As a researcher, the rich and creative fandom discursively surrounding a text that does-not-quite-exist yet provides a mélange of data.
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Star Wars Now: Fan Creativity and That Trailer
Guardians of the Galaxy and The Marvel Method
With Guardians of the Galaxy, Marvel continues to construct a sequential tapestry by drawing upon comics' sense of interconnectivity and hyperdiegetic expansion.
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I, Reboot (Part II)
This second installment of "I, Reboot" dives into the origins of the reboot-as-narrative-analogy and distinguishes "reboot" from "ret-con."
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I, Reboot (Part 1)
What is a reboot, then? This is the overarching question of this series of articles and one which I have been wrestling with for six years or so.
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True Detective’s True Detectives
What I am interested here is the audience of forensic textual foragers that, like the true detectives themselves, followed the scattered bread crumbs that led towards, not the yellow brick road, but the yellow king and the city of Carcosa.
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The Hunger Games and the Female-Led Franchise Part 2
While teaching an undergraduate film module this week, I asked my student cohort to come up with any female-led film franchises. We were discussing gender and I was trying to illustrate how inequality still persists in the twenty-first century both at the level of industry and aesthetics. Masculine film franchises were easy and the...
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The Hunger Games and the Female Driven Franchise (Part 1)
Female-led film franchises are few and far between, especially in the traditionally masculine genres of science fiction and fantasy. There are, of course, exceptions to this ‘rule’ which I shall discuss in a moment – but, firstly, I would like to point out that I am not implying that so-called ‘boy’s genres’ – science...
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