All Outputs (39)

The Routledge Companion to Radio and Podcast Studies, Mia Lindgren and Jason Loviglio (eds) (2022) (2023)
Journal Article

Review of: The Routledge Companion to Radio and Podcast Studies, Mia Lindgren and Jason Loviglio (eds) (2022) Abingdon: Routledge, 502 pp., ISBN 978-0-36743-263-8, h/bk, £210.00

Co-creating anti-racist datasets in AI workflows utilising films as data (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Considering the concern for racial bias within AI algorithms, could creative responses within moving image archival practice and critical film theory foreground possibilities for intersectional approaches. This paper stems from artist practices with... Read More about Co-creating anti-racist datasets in AI workflows utilising films as data.

Sarah Godfrey, masculinity in British cinema, 1990–2010 (2023)
Journal Article

Although much comment is passed about male characters and identities in discussions of British cinema, systematic studies of masculinity are extremely rare. To my knowledge, Sarah Godfrey’s is the first to appear since my own Typical Men: The Represe... Read More about Sarah Godfrey, masculinity in British cinema, 1990–2010.

Words without end: Lionel Fianthorpe's science fiction revisited (2023)
Journal Article

Why, 70 years after the publication of Lionel Fanthorpe’s first story Worlds Without End (1952), must his reputation as a writer of science fiction (henceforth SF) be reconsidered? In this article we suggest that Lionel Fanthorpe’s techniques and wor... Read More about Words without end: Lionel Fianthorpe's science fiction revisited.

Hear here: Sonification as a design strategy for robot teleoperation using virtual reality (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper introduces a novel methodology for the sonification of data, and shares the results of a usability study, putting the method- ology into practice within an industrial use case. Working with partners at Sellafield nuclear facility, we explo... Read More about Hear here: Sonification as a design strategy for robot teleoperation using virtual reality.

Black Everyday Lives, Material Culture and Narrative: Tings in de House (2023)
Book

This book is an exploration of everyday life as experienced through the lens of Black British cultural history and creative practice.

The structure of Black Everyday Life, Material Culture and Narrative: Tings In The House examines everyday life... Read More about Black Everyday Lives, Material Culture and Narrative: Tings in de House.

Fuzzy entrepreneurship: Exploring young people’s emerging creative entrepreneurial practices (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This workshop presents and explores initial findings from a pilot research study that considers ways in which young people’s emerging and developing entrepreneurial creative practices might challenge and disrupt prevailing discourses about creative a... Read More about Fuzzy entrepreneurship: Exploring young people’s emerging creative entrepreneurial practices.

Cli-fi cinema (2023)
Book Chapter

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

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

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.

Special Issue - Creative Higher Education Curriculum and Pedagogy - Editorial (2023)
Journal Article

Research in Art, Design and Media (ADM) Higher Education matters because it has the potential to enhance educational practice from the perspective of creative pedagogies and the cultural and creative industries. Specifically in practice-based ADM edu... Read More about Special Issue - Creative Higher Education Curriculum and Pedagogy - Editorial.

Cinema and soft power: Configuring the national and transnational in geo-politics (2023)
Journal Article

As the contributors to this valuable collection all attest, the concept of ‘soft power’ can be traced to the political scientist Joseph Nye, who, after an initial attempt in 1990, published Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics (2004). N... Read More about Cinema and soft power: Configuring the national and transnational in geo-politics.

The decline of empires in South Asia (2023)
Journal Article

Heather Campbell’s book discusses British policies towards Persia and Afghanistan after the First World War. She maintains that in order to comprehend these policies, one must understand the persistence of Great Game mentalities among senior policy m... Read More about The decline of empires in South Asia.

Religion and the seventeenth-century press (2023)
Book Chapter

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.

Wales and the news, 1640–1800 (2023)
Book Chapter

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.

Zanjir (2023)
Exhibition / Performance

Following the tremendous success of the relaunch of major exhibitions in September with Still I Rise, Arnolfini are delighted to present Angelica Mesiti’s ASSEMBLY and Bristol-based artist Amak Mahmoodian’s Zanjir, as part of the Winter/Spring 2020 p... Read More about Zanjir.

Introduction: Women writing work (2023)
Journal Article

“I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.”Footnote1 So wrote Oscar Wilde, in his characteristically glib and stylish manner. The idea of a world without work might well jar with ou... Read More about Introduction: Women writing work.

The Howard League and liberal colonial penality in mid-20th-century Britain: The death penalty in Palestine and the Kenya Emergency (2023)
Journal Article

This article analyses the Howard League's campaigning against the death penalty in mid-20th-century British colonies. It examines two case studies: the Howard League's campaign to limit the death penalty in the Palestine Mandate in the 1930s and thei... Read More about The Howard League and liberal colonial penality in mid-20th-century Britain: The death penalty in Palestine and the Kenya Emergency.

In remembrance of the bloody fact: Coins, public execution and the gibbet in Hanoverian England (2023)
Book Chapter

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.