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Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss and the troubled symbolic production of a Man Booker prizewinner (2014)
Book Chapter
Allington, D. (2014). Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss and the troubled symbolic production of a Man Booker prizewinner. In O. P. Dwivedi, & L. Lau (Eds.), Indian Writing in English and the Global Literary Marketplace (119-139). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

Extract in lieu of an abstract: Kiran Desai’s second novel, The Inheritance of Loss, was published by Penguin subsidiaries in India and North America in January 2006, and seven months later in the UK by Hamish Hamilton, a Penguin imprint. That sam... Read More about Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss and the troubled symbolic production of a Man Booker prizewinner.

Black music and cultural exchange in Bristol (2014)
Book Chapter
Hyder, R. (2014). Black music and cultural exchange in Bristol. In J. Stratton, & N. Zuberi (Eds.), Black Popular Music in Britain Since 1945 (85-100). Aldershot: Ashgate

Bright bricks, dark play: On the impossibility of studying LEGO (2014)
Book Chapter
Giddings, S. (2014). Bright bricks, dark play: On the impossibility of studying LEGO. In M. J. Wolf (Ed.), LEGO Studies: Examining the Building Blocks of a Transmedial Phenomenon. New York: Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315858012

It is generally recognized that the pleasures of LEGO do not end once the instructions in a particular set have been followed and the model depicted on the box is accurately realized. Generations of children have —just as the manufacturers intended—... Read More about Bright bricks, dark play: On the impossibility of studying LEGO.

Post-noir: Getting back to business (2014)
Book Chapter
Bould, M. (2014). Post-noir: Getting back to business. In H. B. Pettey, & R. B. Palmer (Eds.), International Noir. Edinburgh University Press

‘Post-noir’ is, like all noir labels, heavily contested; even the need for it is open to question. Drawing on Fredric Jameson, Anne McClintock, Jean-François Lyotard and Kwame Anthony Appiah, this essay examines several specific – and contradictory –... Read More about Post-noir: Getting back to business.

Inner space (2014)
Book Chapter
Bould, M. (2014). Inner space. In J. Bell (Ed.), Sci-Fi: Days of Fear and Wonder - A BFI Compendium. Sight & Sound

Critical overview of sf films exploring the destabilisation of human identity.

Film (2014)
Book Chapter
Bould, M. (2014). Film. In R. Latham (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction. Oxford University Press

A critical overview of critical-theoretical understandings of sf film, especially those promulgated by critics devoted to sf as a prose fiction form. It also considers adaptation, spectacle and special effects.

Remembering Spain’s war: Violence, social change, and collective identity since 1936 (2014)
Book Chapter
Richards, M. (2014). Remembering Spain’s war: Violence, social change, and collective identity since 1936. In P. Anderson, & M. A. del Arco Blanco (Eds.), Mass Killings and Violence in Spain 1936-1952: Grappling with the Past (195-209). (1). New York: Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203706404

The public resurgence in Spain of memories of the Civil War and the Franco dictatorship has been crystallised and articulated by civil society associations whose aim has been 'the recuperation of historical memory'. The democratic principles of the p... Read More about Remembering Spain’s war: Violence, social change, and collective identity since 1936.

Locating the 'Bristol sound': Archiving music as everyday life (2014)
Book Chapter
Henning, M., & Hyder, R. (2014). Locating the 'Bristol sound': Archiving music as everyday life. In M. Leonard, L. Roberts, S. Cohen, & R. Knifton (Eds.), Sites of Popular Music Heritage: Memories, Histories, Places (97-111). Routledge

The independent producer and the state: Simon Relph, government policy and the British film industry, 1980-2005 (2014)
Book Chapter
Spicer, A. H. (2014). The independent producer and the state: Simon Relph, government policy and the British film industry, 1980-2005. In A. H. Spicer, A. McKenna, & C. Meir (Eds.), Beyond the Bottom Line: The Producer in Film and Television Studies (65-93). New York and London: Bloomsbury Academic. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781501300202.ch-004

This chapter is the first comprehensive assessment of the career and importance of Simon Relph, who was an independent film producer, the Managing Director of British Screen (1985-90) which was one of the two main funders and commissioners (alongside... Read More about The independent producer and the state: Simon Relph, government policy and the British film industry, 1980-2005.

Les organisations patronales et le trade union congress en Grande-Bretagne (2014)
Book Chapter
Ollerenshaw, P. (2014). Les organisations patronales et le trade union congress en Grande-Bretagne. In P. Vernus, D. Fraboulet, & C. Humair (Eds.), Coopérer, Négocier, S’affronter: Les organisations patronales et leurs relations avec les autres organisations collectives (111-121). Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes

Business and industry (2014)
Book Chapter
Ollerenshaw, P. (2014). Business and industry. In A. Jackson (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish History (148-167). Oxford: Oxford University Press

She’s Been Away: Ageing, madness and memory (2014)
Book Chapter
Wilson, S. (2014). She’s Been Away: Ageing, madness and memory. In U. Kriebernegg, R. Maierhofer, & B. Ratzenböck (Eds.), Alive and Kicking at All Ages: Cultural Constructions of Health and Life Course Identity (187-202). Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag

She’s Been Away is a television drama written by Stephen Poliakoff and broadcast in the UK on the BBC in 1989. This paper discusses the ways in which the play unusually presents a feminist critique of contemporary patriarchal structures through the m... Read More about She’s Been Away: Ageing, madness and memory.

Making publics: Documentary as do-it-with-others citizenship (2014)
Book Chapter
Rose, M. (2014). Making publics: Documentary as do-it-with-others citizenship. In M. Ratto, & M. Boler (Eds.), DIY Citizenship : Critical Making and Social Media (201-212). Boston: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press (MIT Press)

This chapter explores significant collaborative, interactive documentary practices that are emerging in the context of digital culture, and situates these emerging practices in relation to the counter-history within documentary in which subjects have... Read More about Making publics: Documentary as do-it-with-others citizenship.

Recordando la guerra de España: Violencia, cambio social e identidad colectiva desde 1936 (2014)
Book Chapter
Richards, M. (2014). Recordando la guerra de España: Violencia, cambio social e identidad colectiva desde 1936. In P. Anderson, & M. D. Arco Blanco (Eds.), Lidiando con el pasado: Represión y memoria de la guerra civil y el franquismo (217-232). Granada: Editorial Comares

Study of post-civil war memory in Spain and changes in society and collective identity