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Solaris (2014)
Book

Despite being one of Andrei Tarkovsky's most successful films, Solaris (1972) was the one he most disliked. This dismissal of his most generically marked film has often been accepted by those quick to embrace the image of Tarkovsky as a transcendent... Read More about Solaris.

Inner space (2014)
Book Chapter

Critical overview of sf films exploring the destabilisation of human identity.

Film (2014)
Book Chapter

A critical overview of critical-theoretical understandings of sf film, especially those promulgated by critics devoted to sf as a prose fiction form. It also considers adaptation, spectacle and special effects.

Introduction to The Year of the Sex Olympics (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Introduction to Nigel Kneale's sf television dramas. Part of Future Visions from Post-War Britain: Nigel Kneale, The Cube, 16 October 2014

Remembering Sir Francis Drake: Travel, commemoration and national identity in the work of Henry Robarts (2014)
Journal Article

© Manchester University Press. Henry Robarts is a little-known writer whose work includes prose romances, records of state entertainments, and commendatory pamphlets on travel. This article pays particular attention to his celebrations of Sir Francis... Read More about Remembering Sir Francis Drake: Travel, commemoration and national identity in the work of Henry Robarts.

The import(ance) of history and modernity: Home, parish, and imperial order in the photographic representation of Simla 1860-1920 (2014)
Thesis

The research sits in a gap between historical geography, colonial history, local micro-history and art history but also draws on wider fields such as museology, anthropology and cultural theory. It offers new perspectives onto the historiography of t... Read More about The import(ance) of history and modernity: Home, parish, and imperial order in the photographic representation of Simla 1860-1920.

Discourse Functions at the Right and Left Periphery: Crosslinguistic Investigations of Language Use and Language Change (2014)
Book

A basic property of human language is that it unfolds in time; the left and right margin of discourse units do not behave in a symnmetrical fashion. The working hypothesis of this volume is that discourse elements of the left periphery have mainly su... Read More about Discourse Functions at the Right and Left Periphery: Crosslinguistic Investigations of Language Use and Language Change.

'If at first you don't succeed: Affecting a change in the referral process of design education' (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

There has been very little attention given to the importance of the referral stage in design education even though this is the stage at which students can learn the most from their mistakes in order to improve and progress.

Acknowledging that stud... Read More about 'If at first you don't succeed: Affecting a change in the referral process of design education'.

Of eight oscillations and several messages carved in flesh: Spectacle, spectatorship, cognition, and affect in Dredd and Looper (2014)
Journal Article

Both popular and academic criticism tend to decry sf cinema’s commitment to spectacle and special effects as intellectually stultifying and thus politically narcotizing. This article challenges the class politics of taste and the crude models of inte... Read More about Of eight oscillations and several messages carved in flesh: Spectacle, spectatorship, cognition, and affect in Dredd and Looper.