May 2025 – Current Issue
Special issue – Themed Section
Introduction to Themed Section: Girl Audiences in the ‘Girlscape’
Michele Paule and Sarah Godfrey
The Italian ‘Girlscape’: The Teen-Produced Video Essay as a ‘Material Thinking’ Audience Research Method
Danielle Hipkins and Romana Andò
Girl to Girl: Italian Girls and Girlhood Models in Serial Narratives
Stefania Antonioni and Chiara Checcaglini
‘Takes One to Know One’: The Co-Construction of a Lesbian Narrative Space in Taylor Swift’s Text(s)
Manon Berthier
Finding the Fangirlscape: Understanding ‘Fangirl’ as a Gendered Transfandom Category
Ava Bucy
Virtualised Desire: The Role of Cosplay and Sexual Selfies in Japanese Otaku Culture
Moe Yamauchi
Nymphet to Coquette – “Girl-core” Virality, Popular Feminism and the ‘Girlscape’ on TikTok
Summer Gamble
Articles
Roots Seekers and Travelling Subjectivities: Being Frisian in Aotearoa/New Zealand
Joost de Bruin
SVoDs Modulating the Knowledge of Viewers about Other Nations: The Turkish Quality TV Series Bir Başkadır [Ethos] (TR, 2020) in a ‘German’ Group Discussion
Ömer Alkin and Rahime Özgün Kehya
‘Everything to Everyone?’: Canadian National Identity and the Barenaked Ladies
Melissa Beattie
Spectators in Practice: Board Cinemas and Film Use on GDR Seagoing Vessels
Andy Räder
‘Stranger than fiction’: How and Why Conspiracy Theorists Decode Fiction to Construct their Worldview
Matthias De Bondt, Stef Aupers and Roel Vande Winkel
Book Reviews
Review: James Layton, Bergson and Durational Performance: (Re)Ma(r)king Time, Chicago: Intellect, 2022
Alicia Corts