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
Tag: Film
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
In Space, No One Can Hear You Waka Waka Waka – ‘Alien’ for the Atari 2600
While the movie Alien was released in 1979, the first video game adaptation of the science-fiction horror experience came three years later … More
Fundamental Comics: Back to Earth for Ripley, Newt, and Hicks in the Alternate ‘Aliens’ Trilogy: ‘Outbreak,’ ‘Nightmare Asylum,’ and ‘Earth War’ and the Study of Humanity
Despite being a continuation from the Aliens movie storyline, once Alien 3 was released in 1992, the comic-created world became distinctly non-canon. In the … More
Aliens in Popular Culture: ‘Firefly’/’Serenity’
Prior to Firefly (2002–2003), creator Joss Whedon had written demons (in the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer), mutants (in … More
‘The Ghost in the Shell’ and the Anxiety of the Machines
Shirow’s The Ghost in the Shell, together with titles such as Katsuhiro Otomo’s Akira (1982-1990) and Yuzo Takada’s 3×3 Eyes (1987-2002), represent the cultural … More
‘Serenity: Leaves on the Wind’ and Developing the ‘Firefly’ Family
Leaves on the Wind has one central theme that stretches throughout its galactic core and on towards its border planets: Family. … More
Remembering ‘Alien’ Differently with ‘Alien: The Illustrated Story’
The 1979 story of Alien begins with a quote from Joseph Conrad. Not the mining ship Nostromo, named after one of Conrad’s novels, … More
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Comic Book Movie Women of 2017
With the full force of both Marvel and DC movie campaigns raging with their spectacular, firework-laced steam, comic book women … More
Creative Failures and Failing to be Creative: Sci-Fi Cinema in 2017
If the Hollywood sci-fi movies of 2017 have one unifying special effect that will come to epitomize the collective output … More
The Society of the ‘Fight Club’ is the Society of the Spectacle
When Jack, the lead protagonist and narrator of Fight Club (David Fincher, 1999), is at work, he monologues that “with insomnia, … More
