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Volume 16

Published Nov 18th 2009

Volume 16 2009

‘All Your Base Are Belong to Us’: Videogames and Play in the Information Age

Editors: Tom Apperley and Justin Clemens

Contents

1. Editorial: Tom Apperley and Justin Clemens

2. A Critique of Play - Sean Cubitt

3. ‘The code which governs war and play’: Computer games, sport and modern combat – Jeff Sparrow

4. Being Played: Games Culture and Asian American Dis/identifications - Dean Chan

5. “I’m OK”: How young people articulate ‘violence’ in videogames – Gareth Schott

6. How to Do Things With Images - Darshana Jayemanne

7. Myths of Neoconservatism and Privatization in World of Warcraft - Kyle Kontour

8. Babelswarm -Justin Clemens, Christopher Dodds and Adam Nash

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Volume 15

Published Jun 25th 2009

Volume 15 2009

Double Issue: General Issue and Television Issue

Editors: Angela Ndalianis and Lucian Chaffey

Contents

1. Reality is in the performance’: Issues of Digital Technology, Simulation and Artificial Acting in S1mOne – Anna Notaro

2. The Neo-baroque in Lucha Libre - Kat Austin

3. Ryan Is Being Beaten: Incest, Fanfiction, and The OC - Jes Battis

4. Mobile Content Market: an Exploratory Analysis of Problems and Drivers in the U.S. - Giuseppe Bonometti, Raffaello Balocco, Peter Chu, Shiv Prabhu, Rajit Gadh

5. Televisual control: The resistance of the mockumentary - Wendy Davis

6. The Classic Hollywood Town at the Dawn of Suburbia - Stephen Rowley

7. Digital Intervention: Remixes, Mash Ups and Pixel Pirates - Amanda Trevisanut

8. The Bill 1984 – 2009: Genre, Production, Redefinition - Margaret Rogers

9. Guiding Stars - Carly Nugent

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Refractory Volume 12, 2008

Published Mar 8th 2008

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

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Refractory Volume 11, 2007

Published Sep 4th 2007

Editor, Angela Ndalianis

CONTENTS

1. Lesbian Pulp Television: Torment, Trauma and Transformations in The L Word - Rebecca Beirne

2. Here Endeth the Lesson: The Relationship of Buffy and Spike - Suzie Weis

3. On the Beach - Martyn Pedler

4. Feminism and the Media- Interrogating postfeminst politics through Sex and the City - David Engel

5. 4 Poems Mary Kennan Herbert

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Refractory Volume 9, 2006

Published Jul 4th 2006

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

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

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

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

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

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Refractory Volume 7, 2004

Published Oct 8th 2004

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

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Refractory Volume 6, 2004

Published Jun 17th 2004

Editor, Djoymi Baker.

CONTENTS

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

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

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

4. Comrade Guy Unites the Happy Workers - Greg Levine

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

6. The Day Superman Changed - Michael G. Robinson

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

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Refractory Volume 5, 2004

Published Feb 3rd 2004

Editor, Angela Ndalianis

CONTENTS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Refractory Volume 4, 2003

Published Aug 27th 2003

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

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Refractory Volume 3, 2003

Published Jun 26th 2003

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

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