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Friday, January 06, 2023

Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 11.1-2 is out now!

Intellect is pleased to announce that Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 11.1-2 is out now!

 

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https://www.intellectbooks.com/the-australasian-journal-of-popular-culture

 

Aims & Scope

 

The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal devoted to the scholarly understanding of everyday cultures. It is concerned with the study of the social and cultural meanings that are produced and circulated through everyday media and practices as products of consumption. It explores popular narratives and iconographies as intellectual objects of inquiry, and as integral components of the dynamic forces that shape societies and identities. The journal publishes articles that focus on Australasian examples, as well as broader critical and comparative topics viewed through a global lens. 

 

Issue 11.1-2

 

Editorial

 

Evolving identities in popular culture

LORNA PIATTI-FARNELL, GWYNETH PEATY AND ASHLEIGH PROSSER

 

Articles

 

The me you see: The creative identity as constructed in music documentaries

ANGELIQUE NAIRN

 

The autosomamediality of neurodivergent folks’ Facebook pages

THREASA MEADS

 

The legend of the ‘gentlemen of the flashing blade’: The canecutter in the Australian imagination

KERRY BOYNE

 

Australian women writers’ popular non-fiction prose in the pre-war period: Exploring their motivations

ALISON OWENS AND DONNA LEE BRIEN

 

Othering the ‘bag-lady’: Examining stereotypes of vulnerable and homeless women in popular culture

SUE SMITH AND JO COGHLAN

 

Renters: Disgust, judgement and marginalization of the dirty poor

JO ANNA BURN

 

Pop art meets pop culture: A semiotic reading of Bephen Bahana’s The Curry Bunch

LINDSAY NEILL AND LAVANYA BASNET

 

Sons, husbands, brothers: The Gothic worlds of Thai men in the films of Kongkiat Khomsiri

KATARZYNA ANCUTA

 

Sexy, slimy, monstrous: Infection as collaboration in Ben Wheatley’s In the Earth and Jaco Bouwer’s Gaia

CATHERINE LORD

 

Breast augmentation and artificial insemination: Monstrous medicine and the female body in recent fiction

AMBER MOFFAT

 

Charles Manson and his Family: ‘Human monsters, human mutants’

LESLEY MCLEAN AND JENNY WISE

 

Book Reviews

 

Australian Radio Listeners and Television Viewers: Historical Perspectives, Bridget Griffen-Foley (2020)

DONNA LEE BRIEN

 

Gothic Metaphysics: From Alchemy to the Anthropocene, Jodey Castricano (2021)

TOF EKLUND

 

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Aoife Mary Dempsey (2022)

MATTHEW THOMPSON

 

Playfulness in Shakespearean Adaptations, Marina Gerzic and Aidan Norrie (eds) (2020)

KERREEN ELY-HARPER

 

Television Review

 

Painfully Neurotypical: A review of Love on the Spectrum, Cian O’Clery (dir.) (2019–21), Australia: Northern Pictures

CHLOE T. RATTRAY