Volume 21, Issue 1

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

Review: Daniel Biltereyst and Ernest Mathijs, The Screen Censorship Companion: Critical Explorations in the Control of Film and Screen Media, Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2024
Kenneth J. Ward