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Paper tensions: From flipbooks to scanners – the role of paper in moving image practices (2023)
Book Chapter
Egbe, A. (2023). Paper tensions: From flipbooks to scanners – the role of paper in moving image practices. In S. Breakell, & W. Russell (Eds.), The Materiality of the Archive: Creative Practice in Context. Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

Concerning the materiality of reproduction and duplication in film, this chapter explores the overlap of moving image and paper technologies. It presents an assemblage of paper related moving image artefacts: paper prints, posters, flipbooks, optical... Read More about Paper tensions: From flipbooks to scanners – the role of paper in moving image practices.

Navigating personal and professional pathways towards the telling of Bath’s African-connected histories (2023)
Book Chapter
Sobers, S., & Andrews, P. (in press). Navigating personal and professional pathways towards the telling of Bath’s African-connected histories. In Legacies of Slave-ownership and Enslavement: Reshaping Memoryscape in Bath and Bristol after the Fall of Colston. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press

This chapter is a transcript of a conversation between Polly Andrews - Learning Officer for Bath Abbey, and Convenor of the Bath & Colonialism Action Group; and Professor Shawn-Naphtali Sobers – trustee of Fairfield House , Bath, and Professor of Cul... Read More about Navigating personal and professional pathways towards the telling of Bath’s African-connected histories.

Cross-disciplinary collaborations for sustainable futures and a vital and ‎relevant academic community (2023)
Book Chapter
Pritchard, D. J., Connolly, H., Egbe, A., Saeudy, M., Rowinski, P., Bishop, J., …Worsfold, N. T. (2023). Cross-disciplinary collaborations for sustainable futures and a vital and ‎relevant academic community. In S. Abegglen, T. Burns, & S. Sinfield (Eds.), Collaboration in Higher Education A New Ecology of Practice. Bloomsbury Publishing

The challenges of our rapidly changing climate, environments, cultures, populations and labour markets require HE to ‘recognise, own, and engage with the most difficult and intractable issues of our times’ (Sterling, 2019, 61; Pritchard, forthcoming)... Read More about Cross-disciplinary collaborations for sustainable futures and a vital and ‎relevant academic community.

Cross-language influences in L2 pre-lexical and lexical processing and acquisition (2023)
Book Chapter
Piasecki, A. E., & Dijkstra, T. (2023). Cross-language influences in L2 pre-lexical and lexical processing and acquisition. In I. Elgort, A. Siyanova-Chanturia, & M. Brysbaert (Eds.), Cross-language Influences in Second Language Acquisition and Processing: Interdisciplinary insights and perspectives (126-151). Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1075/bpa.16.06pia

We review how second language (L2) printed and spoken word recognition is affected by first language (L1) characteristics. First, sublexical word properties in bilingual word recognition are considered, in particular diacritical marks and Capital Let... Read More about Cross-language influences in L2 pre-lexical and lexical processing and acquisition.

Cli-fi cinema (2023)
Book Chapter
Bould, M. (2023). Cli-fi cinema. In J. P. Telotte (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of New Science Fiction Cinemas (52-70). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197557723.013.5

This chapter outlines the relationship between science fiction (sf) and climate fiction, both literary and cinematic, and urges a broader understanding of what it means to tell stories about anthropogenic climate destabilization. It considers a wide... Read More about Cli-fi cinema.

The view from the funders: An interview with Doc Society’s Sandra Whipham and Lisa Marie Russo (2023)
Book Chapter
Presence, S., & Quigley, A. (2023). The view from the funders: An interview with Doc Society’s Sandra Whipham and Lisa Marie Russo. In D. Sills-Jones, & P. Kaapa (Eds.), Documentary film cultures in the age of COVID-19 (48-61). (1). Oxford: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers

This interview explores the pandemic from the perspective of Doc Society, the lead body for UK documentary film funding. From the outset of the crisis to the formation of the Screen Sector Taskforce and the launch of the BFI Doc Society SOS Fund, the... Read More about The view from the funders: An interview with Doc Society’s Sandra Whipham and Lisa Marie Russo.

The DFC: Developing nonfiction policy frameworks after COVID (2023)
Book Chapter
Presence, S. (2023). The DFC: Developing nonfiction policy frameworks after COVID. In D. Sills-Jones, & P. Kaapa (Eds.), Documentary film cultures in the age of COVID-19 (177-199). (1). Oxford: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers

This chapter is based on research conducted under the aegis of the UK Feature Docs research project (2018-20, https://ukfd.org.uk/), a three-year study of the UK’s feature-length documentary film industry funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Co... Read More about The DFC: Developing nonfiction policy frameworks after COVID.

Wales and the news, 1640–1800 (2023)
Book Chapter
Ward Clavier, S. (2023). Wales and the news, 1640–1800. In N. Brownlees (Ed.), The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, Vol. 1, 1640-1800. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

Despite the absence of a regular Welsh print newspaper until the nineteenth century, there was a deep and abiding interest in the news and the press from at least the early seventeenth century. Correspondence collections, including those of the Wynns... Read More about Wales and the news, 1640–1800.

Religion and the seventeenth-century press (2023)
Book Chapter
Ward Clavier, S., & McKeogh, K. (2023). Religion and the seventeenth-century press. In N. Brownlees (Ed.), The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, Vol. 1, 1640-1800. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

Religion was as ubiquitous in the early modern press as it was in early modern consciousness. Perhaps because of this, religion is rarely the headline in studies of the press. There has been minimal exploration of religion for its own sake in studies... Read More about Religion and the seventeenth-century press.

In remembrance of the bloody fact: Coins, public execution and the gibbet in Hanoverian England (2023)
Book Chapter
Poole, S. (2023). In remembrance of the bloody fact: Coins, public execution and the gibbet in Hanoverian England. In S. Lloyd and T. Millet (Eds.), Tokens of Love, Loss and Disrespect, 1750-1850 (93-111). London: Paul Holberton Publishing

Noteworthy eighteenth and nineteenth century public hangings were often marked by the circulation of associative souvenirs, and sometimes of coins. Some, like those professionally minted to mark the execution of James Blomfield Rush in 1849, restrict... Read More about In remembrance of the bloody fact: Coins, public execution and the gibbet in Hanoverian England.

Walking in Cary Grant's footsteps: The looking for Archie walking tour (2022)
Book Chapter
Crofts, C. (2022). Walking in Cary Grant's footsteps: The looking for Archie walking tour. In E. Champion, C. Lee, J. Stadler, & R. Moses Peaslee (Eds.), Screen Tourism and Affective Landscapes: The Real, the Virtual, and the Cinematic (81-103). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003327585-6

This chapter offers a critical reflection on Looking for Archie, a walking tour of actor Cary Grant’s Bristol, UK, speaking to the themes of “fandom communities and engagement” and “embodied experiences.” The first section outlines the tour and its r... Read More about Walking in Cary Grant's footsteps: The looking for Archie walking tour.

Understanding VR audiences (2022)
Book Chapter
McIntosh, V. (2022). Understanding VR audiences. In S. Jones, S. Dawkins, & J. McDougall (Eds.), Understanding Virtual Reality: Challenging Perspectives for Media Literacy and Education (66-85). (1). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367337032-9

Becoming an audience member in virtual reality can be a surreal experience; like entering a pocket reality, like finding Narnia in your wardrobe, like popping through a chalk painting on the pavement. Quite distinct from our relationship with big and... Read More about Understanding VR audiences.

Candles (2022)
Book Chapter
Sobers, S. (2022). Candles. In Sway of Shadows Response: Black Men Reminiscing (42 - 43). Taunton: Black Pansophy Books

In this short auto-ethnographic essay, Sobers uses material culture as a doorway into a deeply personal reflection. Focusing on a pair of candles given to him by his late brother, the chapter leads the reader through the complexity of family dynamics... Read More about Candles.

Afterword (2022)
Book Chapter
Reeves, M. (2022). Afterword. In H. Fischer-Tiné, & N. Slate (Eds.), The United States and South Asia from the Age of Empire to Decolonization: A History of Entanglements (267-274). Leiden: Leiden University Press

As sites of British imperial state-making and resistance to colonial power, India and the United States have found themselves entangled since the late eighteenth century. To choose a paradigmatic moment, the dumping of East India Company tea into Bos... Read More about Afterword.

Revolutionary act (2022)
Book Chapter
Mahood, K. (2022). Revolutionary act. In May break your bones: An Oxford Flash Fiction Anthology. Oxford Flash Fiction Prize

Flash fiction longlisted for the Oxford Prize

Bonnington Square (2022)
Book Chapter
Embury, G., & Oldham, A. (2022). Bonnington Square. In Left Cultures - 1 (13). Bristol: Left Cultures

Left Cultures 1 will delve deep into the left’s cultural past to discuss gems of storytelling within film, literature, music, art and poetry. Culture which has influenced and inspired an eclectic bunch of comrades to continue in this tradition by cre... Read More about Bonnington Square.

The Message (2022)
Book Chapter
Sobers, S. (2022). The Message. In C. Leith, & P. Wrigglesworth (Eds.), Left Cultures: A Lexicon Of Stories Past And Present. Bristol: Left Cultures

How listening to 'The Message' by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five in 1982, became a life changing class-conscious moment for a 10 year old boy.

The role of metaphor in police first response call-outs in cases of suspected domestic abuse (2022)
Book Chapter
Aldridge, M., & Steel, K. (2022). The role of metaphor in police first response call-outs in cases of suspected domestic abuse. In I. Šeškauskienė (Ed.), Metaphor in Legal Discourse (224-241). Cambridge Scholars Publishing

This book explores different aspects of metaphoricity in legal discourse, from court proceedings and written institutionalised texts to judges’ argumentation and in spoken records, among others. It brings together linguists and law professionals from... Read More about The role of metaphor in police first response call-outs in cases of suspected domestic abuse.