{"title":"Law and Justice in Japanese Popular Culture: From Crime Fighting Robots to Dueling Pocket Monsters","authors":"T. Simmons","doi":"10.5325/jasiapacipopcult.5.2.0191","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jasiapacipopcult.5.2.0191","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40211,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46604025","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"One Way or Another","authors":"Peter Pettigrew, Frank Longbottom","doi":"10.5325/jasiapacipopcult.5.2.0195","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jasiapacipopcult.5.2.0195","url":null,"abstract":"Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply Category: F/M, Gen Fandom: Harry Potter J. K. Rowling Relationship: Sirius Black/Harry Potter, James Potter/Lily Evans Potter Character: Harry Potter, Sirius Black, James Potter, Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrew, Lily Evans Potter, Alice Longbottom, Severus Snape, Minerva McGonagall, Regulus Black, Mrs. Potter, Mr. Potter, Frank Longbottom Additional Tags: Alternate Universe Time Travel, kind of, James and Harry are twins, Alternate Universe Gender Changes, Female Harry Potter, Harry is a Marauder, Sirius Needs a Hug, Panic Attacks, Powerful Harry, BAMF Harry, Not Canon Compliant, Child Abuse, Alternate Universe Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies, Emotional Constipation, No Horcruxes, Hogwarts Fifth Year, Smart Harry, Fluff, Friends to Lovers, Fluff and Angst, Teen Pregnancy, Childbirth, Non-Explicit Sex Stats: Published: 2015-07-19 Updated: 2017-03-29 Chapters: 3/? Words: 44736","PeriodicalId":40211,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture","volume":"5 1","pages":"195 - 203"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46180439","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Body Hopping: A Thought Experiment","authors":"A. Martin","doi":"10.5325/jasiapacipopcult.5.1.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jasiapacipopcult.5.1.0007","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:This article is a speculative investigation into the depiction of \"body hopping\"—an entity inhabiting a string of different bodies—in popular cinema since the 1980s. This trope features in genres ranging from horror and sci-fi to teen films and romantic comedies. Although often a narrative premise of dubious logic, body hopping offers us a way, as spectators, to enter into an imaginatively projected fantasy of the human body and its powers. I contrast this \"neurotic\" but creative logic of conceptualizing the body with the more recent philosophical school of \"embodiment.\" My case study is the career of actor Claudia Christian, who moved from 1980s genres to general recognition on the TV series Babylon 5 in the 1990s—but always retaining her persona of an \"ideal\" woman who is also \"off-norm\" in appearance and behavior. Christian's published autobiography and her role in the body-hopper special The Hidden (1987) are discussed.","PeriodicalId":40211,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture","volume":"98 ","pages":"22 - 7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41278719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Liminality and the Hidden Aspects of The Conjuring","authors":"Sarah Baker, Amanda Rutherford","doi":"10.5325/jasiapacipopcult.5.1.0032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jasiapacipopcult.5.1.0032","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:The films The Conjuring and The Conjuring 2 focuses on two demonologists, Ed and Lorraine Warren, while they help two families with supernatural entities. In the Gothic genre, the traditional location is often a medieval setting of a castle or ancient location. These two films are presented as horror films but contain an overarching Gothic mode. This article explores how the modern family homes that are presented become the sites of liminal hauntings and ultimately the destabilizing of the family unit. This disruption of the family reflects cultural anxieties around family units that are often seen in popular culture texts, where the unnatural events reflect the decay that each family experiences in the horror genre. The Conjuring films therefore reflect modern versions of the Gothic mode within generic horror films","PeriodicalId":40211,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture","volume":"5 1","pages":"32 - 49"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47406351","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Framing Issues Related to the Digital Unconscious: Interview with Alenka Zupančič","authors":"Aleks Wansbrough, Aleks Alenka Zupančič","doi":"10.5325/jasiapacipopcult.5.1.0093","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jasiapacipopcult.5.1.0093","url":null,"abstract":"AZ: My present project focuses on the question of the end, examining different ways in which this theme appears. From the “end of history” to the “end of the world,” passing through the “end of art,” the “end of ideology,” the “end of grand narratives” . . . which do not suggest the same idea at all. Francis Fukuyama’s book The End of History and the Last Man actually marks the opposite of what it seems to suggest, namely, that we have finally reached the end. What it marks is, quite the contrary, the impossibility to end. Namely, the impossibility to end capitalism, or the impossibility for capitalism as we know it to come to an end. If capitalist liberal democracy, as [Fukuyama’s] book suggested, constitutes the end of history, this end can last forever, it can go on forever, it is not the end of the world; it is not subjected to historical time but to its own temporality, in which there are no intrinsic reasons for it to end. It is an end that can go on endlessly, forever. The end itself doesn’t end, we just get stuck in a weird immobility. And I claim that if we look at how the political and cultural landscape functions today, perhaps the shortest way of describing it would be to say that Framing Issues Related to the Digital Unconscious: Interview with Alenka Zupančič","PeriodicalId":40211,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture","volume":"5 1","pages":"107 - 93"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49104102","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Parasites, Signals, and Nodes","authors":"J. Sargeant","doi":"10.5325/jasiapacipopcult.5.1.0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jasiapacipopcult.5.1.0023","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:This article has been adapted from the notes for a talk presented at the \"Inhuman Screens\" conference, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, September 2019. It is very much a series of ideas and starting points for thinking about the inhuman screen, the metaphor and experience of the inhuman in relation to biological interventions, and the texts that most clearly align with these ideas. In particular, it primarily considers Ian Haig's film The Foaming Node, a body-horror film that takes the form of a documentary, and the breakdown of human subjectivity.","PeriodicalId":40211,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture","volume":"5 1","pages":"23 - 31"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43378749","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Homogenizing the Radical, or Vice Versa? Adapting (to) The Murder of Roger Ackroyd","authors":"Alistair Rolls, R. Franks","doi":"10.5325/jasiapacipopcult.5.1.0050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jasiapacipopcult.5.1.0050","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:This article explores the 2000 telemovie adaptation of Agatha Christie's classic crime novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926) to look at ideas of the need (or not) to be faithful to an original text. The authors unpack some of the issues that surround the often controversial notion of the \"canon\" in detective fiction and present the telemovie as an example of the text's critical difference.","PeriodicalId":40211,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture","volume":"5 1","pages":"50 - 68"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46594961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Social Media and The Happiness Effect: Interview with Donna Freitas, August 22, 2019","authors":"Aleks Wansbrough, Donna Freitas","doi":"10.5325/jasiapacipopcult.5.1.0108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jasiapacipopcult.5.1.0108","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40211,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture","volume":"5 1","pages":"108 - 113"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46318014","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Addictive Appetites: Autophagy, Capitalism, and Mental Health","authors":"Roger Davis","doi":"10.5325/jasiapacipopcult.5.1.0069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jasiapacipopcult.5.1.0069","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:This article examines how images of self-cannibalism, or autophagy, configure a subjectivity that emphasizes the internalization of precarious existential conditions resulting from contemporary neoliberal principles. With a focus on mental health, I argue that the combination of self-cannibalism and individual responsibility inculcates an individual rather than collective response to mental health pathologies. I demonstrate how the dominant medical model of treatment paradoxically minimizes and internalizes the social and economic factors that contribute to identity formation, and I suggest that the conventional self-other antagonism of cannibalism transforms into a new self-self antagonism. By internalizing principles of competition and self-reliance in neoliberal capitalism, the contemporary subject subscribes to the very conditions that undermine the healthy social and interactive features that define a stable community life. Autophagy shifts away from the negative associations of cannibalism and toward the positive yet paradoxical associations of autophagy as a model of self-sustainability.","PeriodicalId":40211,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture","volume":"5 1","pages":"69 - 92"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41536551","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Letter from the Guest Editors","authors":"H. Randell-Moon, T. Boyce","doi":"10.5325/jasiapacipopcult.4.2.0121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jasiapacipopcult.4.2.0121","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40211,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture","volume":"4 1","pages":"121 - 128"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41999791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}