Peer Reviewed Proceedings of the 5th Annual Conference
Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand (PopCAANZ)
Hobart, Australia, 18–20 June, 2014
ISBN: 978-0-646-93292-7
EDITORIAL
‘A Five Year Mission Renewed…’: vii–ix
PAUL MOUNTFORT
BIOGRAPHY
‘Biographer and Profiler: Liking and Un-liking Dione Lucas’: 1–10
JILLIAN ADAMS
‘I hope all at home will find something of interest in it for them, for that is the reason why I wrote it’: 11–20
ELSIE EDMONDS
‘“Sydney harbour water has just the right amount of salt for soup”: Englishes in fictionalized biographical writing’: 21–30
ALISON OWENS AND DONNA LEE BRIEN
BUSINESS
‘Software leaves its mark: memes and architectonics in Australian trademarks 1950-2000’: 31–44
ASHLEY M. HOLMES
‘The burden of ethics: the use of design and architecture as political propaganda’: 45–53
GJOKO MURATOVSKI
FICTION
‘Realism and Relevancy: Portrayals of the Theatre in Ngaio Marsh’s Enter a Murderer (1935) and Light Thickens (1982)’: 54–64
SIMON DWYER and RACHEL FRANKS
‘Eve’s Encounters with Evil’: 76–87
GAIL PITTAWAY
FILM
‘Rock cult/ pop cult: the continuing influence of The Rocky Horror Picture Show on popular cult/ure’: 88–98
RENEE MIDDLEMOST
FOOD
‘Fame, Fortune and Agency: Housewives and the Dairy White Wings Bake-Off’: 99–109
JILLIAN ADAMS
‘Contemporary food memoir in Singapore: authors, publishers, forms and styles’: 110–120
DONNA LEE BRIEN
PERFORMANCE
‘The Outcaste Weakly Poet Stage Show as Ethnodrama’: 121–130
SCOTT WELSH
RELIGION
‘k.d. lang’s second coming out: Buddhism, iconicity, and the expressive body’: 131–140
TRACY WHALEN
TELEVISION
‘Cultural illusion: Consumer imagery and the construction of an artificial dream’: 141–150
AMY CARKEEK
‘Morality, makeovers and marketing: (re)constructing “worth” in reality television. A case study of The Block New Zealand’: 151–162
ROSSER JOHNSON
‘Doing well by doing good: The Sallies, altruism & identification’: 163–173
ANGELIQUE NAIRN and FRANCES NELSON
‘“Sex, Power, Murder, Amen’: Examining Post-Feminism, Sexuality and Historical Authenticity in The Borgias’: 174–173
KATHRYN TALBOT
VISUAL ARTS
‘The Tensile: Repetition, Reperformance, Rearticulation’: 184–195
GEORGIA BANKS
‘Experiencing the Optical Unconscious’: 196–202
BROOKE CARLSON
‘Pierrot: star of street theatre, artist’s muse’: 203–217
MARKELA PANEGYRES