
by Sheenagh Pugh

2.‘You That Way, We This Way’: Spectatorship and Song in Kenneth Branagh’s Love’s Labour’s Lost
by Felicia Chan & Yong Li Lan

4.Under the Waterfall: A Fanfiction community’s Analysis of their Self-Representation and Peer Review
by Kristi Lee

5.Collapsing the Extra/Textual:Passions and Intensities of Knowledge in Buffy: the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Online Fan Communities
by Marianne Cantwell

6.
‘Help When Times Are Hard’: Bereavement and Star Trek Fan Letters
by Lincoln Geraghty

7.
Queering the Slayer-Text: Reading Possibilities in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
by Rebecca Beirne

8.Wonderment and Awe - the Way of the Kami
by Lucy Wright

The Sounds of Vision: Spectatorship and Aural Perception

Editor, Felicity Colman

1. ‘They’re Here’: The Rhythmic Accent, the Single Beat and Rhythmic Silence - Annie Turner

2.
Authenticating White Trash: The performance of country music in O Brother, Where Art Thou? - Daniel Mudie Cunningham

3. A System for Generating Real-Time Visual Meaning for Live Indian Drumming - Philip Davidson, Ajay Kapur, Perry Cook

4. Believe the Hype: Hype Williams and Afrofuturist Filmmaking - Thomas F. DeFrantz

5. “I am a heterodemon” - Keely Macarow

Uncanny Spaces and Gods in the Multiverse

Editors, Angela Ndalianis & Leonie Cooper

1. Uncanny Spaces & Gods in the Multiverse: an Introduction - Leonie Cooper

2. Three Poems by William Stobb

4. The Martian in the Multiverse - Michael Punt

5. The Sight of Your God Disturbs Me: questioning the post-Christian bodies of Buffy, Lain, and George - Felicity Colman

6. The Most Charismatic King: Nascent Celebrity in the French Renaissance - Lisa Mansfield

7. Microstatecraft: Belonging and Difference in Imagined Communities - Darshana Jayemanne

Special Issue on Buffy the Vampire Slayer

edited by Angela Ndalianis & Felicity Colman

On the 21st of November 2002, a Symposium called “The Buffyverse” was held by the Cinema Studies Program at the University of Melbourne. This volume of Refractory: a Journal of Entertainment Media includes some of the papers presented at this day’s events, as well as numerous new additions.

1. For a Newer Rite is Here: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
by Joseph W. Reed

2.Welcome to the house of fun: Buffy fanfiction as a hall of mirrors
by Linda Rust

3. ‘It all seems so real’: Intertextuality in the Buffyverse
by Vivien Burr

4. “Family Blood is always the Sweetest”: The Gothic Transgressions of Angel/Angelus
by Lucy Nevitt & Andy William Smith

5. Is Giles Simply Another Dr Van Helsing? Continuity and Innovation in the Figure of the Watcher in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
by Coralline Dupuy

6. “Just a girl”: Feminism, Postmodernism and Buffy the Vampire Slayer
by Jim Thompson

7. Affective Entertainment In “Once More With Feeling”: A Manifesto For Fandom
by Jamie Clarke

8. ‘Bollocks!’: Spike Fans and Reception of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
by Gwyn Symonds

9. ‘I think every home should have one of you’: the serial killer disguised as the perfect husband
by Wendy Haslem

10. ‘We Are Not Demons’: Homogenizing the Heroes in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel
by Jennifer Dowling

11. Coming Out on A Hell Mouth
by Edwina Bartlem

12. “‘You cannot run from your darkness.’ / ‘Who says I’m running?’: Buffy and the Ownership of Evil”
by Erma Petrova.

13. Buffy: the Evolution of a Valley Girl
by Janelle Tassone

14. Is Buffy a Lacanian? Or, What Is Enlightenment?
by Matthew Sharpe

15. Buffy the Feminist Slayer? Constructions of Femininity in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
by Gwyneth Bodger