All Outputs (1673)

Arthur C. Clarke's Vision of Benevolent Empire (2008)
Journal Article

An obituary of Arthur C. Clarke, with a critical focus on his treatment of imperialism/colonialism.

SF histories (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Mark Bould was one of four closing plenary panel members at this conference. The closing panel sumamrised the key ideas that emerged during the course of the conference and suggestions about their implications for future research.

Writing/Genre/History: Everyone else is wrong (and so am I) (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

An overview of the problems involved in writing a history of a genre, drawing on debates in contemporary historiography and science studies.

Tortured torsos: Anorexic subjectivity in Fight Club and The Machinist (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Taking anorexia as a model of subjectivity under contemporary capital, this paper analyses the noir protagonists of Fight Club and The Machinist and their relationships to power, labour and their own bodies.

The very modern world of Fritz Lang (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Taking Lang's films as the pulp wing of the Frankfurt School, this lecture demonstrated that although not a Marxist Lang developed a critique of capitalist urban/industrial modernity very similar in some respects to that of Theodor Adorno.

BBC4’s Worlds of Fantasy, ‘Through the looking glass’ episode (2008)
Other

Mark Bould contributed to this television documentary series, which provided a discussion of China Mieville's King Rat in relation to the new weird movement in contemporary fantasy fiction and to post-Seattle and post-9/11 politics.

Local and national election agendas (2008)
Journal Article

In the saliency theory of elections parties are seen as monolithic. Each party emphasises the issues they own to gain electoral advantage. There are no rival agendas generated by different factions within the party or its territorial subdivisions. We... Read More about Local and national election agendas.

Alleviating the consequences of marginalisation? EU aid policy towards the Caribbean ACPs (2008)
Journal Article

The article reviews the EU's development policy in relation to the Caribbean members of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) group. It considers the particular challenges faced by these small economies before assessing their trade and aid relatio... Read More about Alleviating the consequences of marginalisation? EU aid policy towards the Caribbean ACPs.

Cultural studies: feminism and popular culture (2008)
Book Chapter

A 2,000 word entry summarising the debates in this area of research.

Sex and pornography as media content (2008)
Book Chapter

A 2,000 word entry summarising the debates in this area of research.

Man on the spot: Captain George Gracey and British policy towards the Assyrians, 1917-45 (2008)
Journal Article

Race/War: Patrick B. Sharp, Savage perils: Racial frontiers and nuclear apocalypse in American culture (2008)
Journal Article

Book review of named volume

Ministers of state: The established church in Lancashire during the English revolution, 1642-1660 (2008)
Journal Article

Between 1642 and 1660, the Church of England was directed and administered by centrally-appointed government committees, who oversaw the appointment of clerics, arranged generous salaries for many ministers, and undertook ambitious policies that woul... Read More about Ministers of state: The established church in Lancashire during the English revolution, 1642-1660.

History will repeat itself, strategies of re-enactment in contemporary (media) art and performance (2008)
Exhibition / Performance

Exhibition of international artists.

Public art as situation (2008)
Book Chapter

This authored chapter was developed from a conference paper given at an international conference in October 2007, in Hasselt. The chapter surveys the emergence of dispersed, durational and interventionist artistic strategies and their relation to pro... Read More about Public art as situation.

Woyzeck (2008)
Exhibition / Performance

Arranged student performance of Woyzeck by Georg Buchner.

British and American photography: The post-romantic tradition (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Fantastically fucked-up masculinity: Anorexic subjectivity in Fight Club and The Machinist (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Taking anorexia as a model of subjectivity under contemporary capital, this paper analyses the noir protagonists of Fight Club and The Machinist and their relationship to power, labour and their own bodies.

The (mal)content generation: media practice in the digital environment (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In my role as Practice Section chair of MeCCSA I organised and chaired this panel bringing practice researchers and teachers together to discuss the impact of digital "content" on the field of media practice teaching and research.

The collected letters of Rosina Bulwer Lytton (2008)
Book