Lincoln Geraghty
Biographic Data
| ID | 2138319 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lincoln Geraghty |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lincoln |
| FAMILY NAME | Geraghty |
| SIGNATURE | GERAGHTY L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Portsmouth |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6624-089X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 95 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 80 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Affective economies
Comic conventions have transformed from niche gatherings into large, multimodal events where fans converge around global media properties. As these events proliferate worldwide, they become sites of affective intensity, cultural negotiation, and commercial interaction. Fandom is therefore understood not simply as a globalized consumer identity, but as a situated, embodied, and often uneven experience shaped by regional infrastructures, cultural n…
Roundtable
Fanfiction as a cultural practice has rapidly evolved in recent years, from a community-based form of social interaction to a globally recognised form of narrative world-building [...]
The impact of social media on the rights of the accused in Jordan
This study shows how publishing, commenting, and analyzing crime details via social media can play a role in shaping public opinion and influences the proper conduct of criminal justice. It also discusses the impact of social media on the presumption of innocence, the confidentiality of investigation, and the judge’s emotional conviction by examining the most important cases that Jordan has witnessed recently and have had a wide resonance on soci…
Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Vishal Bhardwaj’s Haider
The element of tragedy in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet inspired Vishal Bhardwaj to come up with Haider. With this film, Bhardwaj completes his trilogy of Shakespearean tragic adaptations. Haider is a commendable fusion of a revenge play, Elizabethan drama and a Bollywood movie. The horrors of Kashmir are reflective of the tragic elements in the original source text. The eternal themes in Hamlet, such as betrayal, corruption, death, love and filia…
Marital Stress and Domestic Violence during the Covid- 19 Pandemic
Marital stress and domestic violence is prevalent in every society around the world. It has become a major concern during the Covid-19 pandemic. Governments have resorted to lockdown measures in order to contain the pandemic. The pandemic has made the weaker and more vulnerable people in a household more exposed to abusive partners. Social isolation and home confinement have detrimental effects on one’s mental and physical well-being. Women have …
Ab/uses of Brechtian techniques in South Asian commercial films
The South Asian film industries have always found a niche in formula films that would cater to its audiences a free mix of action and comedy, preferably with a rich amount of romance in a well-‘melo’-ed drama (Ganti, 2004). Most of the commercially successful formula films in this region often house powerful film techniques which are Brechtian in nature. This paper locates them in select South Asian cult films. Brechtian techniques are quintessen…
Authenticity and the spirit of place
This paper aims to examine the influence of the spirit of a place on the space durability. Specifically, we consider the hypothesis that respecting the concepts of psychological and behavioral elements of a place would make the urban textures more durable. We investigate this hypothesis by performing a thorough qualitative and quantitative study. We start by studying the concept of durability and its critical role in relation to urban texture. We…
Reappraising the iconography and ethno-aesthetics of Adada masquerade of the Nsukka Igbo, southeast Nigeria
This study seeks to interpret the iconography and ethno-aesthetic of Adada masquerade of the Nsukka Igbo people of Southeastern Nigeria, an iconic system imbued with mystical aura and uncommon beauty. Adada is also a compendium of Igbo cultural history and a storehouse of Igbo knowledge and worldview. Despite its socio-cultural significance in the life of Nsukka Igbo people, Adada masquerade has not received deserved attention of scholars and res…
Documenting distinctive features of ‘Keku’ dance ensemble of the Jukun nation of the sub-Saharan Africa
This study seeks to provide evidences on the distinctive creative elements of the Jukun “keku” dance music among other indigenous music of the sub-Saharan African cultures. An examination of its creative milieu and the musicians in the context of composition, performance and cultural implications were carried out through an ethnographic procedure. To achieve this, the study adopted a qualitative study design, using the Wukari Jukun community as i…
“Challenging public rhetoric justifying immigrants as ‘indecent’”
Elites employ various rhetorical strategies in public discourse, including on the topic of immigration. As such, those with influence rely on storytelling to shape views about the narratives related to immigrants as a minority out-group. This has significant consequences, particularly in areas of policy development. Policy shapers have isolated immigrant groups by creating certain ideologically derived criteria well beyond citizenship for them to…
Reading visual design of outdoor signs in Kuta (A case study of multimodal linguistic landscapes)
This is a case study of linguistic landscapes (LL) with multimodal approach, which aimed at analysing the visual grammar of commercial outdoor sign. LL is a study of signs in public space. These signs include all traffic signs, billboards, site names, and advertisements. Multimodal approach is a new concept of analysis that analyses signs from three aspects, and it is representation, interaction and composition. The data in this study is classifi…
The sacredness of places in magersari sunanate palace
Keraton (the Javanese palace) cannot be separated from the existence of sacred spaces and profane spaces manifested in the spatial hierarchy values. Magersari, a settlement located within the palace’s land, still recognizes the existence of profane and sacred spaces, and the condition has implications for the management of spaces. This article focuses on the discovery of the sacred spaces in Magersari and on finding the people’s ways to interpret…
The State of Architectural Heritage Preservation in Ghana
The link between past and present generations can only be maintained with effective preservation of cultural (Architectural) heritage. Architectural Heritage Preservation (AHP) is under threat in Ghana with an apparent dwindling awareness, unrelenting teardowns and destruction of historic buildings and places for other infrastructure development and spontaneous housing settlements. This paper seeks to review literature to establish the need to co…
Female-dominated informal labour sector and family (in) stability
The achievement gender equality and the empowerment of all women (SDG-5) could be slow considering the African traditional cultural expectation of women on exclusive home management, and reproduction, in the face of chagrin economic drive for family income augmentation. The study examined the nexus between women’s role in managing the family, their traditional role of reproduction and expected procreative activities. The research adopted a qualit…
Community development and propulsion mechanism with the sustainability and co-creation
This research investigated, analysis, and survey on the satisfactory levels of local organizations and community leaders in Sawankhalok district with a proposed master plan to develop strategic models for creative tourism. Situated in Sukhothai province, the area sheltered Sawankhalok—Si Satchanalai Historical Park, one of UNESCO World Heritage sites in Thailand. Linked to the objectives of sustainability and co-creation of the United Nations, to…
Heritage resources as a driver for cultural tourism in Nigeria
Nigeria has outstanding and diverse heritage resources, products of its numerous ethnic groups. These heritage resources were created from human interaction with the environment. Under this guise, they have become a source of cultural identity and national pride. They are grouped as tangible and intangible heritages which are today a driver of cultural tourism—travel to experience unique traditional beliefs and practices. This form of travel does…
Roadside death memorials revisited
Recently, the family of the victim of police brutality in the USA, Mr George Floyd, visited the site when he passed away together with thousands of mourners bringing flowers and cards. Private roadside memorials are part of a growing trend in the use of (urban) space for purposes other than what is it officially intended. The use of (urban) space in unforeseen and therefore unplanned ways is increasingly becoming a reality of urban life. At the s…
Improving Presence in Real-time Architectural Visualization
Architectural visualization is based on diverse content that utilizes virtual structures and environments, such as those in games or movies, along with fundamental values conveyed through visual design communication. This requires an extremely high level of presence owing to characteristics of information delivered via independent real-time configured tangible media. This study aims to improve presence in real-time architectural visualization con…
Gentrification in media spaces
Gentrification has been stigmatised for its single-reality definition that upholds class, standard and especially displacement. While displacement remains an outcome of the gentrification process, this study attempts to investigate the concept beyond its usual negative Marxist critique. It perceives the concept, a neologism and thus incorporates it into media study where it is used as a metaphor to examine state interest and investment in the tra…
Descriptive analysis of men’s sexual behaviour in sub-Saharan Africa
The interconnection between men’s sexual behaviour as a contributor to burden of reproductive and sexual health diseases in sub-Saharan Africa are often presented with complex and sophisticated statistical analyses with little or no comprehension among the affected population that are mostly with little or no statistical literacy and education. The study adopted simplicity-parsimony idea as amalgam of simplicity and parsimony theories in analysin…
Between authenticity of walls and authenticity of tourists’ experiences
Authenticity of local culture is often a subject of research, especially by tourism sociologists and anthropologists. However, what is most often discussed is authenticity of the intangible culture, like traditions and language. Still, those measures cannot be simply implemented to the analysis of material elements of culture and history. Here, the term is perceived as multifaceted and has as many meanings as in the case of intangible culture, bu…
Hollywood Dubliners become personal
Literary adaptation has been both intriguing and challenging for directors especially when it comes to complicated modernist writers like James Joyce (1882–1941) who is commonly considered unadaptable. First approached by John Huston (1906–1987), Joyce’s famous short story, “The Dead” (1914) came to Hollywood (1987). Unitizing the views of different scholars in the realm of adaptation studies, this paper reveals why the director has changed the e…
Muscular Christian, military hero John Williams Overton in the Great War
John Williams Overton, one of 8.5 million World War I dead, was widely seen as a hero when killed at the Second Battle of the Marne. Seizing the opportunities available to him in the military (as he had earlier done at his boarding school and university), his talent and engaging spirit allowed him to stand out among his peers. He benefitted greatly from American boarding schools’ adoption of athletics as a tool to develop leaders through the virt…
Europe
This paper explores the spatiotemporal construction of modern Europe through its cyclical (non-linear and non-symmetrical) self-conscience within a perpetual state of crisis. Following Marramao and Merleau-Ponty’s conjecture, this construction is always opposed to the Other (or its Others), as the Abendland, and it only exists because of the projection of its gaze towards the East. Following a series of images, from the decadent Venetian painting…
Mapping the historical places
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) is trying to build up a viable tourism industry that reflects the Islamic principles, heritage and traditions. In “Saudi Vision 2030” a special consideration has been given to develop and promote the state’s tourism, entertainment and quality of life. Jeddah is the second capital of KSA and Al-Balad is the most historic quarter that is situated in the core of Jeddah. It is renowned for its ancient buildings and u…
Cult Collectors
Cult Collectors examines cultures of consumption and the fans who collect cult film and TV merchandise. Author Lincoln Geraghty argues that there has been a change in the fan convention space, where collectible merchandise and toys, rather than just the fictional text, have become objects for trade, nostalgia, and a focal point for fans’ personal narratives. New technologies also add to this changing identity of cult fandom whereby popular websit…
Homosocial Desire on the Final Frontier
The Star Trek mission, to go where no one has gone before, has returned us to our own inner spaces. One could see the latest question raised by explorations in terms of how to respond when confronted by an awareness of irreducible difference concerning that which bounds and blinds individuals however they are conceived of and wherever they are. (Blair 1997, 88)
Star Wars and the History of Transmedia Storytelling
Star Wars has reached more than three generations of casual and hardcore fans alike, and as a result many of the producers of franchised Star Wars texts (films, television, comics, novels, games, and more) over the past four decades have been fans-turned-creators. Yet despite its dominant cultural and industrial positions, Star Wars has rarely been the topic of sustained critical work. Star Wars and the History of Transmedia Storytelling offers a…
A Network of Support
Reappraising the iconography and ethno-aesthetics of Adada masquerade of the Nsukka Igbo, southeast Nigeria
This study seeks to interpret the iconography and ethno-aesthetic of Adada masquerade of the Nsukka Igbo people of Southeastern Nigeria, an iconic system imbued with mystical aura and uncommon beauty. Adada is also a compendium of Igbo cultural history and a storehouse of Igbo knowledge and worldview. Despite its socio-cultural significance in the life of Nsukka Igbo people, Adada masquerade has not received deserved attention of scholars and res…
Sociocultural materials and visual art
In the past, crude material such as foodstuffs, textile materials, and ornaments (cowrie shells, manillas, and beads) served as money across nations and communities. In the time being, forms of monies have totally differed. Modern notes undergo processes of deliberate design, considering forms and imageries. Such imageries and elements included in currency design convey humanistic preoccupations relevant to societies in several ways. And as part …
Message films in Africa
Message Film-making has characterised much of films produced in post-independent Kenya. The country produced very few films in the 1980s, when indigenous film-making actually began to take root. Liberalisation of the economy, embracement of the digital technology and democratization in the 1990s paved way for a more stable film culture in the decade. A more promising growth of the film industry has been largely witnessed since the turn of the 21s…
Carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives
This paper looks at Star Trek's multiple versions of history, and specifically at how the series has created its own sense of history to help legitimate its fictional narrative. It examines how fans have related and interacted with the text and used it to fulfil their own creative desires and needs and how they have helped shape its reputation as America's televised social conscience. Star Trek is often quoted as a way of expressing one's dream. …
Star Trek in American Studies
Homosocial Desire on the Final Frontier
The Star Trek mission, to go where no one has gone before, has returned us to our own inner spaces. One could see the latest question raised by explorations in terms of how to respond when confronted by an awareness of irreducible difference concerning that which bounds and blinds individuals however they are conceived of and wherever they are. (Blair 1997, 88)
A Network of Support
American Science Fiction Film and Television
American Science Fiction Film and Television presents a critical history of late 20th Century SF together with an analysis of the cultural and thematic concerns of this popular genre. Science fiction film and television were initially inspired by the classic literature of HG Wells and Jules Verne. The potential and fears born with the Atomic age fuelled the popularity of the genre, upping the stakes for both technology and apocalypse. From the Co…
Nostalgia TV
Miller and Van Riper’s new collection of essays is a mammoth volume dedicated to an analysis of the “Rocketman” TV series popular during the Cold War. Nostalgia TV. Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. xxiv + 270 pp
Cult Collectors
Cult Collectors examines cultures of consumption and the fans who collect cult film and TV merchandise. Author Lincoln Geraghty argues that there has been a change in the fan convention space, where collectible merchandise and toys, rather than just the fictional text, have become objects for trade, nostalgia, and a focal point for fans’ personal narratives. New technologies also add to this changing identity of cult fandom whereby popular websit…
Cult collectors
Cult Collectors examines cultures of consumption and the fans who collect cult film and TV merchandise. Author Lincoln Geraghty argues that there has been a change in the fan convention space, where collectible merchandise and toys, rather than just the fictional text, have become objects for trade, nostalgia, and a focal point for fans' personal narratives. New technologies also add to this changing identity of cult fandom whereby popular websit…
Popular media cultures
Introduction: Fans and Paratexts Lincoln Geraghty PART I: WRITING IN THE MARGINS 1. We put the 'media' in (anti)social media': Channel 4's Youth Audiences, Unofficial Archives and the Promotion of Second-Screen Viewing Michael O'Neill 2. Television Fandom in the Age of Narrowcasting: The Politics and Proximity in Regional Scripted Reality Dramas The Only Way is Essex and Made in Chelsea Cornel Sandvoss, Kelly Youngs and Joanne Hobbs 3. 'A Reason …
Popular Media Cultures
Popular Media Cultures explores the relationship between audiences and media texts, their paratexts and interconnected ephemera. Authors focus on the cultural work done by media audiences, how they en
Protecting the Gulf
This paper explores the range and type of coverage that climate change has received over a five-year period in the English-language press in the six member countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), namely Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. Using a coding scheme that has been successfully employed in previous research, the coverage is examined based on several factors, for example, the dominant frame o…
Alienation, reception and participative spatial planning on marginalised campuses during transformational processes
Scientific publications acknowledge that geographical setting contributes greatly to the unique identity—and eventual sustainability and distinction—of a higher educational institution. This includes the marginalised campus—the satellite, secondary, branch, remote, rural or regional. Alienation of the marginalised campus from the main/mainstream campus forms an international discourse. This conceptual article aims to make an interdisciplinary con…
To touch a ghost
This article represents an effort to outline the existence of a fundamental and unremarked-upon relationship between Jacques Derrida’s reconfiguration of the Freudian work of mourning and theorizations of haptic visuality. While Derrida is under-represented in film-theoretical discussions generally, and in discussions of haptic visuality specifically, the author argues that the ethical goal of his work aligns with that of the film-makers in quest…
Assisted self-mentorship of a boundaryless research career
Purpose: The UFS’ Postgraduate School (PGS) aspires to enhance dynamic postgraduate education and career development, and to facilitate the development of twenty-first century doctorateness of doctorandi. International best practices work well for traditional doctorandi; however, non-traditional doctorandi need non-traditional interventions. The PGS accepted the challenge to develop a tailor-made extension of the existing programme. This paper is…
Recovery of the US president character in Hollywood film during Barack Obama’s terms
In the wake of a political, financial, and institutional crisis, Barack Obama was elected President in 2008, and four years later he was appointed for a second term. The media campaign that took him to the White House drew a parallel between the trajectory of the Democratic candidate and the advent of Franklin D. Roosevelt for the presidency in 1932, because of the similarities of critical context between two historical moments marked by the need…
Presidents’ visual presentations in their official photos
While the ways heads of states are visually portrayed in their official photos may differ depending on their cultures, particularly whether they have an individualistic culture or a collectivistic culture, little scholarly attention has been paid to examining such differences. The present study investigates how US and South Korean presidents, Barack Obama and Myung-bak Lee, strategically presented themselves during their first year of presidency.…
Aesthetic experience and the question of “difficulty”
This note of commentary explores some of the ways in which “difficulty” figures in aesthetic experience and how these relate to broader factors of social and cultural organisation. Having examined some ideas about the variety and character of difficulty, drawing on previous writing, it suggests that forms of empirical inquiry combined with a refreshed analytic agenda offer the possibility of understanding better its nature as both a negative and …
Junkie love––Romance and addiction on the big screen
This article investigates the filmic construction of two disparate but intertwining cultural practices: those engaging in the life-affirming rituals of romantic love and those performing the potentially self-destructive rituals of hard drug consumption. Discussing a number of key feature films from the (mini) genre “junkie love”, it aims to show what happens when elements of mainstream romantic drama merge with the horror conventions of the heroi…
Arts in health revisited
Recent efforts to internationalize the discourse on art practices in health have neglected Asian countries and China in particular. This is due to language barriers on the side of Western researchers, as well as the pilot stage and isolation of Chinese research within its own native publication platforms. Similarly, the discourse of arts in health is marked by a Euro-American perspective presenting this area of practice as a modern invention of t…
Eziafo Okaro
The over 200 ethnicities in Nigeria are known for their distinct cultures and heritages. For the Igbo of eastern Nigeria, their heritage cannot be fully discussed without a look at the almost extinct uli body and wall painting practiced by Igbo women. Uli is the Igbo name for the indigo dye obtained from several species of plants and used to draw cosmetically on the human body. It is also the name of the traditional mural painted by Igbo women wi…
A future for game histories
Recent years have seen an efflorescence of writing and curatorial work focused upon the past of video games. However, this work has tended to concentrate on particular forms of analysis, and privileged certain kinds of discourse. This article argues that these approaches limit our capacity to produce effective histories of and around games, and proposes more nuanced histories, informed by Foucauldian ideas of a genealogical approach to historical…
Remembering the past
The paper focuses on the long-term effects of Romanian communist natality politics and the way in which cinema was used to re-appropriate the past after the shift in political climate in 1989. Romania’s process of coming to terms with the past was characterized by political reluctance to explore the communist legacy. However, personal attempts of recollecting the past have a unique ability to bridge the intergenerational gap and facilitate the tr…
“A little theatrical but mostly athletic”
By attending to the inherent flux of sexual fantasy, Miranda July’s first novel The First Bad Man reveals a mobile and mutable erotics capable of generating an enlarged range of self-identification and relational intimacy, far from any essentialist assumptions of stable or coherent sexual identity. July focuses specifically upon role-play as the means to unpack the normative categories of hetero/homosexuality, masculinity and femininity, celebrat…
Gatekeepers of dance
This paper analyzes journalism’s coverage of concert contemporary dance as a method of human communication, a component of cultural conversation, and a member of the greater creative exchange. It analyzes the current problems within journalism and provides suggestions as to how dance journalism can survive the upheaval in the journalism industry, which could help dance become and remain relevant to a larger pool of American society
Fissures in the commercial cinematic space
This study explores the trajectory of how a new wave of documentary making has incorporated or resisted dominant social forces to create fissures in the commercial cinematic spaces. Two documentary blockbusters The Long Goodbye (2010) and Beyond Taiwan (2013) are examined to explicate how the restructuring of cinematic spaces in Taiwan has facilitated changes in documentary screening culture and spectatorships, leading to the recent documentary r…
Sociology (72 works) · Art (59 works) · Political science (53 works) · Law (44 works) · Aesthetics (37 works) · History (30 works) · Philosophy (29 works) · Psychology (29 works) · Literature (26 works) · Computer Science (25 works)