Outputs (28)

Simulation games (2013)
Book Chapter

This chapter outlines the conventions and pleasures of simulation games as a category, and explores the complicated and contested term simulation. This concept goes to the heart of what computer games and video games are, and the ways in which they a... Read More about Simulation games.

Smoothing the wrinkles: Hollywood, “successful aging” and the new visibility of older female stars (2013)
Book Chapter

Following Simone de Beauvoir (1972) and Germaine Greer who similarly lamented the cultural invisibility of older women, the current proliferation of Hollywood films with older women protagonists, and the increased visibility of older female stars mig... Read More about Smoothing the wrinkles: Hollywood, “successful aging” and the new visibility of older female stars.

Multimedia theatre before the digital age (2013)
Journal Article

In this article I intend to provide a short overview of the historically rich interrelationship between theatre and multimedia, up to the present time where a set of similar practical and theoretical questions has reappeared following the influence o... Read More about Multimedia theatre before the digital age.

Database narrative, spatial montage, and the cultural transmission of memory: An anthropological perspective (2013)
Book Chapter

This chapter discusses ways in which the database narrative techniques of virtual media can be used to explore the relationship between real-world oral storytelling and embodied performance in the cultural transmission of memory. It is based on an on... Read More about Database narrative, spatial montage, and the cultural transmission of memory: An anthropological perspective.

The social vocabulary of Hidden Presence: British History and the need to talk through the silence and acknowledge true stories of African presence (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

When British spaces, rural and otherwise, are full of celebrated and re-told myths and legends – from sites such as Stonehenge through to character based fables such as Robin Hood – why do some resist to allow true stories, which are no less fantasti... Read More about The social vocabulary of Hidden Presence: British History and the need to talk through the silence and acknowledge true stories of African presence.

Making films in Somerset (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A talk to young filmmakers about my work as a filmmaker, growing up in Somerset and how to get films made. Tips and contacts given to encourage young filmmakers to apply for BFI funding schemes and film academies in Bristol and Somerset. Also screene... Read More about Making films in Somerset.

'This great mapping of ourselves’ – new documentary forms online (2013)
Book Chapter

Cultural activism and the politics of place-making (2013)
Journal Article

In this paper, we explore the relationship between creative practice, activism and urban place-making by considering the role they play in the construction of meaning in urban spaces. Through an analysis of two activist groups based in Stokes Croft,... Read More about Cultural activism and the politics of place-making.

Hidden Presence: British history and the need to acknowledge true stories with African descendent casts (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

British culture is full of legend and folklore, yet true stories about the Black presence in pre-20th century UK, which on the surface are even more fantastical than fiction, struggles to find a place in the historical British narrative. The functi... Read More about Hidden Presence: British history and the need to acknowledge true stories with African descendent casts.

Walking interconnections: Researching the lived experience of disabled people for a sustainable society (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

‘Walking Interconnections’ is the name of a collaborative research project. As the name suggests, the project’s focus is on the ways in which walking, as an activity, can prompt the sharing of experiences between people. The interconnections we expl... Read More about Walking interconnections: Researching the lived experience of disabled people for a sustainable society.