
Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 13.2 is out now! Special Issue
Intellect is pleased to present Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 13.2!
Special Issue: ‘Adaptations, Reboots and Remakes in Popular Culture’
This special edition of the Australasian Journal of Popular Culture examines how some iconic popular texts have been adapted, rebooted and remade in popular culture, from the Planet of the Apes franchise (1968–2024) to the comic book anti-hero Punisher (1974–2025).
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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.
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Issue 13.2
Editorial
Adaptations, reboots and remakes in popular culture: Crime, noir, horror, heroes, beasts and bodies
JO COGHLAN, LISA J. HACKETT AND HUW NOLAN
Articles
REBEKAH BRAMMER
The accidental multiverse: Adaptations and reboots and the new superhero content strategy
CHRIS COMERFORD
‘All you got to do is aim and pull the trigger’: Cinematic adaptations of the Punisher
ANA RITA MARTINS AND JOSÉ DUARTE
JEFF SCHULTZ
HUW NOLAN, JO COGHLAN AND LISA J. HACKETT
Reproductive conscription and eugenic horror in Hulu’s adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale
MEL KENNARD
Masculinity, #MeToo and misleading marketing: The unmet sexpectations of the American Gigolo remake
ABEL F. FENWICK
Give us a clew: Solving fictional crime through the adaptive popular mediums of knitting and sewing
LISA J. HACKETT AND JO COGHLAN