A Companion Blog for Open Access Journals in Arts, Humanities and Cultural Studies.
In a special issue of Open Cultural Studies entitled “Transmediating Culture(s)?” that appeared in 2017, Justyna Stępień and Beata Zawadka, as its guest editors, have brought together contributions from cinema, literary, visual, epistemological and...
Elizabeth Blakey Published Online: 2017-11-30 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2017-0029. Abstract This article engages the metaphor of showrunner as auteur to examine freedom of expression in television. News articles offer the metaphor of showrunner as auteur, with...
Anna Krawczyk-Łaskarzewska Published Online: 2017-11-30 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2017-0027 Abstract Works of art seem to be used more and more frequently in scripted TV shows nowadays. Most often, they constitute a symbolic point of reference, an intertextual “interlude,”...
Maren Lickhardt Published Online: 2017-12-07 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2017-0033 Abstract This paper discusses plot structures and characters of the The Walking Dead TV series which can be traced back to the influence of computer games and gameplay. It...
Matteo Genovesi Published Online: 2017-12-07 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2017-0032 Abstract One of the most important features in a transmedia structure, as Max Giovagnoli argues in his book Transmedia: Storytelling e Comunicazione [Transmedia: Storytelling and Communication], is the development...
Xanthi Tsiftsi Published Online: 2017-11-30 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2017-0026. Abstract The Holocaust today resides between memory and postmemory. Initially, children of survivors and their contemporaries inherited a mediated past and bore full responsibility for disseminating their...
Lovorka Gruic Grmusa Published Online: 2017-11-24 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2017-0023. Abstract Acknowledging that all media interpenetrate without any one being privileged as original, this paper focuses on the influence and omnipresence of screen technologies, cinematography in...
Elizabeth Blakey Published Online: 2017-11-30 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2017-0029 Abstract This article engages the metaphor of showrunner as auteur to examine freedom of expression in television. News articles offer the metaphor of showrunner as auteur, with Hollywood journalists...
Barbara Braid Published Online: 2017-11-24 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2017-0021 Abstract Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) is one of the most adaptable and adapted novels of all time, spurring countless renditions in film, television, comic books, cartoons, and...
Lauren Walden Published Online: 2017-11-16 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2017-0020 Abstract The fin de siècle period throughout Europe undoubtedly cultivated the “interdisciplinary principle of la fraternité des arts” (Genova 158). Literature, poetry, visual art and music superseded former hierarchical...
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