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Critical ambience (2020)
Book Chapter
Dovey, J., & Hayler, M. (2020). Critical ambience. In T. Abba, J. Dovey, & P. Kate (Eds.), Ambient Literature: Towards a New Poetics of Situated Writing and Reading Practices (141-161). (1). Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41456-6

This chapter argues that ambient cultural practices can be reframed as critically focused experiences rather than either passive backgrounds or immersive entertainment. We argue that ambient literature can leave the reader or listener with a heighten... Read More about Critical ambience.

Parting the iron curtain: Michael Klinger’s attempt to make 'A Man and a Half' (2020)
Book Chapter
Spicer, A. (2020). Parting the iron curtain: Michael Klinger’s attempt to make 'A Man and a Half'. In J. Fenwick, K. Foster, & D. Eldridge (Eds.), Shadow Cinema: The Historical and Production Context of Unmade Films (57-70). (1). Bloomsbury Publishing

Between 1967 and 1984, British independent producer Michael Klinger attempted to make a war film initially called Parachute that was renamed A Man and a Half. It was an international production through which as Klinger hoped to establish himself as a... Read More about Parting the iron curtain: Michael Klinger’s attempt to make 'A Man and a Half'.

Bristol mixes - Underground, identity, and the city (2020)
Book Chapter
Hyder, R., & Henning, M. (2020). Bristol mixes - Underground, identity, and the city. In J. Hossfield, J. Nyairo, & F. Sievers (Eds.), Ten Cities: Clubbing in Nairobi, Cairo, Kyiv,​ Johannesburg, Berlin, Naples, ​Luanda, Lagos, Bristol, Lisbon​ 1960 – March 2020​ (459-483). Spector Books

Always in with the in-crowd: Vogue and the cultural politics of gender, place, class and taste (2020)
Book Chapter
Tincknell, E. (2020). Always in with the in-crowd: Vogue and the cultural politics of gender, place, class and taste. In L. Forster, & J. Hollows (Eds.), Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1940s-2000s (200-214). Edinburgh University Press

The venerable fashion magazine Vogue has always associated itself with the interests of the ruling class, through the cultural and symbolic capital exhibited by the diffused aesthetic of its fashion spreads and through its unabashed attachment to the... Read More about Always in with the in-crowd: Vogue and the cultural politics of gender, place, class and taste.

Creativity and the problem of automation (2020)
Book Chapter
Crogan, P. (2020). Creativity and the problem of automation. In P. Crogan (Ed.), Unboxing the Black Box: Reflections on Making with AI and Automation (16-22). SWCTN

As AI-driven automation systems make their presence increasingly felt in everyday lives, the nature and value of human creativity is becoming an issue requiring urgent attention. While the disruptive impacts of digital innovation are often celebrated... Read More about Creativity and the problem of automation.

‘We shall have a fine holiday’: Imperial sentiment, unemployment and the 1928 miner-harvester scheme to Canada (2020)
Book Chapter
Fedorowich, K. (2020). ‘We shall have a fine holiday’: Imperial sentiment, unemployment and the 1928 miner-harvester scheme to Canada. In M. Ruiz (Ed.), Bridging Boundaries in British Migration History: In Memorium Eric Richards (197-225). Anthem Press

The annual migration of harvesters from central and eastern Canada to the prairies had been a regular event ever since 1890. As the wheat economy expanded, larger supplies of manpower were needed to bring in the harvest. In 1906 and 1923 British work... Read More about ‘We shall have a fine holiday’: Imperial sentiment, unemployment and the 1928 miner-harvester scheme to Canada.

Unexpected Enterprises: Remixing Creative Entrepreneurship (2020)
Book Chapter
Agusita, E., & Ashton, D. (2020). Unexpected Enterprises: Remixing Creative Entrepreneurship. In S. Taylor, & S. Luckman (Eds.), Pathways into Creative Working Lives (31-47). (1). Palgrave Macmillan (part of Springer Nature). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38246-9_2

Entrepreneurialism is widely encouraged across many industrial sectors in the ‘knowledge-based’ economy of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Entrepreneurialism, including self-promotion and work on the self, has been held and is a... Read More about Unexpected Enterprises: Remixing Creative Entrepreneurship.

Assisting people with Autism Spectrum Disorder through technology (2020)
Book Chapter
Newbutt, N. (2018). Assisting people with Autism Spectrum Disorder through technology. In A. Tatnall (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Education and Information Technologies (1-35). Switzerland: Springer

This chapter seeks to provide a review and overview of technology that has been used to support autistic people. The aim of this chapter is to provide an overview of technology used by autistic groups contextually and historically. Materials covere... Read More about Assisting people with Autism Spectrum Disorder through technology.

Syncretic youth: The phantom legacy of Hebdige’s subculture—The meaning of style (2020)
Book Chapter
Hyder, R. (2020). Syncretic youth: The phantom legacy of Hebdige’s subculture—The meaning of style. In K. Gildart, A. Gough-Yates, S. Lincoln, B. Osgerby, L. Robinson, J. Street, …M. Worley (Eds.), Hebdige and Subculture in the Twenty-First Century (113-131). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28475-6_7

The publication of Dick Hebdige’s Subculture: The Meaning of Style in 1979 marks the end of a decade of writings on the creative potential and symbolically resistive youth subcultures. Although it underpinned many of the central ideas originally deve... Read More about Syncretic youth: The phantom legacy of Hebdige’s subculture—The meaning of style.

Male stardom in 1960s British cinema (2020)
Book Chapter
Spicer, A. (2020). Male stardom in 1960s British cinema. In Sixties British Cinema Reconsidered (11-28). Edinburgh University

The chapter analyses eight stars – Alan Bates, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Tom Courtenay, Albert Finney, Richard Harris, Peter O’Toole and Terence Stamp – all of whom were the product of the post-war changes (including the 1944 Education Act) that o... Read More about Male stardom in 1960s British cinema.