All Outputs (1673)

Stephen Shapiro, ed., "Gothic studies' 'material gothic' special issue" and "Collapse: journal of philosophical research and development volume iv: Concept horror" (2009)
Journal Article

Review of two journal issues, with special emphasis on China Miéville’s contributions to them.

Untitled short piece in fiftieth anniversay special section on the current shape of scholarship and criticism on speculative fiction (2009)
Journal Article

Opinion piece on the relative security of sf studies as a discipline and the need for it to have a social and political vision beyond its institutional function.

Time and resolution: Experiments in high-definition image making (2009)
Journal Article

High-definition (HD) technology is powering a paradigm change within the digital domain. This article is an attempt to reveal and explore the aesthetics, the technologies and theoretical issues that are at stake through the embracing of this new medi... Read More about Time and resolution: Experiments in high-definition image making.

Towards an African journalism model: A Critical Historical Perspective (2009)
Journal Article

Much of the scholarly literature regarding theories of journalism practice is premised on the tenets of the western model of liberal democracy. To the extent that this model is held to be universal, it hinders the analytical theorization of journalis... Read More about Towards an African journalism model: A Critical Historical Perspective.

Men and emotion talk: Evidence from the experience of illness (2009)
Journal Article

Thomas Nashe (2009)
Journal Article

Selecting women candidates: A critical evaluation (2009)
Journal Article

It is clear that the major political parties in Britain consider the under-representation of women in numerical terms a challenge to be addressed. Dr Lisa Harrison presents (i) a brief overview of existing debates on the ‘state’ of women’s representa... Read More about Selecting women candidates: A critical evaluation.

Gibraltar at the united nations: Caught between a treaty, the charter and the “fundamentalism” of the special committee (2009)
Journal Article

On account of Spain's long-standing claim to the sovereignty of the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar, “the Rock” remains one of sixteen non-self-governing territories on the United Nations list awaiting decolonization. This article examines th... Read More about Gibraltar at the united nations: Caught between a treaty, the charter and the “fundamentalism” of the special committee.

Changing form: Stage, film and TV adaptations of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca (2009)
Book Chapter

Feminizing the nation and the country house: Women dramatists, 1938-1941 (2009)
Book Chapter

Illustrations in Images 32 The best of contemporary illustration 2008 (2008)
Book Chapter

Two illustrations, jury selected for inclusion in the Association of Illustrators IMAGES annual, an overview of the best contemporary illustration. One illustration commissioned by BBH.

19th-Century sf and the discourses of science: Martin Willis, Mesmerists, monsters and machines: Science fiction and the cultures of science in the Nineteenth Century (2008)
Journal Article

Book review of named text

There is no such thing as science fiction (2008)
Book Chapter

Taking Tom Godwin’s classic – and controversial – sf short story ‘The Cold Equations’ as its starting point, this essay draws on contemporary genre theory and Bruno Latour’s science studies model of enrolment to argue that there is no such thing as s... Read More about There is no such thing as science fiction.

"It's not going to be like this is it?": Celebrating age festival 2008 (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Employing participant observation, the paper offers analysis of Bristol’s Festival of Age, 2008 and traces the ways in which participants are positioned within a configuration of nostalgic, regulatory regimes that position them as a) passive bodies b... Read More about "It's not going to be like this is it?": Celebrating age festival 2008.

Miniprint No. 23 (2008)
Exhibition / Performance

Real lives 2004: The devil you know (2008)
Journal Article

This paper discusses the educational game software, Real Lives 2004 (Educational Simulations, 2004) as a means of raising and reflecting on the relations between simulational practices and statistics. These relations animate many modes of the framing... Read More about Real lives 2004: The devil you know.

Review of 'Material and Visual Cultures Beyond Male Bonding, 1870-1914: Bodies, Bounderies and Intimacy', by John Potvin (2008)
Journal Article

Potvin's book was a study of how male homosociality in late-nineteenth century British design cultures produced new dynamics of vision and touching, which became medicated through workshop practice and specific artefacts.

Beyond these voices: M. E. Braddon and the ghost of sensationalism (2008)
Journal Article

This article engages with Braddon's use of the supernatural to argue that her images of spiritualism reveal connections between theatricality, writing and her popular reputation.

Rhetorical parallels between the national woman suffrage association and Clinton's campaign (2008)
Journal Article

Between March and December 2008 Jane Arthurs was co-editor, with Usha Zacharias, of the Commentary and Criticism Section of this journal, which included topical short essays themed around issues of significance to feminist media studies either from a... Read More about Rhetorical parallels between the national woman suffrage association and Clinton's campaign.

Targeting, television and networking: An interview with Samuel Weber (2008)
Journal Article

In this interview, Samuel Weber discusses two recent books that explore issues of contemporary media and politics, Targets of Opportunity and Theatricality as Medium. Targeting is identified as a modality of conceiving the world that is as old as wes... Read More about Targeting, television and networking: An interview with Samuel Weber.