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Fan-made Time: Power and Play in the Production Paratext of The Hobbit
Following the critical acclaim of Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001-2003) the forums of dedicated fan website, TheOneRing.net, buzzed with rumours of a new film, an adaptation of Tolkien’s original novel, ... -
[I] hate girls and emo[tion]s': Negotiating masculinity in grindcore music
The article confronts the construction of gender within metal, particularly the violent misogyny that can be found in some types of death metal and grindcore. Drawing on a case study of grindcore music in Melbourne, ... -
Intermediality and interventions: Applying intermediality frameworks to reality television and microblogs
This article explores the usefulness of ‘intermediality’ approaches for understanding contemporary reality television. Through a case study of Intervention, it is proposed that intermedial frameworks illuminate reality ... -
John Grierson, the NZNFU and the art of propaganda
This thesis sets out to investigate the role played by the New Zealand National Film Unit documentaries in moulding perceptions of nation and culture, focussing on the period from 1900 to 1960. At its core, the thesis ... -
Learning for Survival, Resilience, Well-being and Continuance: An Epistemology and Pedagogy for Environmental Education/Education for Sustainability informed by Māori Culture
The literature suggests that philosophies, worldviews and approaches of indigenous cultures may be key to an urgent shift in paradigm towards holistic ethics, attitudes, values and behaviours essential for an ecologically ... -
Liberalism and Its Populist Excess: Barack Obama, the Tea Party and the Media Field
The remarkable ascendancy of Barack Obama to the presidency of the United States of America in 2008, in the shadows of the financial crisis, was in no small part due to the effective discursive response to the ideological ... -
Media Power, Framing and the New Zealand Press: VSM and Kim Dotcom
This thesis examines the New Zealand press, focusing on newspaper representations of two events: the instating of Voluntary Student Membership (VSM) for New Zealand tertiary institutions in 2011 and the arrest of Finnish-German ... -
Multiplicities and the Subject: Rethinking a Mix-of-Attributes Approach in the Digital World
It has been 30 years since Clark made his call to focus on fundamental structures of media rather than media formats (such as radio or television) and more than 10 years since Eveland proposed a mix-of-attributes approach ... -
Narratives of desperation : 'genre, gender, and Desperate Housewives
This thesis investigates the history of the term 'desperation' when applied to female film and television genres, before examining how the first series Desperate Housewives draws from and adds to this history. In addition ... -
New Zealand Media Constructions of Islam and Muslims: An Analysis of Selected Newspapers Between 2005-2006
This study investigates the representation of Islam and Muslims in three New Zealand newspapers—the Otago Daily Times (ODT), The Press (Press) and The New Zealand Herald (NZH)—in order to identify how Islam and Muslims are ... -
Orienting Feminism Media, Activism and Cultural Representation
This edited collection explores the meaning of feminism in the contemporary moment, which is constituted primarily by action but also uncertainty. The book focuses on feminist modes of activism, as well as media and cultural ...