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. 29 No. 5 (2026): beach

Edited by Claire Ramos, Jo Coghlan, and Lisa Hackett

Image by Andrew Wolff on Unsplash

Published: 2026-10-18

Editorial

  • The Beach as Social Archive Histories, Bodies, and Afterlives

    Claire S Ramos, Jo Coghlan, Lisa J Hackett

Feature

  • Surfoplanes in the 1930s Untethered Joy in a Purposeful Age

    Claire S Ramos

Articles

  • Beach Shacks A Complex, Shifting History

    Anna Clark
  • Plastic Beaches Barbie and the Making of the Modern Beach

    Jo Coghlan
  • "Summer is ours too" The Liminal Beach, Totemic Advertising, and the Visual Politics of Disability

    Dennis Olsen
  • The Engineered Beach Port Waikato and the Contested Imaginaries of the Beach

    Sarah Baker
  • Low Tide Bodies Neurodivergence, Sensory Weather, and the Beach as Threshold

    Tess Ezzy
  • "Where's My Bucket and Spade?" Tracing My Childhood Beach Toys through Ocean Pathways and the Marine Food Chain

    Geoff Isaac
  • Sublime Light The Beach in Metamodern Moving Image Practice

    Shaun Wilson
  • There’s a Body on the Beach Disrupting Geographic Imaginaries in Australian Coastal Gothic/Noir

    Rebekah Brammer
  • From Paradise to Peril Apocalyptic Beaches in Popular Screen Culture

    Amanda Rutherford
  • “The Beating Heart of Havana” El Malecon as Liminal Space in Next Year in Havana

    Brennan Thomas, Larissa Clachar
  • Cartographies of Sand Literary Beaches and the Uneven Making of the Catalan Coast

    Ricard Giramé-Parareda
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