All Outputs (120)

Ansel Adams and George Waters: Photographer and printer (2008)
Journal Article

Ansel Adams's photographic career was paralleled by his desire to achieve the finest quality of photomechanical reproduction of his images for his many fine printed books. For thirty years, he relied upon letterpress halftone to recreate the aestheti... Read More about Ansel Adams and George Waters: Photographer and printer.

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.

Lick Bush in '92 (selections) (2008)
Exhibition / Performance

Performance and screening of documentary material relating to drag queen political activism in New York.

Ansel Adams and Georgia O'Keeffe: On the intangible in art and nature (2008)
Journal Article

Ansel Adams and Georgia O'Keeffe, although committed realist artists using straightforward photographic technique and an objective style of painting, transfigured the natural scene artistically to express profoundly metaphysical responses to nature.... Read More about Ansel Adams and Georgia O'Keeffe: On the intangible in art and nature.

Global ethics and the role of academics (2008)
Journal Article

Academics have a social and professional responsibility that stems from their individual duties as global citizens. With their privileged position as lifelong learners they need to assess carefully where they direct their attention for research, thei... Read More about Global ethics and the role of academics.

The history of this community: Documentary theatre with "deliberately local motives" (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Paper exploring the local and community documentary theatre work of Peter Cheeseman at the Victoria and New Vic Theatres in Stoke-on-Trent, and the Living Archive Project/Stantonbury Drama Group in Milton Keynes, from the 1960s to the 1990s. Particul... Read More about The history of this community: Documentary theatre with "deliberately local motives".

Multiculturalism without multiple cultures? (2008)
Journal Article

Carefully posed thighs: Shame, nudity and film censorship - John Huston's The Bible: In the Beginning (1966) (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

An analysis of the production and reception of the Eden sequences in John Huston’s The Bible: In the Beginning (1966).

The eagle document: Installation (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This interdisciplinary conference explores the contemporary processes of subject formation through encounters with non-human 'otherness'. Though the focus of the conference will be on animals, the becoming-animal, the emphasis will be placed on art p... Read More about The eagle document: Installation.

Shaking an elephant: Sound, space and suspense in The Unholy Three (2008)
Book Chapter

An analysis of the representation of sound in Tod Browning’s silent crime melodrama The Unholy Three and the sound remake by Jack Conway.

Farmers market (2008)
Exhibition / Performance

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

The future of publishing (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Sarah Bodman and Tom Sowden were invited by Tate Shaw, organiser of the event, to present research into the future of the contemporary artist’s book in the digital age from their AHRC funded project. In an arena including digital and traditional arti... Read More about The future of publishing.

The art and science of colour: Bridging the gap between art and perception (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The paper considers the relation between the art and science of colour perception and how computational procedures, which mimic our visual system, have been developed to advance digital imaging techniques for the enhancement of colour and image quali... Read More about The art and science of colour: Bridging the gap between art and perception.

The death of the animal in European cinema: Metaphor and analogy (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

An analysis of the representation of animal slaughter in European cinema, particularly in Fassbinder’s In a Year of Thirteen Moons and Olmi’s The Tree of Wooden Clogs (both 1978).

Co-creative production (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This presentation makes a number of proposals about how the current notion of 'co-creativity' (associated with the impact of digital media) supports new approaches to the analysis of visual culture and methodologies in media studies.

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.

Haunting the law: Aspects of gothic in Dickens's fiction (2008)
Journal Article

In recent years Dickens's use of Gothic has been the focus of some diverse and absorbing critical interpretations. This paper seeks to address in more detail the ways in which Gothic features in Dickens's various responses to the law in his work. Sce... Read More about Haunting the law: Aspects of gothic in Dickens's fiction.

Artists’ books abroad (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Presenting an overview of artist's book publishing in Europe and further afield: contemporary artists’ books, Internet publishing projects, altered books, performance books, and use of digital and traditional production methods.

Travel and experience in early modern English literature (2008)
Book

Review of Theatre as witness: Three testimonial plays from South Africa, by Yael Farber (2008)
Journal Article

Review of published plays, drawing also on extracts in performance and interviews with the director and performers, all of which took place at the launch of the book.