Massey University

College of Creative Arts

Wellington, New Zealand

June 29 –July 1, 2015

The Popular Culture Association Australia New Zealand

PopCAANZ

The Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand (PopCAANZ) is devoted to the scholarly understanding of everyday cultures. It is concerned with the study of the social practices and the cultural meanings that are produced and are circulated through the processes and practices of everyday life. As a product of consumption, an intellectual object of inquiry, and as an integral component of the dynamic forces that shape societies.

We invite all academics, professionals, cultural practitioners and those with a scholarly interest in popular culture, especially those working in the Asia-Pacific region to join us.

Our associated journal, The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture, is published by Intellect, UK.

PopCAANZ EXECUTIVE

The PopCAANZ Executive Committee for 2014-15:
President: Vicki Karaminas:
Vice President: Paul Mountfort:
Secretary/Membership: Denise N. Rall:

AREA CHAIRS

Animation: Deborah Szapiro:

Biography and Life Writing: Rachel Franks:

Business: Gjoko Muratovski:

Comics, Manga and Anime: Paul Mountfort:

Creative Writing: Karen Simpson Nikakis:

Design: Gjoko Muratovski:

Disability: Kimberley McMahon-Coleman:

Entertainment:Tanya Nitins:

Fan Studies: Katherine Larsen:

Fashion: Vicki Karaminas:

Fiction: Rachel Franks:

Film: Bruce Isaacs:

Food Studies: Jill Adams

Gender and Queer: Anita Brady:

Girlhood Studies: Juliette Peers:

Gothic and Horror: Lorna Piatti-Farnell:

History: Hsu-Ming Teo:

Law: Jason Bainbridge:

Pedagogy: Ruth Walker:

Performance: Suzanne Osmond:

Radio and Audio Media: Martin Hadlow:

Religion: Holly Randell-Moon:

Science: Steven Gil:

Sound, Voices and the Everyday: Norie Neumark:

Sports:

Television: Rosser Johnson:

Textiles: Denise N. Rall:

Toys and Games: Jason Bainbridge:

Visual Arts: Adam Geczy:

If you have a proposal for a new panel area for PopCAANZ or associated queries please contact:

Paul Montfort

Monday June 29 10.00 – 12.00

Film 1:

  1. Aleksandr Andreas Wansbrough - University of Sydney

Digressions During Sex Talk: Advertising and Cinematic Form in Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac

  1. Wyatt Moss-Wellington - University of Sydney

What is the Suburban Ensemble Dramedy?

  1. Russell Manning – Monash University

Wes Anderston does not exist

TV 1:

  1. Jo Coglan–Southern Cross University

A discourse analysis of American Decay in ‘New Television’

  1. Patrick Fuery- Chapman University

Between Daryl and Rick: (Lacanian) Anxiety, Missing Objects, and The Walking Dead

  1. Tim GrovesVictoria University of Wellington

‘It Feels Good because God Has Power’: The Serial Killer Mastermind and His Disciples

Religion 1:

  1. Bruno Marshall Shirley Victoria University of Wellington

The Presence of Religion in Popular Music: An Analysis of “Glory”

  1. Holly Randell-MoonUniversity of Otago

Is Prince William a god or celebrity? Whiteness, sovereignty and the British monarchy

  1. Ann Hardy/Carolyn Michelle/ Charles H. Davis (Ryerson)University of Waikato

Still a Spiritual Journey? Changing Audience Reactions to The Hobbit film trilogy

Visual Arts 1:

  1. Catherine Bagnall, Marcus MooreMassey University

Toward the Butterfly Machines

  1. Stefan PopescuUniversity of Sydney

Transgression, Performance Art and Family Values in the Video Art of Huck Botko

12.00 – 1.00 Lunch

Monday 1.00 – 3.00 pm

FILM 2

  1. Helen GoritsasAcademy of Information Technology, Sydney

Dialogical Meeting: An Encounter Theory of Cinema ‘Would we know the day any better if there were no night?’ Andre Bazin

  1. Tim Groves/Sarah DillonVictoria University of Wellington

Serial Killers, Style and Post-Classical Narration

  1. Daniel BinnsRMIT University

Spectres of the Frame: A Treatise on the Digital Image

TV2

  1. Melissa GouldAuckland University of Technology

Christian Cultural Markers and Television Commercials: An investigation into the appropriation of Christian Cultural Markers in Non-Christian Advertisements on New Zealand Screens

  1. Steven GilUniversity of Queensland

Mad Science from Beyond the Stars: New Perspectives and Images of Science through the Figure of the Alien Scientist

  1. Nick HolmMassey University

Brezhnev as Background: The Americans and Marxism in the 21st century

Gothic/Horror 1

  1. Sarah BakerAuckland University of Technology

True Detective: The migration of the King in Yellow to the Gothic television series

  1. Carmel Cedro, Lorna Piatti Farnell Auckland University of Technology

You can be special’: Technology, Trans-humanism, and Gothic Evolutions in Popular Television

  1. Timothy JonesVictoria University of Wellington

Every Day is Halloween: Goth and the Gothic

Design 1

  1. David SinfieldAuckland University of Technology

Typographical ghosts: A contemplation in real time, on mystery and recovery

  1. Nigel JamiesonAuckland University of Technology

A Survey of Augmented Reality in Australia and New Zealand

  1. Sky MarsenUniversity of Southern California

Experiencing the Digital: Representations of Human-Computer interaction in Marketing Texts

3:00 – 3:30 Afternoon Tea

Monday 3.30 – 5.30

FILM 3

  1. Josh WheatleyUniversity of Sydney

Of Toys and Trash: The Crisis of Waste in Pixar's Toy Story Films

  1. Damian McDonaldMuseum of Applied Arts and Sciences

Firearms as a Motif in Popular Culture

  1. Olivia HopkinsUniversity of Sydney

‘How Do I Know What’s Real?’: Southern Religion and Alternate Worldviews in The Reaping (2007)

FAN STUDIES 1

  1. Mark StewartUniversity of Auckland

Appropriate’ Fandom – the Television Industry’s Efforts to Model Fan Behaviours

  1. Bryce GallowayMassey University

One Girly-Man's NZ Zine History

  1. Angela WarrenUniversity of Tasmania

Chuck, Blair And The Porter: Negotiating The Rules Of Play After The Gossip Girl And Sleep No More Crossover

  1. Bertha ChinSwinburne University of Technology

“Orlando Jones needs to GTFO of our fandom”: Supernatural conventions and gate-keeping

TV 3

  1. Rosser JohnsonAuckland University of Technology

Revisiting Scannell’s for-anyone-as-someone structure: the commodified listener / viewer as “someone special?”

  1. Kimberley McMahon-ColemanUniversity of Wollongong

Why Doc Martin hates being called Doc Martin: Autism Spectrum Disorder on TV

  1. Rebecca TreleaseAuckland University of Technology

The Bachelor and the ‘management of liveness’

5.30 – 8.00 pm Opening Reception

Tuesday June 30 9.00 – 11.00

Film 4

  1. Mhairi McIntyreDeakin University

The Goddess Unveiled: Female Power in Contemporary Cinema

  1. Renee MiddlemostUniversity of Wollongong

Unexpected Allies?: S/exploitation, the Bechdel Test and the Films of Andy Sidaris

  1. Duncan AndersonVictoria University of Wellington

Video Nasties in New Zealand in the 1980s

Music 1

  1. Bepan BhanaIndependent Scholar

Zigging While The Others Zag

  1. Simon Order et al. Murdoch University, Perth

Remix: Lighting the Creative Fire

  1. Martin PatrickMassey University

Wild Gift: X’s Punk Poeticism

Gothic/Horror 2

  1. Margaret McAllister, Donna Lee BrienCentral Queensland University

Looking back to see ahead: Reassessing The Snake Pit for its gothic codes and significance

  1. Lorna Piatti-FarnellAuckland University of Technology

'I Warned You About the Mirrors': Ghostly Reflections and Cultural Hauntings in The Skeleton Key

  1. Amy Taylor La Trobe University

The Sonic Gothic: The Ominous Soundscape of Matthew Saville’s Noise (2007).

  1. Naomi von Senff University of New England

Cannibalising Christmas – Injecting elements of horror in Joe Hill’s Christmas tale “Nos4a2” (Nosferatu).

Book Publishing Seminar

James Campbell (International Marketing Manager - Intellect)

Morning tea 11.00 – 11.30

Tuesday 11.30 – 1.30

Comics 1

  1. Kevin ChiatUniversity of Western Australia

The First Truth of Batman: The Dark Knight as an Example of Gothic Subjectivity and Relational Thinking

  1. Ashlee NelsonVictoria University of Wellington

Future Gonzo and Transmetropolitan: Spider Jerusalem as an Embodiment of Hunter S. Thompson

  1. Paul MountfortAuckland University of Technology

Tintin as Spectacle

Fashion 1

  1. Wing-sun Liu (Li, Lam, Yuan, Lam)The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Heritage, Fashion and Design

  1. Diana MarksIndependent Scholar

Communicating with molas: activism in dress

  1. Lee JensenMassey University

Skank The popularity of animal notes in contemporary perfume

Popular Romance 1

  1. Lauren O’Mahony Murdoch University, Perth

In Search of Feminist Romance in Australian Chick Lit

  1. Vassiliki VerosUniversity of Technology Sydney

Romance Fiction Need Not Apply: investigating book club selections by cultural institutions

  1. Jodi McAlisterMacquarie University

This Modern Love: representations of romantic love in historical romance

Tuesday 11.30 – 1.30

Visual Arts 2

  1. Sean Lowry The University of Newcastle

Are we Still a Band? Negotiating the Antipodean Extremities of Intermedial Expansion and Medium specificity in Art, Music and Popular Culture

  1. Mimi KellyUniversity of Sydney

Still Fraught, Still Relevant: Performing through Popular Culture

  1. Simone HineUniversity of Melbourne

Stillness/Motion/Performance

  1. Georgia BanksVictoria College of the Arts

The Wound is All: Reperformance and the Fetish

Lunch 1.30 – 2.30

Tuesday 2.30 – 4.30

Fashion 2

  1. Laini BurtonQueensland College of Art, Griffith University

Fashioning the flesh: Fashioning the flesh: Speculating on 3D printed organs

  1. Sophia Errey Independent Scholar

Working the Work and Talking the Talk: Project Runway

  1. Vishna CollinsUniversity of New South Wales Art & Design

Art and Fashion

Fashion 3

  1. Vicki Karaminas, Justine TaylorMassey University, Wellington

Sailor Style. Representations of the Mariner in Contemporary Fashion

  1. Denise N. Rall, Emerald KingSouthern Cross University/Victoria University of Wellington

Looking at Schoolboys and their Uniforms before the end of the Japanese Empire

  1. Kathryn A. Hardy BernalMassey University

Lolita in Cyberspace: Performing Identity via Online Lolita Fashion Subculture Communities

Queer/Gender 1

  1. Melanie FerDonWhitecliffe College of Arts and Design

To Queer or Not To Queer

  1. Rosemary BrewerAuckland University of Technology

“Try and hold the love of your husband and get your way at the same time”: changing representations of love and agency in the agony aunt columns of the New Zealand Woman’s Weekly, 1950 and 1980

  1. ,Julie Cupples, Natasha VineUniversity of Edinburgh

Intersectional geopolitics, transgender advocacy and the new media environment

  1. Michael PottsUniversity of Canterbury, Christchurch

Homosexuality as Degeneracy in Twenty-First Century Literature

Curating 1

  1. Peterson, Bilie LythbergWhitecliff College of Arts and Design, U of Auckland

Taking it to the Street: Pacific Auto-curation in Public Spaces

  1. Emma Jean KellyIndependent Scholar

Queering the Archive, Double Curatorship: representing 30 years of HIV/AIDS in Aotearoa New Zealand in the work of Gareth Watkins and Paula Booker

  1. Kath FosterIndependent Scholar

AN EXPLOSION OF SEEING: The Impact of Pop Culture on the Murals of John Foster

4.30 – 5.00 Afternoon Tea

Wednesday July 1 9.00 – 11.00

Film 5

  1. Kim WilkinsUniversity of Sydney

(Re)constructing Berlin: Framing the City in Tom Twyker’s Berlin Films

  1. Paul SunderlandUniversity of Sydney

Immersion and Historical Space in Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon

  1. Bruce IsaacsUniversity of Sydney

A Transcultural Genre Aesthetic: Sergio Corbucci’s Django (1966) and il Grande Silenzio (The Great Silence, 1968)

Fiction 1

  1. Jillene BydderUniversity of Waikato

Better than Biggles: Michael Annesley’s Lawrie Fenton Novels

  1. Rachel FranksState Library of NSW / University of Newcastle, Australia Fiction 1

‘A World of Fancy Fiction and Fact’: The Frank C. Johnson Archive at the State Library of NSW

  1. Lauren O’MahonyMurdoch University, Melbourne

“More Than Sex, Shopping and Shoes” 1: Cosmopolitan Indigeneity and Cultural Politics in Anita Heiss’s Koori Chick Lit

Fashion 4

  1. Anne Pierson-SmithCity University, Hong Kong

Where there’s a Will?: an analysis of the use of fashion brand narratives to win hearts and minds in the high street

  1. Tania Splawa-Neyman RMIT University

The diary of a mender: Making and mending to make sense of ‘abundant consumables’

  1. Denise N. Rall Southern Cross University

Can we ‘repair’ repair - how, when and where?

11.00 – 11.30 Morning Tea

Wednesday July 1 11.30 – 1.30

Food 1

  1. Donna Lee BrienCentral Queensland University

Recovering forgotten Australian food writers: Wivine de Stoop

  1. Alison VincentCentral Queensland University

Richard Beckett and Sam Orr write about food

  1. Julie McIntyreUniversity of Newcastle

Chardy and Savvy: Cultural highs and gendered hangovers from the world white wine boom

Queer/Gender 2

  1. Rosanna HuntUniversity of Tasmania

The 'indie' femininities of Frankie magazine

  1. Phoebe HartQueensland University of Technology

Intersex Onscreen

  1. Erin HarringtonUniversity of Canterbury

Living deaths, wicked witches and ‘hagsploitation’: horror and / of the aging female body

DESIGN 2

  1. Francesca Zampollo Auckland University of Technology

Food Design, Meanings, Stories, Memories, Emotions

  1. Lynne Ciochetto Massey University, Wellington

Toilet Signs as Folk Art: A Cross-Cultural Visual Essay

  1. Gjoko Muratovski Auckland University of Technology

Design Management Education: Educating Design Managers for Strategic Roles

Design 3

  1. Gray HodgkinsonMassey University

‘Displaced’- Animated Movie

  1. Donald PrestonMassey University

Island Love: How Our Islands’ Shape Shapes Our Identity

  1. Corey WaldenAuckland University of Technology

Diary of a Murderhobo: The Mapping of Participant Divertissement within Dungeons & Dragons

Getting Published in the Australasian Journal Popular Culture

1.30 – 2.30 Lunch

Wednesday July 1 2.30 – 4.30

Queer/Gender 3

  1. Baden OffordCurtin University, Western Australia

Kissing as an Everyday Human Right: Queer Interventions in Popular Culture

  1. Logan AustinAuckland University of Technology

New Zealand’s Gay Leather Culture: Influenced by, and Influencing, Pop Culture

  1. Anita BradyVictoria University of Wellington

Taking Time Between G-String Changes to Educate Ourselves: Sinéad O’Connor, Miley Cyrus and Celebrity Feminism

  1. Athena BellasUniversity of Melbourne

‘You Have No Idea What It’s Like to be a Girl in this World’: Reign, Power, and the Teen Queen

Food 2/Writing

  1. Geoff StahlVictoria University of Wellington

Making a Mockery of Meat: Translating Texture and Failings of the ‘Flesh’”

  1. Helen MitchellMassey University

Written on the Body: Tattoo Narratives

  1. Laura GoodinAustralian Institute of Music, Sydney and Melbourne

Genre Conventions: The Beginning of the End?"

Performance 1/Radio & Audio Media

  1. Simon DwyerCentral Queensland University

The role of the ‘standard rig’ in the illumination of a production of Reginald Rose’s Twelve Angry Men (1954)

  1. Peter Hoar Auckland University of Technology

Asking the People What They Want: High-Brow vs. Low-Brow and the 1932 New Zealand Radio Survey

  1. Matt MollgaardAuckland University of Technology

Pop, Power and Politics: Local Music Radio as a Public/Private Partnership

5.00 – 6.00 PopCAANZ AGM

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Abstracts

Duncan AndersonVictoria University of WellingtonFilm 4

Video Nasties in New Zealand in the 1980s

While the United Kingdom experienced a moral panic over so-called ‘video nasties’ in the 1980s, films such as Meir Zarchi’s I Spit on Your Grave (1978) and Abel Ferrara’s The Driller Killer (1979) faced a rather different fate in New Zealand. Primarily through material held in Archives New Zealand, this paper will examine film and video censorship in New Zealand in the 1980s, and discuss the way in which the relative lack of moral panic surrounding ‘video nasties’ contrasts with what occurred in the UK. Using an institutionalist political economy approach, this paper will emphasise what Des Freedman calls the ‘deeply political’ nature of media policy development and implementation, and look for both macro and micro level explanations for the nature of New Zealand censorship practice and discourse during a period in which home video gained prominence and popularity.

Duncan Anderson completed a Masters degree in History at the University of Waikato in 2002, and is currently working on a Film Studies PhD at Victoria University of Wellington, examining the history of New Zealand film and video censorship from 1976 to 1993.

Logan AustinAuckland University of TechnologyQueer/Gender 3

New Zealand’s Gay Leather Culture: Influenced by, and Influencing, Pop Culture

This paper explores New Zealand’s gay leather culture and how this has been affected by popular culture over time. It asks the question “who is influencing who?”

It explores aspects of the culture using images gathered by, and photographed by, the researcher. These will be used to inform this paper that historically travels from military uniforms of the 1950’s to Afro Styles haircuts of the 1970’s, through to Punk, Rock, and modern day fashion chic. All of which, feeds back into New Zealand’s gay leather culture. This paper taps into the my wider research project SkiNZ: Which looks at the everyday lives of gay New Zealand Leathermen, in and out of scene.

Logan Austin has worked full time in the school of Art and Design, AUT University, for the past fifteen years. He is currently a senior lecturer, and teaches mostly in the area of communication design where he is involved in digital illustration, moving image, and publishing design for print and mobile devices. In 2014, he presented his paper “Narratives of Identity, within New Zealand’s Gay Leather Culture” at the Ninth International Conference on “The Arts in Society” - Rome, Italy. This paper has been accepted for publication into their journal - released later this year.

Catherine Bagnall, Marcus Moore Massey UniversityVisual Arts 1

Toward the Butterfly Machines

Taking embroidery silk and turning it at 750rpm we seek to shape and figure things of the everyday to ‘become other’ attendant on contemporary intersections of the human / post-human condition and its relevancies to the everyday. Our contention is ‘pop’ provides for transformation’s in-between-ness that enables the surrendering of a priori human centered knowledge--that which arguably both governs and limits our (inter)actions and being in the world. Within this framework we address material ontology and ‘becoming’ non-human creature—so stitching tiny lines of silken embroidery threads into clothing is to stitching oneself into/as a butterfly. Speculation to the sensuality of materials enables inanimate materials to change and perform. There is involvement of intense concentration and pleasure in this process. One looses oneself in the accomplishment and to the shimmering pinks, silvers, greens and pale blues in butterfly-ing. Of course one cannot become a butterfly but certain clothing and the sewing itself onto dress, and into machine, enables a “becoming” more “butterfly”. Set silk spinning: stitching and flying and glittering as wings hum and whirr. Fluttering transcendence activating sublime myriad—the realization and rupturing of being butterfly occurs simultaneously as an aesthetic of transformation / transformational aesthetics.

Catherine Bagnall is an artist whose work focuses on performance practices and its intersection with dress. Using the distinctively cultural form of clothing to explore the human/non-human animal divide Catherine’s work puts into practice ‘becoming other” as atransformational strategy to shift our relationship to our environment and our fellow nonhuman creatures. Her work questions the role of the imagination in inventing new possible worlds in this moment of complexity and uncertainty that the world is currently in. Testing the bounds of self through performative acts of ‘dressing up’, the work offers new modes of experience more sensory and baroque than we usually give value to. Catherine lectures at Massey University’s College of Creative Arts.