All Outputs (28)

Keeping it real: Towards a documentary film policy for the UK (2020)
Report

This report presents the findings of a survey of UK feature documentary producers and directors that was conducted in the summer of 2019 under the auspices of the ‘UK Feature Docs’ research project, an AHRC-funded study of the UK’s feature-length doc... Read More about Keeping it real: Towards a documentary film policy for the UK.

Mythological heroism in the discourse of Kwame Nkrumah (2020)
Journal Article

This paper critically explores how an African independence leader uses his language to simultaneously construct heroes and villains, protagonists and antagonists forming part of an ideological mechanism that realizes an anti-imperialist rhetoric and... Read More about Mythological heroism in the discourse of Kwame Nkrumah.

Visual representation in a complex cultural landscape: feminist resurgence, Gamergate and the demise of Page 3’ (2020)
Book Chapter

This entry analyzes visual representation in a complex cultural landscape, juxtaposing a resurgence in feminist activism in the mid- to late 2000s with an intensification of online misogyny. It considers the internet as at once a key enabler of femin... Read More about Visual representation in a complex cultural landscape: feminist resurgence, Gamergate and the demise of Page 3’.

Rulers of the county: The magistracy and the challenge of local government c. 1790-1834 (2020)
Journal Article

'Arresting the decline: Court reporting in England and Wales' (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Localising Cary Grant: Cary comes home festival and Bristol as living archive (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper critically reflects on curating the biennial Cary Comes Home Festival ( established 2014), which aims to celebrate Cary Grant’s Bristol roots, develop new audiences for his films and recreate the golden age of cinema-going. As director of... Read More about Localising Cary Grant: Cary comes home festival and Bristol as living archive.

Voice, agency and identity: A positive discourse analysis of ‘resistance’ in the rhetoric of Kwame Nkrumah (2020)
Journal Article

This paper uses positive discourse analysis to examine an independence leader's resistance rhetoric against colonialism, imperialism and neocolonialism. It analyses speeches delivered by Ghana's independence leader, Kwame Nkrumah, and finds that he a... Read More about Voice, agency and identity: A positive discourse analysis of ‘resistance’ in the rhetoric of Kwame Nkrumah.

Authors aren’t dead, they are with Child (2020)
Journal Article