All Outputs (150)

Illustrations in Images 32 The best of contemporary illustration 2008 (2008)
Book Chapter

Two illustrations, jury selected for inclusion in the Association of Illustrators IMAGES annual, an overview of the best contemporary illustration. One illustration commissioned by BBH.

19th-Century sf and the discourses of science: Martin Willis, Mesmerists, monsters and machines: Science fiction and the cultures of science in the Nineteenth Century (2008)
Journal Article

Book review of named text

There is no such thing as science fiction (2008)
Book Chapter

Taking Tom Godwin’s classic – and controversial – sf short story ‘The Cold Equations’ as its starting point, this essay draws on contemporary genre theory and Bruno Latour’s science studies model of enrolment to argue that there is no such thing as s... Read More about There is no such thing as science fiction.

"It's not going to be like this is it?": Celebrating age festival 2008 (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Employing participant observation, the paper offers analysis of Bristol’s Festival of Age, 2008 and traces the ways in which participants are positioned within a configuration of nostalgic, regulatory regimes that position them as a) passive bodies b... Read More about "It's not going to be like this is it?": Celebrating age festival 2008.

Review of 'Material and Visual Cultures Beyond Male Bonding, 1870-1914: Bodies, Bounderies and Intimacy', by John Potvin (2008)
Journal Article

Potvin's book was a study of how male homosociality in late-nineteenth century British design cultures produced new dynamics of vision and touching, which became medicated through workshop practice and specific artefacts.

Single women and philanthropy: A case study of women's associational life in Bristol, 1880-1914 (2008)
Journal Article

This article examines the philanthropic and local government work undertaken by single women in Bristol in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focusing in particular on the life and work of one woman, Mary Clifford, the article conside... Read More about Single women and philanthropy: A case study of women's associational life in Bristol, 1880-1914.

Women's History Review: Introduction (2008)
Journal Article

This article is an introduction to a special issue on the history of single women based on papers given at conference held in June 2006 at the University of the West of England, entitled ‘Single Women in History 1000–2000’. The analysis is based on o... Read More about Women's History Review: Introduction.

Beyond the fourth wall: Reading, passing, and intervention in internet research (2008)
Journal Article

Between March and December 2008 Jane Arthurs was co-editor, with Usha Zacharias, of the Commentary and Criticism Section of this journal, which included topical short essays themed around issues of significance to feminist media studies either from a... Read More about Beyond the fourth wall: Reading, passing, and intervention in internet research.

Targeting, television and networking: An interview with Samuel Weber (2008)
Journal Article

In this interview, Samuel Weber discusses two recent books that explore issues of contemporary media and politics, Targets of Opportunity and Theatricality as Medium. Targeting is identified as a modality of conceiving the world that is as old as wes... Read More about Targeting, television and networking: An interview with Samuel Weber.

Rhetorical parallels between the national woman suffrage association and Clinton's campaign (2008)
Journal Article

Between March and December 2008 Jane Arthurs was co-editor, with Usha Zacharias, of the Commentary and Criticism Section of this journal, which included topical short essays themed around issues of significance to feminist media studies either from a... Read More about Rhetorical parallels between the national woman suffrage association and Clinton's campaign.

Beyond these voices: M. E. Braddon and the ghost of sensationalism (2008)
Journal Article

This article engages with Braddon's use of the supernatural to argue that her images of spiritualism reveal connections between theatricality, writing and her popular reputation.

Real lives 2004: The devil you know (2008)
Journal Article

This paper discusses the educational game software, Real Lives 2004 (Educational Simulations, 2004) as a means of raising and reflecting on the relations between simulational practices and statistics. These relations animate many modes of the framing... Read More about Real lives 2004: The devil you know.

Media on ice (2008)
Journal Article

Between March and December 2008 Jane Arthurs was co-editor, with Usha Zacharias, of the Commentary and Criticism Section of this journal, which included topical short essays themed around issues of significance to feminist media studies either from a... Read More about Media on ice.

The new architectures of intimacy? Social networking sites and genders (2008)
Journal Article

Between March and December 2008 Jane Arthurs was co-editor, with Usha Zacharias, of the Commentary and Criticism Section of this journal, which included topical short essays themed around issues of significance to feminist media studies either from a... Read More about The new architectures of intimacy? Social networking sites and genders.

Miniprint No. 23 (2008)
Exhibition / Performance

The future of media entertainment (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The presentation argued that the convergence of digital technology is already bringing about a change in the distribution, aesthetics and the consumption of media entertainment so that we can access it “anytime, anyplace and anywhere”. Yet embedded c... Read More about The future of media entertainment.

Dr Jeckyl and Sister Hyde (2008)
Exhibition / Performance

By converting the filmic narrative into a verbal one, these performances narrow the ‘aesthetic’ distance between a cultural resource, such as a feature film, and how it contributes to a work of art which uses the resource as a reference. The audience... Read More about Dr Jeckyl and Sister Hyde.

Figuring light - colour and the intangible (2008)
Exhibition / Performance

World premier composed by Alexandra Harwood of the music “Redness” by the Onyx Brass Quintet. The 52-page exhibition catalogue (ISBN 978-1-900809-56-6) was currated by Dr Richard Davey.

I am comedy. 'Out-takes' (2008)
Exhibition / Performance

Public screenings of artists work involving themselves explicitly as either narrator or actor exploring the human condition and their own identity through humour. Many of the artists in this project use humour as a diversion for more hidden philosoph... Read More about I am comedy. 'Out-takes'.

Farmers market (2008)
Exhibition / Performance

A group exhibition featuring twenty four international artists curated by Fedja Klikovac.