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View article: Spaces of Night-Time Encounter : Nocturnal Politics in Global Cinema, 2018–2022
Spaces of Night-Time Encounter : Nocturnal Politics in Global Cinema, 2018–2022 Open
In 2022, critics and scholars suggested that recent cinema had assumed a darker tone and that more films than usual were set predominantly or entirely in the night. The article explores the hypotheses that recent cinema has become “nocturn…
View article: Distance and Connection. Phonograph Records as Narrative Objects in 1940s Cinema
Distance and Connection. Phonograph Records as Narrative Objects in 1940s Cinema Open
This article examines a corpus of American musicals of the 1940s to observe the use made within them of phonograph records. My hypothesis is that, across these films, the phonograph record becomes a key token in the structuring of relation…
View article: Blockchain Scenes: A Research Agenda
Blockchain Scenes: A Research Agenda Open
Over the last fifteen years, the development of blockchain technologies has attracted a large volume of professional expertise, capital investment and media attention. This burgeoning sector of technology practices has coalesced around a f…
View article: Bundles and mailings: Science fiction fandom and the amateur press association
Bundles and mailings: Science fiction fandom and the amateur press association Open
This article is concerned with the fanzines published within science fiction fandom from the 1930s onwards. Its focus is on the “amateur press association” (or “apa”) an organizational form for the distribution of fanzines among member-pub…
View article: Environmental Geology of the Evansville Area, Southwestern Indiana
Environmental Geology of the Evansville Area, Southwestern Indiana Open
Indiana Geological Survey Special Report 12; Indiana Geological Survey Environmental Study 12
View article: Night Matters—Why the Interdisciplinary Field of “Night Studies” Is Needed
Night Matters—Why the Interdisciplinary Field of “Night Studies” Is Needed Open
The night has historically been neglected in both disciplinary and interdisciplinary research. To some extent, this is not surprising, given the diurnal bias of human researchers and the difficulty of performing work at night. The night is…
View article: Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments Open
special mention, as does Ron Burnett, whose generosity and support over the years have been foundational.As this project has grown, so too has the network upon which I have relied.First and foremost, the research here would have been unthi…
View article: Night Matters – Why the Interdisciplinary Field of “Night Studies” is Needed
Night Matters – Why the Interdisciplinary Field of “Night Studies” is Needed Open
The night has historically been neglected in both disciplinary and interdisciplinary research. To some extent, this is not surprising, given the diurnal bias of human researchers, and the difficulty of performing work at night. The night i…
View article: Nights and Mountains. Preliminary Explorations of a Double Frontier
Nights and Mountains. Preliminary Explorations of a Double Frontier Open
The night has long been a time-space marked by the low investment of human activity – a time of pausing, a « border », in the American sense of frontier, «a limit reached through the exploitation and advancement of colonizers looking to es…
View article: Lee Rodney, Looking Beyond Borderlines: North America’s Frontier Imagination, London and New York: Routledge, 2017, 214 pp. 34 b/w Illus. $ 150 (hardcover) ISBN 9781138842243 $ 49.46 (e-book) ISBN 9781315731698
Lee Rodney, Looking Beyond Borderlines: North America’s Frontier Imagination, London and New York: Routledge, 2017, 214 pp. 34 b/w Illus. $ 150 (hardcover) ISBN 9781138842243 $ 49.46 (e-book) ISBN 9781315731698 Open
Lee Rodney, Looking Beyond Borderlines: North America’s Frontier Imagination, London and New York: Routledge, 2017, 214 pp. 34 b/w Illus. $ 150 (hardcover) ISBN 9781138842243 $ 49.46 (e-book) ISBN 9781315731698. An article from journal RAC…
View article: Music Video in its Contexts: 30 Years Later
Music Video in its Contexts: 30 Years Later Open
Thirty years after I wrote the article reproduced elsewhere in this issue of Volume, the videoclip is an elusive entity. In the present moment it has become, it would seem, both ubiquitous and minor. Through the videoclip, YouTube has beco…
View article: Twists and Turns: Splits, Snowballs and Tweaks in Cultural Theory
Twists and Turns: Splits, Snowballs and Tweaks in Cultural Theory Open
When colleagues of mine first learned of the conference "Re: Turns," on which this issue of eTopia is based, their almost unanimous response was to note how exciting and brilliant they found the theme.Some commented that they always felt c…
View article: The Visuality Of Scenes: Urban Cultures And Visual Scenescapes
The Visuality Of Scenes: Urban Cultures And Visual Scenescapes Open
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View article: Media and the Urban Night
Media and the Urban Night Open
Along with the other materials and rituals of urban life, media have played a role in structuring the transition from day to night in cities. This essay examines a variety of ways in which the appearance and consumption of media have been …