Comic Book INTENSITIES

Screenshot of the new issue header for INTENSITIES

Way back in the dim mists of online time (on January 23, 2013, to be precise), Film Studies For Free publicised its discovery of the new online incarnation of Intensities, the wonderful journal of cult media studies.

Not only are four existing issues of the journal freely available at its website, but a new issue has recently been published there, with lots of items of film studies related interest. The table of contents is pasted in below with links to these excellent items.

Of related interest: FSFF's entry on Studies of the Remediation of Films, Comics and Video Games.



INTENSITIES, Issue 5: Comic Book Intensities (Spring/Summer 2013) 

Articles

• Producing Transnational Cult Media- Neon Genesis Evangelion and Ghost in the Shell in Circulation – Brian Ruh
• Girls’ Fantasies, Freedom, and Brotherly Love- Incest Narratives in Shōjo Anime – Elizabeth Birmingham
• Depicting ordinary and nonstandard intimacies in public- Sex, romance and humour in women’s porn comics – Jackie Ruddock
• Architecture, Violence and Sensation- A Visitor’s Guide to Mega City One – Dan Smith
• The Joke’s On Him- Shamanism, Literary Magic, and the Textualization of Grant Morrison, Heath Ledger, and The Joker – Tim Bavlnka
• From Stories to Worlds- The Continuity of Marvel Superheroes from Comics to Film – David Sweeney
• Captain America, Watergate, and the Falcon- Rediscovering the American Dream? – Michael Ahmed

Intensive: Cult Media Review

• A Fatal Attraction- the fine line between eroticism and horror in Baba Yaga (Corrado Farina, 1973) – Adrian Smith
• Expressions of Fandom- Findings from a Psychological Survey of Cosplay and Costume Wear – Robin S. Rosenberg and Andrea M. Letamendi
• Karen Oughton interviews Fabrizio Federico, director of Black Biscuit (2011) – Karen Oughton