Superheroes: A Companion Deadline for submissions: 30 November 2021 Lorna Piatti-Farnell & Carl Wilson lorna.piatti-farnell@aut.ac.nz & carl@carl-wilson.com A new collection … More
Category: Print Essays
Branded a Tyrant: Rescuing Superman Video Games with the ‘Injustice’ Series
In 2017, with the release of video game Injustice 2, published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, Guinness World Records recognised … More
“We’ll always have Iceland, Indy”: Indiana Jones and His Adventures in Video Games
Founded by George Lucas in 1971, Lucasfilm is the production company famously behind the Indiana Jones and Star Wars movie … More
Spike Jonze: Examining the Collective Work Behind the Indie Brand Name
Inscribed beneath the film title on the promotional materials of Being John Malkovich (1999) are the words ‘A Film Directed … More
Noah Baumbach: Presenting Characters that Explore Self-Worth to Become ‘Kind of an Asshole’
Since 1995, Noah Baumbach has written and directed seven full-length feature films, and has additionally written, or contributed to, the … More
Welcome to Hollywood North, Canada: A World of Stand-Ins, Tax-Breaks, Studio Expansion, and Cultural Erasure/Reinscription
In a 2011 article entitled, ‘Vancouver movie magic captures the world’, Gordon Hardwick of the British Columbia Film Commission enthusiastically … More
Who Teaches the Daleks?: ‘Doctor Who’ and Fulfilling the BBC’s Remit for Educational Programming
Operating as a public broadcasting station since 1927, the BBC has been required by Royal Charter to serve the public … More
“Though This Be Madness, Yet There Is Method In’t”: Speculating on [Joss Whedon] Adaptations of Shakespeare
To borrow from Hamlet‘s Polonius, there is something of a method to the madness in Whedon shooting a “homebrew” adaptation of … More
Women Screenwriters: Leni Riefenstahl (1902–2003)
Helene Bertha Amalie Riefenstahl, or Leni Riefenstahl, was a German film director, producer, editor, actress and dancer whose career spanned … More
Women Screenwriters: Anna Melikyan (b. 1976) and the New Post-Soviet Person
Anna Melikyan was born in Baku, Azerbaijan and raised in Armenia. In 2002, Melikyan graduated from the Gerasimov Institute of … More
Jane Austen: A Grand Tour of Pemberley
In Pride and Prejudice, Mr. Bingley pointedly informs his sister, Caroline: ‘I should think it more possible to get Pemberley … More
Hollywood Genres: Thrillers
In the opening of his 1936 article, ‘Why Thrillers Thrive’, Alfred Hitchcock wrote: Why do we go to the pictures? … More
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