All Outputs (187)

Altruism, love and the "democratic factor" in social psychiatry (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

An examination of those models of character defined by effective sentiment development which became the foundation of a social psychiatry directed to the solution of social problems as part of a programme of post-war reconstruction, an excavation of... Read More about Altruism, love and the "democratic factor" in social psychiatry.

British culture and society in the 1970's - conference report (2009)
Journal Article

The history of the visitation 1978-2009 (2009)
Exhibition / Performance

Selection of key works produced between 1978 and 2009, referencial to Andre Tarkovsky (filmmaker) and the Strugatsky brothers (Soviet science fiction). A small retrospective of artistic practice through four decades.

Island universe (2009)
Exhibition / Performance

This output is a dialogue between the visual medias of photography and drawing. It also examines the cultural relationship between the Islands of Britain / Japan and the metaphor of the Artist as an island.

Dead penguins in immigrant pilchard scandal: Telling stories about the "environment" in Antarctica (2009)
Book Chapter

Drawing together often antagonistic Marxist and ecological critical-theory, this essay sympathetically critiques Kim Stanley Robinson’s treatment of nature, while calling for a theory and praxis which acknowledges and embraces the non-human in tackli... Read More about Dead penguins in immigrant pilchard scandal: Telling stories about the "environment" in Antarctica.

Shunt (2009)
Exhibition / Performance

A group exhibition featuring sculptures, paintings and installations by three UK artists. The English verb "to shunt" means the physical movement of an object or specifically in the British, the manoeuvring of a railcar. The word is also a common met... Read More about Shunt.

Games and Culture: A Journal of Interactive Media, vol 4., no. 2 (April 2009), Special Section on games and technology (2009)
Other

This special section, co-edited by Patrick Crogan and Helen Kennedy, comprised the majority of this issue of Games and Culture and was derived from a UWE Play Research Group one day symposium held in September 2006.

Technologies between games and culture (2009)
Journal Article

This article introduces and situates the ensuing collection of four essays on the theme of games and technology. It argues the need for videogame studies to develop a more rigorous and focused perspective on the theorization of technology as it relat... Read More about Technologies between games and culture.

'Far below her former station': Jessop, Brunel and Bristol's Floating Harbour (2009)
Journal Article

Regulatory bodies: Dramatic creativity, control and the commodity of Lady Audley's Secret (2009)
Journal Article

This article investigates how the playwrights of the Victorian era creatively exploited the loopholes in copyright and licensing laws. I argue that in depicting the heroine Lady Audley's bodily display, they themselves engage with the issues of regul... Read More about Regulatory bodies: Dramatic creativity, control and the commodity of Lady Audley's Secret.

Dictation (2009)
Physical Artefact

An original play first performed at the Alma Tavern Theatre, Bristol 12-15 April 2009.

Dictation / No pyjamas (2009)
Exhibition / Performance

No Pyjamas (2009)
Physical Artefact

An original play.
First performed at UWE, St Matthias Campus 27-29 May 2008. Second performance at Alma Tavern Theatre, Bristol 12-15 April 2009.

From analogues to digital: New resources in Victorian drama (2009)
Journal Article

This article outlines the key resources that have emerged in the field of mid-Victorian drama. It focussed on the British Library/Royal Holloway Project 'Buried Treasures' and The Victorian Plays Project at Worcester.

Productive research: Approaches and sources to uncovering the role of the film producer (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper reviewed the approaches and methodologies deployed to research and write the monograph Sydney Box for Manchester University Press (2006) focusing on the use of archival material and other primary sources. It argued that film history needs... Read More about Productive research: Approaches and sources to uncovering the role of the film producer.

Italo-German collaboration and the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 (2009)
Book Chapter

Contesting the ‘secret grudge’: the image of America in the Edinburgh Review, 1803-1829 (2009)
Journal Article

Metaphor and political communication (2009)
Book Chapter

Room collaborators (2009)
Exhibition / Performance

A group exhibition of thirty six works, including limited editions and unique works, by thirty six artists.

The cinema of John Sayles: from Billy Zane to Brecht and Bakhtin, and back again (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A critical introduction to John Sayles, with Silver City as its primary example, this paper discusses the relationship between his films and American naturalist traditions, and explores language as a site of material resistance.