November 2021
Editorial
Barker, Martin. Seeking a new editor for Participations
Articles
Brooker, Will. Filling in the gaps: Creative imagination and nostalgia in ZX Spectrum Gaming
Duggan, Jennifer. The lamentable status of (queer) children in fandom: On being a fannish pariah
Harriss, Chandler. Building a better South: Celebrities, serial fandoms and the (re)construction of Southern Identity
Murumaa-Mengel, Maria & Liisi Maria Muuli. Misogynist content exposé pages on Instagram: Five types of shamings, moderators and audience members
Owusu, Joyce Osei & Kwamena Kwansah-Aidoo. Gender and/in film reading: A comparative analysis of male and female readings of Ties that Bind
Sartin, Roy Jo. Egyptomania as a fandom (or two): How fanon became canon in the world’s oldest fandom
Waller, Alison, Gemma Seltzer & Wallis Eates. ‘Life goes through in a book’: A case study of a co-creative narrative enquiry involving older adults living with early-stage dementia
Willard, Sarah Laura Nesti & Urwa Tariq . Emirati women illustrators on Instagram: An exploratory study
Themed Section: The concept of ‘engagement’ (Part 2)
Barker, Martin. Introduction
Blagrove, Anna. Engaged/Vacant: UK audience engagement with specialised film and cinemas
Burkholder, Meredith, Steinar Ellingsen, Nicola Evans & Sue Turnbull. Web series, Cancelled, and the value of engagement
Hessler, Jennifer. From Social Content Ratings to Sentiment Analysis: The cultivation and commodification of affective television engagement
Liedke, Heidi Lucja. On being pulled: Spectator engagement and spectacle in the context of live theatre broadcasting and NT at Home
Mathijs, Ernest & Annette Hill. Fugitive cult receptions of conspiracy thriller Utopia
Schlütz, Daniela Schlütz & Friederike Jage-D’Aprile. Audience engagement with spreadable texts: How to measure fan involvement with Game of Thrones
Thomason, Michelle & Steve Connolly. What does engagement look like in a Media Studies classroom?
Wlazel, Agnieszka. Engaging the audience vs. audience engagement with art
Themed Section: International Film Audiences
Nedyalkova, Maya & Daniela Treveri Gennari. Introduction
Academic Research
Gennari, Daniela Treveri, Lies Van de Vijver & Pierluigi Ercole. Defining a typology of cinemas across 1950s Europe
Çam, Aydın & İlke Şanlıer Yüksel. Old places, renewed experiences: Looking at the legacy of Çukurova Cinemas in the pandemic era
Missero, Dalila. Memory and gender as migrant audience formations: Latin American women remembering cinema across the Atlantic
Bernabei, Maria Ida & Andrea Mariani. Story of a cinema-goer: Seventy years of film viewing in the city of Udine as seen through ephemera
Aboulaoula, Salma Mediavilla & Daniel Biltereyst. Corona cinephilia: A qualitative audience study on cinephile places, spaces and the impact of COVID-19 on urban cinephilia in the city of Ghent, Belgium
Industry Perspectives
Kulyk, Laëtitia. Understanding and developing the audience: The case of the Francophone Film Festival of Greece
Blagrove, Anna. ‘Helping audiences and exhibitors find each other’: Interview with Catharine Des Forges, Director, Independent Cinema Office
Gennari, Daniela Treveri. A virtual cinema model to share with independent exhibitors: An interview with Leslie Montgomery Sheldon, director of YourScreen
Reviews
Evans, Elizabeth. Review of Barker, Martin, Clarissa Smith & Feona Attwood, Watching Game of Thrones: How audiences engage with dark television