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Simulation games (2013)
Book Chapter
Giddings, S. (2013). Simulation games. In B. Perron, & M. J. Wolf (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Video Game Studies (259-266). New York: Routledge

This chapter outlines the conventions and pleasures of simulation games as a category, and explores the complicated and contested term simulation. This concept goes to the heart of what computer games and video games are, and the ways in which they a... Read More about Simulation games.

Drawing without light (2013)
Book Chapter
Giddings, S. (2013). Drawing without light. In M. Lister (Ed.), The Photographic Image in Digital Culture (41-55). London: Routledge

Numerous videogames offer their players opportunities for the production and collection of images displayed and understood as photographs. For some the production of photograph-like images is central to the gameplay, for others it is an add-on activi... Read More about Drawing without light.

Isotypes and elephants: Picture language as visual writing in the work and correspondence of Otto Neurath (2013)
Book Chapter
Henning, M. (2013). Isotypes and elephants: Picture language as visual writing in the work and correspondence of Otto Neurath. In S. Harrow (Ed.), The Art of the Text (129-150). University of Wales Press

This chapter describes the Isotype method of pictorial statistics, invented in 1920s Vienna by the Vienna Circle philosopher and sociologist Otto Neurath, and compares it to Neurath’s own signature drawings of a cartoon elephant. Isotype was among th... Read More about Isotypes and elephants: Picture language as visual writing in the work and correspondence of Otto Neurath.

‘An object of indecipherable bastardy – a real monster: Homosociality, homoeroticism and generic hybridity in dead man’s shoes’ (2013)
Book Chapter
Schwarz, C. (2013). ‘An object of indecipherable bastardy – a real monster: Homosociality, homoeroticism and generic hybridity in dead man’s shoes’. In Shane Meadows: Critical Essays (95-110). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9780748676392.003.0007

This chapter explores Shane Meadows's approaches to genre, arguing that hybrid forms of film type are employed in order to underscore the elements of myth which are evident in his work. In particular, it looks at how evocations of the monster weave t... Read More about ‘An object of indecipherable bastardy – a real monster: Homosociality, homoeroticism and generic hybridity in dead man’s shoes’.

Re:Interpretation: the representation of perspectives on slave trade history using creative media (2013)
Book Chapter
Sobers, S., & Mitchell, R. (2013). Re:Interpretation: the representation of perspectives on slave trade history using creative media. In M. Dresser, & A. Hann (Eds.), Slavery and the British Country House (132-139). English Heritage

This chapter describes the process, production and context of Re:Interpretation, a participatory media project carried out by Firstborn Creatives in partnership with the National Trust. The brief was to explore the challenging subject of transatlant... Read More about Re:Interpretation: the representation of perspectives on slave trade history using creative media.

Os “livros” são eléctricos: ‘Are 'Books' Electric? Some possibilities for the artist's book in the 21st Century’ (2013)
Book Chapter
Bodman, S. L. (2013). Os “livros” são eléctricos: ‘Are 'Books' Electric? Some possibilities for the artist's book in the 21st Century’. In E. Derdyk (Ed.), Entre ser um e ser mil: O objecto livro e suas poéticas (121-143). São Paulo, Brazil: Senac

As Ulises Carrión stated in The New Art of Making Books in 1975: a book is a sequence of spaces. Over the last 36 years, the book as a physical space has undergone some dramatic changes in concept, format and reception. A book is still a sequence of... Read More about Os “livros” são eléctricos: ‘Are 'Books' Electric? Some possibilities for the artist's book in the 21st Century’.

Various small books: Referencing various small books by Ed Ruscha (2013)
Book Chapter
Sowden, T. (2013). Various small books: Referencing various small books by Ed Ruscha. In H. Zschiegner, J. Brouws, & W. Burton (Eds.), VARIOUS SMALL BOOKS: Referencing Various Small Books by Ed Ruscha (86-87). USA: MIT Press

As part of his ongoing research into the artists’ books produced by Ed Ruscha Tom Sowden was invited to contribute to VARIOUS SMALL BOOKS: Referencing Various Small Books by Ed Ruscha published by MIT Press (pages 86-87 and 166-169). In the 1960s and... Read More about Various small books: Referencing various small books by Ed Ruscha.

Espresso, exoticism and earthenware: the coffee bar ceramics of the Picassoettes, 1952 - 1960 (2013)
Book Chapter
Partington, M. (2013). Espresso, exoticism and earthenware: the coffee bar ceramics of the Picassoettes, 1952 - 1960. In J. Dahn, & J. Jones (Eds.), Interpreting Ceramics (90-99). Bath: Wunderkammer Press

This book chapter charts the birth of coffee bars in Britain and explores the design influences upon them. The principle focus is the work of three artist potters who made ceramics for a number of the coffee bars and whose work represented a unique m... Read More about Espresso, exoticism and earthenware: the coffee bar ceramics of the Picassoettes, 1952 - 1960.