Recently added articles from Journal of Popular Film & Television:
"It was just like a movie": trauma, memory, and the mediation of 9/11.(Report)
Jun 22, 2009; ... Abstract: One often-overlooked aspect of the 9/11 attacks is the event's profoundly mediated nature: because its unprecedented degree of traumatic simultaneity was only possible through contemporary media technologies, the attacks constitute a unique avenue through which to reconsider our ...
Playing It Straight: reality dating shows and the construction of heterosexuality.(Report)
Jun 22, 2009; ... Abstract: The author examines the reality dating show Playing It Straight (2004), in which a female contestant looking for love must determine the sexual orientation of her male suitors. The show transforms heteronormativity into a literal performance, thereby revealing how the ...
Skeletons sail an etheric ocean: approaching the ghost in John Carpenter's The Fog.(Report)
Jun 22, 2009; ... Abstract: Different critical approaches to the conception of the ghost either emphasize history, especially traumatic history, as a shadowy half-presence in the present, or else they treat the ghost as a by-product of the gaps technologies of transmission and recording create between the ...
Costello + Panza = Costanza: paradigmatic pairs in Don Quixote and American popular culture.(Seinfeld's George Costello and Don Quixote's Sancho Panza)(Critical essay)
Jun 22, 2009; ... Abstract: There exist numerous representations that share significant affinities and continuities with Don Quixote's poetics of comic fiction. Such artistic expressions, though often transformed into the language of a different medium as in the films of Abbott and Costello and the ...
Form and function in the 1950s anthology series: Studio One.(Report)
Jun 22, 2009; ... Abstract: With the help of several kinescopes (either located in research libraries or commercially rereleased on videocassette or DVD), this article looks at CBS's Studio One, the twice-weekly anthology series that ran between 1948 and 1958. It shows how the series was aimed at ...