Outputs (42)

Film genre prediction and analysis using multimodal embeddings from large models: The case of noir (2025)
Journal Article

We used embeddings (numerical representations) from open-sourced language and image models to compare and contrast films in the “noir” and “neo-noir” genres with each other and with those in other genres, using as proxy sources the available plot sum... Read More about Film genre prediction and analysis using multimodal embeddings from large models: The case of noir.

The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944): Three perspectives on Preston Sturges and the Production Code (2025)
Journal Article

In this hybrid article, the authors examine Preston Sturges’s ability to outmanoeuvre the Production Code Administration (PCA), specifically in relation to the handling of sex, pregnancy and childbirth in The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek. Our approach i... Read More about The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944): Three perspectives on Preston Sturges and the Production Code.

“Sacred intimacies”: Sexual ambiguity and performance in My Favorite Wife (1940) (2025)
Journal Article

My Favorite Wife (1940) exemplifies the more “sex suggestive” style of screwball comedy in the late 1930s, posing significant problems for the Production Code Administration (PCA). Strategies for handling taboo content onscreen depended on ambiguity,... Read More about “Sacred intimacies”: Sexual ambiguity and performance in My Favorite Wife (1940).

OCCLUSION: Performative Re-use (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Archival repositories are results of historical narratives, but in turn, are also building blocks of new ones. This 40-minute artistic intervention / performative lecture takes the archival collec tions of mainly the Library of Congress as a starting... Read More about OCCLUSION: Performative Re-use.

Cary Grant, see under "Charm" (2024)
Digital Artefact

This contribution to the Screen Stars Dictionary explores Cary Grant, under the word "Charm".

SCREEN STARS DICTIONARY
The Screen Stars Dictionary begins as a joint project between Tecmerin. Journal of Audiovisual Essays and Ariel Avissar. Inspir... Read More about Cary Grant, see under "Charm".

Raising Cary Grant, The Bristol Footsteps of Archie Leach (2023)
Exhibition / Performance

The University of the West of England and Cary Comes Home Festival present an all-new immersive actor-led theatre walk in partnership with Show Of Strength Theatre Company, using language and location to explore the transformation of Bristol-born Arc... Read More about Raising Cary Grant, The Bristol Footsteps of Archie Leach.

The Burden of Expectation: Where are the women in Steve McQueen's Small Axe films? (2023)
Book Chapter

Prime time Sunday evening viewing across five weeks of Steve McQueen's penology offered the opportunity to give volume to the silenced, to offer an alternative social historical account of the plurality of the Black British experience, to represent... Read More about The Burden of Expectation: Where are the women in Steve McQueen's Small Axe films?.

When I Dare To Be Powerful International Conference: Online talk with Irene Lusztig (2023)
Digital Artefact

When I Dare To Be Powerful Online Talk Series.

When I Dare to be Powerful International Conference brought filmmakers, artists, writers and activists together with conceptual thinkers and cultural theorists to answer pressing questions relating to... Read More about When I Dare To Be Powerful International Conference: Online talk with Irene Lusztig.

Is collaboration and co-creation an illusionary practice? (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In 2020, documentary filmmaker Reece Auguiste and his colleagues speculated that ‘[c]o-creation functions as a utopian idea that may never be fully actualized.’ Co-creation and collaboration are concepts that dissemble the power and control intrinsic... Read More about Is collaboration and co-creation an illusionary practice?.

Black Lives Matter: How the UK movement struggled to be heard (2023)
Newspaper / Magazine

In response to the killing of George Floyd in May 2020, international protests under the banner of the Black Lives Matter movement asserted the global inequity of the Black experience. But the Black Lives Matter movement was formed much earlier than... Read More about Black Lives Matter: How the UK movement struggled to be heard.

When I Dare To Be Powerful International Conference: In conversation with Ja' Tovia Monique Gary (2023)
Digital Artefact

When I Dare To Be Powerful International Conference Podcast Series.

When I Dare to be Powerful International Conference brought filmmakers, artists, writers and activists together with conceptual thinkers and cultural theorists to answer pressing... Read More about When I Dare To Be Powerful International Conference: In conversation with Ja' Tovia Monique Gary.

When I Dare To Be Powerful International Conference. In conversation with Olivia Lopez Calderon (2023)
Digital Artefact

When I Dare To Be Powerful International Conference Podcast Series.

When I Dare to be Powerful International Conference brought filmmakers, artists, writers and activists together with conceptual thinkers and cultural theorists to answer pressing... Read More about When I Dare To Be Powerful International Conference. In conversation with Olivia Lopez Calderon.

When I Dare To Be Powerful International Conference: In conversation with Ally Zlatar (2023)
Digital Artefact

When I Dare To Be Powerful International Conference Podcast Series.

When I Dare to be Powerful International Conference brought filmmakers, artists, writers and activists together with conceptual thinkers and cultural theorists to answer pressing... Read More about When I Dare To Be Powerful International Conference: In conversation with Ally Zlatar.

When I Dare to be Powerful International Conference (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Centred on voice as a lens through which we conceive of a social alterity that undermines current ideological dominance, 'When I Dare To Be Powerful International Conference' would like to invite proposals from academics, practitioners and activists... Read More about When I Dare to be Powerful International Conference.

They will be heard: Representing and re-presenting voices of marginalised and racialised women through film (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Set within the context of populism, patriarchy and the debilitating legacy of colonialism, The Art of Oppression follows three artists as they each rise to the challenge of creating a new work for the film. The women, award-winning artists, are as di... Read More about They will be heard: Representing and re-presenting voices of marginalised and racialised women through film.

Through the "magic mirror": Adapting Angela Carter's Japanese writings for the silver screen (2022)
Journal Article

This article outlines the development of a feature-length screenplay adaptation of Angela Carter’s short story “Flesh and the Mirror,” situating it within a critical discussion of her metaleptic narrative strategies and the challenges of translating... Read More about Through the "magic mirror": Adapting Angela Carter's Japanese writings for the silver screen.

Re-visioning cultural, historical and gendered aspects of Nottingham's past and present (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Unmasking the other: Danger and difference in Hammer's colonial horrors (2021)
Book Chapter

Adivasi life and folklore event (2021)
Digital Artefact

Seral Murmu is an Adivasi filmmaker from Jharkhand in India whose films draw on oral Adivasi narratives, magical realism and experimental cinematography. His film Sondhayni (2019), for example, is a modern folktale that critiques the exploitation and... Read More about Adivasi life and folklore event.

Visualising the muted effects of dissenting women's voices (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The environmental crisis, inequality, anti-trans discrimination and racism are some of the most pressing issues of our times. Can artists credibly claim engage with pressing issues? When does art become a form of activism? Why might we need arts ac... Read More about Visualising the muted effects of dissenting women's voices.