Jeffrey Sconce
Biographic Data
| ID | 4501684 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeffrey Sconce |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeffrey |
| FAMILY NAME | Sconce |
| SIGNATURE | SCONCE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
What If
The golden age of badness
‘Badfilm’ as a reception genre dates from a specific mode of production, exhibition and circulation, built on a canon of genre pics issued from the margins of the American film industry at mid-century. Its subsequent cultivation during the 1970s and 1980s depended on the repurposing of titles on television and on a host of historically specific reception and exhibition cultures. These contexts are contrasted against the various contexts for the a…
Technical Delusion
Haunted Media
The Voice from the Void
This piece examines the proliferation of paranormal discourses around wireless and radio in the early decades of the century. Engaging popular fiction and parapsychological literature of the era, the article gives particular emphasis to the period's reigning image of ‘the etheric ocean’, discussing the symbolic importance of this metaphor in stories casting radio as a medium of the dead and of telepathy. Linking these often sinister stories to th…
Brains from space
Trashing' the academy
Journal Article 'Trashing' the academy: taste, excess, and an emerging politics of cinematic style Get access Jeffrey Sconce Jeffrey Sconce Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 36, Issue 4, Winter 1995, Pages 371–393, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/36.4.371 Published: 01 December 1995
Trashing' the academy
Journal Article 'Trashing' the academy: taste, excess, and an emerging politics of cinematic style Get access Jeffrey Sconce Jeffrey Sconce Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 36, Issue 4, Winter 1995, Pages 371–393, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/36.4.371 Published: 01 December 1995
The Voice from the Void
This piece examines the proliferation of paranormal discourses around wireless and radio in the early decades of the century. Engaging popular fiction and parapsychological literature of the era, the article gives particular emphasis to the period's reigning image of ‘the etheric ocean’, discussing the symbolic importance of this metaphor in stories casting radio as a medium of the dead and of telepathy. Linking these often sinister stories to th…
Brains from space
Trashing' the academy
Journal Article 'Trashing' the academy: taste, excess, and an emerging politics of cinematic style Get access Jeffrey Sconce Jeffrey Sconce Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 36, Issue 4, Winter 1995, Pages 371–393, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/36.4.371 Published: 01 December 1995
The Voice from the Void
This piece examines the proliferation of paranormal discourses around wireless and radio in the early decades of the century. Engaging popular fiction and parapsychological literature of the era, the article gives particular emphasis to the period's reigning image of ‘the etheric ocean’, discussing the symbolic importance of this metaphor in stories casting radio as a medium of the dead and of telepathy. Linking these often sinister stories to th…
Haunted Media
The golden age of badness
‘Badfilm’ as a reception genre dates from a specific mode of production, exhibition and circulation, built on a canon of genre pics issued from the margins of the American film industry at mid-century. Its subsequent cultivation during the 1970s and 1980s depended on the repurposing of titles on television and on a host of historically specific reception and exhibition cultures. These contexts are contrasted against the various contexts for the a…
Technical Delusion
What If
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