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:
- Aleksandr Andreas Wansbrough - University of Sydney
Digressions During Sex Talk: Advertising and Cinematic Form in Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac
- Wyatt Moss-Wellington - University of Sydney
What is the Suburban Ensemble Dramedy?
- Russell Manning – Monash University
Wes Anderston does not exist
TV 1:
- Jo Coglan–Southern Cross University
A discourse analysis of American Decay in ‘New Television’
- Patrick Fuery- Chapman University
Between Daryl and Rick: (Lacanian) Anxiety, Missing Objects, and The Walking Dead
- Tim GrovesVictoria University of Wellington
‘It Feels Good because God Has Power’: The Serial Killer Mastermind and His Disciples
Religion 1:
- Bruno Marshall Shirley Victoria University of Wellington
The Presence of Religion in Popular Music: An Analysis of “Glory”
- Holly Randell-MoonUniversity of Otago
Is Prince William a god or celebrity? Whiteness, sovereignty and the British monarchy
- 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:
- Catherine Bagnall, Marcus MooreMassey University
Toward the Butterfly Machines
- 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
- 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
- Tim Groves/Sarah DillonVictoria University of Wellington
Serial Killers, Style and Post-Classical Narration
- Daniel BinnsRMIT University
Spectres of the Frame: A Treatise on the Digital Image
TV2
- 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
- Steven GilUniversity of Queensland
Mad Science from Beyond the Stars: New Perspectives and Images of Science through the Figure of the Alien Scientist
- Nick HolmMassey University
Brezhnev as Background: The Americans and Marxism in the 21st century
Gothic/Horror 1
- Sarah BakerAuckland University of Technology
True Detective: The migration of the King in Yellow to the Gothic television series
- Carmel Cedro, Lorna Piatti Farnell Auckland University of Technology
You can be special’: Technology, Trans-humanism, and Gothic Evolutions in Popular Television
- Timothy JonesVictoria University of Wellington
Every Day is Halloween: Goth and the Gothic
Design 1
- David SinfieldAuckland University of Technology
Typographical ghosts: A contemplation in real time, on mystery and recovery
- Nigel JamiesonAuckland University of Technology
A Survey of Augmented Reality in Australia and New Zealand
- 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
- Josh WheatleyUniversity of Sydney
Of Toys and Trash: The Crisis of Waste in Pixar's Toy Story Films
- Damian McDonaldMuseum of Applied Arts and Sciences
Firearms as a Motif in Popular Culture
- Olivia HopkinsUniversity of Sydney
‘How Do I Know What’s Real?’: Southern Religion and Alternate Worldviews in The Reaping (2007)
FAN STUDIES 1
- Mark StewartUniversity of Auckland
Appropriate’ Fandom – the Television Industry’s Efforts to Model Fan Behaviours
- Bryce GallowayMassey University
One Girly-Man's NZ Zine History
- Angela WarrenUniversity of Tasmania
Chuck, Blair And The Porter: Negotiating The Rules Of Play After The Gossip Girl And Sleep No More Crossover
- Bertha ChinSwinburne University of Technology
“Orlando Jones needs to GTFO of our fandom”: Supernatural conventions and gate-keeping
TV 3
- Rosser JohnsonAuckland University of Technology
Revisiting Scannell’s for-anyone-as-someone structure: the commodified listener / viewer as “someone special?”
- Kimberley McMahon-ColemanUniversity of Wollongong
Why Doc Martin hates being called Doc Martin: Autism Spectrum Disorder on TV
- 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
- Mhairi McIntyreDeakin University
The Goddess Unveiled: Female Power in Contemporary Cinema
- Renee MiddlemostUniversity of Wollongong
Unexpected Allies?: S/exploitation, the Bechdel Test and the Films of Andy Sidaris
- Duncan AndersonVictoria University of Wellington
Video Nasties in New Zealand in the 1980s
Music 1
- Bepan BhanaIndependent Scholar
Zigging While The Others Zag
- Simon Order et al. Murdoch University, Perth
Remix: Lighting the Creative Fire
- Martin PatrickMassey University
Wild Gift: X’s Punk Poeticism
Gothic/Horror 2
- Margaret McAllister, Donna Lee BrienCentral Queensland University
Looking back to see ahead: Reassessing The Snake Pit for its gothic codes and significance
- Lorna Piatti-FarnellAuckland University of Technology
'I Warned You About the Mirrors': Ghostly Reflections and Cultural Hauntings in The Skeleton Key
- Amy Taylor La Trobe University
The Sonic Gothic: The Ominous Soundscape of Matthew Saville’s Noise (2007).
- 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
- Kevin ChiatUniversity of Western Australia
The First Truth of Batman: The Dark Knight as an Example of Gothic Subjectivity and Relational Thinking
- Ashlee NelsonVictoria University of Wellington
Future Gonzo and Transmetropolitan: Spider Jerusalem as an Embodiment of Hunter S. Thompson
- Paul MountfortAuckland University of Technology
Tintin as Spectacle
Fashion 1
- Wing-sun Liu (Li, Lam, Yuan, Lam)The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Heritage, Fashion and Design
- Diana MarksIndependent Scholar
Communicating with molas: activism in dress
- Lee JensenMassey University
Skank The popularity of animal notes in contemporary perfume
Popular Romance 1
- Lauren O’Mahony Murdoch University, Perth
In Search of Feminist Romance in Australian Chick Lit
- Vassiliki VerosUniversity of Technology Sydney
Romance Fiction Need Not Apply: investigating book club selections by cultural institutions
- Jodi McAlisterMacquarie University
This Modern Love: representations of romantic love in historical romance
Tuesday 11.30 – 1.30
Visual Arts 2
- 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
- Mimi KellyUniversity of Sydney
Still Fraught, Still Relevant: Performing through Popular Culture
- Simone HineUniversity of Melbourne
Stillness/Motion/Performance
- 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
- Laini BurtonQueensland College of Art, Griffith University
Fashioning the flesh: Fashioning the flesh: Speculating on 3D printed organs
- Sophia Errey Independent Scholar
Working the Work and Talking the Talk: Project Runway
- Vishna CollinsUniversity of New South Wales Art & Design
Art and Fashion
Fashion 3
- Vicki Karaminas, Justine TaylorMassey University, Wellington
Sailor Style. Representations of the Mariner in Contemporary Fashion
- Denise N. Rall, Emerald KingSouthern Cross University/Victoria University of Wellington
Looking at Schoolboys and their Uniforms before the end of the Japanese Empire
- Kathryn A. Hardy BernalMassey University
Lolita in Cyberspace: Performing Identity via Online Lolita Fashion Subculture Communities
Queer/Gender 1
- Melanie FerDonWhitecliffe College of Arts and Design
To Queer or Not To Queer
- 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
- ,Julie Cupples, Natasha VineUniversity of Edinburgh
Intersectional geopolitics, transgender advocacy and the new media environment
- Michael PottsUniversity of Canterbury, Christchurch
Homosexuality as Degeneracy in Twenty-First Century Literature
Curating 1
- Peterson, Bilie LythbergWhitecliff College of Arts and Design, U of Auckland
Taking it to the Street: Pacific Auto-curation in Public Spaces
- 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
- 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
- Kim WilkinsUniversity of Sydney
(Re)constructing Berlin: Framing the City in Tom Twyker’s Berlin Films
- Paul SunderlandUniversity of Sydney
Immersion and Historical Space in Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon
- Bruce IsaacsUniversity of Sydney
A Transcultural Genre Aesthetic: Sergio Corbucci’s Django (1966) and il Grande Silenzio (The Great Silence, 1968)
Fiction 1
- Jillene BydderUniversity of Waikato
Better than Biggles: Michael Annesley’s Lawrie Fenton Novels
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Tania Splawa-Neyman RMIT University
The diary of a mender: Making and mending to make sense of ‘abundant consumables’
- 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
- Donna Lee BrienCentral Queensland University
Recovering forgotten Australian food writers: Wivine de Stoop
- Alison VincentCentral Queensland University
Richard Beckett and Sam Orr write about food
- Julie McIntyreUniversity of Newcastle
Chardy and Savvy: Cultural highs and gendered hangovers from the world white wine boom
Queer/Gender 2
- Rosanna HuntUniversity of Tasmania
The 'indie' femininities of Frankie magazine
- Phoebe HartQueensland University of Technology
Intersex Onscreen
- Erin HarringtonUniversity of Canterbury
Living deaths, wicked witches and ‘hagsploitation’: horror and / of the aging female body
DESIGN 2
- Francesca Zampollo Auckland University of Technology
Food Design, Meanings, Stories, Memories, Emotions
- Lynne Ciochetto Massey University, Wellington
Toilet Signs as Folk Art: A Cross-Cultural Visual Essay
- Gjoko Muratovski Auckland University of Technology
Design Management Education: Educating Design Managers for Strategic Roles
Design 3
- Gray HodgkinsonMassey University
‘Displaced’- Animated Movie
- Donald PrestonMassey University
Island Love: How Our Islands’ Shape Shapes Our Identity
- 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
- Baden OffordCurtin University, Western Australia
Kissing as an Everyday Human Right: Queer Interventions in Popular Culture
- Logan AustinAuckland University of Technology
New Zealand’s Gay Leather Culture: Influenced by, and Influencing, Pop Culture
- Anita BradyVictoria University of Wellington
Taking Time Between G-String Changes to Educate Ourselves: Sinéad O’Connor, Miley Cyrus and Celebrity Feminism
- 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
- Geoff StahlVictoria University of Wellington
Making a Mockery of Meat: Translating Texture and Failings of the ‘Flesh’”
- Helen MitchellMassey University
Written on the Body: Tattoo Narratives
- Laura GoodinAustralian Institute of Music, Sydney and Melbourne
Genre Conventions: The Beginning of the End?"
Performance 1/Radio & Audio Media
- Simon DwyerCentral Queensland University
The role of the ‘standard rig’ in the illumination of a production of Reginald Rose’s Twelve Angry Men (1954)
- Peter Hoar Auckland University of Technology
Asking the People What They Want: High-Brow vs. Low-Brow and the 1932 New Zealand Radio Survey
- 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.