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The story of colonial adventure (2008)
Book Chapter
Boccardi, M. (2008). The story of colonial adventure. In D. Malcolm, & C. A. Malcolm (Eds.), A Companion to the British and Irish Short Story (19-34). Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell

The chapter examines the nature and scope of the colonial short story, with reference to authors such as Kipling, Conrad, Conan Doyle and Somerset Maugham. The Companion itself is a valuable resource for students and scholars in the field.

When more is less: CGI, spectacle and the capitalist sublime (2008)
Journal Article
Tuck, G. (2008). When more is less: CGI, spectacle and the capitalist sublime. Science Fiction Film and Television, 1(2), 249-273. https://doi.org/10.3828/sfftv.1.2.4

This paper explores CGI as a mode of commodity consumption and asks to what extent the consumption of spectacle mimics the notion of the ‘sublime’ and to what extent this ‘sublime’ status can be applied to the commodity form more generally. In parti... Read More about When more is less: CGI, spectacle and the capitalist sublime.

Photography and the sequence: The image as poetry, page by page (2008)
Journal Article
Hammond, A. (2008). Photography and the sequence: The image as poetry, page by page

Despite the separate hand-made status generally attributed to the artist’s book, its study yields insights into the more commercially generated photographic book. This essay uses the examples of books by three 20th century photographers – Dorothea La... Read More about Photography and the sequence: The image as poetry, page by page.

Religious involvement, audience demographics, and media bias (2008)
Journal Article
Glascock, J., Livesay, C., & Ruggiero, T. (2008). Religious involvement, audience demographics, and media bias. Journal of Media and Religion, 7(4), 256-270. https://doi.org/10.1080/15348420802429554

This study sought to investigate the influence of religious involvement (religious partisanship, religiosity, and religious service attendance) as well as demographic factors (sex, ethnicity, and age) on the perception of media coverage of a controve... Read More about Religious involvement, audience demographics, and media bias.

Opera Indigene: Critical perspectives on re/presenting first nations and indigenous cultures (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Karantonis, P. (2008, September). Opera Indigene: Critical perspectives on re/presenting first nations and indigenous cultures. Presented at Opera Indigene: Critical Perspectives on Re/presenting First Nations and Indigenous Cultures, King's College London and the Anglo-American Education Centre, Bloomsbury

The world's first international conference on the participation in and creation of opera by peoples of Indigenous or First Nations identities.

The interaction of age and gender in illness narratives (2008)
Journal Article
Seale, C., & Charteris-Black, J. (2008). The interaction of age and gender in illness narratives. Ageing and Society, 28(07), 1025-1045. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X0800737X

Recognition of the greater capacity of older women to draw on supportive social networks has now supplemented an earlier focus of research into gender and ageing which portrayed older men as a 'privileged gerontocracy' because of their greater access... Read More about The interaction of age and gender in illness narratives.

Pine (2008)
Book
Voss, R., Klassnik, R., & Baines, P. (2008). Pine. Matt's Gallery

The eighteenth in the second series of Matt’s Gallery ‘booklets’, published to accompany the exhibition Pine.

Agricultural policy (2008)
Book Chapter
Greer, A. (2008). Agricultural policy. In M. Woods (Ed.), New Labour’s Countryside: Rural Policy in Britain since 1997 (149-165). Bristol: The Policy Press

The agricultural policy of the New Labour governments has been central in their approach to governing the countryside. This is highlighted in the rhetoric of multifunctional agriculture, which stresses the central contribution that farmers make to th... Read More about Agricultural policy.