Tag: Ross Garner
IN DEFENCE OF CHEAP, CHEAP, CHEAP: THE PROBLEMATIC NATURE OF WORKING CLASS NOSTALGIA by Ross Garner
N.B. Before reading this blog it is worth stating that my cultish sensibilities frequently draw me...
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LESS CULT, MORE QUALITY?: AUDIENCE READINGS OF PRE-TEXTS FOR MARVEL’S INHUMANS AND ‘QUALITY-MAINSTREAM-CULT’ TV DRAMA by Ross Garner
The past weekend saw the annual San Diego Comic Con (SDCC) take place, an event which, as Lincoln...
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The Uncanny Brand: Architectural Dissonance and Genre Discourses in the Marketing of Horror by Ross Garner
Since debuting on the UK’s digital terrestrial television service Freeview in March 2015, I have...
Read MoreA TALE OF TWO POSTERS: NEGOTIATING PARATEXTUALITY AND AFFECT IN ‘OFFICIAL’ AND ‘UNOFFICIAL’ PUBLICITY FOR THE NEW TWIN PEAKS by Ross Garner
In this blog post I want to challenge the separation of ‘official’ and ‘unofficial’ paratexts as divergent trajectories within what Jonathan Hardy (2011) has named the ‘commercial intertextuality’ of contemporary television series.
Read MoreTHE CANCELLATION OF DEFIANCE AND ‘INVISIBLE CULT TV’ by Ross Garner
Defiance (2013-15) was an original commission science-fiction TV series which has aired on the SyFy channel in both the US and the UK. Set on Earth in the near-future after a war between humans and immigrant aliens who arrived...
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