{"id":241,"date":"2016-06-06T15:01:57","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T21:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/?p=241"},"modified":"2016-06-07T10:37:31","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T16:37:31","slug":"karra-shimabukuro-coedits-cinema-journal-in-focus-on-twin-peaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/blog\/2016\/06\/06\/karra-shimabukuro-coedits-cinema-journal-in-focus-on-twin-peaks\/","title":{"rendered":"Karra Shimabukuro Coedits Cinema Journal &#8216;In-Focus&#8217; on &#8220;Twin Peaks&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A regular feature of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmstudies.org\/?page=cinema_journal\" target=\"_blank\">Cinema Journal<\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/em>is their &#8216;In-Focus&#8217; section which focuses on a singular topic, theme, or text. Karra Shimabukuro co-edited the most recent In-Focus section on <em>Twin Peaks.<\/em><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>This section was the end result of two weeks of work &#8211; not just choosing the submissions, but also working with her co-editor Ross Garner the<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Director of Media and Communication, and Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies, at Cardiff University. In addition to Shimabukuro&#8217;s own piece, &#8220;The Mystery of the Woods:\u00a0<em>Twin Peaks<\/em><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>and the Folkloric Forest&#8221; which\u00a0analyzes the use of the folkloric forest as a narrative shorthand, \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mediacommons.futureofthebook.org\/imr\/category\/tags\/cinema-journal\" target=\"_blank\"><em>In Media Res<\/em><\/a> also hosted a series of related multimedia postings by the contributors that highlighted different aspects of their In-Focus pieces throughout the week of May 23rd &#8211; 27th.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Shimabukuro continues her ongoing scholarship of applying folklore studies to literature and popular culture. She\u00a0was invited to present as part of an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/complit.fas.harvard.edu\/event\/acla-annual-meeting-2016\">ACLA seminar<\/a>,\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.acla.org\/seminar\/devils-details-demonic-horrors-devilish-afterlives-and-infernal-desires\">The Devil is in the Details.<\/a> Her presentation focused on her upcoming book project, <em>Revising Milton <\/em>which examines how Milton&#8217;s secular mythology has been revised and re-imagined in popular culture. Shimabukuro further explores the character of John Constantine as anti-hero, and how <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/presentation\/d\/1oTIKhl3kQiakHbkrovQVzM_oeyOC97PO9lJbF0jsL1U\/edit#slide=id.p3\">the multiple incarnations of\u00a0<em>Constantine<\/em>,<\/a> as a comic, movie, and television show, have used and revised concepts seen in Milton. For example, Constantine&#8217;s world\u00a0uses Milton&#8217;s work, primarily his variation of the English folkloric devil, angels, and the war in heaven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A regular feature of Cinema Journal\u00a0\u00a0is their &#8216;In-Focus&#8217; section which focuses on a singular topic, theme, or text. 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