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Intellect is pleased to announce that Journal of European Popular Culture 11.2 is out now!

Special Issue: ‘The Hero Affect – Heroizations in Contemporary Popular Culture’ 

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Aims & Scope

The Journal of European Popular Culture investigates the creative cultures of Europe, present and past. Exploring European popular imagery, media, new media, film, music, art and design, architecture, drama and dance, fine art, literature and the writing arts and more. This peer-reviewed journal is also of interest to those considering the influence of European creativity and European creative artefacts worldwide.

Issue 11.2

Editorial

What is the ‘hero affect?’ Outlining a research perspective on the affective role of heroizations in contemporary European popular culture

NICOLE FALKENHAYNER

Articles

Mediated heroes? Media-made heroes and the mediation of the heroic

ANNE JERSLEV

Heroic affect and structures of national feeling on British television: 1990s Sharpe vs. 2010s The Last Kingdom

BARBARA KORTE

Discovering new dimensions: Affect and the heroic in Doctor Who

MARIA-XENIA HARDT

Affect is not innocent: How affect can evolve into an ideological space

BENJAMIN VAN TOURHOUT

Ecothriller heroics: Affect and spectatorship in fictions of climate change 

CHRISTIANE HANSEN