This introduction explains the significance of the quintessentially Southeast Asian ‘king of fruit’, the durian. In the last nine years or so, durian production has been scaling up from small 4-acr...

The superhero is a popular figure in contemporary media: not just single characters, plots and movies, but entire universes and ‘phases’ spread across multiple protagonists, narrative arcs, devices...

This article introduces the special issue of Mapping the Music and Video Streaming Landscape and its Disruptions in Southeast Asia by identifying three ways in which the special issue engages with ...

While the ‘top-down’ variant of nationalism is engendered by elites and emphasizes loyalty to the state and ethnic solidarity, little is known about the ‘bottom-up’ variant, which focuses on people...

This special issue started years ago as part of a collective reading group on the public sphere with colleagues at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. A significant portion of our initial...

This article argues for a deeper understanding of the forms of streaming platform infrastructures as imagined and experienced by audiences. The empirical research is based on a qualitative audience...

The pastoral station is an under-examined location space in Australia’s screen history. Using the case study of Belmont Station in far west NSW and focusing specifically on the production of televi...

This article draws from Stuart Hall and Sarah Banet-Weiser to examine how ‘orthodox’ and ‘dissident’ popular feminist literature cite the manosphere to reflect and (re)produce cultural norms about ...

The role of culture in democratization processes has increasingly been emphasized by the EU. Insisting on the value of culture for peaceful inter-community relations, the European Commission argues...

Published in Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)

Superheroes exist in multiple narratives and storyworlds at the same time. Some of the stories and iterations are part of the character’s canon, while different adaptations and alternative versions...

This article examines the relationship between emotion, production and sales in the book publishing industry, specifically how ‘book love’ operates in the publication and promotion of Young Adult (...

Using the Western Australian (WA) film industry as a case study, this article revisits the framework proposed by Susan Dermody and Elizabeth Jacka in their anatomy of a film industry project. Ackno...

In August 2023, a collective of arts and humanities scholars undertook a mobile residency on the Far West Coast of South Australia, along the Great Australian Bight. Moving through deeply storied c...

This article explores Indonesian indie musicians’ critiques of the new system for distributing and listening to music, which is comprised of music streaming platforms, aggregator services, music in...

Many contemporary efforts to attend to the coloniality of nineteenth-century natural collections rely on the reconceptualization of items held in these collections as cultural belongings. After des...

This article examines the role of ‘resourcefulness’ in small rural and regional music scenes. Drawing on case study fieldwork and ethnographic research in Port Lincoln, South Australia, I demonstra...

This article supplements our earlier article on the Nutbush dance, ‘Doing the Nutbush’. After that was published, there was a media frenzy which resulted in many comments on The Guardian site and o...

The Eros Collection at Flinders University is the largest collection of materials produced by the sex industry and its affiliates in Australia. Acquired in 1997 and added to over the years, the var...

The practices of care of extinct animal specimens and other materials in natural history museums are many and varied. This article focuses upon two extinct animal examples from the Berlin Museum of...

Founded in 1997 by arts and community workers, the Feast Festival in Adelaide is one of the major LGBTQIA+ festivals held in Australia. 2022 marked the 25th year of the Feast Festival and, as such,...

In recent years, there has been a growing global trend in which people seek to establish a simpler, slower, and more sustainable lifestyle away from the pressures of city life. This research analys...

We will discuss the impact of AI on storytelling, particularly in the context of Indigenous media-making. We will do this broadly in reference to our own practices and artistic processes and our cu...

Whiteface is a staged embodiment of whiteness; it is the act of ‘dressing up’ as whiteness/a white person. For the Senegalese artist Samba Sine, this means painting himself white and putting on a F...

The work of 1930s writers Antonin Artaud, Stanley Weinbaum, and Max Herrmann, reveals an early history of Virtual Reality and a burgeoning interest in how the virtual can be concretized through exp...

This article introduces the special issue of ’In Queer Minds’ by discussing the conceptual impact of queer in formal educational institutions and the importance of developing and sustaining the que...

True Crime Games is an award winning Melbourne-based game company headed by artist and designers Andy Yong and Emma Ramsay. This paper explores the first of their games–Misadventure in Little Lon –...

This article discusses the experiences of six artists participating in a new Australian creative accelerator programme for emerging media documentary. Attending to the processes, perspectives and f...

The media discourse on Russia’s war in Ukraine heavily focuses on geopolitical and military explanations of this conflict, with Ukraine often serving as a metaphor for preserving European values. H...

Extended Reality (XR) is an emerging creative industry in Australia, and practitioners have had broad success in the international film festival circuit. This paper presents the results of a sector...

Published in Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies (Vol. 38, No. 2, 2024)

The world in 2020 presented Australia with a world on fire, in lock down, and in environmental ruin, with potentially unprecedented social dislocation, homelessness, unemployment and mental health ...

Knowingly re-circulated misinformation online is a widespread phenomenon that is increasingly met with suspicion or even condemnation in spite of the sharer’s intent. The article recasts misinforma...

Studies have documented how U.S. teen television programmes perpetuate a dominant heterosexual script in which girls are instructed to deny their sexual desire and to passively wait to be chosen by...

Published in Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies (Vol. 38, No. 1, 2024)

The systematic disappearance of individuals is very much a global phenomenon. In Pakistan, this phenomenon re-emerged after Pakistan decided to get involved in the U.S.-led ‘war on terror’ in the w...

Community broadcasting is anecdotally considered a ‘training ground’ for the mainstream media. However, there is little empirical research that supports these claims around skill development and ca...

In this article, my goal is to reveal the importance and potential of global history, an approach that is generally neglected in media and film history literature. The main characteristics of globa...

‘Europe was our America,’ the protagonist of Pajtim Statovci’s novel Crossing (2016) remarks as he prepares to leave Albania. In this novel and Statovci’s début, My Cat Yugoslavia (2014), character...

A quick Google search about Penang durians will immediately showcase a diversity of durian varieties like Red Prawn, Green Skin, and Khun Poh, in the Penang durio-tourism industry. Durio-tourism at...

This paper delves into the critical importance of ethical considerations in research, with a primary focus on gender, sex, and sexual orientation. Recognizing the vulnerabilities and complexities i...

This paper will explores the experiences of embedding queer perspectives and approaches into Initial Teacher Education (ITE). Initial teacher education is a topic of great interest; however, little...

Fan studies has discussed the action figure as a significant avenue of franchise and fan expression. However, there has been little discussion about the ways the action figure affects the fan once ...

This paper presents findings from an Australian Research Council Linkage Project investigating LGBTQ+ memory, migration and collecting institution practices. It analyses the ways in which minority ...

This research was designed to raise awareness, access and understanding of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer/questioning, asexual/aromantic and others who sit outside of the hete...

This article examines the notion of silence in the context of the current fast-paced society. The exploratory research project draws on observations relevant to every one of us, surrounded by the c...

The Nutbush dance is unique to Australia. It is danced to the Ike and Tina Turner track Nutbush City Limits released in 1973. It is a line dance. Anybody can join the line. This article explores th...

This article is a comparative analysis discussing the representation of migrant deportations, apprehensions, and raids by ICE in contemporary US television and streaming. The depiction of migration...

This article focuses on a particular discussion in the sphere of TV series that revolves around women’s empowerment: the recurring confusion between feminist efforts to improve the condition of wom...

Published in Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies (Vol. 38, No. 1, 2024)

Large-scale durian plantations are now a major threat, causing deforestation and displacing the Orang Asli, the aboriginal peoples of Peninsular Malaysia, from their customary lands. This paper foc...

This essay explores recent work of Zadie Smith (‘The Embassy if Cambodia’, 2013, and ‘The Lazy River’, 2019) and David Szalay (All That Man Is, 2016), as examples of BrexLit fiction, a term coined ...

While community radio scholars have been astute in documenting the democratic and socio-political value of community radio, there has been a lack of analysis towards its specifically musicalized ro...

Examining user practices at the centre of debates on video content consumption amidst the popularity of streaming platforms in Indonesia, this paper uses de Certeau’s work (1984) to understand the ...

Gigatown (2013–2014) was a joint initiative between the telecommunications company Chorus and the New Zealand government to award a town ‘The fastest internet in the Southern Hemisphere’ through a ...

Published in Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies (Vol. 37, No. 5, 2023)

A note from the editors introducing the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia (CSAA)’s 30th anniversary special issue.

Literature of the twentieth and twenty-first century is often concerned with migration, immigration, and exile. Zadie Smith’s White Teeth, Michel Houellebecq’s Submission, and Mohsin Hamid’s Exit W...

Published in Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies (Vol. 37, No. 6, 2023)

Published in Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies (Vol. 37, No. 6, 2023)