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Wednesday, January 22, 2025

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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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. 

 

This title is indexed with Scopus.

 

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

 

From Scandi noir to Tassie noir: Victoria Madden’s adapting auteurship of noir in Australian television

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

 

‘In six months, we’ll be running this planet’: Varying visions of insurgency across the Planet of the Apes franchise

JEFF SCHULTZ

 

Ethics and post-evolution: The role of hyperreal adaptations in shaping popular cultural perceptions of animals

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