All Outputs (56)

The meaning of names: A response in defence of The Pragmatic Theory of Properhood (TPTP) addressed to Van Langendonck, Anderson, Colman and McClure (2017)
Journal Article

In a number of interrelated articles, I have presented some ideas about the nature of proper names, and specifically about their meaning. A central concept of these papers has been subjected to criticism, I believe inappropriately, by several scholar... Read More about The meaning of names: A response in defence of The Pragmatic Theory of Properhood (TPTP) addressed to Van Langendonck, Anderson, Colman and McClure.

Ethnographic chats: A best of both method for ethnography (2017)
Journal Article

Conventionally, ethnographic methods in sociolinguistics aim to discover how language works as “situated social practice and how it is tied to social organisation” (Heller 2011: 10). Within this, ethnography has viewed participant observation as cent... Read More about Ethnographic chats: A best of both method for ethnography.

'It’s our property and our passion’: Managing creativity in a successful company – Aardman Animations (2017)
Book Chapter

This chapter explores how creativity is managed by Aardman Animations, one of the most successful independent UK film and television companies, whose vision is to forge an artists’ ‘studio’ rather than simply a business. This chapter argues that this... Read More about 'It’s our property and our passion’: Managing creativity in a successful company – Aardman Animations.

Welsh Lloegr 'England' (2017)
Journal Article

A new etymology is proposed for this controversial name, suggesting a Germanic origin.

Self, consciousness and agency in the egoist (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 Leeds Trinity University. This article re-reads representations of the self and agency in George Meredith’s The Egoist (1879) by drawing new connections between the novel and Victorian psychological theory. Critical discussions of The Egoist a... Read More about Self, consciousness and agency in the egoist.

The finance and production of independent film and television in the United Kingdom: A critical introduction (2017)
Book Chapter

This chapter provides a critical introduction to the finance and production of independent film and television production in the UK. Film, long considered entertainment rather than art, continues to suffer from low levels of public funding, and the m... Read More about The finance and production of independent film and television in the United Kingdom: A critical introduction.

Mothers in children's and young adult literature: From the eighteenth century to postfeminsim. Eds Lisa Rowe Fraustino and Karen Coats (2017)
Journal Article

The medium is the marketplace: Fictional-brand fandom and reverse product placement (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

While product displacement, shop-dropping and murketing are all methods used to skewer or criticize our heavily branded world, fictional branding is often used in an effort to re-inforce the connection between the fan and the movie world created, dem... Read More about The medium is the marketplace: Fictional-brand fandom and reverse product placement.

From world sf (via, if we must, World Sf) to world-sf: An introduction (2017)
Journal Article

This article situates the recent turn to sf from outside the America-British tradition within broader developments in American Studies, Comparative Literature and World Literature. Building on the work of WReC, it argues that the next stage for sf st... Read More about From world sf (via, if we must, World Sf) to world-sf: An introduction.

San Andreas and the Spiralling of the Analogico–Digital Animated Image (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017, © The Author(s) 2017. This article considers the contemporary state of mainstream Hollywood cinema as a profoundly animation-driven form of spectacular entertainment characteristic of global digital media in the era of what Bernard Stiegler c... Read More about San Andreas and the Spiralling of the Analogico–Digital Animated Image.

Lace in Fashion (2017)
Journal Article

This article is an extended response to the exhibition “Lace in Fashion” at Bath Fashion Museum (4th February 2017-1st January 2018). It argues that the exhibition is the “jewel in the crown” of all 2017 fashion exhibitions on view on this side... Read More about Lace in Fashion.

Reading otherness in British fiction for young people, 2001-2012. (2017)
Thesis

This thesis argues that novels depicting characters who exist outside of the social order have become integral to a twenty-first century corpus of British fiction for children and adolescents. This, in part, is as a result of a changing socio-politic... Read More about Reading otherness in British fiction for young people, 2001-2012..

Afrocyberpunk cinema: The postcolony finds its own use for things (2017)
Book Chapter

Noting the effective exclusion of Africa from cyberpunk visions of the future, this essay considers several films from Africa, directed by Sylvestre Amoussou, Nadia El Fani, Neill Blomkamp and Jean-Pierre Bekolo, which draw upon and develop cyberpunk... Read More about Afrocyberpunk cinema: The postcolony finds its own use for things.

Just a suggestion: just/e in French and English (2017)
Book Chapter

Working the break point: Maintenance, repair and failure in art (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Aesthetics of Repair (Migratory Art)
Invited Panel at Screen City Bienalle
Migrating Stories, Stavanger
12-31 Oct, 2017
Stavanger, Norway

From cultures to aesthetics of repair: departing from the notion of cultures of repair (Peter Weibel, Glo... Read More about Working the break point: Maintenance, repair and failure in art.

Capel Soar-y-mynydd, Ceredigion (2017)
Preprint / Working Paper

A history, description, bibliography, set of texts and photo-gallery of a chapel in Mid-Wales.

Review: ‘African science fiction: On Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry’s “African SF” Special Issue’ (2017)
Journal Article

Review

Dulltopia (2017)
Journal Article

This essay questions Fredric Jameson's and Slavoj Zizek's recent claims that contemporary dystopias are just plain boring. It argues that if they are right, then we must dive deeper into boredom to locate dystopian critique of catastrophic neoliberal... Read More about Dulltopia.

Bristol from Below: Law, Authority and Protest in a Georgian City (2017)
Book

Bristol from Below captures the substance and scale of popular politics and protest in Bristol over the course of the long eighteenth century. It charts the lives of ordinary Bristolians in the making of their city and devotes particular attention to... Read More about Bristol from Below: Law, Authority and Protest in a Georgian City.

Building Successful and Sustainable Film and Television Businesses: A Cross-National Perspective (2017)
Book

This edited collection focuses on the production cultures of successful small and medium-sized (SME) film and television companies in Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands and the UK, based on a three-year research project, ‘Success in the Film and Televi... Read More about Building Successful and Sustainable Film and Television Businesses: A Cross-National Perspective.