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Comics as Memoir and Documentary: A Case Study of Sarah Glidden
This chapter explores ‘documentary comics’ and ‘graphic memoir’ as distinct comics genres, discussing differences and similarities in their...
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“We Need More Input!”: John Hughes’s Weird Science (1985) and Scandals from the Red Scare to the Twitter Mob
This chapter traces the ways John Hughes’s 1985 film Weird Science adapts numerous texts from Frankenstein to the E.C. Comics 1950s pre-Code series...
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“In My Tortured Ears There Sounds Unceasingly a Nightmare”: H. P. Lovecraft and Horror Audio
From the beginnings of radio drama to digital podcasting, horror has been a prevalent genre, exploiting the parameters and potential of audio form to...
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The Star Trek Mediaverse
Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek made its debut in September 1966 and became a phenomenon that lasted more than 50 years and continues to entertain its...
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Metatheatrical Dramaturgies of Reception: Mirroring the Audience in Ontroerend Goed’s Audience and Jackie Sibblies Drury’s Fairview
This chapter examines metatheatrical depictions of spectatorship through analysis of Ontroerend Goed’s Audience and Jackie Sibblies Drury’s Fairview...
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Narrative Framing: Storytelling, Structures, and Perspectives
Storytelling is a central concern of documentary graphic narratives. This chapter discusses narrative framing strategies in the selected works: for...
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The New Batman
Batman is a popular icon constantly revamped and reintroduced to audiences (in a true comic book fashion), whilst kee** intact, in its core, modern...
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“Touching Something Real”: The Critique of Historical and Theatrical Methodology in Jackie Sibblies Drury’s We Are Proud to Present…
This chapter analyses Jackie Sibblies Drury’s We Are Proud to Present…, which depicts a company of young American actors, both Black and white,...
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The Metamodern Utopia in The OA Mediaverse
The mediaverses analysed so far have discussed the ways in which fans influence and change not only the text but also the cultural meaning they are...
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Performing De Profundis
This chapter focuses on how De Profundis stands today not only as a confessional letter but most importantly as a complex exercise of...
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Conclusion
The brief concluding chapter summarizes the monograph’s appraisal of what is required for metatheatricality to effectively challenge violent...
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The Chronotope of the Fart as Pharmakon in South Park: The Fractured But Whole
Laughter at the abject and in archipelagic relation to others is taken up more directly in this chapter in a related chronotope: the chronotope of...
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Janelle Monáe’s Afrofuturism
This chapter introduces Afrofuturism as a cultural form that centers Blackness within a genre of speculative fiction that has historically been...
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Carnival as a Partial Expression of Gendered Reality
The chapter explores Trinidad carnival as a site for license and the reversal of established roles and norms, associated with the pan-Caribbean...
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The Complexity Problem
In this book I argue that we are facing a problem of unprecedented complexity and that this problem has at least two dimensions to it. Perhaps our...
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Voices in the Public Sphere: Queer Vocalic Space in Cine Joven
This chapter addresses films of the Muestra united in their queer presentation of gender and sexuality. These films employ cinematic techniques to...
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Sardono Kusumo: Vibratory Heat, Juxtapositional Disruptions, and Danced Rupture
This chapter examines how the oeuvre of Indonesian contemporary choreographer, Sardono Kusumo, generates heat both through the principle of...
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Nora Chipaumire: Rewriting as Decolonizing Heat
This chapter analyzes the many forms of Nora Chipaumire’s choreographic strategy of rewriting and layering a hierarchical narrative with alterities,...
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Author as a Heteroglossic Figure
Drawing from Bakhtin’s concepts of heteroglossia, whereby the work is not dominated by a single consciousness, but rather shaped through multiplicity...