All Outputs (33)

Oprah, celebrity and formations of self (2003)
Book

Examining the phenomenon of the Oprah Winfrey Show within the context of contemporary American culture, the book considers the reasons for the popularity of this television programme. It explores Winfrey's celebrity persona, the ways in which indivi... Read More about Oprah, celebrity and formations of self.

The wobbly pillar? Housing and the British postwar welfare state (2003)
Journal Article

The image of housing as the wobbly pillar under the welfare state has been widely used in recent years, and is clearly an attractive metaphor in the present period as residualisation deepens and privatisation continues. However, this paper is concern... Read More about The wobbly pillar? Housing and the British postwar welfare state.

Business, politics and revolution in early twentieth-century Ireland (2003)
Book Chapter

Hogarth on the square: Framing the freemasons (2003)
Journal Article

Private enterprise in eclipe? A reassessment of British housing policy in the 1940s (2003)
Journal Article

Conventional analyses of housing policy in most European countries treat the 1940s as a decade when private enterprise was eclipsed by social housing programmes. As a result, private enterprise is also eclipsed in most accounts of housing and housing... Read More about Private enterprise in eclipe? A reassessment of British housing policy in the 1940s.

A prototype based approach to the translation of Malay and English idioms (2003)
Book Chapter

The aim of this paper is to establish a principled basis for the translation of English and Malay idioms and to consider some of the ways that a corpus can be used to assist in this task. Initially a number of problems with corpus based research of a... Read More about A prototype based approach to the translation of Malay and English idioms.

staB (2003)
Exhibition / Performance

Three video installations. This project originated through a series of residencies and research involving invited visits to zoos, natural history museums and their storehouses, including the Natural History Museum, London; Prague Zoo; and the Nationa... Read More about staB.

Gametime: History, narrative and temporality in Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 2 (2003)
Book Chapter

This essay looks at the relations between narrative and ludic structuring of video game play experience through a comparison between a video game and a film that deal with the history of air war in the Pacific theatre during World War II.

Urban recorders and the Crown in late Medieval England (2003)
Book Chapter

The arithmeticke project: A collaborative research study of the diffusion of Hindu-Arabic numerals (2003)
Journal Article

Transnational organized crime: The strange career of an american concept (2003)
Book Chapter

Gloucestershire's Forgotten Battle: Nibley Green, 1470 (2003)
Book

Wartime planning for post-war housing in Britain: The Whitehall debate, 1941-5 (2003)
Journal Article

The starting point for this article is the observation that planning for post-war housing policy has been a neglected area of study, especially in comparison with the attention given to housing during the First World War. Drawing on research in the o... Read More about Wartime planning for post-war housing in Britain: The Whitehall debate, 1941-5.

Perceptions of innovation, receptions of change: Responses to the introduction of machine banking and mechanization in the interwar British retail banking (2003)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Locating an American romanticism: Emerson, Cavell, 'experience' (2003)
Journal Article

New Media: A Critical Introduction (2003)
Book

Anagrams of Desire: Angela Carter's Writing for Radio, Film and Television (2003)
Book

This book is the first volume to give critical attention to Carter's writings for media, including five radio plays, two film adaptations, an original television documentary and a number of unrealised scripts for stage and screen, examining these tex... Read More about Anagrams of Desire: Angela Carter's Writing for Radio, Film and Television.

The European linen industry since the Middle Ages (2003)
Book Chapter

The European linen industry in historical perspective (2003)
Book

Bridging the gap between A Level and degree: Some observations on managing the transitional stage in the study of English Literature (2003)
Journal Article