All Outputs (1673)

Screening Mars: Desire and denial in Aelita (Protazonov USSR 1924) and Just Imagine (Butler US 1930) (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

An analysis of contrasting depictions of Mars as a location of desire rather than an astronomical venue.

Science fiction television in the United Kingdom (2008)
Book Chapter

A critical overview of British television sf, from 1938 to the present day, with special attention to the ways in which it has articulated the UK’s shifting position in global politics and economics.

Film is digital (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Presentation of practice research project on the impact of digital technologies on feature film production

Wargaming and computer games: Fun with the future (2008)
Book Chapter

An essay exploring the historical influence of wargaming on contemporary computer gaming and the philosophical implications of this.

The Outsider: Anthony Simmons (2008)
Journal Article

This interview with veteran British Film director Anthony Simmons gives an account of Simmons’ career in the context of a declining industry in the 1970s. It offers previously unknown production background to films such as Black Joy and The Optimists... Read More about The Outsider: Anthony Simmons.

Illustrations in The big book of illustration ideas 2 (2008)
Book

The book is an overview of contemporary illustration. Two illustrations were selected for inclusion. One illustration appears on the dust jacket.

Der Staten rechterhand. Niederlaendisch Seeheiden in der Literatur des 17. Jahrhunderts (2008)
Book Chapter

The effect of joint interviewing on the performance of gender (2008)
Journal Article

The authors report a series of controlled comparisons of fifty-eight one-to-one qualitative interviews and thirty-seven mixed-sex joint interviews on the same health-related topics. Their analysis identifies comparative keyword frequencies and is sup... Read More about The effect of joint interviewing on the performance of gender.

The bald and the beautiful: The performativity of Billy Zane (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Analysis of Billy Zane's performance style in relation to the economics of contemporary filmmaking.

The embodied intellectual: Impression and contact as political currency (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper explores the idea of the embodied intellectual through notions of contact, impression and affect. Through my reading of Tracey Emin’s short film Why I Never Became a Dancer, 1995, I consider the relation of criticality to haptic visuality... Read More about The embodied intellectual: Impression and contact as political currency.

The French Rejection of the EU Constitution in a global context: A public opinion perspective (2008)
Book Chapter

Drawing on exit poll and opinion poll data, the chapter analyses the motivations of ‘no’ voters in the 2005 referendum in France on the EU constitution. The central thrust of my argument is that the ‘no’ victory was primarily motivated by concerns ab... Read More about The French Rejection of the EU Constitution in a global context: A public opinion perspective.

Digital futures: Digital decay (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Lecture to the MA Screen Studies unit in Specialised Cinema Exhibition on the impact of digital technology on feature film exhibition and distribution.

Proliferation, peristalsis and ejaculation: Reflections on narrative and spectacle in digital SF cinema (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper addresses the changing nature of the cinamatic experience in the era of blockbuster digital filmamking, using Transformers as its key example.

Book review: Stories from home: English domestic interiors, 1750-1850. Margaret Ponsonby. Ashgate, 2007. 232pp.,12 b&w illus., cloth, £55.00. ISBN: 9780754652359 (2008)
Journal Article

A review of Margaret Ponsonby’s Stories from Home: English Domestic Interiors, 1750–1850.

The institute of psychoplasmics (2008)
Exhibition / Performance

Exhibition of UK artists. The Institute of Psychoplasmics is an exhibition about cultic social groupings and how they challenge the integrity of the social body by producing another within it.

The family in English children's literature (2008)
Book

This text examines the idea of the family in children's literature from a largely historical perspective. Using 1818 as a starting point and ending with a consideration of contemporary works, it analyses a variety of texts, and contends that, despite... Read More about The family in English children's literature.

The Commonwealth Caribbean and the challenges of institutional exclusion (2008)
Journal Article

The paper evaluates the changes that have taken place in the political economy of global trade, particularly the growing influence of international organizations and their rules and norms, and the institutional exclusion of the Commonwealth Caribbean... Read More about The Commonwealth Caribbean and the challenges of institutional exclusion.

Transformers (2008)
Journal Article

Review of named film

The Map as a Musical Score: Fantasies of Temporal Management and Resistance in 1930s London (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Beyond the study of the contemporary moment, rhythmanalysis has great potential for the historical geographer. By drawing our attention to tempo and rhythm, it can reanimate the lifeless remains entombed within the archive (maps, diagrams, photograph... Read More about The Map as a Musical Score: Fantasies of Temporal Management and Resistance in 1930s London.

Madoc in Scotland: A transatlantic perspective on Stepping Westward (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Wordsworth's Stepping Westward, one of the Poems Written During a Tour in Scotland included in Poems, in Two Volumes (1807), has received little critical attention compared with its companion tour poem, The Solitary Reaper. This essay offers a fresh... Read More about Madoc in Scotland: A transatlantic perspective on Stepping Westward.