All Outputs (1673)

Staging the limits to knowledge: Cognition, estrangment and spectacle in 2001: A Space Odyssey (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Beginning by questioning the possibility of judging relative scale and postion in the famous final image of the 2001, this paper challenges Carl Freedman's influential argument about the possibility of spectacle generating cognitive estrangement.

In the beginning (2008)
Exhibition / Performance

This group exhibition examines the use of narrative and language within the systematic methods of production. By placing emphasis upon the languages associated with artistic practice and its critical reception the exhibition sought to engage with som... Read More about In the beginning.

The story of colonial adventure (2008)
Book Chapter

The chapter examines the nature and scope of the colonial short story, with reference to authors such as Kipling, Conrad, Conan Doyle and Somerset Maugham. The Companion itself is a valuable resource for students and scholars in the field.

Human rights in Iran: the ethnography of ‘others’ and global political theory (2008)
Journal Article

Nothing much to phone home about (with exceptions): Four books on Spielberg (2008)
Journal Article

10,000 word review of four more or less concurrent academic/critical books on Spielberg's films, including Warren Buckland, directed by Steven Spielberg: Poetics of the contemporary blockbuster; Lester D Friedman, Citizen Spielberg; Andrew Gordon, Em... Read More about Nothing much to phone home about (with exceptions): Four books on Spielberg.

Henry V and the performance of war (2008)
Book Chapter

The chapter serves to highlight an aspect of the play which is often overlooked in criticism: the importance of the performance of the siege of Harfleur as part of a narrative and image pattern which runs formally throughout the Folio text of Henry V... Read More about Henry V and the performance of war.

Nu Town (2008)
Book

Three films are translated into a comic book format, breaking down the narrative of the films into a series of drawn episodes. The story-board format eradicates the director's authorial voice liberating contradictory new meanings and relationships f... Read More about Nu Town.

That has been (2008)
Exhibition / Performance

Atrocity exhibition (2008)
Journal Article

Review of named film

'A lasting and salutary warning': Incendiarism, rural order and England's last scene of crime execution (2008)
Journal Article

Agricultural incendiarism was a perennial factor in social relations in some areas of nineteenth-century rural England and is often understood by historians as an expression of 'covert' social protest. However, such categorisation risks oversimplifyi... Read More about 'A lasting and salutary warning': Incendiarism, rural order and England's last scene of crime execution.

A blurred photograph of Jesus is better than no photograph at all – the practicalities of using video as an oral history tool (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper deals with the use of video as an oral history tool and the importance of the visual image in understanding visual artists and their work. Oral history grew out of improvements in technology in the mid-twentieth century which allowed us t... Read More about A blurred photograph of Jesus is better than no photograph at all – the practicalities of using video as an oral history tool.

The interaction of age and gender in illness narratives (2008)
Journal Article

Recognition of the greater capacity of older women to draw on supportive social networks has now supplemented an earlier focus of research into gender and ageing which portrayed older men as a 'privileged gerontocracy' because of their greater access... Read More about The interaction of age and gender in illness narratives.

Eraserheads (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This public panel discussed various aspects of the relationship between cinema and memory, with a particular focus on the gallery work of Pierre Bismuth and Michel Gondry. The panel was chaired by Roger Luckhurst; the co-panellists were Jonathan Romn... Read More about Eraserheads.

[No] Fear / [Keine ]Angst) (2008)
Exhibition / Performance

Exhibition of international artists.

Visibility/ invisibility (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Through a focus on visibility/invisibility, the workshop established networking links, tracked changes patterns of representation and established shared intellectual terrain in areas of inclusion and exclusion, between scholars working on the prolife... Read More about Visibility/ invisibility.

Pine (2008)
Book

The eighteenth in the second series of Matt’s Gallery ‘booklets’, published to accompany the exhibition Pine.

Pine (2008)
Exhibition / Performance

An exhibition of artwork centred on relationships between object and image. Assisted readymades populated a reconfigured gallery space adorned with large-scale painted backdrops and printed paper. Registers of public and domestic space were disrupted... Read More about Pine.

Scelidosaurua skull (2008)
Physical Artefact

Production of a life size, articulated Scelidosaurus skull based on recent fossil evidence.

The lexicographical legacy of John Sinclair (2008)
Journal Article

John Sinclair opened up possibilities for new kinds of dictionaries. He assigned a central role to collocations and phraseology, insisting on close attention to textual evidence coupled with a broad theoretical perspective and ruthless jettisoning of... Read More about The lexicographical legacy of John Sinclair.

Daily life in the Spanish civil war, 1936-1939 (2008)
Book Chapter