{"title":"Andy Warhol, Sarah Bernhardt, and the “Original Copy”","authors":"I. Taimre","doi":"10.5325/JASIAPACIPOPCULT.3.2.0188","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/JASIAPACIPOPCULT.3.2.0188","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:Andy Warhol’s portrait of Sarah Bernhardt (1980) simultaneously copies a preexisting photograph and overlays it with idiosyncratic gestures of original invention. The resulting work can be described as an “original copy,” a hybrid category of copying in the pictorial arts, analogous to “cover versions” in popular music. This article outlines the history of prior images related to this Warhol work. It considers how this history compares to those associated with two other renowned portraits of Bernhardt, one by Jules Bastien-Lepage (1879), the other by William Nicholson (1897). These three case studies are used to justify the articulation of two heuristic models—one static and one dynamic—for describing and distinguishing qualitatively different types of copying processes in art world contexts.","PeriodicalId":40211,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture","volume":"3 1","pages":"188 - 233"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41447359","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":"Madame Midas (1888): One of Fergus Hume’s Attempts to Replicate Publishing Glory","authors":"R. Franks","doi":"10.5325/JASIAPACIPOPCULT.3.2.0303","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/JASIAPACIPOPCULT.3.2.0303","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:The year 2017 marked the eighty-fifth anniversary of the death of Fergusson (Fergus) Wright Hume (1859–1932). Best known for his hugely successful debut novel The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (1886), set in Australia’s Melbourne, Hume went on to write many more works of fiction in the form of novels and short stories. These efforts resulted in a vast array of titles but none that captured the public imagination on a large scale and they are, today, mere curiosities of literary history. The closest that Hume came to replicating the publishing glory of The Mystery of a Hansom Cab was with his Australian-based murder mystery Madame Midas (1888). This article briefly explores Madame Midas and, while noting the story’s modest successes as both a book and a stage play, offers feminist and nationalist-focused rationales for this work’s inability to generate the same levels of excitement that surrounded, and continue to surround, Hume’s first novel.","PeriodicalId":40211,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture","volume":"3 1","pages":"303 - 323"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48699464","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":"“Soon It Would Be Too Hot”: Revisiting The Drowned World","authors":"T. Clement","doi":"10.5325/JASIAPACIPOPCULT.3.1.0026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/JASIAPACIPOPCULT.3.1.0026","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:We have entered an era in which we are threatened simultaneously by a revivified cold war and the ongoing calamity of climate change. I argue in this article that now is a good time to revisit J. G. Ballard’s 1962 novel The Drowned World. In its intertextual landscape, we find two real ruined cities (Hiroshima and New Orleans) that symbolize our two concurrent human-made eschatological threats. And revisiting The Drowned World now offers a timely reminder of the dangers of an anthropocentric worldview. Furthermore, this postapocalyptic story presents at least two ethically sound responses to the human-made crises we are complicit in creating. The Drowned World remains as relevant now as when it was written more than half a century ago.","PeriodicalId":40211,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture","volume":"3 1","pages":"26 - 54"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2018-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43305669","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":"The Early Career of Yamaguchi Katsuhiro: Vitrine Series in Historical Perspective","authors":"Toshiharu Omuka","doi":"10.5325/JASIAPACIPOPCULT.3.1.0090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/JASIAPACIPOPCULT.3.1.0090","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This article seeks to enhance our understanding of Japanese postwar art by focusing on the early career of Yamaguchi Katsuhiro, one of the major members of the famous 1950s avant garde group Jikken Kōbō (Experimental Workshop). This article also sheds light on the unique spatial environment of the artist’s house. His father had a two-story modernist study space built as an extension that was designed by the modernist painter Tōgō Seiji in the 1930s. This ultramodern house extension was a major influence on the work of the young Yamaguchi Katsuhiro. Another influence on Katsuhiro were postwar American art journals, which were full of information about new trends in the West and available to young Japanese artists through the Center of Information and Education Section established by the Americans.","PeriodicalId":40211,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture","volume":"3 1","pages":"100 - 90"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2018-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44166938","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":"Glitch_gli._ltc._","authors":"E. Colless","doi":"10.5325/JASIAPACIPOPCULT.3.1.0075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/JASIAPACIPOPCULT.3.1.0075","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:The 2017 live-action remake of the 1995 anime Ghost in the Shell has attracted a storm of criticism over Hollywood whitewashing the original Japanese production as well as trivializing the original’s probing investigation of cyborg sentience. This essay explores a particular aspect of the breakdown of the human-cyborg interface in the remake: the protagonist’s subjective experience of unaccounted memories as a series of glitches in her digital vision. It does so by inducing glitches—as intensive surges or noisy interruptions—in the essay’s own critical vision.","PeriodicalId":40211,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture","volume":"3 1","pages":"75 - 89"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2018-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46581359","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":"Of Art and Absurdity: Military, Censorship, and Contemporary Art in Thailand","authors":"Thanavi Chotpradit","doi":"10.5325/JASIAPACIPOPCULT.3.1.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/JASIAPACIPOPCULT.3.1.0005","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:On June 15, 2017, soldiers and plainclothes officers visited Cartel Artspace and Gallery VER in Bangkok. The two adjacent galleries were hosting exhibitions by young Thai contemporary artists, The Shards Would Shatter at Touch by Tada Hengsapkul and Whitewash by Harit Srikhao. The first exhibition depicted stories of political prisoners, whereas the latter recalled the 2010 military crackdown on Red Shirt protests in Bangkok. Thailand has been ruled by a military junta, the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO), since the May 2014 coup, but this was the first time that visual art exhibitions had attracted the attention of state officers. However, the military stormed the two galleries because of the incorrect impression that Prontip “Kolf” Mankong, a theater artist who had been convicted of lèse-majesté for the play Wolf Bride, was hosting Hengsapkul’s exhibition.","PeriodicalId":40211,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture","volume":"3 1","pages":"25 - 5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2018-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43778752","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":"On Nature and the Tactility of the Senses in Blade Runner 2049","authors":"Catherine L. Payne, Alexandra Pitsis","doi":"10.5325/JASIAPACIPOPCULT.3.1.0055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/JASIAPACIPOPCULT.3.1.0055","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:We explore Blade Runner 2049 through a series of subtle filmic moments. These moments contribute to an implicit narrative about the role of the senses, particularly tactility, in the development of human consciousness. This is navigated through the trajectory of the main character, Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Agent K, from replicant to a state of open-ended awareness. K (Ryan Gosling) as an evolving entity goes from existing as a synthetic being to experiencing the fragility and volatility of “being human”; in doing so, he encounters barriers within a wider, all-encompassing nature. The film is linked to Nabokov’s Pale Fire, in which we identify pivotal moments in K’s consciousness that are aligned with poetic concepts in this text. We contend that Blade Runner 2049 is a form of metacinema and is structured as an interrupted game, a spatial journey composed of layers, ruptures, and bifurcations expressed through barriers. These concepts will be discussed in this article.","PeriodicalId":40211,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture","volume":"3 1","pages":"55 - 74"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2018-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48708290","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":"The Cinema of Cruelty: Olympus Has Fallen and the Action-Spectacle Aesthetic","authors":"Ari M Mattes","doi":"10.5325/JASIAPACIPOPCULT.2.1.0093","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/JASIAPACIPOPCULT.2.1.0093","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:Olympus Has Fallen is one of the most blatant pieces of right-wing propaganda to emerge in recent Hollywood cinema. The US president, with the help of Secret Service member Mike Banning, asserts his rugged individualism against a horde of invading North Koreans. Given that the film's blustering about freedom in the face of the evil Other is ethically and aesthetically puerile, what about the film appeals to the viewer? Is the political configuration of the film indeed reducible to the dimension of message over medium? Drawing on Herbert Marcuse's The Aesthetic Dimension, this article suggests that the putative \"message\" of Olympus Has Fallen is in fact undercut by the nature of its engagement with the viewer at the level of the spectacle. The article, furthermore, hypothesizes a distinction between modes of spectacle in action cinema—\"cinematic-spectacle\" and \"action-spectacle\"—through comparative analysis of the screen-spectator relationship in Olympus Has Fallen and Avatar.","PeriodicalId":40211,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture","volume":"2 1","pages":"118 - 93"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47678585","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":"Fashioning Australian: Recent Reflections on the Australian Style in Contemporary Fashion","authors":"J. Craik","doi":"10.5325/JASIAPACIPOPCULT.2.1.0030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/JASIAPACIPOPCULT.2.1.0030","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:The concept of Australian fashion as a distinctive style and cultural preoccupation has been long contested. However, historical records and contemporary consumer behavior show that fashion has been integral to the formation of national identity and sense of self. Since European settlement, there have been periods when Australians have embraced and promoted Australian style as unique and not merely derivative of overseas (mostly European and American) trends. This article traces the development of a discourse about Australian fashion to contextualize a number of recent publications and art gallery exhibitions about Australian fashion that explore various aspects of its history, development, distinctiveness, and future. These publications and exhibitions are collectively building the framework for a revitalized perception of the significance and potential of Australian fashion in the global fashion context.","PeriodicalId":40211,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture","volume":"2 1","pages":"30 - 52"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44350854","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":"What Elena Did: Dis/ability in The Vampire Diaries","authors":"Kimberley McMahon-Coleman","doi":"10.5325/JASIAPACIPOPCULT.1.2.0161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/JASIAPACIPOPCULT.1.2.0161","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:The Vampire Diaries’ Elena Gilbert has always been constructed as a powerful teenager. In the novels by L. J. Smith and in the CW television series, Elena is always portrayed as popular, and independent and as having a great deal of freedom. The teenage dreams of Elena (Nina Dobrev) are shattered in a car accident, one that precipitates profound physical changes. She struggles to accept her circumstances, and is elated when she is later offered the slim chance of a cure: that perhaps, everything can be as it was once was. Elena has not become a wheelchair user, however, as is typical; instead, she has become a vampire. In this article, representations of vampirism will be explored through the lens of acquired disability, paying particular attention to the notion of the Temporarily Able-Bodied, the implications of a search for a cure, and how these impact on identity.","PeriodicalId":40211,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture","volume":"1 1","pages":"165 - 180"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47810314","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}