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“Not a man from England”: assimilating the exotic ‘other’ through performance, from Henry IV to Henry VI (2010)
Book Chapter
Penlington, A. (2010). “Not a man from England”: assimilating the exotic ‘other’ through performance, from Henry IV to Henry VI. In W. Maley, & M. Tudeau-Clayton (Eds.), This England, That Shakespeare: New Angles on Englishness and the Bard (234-262). Ashgate

This essay will consider recent shifts in performance representations of England and the exotic ‘other’ in Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Henry V and Henry VI plays. By tracing the texts’ varied representations of non-English Britons and those for whom Engl... Read More about “Not a man from England”: assimilating the exotic ‘other’ through performance, from Henry IV to Henry VI.

Antigone's Political Legacies: Abjection in Defiance of Mourning (2010)
Book Chapter
Chanter, T. (2010). Antigone's Political Legacies: Abjection in Defiance of Mourning. In S. Wilmer, & A. Zukauskaite (Eds.), Interrogating Antigone in Postmodern Philosophy and Criticism (19-47). Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780199559213.003.0002

© Oxford University Press 2010. All rights reserved. Heidegger and Lacan both emphasize the uncanny, monstrous aspects of Antigone, who must be expelled from the polis, and yet who plays a liminal role in which she is the excluded yet facilitating ot... Read More about Antigone's Political Legacies: Abjection in Defiance of Mourning.

Antonio Vallejo Nágera: Herencia, psiquiatría y guerra (2010)
Book Chapter
Richards, M. (2010). Antonio Vallejo Nágera: Herencia, psiquiatría y guerra. In M. Á. D. Arco Blanco, & A. Quiroga Fernández (Eds.), Soldados de Dios y Apóstoles de la Patria: Las Derechas Españolas en la Europa de Entreguerras (177-206). Granada: Editorial Comares

Syon Abbey: Women and learning c. 1415-1600 (2010)
Book Chapter
Bainbridge, V. (2010). Syon Abbey: Women and learning c. 1415-1600. In E. Jones, & A. Walsham (Eds.), Syon Abbey and its Books c. 1400-1700: Religious Communities and Communication in Late Medieval and Early Modern England (82-103). Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell and Brewer

Syon Abbey Martiloge (2010)
Book Chapter
Bainbridge, V., & Gejrot, C. (2010). Syon Abbey Martiloge. In E. Jones, & A. Walsham (Eds.), Syon Abbey and its Books: Reading, Writing and Religion, c.1400-1700. Boydell Press

On the margins: Anthony Simmons, 'The Optimists of Nine Elms' and 'Black Joy' (2010)
Book Chapter
Dolan, J., & Spicer, A. H. (2010). On the margins: Anthony Simmons, 'The Optimists of Nine Elms' and 'Black Joy'. In P. Newland (Ed.), Don't Look Now: British Cinema in the 1970s (79-91). Bristol: Intellect

This co-authored chapter in an edited collection on British Cinema in the 1970s recuperates from critical oblivion the BAFTA award winning film and TV director, Anthony Simmons. The article locates Simmons in the decline of the British industry that... Read More about On the margins: Anthony Simmons, 'The Optimists of Nine Elms' and 'Black Joy'.

Double O agencies: Femininity, post-feminism and the female spy in Casino Royale (2010)
Book Chapter
Tincknell, E. (2010). Double O agencies: Femininity, post-feminism and the female spy in Casino Royale. In C. Lindner (Ed.), Revisioning 007: James Bond and Casino Royale. Wallflower Press

Casino Royale was widely marketed and received as a 're-booting' of the Bond franchise, with a concomitant reinvention of the Bond girl for a post-feminist world. This essay critiques this claim, identifying important continuities between the film's... Read More about Double O agencies: Femininity, post-feminism and the female spy in Casino Royale.

Why Neo flies, and why he shouldn’t: The critique of cyberpunk in Gwyneth Jones’s Escape Plans and M. John Harrison’s Signs of Life (2010)
Book Chapter
Bould, M. (2010). Why Neo flies, and why he shouldn’t: The critique of cyberpunk in Gwyneth Jones’s Escape Plans and M. John Harrison’s Signs of Life. In G. Murphy, & S. Vint (Eds.), Beyond Cyberpunk: New Critical Perspectives (116-134). Routledge

This essay argues that the fantasies of disembodied flight evident in sf since the genre's inception become an explicit, and largely uncritical, metaphor for supposedly 'friction-free' capital-in-circulation in cyberpunk fiction of the 1980s and 1990... Read More about Why Neo flies, and why he shouldn’t: The critique of cyberpunk in Gwyneth Jones’s Escape Plans and M. John Harrison’s Signs of Life.

Angel of Vengeance (aka Ms.45) (2010)
Book Chapter
Bould, M. (2010). Angel of Vengeance (aka Ms.45). In J. Berra (Ed.), Directory of World Cinema: American Independent (150-151). Intellect

Bone (2010)
Book Chapter
Bould, M. (2010). Bone. In J. Berra (Ed.), Directory of World Cinema: American Independent (47-48). Intellect

God told me to (2010)
Book Chapter
Bould, M. (2010). God told me to. In J. Berra (Ed.), Directory of World Cinema: American Independent (155-156). Intellect

It's alive (2010)
Book Chapter
Bould, M. (2010). It's alive. In J. Berra (Ed.), Directory of World Cinema: American Independent (156-157). Intellect

Primer (2010)
Book Chapter
Bould, M. (2010). Primer. In J. Berra (Ed.), Directory of World Cinema: American Independent (194-195). Intellect