M/C Journal

M/C Journal was founded (as "M/C – A Journal of Media and Culture") in 1998 as a place of public intellectualism analysing and critiquing the meeting of media and culture. M/C Journal is a fully blind-, peer-reviewed academic journal, open to submissions from anyone. We take seriously the need to move ideas outward, so that our cultural debates may have some resonance with wider political and cultural interests. Each issue is organised around a one-word theme (see our past issues), and is edited by one or more guest editors with a particular interest in that theme. Each issue has a feature article which engages with the theme in some detail, followed by several shorter articles.

Current Issue

Vol. 28 No. 1 (2025): noir

Edited by Rebekah Brammer, Jo Coghlan, and Lisa J. Hackett
Photo by Savvas Kalimeris on Unsplash

Published: 2025-03-16

Editorial

  • From Noir to Neo-Noir The Evolution, Hybridity, and Liminality of the Classic Crime Genre

    Rebekah Brammer, Lisa J Hackett, Jo Coghlan

Feature

  • Dark Laughs Australian Comedy Noir from the Outback to Tassie

    Rebekah Brammer

Articles

  • Black Widow Unravelling Noir Characterisation in Charlotte’s Web’s Femme Fatale

    Tess Ezzy
  • All the Pretty Noir Horses The Myth of the Horse in the Noir Western

    Huw Nolan, Jenny Wise, Nathan Wise
  • Becoming the Shadows A Gothic Noir Reading of Empathy, Psychopathy, and Anti-Heroism in The Batman (2022)

    Chris Comerford, Tracey Woolrych
  • Gays Burying Ourselves Immersive and Subversive Uses of Neon Noir in I Saw the TV Glow

    Kaela Joseph
  • Who Will Control the Black Bird? Influence and Power Bases in The Maltese Falcon

    Gordon Schmidt, Clint Martin
  • Generational Detectives Documentary Noir, Millennials, and Conspiracy on Netflix

    L. Dugan Nichols
  • “Small town, big hell” Noir and Landscape in Mare of Easttown

    André Francisco
  • Negative Affects in the Dark Intervals of A Land Imagined

    Kai Qing Tan
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