[Commlist] Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 13.1 - Special Issue: ‘The Afterlife in Popular Culture’ published

Intellect is pleased to announce that Australasian Journal of Popular 
Culture 13.1 is out now!


Special Issue: ‘The Afterlife in Popular Culture’


Ongoing interest in the afterlife serves to navigate existential crises 
by offering solace or amplifying anxieties about death. Popular cultural 
narratives, deeply intertwined with religious doctrines, serve as 
interpretative frameworks for understanding human experiences, ethical 
conduct and the mysteries of death. This Special Issue, then, explores 
how, in an increasingly secular world, the afterlife is portrayed in 
media narratives, which, while primarily aimed at entertainment, also 
respond to deep-seated existential and moral questions. It discusses how 
these portrayals offer a mix of hope, happiness and moral guidance, 
reflecting broader societal values and beliefs about life, death and 
what lies beyond.


For more information about the journal and issue click here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/the-australasian-journal-of-popular-culture 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/the-australasian-journal-of-popular-culture>


Aims & Scope


The Australasian Journal of Popular Cultureis a double-blind 
peer-reviewed journal devoted to the scholarly understanding of everyday 
cultures. It is concerned with the study of the social and cultural 
meanings that are produced and circulated through everyday media and 
practices as products of consumption. It explores popular narratives and 
iconographies as intellectual objects of inquiry, and as integral 
components of the dynamic forces that shape societies and identities. 
The journal publishes articles that focus on Australasian examples, as 
well as broader critical and comparative topics viewed through a global 
lens.


This title is indexed with Scopus.


Issue 13.1


Editorial


Beyond the veil: Popular culture, morality and the afterlife in 
contemporary society 
<https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/ajpc_00083_2>

ANGELIQUE NAIRN AND JUSTIN MATTHEWS


Articles


Digital eternity: The holographic resurrection of music icons 
<https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/ajpc_00084_1>

JUSTIN MATTHEWS AND ANGELIQUE NAIRN


The digital afterlife between hypersecularization and postsecularity in 
contemporary speculative TV seriality: Devs, Upload and Black Mirror’s 
‘San Junipero’ 
<https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/ajpc_00085_1>

ILARIA W. BIANO


Bonnie Bennett and the beyond: An exploration of one representation of 
the afterlife in The Vampire Diaries 
<https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/ajpc_00086_1>

AMY WILLIAMS WILSON


‘Where are we?’: The ghost as interrogative haunting in The Others 
<https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/ajpc_00087_1>

DENNIS YEO


Ads from HELL: Complaining about the use of religion in advertising 
<https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/ajpc_00088_1>

DANIEL FASTNEDGE AND MELISSA L. GOULD


That time I was reincarnated as a problematic trope: Viewer preferences 
and cultural trends in reincarnation isekai anime 
<https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/ajpc_00089_1>

MATT GUINIBERT AND JO PAGE


Book Reviews


Marveling Religion: Critical Discourses, Religion, and the Marvel 
Cinematic Universe, Jennifer Baldwin and Daniel White Hodge (eds) (2022) 
<https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/ajpc_00090_5>

ANGELIQUE NAIRN


The Superhero Multiverse: Readapting Comic Book Icons in 
Twenty-First-Century Film and 
<https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/ajpc_00091_5> 
Popular Media, Lorna Piatti-Farnell (ed.) (2022) 
<https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/ajpc_00091_5>

ENRIQUE AJURIA IBARRA


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