{"title":"Video game characters and transmedia storytelling: The dynamic game character By Joleen Blom, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. 2023. pp. 208. €104.00 (hardcover)","authors":"Stephanie O' Dell Daugherity","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13356","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jpcu.13356","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"57 5-6","pages":"342-343"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141711892","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Theater censorship in contemporary Europe: Silence and protest By Annie Etienne, Chris Megson (Eds.). Exeter: University of Exeter Press. 2024. pp. 250. $ 112.99 (hardcover)","authors":"Julia Sweet","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13360","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13360","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"57 5-6","pages":"348-349"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142869127","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Happy eating and food addiction in American advertising By Debbie Danowski. New York: Lexington Books. 2024. pp. 232. $100.00 (Hardcover)","authors":"Edith Ritt-Coulter","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13358","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13358","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"57 5-6","pages":"346-347"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142868955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The ivory tower, Harry Potter, and beyond: More essays on the works of J.K. Rowling By Lana A. Whited (Ed.), Columbia: University of Missouri Press. 2023. pp. 424. $55.00 (hbk)","authors":"Amy Leshinsky","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13357","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13357","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"57 5-6","pages":"344-345"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142868954","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hollywood and history: What the movies get wrong from the Ancient Greeks to Vietnam By Jem Duducu, New York: Rowman and Littlefield. 2023. 264 pp. $38.00 (hardcover)","authors":"Anastasia Pratt","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13355","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13355","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"57 5-6","pages":"340-341"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142868953","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article investigates online fan video remixes that combine footage from the televisual adaptation of the Chinese classic The Romance of Three Kingdoms, set in ancient China, with soundtracks from the American science fiction film Inception (2010) and the magical fantasy Pirates of the Caribbean (2011). Analyzing the audio-visual aesthetics of these videos, I propose a reversal of Henry Jenkins's “additive comprehension” framework, which suggests that fan works aim to interpret and complete the original story-verse. Instead, I argue these videos reverse the process of interpretation through temporal–spatial transportation and corporeal transfiguration with false continuity editing, acousmatic aesthetics, and gravitational disorientation.
本文研究了在线粉丝视频混音作品,这些作品将中国古典名著《三国演义》(以中国古代为背景)的电视改编片段与美国科幻电影《盗梦空间》(Inception,2010 年)和魔幻奇幻电影《加勒比海盗》(Pirates of the Caribbean,2011 年)的配乐结合在一起。通过分析这些视频的视听美学,我提出了对亨利-詹金斯(Henry Jenkins)的 "添加式理解 "框架的颠覆。相反,我认为这些视频通过虚假的连续性剪辑、声学美学和重力迷失,实现了时空转移和肉体变形,从而扭转了诠释过程。
{"title":"Interpretation in reverse: Remixing the Three Kingdoms","authors":"Yiwen Wang","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13354","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13354","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article investigates online fan video remixes that combine footage from the televisual adaptation of the Chinese classic <i>The Romance of Three Kingdoms</i>, set in ancient China, with soundtracks from the American science fiction film <i>Inception</i> (2010) and the magical fantasy <i>Pirates of the Caribbean</i> (2011). Analyzing the audio-visual aesthetics of these videos, I propose a reversal of Henry Jenkins's “additive comprehension” framework, which suggests that fan works aim to interpret and complete the original story-verse. Instead, I argue these videos reverse the process of interpretation through temporal–spatial transportation and corporeal transfiguration with false continuity editing, acousmatic aesthetics, and gravitational disorientation.</p>","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"57 4","pages":"233-246"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141967295","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Freaks came out to write: The definitive history of the “Village Voice” the radical paper that changed American culture By Tricia Romano. New York, NY: Public Affairs, 2024. pp. 608. $35 (hardcover)","authors":"Keaton Studebaker","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13353","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jpcu.13353","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"57 5-6","pages":"338-339"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141368460","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Intersecting aesthetics: Literary adaptations & cinematic representations of Blackness By Charlene Regester, Cynthia Baron, Ellen C. Scott, Terri Simone Francis, Robin G. Vander (Eds.), Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi. 2023. pp. 288. $30.00 (paperback)","authors":"Carl C. Clark","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13350","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jpcu.13350","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"57 5-6","pages":"336-337"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141387795","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Middle Eastern television drama: Politics, aesthetics, practices By Christa Salamandra, Nour Halabi (Ed.), New York: Routledge. 2023. pp. 190. $160.00. (hardcover)","authors":"Muhammad Asad Latif","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13351","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13351","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"57 4","pages":"276-277"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141966726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bootlegging the airwaves: Alternative histories of radio and television distribution By Eleanor Patterson, Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press. 2024. pp. 192. $28.00 (paperback)","authors":"Christine F. Smith","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13349","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13349","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":"57 4","pages":"274-275"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141967744","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}