Outputs (120)

Laughter in the dark: Capitalism, comedy, violence and neo-noir (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

An early version of my chapter for neo-noir, discussing humour and irony in film noir and neo-noir. It claimed dark ironic humour was more readily identifiable in these texts than in the original cycle, particularly the double coding and surreal rep... Read More about Laughter in the dark: Capitalism, comedy, violence and neo-noir.

Introduction: Special issue on knowledge and use of the lexicon in French as a second language (2008)
Journal Article

This is the first volume which exclusively focuses on vocabulary acquisition of L2 learners of French. All other volumes on the L2 acquisition of French have so far ignored this dimension. The issue is timely, because of the growing importance of voc... Read More about Introduction: Special issue on knowledge and use of the lexicon in French as a second language.

Analysing lexical richness in French learner language: What frequency lists and teacher judgements can tell us about basic and advanced words (2008)
Journal Article

In this paper we study different aspects of lexical richness in narratives of British learners of French. In particular we focus on different ways of measuring lexical sophistication. We compare the power of three different operationalisations of the... Read More about Analysing lexical richness in French learner language: What frequency lists and teacher judgements can tell us about basic and advanced words.

Ansel Adams books: Photographs in ink (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This study follows the development of Adam's aesthetic attitude to different methods of printed reproduction of his fine photgraphs, from letterpress (beginning in the 1920s), through occasional experiments with photogravure, to duotone offset photol... Read More about Ansel Adams books: Photographs in ink.

A quest for printed colour - From Hayter to hardcopy (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Artist and researcher Paul Thirkell traces his quest to bring colour to print through 3 decades of artistic currents and trends. The presentation aims to reveal insights into how print based artists think about and engage with colour.

Pixel perfect - working with CMYK & RGB - A comparison of printed samples (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This workshop compared different pre-printed samples on a range of fine art materials, which range from Japanese papers to fine art canvas. These samples demonstrate a very broad range of surface qualities and differences in the gamut of the printed... Read More about Pixel perfect - working with CMYK & RGB - A comparison of printed samples.

Ansel Adams and Georgia O'Keeffe: On the intangible in art and nature (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This lecture considered the many ways in which the techical means of expression, of painting in colour, and photography in black and white, enabled these two artists to transform landscape elements into psychic symbols, or allusions to a spirtual rea... Read More about Ansel Adams and Georgia O'Keeffe: On the intangible in art and nature.

Facilitating the fine art digital print (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The Industrial Revolution of the late 18th – 19th C coincided with art’s Romantic period and its depiction of the ‘great person’ theory. Here, the Romanticists’ solitary creator and autographic distinction were the highest forms of originality in art... Read More about Facilitating the fine art digital print.

100 years in America Tsamantas (Greece) – Worcester, MA (USA), 1908-2008: Historical determinants and images of the identity and culture of diasporas from Southeastern Europe (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This edited publication is the outcome of the 100 Years in America’ conference, which took place in the Hellenic College in Brookline, Massachusetts, on the 11th of October 2008, and was attended by over 60 participants. The aim of the conference was... Read More about 100 years in America Tsamantas (Greece) – Worcester, MA (USA), 1908-2008: Historical determinants and images of the identity and culture of diasporas from Southeastern Europe.

Illness: The Cry of the Flesh (2008)
Book

This book describes the experience of illness from a phenomenological perspective. I found phenomenology – the description of lived experience – to be the most salient approach to the set of issues surrounding illness. Phenomenology privileges the fi... Read More about Illness: The Cry of the Flesh.