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Disruptive Influence: The Enduring Appeal of Some Like It Hot – Suzanne Woodward
Abstract: There is a clear division in the writings about Billy Wilder’s 1959 cross-dressing musical comedy, Some Like It Hot. Either the film is categorised, and criticized, as a typical...
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Red Riding Hood (2011): The Heroine’s Journey Into the Forest – Athena Bellas
Figure 1: Red Riding Hood as powerful hunter, armed with a weapon in Catherine Hardwicke’s Red Riding Hood In the closing scenes of Catherine Hardwicke’s recent teen film Red Riding Hood (2011),...
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‘God Hates Fangs’: Gay Rights As Transmedia Story in True Blood — Holly...
Abstract: In this paper I examine the television program True Blood’s allusions to gay liberation in terms of the biopolitical and neoliberal implications of consuming civil rights as a transmedia...
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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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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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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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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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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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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....
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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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“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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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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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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