Volume 6 Issue 1 (2026)
This issue focuses on the theme of the ‘Creative Audience’. It includes articles focusing on various aspects of the creative audience, including intertextual play in K-drama, design studio practice as collaboration between audiences and producers, the role of cosplayers in creating immersion, and fan participation and the auteur in the age of algorithmic reproduction. The issue also includes an article from the ‘Studio’ section which reflects on the legacy of the ‘George Saunders Reimagined’ exhibition, a collaboration between Birmingham Back to Backs Museum and Birmingham City University.
Editorial
Oliver Carter and Karen Seaward-Patel
Narrative architecture and the Catford School of Fiction
Daniel Dream and Ifigeneia Liangi
The Flâneur in cosplay: The Role of Cosplayers in creating immersion
Ada Marlen
TikTok Wes (AI)nderson: Fan participation and the auteur in the age of algorithmic reproduction
Cáit Murphy
Studio
The legacy of the “George Saunders Reimagined” Exhibition
Louise Martin